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Crossing family. 
I'm so glad we got an 

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opportunity to hang out again 
this weekend. 

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We are so glad that you guys are
here. 

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I don't know where you're 
joining from. 

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I don't know if you're joining 
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know if you're joining us from 
online, or you're joining us 

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from the crossing inside. 
All I want you to know is we are

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glad you're here, you're welcome
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This is a family that loves you 
and that is for you and I'm 

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excited that we are able to 
bring back for week 2. 

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Tyler Mackenzie you guys fell in
love with them last weekend. 

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He preached an incredible 
message and we have The 

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opportunity to bring him back 
this weekend, not only are you 

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going to enjoy it? 
And now you're going to learn 

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from and hopefully connect with 
Jesus. 

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But this is also my commitment 
for you guys to get to know that

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not all preachers are tall and 
heavy that there are actually 

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skinny fit people who love 
Jesus. 

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So would you guys, please 
welcome back to the stage mr. 

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Tyler Mackenzie. 
You know what? 

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I feel like I'm giving Clayton 
high-five. 

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It's like, you know, so it's 
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Hey, thanks for having me back 
Crossing fam. 

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This is part 3. 
Now of a series that we're doing

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on surrounded and today I'm 
going to talk about crowds now. 

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You may recognize this iconic 
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It says, actually taken in 1936 
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Germany as a Navy vessel as 
being christened, and then sent 

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off to see as you see the crowd 
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Our are looking at the vessel 
and they're all giving the 

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infamous sieg heil symbol as a 
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party and Hitler. 
Well, all except for one that is

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This man's name is August 
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on a town for it. 
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you know, landmesser story, but 
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was a part of the Nazi party, 
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in 36, what happened in that 
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Well, according to the story, he
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A Jewish girl. 
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And it's interesting what 
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around the whole truth? 
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play out, it was not good. 
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beautiful woman, he'd fell in 
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not allow him to so they went 
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Anyways, outside of the official
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a couple kids but his wife was 
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concentration camp and he was 
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basically, his life was 
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And yet, 80 years later, we look
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it inspires us. 
He suffered for what was good. 

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He was willing to resist popular
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He stood out from the crowd. 
And today, it inspires us. 

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And, you know, when we see a 
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all of us think we're thinking. 
That's right, August landmaster 

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stood out. 
And so do I I'm like him. 

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Only problem is that most of us 
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real. 
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crowd is seductive, the crowd is
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And for many of us without even 
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into this tribe or slide into 
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In order to fit in let me give 
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to illustrate. 
It has a little less teeth. 

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So you know most of us wherever 
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was a kid, this will date me. 
You'll be able to figure out how

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old I am. 
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If you wanted to own your 
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of two ways, you could either 
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generation, my parents had some 
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So I had some cassette tapes is 
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George Strait so I wanted to 
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bit. 
Nothing wrong with George Strait

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Check Yes or No, Love it. 
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some Will Smith and So I got it.
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I got some CDs or the other way 
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kid was you would wait for it to
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Do you remember this? 
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your boom box and record it on 
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I just am curious and 
participate with me every campus

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here. 
Just by show of hands. 

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Let's date the audience, raise 
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If you were a part of the I made
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anybody make you a mix tape, 
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I look around when everybody 
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this is what we would call the 
older generation. 

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Yeah. 
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If you burnt your own CDs that 
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a CD burner right now, I want 
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Look around look around. 
Get your campuses look around 

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because because this is this is 
what we'd call the getting older

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generation. 
Somebody say you go tell your 14

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year old that you burn CDs, when
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to be like, with a lighter or 
like, what do you mean Dad? 

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Because it's just not, it's done
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Now if you're a part of the 
burning your CDs generation like

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me, you're also So part of the 
pirate generation your pirate, 

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did you know this? 
Let me prove to you. 

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You're that you're card-carrying
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All right, does anybody 
recognize this logo right here? 

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Go ahead. 
What is it Napster right? 

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This is the Napster logo born in
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How about this logo right here 
LimeWire? 

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That's this this audience knows 
this a little too. 

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Well born in 2000. 
Basically these peer-to-peer 

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networks were incredibly popular
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you, put them on your computer 
and download whatever song you 

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wanted to for free. 
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musicians, did it like this? 
Sales plummeted lawsuits were 

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filed. 
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musicians. 
You like dr. 

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Dre Metallica. 
They were all standing up 

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against this Metallica's lead. 
Drummer Lars Ulrich said this, 

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he said if we're going to sell 
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whatever way, we so choose we 
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If the guy next door is it 
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Now, I don't know what the 
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this, but I participated a bit 
in the, do you know, Napster and

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and LimeWire. 
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that downloaded thousands upon 
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songs like, they had like, 
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the music. 
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at my church, Northeast name's 
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He told me recently goes. 
It's not that much better in 

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2022. 
Aaron has produced enough music.

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Now, to where he's got over, a 
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was like, over a million 
streams, Dude you must be rich 

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and you know what he said to me 
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was Million streams have made 
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Less than four thousand dollars,
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Well, here's the math. 
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two fifths of a penny, which 
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you have to get 263 streams. 
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you, that's stealing. 
As just Criminal. 

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It may not prevent Kanye from 
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local artists in your town, 
right is trying to make a living

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that's stealing and it's kind of
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Kind of hard to deal. 
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up today is because out this 
isn't a fascinating moral 

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phenomena for us to study 
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You see what happened was? 
We took a globally accepted 

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moral Norm, that had been 
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Generations upon Generations, 
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to us stealing like pretty much.
Everybody has thought, stealing 

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is bad and all of a sudden we 
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Armor talking about this in 
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would like one Metallica. 
Does it need the money? 

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Let's probably right, it 
probably doing just fine but 

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it's still stealing. 
Well, don't judge me. 

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Get the log out of your own eye.
Gotta log in my eye. 

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You gotta log in yours though is
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I just want you to notice. 
I want you to see how quickly we

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can take a traditionally 
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moral. 
No man Norman just move it and 

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why? 
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nobody else seemed to care. 
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It's the power of the crowd. 
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crowds are just like 
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just because there's majority 
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just because there's a crowd 
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disqualify it from goodness or 
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I just think we should be very 
suspicious of it. 

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We're talking about this not 
long, a Clayton crowds crowds 

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can be a very fickle thing. 
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that they move us over time, 
look at the history of both, the

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DNC and the GOP in our country. 
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they've moved beliefs over the 
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And what happens is people in 
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identity their in oftentimes 
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It's the same thing with many of
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So I'm just saying we should be 
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We should be careful when we 
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especially today. 
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public relations and advertising
and social media, in order to 

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manipulate our Behavior, we 
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when we find ourselves in a 
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I want to show you a picture of 
the, the modern father of PR 

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manipulation, meet Edward 
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This is Bernays right here. 
A béarnaise is actually the 

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nephew of Sigmund Freud. 
So what bearnaise did was he 

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took his uncle's insights on 
psychology and he basically 

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applied it to PR advertising in 
the 1920s and you should Google 

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this guy's achievements, he got 
Calvin, Coolidge re-elected by 

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changing his Stern demeanor, he 
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government can go to the next 
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So that he could sell bananas. 
He convinced us that bacon and 

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eggs were breakfast foods. 
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You ever wonder why we eat bacon
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Like, why do we do that? 
Is it in the Bible? 

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Is it an it says it in the 
Bible. 

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Okay, no, no, it's not in the 
Bible. 

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Okay. 
So bacon, anyways, this, that's 

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another sermon, it's not in the 
Bible know, the reason why we 

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eat bacon and eggs for breakfast
because in the 1920s it was I 

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think it was the Beachwood 
Packing Company decided they 

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wanted to sell more bacon so 
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He went out, did some study 
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1920s eight pretty light 
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or a coffee with a piece of 
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surveyed. 
Doctors, doctor said it would 

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actually be healthier for Party 
hardy your breakfasts. 

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And so he put together an ad 
campaign. 5,000 doctors say that

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you should eat a bigger 
breakfast, it's good for your 

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health and Wham how about some 
bacon and eggs. 

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Here, we are a hundred years 
later and I am mad about it. 

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I love bacon. 
I'm just saying. 

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Notice how they can move us. 
Maybe my favorite Bernays, 

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accomplishment was his torches 
for Freedom Campaign. 

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He actually convinced women in 
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cigarettes was a part of women's
equality and the 1920s was okay 

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for men to smoke cigarettes, but
it was dishonorable for women to

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do so. 
So what Bernays did was he 

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capitalized on first-wave 
feminism I said you want to be 

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equal to the men, light one up. 
He even had you know what, the 

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Torches for freedom is, it's the
cigarette, okay? 

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He even had women March in the 
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cigarettes and fashionable 
clothes in order to push the 

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message out. 
Now in 1929, he published his 

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book called propaganda. 
On how to manipulate people and 

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this was his key argument he 
said the conscious and 

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intelligent manipulation of the 
organized habits and opinions of

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the masses is an important 
element in Democratic Society, 

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those who manipulate this, 
unseen mechanism of society 

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constitute an invisible 
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It's kind of spooky and 
invisible government which is 

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the true ruling power of our 
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Our minds are molded, our tastes
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largely by men, we've never 
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politics or business, in our 
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ethical thinking, we are 
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small number of persons, you 
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and social patterns of the 
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It is they who pulled the wires 
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behind all the Fashions behind 
all the activist movements and 

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favored Brands there is an 
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the things that we should 
believe the things that we 

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should shout the things that we 
should buy the people that we 

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should support. 
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Now he wrote this in 1928. 
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sophisticated they are today. 
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through type of Technology, 
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ever heard of it. 
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It's a term coined by shoshana 
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professor and basically, okay 
here's what serve surveillance 

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Technologies technologies that 
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life. 
This is not like Orwell's 

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screens that are installed and 
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you know. 
Like so the government can spy 

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on you. 
These aren't enforced inflicted 

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upon you. 
You welcome these into your 

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life. 
Your Technologies, you welcomed 

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into your life because they age 
your lifestyle smartphones or 

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provide convenience or offer 
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you. 
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sophisticated algorithms to 
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to pitch you goods and services 
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So just walk through a day with 
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run or maybe you'll work out 
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Going out your, whoop band or 
your Fitbit, Fitbit tracks, all 

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of your vitals and then it 
uploads it to the owner of the 

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app. 
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for breakfast, you know, you 
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you get on your emails to handle
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scanning. 
All the words that you type for 

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keywords in order to Target you 
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you get on social media, 
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everything that you forward, 
everything, that you share 

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everything that you comment on. 
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is built on you so that they can
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Ads later then you get on blogs 
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cookies. 
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cookies are embedded in your 
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Everything you say, to Siri 
recorded in monetized, 

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everything you say in front of 
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kid, you not not long ago, I was
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pulled out my phone and got on 
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was the first ad. 
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card, that data is recorded and 
monetized and then at the end of

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the day after you've used your 
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refrigerator and your smartphone
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you put your phone down on the 
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all that data is uploaded into 
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you. 
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information, understand the 
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about you than you do. 
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Target you with just the right 
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This is one of the great 
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church today. 
Competing with the invisible 

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government, we got to realize. 
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you're not the you're not the 
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Social media is designed to 
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the highest bidder. 
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Like all the major brands, you 
know, that are spending hundreds

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of millions of dollars in order 
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being evangelized constantly by 
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To the Gospel of Jesus in 
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TV 24/7. 
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online, smart phone, 
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on Instagram celebrity 
commencement speeches, throwaway

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comments from co-workers you 
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Gas at the gas station without a
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You men you can't go to the 
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screen literally advertising to 
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I can't watch sports without 
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racism, sexuality gender 
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because it is all the Relentless
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it is so easy to just gradually 
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That majority morality is 
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That popular culture Knows Best.
That the crowd is where I 

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belong. 
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of us today. 
I wonder what Jesus thinks about

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crowds. 
Wonder what crowd he would want 

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me to belong in. 
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Because in the gospels, 
particularly marks, we have lots

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of data about Jesus and his 
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In fact, did you know that 
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The gospel of the crowds because
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than any other. 
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with the rest of our time today.
A Theology of crowds in which, 

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we look at Jesus, give and take 
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You ready for this? 
Okay, so there's four big points

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on how Jesus interacts with 
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Here's the first one, first, 
Jesus consistently draws crowds.

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He consistently draws them. 
I've got a brief outline for 

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you. 
If you're a note, taker a Bible,

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nerdy can go check me later but 
it all starts for him in Mark 

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128 after he heals a demoniac 
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grow and I'm going to tell you 
if you hit like if you went to 

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work this week and you healed a 
demoniac Clayton's, going to 

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call you and be like what up, 
man? 

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Like your street cred is going 
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145, the crowds really began to 
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this one leper, I've got to read
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think is just hilarious. 
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said, see he's talking A leper. 
He just said, he just healed. 

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He said, see that? 
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just go and show yourself to the
priest offer an offer for your 

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cleansing, what? 
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to them, verse 45? 
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He went out began to Proclaim it
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that Jesus could no longer go 
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out in the country and people 
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One healed leper. 
One healed leper. 

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That was so fired up that he did
receive healing from the Messiah

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that he would not shut up about 
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And I just got a feeling that 
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going through some of its most 
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right now is because they ain't 
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There's hundreds of them and I 
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best days will still be ahead of
you as long as you continue to 

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go out and just not shut up 
about Jesus. 

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Now, back to our slide here at 
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explode. 
What about Get to chapter 3, the

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crowd, so grows so big. 
It's dangerous. 

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Check out 39. 
It says Jesus told his disciples

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have a boat ready for him 
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would not crush him. 320, it 
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so that they Jesus and the 
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In fact, if you read after this,
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Like I can imagine married be 
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He ain't doing No more healing 
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Get some veggies in front of his
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it's at. 
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in 310, it's a go back and read 
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actually start to see the psyche
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We get to see their motives 
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crowds come with a consumption, 
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They come because of what they 
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Rather than what they can give, 
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crowds, then we finally get the 
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We see the Pinnacle of Jesus 
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the 5000. 
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wrote down this number, is 
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We gotta count This Crowd. 
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it was 5,000 men. 
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children that were there, it 
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Incredible. 
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He could draw crowd. 
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know about Jesus, and crowds s, 
Jesus compassionately loves the 

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crowds. 
He can passionately loves the 

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crowds as well. 
So it's, it's interesting in the

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Pinnacle moment, right? 
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Mark, chapter 6, do you know 
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The disciples have just come 
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He'd send him off in pairs. 
They've come back. 

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They've got some stories to tell
Jesus. 

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They're excited about seeing the
power of God work through their 

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lives and it says they're hungry
and tired. 

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So Jesus like let's go on a 
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Let's just get away, let's talk 
about it, right? 

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And as they're going, well, pick
up in, Mark 6, you can read the 

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text for yourself. 
It says, they went away in the 

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boat to a deserted place by 
themselves. 

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Many saw them going, right? 
And they recognize them. 

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So they hurried there disrupted.
The you know, men's Retreat or 

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whatever and they're on foot all
the towns from all the towns and

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arrived ahead of them next 
slide. 

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It says as he went ashore Jesus 
saw the crowd and I wouldn't 

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have been annoyed by the crowd, 
to be honest. 

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I'm trying to get away with my 
friends here. 

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Okay. 
But it says, Jesus saw the crowd

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and he had compassion for them 
because they were like sheep 

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without a shepherd and he began 
to teach them many things. 

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I would have been annoyed with 
the crowd but Jesus loved the 

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ground taught the crowd. 
Fed the crowd. 

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Now that's the first two points 
Jesus is relationship wasn't 

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always so peachy though. 
With the crowd Point number 3 

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here, Jesus draws them. 
Jesus compassionately loves him.

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But what you'll also see is that
Jesus strategically resists the 

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crowd as well strategically 
Next, slide. 

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Here, there are several 
references here of how Jesus 

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asks. 
How about spirits and people to 

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keep his identity secret, the 
spirits listen, the people don't

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always. 
We see in 6 33 34 that Jesus 

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wants to withdraw from the crowd
into solitude. 

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We also see in Mark, chapter 4 
in the most puzzling passages in

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all the Bible. 
Because In this passage Jesus 

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confesses to his disciples that 
he actually designs parables, in

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order to puzzle crowds, have you
ever studied this for? 

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Okay, so it's no stretch. 
So strange starting in chapter 4

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verse 1. 
Okay, it's just follow with me 

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because it's just one of those 
weird things. 

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This is during the initial wave 
of Jesus ministry. 

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The crowds are starting to 
explode and so forth. 

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Verse 1, it says he began to 
teach Beside the sea. 

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Such a very large crowd gathered
around him, that he got into a 

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boat on the sea and sat there. 
And while the while the whole 

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crowd was beside the sea and on 
land, he began to teach them 

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many things in Parables. 
Now, after that he teaches the 

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parable of the sower, you may be
familiar with that one or not, 

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but apparently the people in the
crowd and the disciples didn't 

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really totally understand what 
Jesus was saying. 

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So later that evening the 
disciples approached Jesus and 

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they asked him for an 
explanation on it. 

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This Is what Jesus says about 
Parables verse 10. 

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It says, when he was alone, 
those who are around him along 

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with the 12. 
So, this isn't a crowd right 

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smaller group. 
They ask them about The Parables

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and he said to them, read, this 
is just strange y'all. 

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He says to them to you has been 
given the secret of the kingdom 

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of God. 
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everything comes in parables, in
order that, they may indeed 

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00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,400
look, but not perceive and may 
indeed, listen, but not 

454
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,800
understand, so that it may not 
turn. 

455
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And be forgiven. 
Now, this is an incredibly 

456
00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:48,600
complex passage that we do not 
have the time to deal with in 

457
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,600
full today. 
But here's what I want you to 

458
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:55,500
notice Jesus admits that he 
creates parables in order to 

459
00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:59,400
puzzle the crowd, So it beckons 
the question. 

460
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:05,400
How then does the crowd come to 
a fuller understanding of Jesus 

461
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:10,400
and his teachings? 
Well, we actually see it modeled

462
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,600
for us in this text right here. 
You have to move from the crowd 

463
00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:19,200
to the Core How did the 
disciples come to an 

464
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,100
understanding? 
Well, they leave the crowd and 

465
00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:25,000
they get around a bonfire with 
Jesus later that night and he 

466
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000
takes him to a deeper 
understanding of the text. 

467
00:26:29,300 --> 00:26:33,400
Look at 4:33. 
I says, with many such Parables,

468
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,300
he spoke the word to them as 
they were able to hear it. 

469
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,500
He did not speak to them except 
in Parables, but he explained 

470
00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:42,000
everything in private to his 
disciples. 

471
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,800
So one might go as far to say 
that Jesus knew the crowd was a 

472
00:26:45,808 --> 00:26:48,800
good work, but it was not his 
great work. 

473
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,800
His great work wasn't feeding 
the 5000 per se but it was 

474
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,300
discipling. 
The 12 intensely for three and a

475
00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:57,700
half years. 
I'm gonna go ahead and tell you 

476
00:26:57,708 --> 00:27:02,300
today. 
If the summation of your 

477
00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:05,700
relationship with, Jesus is just
coming and sitting in the crowd 

478
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,200
once or twice a month. 
You're missing out on something.

479
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:18,400
Now, last key Point, here about 
Jesus relationship, with crowds 

480
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,600
Jesus, consistently draws them, 
compassionately loves them 

481
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,800
strategically, resist him. 
But also Jesus courageously 

482
00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:28,900
defies the crowds Mark chapter 
15 verse 12. 

483
00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:31,000
It says pilot spoke to them 
again. 

484
00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:34,300
We're now at Jesus crucifixion 
and them is the crowd. 

485
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,700
What do you wish me to do with 
the man? 

486
00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:40,400
You call the king of the Jews? 
They shouted back. 

487
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,000
Crucify him. 
Pilate asked him. 

488
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,700
Why? 
What evil has he done? 

489
00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:51,900
But they the crowds shouted, all
the more crucify him. 

490
00:27:53,000 --> 00:28:01,300
So pilot wishing to satisfy the 
crowd released Barabbas for 

491
00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:03,200
them. 
And after flogging Jesus. 

492
00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:05,200
He handed him over to be 
crucified. 

493
00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:11,400
A week earlier, they were saying
Hosanna as he wrote in, on Palm 

494
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,500
Sunday, on a donkey a week 
later, they are shouting crucify

495
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:16,500
him. 
And why bottom line is, his 

496
00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:21,100
agenda was not theirs. 
So they crucified him for it. 

497
00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:23,900
He was a messiah, just not the 
sort of Messiah that they 

498
00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:26,000
wanted. 
They wanted a messiah who would 

499
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,500
wage peace with a sore. 
He was a he was a messiah that 

500
00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:34,600
would wage peace with a cross 
and he had the audacity, this 

501
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,800
Jesus to look at the crowds and 
call them to carry their cross. 

502
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,300
Mark chapter 8, Shadow this 
statement to the crowd says, 

503
00:28:43,300 --> 00:28:48,400
Jesus called The Crowd. with his
disciples and he said to them, 

504
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:53,300
if anyone had become my 
followers, let them deny 

505
00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:56,100
themselves and take up their 
cross. 

506
00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:02,000
And follow me. 
And I got imagine that that 

507
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,200
lesson didn't land well with the
crowds because crowds don't come

508
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,100
for what they can give they come
for, what they can get crowds, 

509
00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:13,700
don't carry crosses. 
They put people on them. 

510
00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:18,400
Now, quick review, can you throw
the for up there again, all 

511
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,100
together? 
And here's what I found, this is

512
00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:25,200
fascinating to me, I found that 
if you stay in the crowd 

513
00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:27,000
eventually, you will experience 
all the things. 

514
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,400
The crowds experience in Jesus 
with the church today. 

515
00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:33,100
You know, I've been, okay, I'm 
going to Ministry for 10 years. 

516
00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:36,800
It is incredible to me as I was 
praying over this message, how 

517
00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:41,100
the crowds experience with Jesus
maps on the crowds, experience 

518
00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:44,400
with Jesus body. 
The church today, the church is 

519
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,500
the physical embodiment of 
Jesus, where his hands and feet 

520
00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:48,500
were his physical representation
in the world today. 

521
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,000
And I found that the road. 
I mean, the relationship is so 

522
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,500
close. 
First off, you will feel drawn 

523
00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:56,700
into the church crowd many of 
you. 

524
00:29:56,700 --> 00:30:00,200
Come on Sundays because there's 
an energy here, you can sense 

525
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,100
the presence of God. 
Next, you will certainly feel 

526
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:05,700
loved when you come into the 
church. 

527
00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:08,100
Crap, some people greet you at 
the door and hand you a cup of 

528
00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:10,600
coffee, some is gonna remember 
your name. 

529
00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:15,100
You'll get practical teaching 
that changes your life, 

530
00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:18,900
something to love on your kid. 
If you get six, I'm gonna show 

531
00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:21,000
up at your hospital room or 
they're going to send you a 

532
00:30:21,008 --> 00:30:22,500
meal. 
That's an amazing thing. 

533
00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:27,200
But you also feel resistance. 
Eventually, if you stay in the 

534
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,300
crowd, eventually, if you stay 
in the crowd for too long, then 

535
00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:32,500
your relationship with Jesus 
starts to get stale but you 

536
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:34,800
don't want to own that. 
So often times you just blame 

537
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,600
that people be like, well, you 
know, I snatched this church, 

538
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,800
doesn't take people deeper 
someone needs to, then we need 

539
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,200
to go deeper here. 
But then when someone's like, 

540
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,600
well how come and get in a small
group then? 

541
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,700
Well, I tried one of those and 
those people were weird. 

542
00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:50,800
Like I'm getting a Bible study 
then well, you know, I don't 

543
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,900
have six Tuesday's in a row 
travel ball. 

544
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,100
Well, I just read this book in 
your spare time than well, I'm 

545
00:30:55,100 --> 00:31:00,700
just not a reader you know. 
Now, look, I want you to notice.

546
00:31:00,700 --> 00:31:02,600
It's not that. 
Anybody stopped loving you. 

547
00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:05,800
It's not that there's like, not 
a see open for you in the crowd 

548
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,700
every Sunday. 
There always is the coffee's 

549
00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:09,800
warm. 
Come on, come hang out with us 

550
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,900
on the weekend. 
It's just that often times. 

551
00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:14,800
People just tend to move on to 
those who actually want to be a 

552
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,400
part of the core. 
Not just the crowd. 

553
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,400
You see the crowd wants Jesus to
change their world and there's 

554
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,900
nothing wrong with that, but the
core wants to help build his 

555
00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:27,400
world. 
And that's the next level, these

556
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,800
people, the core. 
Aren't consumers their 

557
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,000
contributors. 
They fans their followers. 

558
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:35,100
Jesus knew that the change the 
world. 

559
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,600
He would need to not just feed 
the 5,000 but disciples the 12. 

560
00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,000
Now, here's the deal. 
If you stay in the crowd to Long

561
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,800
eventually I mean you're not 
gonna crucify Jesus like the 

562
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:47,100
Jeff. 
Yeah. 

563
00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:52,000
Could crucify Clayton? 
I mean I never cruise fine but I

564
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,400
found that people just tend to 
leave eventually. 

565
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,300
Eventually, folks just just sort
of bow out. 

566
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,000
Because Jesus is constantly 
summoning us beyond the crowd. 

567
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,900
Again, one more time, Mark 8:34.
He called The Crowd with his 

568
00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,900
disciples and he said to them. 
If anyone wants to become my 

569
00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:16,900
followers, let them deny 
themselves take up their cross 

570
00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:19,800
and follow me. 
And, you know, we would all like

571
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,600
to pretend that if Jesus were 
around today, he'd be on our 

572
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,700
side, right? 
Like, he'd vote like us. 

573
00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:26,600
He tweet like us. 
He talk like us. 

574
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,100
He think all the same things 
that we do, same bumper stickers

575
00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:32,000
on his car, same stickers on his
computer, right? 

576
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,300
Like, he would be on the same 
Pages us, but the reality is 

577
00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:38,100
that, if Jesus would here, You 
today he be looking all of us in

578
00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:41,700
the Isam, deny yourself and take
up your cross. 

579
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,900
He treat all of us like he did 
the disciples like the Rich 

580
00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:46,400
Young Ruler and he would look 
straight through us into the 

581
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,800
idols of our heart and call us 
to repent. 

582
00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:56,200
The question is Would we? 
What do we just remain in the 

583
00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,100
crowd? 
But we move to the Core. 

584
00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:04,600
Would we follow him to the 
bonfire later? 

585
00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:08,400
Take the next step and 
sacrifice, or would we just sell

586
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,000
crucified us food? 
I'm tired of hearing about 

587
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,200
self-denial. 
I'm out of town. 

588
00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:21,000
So let me conclude this way. 
It can feel lonely. 

589
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,300
It can feel lonely when you 
leave the crowd. 

590
00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:29,300
It can be disorienting, it feels
like a loss of relationships. 

591
00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:32,900
It can even feel like a loss of 
a world view altogether. 

592
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,700
But I want you to know today 
that it's worth it, because 

593
00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:39,900
there's a better crowd than 
whatever crowds you're in. 

594
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,100
See, the beautiful thing about 
following Jesus is that when you

595
00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:46,700
make an individual decision for 
him, you are Incorporated 

596
00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:50,500
through baptism into the family,
of God, or in other words, you 

597
00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:52,800
get a new crowd, the Jesus 
crowd. 

598
00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:56,000
You got a new Squad that I can 
count on and that you can rely 

599
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,300
on. 
It's just amazing passage in 

600
00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:01,400
Mark chapter 10 where Jesus and 
the Rich Young Ruler that kind 

601
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:02,800
of goes down the Rich Young 
Ruler. 

602
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,500
He leaves sad because he can't 
give away all of his money and 

603
00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:07,900
Peter freaks out. 
Remember this, Peter freaks out,

604
00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:09,800
he's like, who can be, who could
be saved in? 

605
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,400
And Jesus looks at Peter and he 
says to them, anyone who 

606
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,900
sacrifices for me, in this life 
will be given a hundred times 

607
00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:23,900
more in this life. 
And when we read this, we like 

608
00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:28,000
is Jesus of prosperity preacher.
Lexi telling put ten dollars in 

609
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,000
a plate and you'll get, you 
know, what is that? 

610
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,900
When mass that 10,000, I'm a 
Bible reader, not a math, you'll

611
00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:36,199
get 10,000. 
Oh, that's not what Jesus is 

612
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:39,800
saying here. it's not 
Prosperity, theology when he's 

613
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:45,300
talking about here, Is the 
relational wealth that you gain.

614
00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:48,900
When you step in to his crowd to
the Jesus. 

615
00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:52,900
People when you move from crowd 
into the core, like you get two 

616
00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:55,199
sisters that you never had 
growing up. 

617
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,300
The brothers that you never had 
growing up, you get the 

618
00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:01,200
spiritual mothers and the 
spiritual fathers that you never

619
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,200
had growing up. 
You get too crazy, uncle to, we 

620
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,000
won't Point him out in a room 
but we all know, right? 

621
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,400
You get the Multicultural 
perspective that you never had 

622
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,200
the multi generational 
perspective that you never had. 

623
00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,400
You got the friends that you 
Never had the wise 

624
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,400
accountability that you never 
had the loving affirmation that 

625
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,400
you have never had the last 10% 
speaking. 

626
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,100
Pastor and community that you 
never had a financial safety. 

627
00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:27,500
Net that you never had an army 
of strong backs, willing to Bear

628
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:32,600
any burden that you carry day in
and day out, hundred times more 

629
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:38,900
Jesus 100 times more indeed and 
some Look, I don't want to 

630
00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:43,200
romanticize this. 
The church ain't perfect. 

631
00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:48,200
It's a great church but we get a
lot wrong here. 

632
00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:54,500
But isn't that what unites us. 
The fact that we all know we get

633
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:59,800
a lot wrong but the one thing we
give right is Jesus. 

634
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,600
So, I am inviting you today to 
move. 

635
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,400
I'm inviting you today to get up
out of your seat and decide to 

636
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:16,000
move from the crowd to the Core.
Does it look like for use in 

637
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,500
baptism? 
There is a prayer. 

638
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:21,700
Do you need engage with 
scripture? 

639
00:36:21,700 --> 00:36:26,300
Did you get into a group? 
You need to just find your 

640
00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:30,300
people or meet your pastor. 
I don't know what the next step 

641
00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:34,100
is but in this moment today I'm 
calling you to take it. 

642
00:36:34,100 --> 00:36:37,700
I believe Jesus. 
It's calling you to take him. 

643
00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:41,600
So right now we're going to move
into a time of decision today is

644
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,500
your day moved out of the crowd.