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Thank you for listening to the 
Riverbend Church Podcast. 

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Riverbend Church exists to lead 
all people to know, love, and 

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live new life in Jesus Christ. 
We hope that you enjoy this 

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message. 
Thank you so much for taking 

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time to check us out here today 
online. 

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I hope you are having a great 
time. 

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Wherever you're at, I hope 
you're relaxing, grilling maybe 

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by the pool at the lake, 
wherever it is. 

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I hope you're having a great 
time celebrating with friends 

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and family on this fourth 
weekend. 

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So thank you so much for tuning 
in just to check us out. 

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And so I just want to say man, 
happy 4th of July weekend. 

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You know, we love to celebrate 
this time of year. 

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With grilling, parades and most 
of all fireworks. 

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We love to have fireworks. 
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I grew up in kind of, I'll say, 
rowdy family that like to really

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have a good time and to say that
they love the 4th of July would 

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probably be an understatement. 
So we would always go to my 

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uncle's house. 
And we would be about 30 or 40 

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of our closest family members. 
And we would play in the pool, 

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we would play horseshoes. 
And for some of you who don't 

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know what that is, that's the 
that's the older version of 

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cornhole. 
So we would have cornhole would 

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have all these things going on 
in the night. 

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Always ended up with a homemade 
fireworks display by the adult 

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men. 
Well, we always knew we always 

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graded this fireworks show. 
Simply because if the fire 

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department actually had to show 
up and put out a fire, we felt 

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like that it was a really good 
show. 

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So it was always so fun just to 
get together with friends and 

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family and have so much fun and 
just enjoy that time together. 

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But I want to start the message 
and it's going to be a pretty 

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simple message and it's going to
be pretty pointed. 

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But I want to start the message 
with one question I want you to 

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think about, and this is it. 
When you think of freedom, what 

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comes to mind for you? 
So when you think of freedom. 

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What comes to mind? 
For you don't have to yell it 

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out. 
Wherever you're at, you don't 

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need, just think in your mind. 
Just think on that for a second 

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of what comes to mind when you 
think of freedom? 

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Well, this past week I had the 
incredible privilege of going to

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the beach with my family and we 
had a blast. 

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Now, when we go to the beach, we
get our money to work. 

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So it was our entire family. 
Well, all of us, except for one.

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He's in Minnesota doing an 
internship. 

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So we spouses, kids, everybody, 
we load everybody up, get a 

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condo, we go to the beach. 
We get our money's worth, so 

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when we get there in the 
mornings, we pack the coolers 

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with lunches, everything. 
We go down to the beach and we 

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hang out there all day until 
about 5:00. 

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O'clock. 
We know that it's always good 

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time for us to leave when 
everybody starts wrapping up in 

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towels because it's cooled off. 
So we're going down, we got our 

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umbrellas, we set our umbrellas 
and our chairs and our beach 

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bags and all those good things. 
It's all set up and I'm sitting 

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under the umbrella and I'm just 
kind of hanging out before I go 

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down to the water and I see this
family to the side of me. 

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And this dad pulls up with a 
wagon and looks like it's got 

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5000 Santois in it. 
I mean, it is loaded and he's 

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got it. 
And the wife starts setting up 

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the chairs. 
Well, there's a son and a 

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daughter with them and they 
waste no time at all. 

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The daughter just pulls out this
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Now, unlike the shovel I have, 
she pulls out like next level 

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shovel, like an actual shovel, 
and just starts digging. 

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And I was like, huh, Well, 
that's that's interesting. 

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I don't know about you, but my 
Jess and now when we go to the 

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beach, part of the fun of going 
to the beach is people watching.

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And so we have this weird thing 
we do, and I know it's weird, so

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bear with me. 
Don't judge me. 

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We make up names for families 
sometimes and stories behind it,

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and it's just the whole thing 
and sometimes it gets really 

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weird, but it's just, it's just 
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So we're watching, I'm watching 
this family, and we're just kind

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of, I'm just checking them out 
and the daughter just goes to 

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digging. 
Well, she starts to waste no 

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time at all. 
Like, she just goes straight for

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her. 
She's digging this hole with a 

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son. 
And the husband wasted no time, 

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grabbed their buckets and they 
started taking the extra stand. 

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They just started making these 
piles around the outside of this

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hole. 
I was so fascinated by this 

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whole ordeal. 
Not the fact that they were 

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building their masterpiece, 
saying Castle on the beach for 

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the fact that no one said a 
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It's like they were looking at a
flow chart. 

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Before they went out to the 
beach to say, here's what you're

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going to do, I could tell this 
was not their first rodeo. 

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This is not their first time 
building the sandcastle. 

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And they knew exactly what to 
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Everybody had a roll. 
Every had something they had to 

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do. 
And so they were just going at 

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it. 
Well for over an hour. 

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Yeah. 
Again, don't judge me. 

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I watched these people build 
this sandcastle for an hour, and

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that was hot. 
And I was sweating under the 

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umbrella. 
I know, poor me. 

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So I'm, I'm under the umbrella 
and I'm watching them and their 

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sweating never slowed down. 
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take shape. 
It's looking good. 

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So I'm invested by now. 
And then, like, dude, you wasted

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an hour of your life watching 
these people. 

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We know. 
We've all done it on TikTok, 

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YouTube. 
We went through that rabbit hole

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and an hour later we're watching
them make paint or something 

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weird like that. 
So we've all done those things. 

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So I'm watching in fascination, 
too, because no one's really 

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talking. 
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everybody's just working. 
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They take a break, go cool off 
in the water, come back. 

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They're still working. 
It was incredible to watch. 

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Them build this thing and they 
were just going at like they 

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were even going for the Moat 
around the outside and I was 

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just this is watching. 
But then when I I started to 

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look around there were lots of 
other people on the beach 

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building sand castles too. 
Not not just stain castles but 

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like some were nicer than 
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Some were I mean elaborate some 
were not so much some were just 

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a bucket with. 
Just this and maybe something 

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fancy right on top of it. 
Just to say, you know, there 

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there there wasn't much. 
But hey, to each his own. 

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You know, build, build what you 
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It's your masterpiece. 
This one guy built a shark. 

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Some of this pedestal thing came
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It was impressive to say the 
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But I'm looking at all these 
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I'm just curious. 
I'm like, wow, this is so 

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interesting because I mean, 
I've, I am myself, of all the 

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times I've been to the beach 
with my family, have dug. 

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Thousands of holes and built 
hundreds of sand castles. 

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But this time was different from
me because when I looked around,

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I saw all these people and I was
like, it's just we're all 

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building something. 
They're building their 

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masterpiece. 
They're having fun. 

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They're enjoying it. 
They're together. 

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And it hit me. 
And this is this is our life. 

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This is a picture of our life. 
I know you may say. 

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Wait a minute, Greg, what are 
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We're all building, we're all 
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now, wherever you're at, you may
be with friends, you're building

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community, you're building into 
other people, you may building, 

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you may be building a career, 
you may be building a family, 

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you may building a a retirement,
a nest egg, a business plan so 

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you can start a business. 
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too, is as we build, we're 
always, you know, we're we're 

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going to make sure everybody 
else knows because some of us 

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are even building our influence 
on social media so we can help 

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build that business. 
So we can build those other 

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things. 
So it's one thing or the other. 

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All of us in here, some of us 
are actually building multiple 

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things at one time. 
And so it's it's an interesting 

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concept. 
Not only do we just build these 

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things and we're builders, but 
also too we're, you know, we're 

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taking selfies, we're taking 
videos, we're posting those on 

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Snapchat, TikTok, we're telling 
you how to build your 

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sandcastle. 
We're telling you all the things

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that we've done to build this 
amazing masterpiece structure 

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that we have. 
Just so that you too can build 

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it with us. 
And so we we're we're all doing 

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this. 
We're just sometimes we lose 

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track of us building our 
masterpiece and we lose sight of

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all the things that are around 
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And so it's interesting because 
Jesus talks about this very same

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thing in Scripture. 
It's in Matthew Chapter 7. 

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Now if you haven't read Matthew 
Chapter 7, it's an incredible 

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book, just a chapter there. 
Not the book, but the chapter. 

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And and it's Jesus talking to a 
crowd now this is a it's it's an

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encouraging it's a challenging 
chapter to read it's Jesus 

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starts throwing truth bomb after
truth bomb and he is just giving

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life application of do this do 
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How about this. 
You should do this you shouldn't

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do that. 
He's going on and on so many 

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times through this through this 
chapter of what we should do 

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everything from judgment to how 
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How you should. 
I mean it was just it was about 

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how you seek after him. 
It's going on and on and then 

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Jesus takes all of this and he 
wraps it up in this verse at the

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end, which is a really cool 
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That was what made me think of 
and it and it's going to be on 

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your screens, so read along with
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It's in Matthew Chapter 7, verse
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It says everyone then who hears 
the words of mine and does them 

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will be like a wise man who 
built his house on the rock. 

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And the rain fell and the floods
came and the wind blew, and it 

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beat on that house, but it did 
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But inks have been founded on 
the rock, and everyone who hears

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these words of mine and does not
do them will be like a foolish 

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man who built his house on the 
sand. 

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And the rain fell, and the 
floods came and the winds blew, 

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and it beat against that house 
and it fell. 

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And great was the fall of it, 
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So Jesus takes all those those 
those things he had been saying,

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and at the end he wraps him up 
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Now, there's some really hard 
truths and some really 

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encouraging truths in this 
passage, and I'm going to pull 

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out just a couple. 
And just for a challenge for us 

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to think about today. 
And the first one is this, 

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Storms are coming. 
It's that simple. 

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And it's. 
It's that profound. 

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The storms are coming. 
If you're not in a storm coming 

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out of a storm, then you're 
about to go into a storm. 

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Now I know that's not 
encouraging news on you're like,

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man, come on, we're grilling and
you're going to throw this at 

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me. 
But let this is the truth of 

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what we live in. 
Their life is full of storms 

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now. 
Not all those storms are 

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horrible. 
There's been some storms where I

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I actually love to go out on our
front porch and watch when 

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storms blow in. 
And they're pretty cool because 

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sometimes they come in and 
sometimes they go out. 

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Storms in our life are the same 
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Sometimes they're quick. 
Sometimes they have somewhat 

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pain, but they're inconvenience 
and it's not. 

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But then there's some of those 
storms we're holding on for dear

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life and we're hoping we make it
through it and it's hard and it 

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feels like it takes absolutely 
everything that we have, but we 

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just keep holding on and our 
family, Jess and I. 

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No storm. 
Very, very well. 

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And there's been some really bad
ones and not so bad ones in our 

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life, but we just keep holding 
on and we just keep moving 

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forward. 
So the idea of storms are coming

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in this passage, it it wasn't a 
when and if it said and the rain

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fell and the floods came, it 
wasn't when it was. 

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They're coming and it's going to
happen. 

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What's it built on the second 
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Is knowing what to do is not 
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So it's interesting so many 
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read the Bible or I go to church
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I even I even give or I even do 
some of these things and and and

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Jesus here is is when he's 
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hey hey this is it's not about 
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says here he says everyone who 
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Does them will be like a wise 
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That's the trick here. 
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I mean it's it's it's so simple 
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and we get caught up in it and 
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It's not about just you. 
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We hear the teachings. 
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Then he goes, now do them. 
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this passage say that you make 
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life. 
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process when we talk about 
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give those things. 
That's the ideas that I give it,

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something I can grab on to make 
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that it means something to us. 
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It's about being a doer. 
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truth, and I do them. 
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perfection from you. 
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Jesus is saying I doesn't want 
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Take this truth of who I am, of 
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your life. 
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what it does. 
Give it some space and see what 

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happens. 
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masterpiece sand castles, even 
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the end of the day? 
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None of them. 
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None of you expected them to be 
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how that works. 
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The tide comes in and washes it 
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Our life is the same thing. 
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The tide's coming in. 
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So I want to go back to the 
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when we started. 
When you think of freedom, what 

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comes to mind for you? 
When you think of freedom, what 

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comes to mind for me? 
Miss Jesus, if you want true 

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freedom, true true freedom from 
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things that don't weigh us down,
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alone. 
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That's what he's saying here. 
Hey, if you wants to build 

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something that's going to last, 
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the truth that he tells us, that
we mold our lives into, that 

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it's about him so. 
Michael is going to, he and Jen 

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are going to lead us in some 
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And I'm going to ask you to do 
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And I know maybe weird Wherever 
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you're you're listening to us 
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But I almost want you to turn up
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Take a minute, close your eyes. 
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want you to allow God just to 
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space for him to say hey, and 
ask the question, what is it in 

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my life that needs to be built? 
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So I ask that question. 
Allow space for God to just move

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in. 
You let me pray for us before we

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worship God. 
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opportunity to God. 
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God. 
We thank you for the truth of 

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who you are. 
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Of all the things that we're 
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God, we ask those hard 
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Are we building him on the truth
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They built on you the rock and 
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I pray that you would speak to 
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And God, I pray that we are 
honest with ourselves and honest

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with you. 
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pray that we are doers. 
God, when you say yes and lead 

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us God, we say yes right back. 
God, we thank you for that 

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opportunity. 
It's your name, we pray. 

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