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Hello folks. 
This is Princess. 

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You are listening to the 
Millennial Mustard Seed Podcast.

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Thanks for listening. 
Don't forget to share with your 

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friends. 
That's tough. 

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We're in a very tough spot. 
I think that what we're doing 

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right now is a great benefit and
virtue because it's an end 

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around between this whole 
corrupt informational system, 

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media system. 
We claim to believe in a God who

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spoke the universe into 
existence and literally raised 

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himself from the dead, and yet 
we're not going to believe that 

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anything else exists in the 
spirit realm, even though His 

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word tells us that they do. 
Their bodies weren't permitted 

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to go to sleep like humans do, 
and they weren't permitted to go

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to heaven. 
So they wander the earth, You 

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know, I've seen the eyes turn 
black to unknown tongues being 

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spoken. 
These giants would love way up 

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in the island. 
The young Braves, The young men 

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would hide up in the trees and 
wait for one of these 12 footers

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to come walking down the path 
and they would jump on them and 

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kill them, drag them back to the
village and the village would 

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feast on the body. 
Freedom. 

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Then people start to get 
weapons, they start to get 

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armor, they start to build 
cities, they start to fortify 

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their cities. 
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Down and there's violence 
everywhere. 

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The battle, this war that we are
at is not against each other. 

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It's against these 
principalities and these rulers 

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and these archons in the high 
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It's really worthwhile to read 
the Bible yourself. 

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Fear is one of the primary 
drivers of mind control because 

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we have to take every thought. 
Captive and resist fear. 

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You're going to have a testimony
that is a justice case against 

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the Kingdom of Darkness. 
Welcome back to the Millennial 

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Mustard Seed. 
I am your host, Rod, and thank 

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you for being here with me for 
another awesome episode. 

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And this one truly is awesome. 
I'm joined by Doctor Mike Davis 

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and this conversation we have 
you do not want to miss. 

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This is so important. 
Topics like studying the Bible 

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in its cultural context, 
emotional intelligence and the 

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importance of that, well, you'll
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We cover boldness and 
confidence. 

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Now what's interesting is in the
word of God, we have God 

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commanding us. 
Do not fear, do not be afraid. 

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But there's some other verses in
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this and actually make that so. 
God always gives us the recipe. 

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He's not going to command us not
to be afraid and to be bold and 

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courageous without telling us 
how. 

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And many of you may come to find
that it's right here in the 

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word, literally a step by step. 
We should not allow the law that

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God has given us to depart from 
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Just going to drop that little 
gem here real quick, but stick 

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around because this is one of 
those episodes where you want a 

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pen and paper, where you can 
take some notes. 

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This is the kind of teaching 
that the body needs. 

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We need to be encouraged. 
We need to be able to find the 

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truth and to walk through this 
stuff, learning it together in 

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humility. 
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slot that we're living in, 
there's a lot of fear mongering,

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fear tactics, a lot of 
information out there that's 

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causing anxiety, depression, 
suicides on the rise. 

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How do we combat that? 
Well, God tells us right in His 

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word and I love what I'm doing 
to be able to broadcast this 

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stuff, to encourage you guys to 
read your Bible, to drop these 

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gems where we can learn this 
stuff in a way that it's 

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personable. 
It's not just for entertainment 

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purposes with this podcast. 
This is what I believe God is 

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calling me to do and it's been 
an honor and it's been a battle 

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to do it thus far. 
Let's take care of some 

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maintenance real quick. 
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Help us get this thing out 

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there. 
Help us grow because we cannot 

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do this without you. 
In the details in the show 

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notes, you guys can find a link 
to purchase my newest book. 

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The words are salt. 
We've got an excellent feedback 

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on it. 
The recommendations are growing 

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Leave us a review on Amazon When

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Pennsylvania area, or even if 
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copy of the book, I can do that.
While I can sign a personal 

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message, Whatever you'd like, 
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reach out to me privately. 
You can find my e-mail address, 

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the MMM Seed at proton dot ME in
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I do not believe that 
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God is asking me to do. 
There's so much happening behind

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the scenes. 
We continue to grow slow and 

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steady, just like a Mustard Seed
should shout out to brother 

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David Chavis. 
I play one of his songs at the 

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end of this episode and it is 
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One of the big things I want to 
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the tri-state area, if you're in
New York, New Jersey, Maryland, 

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Delaware, June 27th through the 
30th in Lebanon, PA, all things 

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new is the name of this event 
we're going to have live. 

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SP Marcus Rodgers, Klaus Chavis,
and a bunch of other brothers 

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and sisters in Christ will be 
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I will be there myself. 
So if you guys would like to 

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meet me, meet the rest of the 
crew, come on out. 

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We're going to have food, music.
It's literally love in the 

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streets. 
It's in the streets. 

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This is going to be like a 
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It's going to be wildly cool. 
So I hope you guys can make it. 

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e-mail me if you have any 
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And I think it's about time to 
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I'm ready. 
Are you guys ready? 

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Let's go. 
Let's go. 

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I'm Mike Davis. 
I am a pastor, corporate speaker

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and trainer as well as a coach. 
I'm a father and a grandfather, 

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and what I have a passion for 
doing is helping people really 

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to get their emotions to work 
for them rather than against 

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them in terms of the the 
coaching and training that I do 

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and also to help people to 
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cultural context. 
So that's what I do and I'm glad

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to be here and I welcome you 
all. 

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Mike, it is an honor to have you
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with me, man. 
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Thank you. 
Episode 48. 

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You know, we talked about 
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renewing your mind. 
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comment before we jump into it 
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perspective, how important it is
with diving through some of the 

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fringe information and trying to
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in. 
Really to balance it out with, 

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you know what am I walking tight
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Do I understand taking thoughts 
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What is it? 
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boldness, right? 
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really it just tugs at my heart.
So you're the perfect person to 

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have here to just take us on 
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It's. 
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Oh, I'm glad to be here, so I'll
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Well, let's do a real quick 
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Let's spend a couple minutes 
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mind and and the power of 
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the premises of what you do. 
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these questions I have. 
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that I do really it it really is
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Though I tend to spend a lot of 
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aspect of that because I feel 
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about renewing the mind within 
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emotional aspect of that gets 
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the word mind in Romans chapter 
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we're kind of referring to when 
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this world but be transformed by
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The word mind there includes and
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intellect, our thoughts as well 
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So renewing of the mind really 
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of those elements. 
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intertwined and they overlap 
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There. 
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in all thought, there's emotion,
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thought. 
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that's concerned. 
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really true. 
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renewing the mind, we're really 
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emotions, getting our thoughts, 
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alignment with God's truth. 
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that sets us free. 
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our will and our emotions in 
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truth, then we experience 
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emotionally. 
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just governed by letting 
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treat people or decisions that 
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And you know, it's really funny.
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called The Words of Salt. 
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poem parables I talked about is 
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determine how you treat people, 
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there's a deep hole and you 
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You know, it's just not a good 
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So the importance of emotional 
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express that enough. 
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right. 
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means in in the Greek and just 
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what does it look like to be 
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arrogance versus boldness, 
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We there's a lot of people out 
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saying listen to me and you're 
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And we see, I see a lot of that,
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I peer into. 
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How does this really work? 
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about boldness, I'll I'll start 
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In the 1st century world and in 
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were four virtues that were 
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called the cardinal virtues. 
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important virtues. 
There are a lot of different 

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virtues, but there were four 
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important. 
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That was one of the virtues. 
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Wisdom so you had. 
So it was it was wisdom, 

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self-control, justice. 
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called the the New Testament, 
the Kyle Sunni which we call 

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righteousness. 
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self-control and then wisdom. 
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Courage is one of the elements. 
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written by different Greco Roman
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courage and what it looked like.
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boldness, that would be seen as 
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Courage. 
So one of the things like one of

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the and I and I took some time 
to look this up just to refresh 

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my mind where it was concerned. 
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talks about courage, let me read
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This is one of the Greco Roman 
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I'm quoting this rather than 
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first is because these #1 these 
guys wrote about it #2 it gives 

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us some insight into how the 
thinking was taking place during

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that time. 
So Cicero who was a philosopher,

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he said courage is the is the 
quality by which one undertakes 

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dangerous task and endures 
hardships is parts are high 

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mindedness, confidence, 
patience, perseverance. 

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High mindedness consists in the 
contemplation and the execution 

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of great and sublime projects 
with a certain grandeur, 

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magnificence of imagination. 
Confidence is the quality by 

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which an important and honorable
undertaking, the Spirit, has 

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placed great trust in itself 
with a resolute hope of success.

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Patience is a willing and 
sustained endurance of difficult

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and arduous task for a noble and
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And then perseverance is a firm 
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well considered plan of action. 
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boldness as having different 
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So there was you would 
contemplate, you would execute 

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great things, you would have 
confidence that you would be 

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able to succeed, you would have 
patience and endurance, and then

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you would have perseverance that
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and to keep going. 
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someone who would take action. 
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circumstances and events. 
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were doing, they believed it was
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idea that courage was also 
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we're talking about is really 
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regardless of what's taking 
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There's this like rich and deep 
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concerned? 
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a homily or sermon that was not 
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persecution. 
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turn away from their faith in 
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says I'll start at verse 10. 
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suffering, partly while you were
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reproaches and tribulations, and
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trying to shame them, to get 
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faith. 
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joyfully the plundering of your 
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better and enduring possession 
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verse you just quoted. 
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endurance. 
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you have done the will of God, 
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themes here of endurance, taking
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and doing the will of God. 
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courageous in in the early years
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courageous and he was and he was
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them to not castaway their 
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telling them how to maintain and
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confidence even in the face of 
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of persecution. 
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just, this is so necessary, what
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God is gonna do what God is 
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It's every yacht and title will 
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being affected in some way. 
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what 1st century worldview, what
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confident words there. 
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is is quite necessary. 
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them to do, he's he's literally 
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strategy for to maintain and 
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face of this persecution. 
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emotions. 
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being able to get your emotions 
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against you. 
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we tend to think as Christians 
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about this the last time. 
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to walk by faith, not by sight. 
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you're you're to trust God and 
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submission and conformity to the
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our emotions. 
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and I've been studying this for 
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different strategies that we can
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emotions to, as I like to say, 
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us in serving God. 
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to look at some other things as 
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There are specific strategies. 
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in the tax they that they are 
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us so that we can align 
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emotions as well as our 
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God's will. 
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all the time is that whatever 
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you can do so much better while 
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You can do, it's easier. 
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had written that said our life 
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a niece Nin and I don't believe 
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said our life contracts or it 
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courage. 
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fellowship, just an everyday 
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You need courage if you're going
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to do things, if you're going to
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philosophers understood. 
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exercise courage. 
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say this one more thing. 
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often will define courage as how
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They, they, they. 
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To which I say, yes, that can be
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that you take an action even 
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they go, that's courage. 
I go that's one way of looking 

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at it. 
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difficult. 
To to try to you know, I don't 

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know if you've ever been afraid,
Rod, but with you know, if 

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you've got a lot of fear, it can
be very difficult to take action

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the majority of the time. 
Why people don't take action on 

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something. 
Why they don't move forward. 

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Why they and and as we talked 
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acting in obedience to a higher 
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For us as believer, that means 
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What can stop us is fear, the 
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So I tell people, well, yeah, 
it's true. 

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You can feel the fear and do it 
anyway. 

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I think it's better, though, to 
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even better. 
In other words, replace the fear

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with courage and do it even 
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Now what would be like a one or 
two go to strategies for, you 

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know, embracing this courage and
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through this process? 
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of people off air and there's a 
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You know what I've man, I've 
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the non fringy people are now 
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You can see it in their eyes and
like I feel it where they're not

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really apologizing but you can 
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a kook, you know, 14 months ago 
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hey, you know, I just kind of 
wanted to ask what are your 

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thoughts on that? 
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that people are starting to slow
down and and question things 

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because we see stuff on the news
because there's all these 

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messages and signals out there. 
So it's an opportunity for me to

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actually show myself an example 
of someone who believes and and 

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just kind of engage and and 
answer at that surface level 

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where it's like, well, I know 
you've heard probably the same 

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things I've heard, but my belief
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man in Christ, right? 
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I'm blowing in the wind. 
I don't know how to handle this 

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stuff there. 
There's a a courage and 

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confidence that I truly believe 
comes from the spirit, from the 

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ruach, and it's hard to really 
explain that sometimes there's 

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kind of a vocabulary breach, if 
you will. 

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I know what what it kind of 
feels like. 

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I know how God has showed up for
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know that I've been bold. 
But it's a great thing that 

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you're here because you get to 
help me cover these chasms and 

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put intelligent language to it 
so I can even just understand 

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the depth myself. 
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Well, I think one of the things,
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think people tend to think that 
emotions are too flighty, that 

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they really can't be relied 
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And I take the exact opposite 
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Years ago I did a message and it
came a signature message of 

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mine, and it's kind of been 
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But originally it was called How
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people were like, what? 
And I go like, yeah, emotions 

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can be trained. 
And I taught this years ago like

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I I, it was like almost 20 years
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daughter's around 10/11/12, 
thirteen years old and she's now

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in her 30s. 
She's, I think she's 30. 

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So I taught this years ago and 
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Mike, are you, are you serious? 
You can train your emotions. 

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But now you know. 
Here we Fast forward almost 20 

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years later, 1520 years later. 
And this is what the scientific 

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evidence is telling us. 
The scientific research is 

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telling the psychological 
research, yet emotions can be 

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trained. 
And when I was first studying 

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and I got it from two sources, 
one, I was looking at the 

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science, Two, I was looking at 
the biblical text. 

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So when it comes to courage, 
courage does not have to be 

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something that is we, we hope 
we're going to experience, or 

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I'll put it to you like this. 
It doesn't have to be something 

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you passively wait to happen or 
you passively hope that you know

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you're waiting for it to take 
place and you're going to feel 

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courage so you can take action. 
This is why a lot of times 

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people will say, and I 
understand it well, just take 

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action anyway. 
Don't wait to feel courage 

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courageous, Just act courageous,
OK. 

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And I To which I say, yes, that 
can work. 

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And if you know how to do that 
correctly, you can actually get 

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yourself to feel courageous by 
taking certain actions, I said. 

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But another way is you can 
actually incline and direct your

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emotions towards courage. 
And people say, well, how do you

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do that? 
So first of all, let me say, 

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Ron, like you're talking about 
the Spirit and the holy, you 

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know, the Holy Spirit. 
We're told to walk in the Spirit

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right now, and you would agree 
with that right that we're as 

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believers. 
Absolutely. 

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OK, so now, technically 
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Scripture that acts that. 
There is no verse of scripture 

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that says that one of the fruit 
of the Spirit is courage, though

453
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,240
I think courage is one of the 
fruit of the Spirit. 

454
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,160
It's just it doesn't mention it 
as a in Galatians chapter 5. 

455
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,000
But how do we walk in the 
Spirit? 

456
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,000
That's what I want to focus on. 
So the way we walk in the 

457
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,920
Spirit, Paul tells us this and 
we're told to keep in step with 

458
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,680
the Spirit. 
We're told how to do that in 

459
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,360
Romans chapter 8, where the 
apostle Paul says for they who 

460
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:47,280
are after the flesh, they mind 
the things or they're set. 

461
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,560
They set their minds on the 
things of the flesh, but they 

462
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:55,040
who are after the Spirit mind, 
or set their minds on the things

463
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,920
of the Spirit. 
Now, we may have talked about 

464
00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,120
this the last time I was here, 
but that word for mine or set 

465
00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:03,920
the mind on, it's one word in 
Greek, and it means to incline 

466
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:09,640
or to direct the intellect, the 
will and the affections towards 

467
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,960
something, or to align the 
intellect, the will and the 

468
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,440
affections with something. 
And what's that something? 

469
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,440
Well, if you're walking in the 
flesh, you are inclining or 

470
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,840
directing or aligning your 
intellect, will, and emotions 

471
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,280
with what is of the flesh. 
If you're walking in the spirit,

472
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,920
you're inclining your intellect,
your will, your emotions, your 

473
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,440
desires with that which is of 
the spirit. 

474
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,960
So what? 
And and the way it's written in 

475
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,360
Greek, it's in the active voice 
meaning that the subject of the 

476
00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:43,560
sentence, which would be you or 
me, you know that we are to 

477
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,400
perform that action so we can 
incline, we can direct, we can 

478
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,560
align our intellect, will and 
our emotions with the spirit. 

479
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,080
So this means that it doesn't 
have to be sometime that you 

480
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,640
experience courage or it doesn't
have to be where you're just 

481
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,920
passively waiting to feel 
courage. 

482
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:04,040
You know, it's like when I teach
on motivation, you know, people 

483
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,520
will say about motivation, you 
know, well, sometimes you got to

484
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,160
take action and not just wait 
for a feeling of motivation. 

485
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,920
To which I go, yeah, don't wait 
for it, get yourself motivated. 

486
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:13,840
You never have to wait for 
motivation. 

487
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,520
You can motivate yourself if you
know how. 

488
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,080
There's specific strategies. 
And it's the same way with 

489
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,880
courage. 
So somebody might be listening 

490
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,480
to us not say, OK, man, we'll 
get to the strategies. 

491
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,680
What is it? 
So number 11, strategy, if we 

492
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,800
find in Joshua chapter one. 
So I'm going to read from Joshua

493
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,760
chapter one and verse 7. 
And this is where God is talking

494
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,000
to Joshua after you know Moses 
has died. 

495
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:42,440
Joshua is now the leader of 
Israel and God says to Joshua in

496
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,200
verse I'll read from verse five.
He says no man shall be able to 

497
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,920
stand before you all the days of
your life. 

498
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,640
As I was with Moses, so I will 
be with you. 

499
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,360
I will not leave you nor forsake
you. 

500
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,440
So one of the things that 
becomes a foundational stone 

501
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,640
that we can build upon for 
courage is to know that the Lord

502
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,320
is with us. 
That's one of the things to know

503
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,800
that he is with us. 
And Hebrews chapter 13 actually 

504
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,360
says, you know, I will never, 
ever leave, you know, forsake 

505
00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,000
you so that we may build the say
the Lord is with me. 

506
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:15,360
Whom shall I fear? 
OK, now it's one thing to 

507
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,800
articulate that, OK, God is with
me, but how do you move into a 

508
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:22,040
place of where you really do 
feel the courage and you're 

509
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,280
acting and and your emotions are
aligned with that truth, that 

510
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,680
spiritual truth and reality that
God is with me? 

511
00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:32,520
Well, God tells Joshua I'm going
to be with you as I was with 

512
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,600
Moses. 
I will not leave you nor forsake

513
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,680
you. 
But then he says in verse 6, be 

514
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,680
strong and of good courage. 
So here he's telling him to be 

515
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,680
of good courage. 
For to this people you should 

516
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,440
divide as an inheritance the 
language I swore to their 

517
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,320
fathers to give them only be 
strong. 

518
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,640
So he says it again, be strong 
and very courageous. 

519
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,120
Now notice this that you may 
observe to do according to all 

520
00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,320
the law which Moses my servant, 
commanded you. 

521
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,360
Do not turn from it, from the 
right hand or to the left, that 

522
00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:00,320
you may prosper wherever you go.
So notice here he tells him to 

523
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,520
be strong in courage, and then 
he says so that you may observe 

524
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,880
to do according to the law. 
So remember we said before that 

525
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,600
one of the definitions in the 
1st century Greco Roman world 

526
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,960
was that courage was also seen 
as obedience to a higher law. 

527
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,560
We see this directly in the book
of Joshua. 

528
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,840
God tells Joshua be strong and 
of good courage. 

529
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,760
Why So that you may observe to 
do according to all of the law, 

530
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,280
so that you can do my will. 
So he tells me to be courageous,

531
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,720
so there is courage needed to do
the will of God. 

532
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,840
Then he's so That's verse seven 
only be strong and very 

533
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,920
courageous that you may observe 
to do according to the law. 

534
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,160
Then in verse 8 he He says it 
again, except this time he 

535
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,760
changes it. 
He says, verse 8. 

536
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,560
This book of the law shall not 
depart from your mouth, but you 

537
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,480
shall meditate in it day and 
night, so that you may observe 

538
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,200
to do according to all that is 
written in it. 

539
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,040
For then you will make your for 
then you will make your way 

540
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,400
prosperous, and then you have 
good success and rob. 

541
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,400
By the way, anytime you want to 
jump in there, just do so. 

542
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,840
He says, the first time. 
Have I not commanded you. 

543
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,000
Be strong and of good courage. 
Do not be afraid, nor be 

544
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,320
dismayed, for the Lord your God 
is with you wherever you go. 

545
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,960
But he tells so In verse 7. 
Verse five he tells them to be 

546
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,200
strong and and have courage. 
Verse seven he tells them to be 

547
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,280
strong and very courageous, so 
that he could observe the law. 

548
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,640
In verse eight he tells them, 
Now this book of the law shall 

549
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,320
not depart from your mouth, but 
you shall meditate in it day and

550
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,560
night, so that you may observe 
to do according to all that is 

551
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,920
written in it. 
So you can do my will. 

552
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:35,040
So rather in verse 8, rather 
than saying be be of good 

553
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,240
courage, so you can do my will, 
be courageous, so you can do my 

554
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,800
will. 
Instead, he says, meditate day 

555
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,240
and night on my law, that you 
may do my will. 

556
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,160
So what's the point I'm making 
here? 

557
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:51,160
One of the ways that we develop 
and we nurture courage, and I 

558
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,360
believe it's in connection with 
the Holy Spirit. 

559
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,440
We're told in Philippians 
chapter 2, verse 13 that God 

560
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,440
works in us both to will and to 
do of his good pleasure. 

561
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,120
So God's at work within us to do
His will. 

562
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,600
Philippians 212 says we're to 
work out our own salvation with 

563
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,880
fear and tribbling verse 13 says
because it's God who works in 

564
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,320
you both to will and to do with 
his good pleasure. 

565
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,840
So we cooperate with God. 
How do we work with God to 

566
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,640
develop and nurture courage? 
One of the ways we do that is by

567
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:22,080
what we are meditating upon. 
What we meditate upon is going 

568
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,400
to Orient our mind, our will, 
and our emotion in a particular 

569
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,280
direction either, and depending 
on what you're meditating on, it

570
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,680
will either Orient it towards 
fear or it can Orient it towards

571
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,480
courage, again depending on what
you're meditating on. 

572
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,040
By the way, this goes 
practically for any virtue. 

573
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,800
So in let me just ask, am I 
making sense so far? 

574
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,800
Oh yeah, absolutely. 
I mean, I got scriptures just 

575
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,040
jump into my mind and I'm taking
a back seat and learning as you 

576
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,840
go through all those well. 
And so I I I always say that 

577
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,080
biblical meditation is one of 
the lost. 

578
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,680
Arts. 
It's it's something we tend not 

579
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,800
to do. 
We we read our Bibles, which is 

580
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,080
good. 
We've got to read our Bibles. 

581
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,040
But do we take time to really 
meditate upon what we're 

582
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,360
reading? 
And I always say that meditation

583
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,440
is preparation for obedience. 
Meditation is how you assimilate

584
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,960
truth and make it a part of you 
so that you can act on it and 

585
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,840
live by. 
So in Philippians chapter 4, 

586
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,200
verse eight, we're told 
whatsoever things are true. 

587
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,320
Whatsoever things are honest, 
whatsoever things are just and 

588
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,760
pure and lovely. 
Whatsoever things are of good 

589
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,560
report. 
If there be any virtue, courage 

590
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,440
is a virtue. 
And if there is any praise or if

591
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,960
there's anything that's 
praiseworthy it, then it says 

592
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,440
think on these things and that 
word think on. 

593
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,040
In the Greek, you know, it can 
also mean to meditate, meditate 

594
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,400
on these things, meditate on 
these virtues. 

595
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,080
Thayer's Greek English lexicon, 
which is one of the more famous 

596
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,840
lexicons. 
It it it, it defines the word 

597
00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,360
that's translated as think on, 
as to meditate upon something in

598
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,320
order to obtain it. 
So one of the reasons that Paul 

599
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,360
in Philippians tells them to 
meditate on what is good and 

600
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,200
honest and just and pure and 
lovely, or whatever is virtuous 

601
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,960
or whatever is praiseworthy, You
meditate upon that virtue so 

602
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,800
that you can make it your own. 
This is why I say meditation is 

603
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,240
preparation for action. 
Meditation is assimilation you. 

604
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,360
The way you assimilate something
and you make it a part of you is

605
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,320
by meditating upon it. 
And we can get into and a few 

606
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,440
minutes just how did we do that?
But this is what God was telling

607
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,080
Joshua to do. 
He says, I want you to meditate.

608
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,560
And it's interesting you're 
talking about the tongue. 

609
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,760
The word for meditate here in 
Joshua chapter one, verse 8, 

610
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,000
comes from the Hebrew term 
haggah, which means to to mutter

611
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,200
or to speak to oneself. 
So when God said yeah, This is 

612
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,960
why, This is why the verse is 
written. 

613
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,160
This book of the law shall not 
depart from out of your mouth. 

614
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,920
Exactly. 
So that you can meditate, you 

615
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,640
are to speak it to yourself day 
and night. 

616
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,920
So one of the ways you meditate 
is by what you are saying to 

617
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,320
yourself consistently, 
especially if you say it to 

618
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,480
yourself out loud. 
OK, so you and he said do it day

619
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,160
and night. 
So this is a continual thing. 

620
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,680
Not that you have to do it every
single moment, but that you need

621
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,880
to make time to meditate upon 
what you want to be a part of 

622
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,800
your life, another person's. 
Go ahead. 

623
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,240
I'm sorry. 
It just made me think I was 

624
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,000
making myself even giggle at 
this thought. 

625
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,440
Where the apostle Paul, 
Somewhere in the New Testament, 

626
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,840
he says if I seem beside myself,
it's for Christ. 

627
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,920
Do you think he was walking 
around just, like talking to 

628
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,760
himself, Like, you know, like 
meditating on Scripture? 

629
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,080
I mean, seriously, you know. 
That, that, that when he says 

630
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,280
beside myself, that was the 
idiot, Which means beside 

631
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,040
yourself was kind of like the 
way we use the days, like, oh 

632
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,880
what are you crazy? 
Yeah, exactly. 

633
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,520
Yeah. 
As an Orthodox Jew, he probably 

634
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,280
was taking time. 
I mean because he tells the 

635
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,600
Philippians to meditate all 
these things day and night and 

636
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,600
and I often say that this is 
something that I think believers

637
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,240
we don't do enough of. 
At least we don't do it 

638
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,400
consciously and intentionally in
order to reach specific goals 

639
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,120
for ourselves. 
Intentionally. 

640
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,240
That's powerful. 
That's. 

641
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,200
Because every you everyone 
meditates. 

642
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,320
You cannot not meditate. 
You're always thinking about 

643
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,880
something and you talk to 
yourself. 

644
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,920
We all for the most part. 
There are some people who don't,

645
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,120
but for the most part, everyone 
has internal self talk. 

646
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,280
I've done studies on the the 
scientific research that has 

647
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,520
been done on self talk. 
So we talked to ourselves. 

648
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,800
So God here is having us make 
use of something that he built 

649
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,040
within us to do as a way of 
nurturing confidence. 

650
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,639
Because he tells Joshua be 
courageous to do my work. 

651
00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:34,679
But then he tells him how to be 
courageous to do his work. 

652
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,679
He says meditate upon my word, 
day and night. 

653
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,880
So how does that work? 
Well, there's a couple of ways 

654
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,679
we can look at it. #1. 
Is that what we know that 

655
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,280
they're in? 
This gets into a little bit of 

656
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,960
neuroscience. 
So there's a part of your brain 

657
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,120
known as the thalamus. 
And according there's a book 

658
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,400
that is written called How God 
Changes Your Brain by Doctor 

659
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,719
Andrew Newberg. 
Doctor Andrew Newberg. 

660
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,800
I don't know if he's a believer.
I don't. 

661
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,880
I I I can't really tell that 
from his writings. 

662
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:05,280
But he has developed a field 
known as neuro theology and he 

663
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,960
looks at the impact that 
religious beliefs of every kind,

664
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,240
the impact that it has upon the 
brain, how it impacts the brain.

665
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,440
So he looks at different faiths 
and what he is seen as, what you

666
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,760
believe about God, how you 
perceive God, how you perceive 

667
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,000
what you can think of as a 
entity called God. 

668
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,440
Some people, I don't agree with 
this, but they call it the 

669
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,640
universe. 
But it's the idea of how you 

670
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,720
perceive the that which is 
greater than yourself. 

671
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,120
It impacts your brain and it 
changes your brain. 

672
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,160
So in the book he talks about 
something very interesting. 

673
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,600
He talks about the thalamus. 
And one of the statements he 

674
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,400
makes in the book is that the 
thalamus part of the the job of 

675
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,360
the thalamus is to make things 
real to you, to make something 

676
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,360
real to you, to take thoughts 
and to turn them into internal 

677
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:55,600
subjective reality. 
So the and I for years before I 

678
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,680
had learned about this, I taught
a principle in teaching about 

679
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,240
renewing the mind and stuff that
I call the Reality principle. 

680
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,640
And the reality principle, 
simply stated, is whatever is 

681
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,680
most real to you is what you 
will act upon and live by. 

682
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,240
That's the reality principle. 
So this is where we can see 

683
00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:13,600
people espouse a belief in 
something, but then they do the 

684
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,040
exact opposite of what they 
believe. 

685
00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:18,680
And that's what I look at. 
I go if you say you believe it, 

686
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,920
but you're doing something 
different, I there's something 

687
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,920
that you believe that's more 
real to you than the belief that

688
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,440
you espouse. 
Because we are always acting on 

689
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,920
what is most real to us, OK? 
And that can be subjective. 

690
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,000
We may not in the moment be 
aware of what. 

691
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,320
So in other words, it's a 
belief, but it's at a deeper 

692
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,280
level, to use that metaphor. 
So at a deeper level, it's most 

693
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,160
real to us is what we're going 
to act on and live by. 

694
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,920
Well, what Doctor Andrew Newberg
found out is that if you repeat 

695
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:51,680
a thought over and over again, 
eventually that thought becomes 

696
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,080
real to you. 
Your your brain no longer 

697
00:36:55,240 --> 00:37:00,040
distinguishes between that 
thought as something internal or

698
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,440
something or it never. 
It doesn't distinguish between 

699
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,920
something that's external, that 
is physically real, and 

700
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,320
something that's internal. 
Through repetition, a thought 

701
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:12,200
becomes an internal reality. 
So by so not so, what does God 

702
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,680
tell Joshua? 
He says. 

703
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,480
I want you to be courageous. 
I want you to be courageous. 

704
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,160
So you do my will. 
So then what he tells them to 

705
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,560
do. 
I want you to take my word, and 

706
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,800
I want you to meditate upon it 
day and night. 

707
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,040
Speak it to yourself day and 
night. 

708
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,240
Why? 
Because as you do that, my 

709
00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:33,840
truth, my will, will become more
real to you than anything around

710
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,600
you. 
And again, the reality principle

711
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,760
is what is most real to you is 
what you're going to act upon 

712
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,280
and live by. 
So if my truth, if my world 

713
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,920
view, if the way, if the if the 
way of life that God paints for 

714
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,240
us in His word, if that becomes 
the reality, the way of life, he

715
00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:52,240
says we are to live. 
If that's our internal reality. 

716
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,240
And let me say this as a side 
note, we all have every human 

717
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:59,840
being has an internal reality 
that they live out of every 

718
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,840
single one of us. 
That's neuroscientifically true,

719
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:04,960
that's psychologically true. 
It's spiritually true. 

720
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,320
We all have an internal reality.
Jesus says out of the heart 

721
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:13,880
proceeds fornication, adultery, 
murders, blasphemy, he said. 

722
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:14,920
Those things come out of the 
heart. 

723
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,720
Proverbs 4 tells us guard your 
heart. 

724
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,720
Why? 
Because out of it flows the 

725
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:22,840
issues of life. 
So we all live from the inside 

726
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,800
out. 
We all live from the internal 

727
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,360
realities that we've assimilated
over the years. 

728
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,160
But what the Scripture tells us 
to do is we're to assimilate 

729
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:35,400
God's truth into our hearts. 
And by meditating upon it, it 

730
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,040
becomes more real to you, you 
know. 

731
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,040
You know in in Matthew chapter 
6, Jesus says don't be worried 

732
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:46,360
about what you're going to eat, 
what you're going to drink or 

733
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:47,960
wherewith all show you be 
clothed, right? 

734
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,200
He says don't be worried about 
it now. 

735
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,240
I think all of us have at times,
you know we struggled with our 

736
00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:58,840
finances and it's like you know 
when you when money's low you 

737
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,800
get you got more month than you 
do money, you know and you're 

738
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,200
trying to he's like, OK, well 
how do I know? 

739
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,840
I was there. 
Yeah, he was like, God, how do I

740
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,080
not be worried God. 
Jesus actually tells us. 

741
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,840
He tells us. 
He doesn't just say don't be 

742
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,080
worried and he doesn't just say 
trust in God. 

743
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:23,840
He actually gives a strategy. 
He says Behold the fowls of the 

744
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,000
air. 
Consider the lilies of the 

745
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,880
field. 
If you look up those terms in 

746
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:33,080
Greek, it has to do with 
sustained, focused attention. 

747
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,840
It's not just a casual glance, 
it's think about. 

748
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:42,160
Contemplate how your father 
feeds the birds of the air. 

749
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,440
Think about contemplate with 
focus and tension how your 

750
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,400
father clothes the lilies of the
field. 

751
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,320
So we're to meditate upon the 
attributes of God, and we're to 

752
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,400
do this consistently. 
We're to do this continually so 

753
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:02,120
that becomes more real on the 
inside of us than the idea of we

754
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,080
may not have enough Is is that 
making? 

755
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,840
Sense. 
Absolutely. 

756
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,560
So one of my thoughts was as you
were saying, you know, you know 

757
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,960
this emotion that comes out or 
you know our thoughts that 

758
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,600
what's inside of us. 
I was thinking about the verse 

759
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,760
that says it's not what goes 
into the mouth of a man that 

760
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,360
defiles him, but that much comes
out because they're, you know, 

761
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,840
you have these religious minded 
people that are arguing over did

762
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,360
they wash their hands? 
What are they eating? 

763
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:32,360
And so quick question though, 
like I'm looking at Psalms 27, 

764
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,560
verse 14 specifically and it 
says wait for and confidently 

765
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,320
expect the Lord. 
Do you think that that wait for,

766
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,480
does it fall in line with like 
that meditation Because I'm 

767
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,720
reading it and seeing it closer 
to what you're depicting. 

768
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:48,880
Like as you were talking, I'm 
going, yeah, waiting for the 

769
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,760
Lord and confidently to expect 
the Lord. 

770
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,000
Be strong. 
Let and let your heart take 

771
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,320
courage. 
Yes, wait for the Lord. 

772
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,200
Confidently expecting the Lord. 
And I'm thinking when I'm 

773
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,160
waiting and expecting for 
something, I'm thinking about 

774
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,520
what I'm anticipating. 
I'm dwelling on it. 

775
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,240
I'm recycling it back and forth,
massaging it through. 

776
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,640
And it's just such such a 
beautiful connection. 

777
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,960
Yeah, it's it's, it's actually, 
yeah, it's a huge part of it 

778
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,000
because it's the idea waiting on
the Lord. 

779
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,640
I remember it took me a while 
before I learned it. 

780
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,120
It's the idea of looking forward
confidently. 

781
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,040
But again, it's like how do you 
do that? 

782
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,160
That's why it says wait on the 
Lord, be of good courage, you 

783
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,480
know look confidently towards 
the Lord, you're expecting good 

784
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,240
things from him, but that it it 
doesn't just happen. 

785
00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:34,280
This is why Jesus says, and I'm 
going to paraphrase, but I think

786
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,040
this would be accurate to say he
says meditate on the lilies of 

787
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,000
the field. 
Meditate on the birds of the 

788
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,480
air, how your Heavenly Father 
takes care of them. 

789
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:44,120
Think about that. 
This is why over and over again 

790
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:51,000
you will see in the the book of 
Psalms, it'll say it'll it'll 

791
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,760
talk about the works of the Lord
and and it encourages Israel to 

792
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,840
speak of his works from one 
generation to the next. 

793
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,240
The idea is talk about what God 
has done. 

794
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,360
This is another strategy, and by
the way, to to to remember the 

795
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:04,440
works of the Lord, to speak of 
them. 

796
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,280
It's a way of meditating on it, 
because another word for 

797
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,600
meditate is siach, which means 
to speak. 

798
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,200
It can mean to pray. 
It can mean to speak to yourself

799
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:13,680
also. 
So there's this thing of of 

800
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,480
speaking out loud and speaking 
to yourself as well as speaking 

801
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,760
internally and meditating 
internally. 

802
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,400
Many You rehearse something over
and over again that it it can. 

803
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,880
If you're focusing on what God 
has done for you in the past it 

804
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,360
can build confidence. 
So meditating is one of the 

805
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,000
strategies and somebody said 
well well how would I meditate 

806
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,280
you you you can't. 
Well let me let me I need to 

807
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,480
back up for a second. 
So meditating on what God has 

808
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,880
done. 
Doctor Andrew Newbrook said, If 

809
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,160
you if you meditate on a thought
over and over again, so if 

810
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,000
you're meditating like on the 
Lord is good, the Lord or you 

811
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,200
meditate upon what Jesus said 
that seek first the Kingdom of 

812
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,880
God and His righteousness and 
all these things will, will and 

813
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,000
all these things will be added 
to you. 

814
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,240
So you're meditating upon that 
you're meditating upon. 

815
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,120
Behold the the, the lilies of 
the field. 

816
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,320
How the Father takes care. 
You're meditating on that. 

817
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,840
If you rehearse that over and 
over, that will become more real

818
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,640
to you. 
That God's care and provision 

819
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:11,080
will become more real to you. 
It's the way God has designed 

820
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,760
us. 
So when I when I talk about 

821
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:17,320
neuroscience, I'm looking at 
scientists discovering, not 

822
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,480
creating, discovering how God 
has made us. 

823
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,920
So it's like, whoa, this is 
amazing because like Doctor 

824
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,920
Andrew Newberg's book, How God 
Changes Us, It's all about 

825
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,840
neuroscience, but he's looking. 
But who created us? 

826
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,200
Who made us? 
It's God. 

827
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,520
He put these things within us, 
and this is how we can start 

828
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,760
directing them. 
So the scriptures always has 

829
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,000
already told us what to do. 
Way before neuroscience ever 

830
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,240
came into existence, it was 
already telling us what we 

831
00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:48,000
needed to do, the practices we 
need to engage in on a regular 

832
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,360
basis in order to align 
intellect, will and emotions 

833
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,280
with what is of the Lord. 
Now what is also said by Doctor 

834
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,400
Newberg and also other 
neuroscientists is if you 

835
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:04,000
meditate upon something with a 
particular emotion that speeds 

836
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,120
up, it accelerates the process 
of making it more real. 

837
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,200
So did you did you catch what I 
was saying? 

838
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,000
If you meditate with an emotion.
With an emotion, yes. 

839
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,320
So are you saying, you know, in 
a sense, when we have the 

840
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,320
emotional intelligence, we can 
gear that emotion to drive us 

841
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,000
into meditating on the word of 
God purposefully, intentionally,

842
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,520
And that speeds up the process? 
Yeah, that's fantastic. 

843
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:35,520
So emotion is not just a 
byproduct of renewing your mind.

844
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,000
Emotions are to be involved in 
the process of renewing the 

845
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:41,920
mind. 
So can I give you a quick 

846
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:43,720
illustration? 
Please, yeah. 

847
00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:44,920
I'm going to show you this from 
Scripture. 

848
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:50,280
I'm not making this stuff up. 
So in Deuteronomy Chapter 7, and

849
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,160
I have my Bible right here, so 
it'll take me a moment to find 

850
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:53,600
it. 
But in Deuteronomy chapter 

851
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,400
seven, we have a great 
illustration of God telling 

852
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:01,520
Israel how to deal with fear and
how to be courageous. 

853
00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:08,360
OK, so Deuteronomy Chapter 7, If
you look at verse, it's verse 

854
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,440
16. 
Well, we we, Yeah, we'll start 

855
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:13,720
at verse 16. 
OK. 

856
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,240
So let me give you a little bit 
of background. 

857
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:21,120
You know that there was a time 
when Israel, God had brought 

858
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,160
them, when he first brought them
out of Egypt. 

859
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,040
He brought them to the to the, 
to the cusp of the land of 

860
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:26,880
promise. 
Right. 

861
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:32,440
And he tells Moses to send 12 
spies to spy out the land. 12 

862
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,920
spies go. 
They come back, they begin to 

863
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,560
give their report. 
Caleb says Let's go up at once 

864
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,000
and possess it. 
We're well able to overcome it. 

865
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,920
This is Numbers chapter 13 and 
numbers 14. 

866
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,320
Caleb and Joshua says, don't 
fear the people of the land. 

867
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,320
They are as bread for us. 
The Lord is with us. 

868
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,080
Fear them not. 
So they're calling the people to

869
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,200
courage. 
Joshua and Caleb are acting in 

870
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:53,960
courage. 
The 10 spies. 

871
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,120
The other 10 spies say we are 
not able to go up against the 

872
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,720
people of the land. 
This land is too big. 

873
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:05,080
And then they say we were in our
own eyes as grasshoppers. 

874
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:09,000
And so we were in their sight. 
And then in chapter 14, starting

875
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,080
at verse one, all the people 
freak out and they go, why is 

876
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:13,520
the Lord brought us out here to 
die? 

877
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,280
Why he has he brought us out 
here in our for our our wives 

878
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:18,680
and our little ones to become a 
prey? 

879
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,600
So everyone becomes afraid. 
And then they say let's make a 

880
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,760
captain and go back into Egypt, 
right? 

881
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:28,080
This is all because of fear. 
Remember before the quote where 

882
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:32,000
I was quoting the writer who 
said your life contracts or your

883
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,080
life contracts or expands in 
proportion to your fear? 

884
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,720
I mean, I'm sorry in proportion 
to your confidence or your 

885
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:39,040
courage in proportion to your 
courage. 

886
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,080
They were contracting, they were
drawing back, and rather than 

887
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,880
moving forward, they were 
wanting to go backwards because 

888
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,240
of fear, because of the the 
emotion of fear. 

889
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:51,520
But Joshua and Caleb had No 
Fear. 

890
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,400
Joshua and Caleb said, let's go 
up and once impossess it, we're 

891
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,520
well able to overcome it. 
They said don't fear the people 

892
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:58,680
of the land. 
The Lord is with us. 

893
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,840
Fear them not. 
But the 10 spies and all the 

894
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,880
people were afraid so. 
And of course this is where how 

895
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,160
they end up wandering 40 years 
in the wilderness. 

896
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:07,320
It was part of the judgment of 
God. 

897
00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:10,560
So in Deuteronomy Chapter 7, God
is getting ready to bring them 

898
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,120
back into the land. 
This time Moses is going to be 

899
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,400
their leader. 
And God does not want to repeat 

900
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,640
of Numbers chapter 13. 
So this is what he tells them in

901
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,080
verse 16, Deuteronomy Chapter 7.
Also, you should destroy all the

902
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,480
people whom the Lord God 
delivers over to you. 

903
00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:26,960
Your eyes shall have no pity on 
them, nor shall you serve their 

904
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:28,440
gods, for that will be a snare 
to you. 

905
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,680
If you should say in your heart 
these natures are greater than 

906
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,000
I, how can I dispossess them? 
You shall not be afraid of them.

907
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:41,680
Now notice that God says you 
shall not be afraid of them. 

908
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,760
Now I've I've heard ministers 
take this and say, well, you 

909
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,520
know sometimes what what this is
saying is sometimes you've got 

910
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,000
to take action even though you 
feel afraid. 

911
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,960
But actually what the verse says
is you shall not be afraid of 

912
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,360
them. 
Matter of fact, the Septuagint 

913
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,800
of this passage says be 
courageous. 

914
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,960
And it is. 
It uses the same words. 

915
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,360
And the Septuagint is the Greek 
translation of the Hebrew Bible.

916
00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:09,160
It utilizes the same words that 
Jesus used in John chapter 16 

917
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,400
when he says in his words you 
shall have tribulation but be of

918
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,080
good cheer. 
It's the same word that's used 

919
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,360
in the Septuagint or the Greek 
version of this Hebrew Bible. 

920
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,160
Be of good cheer, which means to
be confident, to be certain, to 

921
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,480
be courageous. 
So God is actually telling them 

922
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:28,040
I want you to be courageous, but
he tells them how to be, how to 

923
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,560
actually move from fear into 
courage. 

924
00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:35,040
He says you shall not be afraid 
of them, but but you shall 

925
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:39,440
remember well what the Lord your
God did to Pharaoh and to all 

926
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,960
Egypt, the great trials which 
your eyes saw the signs and the 

927
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,480
wonders, the mighty hand in the 
outstretched arm by which the 

928
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,600
Lord your God brought you out. 
So shall the Lord your God, due 

929
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,600
to all the people of whom you 
are afraid. 

930
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,280
So God's strategy for Israel, he
says, When you see the people of

931
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,560
the land, if you start to 
experience fear, what I want you

932
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:02,360
to do is I want you to remember.
Zakar is the Hebrew term I want 

933
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,160
you to call to mine, and and to 
remember can be a form of 

934
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,720
meditation. 
I want you to call to mine. 

935
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:13,240
Notice this all of the great 
trials which your eyes saw, the 

936
00:49:13,240 --> 00:49:16,520
signs and the wonders, the 
mighty hand, the outstretched 

937
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,920
arm by which the Lord brought 
you out of Egypt. 

938
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,160
So they were to remember. 
They were to rehearse. 

939
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:26,280
They were to relive in their 
minds through their memory all 

940
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,400
of the great things they saw 
take place in Egypt. 

941
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,920
The signs, the miracles, the tin
plays, the crossing of the Red 

942
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:34,960
Sea. 
They were to remember all of 

943
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,440
that. 
Now think about this. 

944
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,600
If they're remembering all of 
the great things that they saw 

945
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,520
God do, what would that create 
within them? 

946
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,720
It would create within them 
confidence. 

947
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,200
It would create within them 
courage. 

948
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,880
So here, God is not only just 
saying, remember, He's tapping 

949
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,840
into the memory. 
He's tapping into a memory of 

950
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,720
the past, the great things He's 
done for them in order to 

951
00:49:57,720 --> 00:49:59,800
stimulate the emotion of 
courage. 

952
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,920
And as they're rehearsing this 
over and over, it's going to 

953
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,120
create more and more confidence,
more and more courage. 

954
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,720
And so that he's using the past 
in order to encourage them and 

955
00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:13,760
strengthen their heart with 
courage in the present, so that 

956
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:15,720
they can move forward and do 
what? 

957
00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:17,520
God. 
So they can move forward and do 

958
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,520
the will of God. 
Because the will of God was for 

959
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,120
them to go into the land. 
What kept them from going into 

960
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,360
the land before fear? 
God did not want a repeat of 

961
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,080
this. 
So he tells them, what I want 

962
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,680
you to do is to call to mind the
great things, all of the great 

963
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:34,560
things I have done for you as 
you go back to the past, that 

964
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,600
will stimulate courage in you in
the present so that you can obey

965
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,040
my will. 
Which is part of what courage 

966
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:45,560
is, obedience to a higher will. 
So he gave them a strategy. 

967
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,840
You know who else used this 
strategy, David? 

968
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:50,760
David did. 
Yes, he did. 

969
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:56,920
If if you if you're in First 
Samuel chapter 17, when Goliath 

970
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,800
comes out and he challenges the 
Israelites, everybody runs 

971
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,720
right? 
And it's like, you know, Saul's 

972
00:51:03,720 --> 00:51:05,600
like who's going to fight him? 
Who's going to be my champion? 

973
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,440
David, this young shepherd boy, 
says I'll fight him. 

974
00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:11,960
And Saul says you are not able 
to fight him. 

975
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:16,400
He's been a man of war since his
youth and you're but a youth, 

976
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,920
meaning he's very experienced. 
David, you don't have any 

977
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,640
experience at all. 
And what does David do? 

978
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,120
He starts to remember. 
Yes, the. 

979
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,680
Lion and the. 
Bear, the lion and the bear. 

980
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,880
Let's go. 
He begins to remember what God 

981
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,400
has done to him, the victory 
that God has given him. 

982
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,880
And what does David say? 
It is very similar in structure 

983
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:39,920
to what says here. 
God's told the people of Israel,

984
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,120
You saw what I did it to Egypt. 
That's what I'm going to do to 

985
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,960
these people, David said. 
I overcame the lion and the 

986
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,520
bear, and this Philistine will 
be as the lion and the bear. 

987
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,280
Remember, we said that part of 
courage is the confidence that 

988
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:56,240
you will succeed all of this. 
God is telling his people you 

989
00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:59,200
can trust in me. 
But he tells them how to not 

990
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,360
just intellectualize it, like, 
well, you know, we should trust 

991
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,200
God. 
He tells them, for lack of a 

992
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,120
better way put in it, how to 
emotionalize it so that they're 

993
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,520
bringing in feelings, they're 
bringing in emotions through 

994
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,760
memory. 
They're remembering the great 

995
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,680
things that they have done 
through the power of God. 

996
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:17,000
They're remembering there's 
great things God has done on 

997
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:18,880
their behalf. 
You know, one other group of 

998
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,680
people that that did this, the 
people we read about in Hebrews 

999
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,480
chapter 10. 
If you go back over to Hebrews 

1000
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:30,720
chapter 10, we actually see the 
strategy being employed again. 

1001
00:52:30,720 --> 00:52:32,640
So back over in Hebrews chapter 
10. 

1002
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,800
Now what was the situation? 
These people are undergoing 

1003
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,600
persecution. 
I just taught him this recently.

1004
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,440
And I and I asked, I said, if 
you knew somebody who was 

1005
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,720
undergoing persecution or 
they're really going through a 

1006
00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:46,520
difficult time, what would you 
tell them to do? 

1007
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,640
What? 
What practices would you 

1008
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,280
encourage them to engage in? 
And we get things like, well, I 

1009
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:52,880
would tell them to pray and 
that's good. 

1010
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:54,240
I would tell them to read their 
Bible. 

1011
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:57,000
That's good. 
I would tell them to maybe call 

1012
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:01,560
someone and that's good. 
But this is what the writer to 

1013
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,440
the people of the book, that the
writer of the book of Hebrews, 

1014
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,520
this is what he tells these 
people who are undergoing 

1015
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:08,720
persecution to do. 
And we read this earlier, but 

1016
00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:11,640
now we see it, he says. 
Verse 32. 

1017
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:16,400
Recall the former days in which,
after you were illuminated, you 

1018
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:20,160
endured a great struggle with 
suffering, partly while you were

1019
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:23,040
made a spectacle, both by 
reproaches and tribulations, 

1020
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,720
partly while you became 
companions of those who were so 

1021
00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:27,680
treated. 
You had compassion on me. 

1022
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,880
Now he's talking about the past.
You had compassion on me in my 

1023
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,840
chains. 
You joyfully accepted the 

1024
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,720
plundering of your goods, 
knowing that you had a better 

1025
00:53:35,720 --> 00:53:37,920
and enduring possession for 
yourselves in heaven. 

1026
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,680
Therefore, or because of this, 
do not castaway your confidence,

1027
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,480
which has great reward for you 
have need of endurance, so that 

1028
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,400
after you've done the will of 
God, you may receive the 

1029
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,480
promise. 
So what does he tell them to do 

1030
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:51,520
now? 
I'm going to say something that 

1031
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:53,480
may sound a little bit 
controversial, but it's not. 

1032
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:58,720
Because again, this is, these 
are other strategies that God 

1033
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:02,400
has given to us as his people. 
But they're not told. 

1034
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,600
Pray. 
They're not told fast. 

1035
00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:05,880
They're not told. 
Read your Bible. 

1036
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,040
More they're told. 
Recall the former days. 

1037
00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:12,520
In other words, this word recall
is the equivalent to the Hebrew 

1038
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,880
Zakar. 
He said, I want you to remember 

1039
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,760
how you were in the beginning. 
I want you to remember how you 

1040
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:20,960
stood strong. 
I want you to remember how you 

1041
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,360
stood by me. 
I want you to remember that even

1042
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,200
though you went through 
difficult times, you endured, 

1043
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,960
they took away everything from 
you and you endured that gently,

1044
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:34,600
joyfully call that back to mine.
Why, It's the same principle. 

1045
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,280
What they remember, what they 
rehearsed, it was to stir up 

1046
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,360
within them the confidence. 
This is how they don't castaway 

1047
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,920
their confidence. 
This was actually a strategy 

1048
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,280
that was used in the ancient 
world. 

1049
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,800
Generals would do this with 
their soldiers if they were 

1050
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:50,240
getting ready to go into a 
battle. 

1051
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:53,680
One of the ways And and Doctor 
David Desilva in his book 

1052
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,360
Perseverance and Gratitude, 
which is a book that deals with 

1053
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,080
the book of Hebrews, he talks 
about this and he says how 

1054
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:04,400
generals would remind their 
soldiers of great battles that 

1055
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,960
they won and it was the purpose 
of stirring up within them 

1056
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,720
courage and confidence in order 
to face the present battle. 

1057
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,680
So what the writer of Hebrew 
does is remind them of the 

1058
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,320
earlier days. 
And as and as Doctor David 

1059
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,080
Desilva says, when it comes to 
persevering and moving and 

1060
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,760
keeping to move forward, this is
a great strategy. 

1061
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,960
This is a great technique. 
So one of the ways that we can 

1062
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:31,160
encourage ourselves in the Lord,
to borrow from First Samuel 30, 

1063
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,840
is by remembering times in our 
life when we've made it through.

1064
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,040
And we had difficult times, but 
we stood. 

1065
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,920
We were enabled by God. 
He was there for us. 

1066
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:43,320
Or we can remember great things 
that God did for us in the past 

1067
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,240
when it looked like we were not 
going to make it when it or we 

1068
00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:49,360
felt like we couldn't stand. 
And yet God empowered us. 

1069
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:53,680
God held us up and we kept going
and we saw it through. 

1070
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:55,240
We were faithful and we were 
obedient. 

1071
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,760
We have to like David. 
We have to like the people of 

1072
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,480
Israel. 
We have to like the people here 

1073
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,320
in the book of Hebrews. 
We have to remember the great 

1074
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,840
things God has done. 
And as you do that, as people do

1075
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,360
that you start to remember what 
God has done. 

1076
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,480
It helps to build the feeling of
courage and confidence. 

1077
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,120
And so you're meditating on 
that. 

1078
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,800
You're you're feeling that. 
You rehearse it over and over. 

1079
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,680
I have a saying that whatever 
you give your mind and emotions 

1080
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,760
to, you would develop a mind and
emotion for. 

1081
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,800
So whatever you consistently 
give your mind to, whatever you 

1082
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,600
consider, this is how you direct
your mind towards the things of 

1083
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:27,880
God, how you direct your 
emotions. 

1084
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:32,080
You can call to mind great 
things God has done for you and 

1085
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:35,360
it helps you to be confident so 
you and courageous so you can 

1086
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,160
move forward and continue to do 
as well. 

1087
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,920
Yeah, that is so powerful. 
And hearing you say that, I'm, 

1088
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:48,120
I'm just thinking there's times 
recently where I literally had 

1089
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,960
the nudge to remember how God 
showed up for me in past 

1090
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,520
chapters of my life. 
And as you're saying, it is kind

1091
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,240
of surreal. 
It's not like deja vu. 

1092
00:56:56,240 --> 00:56:59,360
But I'm having a moment where 
I'm just like, man, of course 

1093
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:02,680
this is the episode I needed 
just as much as somebody else 

1094
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,040
out there who's gonna be 
listening to this. 

1095
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:07,960
They need it just as much it it 
it's so relevant right now. 

1096
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:13,720
And I love the fact that in this
space on the Mustard Seed here, 

1097
00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:15,960
you know we do cover diversity 
of different things. 

1098
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,960
It's not really a a narrow we 
only strict to you know some 

1099
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,200
strict sense to see things one 
way. 

1100
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:26,040
We we kind of dive into 
everything and I've been feeling

1101
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,320
for a while you know we messaged
each other back and forth a 

1102
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:29,880
couple times. 
I was trying to get you on 

1103
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,400
sooner than later, you know, the
last couple months because I 

1104
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,160
felt it, you know, just the 
oppression out there in the 

1105
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:39,640
world and just trying to 
minister to people that, you 

1106
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:43,320
know, I I have to walk away and 
just look up and go, God, OK, 

1107
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:46,760
yes, you were there with me. 
I I remember and it's like 

1108
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,520
drawing. 
It's I love when you say call 

1109
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,040
those things back to mind, 
'cause literally I'm thinking in

1110
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,200
my head like, hey, confident 
scenario. 

1111
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:56,840
That happened back in 2019, 
right? 

1112
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,680
It's like a little bit of humor.
But seriously, you really do 

1113
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,760
have to call these things back. 
And I love the way that you're 

1114
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:08,400
laying it out because there's 
more of a biblical premises for 

1115
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:10,840
it then I think many people 
know. 

1116
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:16,040
And then the actual implications
of, you know what, When fear, 

1117
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:20,280
fear arises, it it's like this 
shocked state where you can't 

1118
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:23,800
actually make an intelligent 
decision, right? 

1119
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:28,080
So it's like you you, the whole 
thing with fear is the absence, 

1120
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:32,800
momentary absence of actually 
comforting yourself with that 

1121
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,080
confidence of look at the track 
record. 

1122
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:38,000
God, what? 
You know, I had a guy, he passed

1123
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:39,440
away. 
His name is Carrie Williams. 

1124
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:41,280
I worked with him years and 
years ago. 

1125
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:45,880
But he would say Rod, think a 
one time when it didn't work 

1126
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:48,280
out, when God didn't actually 
bring it together for you. 

1127
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:50,280
He would say that to me, you 
know, 'cause I'm like really 

1128
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,440
early in the faith is like 8-9 
years ago. 

1129
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,000
And I would, you know, kind of 
be borderline frantic and he 

1130
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:56,680
would just say simple things 
like that. 

1131
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:58,920
And I'd kind of be like yeah, 
you're right. 

1132
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,840
You know you're right. 
And now to just be maturing in 

1133
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:06,480
Christ and to to be learning 
this stuff and this this is the 

1134
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:10,120
foundation that we build on like
a Berean. 

1135
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:14,280
We are studying and we're we're 
diving in daily with a readiness

1136
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:19,040
of mind to prove and to believe 
that which is being set forth in

1137
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:20,400
front of us that's in the word 
of God. 

1138
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:23,640
So I think that what you're 
doing is phenomenal. 

1139
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,960
It it's it's absolutely 
necessary. 

1140
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,600
And you know, I I don't want to 
switch gears with a little bit 

1141
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,840
of time that we have left, but I
kind of want to maybe plant a 

1142
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:37,800
seed and leave a bit of a 
cliffhanger for a Part 2 that 

1143
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:39,120
we're going to be doing down the
road. 

1144
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:42,720
And I know all of it fits 
together, but let's just kind of

1145
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,520
do a little cliffhanger on. 
You know Doctor Michael Hyzer 

1146
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,280
used to talk a lot about 
understanding the Bible through 

1147
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,040
the ancient context. 
Right. 

1148
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:55,520
The narrative of of how it was 
written, who it was written to. 

1149
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,560
So just clean that up. 
It sounds messy when I say it, 

1150
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:01,160
but just give us an overview of 
what we have to look forward to 

1151
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,760
with understanding the Bible. 
Well, it's kind of like the 

1152
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:05,840
things we're talking about, like
to remember and stuff. 

1153
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:09,760
I I learned that because my my 
area of study and focus and I 

1154
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:13,840
would say expertise is seeking 
to read the Bible in its 

1155
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:19,640
original historical and cultural
context and even words are 

1156
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:23,320
conditioned by culture And so it
is so important because what and

1157
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,600
I've been thinking about this a 
lot over the past few days as 

1158
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:28,080
I've been hearing people say 
certain things about the Bible 

1159
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,560
and what people are called to do
and husbands and wives are 

1160
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,760
called to do. 
And I'm going you know if you 

1161
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:36,560
don't read the Bible in its 
context in its original context 

1162
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:38,800
and understand it in its 
original context. 

1163
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,280
It's for the Old Testament. 
We're talking about the ancient 

1164
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:44,080
Near Eastern cultural context. 
For the New Testament, we're 

1165
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:47,000
talking about the Jewish context
and the Greco ROM the 1st 

1166
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,000
century Greco Roman world 
context. 

1167
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:53,080
If you don't do that, you could 
end up missing what's actually 

1168
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:56,000
being communicated. 
So to give you a a quick point, 

1169
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:00,960
Jesus says if your I be single. 
Well actually let me say this 

1170
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,720
first. 
Well, I used to teach this in a 

1171
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,600
Bible school and I would talk 
about idioms and the need for 

1172
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,200
understanding culture. 
So one of the things I would do 

1173
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,600
is I would say, OK I'm going to 
say to you a phrase and you tell

1174
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,640
me what it means and I would say
you don't believe fat meats 

1175
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:19,320
greasy people who look at me and
go what I go you don't believe 

1176
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:22,400
fat meat's greasy. 
They're like what does that 

1177
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:23,440
mean? 
I go, will you tell me what do 

1178
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:27,000
you think it means you don't 
believe fat meat's greasy and 

1179
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,200
and unless you now that is of 
idiom from African American 

1180
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:32,600
culture. 
From the black culture 

1181
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,360
specifically, really, if you 
were raised in the South or you 

1182
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,520
had family who was raised in the
South, which I I have my 

1183
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:41,640
family's from Mississippi. 
For the most part. 

1184
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:44,880
If you don't, if, if you didn't 
hear that growing up and you 

1185
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,200
weren't part of that culture, 
you would have no idea what that

1186
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,840
means. 
Now I know what it means because

1187
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:51,480
of having grown up within black 
culture. 

1188
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:53,640
My grandmother would say it all 
the time. 

1189
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:57,920
She would say it to me and she 
never explained to me what it 

1190
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:00,680
meant. 
But by what she said the 

1191
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:04,120
situation in which she said it 
in the tone of voice, which she 

1192
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,920
said said it to me in I knew 
what it meant. 

1193
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:13,880
And so the phrase you don't 
believe fat meat is greasy is a 

1194
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:17,880
is an idiom that means you don't
believe the truth when it's 

1195
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:21,960
staring you in the face. 
The reason why is because fat 

1196
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,400
meat, or meat that's fat has 
grease. 

1197
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,280
And so when you say you don't 
believe fat meat's greasy, it's 

1198
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:29,080
like you're not believing 
something that's true and 

1199
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:31,640
evident. 
OK, now when I explained to 

1200
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,600
people, they go, oh, I said, But
if I had not told you that, you 

1201
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:36,760
never would have gotten it. 
You never, I said, you could 

1202
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,720
have looked at each of those 
words in the dictionary and it 

1203
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:43,960
never would have given you the 
meaning of the idiom because 

1204
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:45,960
it's not determined by each 
single word. 

1205
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:48,600
It's all of the words together 
that convey a meaning. 

1206
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,520
So in the same way, when we're 
looking at the Bible, there are 

1207
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:55,240
idioms, there are figures of 
speech, there are practices that

1208
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:58,960
are going on that are part of 
the culture and the people in 

1209
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,800
the culture of that time period,
they understood it readily. 

1210
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:06,040
Doctor John Walton, who's an 
expert in the Old Testament, he 

1211
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:08,960
often says the Bible. 
He often will say the Bible, 

1212
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:14,600
while being for us, was not 
originally written to us. 

1213
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:16,440
And I think that is so 
important. 

1214
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:18,640
The Bible was not originally 
written to us. 

1215
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:20,800
It was not originally written in
English. 

1216
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,840
It was not originally written to
21st century Western Christians.

1217
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,440
It is for us but it was not 
originally written to us. 

1218
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,720
So we have to go back and try to
understand the culture. 

1219
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:37,200
So as I was getting ready to say
earlier, Jesus said one time if 

1220
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:40,320
your eye be evil your whole body
should be full of darkness. 

1221
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:42,960
But if your eye is good, your 
whole body should be full of 

1222
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,400
light. 
If you look up the word good, 

1223
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,640
like if your whole body, if your
if your eye is good, your whole 

1224
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:49,360
body should be full of light. 
You look up the word good, it'll

1225
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:52,080
say sound or healthy, OK. 
Or if your eye is sound or 

1226
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,000
healthy, your whole body should 
be full of light. 

1227
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:56,760
That still doesn't tell me what 
does it mean? 

1228
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,480
And I would. 
Growing up, I heard people teach

1229
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,360
on that, and they I was taught 
that it meant you got to be 

1230
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:03,560
focused on your goals. 
A good eye means to be focused 

1231
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:05,000
on your goals. 
If you're going to set goals, 

1232
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:06,920
you got to be focused. 
Oh, OK. 

1233
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:10,280
But as I begin to learn history 
and culture, come to find out, a

1234
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:14,560
good eye is actually an idiom. 
It is a Jewish idiom. 

1235
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:16,960
And it's an idiom actually, 
that's used in the Old 

1236
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:20,960
Testament, and it means to be 
generous. 

1237
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:25,480
An evil eye, depending on 
context, means to be stingy. 

1238
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:29,200
And if you go back and you read 
the context in Matthew chapter 6

1239
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,240
of what Jesus is talking about, 
it fits the context because he 

1240
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,840
talks about giving, He talks 
about your treasure in heaven, 

1241
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:36,520
where's your treasure being 
stored? 

1242
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:39,880
And so Jesus saying, listen, if 
you are generous you should be 

1243
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:41,800
full of light, really shows your
spirituality. 

1244
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:45,120
But if you are greedy and you 
hoard, you're filled with 

1245
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:48,320
darkness. 
Now if you look up those words 

1246
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:52,040
again in Greek or even in 
Hebrew, you won't get the 

1247
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:53,800
meaning of that from the Greek 
and the Hebrew. 

1248
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:58,520
You have to know the culture and
how the culture utilizes those 

1249
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,160
terms. 
And it's that way with so many 

1250
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:04,280
things within scripture. 
Again, when we when we tend to 

1251
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:08,360
read the Bible, we tend to read 
it as if it was written directly

1252
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:11,840
to us and our 21st century 
settings. 

1253
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:13,400
And it wasn't. 
It was originally written to 

1254
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:16,040
people in an ancient or Eastern 
setting, the Old Testament. 

1255
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:19,120
It was originally written to 
people in a 1st century Greco, 

1256
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:21,080
Roman and Jewish setting, the 
New Testament. 

1257
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:24,360
So we have to be able to 
understand that culture and 

1258
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,400
immerse ourselves, and that 
takes time. 

1259
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:29,000
It takes study. 
We have to really study. 

1260
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,440
But then when you start to 
understand more of the culture, 

1261
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:34,560
the things that you read that 
those people would have taken 

1262
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,600
for granted because they they 
were part of the culture, it 

1263
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:41,120
starts to make much more sense. 
You know, like so for me, 

1264
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:43,920
growing up hearing you don't 
believe fat me's greasy, I 

1265
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,320
understood immediately. 
Now when I said to you first, 

1266
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:49,520
you know Rod, you don't believe 
fat me's greasy. 

1267
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:51,040
Your your mind probably went 
huh? 

1268
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:56,280
I thought it was like a like a 
version of an honest Abe, like a

1269
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,680
guy who's always right. 
And it's like, you don't believe

1270
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:01,000
that meets Greasy. 
Like his name was like, that's 

1271
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,680
me greasy. 
Seriously. 

1272
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:06,360
That was my first. 
Thought I'm like, I really have 

1273
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:08,480
no other idea what's going on 
here. 

1274
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:13,200
My imagination led to that, so. 
So it's so little things like 

1275
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:15,240
that, but but you know what? 
What you just said, that's what 

1276
01:06:15,240 --> 01:06:17,720
we do when we're reading the 
biblical text. 

1277
01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:22,200
We will read it and we will kept
our meaning onto this if we 

1278
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:24,800
don't know the culture and so 
then we will derive out of the 

1279
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:26,800
text something that the text 
never said. 

1280
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:30,800
Yes. 
And that's why we're to study to

1281
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:34,240
show ourselves well approved, 
right, with gearing trembling 

1282
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:37,640
and you know, there's a lot of 
study it does. 

1283
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:39,960
But that means being a disciple,
being a Berean as you said 

1284
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:42,400
earlier. 
Yes, and and it's lifestyle 

1285
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:43,960
then. 
So you know, there's a lot of 

1286
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:46,920
people that are playing well. 
It's kind of like, in a weird 

1287
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:50,600
way from what I see now, this 
isn't across the board. 

1288
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:52,880
This isn't subjected to 
everybody's perspective. 

1289
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:55,560
But from what I see in the 
millennial generation, it's 

1290
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,480
becoming kind of trendy or cool 
to be a Christian because it's 

1291
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:01,000
like the new bad boy, right? 
It's like, oh, kind of going 

1292
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,720
against the grain. 
And it's like, you know, you 

1293
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:06,000
have all these kind of 
borderline bold and some of them

1294
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,400
really genuine and honest 
whistleblowers who are out there

1295
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,520
calling it like they see it, 
right? 

1296
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:13,960
Because right now our culture is
saying what is good is wrong and

1297
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:16,720
what is wrong is good, right? 
We're seeing the flip flop. 

1298
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,960
We're seeing this kind of stuff,
so people really have a lot of 

1299
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:22,160
the times, a good mode of a good
heart. 

1300
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:23,480
They want to honor and serve 
God. 

1301
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:27,160
But I think what we're doing 
here tonight, this is for all of

1302
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:30,960
us and and this is a lifestyle. 
This is not just, oh, it's kind 

1303
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,800
of cute and cool now to become a
Christian rapper because 

1304
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:36,280
Christian rap is actually 
becoming something that the 

1305
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:39,560
world is taking notice to when 
five years ago, nobody wanted to

1306
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:43,240
be a Christian rapper. 
I use that as the idea that, you

1307
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:46,400
know, what really makes the 
difference is when we hear the 

1308
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:48,720
voice. 
You know, when when Jesus is our

1309
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:52,840
shepherd and we're the flock, we
don't hear another's voice. 

1310
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:56,320
And I think that the way that 
I've been living, you know, 

1311
01:07:56,320 --> 01:08:01,880
Mike, I really look at it and I 
go, I have not knowingly but 

1312
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:06,520
intentionally at the same time 
ignored things that I knew 

1313
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:09,520
didn't settle and resonate with 
the deepest part of me. 

1314
01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:13,800
I would observe and I'd go 
that's not there's something off

1315
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:16,120
and it wasn't like that guy's a 
Sinner. 

1316
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:18,479
I don't believe his preaching. 
No, it was just it was like this

1317
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:22,120
caution of like something's off.
I I can't. 

1318
01:08:22,399 --> 01:08:24,160
I can't go there. 
Something's not right. 

1319
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,439
I don't get the green light. 
I don't care if 150 of you stand

1320
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:31,040
up and say the light's green. 
Go if I don't get that like if 

1321
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,960
it doesn't stir up deep and 
become something that the the 

1322
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:38,080
river of living water can can 
surfboard on, right. 

1323
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:41,080
These ideas can't actually 
boogie board on what's flowing. 

1324
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:43,840
I didn't really want to 
participate, so I spent a lot of

1325
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:45,840
time biting my tongue, sitting 
back and watching. 

1326
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:48,520
And now I'm starting to 
understand that God has me in 

1327
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:51,160
this peculiar situation, you 
know, with people that are 

1328
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,279
literally taking this journey 
with me. 

1329
01:08:53,319 --> 01:08:56,520
That's the premises of the show.
Mike is in this day and age with

1330
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:58,760
a million messages and signals 
causing confusion and chaos. 

1331
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:01,319
Let's take a journey together. 
Let's talk about this ultimate 

1332
01:09:01,319 --> 01:09:03,720
truth. 
So what you have already laid 

1333
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,880
down tonight for this Part one, 
I am super excited to have you 

1334
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:11,399
back in the near future for a 
Part 2 and to to learn this 

1335
01:09:11,399 --> 01:09:13,680
together. 
Like, it's not about who's 

1336
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:15,600
right. 
And it's not about arguing. 

1337
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:21,680
It's it's about we love the word
of God and we want to put on the

1338
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:23,600
mind of Christ. 
We want to lay aside 

1339
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:27,000
denominational preferences. 
I'm not saying, you know, 

1340
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,840
exalting A denomination or or 
saying don't be a part of one. 

1341
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:31,399
I'm not. 
I don't want to beat up on the 

1342
01:09:31,399 --> 01:09:33,800
church, man. 
I'm a we're the bride. 

1343
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:37,800
I'm a part of the bride and I 
think that this is the perfect 

1344
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:42,800
opportunity for us to show 
ourselves, you know, stewards of

1345
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:48,319
of of our time, of your talent, 
of your passion and we by diving

1346
01:09:48,319 --> 01:09:50,960
in this together. 
Not only are you helping me by 

1347
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:53,279
doing this tonight, but but 
you're helping tons of people 

1348
01:09:53,279 --> 01:09:55,880
out there listening. 
So just a lot of respect and 

1349
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:59,600
just I appreciate your time. 
Well, I appreciate you giving me

1350
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:02,160
the, just giving me a platform 
to be able to share these things

1351
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:05,120
that I this is like I said 
earlier, is a passion of mine to

1352
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:08,080
share these things, this 
information, the tools with 

1353
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:09,880
people. 
And like you said, there's a lot

1354
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:13,320
of anxiety out there. 
Now since the pandemic, it's 

1355
01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:15,480
been studies that have been 
done, anxiety and fear has 

1356
01:10:15,480 --> 01:10:17,200
risen. 
We're seeing more fear, 

1357
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:20,320
especially in our younger 
generation, Gen. 

1358
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,080
Z's, millennials. 
There is a lot of fear and 

1359
01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:25,440
anxiety and a lack of hope about
the future. 

1360
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:29,680
So I think as believers, if we 
can bring the truth of God and 

1361
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:33,600
also bring the wisdom of how do 
you apply this, we can be a 

1362
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:37,360
force for good to help people. 
Couldn't have said it any better

1363
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:39,720
and just plug in where you can 
be found real quick. 

1364
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:43,920
One, they can actually e-mail me
at MLD. 

1365
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:47,360
Mike M as in Mike. 
L as in Lion D as in Dog MLD and

1366
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:50,400
the word training at msn.com. 
They can e-mail me. 

1367
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:52,680
They can also find me on 
Facebook. 

1368
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:56,720
Mike Davis. 
I think it's Mike Davis slash 

1369
01:10:56,720 --> 01:11:00,040
Facebook the coach. 
I think my wife set it up like 

1370
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:02,400
that. 
We are, we do have a website. 

1371
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:04,120
We're redoing it. 
So it's going to be a while 

1372
01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:06,320
before it's up. 
But if they if they find me on 

1373
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:09,720
Facebook could you and I are 
friends on Facebook And so if 

1374
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:12,600
they can't find me directly, 
yes, I'd say just go look under 

1375
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:16,280
Rod's friends that you find Mike
Davis and they can friend me. 

1376
01:11:16,280 --> 01:11:19,040
I friend people and then they 
can direct message me. 

1377
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,440
I do respond to direct messages.
That's one of the simplest ways 

1378
01:11:22,440 --> 01:11:25,760
that most people have found. 
Well, once again it was an honor

1379
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:29,480
and I am in high anticipation 
for a Part 2. 

1380
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:30,560
Looking. 
Forward to it. 

1381
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:32,720
That's it. 
That's the show you guys. 

1382
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:34,960
I'm going to ask you to share 
this with your friends, family 

1383
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:37,760
members, with your Co worker, 
share it with your doctor and 

1384
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:41,720
share it with your pastor coming
to you from Southeastern 

1385
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:44,960
Pennsylvania. 
God bless and goodbye. 

1386
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:01,560
Deeper now. 
I ain't sleeping now, man. 

1387
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:03,320
I hide in this hand from the 
Reaper. 

1388
01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:05,880
Now I don't hide who I am from 
the people. 

1389
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:07,760
Now. 
Ain't no slide in their hand. 

1390
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:09,600
Ain't no secrets. 
Now I'm saved. 

1391
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:11,520
Shooting me out the trap in the 
grave. 

1392
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:13,520
And they took me back on the 
strain. 

1393
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:20,120
Strain. 
Deeper now. 

1394
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:23,360
I ain't sleeping now, man. 
I hide in this hand from the 

1395
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:25,760
Reaper. 
Now I don't hide who I am from 

1396
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:26,560
the people. 
Now. 

1397
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:29,040
Ain't no slide in the hand. 
Ain't no secrets. 

1398
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:31,360
Now I'm saying Get Me Out the 
trap. 

1399
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:33,440
And the brave. 
They took me back when I 

1400
01:12:33,440 --> 01:12:40,680
strayed. 
Take me now. 

1401
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:43,320
You can break me now. 
Let the move of your skin. 

1402
01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:45,880
If you would shake me now. 
You're the beep from the tails. 

1403
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,840
Have to break me now from the 
streets and the stairs, trying 

1404
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:51,280
to take my crown. 
Your bird and the stand on it. 

1405
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:54,120
Put the tooth like my hand on it
through the booth. 

1406
01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:57,000
Put my fans on it. 
Whatever I do, I put your hand 

1407
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:03,920
on it without a flinch. 
He gave his life to the cause 

1408
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,320
with the scars on his wrist. 
You died in yourself. 

1409
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:09,160
Nothing harder than this. 
I got nothing left to give but 

1410
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:19,080
my heart as it is. 
Revelation the truth. 

1411
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:21,320
Ain't nothing vain on it. 
Deeper now. 

1412
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:24,400
I ain't sleeping now, man. 
I hide in this handful. 

1413
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:27,160
Deeper now. 
I don't hide who I am from the 

1414
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:29,400
people now. 
Ain't no slide in their hand. 

1415
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:31,360
Ain't no secrets now. 
I'm saved. 

1416
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:33,240
Take me up the trap and the 
grave. 

1417
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:35,320
They took me back from a strange
train. 

1418
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:43,680
Deeper now. 
I ain't sleeping now, man. 

1419
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:45,720
I hide in this handful. 
Deeper now.