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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
the Love Quest International 

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Church podcast, where we seek to
love all nations, equip the 

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church, mobilize the equipped, 
and serve all. 

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We're super glad you're joining 
us from whenever and wherever 

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you're at in the world. 
Welcome to the family to get 

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your Bibles ready, get some 
water, get some coffee, maybe 

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some tea, and get ready to 
receive. 

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Let's get into it. 
Not only today are cemeteries 

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filled with dead bodies, 
hospitals filled with 

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compromised health and prisons 
filled with criminals, I could 

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also say there's non criminals. 
There is one theme that runs 

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through graves, prisons and 
hospital rooms alike and that is

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regret. 
The echo of Shoulda, Coulda 

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Woulda still rings loud in the 
souls of millions today, past, 

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present and future. 
And if Shoulda coulda Woulda 

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could be captured in one single 
question, it would be this 

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question. 
What if? 

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What if I tried? 
What if I obeyed? 

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What if I trusted? 
What if I didn't let fear 

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decide? 
Because fear doubted fear and 

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doubt and anxiety and insecurity
and sabotage and codependency 

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and unbroken strongholds have 
kept far too many people 

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standing at the edge of destiny 
but never stepping into it. 

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And the greatest tragedy today 
in this room, it is not failing,

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it is not loss, and it is not 
rejection. 

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The greatest tragedy is this the
tragedy of never finding out? 

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What if the tragedy of never 
finding out it's standing before

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God one day realizing obedience 
was offered and I never found 

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out what my yes could have 
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One day every life will be 
weighed, every choice revealed, 

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and every yes or no will be 
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Today going to look at this 
story through two lenses at the 

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same time. 1 lens. 
It asked this what does this 

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mean for my life right now? 
What does this mean for my life 

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right now? 
This is existential. 

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We we look through the lens of 
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Who am I becoming right now? 
What does this mean right now? 

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And then the second will be, 
what does this mean when I stand

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before God? 
This is eschatological. 

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Who will I answer to? 
Eschatological is speaking to 

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eternity. 
It is speaking to my eternal 

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balance. 
It is speaking to being with the

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Lord or for some people not. 
It is. 

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It is reaching into eternity 
with the questions and the 

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thinking that I am asking and 
reflecting on. 

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So existential is about now who 
am I becoming? 

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And then eschatological is about
who will I answer to at the end.

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This isn't just a message today 
about about about forever or 

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just about today. 
The question, it really started 

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in Matthew 19, verse 16. 
And it starts with this one 

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question by this guy we've heard
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Someone came to him and said, 
Teacher, what essentially good 

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thing shall I do to obtain 
eternal life, that is eternal 

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salvation in the Messiah's 
Kingdom? 

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What shall I do? 
Before God speaks, he often 

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steals us that be still, 
remember, be still. 

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And no, before he speaks, he 
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Be still. 
Not because he's quiet, but 

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because we are loud. 
God's not being quiet. 

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Our lives are just too loud and 
too busy. 

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Psalm says, Psalm 34 says or 46 
sorry says, let be and be still 

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and know, recognize and 
understand that I am God. 

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We've learned over the last two 
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Stillness is not inactivity. 
Stillness is the moment where 

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competing loyalties are exposed.
And here's the danger. 

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Some people avoid stillness not 
because they're busy, but 

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because stillness would begin 
asking way too many questions. 

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In our stillness, we can't avoid
hearing these questions. 

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Like what if you get to the end 
of your life and realize you 

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never actually tried? 
What if obedience was the 

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doorway to the version of you 
heaven was waiting on? 

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What if the thing Jesus asked 
you to lay down was the very 

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thing blocking your peace? 
What if you didn't fail, but you

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hesitated? 
What if your wealth wasn't 

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money, but it was control or it 
was busyness? 

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What if you were one surrender 
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What if you kept everything but 
lost rest and you lost your 

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peace? 
What if you kept the 

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commandments, but you missed the
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What, What if you What if heaven
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Well, what if your morality was 
on point, but your availability 

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wasn't? 
What if you love the idea of 

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eternal life, but not so much 
the idea of transformation? 

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What What if your life ends 
responsibly lived but eternally 

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unnamed? 
What if you never find out who 

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you could have become? 
Stillness doesn't force a 

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decision, it reveals 1. 
What happens when scripture 

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stands Silence and stillness and
silence keeps us hanging in the 

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balance. 
Watch this. 

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There is no demons, there's no 
storms, there's no crowd. 

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There's just one man, one 
question and one invitation. 

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What happens when Scripture 
throws US one of these 

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situations where there is no 
repentance, There is no crowd, 

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there's no scripture, there's no
healing, there's no outcome. 

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There's just this big question 
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Many of us aren't living this 
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We don't know when the end is 
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But one thing you got to face 
today is what if Jesus answers 

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this? 
Yeah, Why are you asking me 

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about what is essentially good? 
There is only one who is 

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essentially good, but if you 
wish to enter into eternal life,

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keep the commandments. 
There's a man in these gospels 

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who does everything right. 
He is moral. 

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He is disciplined. 
He is sincere. 

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He comes to Jesus respectfully. 
He asked about eternal life. 

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He wants assurance about his 
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This is not rebellious. 
He's not rebelling. 

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He's not a skeptic. 
He's not doubting like Thomas. 

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He is not. 
This is someone who wants life. 

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Jewish thought to inherit 
eternal life meant participating

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in the age to come. 
He is not making or asking how 

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to behave better. 
He is asking who he will become.

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This is where the tragedy 
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tragedy in Scripture is not 
rebellion, It is unrealized 

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obedience. 
This is where we doubt, we 

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hesitate, and we second guess 
because listen, people do not 

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always go missing because they 
reject Jesus. 

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We go missing because doubt, we 
second guess, we hesitate. 

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The rich young ruler didn't 
reject Jesus loudly. 

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He walked away quietly. 
That's why we never heard. 

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He wasn't bitter at Jesus. 
He didn't cuss him out. 

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He didn't throw stones. 
He didn't lie on Jesus. 

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He was morally intact. 
He wanted to be better. 

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And he's like, I've done all of 
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I want that thing, the eternal 
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I want eternal life. 
Scripture never tells us what he

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became. 
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It was a life unresolved. 
Graves are full of unresolved 

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lives, prisons unresolved. 
And there's people in this room.

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You have just quit on pursuing 
Jesus. 

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No, you're a good person. 
You got a job, you own time to 

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work all the time. 
But when it comes to pursuing 

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Jesus, you stopped at the cost. 
Life got frustrating. 

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Somebody hurt you. 
Trauma too real, Crutches too 

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good, Excuses too many. 
A life unresolved question isn't

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what did he do wrong? 
The question is what did he 

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refuse to release? 
We're always focused on wrong. 

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And the real problem in your 
life you'll find God is that's 

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what the blood took care of is 
what you did wrong. 

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But what the blood can't make 
you do is release what the blood

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is asking for so that in change 
you can get what the blood paid 

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for. 
And the reason this story is so 

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unsettling is because nothing is
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No scandal, no sin, no demon to 
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There's many people in here, 
especially Christians. 

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I ain't got no demons. 
I'm a good, upright person. 

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I got great integrity. 
Check, check, check. 

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There's no answer. 
He didn't do anything wrong, and

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if he did, the blood would have 
handled that. 

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And This is why we got to slow 
this thing down and really pay 

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attention to the question he 
asked teacher. 

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What essentially good thing 
shall I do to obtain eternal 

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life? 
What essentially good thing can 

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I do? 
Well, what if you've done 

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everything your question is 
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He's done all the good things 
and now he's asking what other 

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good thing can I do? 
He wants eternal life, you guys.

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But watch this. 
He wants control over how to get

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it. 
He's not asking who do I follow.

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He is asking what do I do. 
He's not asking who do I follow,

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He's asking what do I do? 
He wants eternal life. 

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You want that God life, but you 
want control of how to get it. 

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Jesus, watch it, begins to 
expose the throne. 

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Jesus redirects him from good 
deeds to God's goodness. 

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This isn't a trick question. 
This is not cynicism. 

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This is a man seeking assurance.
He comes running, He kneels. 

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He calls Jesus teacher. 
Nothing about his posture 

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suggests rebellion. 
Still. 

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And yet there's something to be 
exposed that he does not realize

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is in the way between him 
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Watch this Jesus shifts the 
question from achievement to 

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allegiance and behavior to 
belonging. 

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All you smart people in here. 
Jesus shifts the question from 

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achievement to allegiance, from 
behavior to belonging. 

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Jesus consistently moves 
conversations from performance 

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to lordship. 
He's constantly shifting our 

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direction back from performance 
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What do I do? 
I send and I messed up 

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performance. 
I send and I messed up. 

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No, no, no, the blood. 
The question is not what to do. 

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The question is, are you 
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Made it so that no matter how 
many times you fall, the blood 

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reaches A handout and say come 
on, keep on going. 

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The blood is the hand that picks
you up so you can keep walking 

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after a fall. 
Eternal life is the result of 

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surrender, not the completion of
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Yeah, eternal life is the result
of surrender, not the completion

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of A to do list. 
Jesus is not investigating his 

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works, He is exposing his 
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Jesus help us today, the young 
man said to him, I have kept all

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these things. 
Watch it, Jesus, I've kept all 

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these things. 
Check, check, check, check, 

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check, check. 
Came to church Sunday, check 

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from my youth. 
So I've kept them for a long 

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time. 
I've had faith. 

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I've done the right thing for a 
long time. 

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What do I still lack? 
Watch this. 

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He's not lying at all. 
He's been disciplined. 

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He's been super sincere and 
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He says, Jesus, I've kept all 
these things. 

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Truth of the matter is this 
people, you can be sincere and 

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still stalled. 
You can be moral and still 

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misaligned and you can obey 
rules and resist rule, and 

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that's a lot of people in here. 
You obey rules, but he does not 

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have rule. 
And here is the issue with a lot

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of us. 
It is not your sin. 

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It is who is sitting on the 
throne of your life. 

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Watch this. 
Your sorries mean nothing if you

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don't let Jesus take his seat. 
Wake him up. 

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He might need this. 
He kept commands, Yes he did. 

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But obedience to rules is not 
the same as surrender to rule. 

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Stop patting yourself on the 
back because you read your 

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Bible. 
Stop patting yourself on the 

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back because you tithed. 
Stop patting. 

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It's no different than a father 
or mother wanting a celebration 

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for paying child support. 
That's your child. 

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Guess what you supposed to do? 
Support because you serve at 

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your church. 
We're in a day where it's like 

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we want extra for serving God. 
We have entitlement. 

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It's not about obedience to 
rules. 

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No, no, no, no. 
This man is spiritually, 

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morally, and financially 
successful and he's at the point

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of his life where he's like, 
what else is there? 

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Watch this because rules will 
not quench your thirst. 

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Full bank account will not 
quench your thirst. 

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Loving your husband, loving your
wife, being a good parent will 

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not quench your thirst. 
The only thing, the only one 

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that will ever fulfill you is 
Jesus Christ himself. 

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Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 
The one and only, the way, the 

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truth and the life. 
And every day it's like, watch 

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this your job. 
You should go through a 

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checklist. 
I I get paid to do this, this, 

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this, this, this, this. 
He paid it all so I can follow 

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him. 
He kept commands, Effie. 

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Yes, but commandments can shape 
behavior without ever touching 

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authority. 
Commandments can shape behavior 

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without ever touching authority.
And you got so much pride in the

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body of Christ because you have 
modified your behavior to look 

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Christian but not live Christ 
like or you stop at Christ like 

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but you are not. 
When I look at you, I still 

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can't tell the difference. 
But you like do you have the 

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authority from being at the hem 
of his garment. 

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This man is not lying at all. 
Discipline. 

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Watch this. 
Looking at him, Jesus felt a 

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love. 
This is scripture. 

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Looking at this man, Jesus felt 
a love, a high regard, A 

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compassion for him. 
There was no beef here, guys, 

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you got to get this. 
There was no beef, no rebellion,

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no demons, no sickness, no 
nothing. 

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Here. 
He's just purely coming with 

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pure motivation to say, Jesus, 
I've done all these things, what

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else do I need to do to have 
eternal life? 

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Jesus is rooted in love here. 
So the command that follows is 

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an invitation, not a rebuke. 
Jesus not rebuking him, he is 

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inviting him. 
And to watch this, Jesus is 

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inviting him into the very place
his soul longs to be. 

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But the cost is heavy. 
Some of us get to the point 

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where we find out, oh, I wanted 
to be a leader up until I wanted

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to get married, up until right. 
You come all the way to the feet

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of the thing and there's just 
one thing and it's the heaviest 

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thing you like. 
I went to premarital counseling.

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I've read books on marriage. 
I've done this. 

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I got all my confessions down. 
I got a job. 

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Watch this. 
I don't want to have a family 

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because I need to get all my 
ducks in the row. 

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You got all your ducks in the 
row and now you at the altar and

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you crossover threshold of the 
altar and you like, oh crap, I 

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didn't know being married like 
having because everybody want a 

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good marriage. 
Everybody want to have good 

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kids. 
And then you're like, oh, this 

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is the price of a good marriage.
Oh, this is a price of having 

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good kids. 
And then we stopped there and 

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we're there for years and 
marriages. 

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You wouldn't want to miss 
tonight if you don't want to 

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miss tonight. 
Tonight is going to be ground 

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shaking and revolutionary for 
your marriage. 

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Look at y'all over there moving 
fast. 

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That wasn't even a promo, but 
Amen. 

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Listen, we all get there. 
I want to serve. 

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I can't wait to serve on the 
worship team until you like, oh,

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like there's a price to be up 
here. 

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Oh, I want to help PT out and PT
I want to help the oh, there's a

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price from assisting and helping
the pastors and everybody gets 

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to this point and your heart 
longs and you even got a call. 

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This man has a call to follow 
Jesus. 

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But then he gets to the point 
where it's like this is what it 

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requires. 
Why can't I just oh, you doing 

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too much? 
No, you can't go into Louis 

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Vuitton and look at the price 
and say they doing too much. 

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You knew going into Louis 
Vuitton even the clearance price

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is going to be too much, right? 
You can't want the high quality,

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right? 
You can't go into these Gucci 

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and be like where the clearance 
rack? 

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No, 
Jesus exposes Thrones to free 

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people. 
Shame is not in his blood, so 

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he's not confronting you with a 
price to shame you. 

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He knows you don't got what it 
costs. 

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The price of following Jesus is 
following Jesus. 

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He's telling you to do a hard 
thing, but he paid the price so 

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that is possible. 
Jesus exposed his Thrones to 

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free people and shame is not in 
his blood. 

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Guys, Mark 10 and he said to 
him, you lack one thing. 

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Here we go. 
You lack one thing. 

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You lack one thing, man can't 
watch this. 

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I I can't wait to get to a place
in my life where where, where, 

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where I just the Lord's like you
right there. 

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PT you just lack one thing. 
You just lack one thing. 

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That's that's it man. 
I cannot wait till to get and 

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then you tell me the one thing I
lack is following you. 

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Now I'm not in this guy's 
situation yet and when I say yet

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I'm talking about the thing that
held him back. 

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I'm glad that it worked in 
reverse for me, that I got the 

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following Jesus part down 1st 
before the the, the, the, the, 

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the, the, the wealth or whatever
may come, the blessing may come 

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and materialize in my life. 
I'm glad that I didn't have to 

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work through materialism. 
I didn't have to work through 

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abundance in order to see Jesus.
I think Lecrae had a song where 

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he said being broke made me 
rich. 

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And I'm like whoa, that sounds 
stupid. 

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But then, like, that's dope. 
Yeah. 

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Being broke made me rich instead
of being rich made me broke. 

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Sometimes you can appreciate 
starting from the bottom, 

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starting from ignorance, he 
says. 

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You lack one thing. 
Go and sell all your property 

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and give the money to the poor 
and you will have abundant 

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treasure in heaven. 
What this did not say is go sell

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it. 
Give the give the profit away 

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and you'll you'll you'll never 
have wealth again. 

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Well I could just assume the 
principle and watch this. 

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This is the part about never 
knowing. 

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I could assume based on the 
principles that's in the word 

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give and it shall be given. 
Press down shaking. 

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I can on giving principles. 
I can only imagine that on the 

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other side of of not knowing 
there was more than enough 

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because it's what if and we're 
hanging in the balance. 

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I have a biblical right to 
assume he sews everything and 

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the Bible tells me he will get 
100 times more in this lifetime.

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We'll get to that later. 
It says you will have abundant 

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treasure in heaven. 
Wow, what a trade off. 

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But it's not a trade off if you 
have no revelation. 

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It says, and come follow me, 
becoming my disciple, believing 

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and trusting in me, and walking 
the same path of life that I 

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walk. 
Come follow me, be my disciple, 

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believing and trusting in me and
walking the same path of life 

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that I walk, same path of life 
that I walk. 

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This is not a universal command.
I want you guys to notice this. 

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There is more wealthy people in 
the land than him. 

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So stop asking why he ain't 
asking everybody to do what he 

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asking me to do, because 
everybody don't got the plan 

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that he has for you. 
So stop wanting the blessing to 

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be customized for you, but not 
the cost. 

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You want to customize. 
You want to customize that 

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price, but not the come on now. 
This is not a universal command.

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This is AU verse. 
This is AU command. 

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This is AU request and so stop 
looking around when you in 

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church and the voice of God hit 
you and you looking around and 

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you looking at your wife. 
This ain't even your spouse 

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request. 
This is a you. 

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Jesus always addresses the rival
king. 

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Mastery here is being addressed.
Money is not the issue. 

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He is not. 
He does not. 

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Jesus does not care about the 
man's money. 

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Stop thinking that the thing 
that Jesus is asking you to lay 

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down, he needed. 
He don't need nothing that he's 

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asking you to lay down. 
You have a need to lay it down. 

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Mastery is being exposed. 
Mastery is being addressed. 

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Jesus always addresses the rival
king man, these are these these 

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these last few months have been 
so many keys. 

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You wondering why there's not 
progress or acceleration or 

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promotion? 
Man, Jesus is. 

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He is dealing with mastery, and 
he doesn't mind allowing telling

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you to let you. 
Whatever is mastering you, 

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master you. 
And if busy master you, he's 

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gonna let busy master you until 
you come to the end of yourself 

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and turn to the Master, right? 
If your child is your idol, if 

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your marriage is your idol, if 
your business is your idol, he 

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is going to let it be your idol.
And when you need the master, he

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is going to let you turn to the 
thing that's been mastering you 

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and find out that that master 
don't have what the master got 

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for you. 
You can come to you. 

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You can come to the end of 
yourself by invitation or 

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destruction. 
Jesus is not confronting 

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possessions, He is confronting 
possession. 

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He's not confronting 
possessions. 

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He is confronting what is 
possessing you. 

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He is not removing wealth, He is
revealing rule. 

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Wealth is the oppressor, not the
object. 

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It's not about the money. 
It's not about the the the 

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cattle. 
It is not about the fine 

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jewelry. 
He does not care about any of 

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that. 
But if that chain around your 

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neck got you by your neck, 
that's what he's after. 

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Stillness is the moment where 
competing loyalties, remember 

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are exposed competing loyalties.
And This is why many of us do 

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not like to be still, because we
do not like to be in that 

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uncomfortable tension of what I 
want from God and what's 

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gripping me that He wants from 
me. 

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He stood still long enough. 
Watch this guy's this is 

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shiphew. 
He stood still long enough to 

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hear Jesus, but not long enough 
to surrender. 

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I came to church long enough to 
get a word, but I didn't stick 

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with Jesus long enough to see it
through. 

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What if Abraham only heard Jesus
say go kill God, go kill your 

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son? 
What if he didn't hear him say 

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no, no, no, no, no. 
He stood still long enough to 

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hear Jesus, but not long enough 
to surrender. 

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Stillness revealed the rival 
king. 

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Stillness revealed the rival 
king. 

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What if you walk away still good
but never free? 

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That's every Sunday at church. 
You good, not free. 

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You a good kid, good student, 
not free. 

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Them secrets in that closet not 
free. 

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Externally good, monetarily 
good. 

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But watch this. 
There's some of y'all in here 

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you don't even like yourself. 
You uncomfortable in your own 

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skin. 
The Spirit tells on you what if 

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you walk away still good, but 
never free, still good but never

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free. 
Matthew 1920 says the young man 

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said I have observed all these 
from my youth. 

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What still do I lack verse 21 
Jesus answered him, if you would

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be perfect. 
That is, have that spiritual 

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maturity, somebody say maturity 
which accompanies self 

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sacrificing character. 
Go and sell what you have and 

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give to the poor, and you will 
have riches in heaven. 

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And come be my disciple, side 
with my party and follow me. 

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But when the young man pay 
attention, lean in. 

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But when the young man heard 
this, he went away sad, grieved 

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and in much distress, for he had
great possessions. 

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I wanted, I wanted, I wanted, I 
wanted cost watch this. 

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I've been looking for a church 
like this. 

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Cost, fault finding and what you
really couldn't tap into is this

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one thing. 
You found what your soul 

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desired, but when things got 
tough cost right. 

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You can man how many how many 
times you've been in the store 

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and tried on what you wanted to 
wear look good. 

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Don't it feel good and you walk 
away. 

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I'm like, I'm going to get that 
one day. 

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I'm I was just faith fitting 
right there. 

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I was faith fitting. 
I was trying on some stuff. 

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I want that one day. 
You looked at that price tag and

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then you was too ashamed to be 
like, I ain't got the money. 

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So you like yeah, hope. 
Can you hold this for me? 

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Can you hold this for me? 
Can you hold this for me? 

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I'm I'm going to be back. 
I left my money in the car 

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right. 
That that price you like. 

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Oh, and whether it's your call 
rather God in this season is 

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asking you to put down your Plan
B, your hobby, your number 2, 

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your minor, pick up your major, 
pick up your crown, pick up your

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call, whatever it may be, you 
get to the point of cost. 

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Oh, that mean I got to leave 
that behind. 

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That mean I can't talk like that
no more. 

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That mean me and him and her. 
That mean I got to let go of my 

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parents and I got to focus on, 
Gee, I can't baby my parents, I 

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can't baby my kids. 
I got to lay this thing down. 

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You walk away in your soul and 
then all of a sudden God's 

456
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,320
calling you to do something 
else. 

457
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,280
No, he just not changing the 
price. 

458
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,240
I've been in them stores where 
where I was, it's a it's a 

459
00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:54,680
little too much. 
And you walk up, this is me, 

460
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,000
this is me. 
I know nobody in here has ever 

461
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,040
did this, but you walk up and 
you go to the cash register and 

462
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,040
it's already a sale and you go 
up and you be like, Hey, can you

463
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,920
ring this up to see if there's 
more off? 

464
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,280
Because sometimes there's 
because it does. 

465
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:12,120
Sometimes you ring it up and you
like, oh, it's more off, right? 

466
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,200
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
No, no, no, no, that, that, 

467
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,360
that, that that's kind of where 
we are. 

468
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,600
We just, we're looking for God 
to discount the cost. 

469
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,240
You like God? 
I don't mind doing it because 

470
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,640
can I hold on to 1 finger? 
Can I hold on to 2 cigarettes? 

471
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,280
You, you telling me to get stop 
smoking? 

472
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:39,240
Can I just go to one a day? 
Stop sleeping around. 

473
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:45,120
OK, well, can I watch porn? 
No, right. 

474
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,200
It's it's like you're trying to 
get this discount with God and 

475
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,800
you frustrated and then all of a
sudden he's changed the call. 

476
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,440
He's changed the church, he's 
changed the relationship, he's 

477
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,560
changed your dreams, he's 
changed all of this and you just

478
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,960
keep wandering instead of just 
stepping into the call. 

479
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:07,160
What if you stepped into it? 
Not next year, not next month. 

480
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,520
I think this word is very timely
because we're about to get out 

481
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,800
of this month. 
We're about to leave stillness. 

482
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,440
We're about to leave peace. 
We're about to leave these 

483
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,440
things that God has been setting
us up and we're about to enter 

484
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:23,680
into the next 11 months, 
supposedly to step into a new 

485
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:28,320
dimension. 
And God so, so kindly shows us 

486
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,760
this. 
Maybe you are free and maybe 

487
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,080
everything you're doing is 
right. 

488
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,840
And maybe you have been 
transformed by the renewing of 

489
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,240
your mind. 
But there's, there's one thing 

490
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:44,280
you don't want to pay this price
and watch this even if you're 

491
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,720
doing the thing, but 
complaining, even within your 

492
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:51,280
soul, nobody knows you're 
complaining, but you're, you're 

493
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,400
doing a thing. 
But you're online looking at 

494
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,200
what you really want to do in 
life. 

495
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,360
Well, look, if you really want 
to do it in life and God's 

496
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,160
calling you there, go do it. 
But the double mindedness in 

497
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,800
your life, watch this. 
You also in this year got to 

498
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,840
change language. 
This. 

499
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,480
I wish I was doing this. 
And I oh man, I thought, I 

500
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,880
thought, I thought when I was 
younger I was going to do this. 

501
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:18,440
It's over. 
You're either doing it or you're

502
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,960
not. 
You need to totally commit every

503
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:25,040
part of your being to what God 
is saying or it's not a fool. 

504
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:29,760
Yes, and some of y'all serving 
with resentment and some of 

505
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,960
y'all show up with resentment. 
And some of y'all like God's 

506
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,120
called me, but not in this 
season. 

507
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,960
So when? 
What if? 

508
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,360
What if your time is running 
out? 

509
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,680
What if you don't have time? 
You're like, I'm a king and a 

510
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,400
priest. 
I'm called to do this and that, 

511
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,800
but not now. 
I can't, I can't juggle it all. 

512
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,720
You can if you let go of some of
the things you juggle it. 

513
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,720
And if God's called you to it, 
we've talked, we've we've 

514
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:00,960
learned about this in revival 
week about the Holy Spirit is 

515
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,800
our capacity. 
You're burning out because some 

516
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,200
of the stuff you're doing is not
what he's blessing. 

517
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,840
So you're in your own strength, 
your own ability, your own 

518
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,880
talent, and you're not in the 
grace. 

519
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,320
And how many times do we all put
stuff down? 

520
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:23,680
It's just like, let me offload 
instead of on loading the grace.

521
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,680
Let me, I can't do this. 
I can't do this that much. 

522
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,400
I can't, I can't do this that 
much. 

523
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,000
When you are walking in what God
watch this. 

524
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,120
When you are walking in your 
major, God empowers you with 

525
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,400
enough capacity to also do your 
minor. 

526
00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:47,080
Got way too many believers 
lukewarm and you, you, you cold 

527
00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:50,600
and you serve the world with all
your might and all your strength

528
00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:55,520
while the church is dying 
because there's people carrying 

529
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,880
stuff standing in the gap 
because God's going to annoy 

530
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,800
somebody. 
But that pastor could have lived

531
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:06,960
maybe a few more years if people
stop watching them carry that 

532
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,040
elder or that, that, that 
Deacon, that, that, that, that, 

533
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,040
that, that, that worship 
director. 

534
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:16,680
If somebody stepped up and say, 
yeah, I'm called, yes, Lord, I'm

535
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,640
here. 
There is no perfect time to 

536
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,440
obey. 
The perfect time to obey is now.

537
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,200
We're in a new year, guys. 
Oh, I'm going to be excellent in

538
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,360
2026. 
Be excellent. 

539
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:41,280
Excellence is a call. 
What if you live successful but 

540
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:47,040
unfinished? 
What if you die unfinished? 

541
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,280
And I ain't talking about your 
bank is good. 

542
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:55,240
I'm talking about you didn't 
leave this earth maximizing who 

543
00:43:55,240 --> 00:44:02,720
God right the the the memory. 
Watch this leave the world a 

544
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:09,840
finished picture of you. 
What was my daddy like complete 

545
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,400
like like when my dad when my 
mom, when my auntie, when my 

546
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,560
friend, pastor whatever. 
I can truly say that they got a 

547
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:24,520
well done and they they did all 
that they could and their stand 

548
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:30,120
was their transition. 
And there's some of you, if 

549
00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:35,200
Jesus came next week, if your 
last day came next week, you 

550
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:40,640
have so much your final breaths 
that you would regret. 

551
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,600
And that is pride to sit here 
and act like you got all kind of

552
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,760
time to live. 
Yes, sure, He promised us long 

553
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:54,000
life, but if that's how you 
approach life, like from, from, 

554
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,600
from when I'm 1 to 30, that's 
the years to do this. 

555
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,640
And when I'm 30 to 60, then I'm 
going to do this. 

556
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:00,920
And then when I'm 60 to 90, I'm 
going to do this. 

557
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,800
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 
The day you hear my voice. 

558
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:13,200
There's way too many people in 
here trying to survive, trying 

559
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,040
to make it in this world, trying
to climb the ladder of the 

560
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,120
business world, trying to trying
to achieve all of this stuff. 

561
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:25,520
And God's like, you can do that,
but how is that consuming you in

562
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:31,240
a way that you don't have time 
for this other thing I'm calling

563
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:38,520
you to? 
We forget when the labor of 

564
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:45,240
employment became a curse. 
Don't act, don't. 

565
00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:50,280
Don't forget that the labor of 
work is curse. 

566
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,000
It was not labor when Adam and 
Eve was in the garden strolling 

567
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,240
and then he God pronounced this 
curse. 

568
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,400
Sweat from your brow. 
You're going to get up and not 

569
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,960
feel like going to work. 
You're going to work jobs that 

570
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,760
you wish you could quit. 
Double minded, but that's a part

571
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,240
of the curse. 
I'm going to work, I'm laboring,

572
00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:16,680
I'm slaving. 
I got to work overtime to pay 

573
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,440
these bills. 
Any type of lifestyle I want, I 

574
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,000
got to do this. 
I got to do that. 

575
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:25,200
That is not the blessing. 
It's a blessing that you get 

576
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,360
paid. 
But to wake up every day and 

577
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:35,920
have to do it, but not wake up 
every day and have to worship 

578
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,640
and have to be at his feet and 
have to. 

579
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,760
But I get up every day and I 
have to go to work or my kids 

580
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,360
ain't going to eat. 
I got to make this deal or my 

581
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:47,400
that's not the blessing. 
People. 

582
00:46:54,460 --> 00:46:57,780
This walked away sad means deep 
distress. 

583
00:46:58,460 --> 00:47:02,220
It does not mean anger. 
It does not mean rebellion. 

584
00:47:04,260 --> 00:47:07,340
He literally walked away grieved
in his spirit. 

585
00:47:08,940 --> 00:47:12,580
He went away sorrowful. 
Watch this. 

586
00:47:12,580 --> 00:47:14,780
This is bless somebody at least 
two people. 

587
00:47:14,780 --> 00:47:21,080
Sorrow is the emotion of someone
who knows exactly what they are 

588
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:32,480
walking away from scripture 
never mentions him again who's 

589
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,960
no repentance narrative right. 
We we there's most scriptures 

590
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:41,880
give us kind of a resolve. 
This is one of the only 

591
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,840
scriptures that don't give us a 
resolve. 

592
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:51,160
You like he just walked away. 
OK, let me first. 

593
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,520
Dude didn't pop up again. 
Nope. 

594
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:59,960
What happened after this really 
good man who followed all the 

595
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:10,570
law walked away? 
How many people in the graves, 

596
00:48:11,770 --> 00:48:16,530
in hospitals, in prisons and you
like, I wonder what they could 

597
00:48:16,530 --> 00:48:26,120
have been. 
If obedience moves, heaven like 

598
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:31,960
works will never do. 
It's following Jesus, not 

599
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:39,600
traditions, rituals and laws. 
What if obedience is lighter 

600
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:44,040
than anxiety? 
What? 

601
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:51,000
What if obedience lifts burdens 
more than a therapy session? 

602
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,240
What if obedience is lighter 
than anxiety? 

603
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,400
What if surrender simplifies 
your soul? 

604
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,600
Maybe not your schedule, but 
your soul? 

605
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,920
What if letting go creates room?
Forrest? 

606
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:13,240
What if Jesus wasn't taking, but
His invitation was him trusting?

607
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:18,280
What if the cross you avoid is 
the crown you delay? 

608
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,680
What? 
What if the thing you fear 

609
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,160
losing is the thing killing your
joy? 

610
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,920
What if stillness births 
courage? 

611
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,480
It's in there. 
They'll bring it up one day. 

612
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:40,920
Stillness births courage. 
What if faith feels risky 

613
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:47,400
because it actually is? 
What if faith feels risky 

614
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,040
because it actually is? 
Let's go back, Let's go back. 

615
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,480
I want to. 
I want to feed your, your sight 

616
00:49:53,480 --> 00:50:01,160
and your hearing. 
What if obedience is lighter 

617
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,640
than anxiety? 
What if surrender simplifies 

618
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:09,520
your soul? 
What if letting go creates room?

619
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:14,520
Forrest? 
What if Jesus wasn't taking, but

620
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,000
he was trusting? 
What if the cross you avoid is 

621
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,720
the crown you delay? 
What if the thing you fear 

622
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:24,320
losing is the thing killing your
joy? 

623
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,000
And what if stillness births 
courage? 

624
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:32,000
And what if faith feels risky 
because it actually is risky? 

625
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:39,000
What if you don't just inherit 
eternal life later, but abundant

626
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:44,680
life now? 
What if peace is on the other 

627
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:52,600
side of your yes what? 
What if your bloodline shifts 

628
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:58,320
because you obeyed? 
What if we just find out? 

629
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:09,920
Matthew 1921 says this and come 
be my disciple, side with my 

630
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:17,280
party and follow me. 
Transformation precedes this 

631
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:22,080
invitation. 
Discipleship always cost 

632
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,160
something, watch this, but it 
never cost nothing. 

633
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:35,160
Matthew 1922 But when the young 
man heard this, he left grieving

634
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:39,920
and distressed, for he owned 
much property and had many 

635
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:44,720
possessions, which he treasured 
more than his relationship with 

636
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:56,450
God. 
Don't let your life end in a 

637
00:51:56,450 --> 00:52:01,730
question mark. 
Don't let destiny stop at 

638
00:52:01,730 --> 00:52:07,690
hesitation. 
Be still long enough to hear, be

639
00:52:07,690 --> 00:52:13,930
brave enough to obey and be 
faithful enough to find out. 

640
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:26,160
Mark 10 says this guys, truly I 
tell you, Jesus said, no one who

641
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:30,800
has left house or brothers or 
sisters or mother or father or 

642
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:35,840
children or fields for me and 
the gospel. 

643
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:43,320
No one will fail to receive 100 
times as much in this present 

644
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:48,000
age, houses and brothers and 
sisters and mothers and children

645
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,440
in fields alone with 
persecution. 

646
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:56,000
Might I remind you and in the 
age watch this to come eternal 

647
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:56,840
life. 
What a promise. 

648
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,360
That's one of my favorite 
scriptures because when we came 

649
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:00,960
to Canada, what else am I going 
to hold on? 

650
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:06,240
Lord we leaving everything no 
one who leaves behind and this 

651
00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:11,000
doesn't mean cut people off, 
this mean reprioritize them. 

652
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:19,680
No one who puts me first and the
gospel first will go without 100

653
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:24,080
times return. 
Watch what First Corinthians 

654
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:30,840
says. 
This is why scripture says 

655
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:37,200
things never discovered or heard
of before, things beyond our 

656
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,680
ability to imagine. 
These are the many things God 

657
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:47,240
has in store for all His lovers.
Wow. 

658
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,840
Eyes have not seen, ears have 
not heard, neither will they 

659
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:57,480
unless they obey. 
Jesus never asked him to give 

660
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,560
everything because He wanted him
poor. 

661
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,800
He asked him to give everything 
because he wanted them free. 

662
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,960
And Jesus makes a promise not 
just for heaven, but for now. 

663
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:13,640
He said if you leave houses, 
land, security, control for me 

664
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,880
and for the gospel, you will 
receive a hundredfold in this 

665
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:21,360
lifetime houses, land, family, 
provision and eternal life in 

666
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,480
the age to come. 
The promise of following Jesus 

667
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:32,560
is not lost is multiplication. 
What you release never compares 

668
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,520
to what He returns. 
People. 

669
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:40,000
Ephesians 3 says Never doubt 
God's mighty power to work in 

670
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,600
you and accomplish all this. 
He will achieve it infinitely 

671
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:47,960
more than your greatest request,
your most unbelievable dream, 

672
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:50,800
and exceed your wildest 
imagination. 

673
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:56,280
He will outdo them all, for His 
miraculous power constantly 

674
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:02,160
energizes you. 
Now we offer up to God all the 

675
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:06,520
glorious praise that rises from 
every church in every generation

676
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:11,800
through Jesus, and all that will
yet be manifest through the time

677
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,960
and eternity. 
Don't get too excited. 

678
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,560
In that moment and in this 
moment, your praise represents 

679
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:29,520
your response to follow or your 
paralysis because you thinking 

680
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:39,900
about the cost. 
I know a message like this can 

681
00:55:39,900 --> 00:55:44,660
steal us. 
That's the point We're thinking 

682
00:55:44,660 --> 00:55:46,620
about, these questions we're 
thinking about. 

683
00:55:48,180 --> 00:55:52,580
That's why we mentioned the 
eschatological lens that we're 

684
00:55:52,580 --> 00:55:56,100
looking through because watch 
this, I believe. 

685
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,600
I, I, I, I, I remember this was 
spoken into my spirit. 

686
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:12,200
Son, you're going to live a long
life because of the way you hold

687
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:16,880
life, precious. 
I always think about watch this.

688
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:23,320
I don't think about death in a 
defeated way or a fearful way. 

689
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:30,320
I actually respect it. 
Knowing that it's coming shifts 

690
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,760
how I watch this. 
You cannot live in Max gratitude

691
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:40,560
and not think about the end. 
And many of us in here avoid the

692
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:42,520
end. 
But what did he overcome death 

693
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,440
for? 
He took the sting out of death. 

694
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:49,280
So when you do consider the end,
it is not paralyzing, but it's 

695
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:53,120
empowering and it's gasoline. 
And yeah, yeah, yeah. 

696
00:56:53,240 --> 00:57:02,120
Because he conquered death. 
But there's no way that I cannot

697
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:07,240
think about, yeah, there is an 
end coming on this side. 

698
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:15,400
And because I know that the end 
is not my end, that that doesn't

699
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:21,800
fuel me to assure that what I 
leave behind encourages others 

700
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:26,600
to get to the finish line. 
Your life, when it's over, when 

701
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,120
you go through the ribbon, you 
should be standing at the 

702
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:32,840
ribbon. 
Come on, come on, come on. 

703
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:39,320
When you go through the ribbon, 
your life should go all the way 

704
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,560
back to the starting line and 
walk with people and say, Yep, 

705
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:44,280
I've been there. 
You can get through this moment.

706
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,040
You can get through that moment 
because I did. 

707
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,640
Hebrews 12 tells us that Look at
when it gets tough. 

708
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,920
Look at the life of Jesus and 
look how he endured. 

709
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,000
Way too many people are trying 
to dodge the end. 

710
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:01,840
I don't want to think about. 
That's why you hide. 

711
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:03,840
That's why you drunk. 
That's why that's why you can't 

712
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:05,840
go deep in conversation. 
That's why you don't want to 

713
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,000
deal with trauma. 
That's why you because you just 

714
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,440
kind of. 
But what if. 

715
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,640
Yeah, because the end is coming.
Before I get there, I'm going to

716
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:16,280
make sure this trauma, the the 
power over my life has an end 

717
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:20,160
before my life ends, whether 
before the life ends, I'm going 

718
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,680
to go show people how to be an 
overcomer, not just read 

719
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,960
scripture that says I'm an 
overcomer. 

720
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:37,040
He defeated the grave. 
He conquered death so in full. 

721
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,080
And most people don't think 
about the end till they get 

722
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,520
older still. 
And yet there's people that 

723
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:48,600
that's five years old passing. 
We've made the end or death all 

724
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,320
about what happens to old 
people. 

725
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:54,400
No, no, no, no. 
That's what happens when it's 

726
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:56,400
time to transition into eternal 
life. 

727
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:02,240
Watch this. 
You came in, you go out. 

728
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:10,560
But when you go out, it's not 
all you just transition man. 

729
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,080
Why are you talking about this? 
BT I hate that. 

730
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:16,040
No, no, no, because because 
because you take in your call, 

731
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,800
you're in control by even saying
by by weighing things in me like

732
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:24,040
I don't got time. 
So if yo-yo watch this, your 

733
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:29,320
lack of time somehow speaks that
God is saying it's not time 

734
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:32,960
versus I got some priorities 
wrong. 

735
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:40,200
So as a dad, my son, my 
daughter, my wife might be 

736
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:43,520
watching this and then my 18 
year old son and my 20 year old 

737
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:47,800
daughter can be thinking, whoa. 
Because when I was 18, I wasn't 

738
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:52,160
thinking about the end. 
I thought I had all kind of 

739
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:53,880
life. 
But then then my age, I'm not 

740
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:55,600
telling you yet. 
I'll tell you in two years. 

741
00:59:55,600 --> 01:00:00,080
But my age came and I'm like, 
whoa, we here already? 

742
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:04,120
Where did time go? 
And you always have. 

743
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:09,280
Man, if I could have. 
If I, if I just got serious a 

744
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:11,560
little bit earlier in life, 
where would I be? 

745
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,480
Well, I'm telling nobody in here
got to wait another day. 

746
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,960
You can take this and nobody in 
here got to wait another day. 

747
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:24,960
Nobody in here got to wait 
another day. 

748
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,120
This is why our hands are up 
high. 

749
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:28,720
This is why our knees hit the 
floor. 

750
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:37,120
And here's the crazy thing, we 
have exactly what the rich ruler

751
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:41,280
was asking for. 
That's crazy. 

752
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,440
Jesus had not yet left this or 
he had not just went, yet went 

753
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,920
to the cross. 
So he's like, you're going to 

754
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,480
have to follow me. 
But watch this. 

755
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,080
Jesus gives us eternal life even
if we ain't following him. 

756
01:00:56,800 --> 01:01:00,280
No, we get eternal life because 
we accept Him and we believe, 

757
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:02,320
not because we follow. 
Because there's some of y'all in

758
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:04,400
here that have accepted and 
believed you don't follow. 

759
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:09,640
You got your ticket though. 
I'm going to heaven when it's 

760
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:11,640
all over. 
But now I'm a play with my life 

761
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:15,480
and be a terrible example of 
what it looks like to follow 

762
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,960
Jesus and not just follow but 
when have fruit or follow it. 

763
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:28,680
It's not just about being a 
Christian man, it's about 

764
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:34,200
following Christ, being Christ's
followers and Christian is what 

765
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,800
they gave Christ followers. 
The name they gave Christ 

766
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:39,800
followed. 
Jesus never called us Christian,

767
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:45,080
but they got labeled them 
Christ's followers, Christians. 

768
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:54,360
I don't want the label if I'm 
not the true essence of what 

769
01:01:54,360 --> 01:02:00,480
that means. 
Discipline 1 and what the world 

770
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:04,720
needs is not more Christians. 
We need more Christ followers. 

771
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:07,600
Lift your hands if that's you in
this room. 

772
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:18,280
Lift your hands if you are you 
don't want to come to the end 

773
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:25,440
and there be a what if the 
tragedy of never finding out. 

774
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:29,000
No, we going to find out. 
You get to the end of your life.

775
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:32,320
May there be, by the grace of 
God, nothing else to find out, 

776
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:35,440
but it is finished. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

777
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:38,040
That the Lord is pleased. 
May you get to the end of your 

778
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:41,600
life and there's nothing else to
find out except see the face of 

779
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:45,800
Jesus. 
I believe there's a few people 

780
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,240
in here that the Holy Spirit 
grabbed a hold of today. 

781
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,960
If that's you stand to your feet
and you going to make some 

782
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:57,880
changes, not just be convicted. 
Take the next two, two to three 

783
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:03,240
minutes and respond. 
Whether that is on your knees 

784
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,760
rather that is with your hands 
lifted, whatever it may be, but 

785
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:12,360
respond, respond, shift, tell 
your soul this is the direction 

786
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:13,640
we're going. 
Come on now what is the 

787
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:17,160
direction we're going? 
Yes, Lord, I don't know how to 

788
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:19,920
plan right now, but I'm turning,
I'm turning, I'm figuring out 

789
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:21,880
how to turn. 
I'm turning, I'm turning. 

790
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:23,480
I'm going to take some stuff off
my plate. 

791
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:25,560
I'm turning. 
God, I repent. 

792
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:34,200
Come on, open your mouths and 
lift your voices. 

793
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:41,200
Come on, open your mouths. 
Lift your voices. 

794
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,480
No, no, no, no, no, no. 
This is what making disciples is

795
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:45,160
about. 
We confront the throne. 

796
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:48,800
We confront the throne. 
Jesus comes to confront the 

797
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:55,600
throne. 
Hallelujah. 

798
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:56,560
Hallelujah. 
Come on. 

799
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:01,840
Come on, Saints. 
Lord, Lord, Lord, we repent. 

800
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:07,680
You can be enthroned today, be 
enthroned today, be enthroned 

801
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:12,200
today, be enthroned today, be 
enthroned today. 

802
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:16,040
You watching right now, Repent. 
Pray and repent. 

803
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:18,200
Is not this evil thing. 
It's not because you sin. 

804
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:20,760
No, you're just turning. 
You're turning your heart, 

805
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:22,800
you're turning your mind, you're
shifting things. 

806
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:29,640
Thank you so much for tuning 
into this week's sermon. 

807
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,960
We pray you were challenged, 
equipped and encouraged. 

808
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:35,160
Make sure to follow us on all 
platforms. 

809
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:39,240
That's love quest intl church. 
We out here for real. 

810
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,600
We're really doing it. 
That's Facebook, Instagram, 

811
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,800
YouTube and TikTok. 
You can find us anywhere you 

812
01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:47,120
need to find us. 
But until next time, you know 

813
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:49,320
the drill. 
You know the motto, get your 

814
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,560
love fixed man and we'll see 
y'all real soon.

