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Are you doing good man? 
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out with you guys on this 
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wonderful treat for every single
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back. 
I became friends with a man by 

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the name of Tyler. 
Mackenzie he is a bright young 

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leader in our movement of 
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He is, in fact, one of my top 
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to if you want to know who I 
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So after the long week of life, 
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podcast because I like the way 
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and explains that Jesus to 
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In fact, we spent some time this
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Our hope is this upcoming 
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down to the Lake of the Ozarks 
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and help them craft sermons for 
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So they can be a blessing 
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magnified. 
You are going to be seeing a lot

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of him over the coming years 
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continue to bring him in so he 
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church and as we were going 
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was going, I got to bring him 
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So I want to welcome you joining
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locations. 
And would you put a big Crossing

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welcome together for my friend 
and our friend and our preacher 

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this weekend? 
Tyler Mackenzie, I really like 

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you and this with you. 
I love you, man, I love you. 

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Oh man. 
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preach right at the Crossing 
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admired from afar for some time 
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my buddy Clayton's Pulpit. 
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Okay. 
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friendship that has just been so
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the last couple years. 
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preached at the Crossing was 
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Conference it was such an honor 
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place now where a couple times a
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APPA, he's gonna come and preach
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and a few weeks for me. 
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you know, I've so much respect 
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believe that you got one of the 
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Clayton. 
I really mean that and it's okay

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for one person to clap. 
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Do we just have like, a bromance
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I hope you all enjoyed that 
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got to participate in between 
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Okay? 
Now after Easter, y'all started 

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this new series called, if, if 
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series was built for people like
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that means that you have hard 
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Good answers to your hard Faith 
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Now, here's why I found that the
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their face is because they don't
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Faith questions. 
Once upon a time, when you were 

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a child your mama, happy 
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Tried to raise you to love the 
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Right, she wanted you to be 
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So she taught you all about God 
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the Easter Bunny. 
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happened was you started to 
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Support. 

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What you were taught as a child,
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Like you went into biology class
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Don't in fact, lay chocolate 
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If a bunny's land of chocolate 
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It's not a chocolate egg. 
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bunnies don't stand on two feet 
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or like carry baskets around. 
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childhood beliefs about the 
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you discovered as an adult. 
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bunny and in the same way you 
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God, hard questions that you ask
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answers to you. 
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Like, you know, well, I found 
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Contradicts that one. 
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well, there's this theological 
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with because culture says this 
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and can somebody explain this to
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Gap and help you out. 
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and then you saw a moral 
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church and then you saw some 
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And before, you know it you've 
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faith, one step at a time, which
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And it's absolutely, the reason 
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series, so that all these 
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of work so far. 
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or the sermons in the series, 
that leads up to this, you got 

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to get online and watching catch
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questions and I would just 
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Now today what I want to do is 
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with the questions out here 
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work on this. 
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You see what we're very, very 
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taking Christianity and putting 
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Faith, what they don't ever do 
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world view that they're backing 
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the same amount of scrutiny. 
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See, you do understand our 
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things, our culture has a way of
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way, you see what I'm saying and
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good at putting the way of Jesus
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the hard questions of that. 
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the way of popular culture and 
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I want to do that today. 
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You are being constantly 
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In. 
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Station, you watch, you're being
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You're being evangelist. 
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you're being, you're being 
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professional sports, you can't 
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your bag right. 
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conversation around the water 
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of throwaway comment from, you 
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your one of your coworkers. 
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gas station or use the bathroom 
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He's without a screen in front 
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you need to buy now, or what you
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whatever it may be. 
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constantly evangelized by the 
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we're not careful, we just come 
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It's just the way that everybody
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to you that there is a better 
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There's a way to live your life,
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reality, with truth. 
Then what the way of our popular

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Okay. 
I want to show you why the way 

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of Jesus is better. 
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culture. 
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This is this at all interesting 
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something else. 
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interesting to you because this 
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You know, that right? 
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This is what young people are 
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The next generation is saying, 
hey Mom, I heard this thing 

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about Justice or her. 
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about science or hey, Mom, I 
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Hey, Dad, I heard this thing 
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professor, or from the friend 
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from this influencer on Tick, 
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Can you help? 
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today, but yeah, she quick 
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I just gotta talk to young 
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Young people. 
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the veneration of celebrities in
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instead in Christian history, we
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that have lived, beautiful lives
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human possibility that are so 
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politics or like like morality 
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bodies and our money's. 
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like why? 
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basketball good. 
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Because she can, she can, she 
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she's, she's pretty, and she's 
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resource, this cloud of 
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Now what are we focused on Tyler

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stay focused here. 
Okay focused here's my point. 

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At the end of the day you get to
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way of Jesus and he has a way or
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way you choose. 
And by the way, they won't let 

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you choose both at the same 
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not let you choose Jesus. 
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sold-out, Christian was weird 
but now things have changed over

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the course, the last 20, 30 
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Christian it's actually Seen by 
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what's wrong with Society, 
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So it will not let you choose 
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He says, I'm the way I am the 
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I am the life. 
No one comes to the father, 

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except through me, you're in the
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okay? 
So you can't choose both. 

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You got to choose one of the 
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I think the way of Jesus is 
better now, have a little chart 

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This is basically what we're 
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move fast. 
I'm going to take some of the 

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big questions of life. 
Some of the big issues that we 

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deal with every human that are 
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to just run them through this 
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We're going to look at the way 
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We're gonna look the way of 
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Now, popular culture looks at 
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next to each other. 
And what I hope you see is that 

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Jesus is Way, is the better way,
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This is my conversion story. 
That little chart right there. 

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when I was in college and I 
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was was going to be my master, 
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myself, I better know for sure. 
This is the right way though. 

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Before I go all in, I better 
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Chart ran through the filter. 
And here's what I found, three 

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A one, I found that every 

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religion is not basically the 
same despite what people will 

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say to you. 
It's not, it's not true. 

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By the way, that's deeply 
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You know, devout Muslims, Jews 
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They'll tell you, it's not the 
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religion has some beautiful 
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They touch truth that points and
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journey. 
I found that the way of Jesus is

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far more emotionally, satisfying
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Than any other way. 
So let's look at some of these 

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points of reference. 
You guys ready for this? 

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Let's just let's just walk 
through some of them. 

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Let's let's start with a 
softball here. 

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You guys have already dealt with
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Let's start off with human 
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Human Origins. 
Where did we come from? 

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Popular culture would say. 
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There was nothing and nothing. 
Created something. 

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Tell me about this nothing 
because if this nothing did 

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something, it's not nothing, 
it's something. 

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But no, not okay to don't think 
too hard about in the beginning,

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14 billion years ago. 
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explosion, a bomb went off. 
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was a Rembrandt. 
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This is the way a popular 
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We don't know where did the, The
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light come from? 
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We just trust in science. 
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what could be accounted for by 
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Oh we trust and science. 
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science that means that you're 
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snowflake, you're not, you're 
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Everybody's walking around with 
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Like you matter, you belong your
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You've seen these t-shirts, some
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wearing one like, you matter, 
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But the fact of the matter is is
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the shirt shouldn't say you 
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Should just say you're matter. 
Decaying matter on decaying 

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matter for that matter, right? 
But like that's that's the 

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reality I want. 
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If there's no God, Life's a 
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of woundedness and then you die.
Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch did. 

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That's life. 
We laugh but people live live 

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with us. 
This is how they see life. 

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I think of it like I say you're 
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know, maybe you grew up in a 
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So you get family wounds and 
then maybe your church hurts 

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you. 
So you get religious wounds and 

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then maybe you get fired. 
She get rejection wounds or I 

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don't know, maybe Aroma romantic
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and so you get, you know, these 
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then, you know, you start 
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older because these wounds just 
become too much and you medicate

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them with things, like, you 
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experiences that you think will 
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They only work for like a day 
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even worse and so you know it 
makes you miserable and then all

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of a sudden father time starts 
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So you get the wounds of age and
then he died and no one 

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remembers you anyways. 10 years 
later, This is the way the world

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sees it. now, the way of Jesus 
is a little bit different, it 

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says that in the beginning and 
unfathomably, powerful and 

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loving God made everything on 
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He's the designer behind it. 
All the Christian story actually

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Begins by answering the core 
longing of every human heart, 

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every human being wants to know.
Does anybody want me? 

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Do I really matter and the 
Christian Story begins with God.

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Declaring, I do. 
I want you. 

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God didn't need you. 
By the way, you understand that?

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He didn't need to create us. 
He existed in perfect. 

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Community within himself, the 
Triune God. 

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So he didn't need you, he 
created you because he wanted 

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to, because he wanted you and I 
promise you, it breaks his heart

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that for some of you in this 
room, he does not have you. 

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I pray just like me. 
This sermon would be a part of 

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your conversion story. 
How about morality? 

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We gotta speed up y'all? 
Alright we're slow me down. 

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Morality the world says really 
cool fad things like choose your

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own morality. 
Find your truth. 

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Follow your heart. 
You do you? 

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Reject Authority and be your own
authority. 

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And all these little 
catchphrases play really well on

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Twitter, right? 
But They're terrible life 

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advice. 
I mean I would like to eat ice 

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cream by the gallon every night 
but that's probably not going to

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pay off well in the long run, 
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But you do you If you see. 
So one sociologist, said, 

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recently that we have transition
from the age of authority to the

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age of authenticity in our 
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was that no longer. 
Do we look to external sources 

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of traditional authority to help
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Like, we don't look to the 
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we don't look to government or 
tradition, tell be our guide and

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and helped form us and shape us.
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outside in approach to To an 
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Authority. 
You see the difference? 

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So you look into your heart, you
find your truth. 

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You sort out the diverse 
feelings inside of you and then 

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whatever you feel, you can 
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It's not the age of authority. 
It's now the age of 

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authenticity, be your authentic 
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Now, again, I'm just gonna go 
ahead and tell you that is 

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incredibly hard to do to build 
your own identity to build your 

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own morality to sort out all the
the evil and good, but evil 

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inside of your heart, that is 
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And we're asking our kids to do 
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We're asking our kids to form 
their own identities and 

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morality and their own their own
14 years old. 

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And dealing with high school and
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And he had somehow, we want them
to get with inside their hearts,

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and figure out who they are and 
then branded on social media and

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make everybody. 
Except it's like, that's, that's

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a difficult thing to do. 
All right? 

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This is no offense to young 
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absolutely would say with 100% 
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That, that know, a high schooler
is, incapable of building their 

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own identity and morality and 
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coherent way that leads to 
flourishing over the Long Haul. 

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And the reason why is because no
Can that is God's territory 

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identity, morality. 
You try to build it on your own,

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it will crush you. 
You will crumble underneath the 

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way yet. 
This is the way the world sees 

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it. the way of Jesus, on the 
contrary says, That God designed

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us to live in certain ways. 
He built a moral ecosystem, that

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nurtures us when we put our 
roots in it, we actually 

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flourish like Riverbank trees. 
Psalm 1 Oh, the joys of those 

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who do not follow the advice of 
the wicked or stand around with 

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Sinners or join in with mockers,
but they Delight in the law of 

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the Lord meditating on it day 
and night, they will be like 

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trees planted along. 
The riverbank bearing fruit, 

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every season, their leaves never
wither, and they prosper in all 

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they do. 
This is the way the the word of 

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God sees it. 
Human worth. 

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Well, the world is full of 
racism, political hatred, War, 

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class distinctions, everything 
down to the clothes, you wear, 

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and the cars, you drive point 
out to people, How much you're 

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worth? 
This is not the way of Jesus. 

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In fact, scripture says, every 
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image of God is died for by 
Jesus, which means you are 

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eternally and undeniably 
valuable. 

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Some of the great Justice 
movements in time, including the

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civil rights movement in the 
United States of America were 

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built on the doctrine of the 
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What about work? 
Well, the world says that this 

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is one of the key ways you prove
your worth and that you gain 

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power. 
So work more work harder, work 

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your way up through your chart 
dominate, leave a legacy, be the

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best. 
Or if you can't, if your 

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average. 
And by the way, most of us are 

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average, that's the point of the
word, okay? 

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So, if your average don't worry,
we've got all sorts of things 

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that can distract you from your 
lack of greatness, like bourbon 

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tours CBD, infused everything. 
Cookie dough saw that one on 

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Google the other day. 
Netflix series, stand-up comedy.

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Social media. 
Pumpkin spice. 

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Like you don't live to work. 
You work to live. 

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So do a little soul cycle. 
CrossFit, go to an orchard. 

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Hang with your people, swipe 
right? 

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This is the way of popular 
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You laugh, but this is the way. 
On the flip side, scripture says

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that work is worship. 
God created us with certain 

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gifts and we're supposed to 
leverage those to build 

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civilization. 
And to serve others, the 

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stay-at-home mom and the work 
that she has been given by the 

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Lord as as important if not more
than what the CEO has been 

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given. 
And more important than the 

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results of the work is the heart
of the worker. 

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How about family? 
Well the world says it's really 

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kind of up to you get married or
don't have one spouse or for 

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divorce is no big deal. 
It's the decision to break up 

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when you grow out of love, after
off the point of marriage is 

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individual happiness. 
If you're no longer happy the 

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right thing to do is leave. 
And if you have kids, just be 

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honest with him, one of the most
important things to teach your 

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kids is to be true to yourself. 
This is the way a popular 

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culture. 
Now a scripture on the contrary 

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though says that family is the 
backbone to civilization, it's 

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the system to generate life and 
raise humans that God designed 

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Healthy Families, make healthy 
communities. 

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That's why marriage is not just 
a contract. 

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You opt out of like you would 
with your cable company. 

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It's a covenant that you make 
before God in sickness and in 

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health for richer for poorer as 
long as you both shall live. 

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And scripture says that divorce 
is always tragic, ask anybody 

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who has been divorced. 
This is not judgmental or 

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condemnatory. 
They'll tell you even in 

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situations where it's biblically
permissible, abuse adultery, 

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abandonment, even in those 
situations. 

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It hurts my generation. 
I'm a millennial. 

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I was good. 
Nobody booed. 

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Okay. 
So so my generation like the 

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millennial generation is the 
first generation. 

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That's largely a by-product of 
divorced families. 

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And asked a psychologist to 
explain what happens to a child 

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when Mom and Dad breaks up. 
It's just tough. 

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So when husbands and wives push 
back and they resist by 

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committing to one another when 
fathers and mothers are present 

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and engaged in the lives of 
their kids, we see the 

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undeniably positive impact on 
society. 

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This is the way of Jesus. 
How about sex? 

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Well, the world says, it's just 
an appetite. 

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Not a big deal. 
Has nothing to do with your soul

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or anything like that. 
And with options like abortion 

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out there. 
You can do it with no long-term 

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responsibilities attached to it.
So feed your appetite have 

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multiple partners swing your 
marriage. 

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Watch porn consent is all that 
matters. 

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That's the way of popular 
culture. 

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Who's ever been hurt by a little
bit of sex. to, which reality 

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says who hasn't Like who hasn't 
been hurt in some way name? 

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One person. 
If you're honest, Who doesn't 

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have some sort of deep pain in 
their past? 

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From sex betrayal divorce, and 
Fidelity. 

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Abuse addiction porn. 
Trust issues. 

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Body. 
Image, our culture's attempt 

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over the last half-century to 
cheapen sex is at best naive and

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at worst. 
What's led to horrible, divorce 

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bikes, abortion spikes, and all 
the power abuse cover-ups, which

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is why scripture has such a high
view of it. 

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People like, say Christians, 
have a low view of it, with a 

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high view of it. 
You understand that, right? 

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A high view. 
We think it is so beautiful and 

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so powerful. 
Those walking in the way of Just

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recognize it as a good gift and 
one, we will not treat 

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flippantly. 
So that's why the way of Jesus 

453
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,900
is highly restrictive. 
And because of that our culture 

454
00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:44,800
dehumanizes and shames US in 
demonizes US for it. 

455
00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:49,400
But the reason why God put the 
boundaries on it that he did is 

456
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:54,400
because he loves us. 
I've heard one Pastor say sex is

457
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,800
like a fire and its proper 
context. 

458
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,900
It can warm the home outside of 
its proper context. 

459
00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:01,900
It can burn the home down and 
ain't that true? 

460
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,900
Let's do two more. 
How about suffering? 

461
00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:12,200
our culture says you got about 
80 years, so live it up while 

462
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:17,600
you can Pain though. 
It is to be avoided at all 

463
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,000
costs. 
It is an interruption to life. 

464
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,400
That's why we've transitioned 
from the helicopter parent to 

465
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,400
the lawnmower parent. 
You guys know about lawnmower 

466
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,300
parents now, okay, the 
helicopter parent hovered, the 

467
00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:31,400
lawnmower parent, most 
everything down, every pain, 

468
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,900
every adversity, every character
building opportunity. 

469
00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:36,500
There's mome down for your kid, 
right? 

470
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,200
Oh, you gotta be - let me talk 
to your teacher. 

471
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,300
Oh, your coach is sitting you on
the bench. 

472
00:25:42,300 --> 00:25:44,800
This game. 
I'll deal with this later. 

473
00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:47,300
Oh, you forgot your homework. 
Just stay home from school 

474
00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:49,000
today, honey. 
Don't worry, I'll write you a 

475
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:54,400
note. 
No booze allowed, though. 

476
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,300
Now, scripture has a different 
look on pain and suffering. 

477
00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:03,100
Do you know this scripture 
actually says be real suffering 

478
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,300
is not avoidable. 
It's inevitable. 

479
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,500
It's a part of life. 
Ascend marred world. 

480
00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:12,900
So all we have to do is we have 
to learn to deal with it. 

481
00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:16,200
Well, and it gives us all sorts 
of spiritual resources to do 

482
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,600
that. 
It reminds us that Jesus 

483
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,000
suffered for us with us. 
He knows what it feels like to 

484
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,300
suffer. 
In fact, if Jesus descended to 

485
00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:28,100
death itself for you, where will
he not go to be with you, you 

486
00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:30,400
better believe, he's walking 
through your daily sufferings 

487
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,000
with you. 
In fact, James one goes as far 

488
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,900
to say that if you walk through 
the fiery furnace of suffering 

489
00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:39,300
with Jesus, they will actually 
come out the other side, pure 

490
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,000
more mature. 
Wiser for it. 

491
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,400
And Revelation tells us that one
day suffering, will be done away

492
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,000
with. 
There will be no more death, no 

493
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,100
more sorrow, no more crying, no 
more pain, all these things, 

494
00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:53,800
Gone Forever, thanks to Jesus. 
We have a Living Hope and him. 

495
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,800
This is the way Jesus. 
Which brings us by the way, to 

496
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,200
the last one. 
This is where I want to end 

497
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:05,900
today death. 
The world says that life must be

498
00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:10,500
prolonged as long as possible 
because death is the cosmic off 

499
00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:15,400
switch. 
And honestly, that's why so many

500
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,800
of us fear it. 
So much. 

501
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,700
It's the way the world sees it. 
but Jesus, on the other hand, 

502
00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:34,900
well, Jesus said I conquered it.
Jesus says there ain't nothing 

503
00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:37,400
last 2000 years. 
To put me back in the grave. 

504
00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:41,400
And the follower of Jesus says, 
oh death, where is your Victory 

505
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,200
O Death? 
Where is your sting? 

506
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,800
We are undeterred by death. 
In fact, we look at death and we

507
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,300
recognize that death is just a 
door. 

508
00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:54,900
A door to Jesus. 
Adore to Life, Life After Life. 

509
00:27:57,300 --> 00:28:00,200
This is the way of Jesus. 
All right. 

510
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,300
Now, while we were out of time, 
I had like, seven more that we 

511
00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:07,500
could have done. 
But I think you get the point. 

512
00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:13,800
So, I'll end where I began. 
These are two stories. 

513
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,200
Two ways to go about life. 
There's the way of Jesus and the

514
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,500
way of our popular culture and 
you get to choose and you can't 

515
00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:25,100
choose both, they won't allow 
it. 

516
00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:33,100
But you must choose one. 
And I think one leads to 

517
00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:35,100
flourishing and one leads to 
destruction. 

518
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,900
You know, as a pastor Benny your
pastors will tell you this We 

519
00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:45,000
have a unique job, we get to sit
with people in their High 

520
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000
moments in life. 
Like this baptism videos. 

521
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,500
You said like we get to walk 
through some of the most amazing

522
00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:52,100
things with people but we also 
have to sit with people in their

523
00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:56,300
low moments when they're facing 
darkness and death and sin had 

524
00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:59,700
on every week. 
Not a week goes by where I'm not

525
00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:03,500
with somebody who's at a 
rock-bottom moment in life. 

526
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:09,500
I've been a pastor for going on 
13 years now and I can tell you 

527
00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:13,400
this for certain the last three 
years, there has been more 

528
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,000
Darkness, more send more 
Brokenness, more ugliness in 

529
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,900
this world than there were the 
10 years before that it has been

530
00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:22,300
a difficult three years and I 
see it in the life of the people

531
00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:27,300
that I Shepherd I believe right 
now that the alarm bells are 

532
00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:31,500
going off the way of popular 
culture is not working, right? 

533
00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:36,300
We are mentally ill at historic 
rates lonelier than ever more 

534
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:38,600
untrusting than any generation 
ever. 

535
00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:43,500
More fragile to suffering and 
pain. 

536
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:49,100
And we have this like low boil, 
seething rage underneath it all 

537
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,600
just waiting to explode on the 
institutions or the people that 

538
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,500
failed us. 
And we keep thinking to our 

539
00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:00,600
self, there has to be something 
better than this, right? 

540
00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:05,300
Like we got every technology and
luxury known to man. 

541
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,000
At our fingertips, to the United
States of America, yet somehow, 

542
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,600
we can't be happy. 
There has to be something better

543
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:12,900
than this. 
And yet, you know what we do 

544
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:16,000
rather than, I don't know, 
trying something else. 

545
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,700
We just keep going further and 
we think if I just go further 

546
00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:21,800
into the way of culture, if I 
just indulge in it more, if I 

547
00:30:21,808 --> 00:30:24,200
just work a little harder and 
make a little bit more money or 

548
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,000
try some more of that, ER, or go
a little bit Wilder with this 

549
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,200
experience. 
Then maybe that'll work or we 

550
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,500
just ignore the alarm Bells, 
altogether thinking, they're 

551
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:36,300
just going to turn off on their 
own, they won't look what if The

552
00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:39,100
reason why the alarm bells are 
going off is because we are 

553
00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:43,600
running a broken system. 
What if the reason we're in the 

554
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,600
mess that we are in right now is
because it is the necessary and 

555
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,700
inevitable ends of the false 
gospel. 

556
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,700
Of our popular culture. 
I believe that's the truth. 

557
00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:00,000
But I also believe that that's 
just one story. 

558
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:04,200
There is another story, a better
story and it is the story of 

559
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,200
Jesus, the way of Jesus. 
So I would invite you today, 

560
00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:16,200
make this story your story. 
It was a moment just like this 

561
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,500
in my life that led to my own 
personal conversion. 

562
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,100
Let to me laying it on the line 
for Jesus and saying, here's my 

563
00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:26,800
life. 
I'm for you. 

564
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,400
If you feel butterflies in your 
stomach, if you feel 

565
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,800
intellectually or emotionally 
compelled to they, perhaps 

566
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,300
that's the spirit drawing you 
in. 

567
00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:38,300
So I would encourage you today 
to lean in. 

568
00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:42,700
Here's what Jesus says, John 10 
verse 10, he says the thieves 

569
00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:47,600
purpose is to steal to kill and 
to destroy, but my purpose is to

570
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,000
give rich and satisfying life. 
I'm the Good Shepherd. 

571
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,300
The Good Shepherd sacrifices his
life. 

572
00:31:55,300 --> 00:32:07,000
For the Sheep. 
For all of us in this room right

573
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,500
now and for those of you who are
still watching online, you heard

574
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:13,200
this compelling message today 
from Tyler. 

575
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,600
There's these two ways, these 
kind of these two camps. 

576
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,700
If you will you have over here 
in the way of Jesus, where, you 

577
00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:23,000
know, that we have a good 
shepherd, just like we read in 

578
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,500
that scripture that he laid his 
life down for you, for me, that 

579
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:31,600
he created us in His image and 
he has all these good things for

580
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,200
us. 
He offers forgiveness, he Offers

581
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,600
his love. 
He offers his grace, he offers 

582
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:41,300
new mercies every single day and
then, on the flip side, on the, 

583
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,900
on the other side of the coin, 
you have what the world says who

584
00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:49,000
we are or or even who we say we 
are. 

585
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,400
And we're trying to do these 
things and we're trying to 

586
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,100
follow our heart and we're 
trying to do things the way we 

587
00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:57,700
feel we should do them. 
And for those of you in the room

588
00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:00,600
and for those of you online, if 
you are not walking in an 

589
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,900
intimate personal relationship 
with Jesus Christ, You're right 

590
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:08,800
here. 
And life may be hard right now, 

591
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,700
and you may be asking a lot of 
questions right now, you may be 

592
00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:16,600
hurting right now. 
And when you're on this side, 

593
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,800
when you're following your 
heart, and when you're falling, 

594
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:24,900
what the world tells you this, 
this is as good as it gets what 

595
00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:28,500
you're experiencing right now. 
There is no better than what you

596
00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:33,000
are experiencing and this moment
But the good news is. 

597
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,500
Jesus closes the gap. 
And he looks at every single one

598
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:41,100
of you. 
And he says you don't have to 

599
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:43,400
follow that. 
You don't need to follow your 

600
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,700
heart, he says you can come And 
I have given my life for you. 

601
00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:51,600
I've laid it down for you. 
All you need to do is you need 

602
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:56,300
to start waving the white flag 
waving it and saying I Surrender

603
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,400
declaring today that your story 
changes in this moment when you 

604
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:06,500
say I need Jesus, I want him, I 
want to follow him, I want to 

605
00:34:06,508 --> 00:34:10,300
walk on this side with him, he's
going to be there to guide you 

606
00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:12,000
and direct you. 
And he's going to be there to 

607
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,500
pick you up when you're going 
through a struggle, or when 

608
00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:15,900
you're going through a hard 
time. 

609
00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:18,800
You're hurting or when when 
you're experiencing Death Around

610
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,600
you or a bad diagnosis, he's 
right there. 

611
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,300
For those of you who don't have 
a relationship with Jesus, you 

612
00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:33,199
have to let go of this side. 
You have to say no to that, no, 

613
00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:36,100
to yourself. 
Yes, to Jesus. 

614
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,100
And if you've never done that 
before, if you've never 

615
00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:43,199
surrendered your life to Jesus, 
you can do it in this moment. 

616
00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:49,000
In this place and you can 
experience newness, you can 

617
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,000
experience New Life found in 
Christ. 

618
00:34:53,699 --> 00:34:56,400
And just a little bit, every 
single week is part of our 

619
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,300
services and the band's going to
come out and and the people all 

620
00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:01,800
around this Auditorium here, 
48th Street, we're going to 

621
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,600
stand and we're going to sing, 
and you may be feeling that 

622
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,300
inside of you. 
Just like, man, I feel like, I 

623
00:35:08,308 --> 00:35:11,900
feel like God is calling me. 
I feel like he's telling me I 

624
00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:13,800
can't do this on my own. 
I need him. 

625
00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:15,800
And you want to talk to somebody
about what it looks like to 

626
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,000
start that relationship. 
One of our pastors is going to 

627
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,600
be right by the baptistry when 
this song starts and they would 

628
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,700
like nothing more, they would 
actually love it. 

629
00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:27,600
If someone came forward, it's 
your story today and and you had

630
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,100
questions or yours, like, what's
my next step or or how do I 

631
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:33,500
accept Jesus? 
How do I get into the Waters of 

632
00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:36,800
baptism? 
How do I just start walking in 

633
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,500
the way of Jesus? 
They will be there for you when 

634
00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:41,600
we start singing, if you're 
online when there's an 

635
00:35:41,607 --> 00:35:43,900
incredible chat hosts, that also
love to help. 

636
00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:47,400
Help you take that ginormous 
best, step that you'll ever take

637
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,800
in your entire life. 
Many eternity lies in the 

638
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,400
balance. 
Based on this decision. 

639
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,100
Do you choose Jesus? 
Do you choose the way of Jesus? 

640
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,800
Who is the way who is the truth?
Who is life? 

641
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,700
What are you choose culture? 
Do you choose the world? 

642
00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:09,000
You choose what you feel inside,
one leads to destruction, one 

643
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,100
leads to life and my prayer is 
that anybody and everybody in 

644
00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:15,900
here that here's this matches 
message and has not responded to

645
00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:18,300
it that you would chase after 
that way. 

646
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,300
For those of us in this room, we
chose this way. 

647
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,800
We chose the way of Jesus, we 
laid our life down, we're 

648
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,500
following him, we were obedient 
the area of baptism, and we came

649
00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:37,000
out of that water and newness, 
some of us need to check our 

650
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,200
pants. 
And what I mean by that is we 

651
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,500
are over here and what we've 
been doing is we've been keeping

652
00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:50,900
one foot in with Jesus, but our 
other leg keeps going out 

653
00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:55,000
further and further and further 
and further, I don't know how 

654
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,100
much further I can go in these 
pants. 

655
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,900
And you rip your pants. 
You're walking around with a 

656
00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:05,700
hole in your pants because 
you're trying to keep one foot 

657
00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:09,500
with Jesus, but yet you want 
culture to start playing into 

658
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:13,400
what what you feel and you 
haven't fully surrendered in 

659
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,300
area or you're walking away with
what what he has for you and 

660
00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:18,900
what he wants for you, and 
you're just like, but I'm for 

661
00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:22,600
Jesus, but you keep going out 
towards what culture is telling 

662
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,800
you and maybe today for you. 
And this time of decision, it's 

663
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,800
time for you to put your legs 
together again. 

664
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,500
Confess some things that you are
doing. 

665
00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:35,300
That is not of him. 
And run back to him. 

666
00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:38,700
And fully devote your life in 
every area. 

667
00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:41,500
I don't know what it is for you.
It looks differently for every 

668
00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:47,800
single person, but this time is 
for us to confess to repent, 

669
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,600
which means simply means to turn
away from the way of the world 

670
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,300
and turn back to Jesus. 
And that's what this Moment In 

671
00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:57,500
Worship is all about. 
It's not for us, just to stand 

672
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:01,000
and sing in our seats and men 
just think we're going to. 

673
00:38:01,008 --> 00:38:04,600
It's going to get better. 
If if I keep trying no it's us 

674
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,800
taking a step forward. 
Forward humbling ourselves 

675
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:13,200
before him and saying, I don't 
want this anymore, I need you to

676
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carry it and so I'm going to 
encourage you that in this time 

677
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of decision that you would come 
up here and you lay some of 

678
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those things down, you just be 
honest with the Lord and say I 

679
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know this is where I'm this 
where I've been and it's not 

680
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where I want to be. 
I want to I want to continue to 

681
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follow the way of Jesus or for 
all you mothers out there all 

682
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you moms out there. 
Maybe your mom's right next to 

683
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your grandma's, right? 
Next to you have a sister who's 

684
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a mama, you know, a mama. 
You just want to come up and 

685
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bring them forward and you want 
to Circle them up and just thank

686
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God for them. 
That's what this moment is about

687
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to that you would experience 
such an incredible moment with 

688
00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:51,800
your family and praying for your
family and the Legacy that 

689
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,700
you're leaving behind. 
All because of this, the way of 

690
00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:59,800
Jesus, making his name, famous, 
and taking this, good news, this

691
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,900
good message to the world. 
I love to do that with you right

692
00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:05,800
now. 
Would you stand to your feet as 

693
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we go into this time of War? 
She was to go into this time of 

694
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response. 
Heavenly Father God. 

695
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I thank you so, so much. 
For every single person who is 

696
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listening to my voice in this 
room who's watching With Us 

697
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,900
online, I'm thankful for you. 
Jesus, you came down. 

698
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You live this, perfect life. 
You lay down your life for us so

699
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that we can have life God in 
this world. 

700
00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:34,800
We're faced with so many 
different choices. 

701
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So many different directions 
Jesus. 

702
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I pray that our eyes are fixed 
on, you were fixed on your way. 

703
00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:44,100
We're not fixed on what the 
world is offering us or what the

704
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world has in front. 
Uh sir, what our hearts are 

705
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:50,100
feeling God, I pray that you 
give us Clarity of Mind, God. 

706
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I pray that we don't conform to 
the pattern of this world but we

707
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will be transformed by the 
renewing of our minds and that 

708
00:39:56,500 --> 00:40:01,500
renewing starts. 
When we let you transform us, 

709
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,300
when we let your words move us. 
When we let your convictions 

710
00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:09,600
lead us and guide us. 
And God, I pray for this moment 

711
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right now, that as we come 
before you, we lay things down 

712
00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:17,400
to you, we pray. 
All this in the mighty name of 

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Jesus. 
Amen. 

714
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Let's respond Church. 
Let's move. 

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All this in the mighty name of 
Jesus. 

716
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,700
Amen. 
Let's respond Church. 

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00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:21,400
Let's move.