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Morning, how are you doing? 
Doing good? 

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Good to see you Vivid matte. 
My name is and I bet most of 

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you, but my name is Rashad 
pastors here. 

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And if you're new, welcome, if 
you returning, welcome your 

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regular good to see you again 
and yeah, it's 2023. 

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Oh man, God is good. 
I don't know about you but often

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times when a new year starts or 
a new Endeavor is being pursued,

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I have like one gear. 
Go is either like kind of like a

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golf cart like it's either go or
nothing right and so I don't 

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know how you're entering this 
new year, you might be entering 

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it in go mode. 
Like I got so many things to do 

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so many things to accomplish and
I want to be that lifeguard who 

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says Walk Don't Run. 
In other words, how I want us to

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start our year is not running 
crazy after goals, not running 

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crazy after everything that we 
want to achieve and leaving. 

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No room left for God. 
Are you with me? 

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Yeah. 
And the matter of fact, I want 

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to I want to kind of inverse our
approach to the new year and 

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Wanted to spend it focusing on 
how we're going to walk with 

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God. 
Rather than what are the things 

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that we're going to run after? 
And I know that feels 

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counterintuitive. 
It feels counterproductive for 

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the productive person in the 
room. 

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Why would I enter the year and 
slow down? 

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I need to enter the year and go 
faster. 

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The fiscal year is coming to a 
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My semesters coming to a close. 
I'm about to graduate and it's 

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easy to Rush and spin and try to
get through stuff. 

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And we want to flip that and 
say, let's slow down and be with

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God, or with me. 
And I just, I just want to say 

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this as somebody who works for 
God, right? 

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That it's easy to like, what am 
I going to do for God this year?

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What are all the things I want 
to accomplish? 

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What do mother, Pastor friends 
want to see me do on Instagram 

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and all these things and I just 
felt like I I heard from God 

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over break, like walk with me. 
And see like what's this pastor 

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Donny? 
Like, I've never heard a sermon 

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on evoc before, it's very short,
obscure passage, which we will 

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get into. 
But Eugene Peterson says, says 

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this. 
He says, I know I can't be busy 

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and pray at the same time. 
I can be active in. 

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Pray, I can work in pray but I 
cannot be busy in pray. 

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I cannot be inwardly rushed 
distracted or dispersed. 

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Who has felt spiritually 
distracted. 

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Who's felt spiritually rushed, 
who's felt spiritually, 

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dispersed, as they enter this 
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And so what you're not going to 
hear as we talk about walking 

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with guys a list. 
Not going to hear a list of of 

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what you should do, what you can
do, like it's not going to be a 

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list of can dues should dues, 
but it's going to be a posture 

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of being with God. 
It's going to be a to be 

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posture. 
What does God want you to be? 

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Want you to be with him? 
You with me, we got real quiet 

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and we want everything to come 
from that posture. 

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Bob storage, one of my favorite 
books is called secret secrets 

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of the secret place as this. 
Those the wisest thing you'll 

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ever do in this life is draw 
close to God and to seek him 

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with your whole heart. 
Here's one thing that I've 

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realized the longer that I've 
walked with the god that 

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spiritual maturity happens in 
the slow and in the steady. 

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Right. 
It did this. 

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It's a journey. 
Not a conquest and I know as I 

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played football listening, I'm 
about Conquest like we're going 

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to destroy this. 
I'm gonna destroy spiritual 

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disciplines this year. 
I'm gonna destroy being with 

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God. 
This year is like listen, I get 

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it, but I want to see this is 
it's slow its steady. 

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It's a seed, like many said, 
it's a step and I just want to 

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encourage us. 
This de start this year as we 

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take a step. 
Towards God you with me and so 

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what better example than a talk 
about a man who lived 365 years 

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talking about slow and steady 
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He walked deeply with God and so
we use this word walk today. 

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And here's what I want you to 
hear attentiveness and 

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intentionality. 
Miss. 

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When we say that he walked with 
God, we're talking about, he was

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attentive and he was 
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And so, when I think about 
walking as opposed to driving or

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taking the bus or taking the 
train, when I walk a couple 

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things happen, I get my steps on
my, on my, on my, on my watch. 

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Now that's a joke that I do. 
But here's here's a couple of 

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things though that happened, I 
realized and have to recognize. 

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I'm not going to get very far. 
If I choose to walk rather than 

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drive or hop the bus that it's, 
this is going to be a slower 

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Journey that I'm not going to 
accomplish everything that I 

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wanted to do. 
Because the purpose of walking 

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is different too. 
I notice a lot more. 

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When I walk there, becomes an 
increased appreciation to the 

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things that I thought that I was
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Are you with me? 
Yeah yeah and and for that to 

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happen, I have to 
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Let my heart coming to a walking
pace as well and have to have my

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walk changed my heart realized 
there's a different purpose that

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we're looking to accomplish in 
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Right now, you were through me. 
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neighborhood are moved to a new 
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walk it and I mean I'm not a 
country persons don't get that 

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at all but I do but I will. 
Walk to the student to know my 

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surroundings and to connect with
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And so I'm take a different 
street to go down different 

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Ally, find a secret passageway 
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And I'm just like God, like what
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What are you doing here? 
What's what's your heart for the

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city? 
Tell me about this neighborhood.

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Tell me what you're up to help 
me to help me to see my 

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neighbors and things that I 
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That I might not have noticed by
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pace of the speed of light. 
Then I do it over and over 

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again. 
I walk it. 

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Walk it like a talk. 
It a walk it out. 

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Now you can't get out of here 
and walk like at Target, how 

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many ways? 
And because we live in a world 

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where we can hop on a jet and be
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in the same day, we live in the 
world, we can hop on a train and

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being five of the most biggest 
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We can hop on a spaceship and go
to another planet like 

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preaching. 
That's going to be the norm. 

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Maybe I don't know, debatable, 
but I'm just saying we're after 

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it, like in that stick to Pace 
of our world and that pace can 

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creep into a relationship with 
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Or we went to rush things with 
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Dick. 
Do you feel it? 

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You're like, I know it should be
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I just needed to speak to me 
five minutes. 

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That's all I'm allowed in right 
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And it is not that five minutes 
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Just like how you're entering 
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You can't even be present with 
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So when are our imagination to 
shift in what God finds 

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compelling and what God finds 
compelling is not necessarily 

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your accomplishments what God 
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This passage has people who walk
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Genesis five, we have a list. 
You look at is the list of 

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people that who have lived and 
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Nothing else is said about them 
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their life and their genealogy 
and then we come to Enoch and 

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verse 21. 
Enoch appears in this genealogy 

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and in verse 22, it says Enoch 
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This is this is important that 
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God wants us to see about this 
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Enoch and so walk here is, I'm a
mess to stop but the Hebrew word

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hits payout, she's a ban, I 
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All right now, Fremont is an 
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relationship with someone else. 
In other words Enoch walked in 

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Fellowship Up with the God and 
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Enoch. 
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God were pleased and how they 
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Is it denotes intimate 
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Almost to the point of to live 
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here that like Enoch walked with
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Enoch was in a pleasing 
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years. 
So, think I want you to think 

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about people that you've walked 
with in life, either physically 

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or metaphorically. 
I friend a mother espouse, and 

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when you walk with someone it's 
not usually out of Duty is out 

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of relationship, you don't want,
here's the thing you don't do 

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you walk with your spouse or 
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are you kidding and interview 
them and get all formal with 

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them. 
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And sometimes when we talk about
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formality comes in where you 
think like, I have to be like a 

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robot W and I have to tell God 
what I think he wants to hear 

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right now. 
And God is I actually want to 

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walk with you and I want you to 
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When you walk with someone that 
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you saying, how are you doing? 
Like what do you like? 

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What do you like? 
What do you what do you care 

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about, man? 
Isn't this walk? 

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Beautiful? 
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Are you enjoying what you're 
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How are you feeling? 
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You do it because you want to 
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Not because you're looking to do
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Man, listen to the podcast and 
tell me, you got to hear that 

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part over again. 
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guilty this where I'm walking 
with my family like a, we got to

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be the first person to that to 
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The first person in that Park, 
we're gonna be the first person 

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in a Slurpee, like, I mean, you 
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get there. 
We got to get there. 

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We got to get there and then you
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That go all. 
Wasn't that great. 

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And I go, but was I there? 
Come on somebody. 

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We walk with God, to grow closer
to him, not to get to the next 

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thing. 
He will, God is pointing out by 

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saying Enoch walked with him is 
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Look how awesome you know 
because look how Superior he is.

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Look how bad you are. 
I believe he gives us an example

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of Enoch to give us an 
invitation to say I want to walk

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with you. 
God wants to walk with you and 

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he wants you to walk with him. 
Sometimes we hear. 

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If you've been around the 
church, long enough, you hear 

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these phrases, like, how was 
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How was your walk with the Lord 
sister? 

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I was your walk with the Lord 
Brother. 

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And, um, and some of us here 
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I don't like it, man. 
You judging me right now. 

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Um, and what we hear sometimes, 
when we hear that, that phrase 

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is a how you doing with the 
list. 

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How's the list going? 
How's the, how are the do's and 

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don'ts going? 
But we talked about our walk 

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with the Lord. 
I want you to hear the heart of 

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it. 
Here's the heart of it. 

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Does God have your attention? 
It's God. 

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Have is God. 
Have your attention? 

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It doesn't mean that everything 
is perfect. 

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Does it mean that you're getting
everything you want? 

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But that The Nearness of God is 
an anchor for your soul and 

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turbulence. 
One commentator says this in the

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midst of the chapters rehearsal 
of the life and death of the 

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Patriarchs one, man's life 
stands out as qualitatively 

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distinct Enoch is described 
twice as one who walked with 

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God. 
It is language that indicates 

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intimacy integrity and 
obedience. 

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And we're not talking about 
quantity people. 

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I'm not talking about quantity, 
I'm not talking about the the 

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list. 
I'm talking about qualitative, 

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man. 
Does God have your attention? 

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Does he have your honesty? 
Does he have your openness? 

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Can you go on a walk with you? 
And you say God, here's how I'm 

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really feeling, he's really how 
my day is going. 

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Here's really how I feel about 
how you responded to my prayers 

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this year. 
God wants a relationship with us

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and I know that sounds so basic.
I know it sounds so simple like 

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Sunday school class, but it's 
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And so many of us including 
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I doing for God? 
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God? 
I can do tasks for you all day 

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long and not connect with you 
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I can say, I can set stuff up 
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I can do the dishes, maybe I'll 
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things and not be with you. 
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with God is being with him. 
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days could? 
We just celebrate, 20 years 

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people? 
Let's go. 

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And sorry if I'm reflecting on 
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did gives, but that's not what. 
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Most I did things for my mouth, 
my now spouse. 

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But that's not what I remember. 
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sitting together in the comments
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Asking how was your day? 
How was, how was class? 

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What are you looking forward to?
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to say hi, we use these things 
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into the wall, they had little 
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People every dorm room had one 
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Hey, it's me. 
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God did and we go. 
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this, the phrase walk suggest 
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It means so to get along with 
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proximity with them to get along
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You suggest that you're probably
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Enoch in God or in proximity, 
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one. 
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two walk together unless they 
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You can't walk with God and she 
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You with me, you knock was so 
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caught Enoch up, Hebrews 11. 
It's called like, you know, here

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there's a Hall of Fame in 
sports. 

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So this is called like the Hall 
of faith. 

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things amazing people to in the 
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Enoch is mentioned in Hebrews 
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It says this an 11-5 by faith 
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so that he did not Various that 
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God had taken him away for 
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He was commended as one who, 
please God. 

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Enoch was so caught up with God,
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only two people we see in the 
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just Enoch and Elijah and God 
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Another writer says this by 
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wasn't trying to get us 
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God nor was God, saying if you 
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spirituals Enoch, they'll get 
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To. 
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God used to emphasize a specific
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God's point was, I love to walk 
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Enoch was the first man to truly
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So I've decided to highlight his
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extraordinary, Very with him. 
I took him up to Paradise to 

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underscore. 
How much I value and desire. 

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A daily walking relationship 
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When God rewards when it says 
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has done something, it's to 
reveal his heart. 

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So when God says, I've taken 
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reward. 
This is, this is an honor, he's 

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saying because I love when 
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people walk with me. 
This is this is a this point 

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system with the kingdom of God, 
seek. 

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All these things seek me and all
these things will be added unto 

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you. 
Matthew Henry says, Enoch walked

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with God as if he were already 
in heaven. 

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I remember before I was a 
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came across when I was 21, I 
always knew like, okay, God, God

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is real. 
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And I'm sure that I would like 
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just not right now. 
I wanted I want to kind of do my

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thing and right before it's time
to depart this Earth, then I 

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want it. 
Then I want to like say, hey 

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God, I'm in, I'm done because I 
want to do my own thing into the

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last second. 
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our lives even our daily Walker.
Like I kind of want to do my 

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thing. 
And then I'll kind of get to God

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leader. 
And I think God is saying walk 

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with me first. 
Pursue me first. 

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This is the most important and 
wisest thing that you can do in 

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your life. 
Have you ever had a moment where

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you said to yourself? 
You been a moment. 

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It's an amazing moment where you
said to yourself, I wish this 

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moment would never leave. 
I wish this moment would never 

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end. 
Maybe that was your break 

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somewhere, warm. 
I hope this never ends and then 

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that and then when you're in 
those moments you don't you lose

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concepts of time and task and 
worries and anxieties and cares 

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because when you're in those 
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was made for. 
This is what I was created for. 

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And there's a time when you walk
with God, where you begin to 

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experience him in ways you 
haven't experienced him before 

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where you go. 
Oh this is what I was made for. 

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Oh this is this is really good 
for me. 

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Oh this is what you mean. 
God when you said to walk with 

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you because you have stuff to 
tell me and you have stuff that 

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you want to reveal to me that I 
would never going to get on my 

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own trying to do my thing. 
You with me? 

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There's there's a moment as we 
walk with God that we begin to 

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realize that he just wants us to
be. 

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He wants us to be with him and 
kind of waiting and his Waters 

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and allow him to transform our 
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motivations and like that 
waiting. 

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That's what pleases God. 
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heart because what pleases God's
heart is when we want him. 

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Because I know it's easy to 
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what could I do differently? 
What could I, how could I reorg 

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straight my week and that's 
fine, but at the heart of this 

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is, what pleases God is, when 
you want him. 

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Delight yourself in the Lord and
He will give you the desires of 

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your heart. 
That's that's that's start word 

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for the day Delight. 
That we would delight in God we 

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go. 
Thank God actually I want you. 

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I want to spend time with you. 
I want to hang out with you. 

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When God calls Abraham and we'll
talk about Abraham in a couple 

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weeks, he tells Abraham, I am 
die exceedingly, great reward. 

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We're not called to follow God 
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We're not called to God because 
we're trying to get some more 

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else. 
We're trying to attain something

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else. 
All the something else's are 

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pointing us right. 
Back to God's heart. 

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God is not our spiritual, Uber 
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Come on, right. 
Just take me where I want to go.

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Don't talk to me. 
I'm going to. 

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I want to. 
I'm distractive. 

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Got my ear pods in this. 
Take me to take me somewhere. 

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Drop me off here. 
I got it from here. 

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I know where I want to go. 
Now, this is costing me too much

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and your surge price is Lord. 
Oh, Lord. 

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Okay. 
I take joke too far. 

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All right. 
Um, the sooner we realize that 

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God just wants to be with us, Is
the path to a deeply formed 

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life. 
Because God is God is the pearl 

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of great price. 
God is The Treasure of all 

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Treasures. 
So if I was just thinking, if 

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someone told me you're a 
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the counter, they have a lottery
tickets, right? 

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If someone said, man in rosi, 
like the jackpots in there, Like

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I would spend everything I had 
and buy the whole spool because 

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I know and I'm gonna, I'm gonna 
be rich, and it's going to far 

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exceed anything that I give in 
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It might seem foolish. 
And when God tells Abraham, I am

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your great reward, he is saying 
there's nothing in the world 

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that out values. 
What you'll have in me When 

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Jesus talks about the kingdom of
God and he says, like there's 

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there's treasure in his field. 
There's a pearl of great price 

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or saying get by the field. 
Get rid of everything, because 

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this is worth everything. 
You with me, just let me know 

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that you were with me. 
All right? 

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This is this is what Enoch 
realized this is what he 

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realized is sixth after 65 
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He realized it in his life 
Pursuit for the next 300 years 

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was getting to know God 46 and 
Hebrews says about you knock and

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without faith. 
It is impossible to please God, 

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because anyone who comes to him,
must believe that he exists and 

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that he rewards those who 
earnestly seek Him. 

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You knocked didn't come to God 
to make a name for himself. 

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He came to God because he found 
out that God can be found out. 

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He realized that God was the 
reward and that's what kept Him 

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coming back. 
So you can I talk on my kids 

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often? 
And so often times I'll tell 

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them. 
Hey hop in the car and let's go.

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Where we going Dad, how long is 
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But what's our objective? 
What are we looking to do? 

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What will I gain? 
And I don't tell them, I'll just

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say just come in. 
Whoever comes they get to go 

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every once in awhile, someone of
the children will speak up and 

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go, hey, guys, only good things 
happen. 

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When we go with that. 
Like we go with that, good 

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things happen. 
So you might not know what's 

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going to happen, but we have 
years of experience, finding out

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that good things happen and a 
lot of times I should have went 

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What if we begin? 
To see that God has a good for 

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us. 
What if we looked at our walk 

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with God is like, man, this is 
good because God actually wants 

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good things for his children. 
What if we looked at a walk of 

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with God is not as guilt or 
compulsion or duty but a 

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relationship that God wants to 
deepen because God purely just 

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wants to be with you. 
How would that transform? 

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How you start your week, your 
month, your brand-new year that 

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God just wants to share his 
heart with you and help you to 

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realize how loved you are. 
What if Sit, we use the disc is,

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I want you to sit here. 
I just want to tell you how much

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I love you and will let you know
that. 

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I see everything is happening 
your life and I have good for 

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you and I'm here. 
And there's nothing that can 

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change that to you. 
Missed your devotions all man. 

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Yeah, your heaping on Gill, but 
I'm here and I love you. 

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What if this is just to get you 
to the place where you begin to 

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say, God can we go somewhere? 
God, can we hang out? 

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What if this is forgot to shift 
your heart to say, God can I 

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spend time with you? 
It could have said this 

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Pasadena, knock lived and died 
but it says that he walked with 

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God, this is something that God 
wants us to see. 

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Walking with him as possible. 
Walking with him is a beautiful 

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thing. 
And I believe that this story is

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to whet our appetite for what's 
possible. 

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He rewards those who diligently 
seek him. 

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He rewards those who seek him 
out. 

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This is this is all I have to 
say today. 

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Seek him out. 
This is our a manned mission in 

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life. 
I'm not Pastor, I'm not a dad. 

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My primary identity is a Son of 
God and I want to be with my 

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heavenly father. 
That's where my identity rest. 

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The God wants to spend time with
me. 

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God is Not trying. 
To humiliate me or shame me. 

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He's saying, I want to spend 
time with you, I want to show 

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you who I am. 
I want you to know who I am, and

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honestly, by preparing this and 
spend some time walking, I'm 

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like God, I don't know what 
happens in the professional life

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of being a pastor or a 
Christian, but there's too many 

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moments where I find myself 
being like stereo and form. 

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Maleic with you. 
Why can't it stuck to you? 

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Like in his tell you like what's
really going on? 

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Like I'm a little frustrated, a 
little tired, I'm a little bored

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on this vacation. 
I was expecting it to be a 

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little bit more unsuspecting 
this. 

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I was expecting this style, 
Jutsu change my heart a little 

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bit more. 
Why isn't it God? 

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Oh, man, I was expecting this 
for my kids, this semester and I

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think I was like, that's it. 
Talk to me, walk with me like 

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like from the realness and 
honesty of your heart and invite

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me in. 
See you knock. 

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What he did was he decided to 
have this daily postures is God.

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I'm here for you. 
And kept doing it and he kept 

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doing it. 
This is that by faith is 

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impossible to please. 
God, faith isn't a one-time 

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thing. 
It's a lifestyle, which is God. 

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I trusted you with that in the 
past. 

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I'm going to trust you now to 
trust you tomorrow. 

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I'm going to trust you next week
when the keep coming to you. 

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And with this Henry now, and 
says this and the spiritual 

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life, the word discipline means 
the effort to create some space 

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in which God can act discipline 
means to prevent everything in 

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your life. 
From being filled up, discipline

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means that somewhere you're not 
occupied and certainly not 

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preoccupied to create that space
in which something can happen 

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that you didn't that you hadn't 
planned or counted on. 

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And church. 
I just I want us to be a place 

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and the people were we create 
space for God to show up in our 

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lives. 
Not from a place of striving or 

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achieving or working for God's 
love, but knowing that you loved

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by God and moving out into the 
world from that posture. 

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Amen.