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Crossing family. 
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decided to show up and hang out 
at church with us this weekend. 

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You guys can go ahead and have a
seat if you're still standing. 

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We're super thankful for each 
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want to welcome those of you 
joining at all of our different 

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locations. 
Those of you watching inside and

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of course all of you watching 
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This Mother's Day weekend, we 
have a very special treat. 

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If you are part of uncommon last
year, we brought in three great 

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communicators and one of those 
communicators is Tyler 

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Mackenzie. 
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asked him if he'd be willing to 
come and share with us this 

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weekend. 
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him, he is a young leader in a 
large Church. 

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Who's making a big impact inside
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He's the senior pastor of 
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which is in Kentucky. 
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Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky or
LaRue Kentucky and he is here to

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hang out with us this weekend. 
So if you guys would, please put

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your hands together and do a big
Crossing welcome. 

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For my friend and our preacher 
this weekend. 

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Mr. Tyler McKenzie. 
Christian Smith. 

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Love it. 
Yes. 

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A good morning, good afternoon. 
Good evening Crossing fan 

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whenever you're watching this 
wherever you join us from. 

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I am so excited to be with you. 
I'll be in part two of a series.

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You kicked off last week called 
surrounded and we're looking at 

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the group's people, that 
surrounded Jesus and how he 

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interacted with them. 
And I have been given the 

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esteemed Honor on this Mother's 
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topic of women. 
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touch that. 
I'm just like, he told me he's 

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like, my wife's gonna be an 
audience and are trying to sleep

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on a couch for the next few 
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So my wife's not in the 
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She'll never hear this. 
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Now I got to tell you, I have 
known Clayton for a year to now 

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and I have admired him from 
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I honestly wish we lived closer,
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I think we'd be tighter. 
I think we'd be sharing more 

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leadership insights. 
Every time I talk to the guy on 

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the phone, I learned something 
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Importantly I get my passion 
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of God. 
God and to take God's love to 

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the Lost honestly. 
And so, I would say that you're 

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lucky to have a leader like him 
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Jerry is a great leader, great 
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And, and I mean, just to watch 
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happening, the two leaders here 
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Real quick intro on me. 
Clayton, has some of it again. 

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My name is Tyler. 
I'm from Louisville. 

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It's love. 
Just to just really 

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one-and-a-half syllables 
Louisville. 

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Kentucky, I've been there for 10
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in Winston-Salem North Carolina.
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saying North Carolina was 
because my dad's Ministry took 

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us there, which means, yes, I'm 
a preacher's kid, which means? 

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Yes, I out likely, or I likely 
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1 by the age of 18. 
Are there. 

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Any preachers kids about away in
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Yeah, one. 
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them are probably in a county 
Penitentiary or out, vandalizing

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the cars in the parking lot. 
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that's how the preachers kids 
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Now I want to introduce you to 
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This is my beautiful family will
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This is my lovely. 
Wife of this will be 11 years. 

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Now, Lindsay McKenzie. 
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has a heart of gold. 
She's my pastor as well, which a

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lot of people don't realize with
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pastors and ministers to me in 
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locate ladies in the room, I 
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you see a girl like her. 
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You're thinking, man, he must be
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And it's true. 
You know, that's why we get into

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the ministry. 
It's for the money, right? 

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No wrong industry. 
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He is seven years old. 
He's a baseball player. 

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This is our youngest Olsen. 
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He is the Cookie Monster can eat
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I've seen it and this is our 
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My four-year-old daughter 
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And that is where I would like 
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women. 
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2018. 
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a man of God, I had not thought 
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be a woman of God. 
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about what it meant to raise a 
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I had not thought very much 
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face, especially women of God in
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But then January 7th. 2018 
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Your perspective, changes when 
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Maybe you're a mother of a son, 
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thinking about, boys, and men, 
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Same thing happened to me as 
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Now, look, I know that 
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I get it, but my actually are 
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incredibly gifted Larkin was, I 
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that I've never thought of 
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why is it that there's never 
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United States? 
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right? 
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So like I'm just like she could 
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gifted she was, I I started 
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If she marries, when she 
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her best guy forever. 
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She definitely date until 33 but
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husband because Because I want a
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She's going to be a strong 
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So men have this joke. 
Of your, her gas tell it before?

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It's not a very good. 
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ridiculous. 
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this joke that we say to each 
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really output, I'll kick your 
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Or man, you married out of your 
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Heard, guys say that you ever 
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looks of the guys in the room 
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It's true. 
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thought about that before men, 
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compliment to the woman Like, I 
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I don't want her husband someday
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Mary out of his league. 
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No, I want her to find a strong 
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that I know. 
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If, you know my wife, she going 
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strong woman. 
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she didn't need a man to give 
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She had God had to give her a 
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her schedule. 
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That's what I want for my little
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Thanks change. 
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Now, what I've discovered taken 
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thinks and talks and interacts 
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compellingly beautiful vision 
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looks like. 
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with you today because this 
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resistance, that's intentional 
language in beautiful resistance

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to the way that our culture 
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Let's start with our culture. 
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reading a study on societal 
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women feel when it comes to 
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Let's start with the men. 
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associated with being manly in 
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Today words like winning 
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Defiance violence dominance the 
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Persona self-reliance, the 
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leadership over women disdain 
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status, or in other. 
Urge men here, the messaging 

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every single day do not be 
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Now, on the flip side, I think 
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are even worse. 
Here were the words that women 

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Associated be thin. 
Be pretty be nice, be quiet, be 

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domestic. 
Be a good wife and be an even 

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better mom. 
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summarize them in three 
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well, and never lead. 
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from these three broad 
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experience a tremendous amount 
of Shame most shame that they 

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carry with them. 
So let's just ask the 

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million-dollar question women 
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Is this supposed to be the 
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followers of Jesus? 
But can you go to the previous 

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3? 
Let me ask you what's missing 

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from this list, Jesus followers.
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this list is anything that all 
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follower of Jesus noticeably 
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idea that a woman could make the
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I mean, God forbid, some little 
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ever comes across this list 
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Noticeably missing from this 
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women have anything to offer men
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What's he know? 
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that there's no balanced voices 
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You got people kind of on the 
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That are like, we gotta keep 
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submission. 
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extreme left of like we gotta 
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right? 
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find a balanced voice. 
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When you look at how Jesus 
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throughout the scriptures, not 
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Transcendent. 
He transcends, the like left 

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versus right right political 
Fray that everything gets pushed

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into today and he gives us a 
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So, I want to cash that 
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want to do it by asking a few 
questions that I think apply 

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well to these three categories. 
Here's the first question. 

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How many kids must a woman have?
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How many kids get one? 
210. 

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Okay, you do know that Mary, by 
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six. 
There were four boys and it says

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Jesus had sisters plural, so at 
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And I'm just saying, if you want
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Some of y'all need to like, 
double down. 

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Triple down. 
It's me. 

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And you just leave church right 
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Anyways, I'm just let me, let me
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Ask it to you in a little bit of
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Next slide here, how many kids 
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the answer to that ridiculous 
question is zero, Jesus was not 

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married, Jesus did not have any 
kids. 

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So while scripture presents 
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worthwhile and significant 
calling for anyone to give their

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life to It, also says that 
there's more to life, there's 

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more to your identity. 
There's something more 

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fundamentally core to who you 
are than just being a mom or 

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just being a dad. 
Now, Jesus hits on this in in 

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Luke 11:20. 
Seven. 

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So it says that, as Jesus was 
speaking a woman in the crowd 

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called out. 
God, bless your mother. 

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To which Jesus like thank you. 
Appreciate that. 

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Love her. 
I'm preaching though the wound 

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from which you came. 
Okay, now you're talking about 

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my mom's womb little strange, 
the breasts that nursed you. 

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All right? 
Don't talk about my mama like 

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that. 
So, you know, saying but like if

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you could imagine this is he's 
wild. 

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He's preaching this woman. 
Shouts out. 

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Now, it's important for you to 
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this is what societal Norms 
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And Jesus, sort of patriarchal 
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This is what it said, made a 
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A good woman was based on their 
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Hopefully, it was mostly boys. 
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turned out to honor their family
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Well, and if that was what 
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hit the jackpot. 
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Roll student on the back of your
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that he doesn't like he doesn't 
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doesn't degrade the role of his 
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rather he antes up. 
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around something, even more 
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Luke chapter 11 verse 28. 
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blessed. 
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are all, who hear the word of 
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for blessed is makarios. 
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God. 
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God honors most. 
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Not a mother. 
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It says God honors. 
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God's word and puts it into 
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perhaps I could sum it up for 
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Like this next slide here 
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they can't a career can honor 
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to Jesus is if you are living 
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So if you're a mother in the 
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called you to in this season of 
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I want you to hear me say right 
on Go for it. 

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The next generation will change 
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The only question is, how and 
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their hearts and their minds in 
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it didn't start in the white 
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It is starting to Supreme Court,
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Building. 
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tables, it starts in toy rooms, 
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school, and back home every day 
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In one small investment at a 
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been called by Jesus to love the
lost and make disciples, love 

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the lost and make disciples, 
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disciples. 
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lines of that battle is in the 
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On the halt, right? 
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it, you know, there's a cultural
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progressive way of thinking that
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occasionally to Motherhood, or 
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career, in order to raise kids, 
somehow you're a lesser woman 

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somehow, you're setting things 
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like supporting the patriarchy 
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I would tell you that God would 
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honor him. 
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your Raising up the Next 
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Now, this is in part, by the 
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around motherhood because Mom 
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themselves, you don't want to 
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up, but here's what we all 
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least, even if you had great 
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screw you up just a little bit, 
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be as little as possible, Right?
Like just let him get out of my 

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house alive, right? 
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how that's how you end up. so, 
Put so much pressure on yourself

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moms. 
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here, this, okay, would you mess
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Ask for forgiveness, repent, and
John near to Jesus, and that 

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right there, alone will be one 
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for your children. 
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Now, on the other hand, for 
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who have since that or who have 
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mom, or have not been given that
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maybe you do both, you're like 
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workplace, let me read this 
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need to hear it, Luke 11, 28, 
Jesus replied, even more blessed

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are all, who hear the word of 
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So, you are not a lesser woman 
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into the spectrum that says that
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to like full-time motherhood, or
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haven't had a kid or whatever it
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You're a lesser human. 
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Hell. 
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limited based on your age, your 
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bearing capacity. 
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to be a mother or a wife, that 
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You just means he's calling you 
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Answer the call. 
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This is almost Blasphemous to 
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to be loved by Jesus? 
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second time out on the sermon 
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a few days ago. 
When I was writing this, the 

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power of this of the questions 
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be in just how stupid and 
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They are. 
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obvious. 
So time in how sexy do you have 

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to be. 
To be loved by Jesus. 

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What a surprise you if I were to
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all four gospels this week, you 
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comment from Jesus or the 
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physical attractiveness of any 
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Because they didn't care. 
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Next slide here. 
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The gospels presented. 
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Who judges people from the 
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and I wonder if, if any of us 
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that, we live in an outside-in 
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culture that judges people first
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a priority for Jesus. 
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Jesus cared about heart not hot.
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that. 
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to say that biblical Womanhood, 
our manhood has nothing at all 

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Today I'm already talking about 
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It was just okay PG-13. 
If you have a young child in the

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room, it would be a great time 
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Our, our culture has become 
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like nothing I've ever seen. 
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basically removed all restraints
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what historians call the sexual 
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sexual Revolution was launched 
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sexual Revolution was that if we
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about sex, it wouldn't be such a
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So that's the Playbook. 
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six decades now. 
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luxury of retrospect you all. 
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So we can look back a generation
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Are we more or less healthy when
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Are women more or less free? 
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So I think I think an argument 
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difficult argument to make 
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lot of pain, see a lot of 
confusion, I see a lot of 

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suffering and I see a lot of 
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not of men, but of women and 
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Still today thousands upon 
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aborted, why? 
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of its appropriate Bond 
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invisible father epidemic around
our country why the SEC has been

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taken outside of its appropriate
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epidemic and it's contributing 
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It's contributing to sex 
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it's making men look at women. 
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piece of meat. 
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Why? 
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from its appropriate boundaries 
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women actually rising up saying 
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Now, this has not been working 
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been using sex as a bargaining 
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upward social mobility and 
that's not right, that's not 

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okay. 
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Why? 
Because sex has been removed 

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from its appropriate boundaries.
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That's fine but I believe God 
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know for a reason. 
Because it's powerful. when it's

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inside of its boundaries, it 
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its boundaries, you can bring 
death When it's inside of its 

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boundaries you can build a 
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fat boundaries, it can tear 
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When it's inside boundaries it 
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civilization and society when 
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it can be its Achilles heel. 
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this one sex is like fire and 
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It can warm the home outside of 
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So you know what we need? 
We need a generation of women 

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who demand that sex be honored 
on God's terms within its 

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appropriate boundaries and then 
they hold men too. 

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I will not be objectified. 
I will not be pornified. 

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I will not be abused abandoned 
or thrown to the curve. 

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I will be honored because I'm 
created in God's image. 

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I have enormous dignity 
eternally undeniably because of 

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that and Jesus died for me and 
if Jesus loves me that much so 

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should you hey, you want to know
what, will get a man's attention

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failure. 
So set hard boundaries ladies 

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and if he walks over those kick 
his butt to the curb and he may 

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not come back. 
And that'll be sad, but at 

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least, you'll do the next woman 
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Oh you know what else we need? 
We need a generation of men who 

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say, Amen, we need a generation 
of men who reject passivity know

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what passivity is in men when 
they refuse to tell other men 

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What the right thing is to do 
when they see wrong in their 

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life, I am sick and tired of 
hearing the excuse. 

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Well, that's just locker room, 
talk. 

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I'm sick of tired of hearing 
that, you know, will boys, will 

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be boys. 
I'm tired of hearing like the 

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celebrity say, I never knew. 
Yeah, you did. 

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You just have the courage to 
call it out. 

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So we need a generation of men 
who has that sort of Courage who

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looks at their brother in Christ
sometimes and says I see this in

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you it's wrong and I'm not okay 
with it. 

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You know what we need we don't 
need a sexual Revolution that 

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Great sex, we need a sexual 
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And the women. and the children 
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third question. 
And the last one. 

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Got a question for you ladies. 
How many people must the woman? 

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Follow? 
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Jesus. the answer is 1, 
obviously, in order to be a 

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follower of Jesus, all you have 
to do is follow Jesus, and you 

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want to love about Jesus that he
actually welcomes women into his

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disciples to discipleship 
Circle. 

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Luke chapter 8, verses 1, 
through 3 says Jesus began a 

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tour of the nearby towns and 
Villages preaching in 

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announcing. 
The good news about the kingdom 

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of God, took his twelve 
disciples with him, along with 

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some women who had been cured of
evil spirits and diseases among 

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them were Mary of magdala from 
whom. 

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He had cast out seven demons 
interesting. 

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There's Joanna wife of chuza 
herod's Business business 

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manager or Susanna and many 
others who were contributing 

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from their own resources. 
Wow, to support Jesus and his 

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disciples. 
Now, three things. 

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Real quick about this, passage 
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rabbi. 
In the first century with women 

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in his discipleship Circle. 
You need understand. 

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That would have been scandalous.
They're traveling with him, 

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they're sleeping in the same 
camp. 

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Like that would have brought 
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thought it was worth it. 
Second, can you go back to verse

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2 previous? 
I'd here, I want you to see the 

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kind of woman, he brought along 
with him, Mary of magdala from 

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whom, he had cast out seven 
demons. 

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Now, I'm not even sure what that
meant, like it's but I guess 

455
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it's not as bad as a demon's. 
But what does it mean to even 

456
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have seven demons in you? 
Not good. 

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Okay. 
And yet Jesus heals her heels 

458
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her and then fast forward to the
resurrection and all of a sudden

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she's takes center stage, she 
sees the Risen Jesus first, and 

460
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she goes and evangelizes, the 
disciples. 

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The go to the next slide here. 
Last thing I want you to notice 

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is that also in Jesus Circle, 
were Rich went to Rich with, I'm

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just saying they're rich women, 
women who were bankrolling Jesus

464
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,400
ministry through their financial
support. 

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Can we just take a moment real 
quick? 

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Let's pray for the for the rich 
women in the room. 

467
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God thank you. 
For rich women will you multiply

468
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,500
them in this church in Jesus 
name? 

469
00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:56,200
Amen. 
This is a circle. 

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I love this is circle. 
You know, one day, Jesus was 

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actually at Marion Martha's 
house. 

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And you remember the story 
Martha was busy with the Woman's

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Work, Mary was sitting at the 
feet of Jesus learning. 

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This is how the story plays out.
Luke 10:39. 

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It says her sister, Martha 
Sister, Mary sat at the Lord's 

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feet listening to what he 
taught. 

477
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Now, when Martha saw this, she 
gets a little bit, ticked off 

478
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understandably, so she's doing 
work and Mary's not so verse, 40

479
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,100
says, Martha came to Jesus and 
she said, Lord, doesn't it seem 

480
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unfair to you that my sister 
just sits here. 

481
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Well, I do all the work tell her
to come help me. but then Jesus 

482
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blows up her understanding of 
Womanhood right when he responds

483
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like this 41, he says, but the 
Lord said to her, my dear 

484
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Martha, you are worried and 
upset over all these details, 

485
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there is only one thing worth 
being concerned about Mary has 

486
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discovered it. 
It will not be taken away from 

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00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:03,200
her. 
Now many people today especially

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in women's ministry. 
Contexts read this as a passage 

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about busyness. 
And certainly, we can take 

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application from it about our 
business because we live in a 

491
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,900
culture of overload, but that is
not primarily or fundamentally, 

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what this passage is about, this
passage is about discipleship. 

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And the first verse it said, 
Mary sat at the Lord's feet. 

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That is a technical term for 
being the disciple of someone 

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and literally, Jesus looks at 
Martha in the eyes and he says, 

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that's where a woman belongs. 
At the feet of as a disciple of 

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Jesus. 
So as we bring this to close 

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today, I guess I would ask Every
Woman listening and watching 

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this today. 
Are you Are you a disciple of 

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Jesus? 
Do you want to be? 

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00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,600
What a beautiful vision of 
Womanhood, he gives for our 

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00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:58,900
lives. 
Now it's really not that hard. 

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To become a disciple. 
All you have to do is reach for 

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Jesus. 
My favorite interaction between 

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Jesus, and the woman was Mark 
chapter 5 in Mark 5, Jesus is 

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00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:16,500
going and he's healing people, 
he's preaching, he's on his 

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00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:19,500
ministry to her and the crowds 
are getting really big, they're 

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pressing in on them. 
In fact, he's on the way to heal

509
00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:26,400
the daughter of this man named 
gyrus and the crowds have gotten

510
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,600
like so big that there's kind of
like pushing Jesus around and 

511
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,200
this, there's this woman who's 
been bleeding for twelve years, 

512
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,000
12 years. 
She spent all of her money. 

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00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:37,700
On doctors, trying to find a 
cure for this. 

514
00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:40,800
She can't find one 12 years 
she's been bleeding, but she 

515
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,800
just decides Jesus is in town 
today, and if I can touch him, 

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00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,000
maybe he will. 
Heal me. 

517
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,200
So she goes to the crowd, she's 
not supposed to be in a crowd, 

518
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she's unclean. 
She's been bleeding for years 

519
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,500
according to Jewish law. 
She's supposed to be isolated, 

520
00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:56,100
but she goes into the crowd. 
She starts pushing her way 

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00:28:56,100 --> 00:28:58,000
through the crowd. 
She just wants to touch the 

522
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,400
cloak of Jesus, maybe it'll heal
her and she reaches out and 

523
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:02,900
touches him. 
And you remember what happens? 

524
00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:05,700
Immediately. 
She knows she's well 

525
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,000
immediately. 
Now, when she touches her 

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though, Jesus stops, and he's in
this crowd, he just stops. 

527
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,500
And he's like, who touched me? 
And the disciples like Jesus. 

528
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,700
Everybody touching you may like 
we mean who touched me. 

529
00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:23,300
So someone touched me. 
I felt power go out of me. 

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00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:28,600
And this woman, I don't know if 
she's fearful or what, but she 

531
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hits her knees in front of, she 
confesses to him what she's 

532
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,900
done. 
And you know how Jesus responds 

533
00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:35,900
to her. 
I love this. 

534
00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:39,700
Mark 5 verse 34. 
It says Jesus said to her 

535
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daughter, daughter, your faith 
has made you, well Go in peace. 

536
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:54,200
Your suffering is over. 
Wouldn't you love to hear Jesus 

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00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:59,000
say that to you today? 
I want to show you one more 

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00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,100
picture of my daughter just 
because I got the microphone 

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00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,200
today. 
All right. 

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00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:05,300
And, and I want to see. 
Can you put the picture? 

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There she is. 
And I'll tell you what, if you 

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00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:13,400
were to ask, any parent or 
grandparent in this room, they 

543
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,800
could produce a picture of their
daughter or their granddaughter 

544
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:20,700
in a second. 
Because of the affection and 

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00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:24,000
love, they feel for him. 
Jesus looks at this woman and 

546
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000
calls her daughter. 
Did you know that? 

547
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,600
This is the only time in all 
four. 

548
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,100
Gospel accounts check me on this
that Jesus calls, anyone 

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00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:32,700
daughter? 
This right here. 

550
00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:36,800
Why? 
Well, I believe there's 

551
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,100
something going on here. 
That's more than just a physical

552
00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:43,900
healing. 
There's a spiritual healing 

553
00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:45,700
happen. 
Here, there's the healing of a 

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00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:49,300
social stigma and emotional 
burden that this woman has been 

555
00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:53,500
carrying around if levitical law
was followed by her then because

556
00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:55,900
of her bleeding again. 
She's unclean which means she 

557
00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:58,400
can't go to worship services at 
her church. 

558
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,400
There was a viral model of 
uncleanness in Jewish circles so

559
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:03,400
she couldn't risk touching 
something that somebody else 

560
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,500
would touch and making them 
unclean or making the priest. 

561
00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:07,900
Or whatever. 
As if she couldn't go to Temple,

562
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,900
she couldn't go to worship 
service and she couldn't sleep 

563
00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:12,900
in the same bed as her husband. 
She couldn't hug her children 

564
00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:15,400
without making them subsequently
unclean. 

565
00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:18,500
This means that this woman for 
12 years had been living a life 

566
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of isolation as a social Pariah 
wondering if she's beloved by 

567
00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:26,600
her community and family 
wondering if she's beloved by 

568
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,900
God. 
And what I love about this 

569
00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:32,100
Encounter With Jesus is that 
when she reaches out and touches

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00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:37,000
him, he doesn't get unclean 
rather he versus the Mosaic law 

571
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,200
and she gets clean and then he 
calls her daughter. 

572
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Daughter. 
To, which I think. 

573
00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:52,700
Boy, you're 30 years old. 
Who you think you are calling 

574
00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:58,000
her daughter? 
But exactly who does he think he

575
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:05,000
is calling her daughter. 
You know what I love about the 

576
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,000
Christian story is that it 
answers one of the core 

577
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,700
questions, core longings in all 
of our heart. 

578
00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:13,800
And that is this all of us. 
Ask it at some point. 

579
00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:18,400
Does anyone really want me? 
Does anyone really care? 

580
00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:23,600
Now, if there is no God, then 
the answer to that, question is 

581
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,600
no. 
I just got to speak real with 

582
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,600
you. 
We're here because of luck some,

583
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,100
random chance explosion produced
us where decaying matter on 

584
00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:34,600
decaying matter and one day the 
world is going to implode or 

585
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,500
explode into. 
Like I don't know a bajillion 

586
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:39,400
different pieces and no one's 
going to remember anything 

587
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,900
anyone ever did. 
So no, you don't matter, but if 

588
00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:46,400
the Christian story is true, 
then you need to know that. 

589
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:52,700
The only reason you exist is 
because you matter If the 

590
00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:56,800
Christian story is right, then 
the, the only reason you exist 

591
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,900
today is because God wanted you,
because God wanted to, he didn't

592
00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:04,000
need to create us. 
He existed in perfect Triune 

593
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,100
Community. 
Father son, Holy Ghost. 

594
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,600
Before for eternity past before 
us, he didn't need you. 

595
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,300
He didn't need to know he wanted
you. 

596
00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:20,600
He wanted to You do not exist by
accident, you're not here by 

597
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,300
accident. 
You're here because you are 

598
00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:26,400
beloved and desired by God. 
In fact, I believe that you're 

599
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,400
here today, Listening to this 
message. 

600
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,000
Because God wants you to hear 
that. 

601
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,300
You are beloved by God. 
He wants you and for some of 

602
00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:39,000
you, he doesn't have you. 
So I would just remind you today

603
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,800
that Luke chapter 15 describes 
our heavenly father as a 

604
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,000
prodigal father pacing on the 
front porch, waiting for the 

605
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,600
Rebel Son, waiting for the rebel
daughter to come home. 

606
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,900
And when she does you know what 
the prodigal father does. 

607
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,900
He doesn't wag his finger at 
her. 

608
00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:56,700
He doesn't condemn her. 
He doesn't say you should have 

609
00:33:56,700 --> 00:33:58,000
listened to me the first time 
though. 

610
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,100
He runs to her and he had even 
asked for an apology. 

611
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:06,200
He just runs to The Prodigal 
Son, Embraces him puts a ring on

612
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,300
her finger, a robe on his back 
and says, it's time to throw a 

613
00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:12,199
party. 
It's time to celebrate because 

614
00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:14,199
my son that was dead is now 
alive. 

615
00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:20,900
My daughter was lost is now 
found, And but before he can 

616
00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:24,400
throw the party, the son the 
daughter has to come home. 

617
00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:30,400
So today I'm inviting you. 
In fact, at the Crossing, we 

618
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:35,500
expect response. 
I'm expecting you to respond to 

619
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:38,000
the tug of the Holy Spirit. 
The love of God. 

620
00:34:38,900 --> 00:34:43,199
And your heart today. 
Right now, we're moving to a 

621
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time of decision.