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North America. 
Crossing family. 

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I am so glad that you are with 
us today. 

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I want to welcome you from all 
of our different locations. 

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Those of you joining us online 
and inside, and to, those of you

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joining us for the first time, 
or the first time in a long 

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time, we are so glad you are 
here. 

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Because today, we are starting a
brand new sermon series called 

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reclaim restoring what was lost 
and And fixing what's broken, 

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perhaps, some of you have parts 
of your home, decorated, with 

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reclaimed barn wood. 
Or some of you have found an old

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piece of furniture at a thrift 
store or an estate auction that 

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you stripped of paint, sanded 
down and brought back to its 

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original Glory or maybe you gave
it an updated trendy twist. 

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There's Something Beautiful 
about solid craftsmanship and 

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natural materials. 
The hard work. 

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Seems to be worth it when we 
know that it can be passed on to

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Future Generations or at least 
Payments value and even increase

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in value when the time comes for
it to leave our homes contrast 

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that with the particle board 
pieces that litter our homes. 

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Today while we appreciate the 
convenience, they have no 

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longevity and are far from 
sturdy in conversations with 

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parents couples, grandparents 
and young adults. 

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It appears to me that many of us
are wishing for something more. 

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Something better, something 
different. 

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Aunt and this sermon series, 
we're going to take a look at 

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the areas of Our Lives that we 
need to reclaim things that 

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we've lost along the way and 
things that are broken and long 

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overdue for a fix in order to 
reclaim what has been lost and 

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broken. 
We need to understand three 

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principles, its principal one. 
You reap. 

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What you sow? 
We see this in Galatians. 

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A man reaps what he sews whoever
sews to please, their flesh. 

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From the flesh will reap 
destruction. 

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Whoever sews to please, the 
spirit from the spirit will reap

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eternal life. 
Let us not. 

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Become weary in doing good 
throughout the proper time. 

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We will reap a harvest. 
If we do not give up. 

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Here's a question. 
I want you to ponder. 

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What do you want to reap? 
This is a question about Vision.

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When you see yourself in the 
future, what do your 

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relationships with like with 
your kids? 

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What kind of marriage or 
friendships do you want to have?

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How are you doing in the future 
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And even Spiritually. 
We are so busy in the day-to-day

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hustle of life. 
That many of us have not stopped

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long enough to make sure that we
have a vision for our future. 

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Proverbs 29:18, says, where 
there is no Revelation, the 

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people cast off restraint is 
probably said best in the King 

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James version. 
Where there is no vision, the 

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people perish. 
Nobody has the vision of being 

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poor divorced and estranged from
their kids. 

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Most people have hopes that one 
day they'll have money in the 

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bank less fighting in. 
Family, and closer and more 

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meaningful relationships. 
However, having a vision is not 

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enough. 
Once you have a vision, you have

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to take steps to get there, you 
can have a vision for reaping a 

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harvest of corn, but if you 
don't ever buy the Seed, go out 

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and work the dirt, fertilize it 
spray for weeds and do the 

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maintenance on the combine. 
The chances of you reaping a 

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harvest plummets, furthermore 
you can have a vision for 

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harvesting corn, but if all you 
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realize the vision you have. 
So many of us have visions that 

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are in direct contradiction to 
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We reap what we sow, not, what 
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So vision is not enough. 
We need to implement our vision 

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which leads to principal to 
principal to everything has a 

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price. 
Jesus gives us a warning that we

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must count the cost of following
him and also of not following 

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him. 
He Likens it to a man who's 

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getting ready to build a tower. 
He says you should first sit 

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down and count the cost to see 
if you have enough to complete 

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it. 
Otherwise you'll simply lay a 

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foundation and be seen as a fool
who did not have enough money to

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finish the project. 
He also says the whoever loses 

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their life will save it and 
whoever tries to save their life

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will lose it. 
Is always a cost choosing to 

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follow. 
Jesus has a cost, you will lose 

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your life. 
You turn your life over to him, 

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the choosing not to follow. 
Jesus also has a cost you keep 

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your life on your terms and save
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However, in the end you will not
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life was never placed. 
In the hands of Jesus, we end up

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over estimating the cost of 
decisions today and under 

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estimating, the cost of 
decisions made tomorrow. 

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We tend to think that putting it
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Delaying the tough conversations
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better practices. 
Will save us in the long run but

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there is a cost to not working 
out regularly and there is a 

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cost to working out regularly. 
There is a cost to saving today 

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and there's a cost for not 
saving today. 

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There's a cost to having 
difficult conversations today 

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and there's a cost to not having
difficult conversations today, 

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there's a cost to making 
life-changing decisions today 

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and there is a cost to know. 
Making life-changing decisions. 

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Today we end up buying more 
particle board Furniture because

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in the moment it costs less. 
But in the long run we end up 

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spending so much more than we 
anticipated which leads me to 

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principle 3. 
We must feed the dog we want to 

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win. 
So I Married to guys, fat 

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Clayton and skinny clay careful.
So sitting in front of the 

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television, eating a pizza, and 
then a bowl of cereal. 

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And then I have a bag of chips 
and then he gets mad that we're 

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out of ice cream. 
And all of a sudden, something 

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wakes up inside of him and he 
screams, hey, I gotta get out of

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this chair. 
I'm gonna go look in the mirror.

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They turned sideways. 
He's like, look, you're fat, 

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you're out of shape. 
Let's do something about it. 

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Something wakes up inside of him
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differently. 
So, now skinny, Clayton, he 

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can't stand being fat. 
He has a different vocabulary. 

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Uses words like discipline 
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All right, put the cards down. 
He watches videos on YouTube of 

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workouts. 
He reads blogs, does research on

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what types of shoes he's going 
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He sets, workout goals, dietary 
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Gets up early to work out. 
Get that Fitbit and does jumping

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jacks. 
Runs in place, so it gets his 

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steps in. 
He even begins to look down on 

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others. 
Who don't work out, the skinny, 

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Clayton, loses five pounds, then
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he weighs in and sees no 
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Next morning, he gets up to work
out, look into rainy and cold so

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he sleeps for an extra hour. 
Then on his way to work the 

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McDonald's, he has successfully 
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weeks. 
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Then it hits that Clayton is 
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sad, but it's true. 
The worst thing is it's not just

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limited to that. 
That there's great spouse versus

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selfish spouse. 
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self-respect says, it's your 
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The great one works at loving 
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be loved one shows up, ready to 
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to be served. 
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There's invested Clayton and 
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Clayton invested Clayton, is 
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Clayton is overcommitted 
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Clayton has a plan absent. 
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Lee, Clayton, prioritises a 
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Clayton is all about rules. 
I interact with my kids when I'm

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in my on good behavior and I 
ignore them and I'm on my cell 

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phone when I'm exhibiting my bad
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friend and bad friend. 
Good friend says, I'm gonna go 

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say hi to everyone. 
Bad friend goes well they didn't

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speak to me, they've got a 
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Good friend, listens, bad, 
friend talks, good friend, gives

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bad friend takes, then there's 
Clayton, who has a growing faith

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in Clayton. 
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When I have a growing faith, I 
make a regular investment when I

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have a stagnant faith. 
I'm just going through the 

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motions or I'm driven by my 
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I make it a priority, when 
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occasional. 
There are so many more of these.

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There's the I want a new learn a
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I'm just going to speak slowly 
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foreign countries and my family 
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Well, There's a desire inside of
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And there's also a desire in me 
to be a horrible boss. 

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There's a part of me that wants 
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And then there's times when I'm 
a reckless spender, there's 

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times when I want to become a 
great cook, and there's other 

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times where I would just rather 
choose to go through the drive 

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through all of these 
personalities live inside of me 

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and I'm guessing they live 
inside of you two and these two 

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personalities do not like each 
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be in charge. 
He reminds me of a story, maybe 

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you've heard it too of the dogs 
that there's this young boy 

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hanging out with his father and 
they're talking about this 

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desire to be good and then at 
the same time, these bad actions

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that take place in his life. 
He's trying to talk to his 

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father and get some advice about
how to navigate this and he and 

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his dad says look there are two 
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One wants to do good and be good
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wants to be bad and the boy 
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well which dog will win. 
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says whichever dog you feed what
I love so much about this time 

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of year is that the version of 
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We want to be tends to wake up 
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exciting and full of potential. 
The problem is that violate 

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february-march the who we are 
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dog and life returns to the old 
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Paul in Galatians, gives these 
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Flesh. 
And one is the spirit every day.

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We have a choice to feed the dog
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And if we do, we will reap 
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Or we can feed the dog of the 
spirit and reap a spiritual 

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Harvest. 
I'm hoping that by every single 

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one of us going on this journey 
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By embracing these principles, 
we will reap a spiritual 

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Harvest. 
We will ultimately reclaim we 

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will be able To redeem, the 
things that have been lost and 

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fix the things that are broken. 
Well, in order to reclaim in 

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order to redeem in order to fix 
what is broken? 

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We have to make a decision right
now, which dog will we continue 

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to feed? 
I was drawn to the last 

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principle. 
I mean they went through three 

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but I want to focus primarily on
the third principle. 

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I know they talked about sewing 
and what you reap and and 

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everything has a price but I 
want to focus on these two dogs.

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I want to give a little more 
context Jennifer said it that 

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Galatians Paul actually Gives 
these two dogs and name and I 

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want you to see where it's found
in. 

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Galatians chapter 5 starting in 
verse 16, it says this. 

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So I say let the holy spirit 
guide your lives. 

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There is the first dog. 
The spirit is, the one, and how 

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do we feed it? 
We're going to get to that in 

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just a little bit, then you 
won't be doing what your sinful 

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nature, craves, or you won't be 
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That's the second, dog. 
So you have the spirit and then 

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you have your flesh or your 
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And so here's Does the sinful 
nature, point-blank once to do 

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evil? 
Your flesh wants to do evil, 

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which is just opposite of what 
the spirit wants. 

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And the spirit gives us desires 
that are opposite of what the 

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nature, spiritual nature, our 
sinful nature desires, but 

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here's what I want you to focus 
in on narrow in, on this, these 

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two forces are constantly 
fighting against each other, so 

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you are not free to carry out 
your good intentions. 

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Here's what you got to know that
there is a dogfight happening. 

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There is these two dogs, the 
Flesh and the spirit going 

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head-to-head and everybody in 
this room and everybody watching

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online, you need to know this, 
we all have different sinful 

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desire, some are similar but 
some are are very different. 

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And we all have these battles of
the Flesh. 

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And you may Wonder, well hey, 
what happens, what happens if 

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I'm I'm not feeding the spear or
what If I don't have the spirit,

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what happens if I'm just feeding
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when I'm just feeding the dog of
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your sinful nature, when you 
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flesh, which again, is all of us
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There's that, that nature of us.
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you do that, here's what? 
Opens sexual immorality impurity

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lust evil Pleasures idolatry 
sorcery or witchcraft hostility.

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There's more there's a lot that 
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flesh. 
Quarreling jealousy. 

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Outburst of anger. 
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selfish ambition. 
Dissension division happens. 

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Envy drunkenness, wild parties, 
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Like these. 
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he's like, let me just give you 
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East. 
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there as you narrow in on this 
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flesh when you feed the flesh, 
when you feed your sinful 

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desires, you get this. 
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that seems appealing to you? 
Do you wake up in the morning? 

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And you say, man today and I 
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hostile. 
I I desire to get in a little 

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fighting match with somebody or 
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anger or all those things 
because I just don't think you 

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do. 
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appealing, they may even bring 
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you. 
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those things, when you are 
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results are taken place it 
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There are times I'm sure you've 
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something in your life, man? 
Just wasn't fair, or you 

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something some news, hits you 
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something sideways to you. 
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anger. 
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But in my car that seems to 
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a scream, something will come 
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My Flesh and those moments. 
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felt alright if okay, but it 
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I can't, I can't continue in 
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never find fulfillment in the 
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You say it again. 
You will never find fulfillment 

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In the Flesh. 
I'm sure a lot of you can relate

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to this based on the circles 
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has been hit with sickness, all 
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Last week, with with me with 
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It continued into this week, 
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and I got to be completely 
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My flesh took over when I'm I'm 
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I will say this. 
I will admit it in front of all 

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of you. 
I'm a bit dramatic. 

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All right, I felt and when 
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was down with strep throat and I
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couldn't get out of bed for two 
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The words I would use that would
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deathbed. 
I couldn't move my head hurt my 

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throat hurt. 
My body hurt. 

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Just everything. 
Didn't I felt like I could 

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literally slap you with what Was
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time like it was bad and when 
I'm sick, I have these perceived

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thoughts on how my wife should 
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Because I was down and I was 
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should have done better, this is
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more into my fleshly side. 
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spirit very much when I was down
and out, I wasn't spending much 

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time in the word. 
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prayer and so my flesh came out 
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And so my expectations of my 
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room at every second of the day 
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me and she needs to be asking, 
Honey, can I bring you some more

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water honey? 
Can I get this for you? 

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And quite frankly she didn't now
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everything. 
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She's caring for four kids. 
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calling in the Lord and doing a 
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calling but for some reason in 
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you don't my flesh said and you 
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I said Sweetie. 
I know you're going to get sick 

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next. 
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Wait you wait and I will treat 
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me. 
This that didn't work out very 

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well. 
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See my flesh came out and I took
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I took it out on my kids because
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dog. 
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friends. 
It's so important to feed the 

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spirit and here's a good news 
about having a relationship with

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Jesus Christ. 
Is that you are not battling the

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flesh by yourself. 
If you don't Have a relationship

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with Jesus. 
You are battling it by yourself,

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but Jesus says in his own words,
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The Gospel of John. 
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if you love me and you keep my 
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commands Jesus, I will send, I 
will ask the father to send us 

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an advocate who will help us 
forever the spirit of Truth. 

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The spirit of God will come 
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And you don't know why that's a 
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Do you want to know why? 
It's a big deal to have the 

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spirit of God living inside of 
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Because the results are quite 
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provides. 
Here's what it says in verse 22,

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as we continued in chapter 5 but
the Fruit of the Spirit The 

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results of the spirit, when you 
feed the spirit, when you allow 

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the spirit to come take 
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This is what it does. 
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peace and forbearance or or 
patience. 

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Kindness goodness faithfulness 
gentleness and self-control 

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against such things. 
There is no law. 

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Look at that list in contrast to
the list that you're flush 

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provides. 
I wonder how many of your your 

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kids or your spouse or your 
family or your grandkids or fill

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in the blank of the person in 
your circle. 

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If they were like mint, actually
might this would be a bad thing 

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for my loved ones to have more 
joy to have more love to have 

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more patients to have more 
kindness to have more 

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self-control. 
Would they be like, no, no, no. 

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I dad actually I want a more 
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I want when I do something 
wrong. 

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I don't want a peaceful dad. 
I don't want a gentle dad, but 

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if I'm not careful this and this
is just me speaking. 

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If I'm not careful. 
And I'm feeding the wrong dog, 

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those things on the other lists,
tend to show themselves more 

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than this list. 
If I'm not feeding the spirit, I

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don't know if any of the guys 
can relate to this to this next 

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part, but my wife, I love her so
much, and she knows that she 

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just takes. 
So darn long to get ready when 

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we go to places, all right. 
Like a long time and maybe it's 

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not even that she she takes a 
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She just seems to wait till the 
last moment to get ready. 

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So if like, for instance, we 
know it's, I'm going to give her

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a Saturday when we're not 
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We're out of the office and 
we're at home, or enjoying time 

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with the family. 
And let's just say we have 

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somewhere to be at 6 p.m. she's 
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Besides caring for her kids and 
loving me. 

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She waits till 5:45 to get ready
so then I think now's a good 

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time. 
Let's go get ready now. 

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I'm like we're supposed to leave
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happens. 
The flesh side of me, if I'm not

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feeding the spirit, if I'm not 
in my word, if I'm not praying. 

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If I'm not being the man after 
God's heart that I'm supposed to

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do what she gets, as she gets a 
more hostile husband, she gets a

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little Outburst of anger, 
unfortunately, instead of this 

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patient in this kind in this 
loving and forgive me husband. 

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But listen, this is a reminder 
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These these fruits of the spirit
We don't produce those. 

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Some of you are gonna be like, 
well listen, I I'm a lot loving 

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person. 
I can be patient, I could be 

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kind but you can't produce that 
on your own. 

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It might be short term. 
You might produce evidence of 

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those things but you cannot 
produce the fruits of the spirit

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without the spirit. 
And the spirit comes to you, 

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like I said, when you start that
intimate personal relationship 

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with Jesus, when you say, I 
believe that Jesus is the 

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Christ, the son of the Living 
God, and I want him as my 

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personal savior in that moment, 
just Like Jesus says, when we do

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that when we love them, when we 
obey him, he sends a spirit and 

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we're no longer alone, you can't
produce it on your own. 

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When you have that relationship 
with Jesus, immediately 

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scripture is very clear that 
when you start that relationship

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with Jesus, you should be 
obedient in the area of baptism.

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And you start feeding the 
spirit, we have an obligation as

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Christians, people who have 
called on the name of the Lord, 

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to start feeding the spirit. 
But listen, and I'm in this 

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boat, we spend way too much time
sowing into our flesh and sowing

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into the spirit. 
We know the right thing we 

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should do. 
But yet, we don't do it all the 

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time. 
It's Paul talks about this 

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battle. 
He has this inward battle to he 

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relates so well to us. 
He's like, man, these are things

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I want to do, but I don't do 
them and then the things I don't

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want to do. 
Those are the things I'm doing. 

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We keep returning to our sinful 
desires, our flesh, but we 

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shouldn't be surprised by this. 
Because scripture continues to 

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talk about this. 
This kind of this weird 

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phenomena and the Book of wisdom
and the Book of Proverbs chapter

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26, starting in verse 11. 
Here's what it says. 

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I love scripture. 
This part is, especially as a 

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dog returns to its vomit. 
So a fool repeats, his 

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foolishness. 
Some of you are just like, oh 

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okay, you have that picture. 
I used to be a dog owner, my 

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wife. 
And I used to be a dog owner and

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this dog. 
He was crazy. 

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And his own and his own sorts, 
but during our time of being 

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with him, there were be there'd 
be moments where you can tell 

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something was about to come out.
You guys are, you know, Talking 

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about like you, he's like he's 
gagging, like you like it's kind

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of like and you're like, you 
kind of step back. 

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I won't go anymore because some 
of you guys are still got some 

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flu symptoms and that'll just 
like blah all over the 

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auditorium. 
But then all of a sudden, what 

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does he do? 
He releases the bad. 

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He gets too bad out and his 
vomit comes out on our floor, 

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which it was wood. 
Floors tile floors, praise God. 

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And after he did that, what he 
would do is he's a crazy dog. 

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He'd get the bad out and then 
all of a sudden he's all perky 

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and he's running. 
Around the house and he's going 

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outside. 
He's running around the yard. 

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Then he comes back inside and he
jumps on your lap and he gets 

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really close to my face. 
I'm like, whoa, whoa whoa you 

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just vomited really like hang 
back hang back and then what 

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does he do? 
He goes back to the pile that I 

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haven't cleaned up yet. 
And he licks it up. 

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And it goes right back to where 
it came from. 

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Well, why is that important? 
Well, as a Christian, that's 

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what we tend to do quite a bit. 
There is this fleshly desires. 

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These sinful desires these 
things that were walking in 

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that, we know are not God, 
they're evil. 

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They're, they're all those 
results that we were just 

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reading and we're walking in 
them, but then we come to 

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realization as a Believer. 
I need to get away from those 

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things. 
I need to walk away. 

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I need to repent. 
I need to turn away, and I need 

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to go to the things of the 
spirit. 

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I need to lean in to God through
prayer and through scripture and

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through. 
The other believers and we do 

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that for a little bit. 
But then life gets comfortable. 

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Everything is going somewhat to 
plan. 

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You got a promotion? 
Your kids are not arguing as 

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much, your marriage is not 
great, but it's not like on the 

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Rocks anymore. 
And when we get too comfortable,

448
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,800
we tend to not feed the spirit 
as much and then we start going 

449
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,200
right back to our pile of vomit,
right back to our sinful 

450
00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:43,800
desires, right back to our 
flesh. 

451
00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:47,100
And I just need to tell you, 
man, I want to be a dad. 

452
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,400
I want to be a husband. 
I want to be a pastor. 

453
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:56,100
I want to be a friend. 
That says enough is enough, I 

454
00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:59,700
fall short every single day. 
It's important for you to 

455
00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:02,200
understand that because the same
is true about you. 

456
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,400
If you're listening to my voice 
we all tend to battle those 

457
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,300
things. 
We all have these fleshly 

458
00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:12,900
desires and I tend to feed that 
dog of My Flesh more than I want

459
00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:17,900
to, But I want to limit it. 
I want to pause that. 

460
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,300
I want to stop returning to my 
flush. 

461
00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:22,600
I want to stop returning to that
vomit. 

462
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,700
I want to make a shift. 
I want to make a change and I 

463
00:26:26,708 --> 00:26:30,500
want to be a man and I think you
want to be the person that's 

464
00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:34,100
committed to feeding the spirit.
And so, during the sermon 

465
00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:38,500
series, I need you to hear this 
during this sermon series. 

466
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,000
We are going to encourage you 
each and every single week. 

467
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,600
Two. 
Dig deep to dig deeper than you 

468
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,000
have ever dug before that when 
you come to this place, when you

469
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,000
enter into this room here at 
48th Street, you make this 

470
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,200
Gathering a priority especially 
over the next six weeks. 

471
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,500
During this reclaim series that 
there's going to be moments. 

472
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,400
I get it on Thursdays if that's 
your church day on Thursday 

473
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,800
afternoon man. 
Satan's going to attack you, 

474
00:27:08,900 --> 00:27:11,100
he's going to create havoc in 
your life. 

475
00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:13,300
You're going to create he's 
going to create, things are 

476
00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:15,600
going to Happen inside your 
workplace, or inside your 

477
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,900
classroom, or something with 
your friends or something, 

478
00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:20,600
inside your family, or your kids
are going to be acting, right? 

479
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,400
And you're gonna be like or you 
go home and you take your shoes 

480
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,700
off and you're just like I don't
need to go to church today. 

481
00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:29,100
I can watch online or I can 
maybe catch up on Sunday. 

482
00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:31,900
And what I'm telling you is you 
have to dig deep in those 

483
00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:35,200
moments and you have to declare.
No, this this is important or or

484
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,200
Sunday mornings. 
You guys are here. 

485
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,000
You made it today, but there's 
going to be days where you wake 

486
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,700
up in the morning? 
You can be like, I don't feel 

487
00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:45,400
like it I think we'll just cook 
breakfast at home. 

488
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,000
My kids are fighting or you and 
your spouse, get in the car and 

489
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,900
you're automatically fighting 
right away, and you're just 

490
00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:52,400
like, should we go to church 
today? 

491
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,100
I mean, we're fighting already, 
can the Lord do anything for us?

492
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,200
Maybe we should stay home. 
Maybe we watch online. 

493
00:27:57,300 --> 00:28:00,100
Maybe we should let people see 
the mess of life that we're 

494
00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:02,100
living in. 
And so you make a decision to 

495
00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:05,900
stay home but I'm telling you 
not, not not in this season not 

496
00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:09,300
in this series that we say 
enough's enough and we make this

497
00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:12,400
a priority because listen every 
single week in this series. 

498
00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:14,800
We're going to be issuing 
different challenges. 

499
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,500
Some are going to be fun. 
I'll be honest with you. 

500
00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:21,400
What we're starting to plan some
of those things and getting some

501
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,300
experiences ready, and they're 
going to be fun, summer, going 

502
00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:26,400
to be easy, they're going to be 
as easy as you just saying, yes 

503
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,900
and walking up and doing 
something, but some of these 

504
00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:31,300
challenges are going to be 
exactly what the word is, they 

505
00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:34,300
will be challenging. 
But here's what I want you to 

506
00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:37,000
do. 
I want you to sow into your 

507
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,900
future. 
That is we do these challenges 

508
00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:42,000
together as my family in your 
families. 

509
00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:44,500
As we lean into these things 
together. 

510
00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:48,400
We want to take small steps 
today so we can put them into 

511
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:54,900
motion for our future. 
And so as a staff As a team of 

512
00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:58,000
difference makers that love you 
and care for you. 

513
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:02,000
We want you to know. 
Another big truth is that we 

514
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,200
want to be in your corner. 
You're going to hear that Mantra

515
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,100
over and over and over this 
year. 

516
00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:10,400
It is true because we want you 
to know that we are with you. 

517
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,500
We want to help you connect with
Jesus on a much deeper and 

518
00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:16,100
intimate way, we want you to 
take steps that you've never 

519
00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:19,000
taken before we want you to 
connect with Jesus at a much 

520
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:24,400
deeper level, we want to help 
cheer you on We want to help 

521
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,800
encourage you. 
When you take your first step, 

522
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,300
we want to help help you develop
that vision for your family and 

523
00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:32,500
develop that vision for your 
future. 

524
00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:35,600
But we also want to be there 
when you need encouragement. 

525
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,300
When you when you are turning to
the world and they're just 

526
00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:40,200
saying you need to quit, you 
need to give up. 

527
00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:42,400
You need to just stop on that 
marriage, you need to stop on 

528
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,700
that relationship. 
You need to just give up. 

529
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,500
We want to be like, no, no, no, 
no, no. 

530
00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:50,100
Got has you. 
He's got this and he's with you 

531
00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:52,100
and we are right behind you. 
Some of us. 

532
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,600
We may have to just give you a 
With kick or a little knee in 

533
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,800
the back, but we will be there 
to help you. 

534
00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:04,400
We want to help you dig today. 
So others can drink tomorrow and

535
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,300
that statement is so much wider 
than just your family. 

536
00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:11,000
Of course, we want your whole 
family to drink tomorrow or even

537
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,500
drink. 
Today, we want your kids, your 

538
00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:17,000
grandkids, but we want your 
family, we want your co-workers.

539
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,300
We want your boss. 
That you having a disagreement 

540
00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:21,900
with. 
We went everybody in this world 

541
00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:24,500
to know that they can have this.
Living Water. 

542
00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:29,900
This living water through Jesus.
We will my friends. 

543
00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:36,300
We will reclaim. 
We can redeem, what's been lost 

544
00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:40,100
and we can fix the things that 
are broken, but it's not really 

545
00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:43,100
a we thing. 
It's a Jesus thing, Jesus can do

546
00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:46,500
all those things, but he invites
us to do it with him. 

547
00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:49,200
I want you to consider that as 
we moved to this time of 

548
00:30:49,200 --> 00:31:00,200
decision, Something that weighs 
heavily on my heart as I'm 

549
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,100
speaking. 
There's there's one group of 

550
00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:06,000
people. 
That I think through there's one

551
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000
group of people, my heart, just 
like leaps out of my chest, too.

552
00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:14,700
It's that person or the group of
people that have not started an 

553
00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:16,400
intimate personal relationship 
with Jesus. 

554
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,500
You hear there's this battle 
between flesh and the spirit, 

555
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,700
and you hear that. 
When you have the spirit, he's 

556
00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:26,000
with us. 
He's guiding us. 

557
00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:28,200
He provides those incredible 
fruits. 

558
00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:31,600
But in the flesh, we get all 
those results, those evil 

559
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,400
results, all those things that 
follow us and I just need you to

560
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,300
know, my heart goes out to you 
because you're in this battle by

561
00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:44,400
yourself. 
You're in this war all alone. 

562
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:50,700
You are trying so hard. 
You trying so hard to accomplish

563
00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:54,100
all these things by yourself? 
You, I know you're like, listen,

564
00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:59,000
you think you can do it? 
But I want you to, I want you to

565
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000
understand. 
I thought I could do it to a lot

566
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,800
of people thought they could do 
it on their own and then they 

567
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,000
realized, why do we need to try 
so hard? 

568
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,600
Jesus Paid the price, he paid 
the debt. 

569
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,900
He rescued us from our sin and 
he wants to be there with you. 

570
00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:19,500
He wants to give you the spirit 
to empower you to live the life 

571
00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:23,100
that he's called you to live. 
You will never be the person. 

572
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,400
You will never be the spouse. 
The parent, the friend, the 

573
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,700
grandparent that you were 
created to be. 

574
00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:35,300
Without that relationship with 
Jesus in today. 

575
00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:39,800
And this moment in this time 
that we share together in this 

576
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,500
space, you can start that 
relationship with Jesus. 

577
00:32:44,300 --> 00:32:47,800
Jesus Christ, he died on your 
behalf. 

578
00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:54,300
Not to make you better. 
He does make you better but he 

579
00:32:54,308 --> 00:32:56,300
didn't die on your behalf to 
make you better. 

580
00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:02,600
He died on your behalf to make. 
You knew your wife, your 

581
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,200
husband, your kids, they don't 
need a better version of you, 

582
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,500
your friends don't need a better
version of you. 

583
00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:11,900
They need someone who's been 
made new by the power of Jesus. 

584
00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:15,500
Who has the spirit of God living
inside of them. 

585
00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:20,000
They need someone who takes that
step and says, yes, to Jesus, 

586
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,200
who gets in the waters of 
baptism and now, Because you 

587
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,800
have that relationship with 
Jesus. 

588
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,500
You are now starting to feed 
your spirit rather than walking 

589
00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:32,200
your flesh. 
And so in, just a little bit, if

590
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,000
you have not started that 
relationship with Jesus, one of 

591
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,200
our pastors will be right by the
baptistry. 

592
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,500
And they would love to help you 
walk through that. 

593
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,500
Make that decision, answer any 
questions, you may have pray 

594
00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:46,700
over you But that is the single 
greatest decision you can make 

595
00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:50,100
in this moment. 
And I'm praying that you'll take

596
00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:51,900
that before you leave this 
place. 

597
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,200
Today, I want to share and wrap 
up Galatians 5 because it's just

598
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,400
so powerful. 
The, this chunk of scripture 

599
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,800
were in and starting in verse 24
and 25. 

600
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,200
It says, those who belong to 
Christ Jesus, those who have 

601
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,900
that intimate personal 
relationship with Jesus, you 

602
00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:11,000
have nailed your passions and 
your desires of your sinful 

603
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,800
nature to his cross and you 
crucified them there. 

604
00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:18,600
Your flesh. 
What Jesus does is you're taking

605
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,500
those things. 
When you belong to Christ, you 

606
00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:23,600
take your flesh, you take your 
sinful desires and you crucify 

607
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,900
him on his cross and says, since
you are living by the spirit, 

608
00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:31,300
let us follow the spirits 
leading and every part of our 

609
00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:36,500
Lives, my prayer is that you 
follow the spirits leading this 

610
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:40,800
morning, For those of you in 
this room, there's a lot of you 

611
00:34:41,300 --> 00:34:43,400
that have relationship with 
Jesus. 

612
00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:49,000
You started it, some started a 
long time ago, some started as 

613
00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:53,600
maybe as often or as close to 
last week and looking at this 

614
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:58,800
room, Panning, this room of 
faces and stories there. 

615
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:03,500
So many stories filled Some, I 
got to see when Jesus made, you 

616
00:35:03,508 --> 00:35:05,900
knew I got to help walk you 
through that. 

617
00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:09,700
And it's been a great testimony 
what God is doing in your life. 

618
00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:14,700
But I want you to know If you're
not in a battle right now, you 

619
00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:18,900
will be in one soon. 
You may be in a battle against 

620
00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:22,800
your flush, right now, the flush
is winning against the spirit 

621
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,700
because you're feeding the wrong
dog. 

622
00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:29,000
And today, but we have to 
declare, we have to declare war 

623
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,400
on our flesh and the way we 
declare war on our flesh. 

624
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,900
Is we invite the spirit, we lean
into the spirit, we feed the 

625
00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:43,200
spirit through prayer, through 
surrender and through obedience,

626
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,700
and that can happen in this 
moment that can happen. 

627
00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:50,000
This time of worship on these 
steps and over the next seven 

628
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,800
weeks, what I want to help you 
do, as I want to help, you be 

629
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,700
able to make a commitment, to 
feed the spirit versus the 

630
00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:58,700
Flesh. 
And so on the steps, there are 

631
00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:02,100
cards just littered on these 
front steps. 

632
00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:04,800
And then just a little bit, I'm 
going to ask all of you as 

633
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,400
believers. 
Of Jesus, those who are walking 

634
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,100
inside this relationship with 
Jesus. 

635
00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:11,900
Whether you are in a good place 
in your walk or whether you're 

636
00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:14,500
in a tough place or whether you 
feel like you're in an 

637
00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:18,000
impossible place that you would 
come up and you grab one of 

638
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,900
these cards and you'd spend just
a little bit of time just 

639
00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:24,600
getting on your knees or taking 
the card back to your seat. 

640
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,800
Or if there's not enough room up
here that you'd you'd flood the 

641
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,300
aisles and you start praying God
what step do I need to take 

642
00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:36,800
today over these next six weeks?
How Can I focus so much on the 

643
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,300
short-term, not not get lost in 
the long-term. 

644
00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:42,000
How can I draw close to you? 
Because every single week we 

645
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,900
have 168 hours. 
How will you use that to draw 

646
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:50,200
close to Jesus? 
How will you use that to feed 

647
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:56,400
your spirit and not your flesh? 
And so in this time, If you're 

648
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,000
kind of already making excuses, 
he's not talking to me. 

649
00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:05,300
This response isn't for me, I'll
do that another time. 

650
00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:08,200
This is the first Challenge and 
I'm challenging every single 

651
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:15,000
person including myself to come 
forward and wage war against our

652
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000
flesh. 
Let's stand to our feet, let's 

653
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,800
go to time of prayer time of 
decision, a time of movement, 

654
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,100
God, which you do, what only you
can do. 

655
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,700
God, I pray that you your spirit
right now. 

656
00:37:25,900 --> 00:37:28,100
Confirming, the hearts of 
Believers, Jesus. 

657
00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:31,300
The how they need to take a step
where they need correction, 

658
00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:34,100
where they need to repent and 
turn away from their sinful 

659
00:37:34,100 --> 00:37:38,300
desires and Turn to You spirit. 
I pray that you continue to Just

660
00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:42,800
Produce those fruits inside of 
us of love and joy, and peace. 

661
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,800
Gentleness patience. 
Kindness just got self-control. 

662
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,700
Would you just place it on our 
hearts? 

663
00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:52,700
God, I pray for that person. 
I pray for that group of people,

664
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,100
Lord, that is still battling on 
their own. 

665
00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:57,400
I pray today. 
They they can be released from 

666
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,100
that bondage. 
They can be released from the 

667
00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:02,700
lies that they can defeat their 
flesh on their own and that they

668
00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:05,100
can say yes to you. 
Jesus In This Moment, Holy 

669
00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:09,900
Spirit do what only you can do. 
I pray God, that you'll help us 

670
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:12,300
respond. 
You'll help us posture. 

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Ourself in a posture of humility
and allow us to make a 

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commitment In This Moment. 
God ultimately, I pray that you 

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help us. 
Whatever the circumstance, you 

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will turn it around. 
Jesus, we love you. 

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Praise your name. 
Amen, let's move Church.