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The first one says, testing the structures at

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the top, and it has today's date on it. Okay,

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so we start from the top down. All right, so

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what we're going to do is we're going to learn

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how to know when something is being built in

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our life, either are we doing it and God's not

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doing it, or something else, someone else or

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something else is doing it and God's not doing

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it. How to know when that is true, and then...

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how to know what to do about it. So I say if

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something's happening in your life and you're

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like, hey, this seems to be like I'm going in

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a certain direction here. Is that a direction

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God wants me to go in or is it not? And then

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if it isn't, what do I do about it? So that's

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what we're trying to do. So first thing is you're

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going to have to discern or think about what

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is being built in your life. So not every new

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thing in our lives is automatically from God.

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I used to have a friend of mine, a mentor of

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mine used to say, well, if God didn't want me

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to do it, he wouldn't open the door. not true

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right so god literally put the forbidden fruit

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in the center of the garden of eden but told

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adam and eve not to eat it so there was nothing

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blocking them from going to get it and but they

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weren't supposed to go and get it right so there

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are things that are in our lives that just because

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something's happening it's moving in a certain

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direction it does not mean that's of god sometimes

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you have to fight you have to resist you have

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to decide is this of god or not okay so examples

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are plans relationships you have to watch that

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watch the blank because i don't know i don't

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have the blank one now because i gave them all

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to Kishan. So watch for the blanks as you hit

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the blanks. If you miss a blank, we'll go back

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and get it. Not every new thing in our lives

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is automatically from God. Plans, relationships,

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opportunities, suffering, success, conflict,

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even quote, good ideas, which I think is a blank.

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Yes. There's a bucket of pens in the back. Oh,

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here's a pencil. I have a pen. I gave him mine

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for now. Alright, so the middle, that blank in

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the middle is a G. That way also I can ask you

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the blanks as we go so it'll be more fun like

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a puzzle. Okay? Alright. So scripture teaches

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us to test what is being built, who is building

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it, and whether the final result creates unity

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under Christ or a house divided. Okay, so we're

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going to read Luke 11, 17. Is everyone going

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to read scripture? If you want to read, you've

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got to have a Bible and start flipping through

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the pages because we've got quite a few verses

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here. Volunteers, going once. Okay, I've got

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Luke 17, 1. I'll read this one. You can look

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ahead to the next one. Somebody can get Isaiah

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43, 19. I have a little summary of them here

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in front of you, but they may not be exactly

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what the verse says. So Luke 17 .1 says, And

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he said to the disciples, It's impossible that

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no offenses should come, but woe to them. I just

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read the wrong verse. It's 11, 17, not 17, 1.

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Okay, 11, 17. Here we go. Try again. Okay, or

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in divided against itself, a house falls. So

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here's the point. Jesus is establishing a warning

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principle here. This is a watch out for this.

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If you're divided, you're in trouble. So it says

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division eventually what? What's the D? What

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do you think? Division eventually destroys what

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appears stable. So in other words, you can go

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down a road that you're not actually supposed

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to be going down for a while. And if you don't

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understand that what you're building is unstable

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or creating a division in your life, then eventually

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you're going to crash. You're going to be like,

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oh, I'm making these decisions. It seems like

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it's working. I'm getting ahead. It seems like

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it's working. Or, man, life is rough, but it's

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rough for everybody, so how is this any different

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than it is for anybody else? You're plugging

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away at it, but you're building two things. The

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God thing, I'm faithful, I love the Lord, etc.,

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and the world thing, whatever that other thing

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is, and eventually there's going to come a conflict

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between the two. So division eventually destroys

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what appears stable. We're going to read Isaiah

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43, 19. Got it? Chris, go ahead. Okay, so not

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every new development is dangerous. So you've

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got something brand new coming to your life,

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and you go, okay, I don't know, this is scary.

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And we do that a lot. Like with change, people

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are afraid of change. In fact, there was this

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whole era, about 10 years, where a whole bunch

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of books were written. People made a lot of money

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on books about change, like who moved my church,

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who moved my house, who moved my job. It was

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all about this little mouse in a maze and how

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they were freaked out by change. So people are

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very nervous about change, but not every development.

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is dangerous. God genuinely does initiate new

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seasons in our life. So there's a new time to

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not do what we were doing before, new times now.

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New burdens, right? So sometimes life should

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be hard. Sometimes it is going to be tough. New

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assignments. I was doing this. I knew what I

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was supposed to do with my life. Now I realize

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God's doing something new. That does happen.

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New growth. I've been getting by for a long time

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doing it my way. And it's worked. My way works.

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And then now something comes up where your way

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doesn't work anymore. So now you have to learn

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a new way, right? So those are all things. And

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then that verse ends with the idea of God saying,

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will you not recognize that I'm doing a new thing?

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Won't you see that it's me doing? this thing

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and join me in it. So this is the choice that

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we have to make between is it God or is it not

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God? Okay, 1 Corinthians 3, 9 to 13. That's kind

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of a long one. There's 1 Corinthians 3. I can't

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get it. Which one? Okay, not, yeah, yep, dangerous.

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Not every new development is dangerous, okay?

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All right, 1 Corinthians 3, 9 to 13. For some

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of us, this will seem a little familiar. For

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we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field.

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You are God's building. Sorry. Now, if anyone

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builds on this foundation with gold, silver,

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precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, each one's

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work will become clear. For the day will declare

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it, because it will be revealed by fire. and

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the fire will test each one's work of what sort

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it is. So we have the foundation, which is Jesus

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Christ. If you got saved, you have it. If you're

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a follower of Jesus, you have that. Now, what

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you build on that, that matters, right? And someday

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that's going to be tested. That's what Paul is

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saying. Someday it's going to be tested. So Paul

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is teaching that every life is under construction.

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Does that sound familiar, Josh? Yep. Every life

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is under construction and that the materials

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and the motives and the foundations will eventually

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be tested by fire. So the C is construction.

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Every life is under construction. So what you're

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making it with, why you're doing it the way you're

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doing it, and the foundation. Foundations, right?

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So you could be seven steps in. You could be

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putting the roof on. If the foundation is bad,

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somewhere along the line, you went wrong. And

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you look at that at the end product, and you're

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like, I did something wrong here. I'm not where

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I thought I was going to be. This is not what

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God was trying to do, okay? So we're going to

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read next 1 John 4 .1. Go ahead. Okay. So John

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is saying like super clearly, okay, not everything

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that you get going on in you, not every spirit,

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not every idea, not every anything, right, is

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of God. But we are to test these influences rather

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than to just receive them. Like people, like

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whatever comes along to me, you know, my friends

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all say I should do this. So then they do it.

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Or I saw it on TV. I could check that out. But

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you have to first test, he says, every spirit,

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whether they are of God or not. Okay. All right.

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That brings us to stunt number one. I'll tell

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you what it has to do with. And then you can

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decide, oh my gosh, that's tough. Okay, you can

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decide whether or not you want to try it or not.

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It uses a ball and a chopstick. So if you want

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to try it, you can get up. I have about, I think

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it's seven or eight chopsticks. One, two, three,

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four. Yes, a ball and a chopstick. Okay, so what

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you have to do is you have to bounce the ball

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Four times in a row off the top stick. If you

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drop it, you have to start over again. So you

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have to take your ball. I don't know if I can

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do it. And it has to drop it onto the top stick.

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You have to do it one time and go up in the air.

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You have to hit it again, again, and again. Four

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times. If you hit it four times in a row, you

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can't touch it in between. You have to hit it.

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That was three. All right. Anyway, so when I

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say you only get 60 seconds, so don't start yet.

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Don't name your balls for the team. Okay. Back

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on task. So every season builds. The Bible says

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that life has seasons. To every season there

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is a purpose. And so every season builds. Every

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season builds something. Some seasons will build

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faith. Bad things are happening. I trust God.

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God brings me out of it. That brings faith, right?

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Some seasons build wisdom. I didn't know what

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to do. I prayed. God gave me wisdom. Or I tried

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a few things, and the third thing seemed really

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godly, and it worked. So that's wisdom. Patience.

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Some seasons, you've just got to wait. You're

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waiting on God to act. You're waiting on things

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to work out right. So it could be patience. Some

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is humility. You are not as big or as powerful

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or as important in your story as you thought

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you were. And you start to learn, it really is

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a story about God and the kingdom and God's people.

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So you get humble. Some seasons build dependence

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on God. So I really have to trust God to do what

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it was that God wanted to do. Some seasons build

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pride. See, I did that. That was me. I did that.

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Get a trophy and feel good about yourself. Some

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seasons build double -mindedness. God wants me

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to do this, and I'm doing that. So I guess I'm

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left over time. I'm going to do this too. God

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doesn't want me to do that, but it's not sin.

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He's not telling me to do it. He's not telling

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me not to do it. I'm going to do that. So now

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I'm double -minded because I've got what God

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wants me to do, but I've also got what I'm doing

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over here that isn't what God wants me to do.

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So some seasons build double -mindedness. Some

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seasons build secret. Anybody want to take a

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stab at it? That's not bad. I had put compromise.

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In other words, externally, I stay faithful to

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God, but internally, I'm making little adjustments.

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So now instead of going to worship because I

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want to learn and grow and worship the Lord and

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all that kind of thing, we're in the back of

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the first page. Then now I'm like just going

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just because I go. It's because it seems like

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the right thing to do or whatever. Or compromise,

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secret compromise. Compromise is C -O -M -P -R

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-O -M -I -S -E. Okay. Some seasons build bitterness.

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Start thinking, man, it's not going the way I

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want, and it's not ever going to go the way I

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want, and I'm upset about it. And you start saying

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kind of negative things and being a negative

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person. Some seasons build false identity. You

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think you're something or someone that you're

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not. Some seasons build divided loyalties. So

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loyal to my friends, loyal to my family, loyal

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to God, loyal to my sin, loyal to this guy that

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moved into the neighborhood next to me that says

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things I like to hear and does things I like

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to see. Or loyal to my paycheck, loyal to God.

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but also loyal to my paycheck, right? So some

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seasons build divided loyalties. The danger is

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not just destruction. In fact, if you're saved,

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you're not actually in danger of destruction

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yourself because you're going to heaven when

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you die if you're saved. You're not in danger

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of destruction, right? But your life could still

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crash down around you, but that isn't even the

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danger. So that could happen, and if you build

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a divided life, it will happen. The danger is

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actually becoming structurally divided while

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still appearing spiritually. intact. I want you

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to think about this. If you think you're living

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for the Lord and you're actually living for the

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Lord, that's a great place to be, isn't it? If

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you think you're living for the Lord, but you're

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not actually living for the Lord, you're just

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kind of living sort of like the way the Lord

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would want you to live, that's not a very good

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place to be. And if you think you're living for

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the Lord, but you're not actually living for

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the Lord, but you still think you're living for

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the Lord, that's a bad place to be. You're never

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going to solve it. You're never going to figure

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it out. You're always going to think, well, I'm

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still okay. It's one thing to be not living for

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the Lord and get it. Like, I get it. I'm struggling.

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I'm trying to find a way to get this right. That's

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one thing. I knew a lady that she got saved,

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and after she got saved, I knew her for almost

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20 years. And she fought lying for 20 years.

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But she was transparent about it. She was struggling

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with it. She would say things that were not true.

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She'd come back and repent of it. She would accept

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it. She would admit it, right? And you can't

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fault her for that. Could she, should she maybe

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have stopped? That's another problem, right?

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Probably she could have at different points stopped.

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But at least she was in the fight. At least she

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was recognizing, yeah, I shouldn't have said

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that. It was a lie or whatever. Then I know a

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lady who was basically like a pathological liar.

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She lied up until she was saved. She got saved.

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She lied for another 15 years after she was saved.

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And she never owned one of them. She never admitted

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that she was lying. She didn't say that she was

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struggling with it. Nothing. Which one of them

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was better off? The one who was constantly having

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to say, I'm sorry I screwed up because she was

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admitting that she had a problem? Or the one

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who was always going, oh, yeah, I'm good. I don't

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ever tell a lie. Well, it was the one who was

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always admitting that she had a problem. potentially

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she beat the problem, right? She actually would

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overcome. You have to own that you have a problem

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and then overcome it. But if you keep pretending

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that your house is solid, when it's not, you're

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in real trouble. So here's where we're at then.

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Those were all kind of like the whereases, how

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important it is that we do what we're doing.

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Now we're going to ask ourselves, how do I identify

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new things in my life that are building structures?

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So if something has come into my life and things

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are building, if you have built a structure in

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your life, that means it's not going to go away.

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And if it's a bad structure, that means it's

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going to stay and it's going to continue to be

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a problem. Whereas if you build a structure in

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your life and it's good, then it's going to stay

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and continue to be a good thing. So let's say,

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for example, God convicts you. You start a habit

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of going to bed at a decent time every night.

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And you start doing that. And after a couple

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of years, you've built that as a habit. So now

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you're going to bed at a decent time every night.

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Well, that's a structure. And it's a structure

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that will serve you well because you're doing

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it because God told you to do it and made it

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possible for you to do that. Let's say, on the

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other hand, you build a structure to stay up

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until 1, 2 o 'clock in the morning watching TV

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every morning, even when you've got to get up

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at 7 or 8 a .m. And so you've built a structure

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to stay up late. Now it's time to get up at 7

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a .m. And now you're only getting five and a

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half hours sleep. you stayed up late that's a

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bad structure okay so structures in our lives

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are things that are built and then they push

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us in a certain direction right so anything repeatedly

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shaping your thoughts desires Priorities, let

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me break those down. So your thoughts are just

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what's in your head, right? Whatever you happen

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to be thinking. Your desires are what you want.

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Your priorities are what you think is important,

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one thing over another. Your habits, like what

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you'll repeat. Like I'll do this again and again

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and again. You kind of get used to it. Your fears,

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what you're afraid of. Your identity, right?

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In other words, who you think you are. All of

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those things are there. If they're repeatedly

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shaping those things, then they're building something

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in you. And if you start thinking like, if you

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start thinking I'm too dumb. do math let's say

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and people tell you and your grades aren't great

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or some pretty senior thing you will literally

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it's possible for you to live your whole life

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believing you're too dumb to do math and it happens

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to people and it isn't true right no one's too

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dumb to do math unless they're literally like

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maybe autistic or you know really struggle with

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that kind of thing but people can do it and even

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a person like that might they could do math and

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just take them more work they're gonna have to

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really work at it to get where they gotta get

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right so we don't want the we're talking about

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identifying them right now okay so We're going

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to read Isaiah 43, 19. Anybody got it? I'll race

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you. I'll bet I'll be there. 43. Ta -da. Oh,

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it's over there. Nobody beat me. Okay. Isaiah

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43, 19 says, Behold, I will do a new thing. Now

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it shall spring forth. Shall you not know it?

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I will even make a road in the wilderness and

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rivers in the desert. Okay, so here we go. These

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are the signs in your life that something is

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structurally formative, right? In other words,

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it's making a structure in your life, forming

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a structure that's going to stick. It's going

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to stay if it changes your priorities. In other

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words, if I start thinking, man, I want to make

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sure I do this. So I'm going to have to let that

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go because this is important to me, right? Positive

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way, like I'm going to have to let things go

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between 1130 and 130 on Sunday because I know

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where I'm going to. be right so that changes

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your priorities i'm not going to be mowing lawn

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i'm not going to be working i'm not going to

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be cooking i'm not going to be cleaning i'm not

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going to be shopping my priority at that time

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is being that would be a good example of a priority

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right but a bad example of priority might be

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you know i'm going to make sure i always get

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to eat dessert with every meal Or I've got to

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make sure that people think good of me. I always

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want everybody to think good of me, even when

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I'm making a mistake, right? Those are bad priorities

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because then they would change the outcome. What

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suddenly receives your energy? All of a sudden,

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you're putting a lot of energy into it, right?

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What occupies your imagination? When you're sitting

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alone just daydreaming, what are you thinking

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about? Young people a lot of times think about,

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like, what are they going to be when they grow

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up, right? Well, that's a structure. When I was

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a kid, I was going to be Zorro or the Lone Ranger.

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That's what I was going to be when I was, from

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the time I was in probably kindergarten to the

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time I was like in fifth grade, I was going to

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be Zorro or the Lone Ranger. You can't be Zorro

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or the Lone Ranger. Those are individuals, right?

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So I couldn't be that. So then when I got to

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be, by third grade, I started to be the Lone

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Ranger, but it'd be good enough if I could just

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be a cowboy, right? And I would daydream about

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being a cowboy, but that's not beneficial. It's

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also not really hurtful, but it's not beneficial.

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So what occupies your imagination? Are you dreaming

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about being wealthy? If you're dreaming about

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being wealthy, then you've got a structure building

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in your life. So the next thing is it changes

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your emotional reactions. When you experience

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that, do you have more peace, more anger, more

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fear, more envy because of those things? So if

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something that's in your life gives you more

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peace, more anger, more fear, or more envy, envy

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is when you want what somebody else has or want

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to be like they are or have as much money as

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they do or be wealthy like they are, that kind

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of thing. That's envy. So if it gives you more

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peace, anger, fear, or envy, then it's building

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a structure. It changes your spiritual. consistency.

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Does overnight, does it begin to affect how much

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you pray? So if something happens in your life,

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let's say you get a job, and all of a sudden

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you're on the job and you're working a lot more,

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so you're praying a lot less. I know somebody

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that's actually happened to, a good friend of

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mine, in fact. He got a job working 40, 50 hours

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a week, and he was praying 5, 10 times a day,

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actively getting away with the Lord, praying.

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He was only listening to Christian radio. He

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was reading the Bible all the time like that.

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He got this job, started 50 hours a week, and

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now he's praying once or twice a day. He's hardly

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reading his Bible. And he says it's the worst

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decision he ever made. It made him financially

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successful, but it was impacting his prayer life

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in a negative way. And, of course, if it's impacting

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in a positive way, then it's formulative in a

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good way. Church involvement. Does it impact

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your church involvement? Are you more involved

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with the church or are you less involved with

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the church? If it's either one of those, then

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it's creating a structure. Scripture hunger.

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Does it cause you to not want to read the Bible?

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So you pick up and start reading a fiction series,

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and it's good. It's a good book, and there's

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no sin in it. There's nothing really wrong in

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it, right? But now there's six books in this

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chain, and for the four months you're reading

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those six books, you're not reading your Bible

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at all. That's bad. Right. So it's formulative

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in a bad way. Integrity. So integrity is when

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we're whole. Right. So it has the same root word

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as integer. And an integer is a whole number.

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It doesn't have decimals. It doesn't have fractions.

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And so if I'm a whole person and that whole thing

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is settled around something. So I have a center

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and all my stuff is in line with my center. But

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if I start, say I start dating a girl, I'm a

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teenager, 20 something, I start dating again.

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I'm dating. I took a little break after a breakup

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because it wasn't good. Now I'm dating again.

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And this person starts to throw me off center.

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So I'm learning about jazz. I really like jazz.

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And because I really like jazz, I'm spending

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time with her doing jazz. Now I'm not reading

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my Bible so much. I'm not praying so much. I'm

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not worried about going to church so much. That's

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throwing me off center. That's not good. Whereas

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the other way, if it's building integrity in

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me, like I'm living for Jesus, say I'm dating

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a Christian girl, and she starts encouraging

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me to do it right, do it right, be serious. Take

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yourself seriously. Be serious. and I start doing

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that, then that's a positive, right? Right now

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we're just looking at identifying when they exist.

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It creates repeated patterns. If it's something

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you would do and you would do it again. So for

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example, I have to take the garbage out of my

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house. I take the garbage out about five times

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a week and on Sunday nights I take it out for

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Monday in the morning. So that's what I'm doing

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every night, every Sunday night late. I'm taking

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the garbage can to the curb so it can be picked

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up. That's a pattern, right? Which means it's

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a structure in my life. Which means at some point

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in time I could have to make a decision between

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taking the garbage garbage to the curb and doing

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something else that I'm supposed to be doing,

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right? So be aware of structures that are forming

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in your life. So I'm the one that washes the

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dishes. I always have to wash the dishes. That's

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a structure in your life. Anything that creates

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repeated patterns. One moment rarely builds a

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structure. If you do something, that doesn't

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just do it. That's why habits are so hard to

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create. You have to do something 40 times for

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it to really become a solid habit. They say 40

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days in a row. So one moment rarely builds a

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structure, but repetition builds structure. If

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you do something over and over, if you tie your

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shoes this Same way, every time you tie your

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shoes, then eventually that's the way you're

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going to tie your shoes. And to tie your shoes

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some other way would be challenging to you, right?

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I tie my tie the same way every time. And every

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time somebody asks me to tie a tie for them,

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I'm always trying to tie it the way I tie my

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tie, right? Because it's a structure in my life.

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And it's kind of a good structure, but it could

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be bad if I'm not careful, okay? So what new

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things then have entered your life recently?

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Think about it for a second. We're not going

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to talk about it out loud. But have you personally

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experienced... New opportunity, relationship,

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new pressure, new hurt. Somebody did something

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that made you feel bad, whatever. Those are all

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things that then could become formative. How

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about ambition? Do you have something that you're,

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I want to do this. I'm excited about this. I'm

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looking forward to this, right? Or disappointment.

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I didn't go the way I wanted to. Something happened

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like that to you recently? What are those things

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building? So when you have a thing that can build,

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you then have to decide, is it building something

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good? Is it building something bad, right? So

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now this is where we're getting into. the actual

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sermons, and in a second we're going to ask the

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question, how do I determine who is building

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the new structures? But before we do that, stunt

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number two. So we're on stunt number two. What

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you have to do is you have to toss the ball in

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the air in front of you, and then you have to

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spin completely around and catch it in front

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of you. So you're going to throw it up in the

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air. Okay? And go ahead. Did you do it already?

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All right, let's see. I still believe you did

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it, but I just want to see it. You're supposed

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to catch it in front of you. So on that top part

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where other seasons build, there were several

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blanks. The first one was secret compromise.

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Both of the next two blanks are danger. The danger

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is not merely destruction. The danger is becoming

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structurally divided while still appearing spiritually

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intact. Danger, danger. Danger, danger! Okay.

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And then shaping your thoughts. And then that

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was it on that page. Okay. We finished stunt

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number two. How do you determine who is building

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the new structures? Not every builder has the

00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:25.559
same agenda. Just because something is being

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crafted in your life, it can be a good thing.

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Like your mom or dad are pretty likely to try

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to build good things. in your life. God, obviously,

00:23:34.180 --> 00:23:35.660
has been trying to build good things. Demons,

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evil spirits, not good things. Friends, sometimes

00:23:38.019 --> 00:23:41.680
good things, sometimes not. We read 1 John 4

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.1. That's where it says test the spirits. Sean,

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can you give Mr. Tim a set of papers? That's

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where it says test the spirits. So we already

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know that we are commanded to test influences

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in our life. So here are the possible builders.

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And I submit to you that these are pretty much...

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Pretty much it, right? And I'll show you why

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in a second, right? So the first thing is God.

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So God builds, and when he builds, he builds.

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holiness, faith, endurance, obedience, unity,

00:24:09.049 --> 00:24:12.750
truth, right? All of those things and a variety

00:24:12.750 --> 00:24:15.750
of other scriptural things. That's the results

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of God building. So even hardship that comes

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from God ultimately produces stability. It's

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not going to be like this up and down all over

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the place, right? So for example, I used to do

00:24:26.289 --> 00:24:27.670
youth ministry back in the day, and one of the,

00:24:27.690 --> 00:24:29.730
we talked about as leaders, a phenomenon that

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we would have would be people would go to a concert,

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a youth concert, and they would have this moment

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where like, yes! awesome. And we're all up and

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I'm screaming and stop our lungs. And then the

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invitation comes and whole bunches and thousands

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of teenagers are getting saved. And then they

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all get counseled. They go back to their seats

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and then they go home and they live like nothing

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ever happened because it went like this. And

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up here, oh, maybe Jesus, maybe Jesus. Yes, Jesus.

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Yes, yes. Oh, back home. nothing different, right?

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And that's not how God builds. The things that

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God builds build holiness, faith, endurance,

00:25:01.109 --> 00:25:04.250
obedience, unity, truth, not excitement, joy,

00:25:04.690 --> 00:25:08.380
yay, you know, hurt. beats really fast, down

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sorrow, depression, overcoming, struggling, back

00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:13.759
to normal, right? So God builds things that are

00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:16.220
biblical, and that's so right away you can see

00:25:16.220 --> 00:25:18.279
already that we can kind of tell that if it's

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not one of those things, it's not God, right?

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The flesh. The flesh is like your body, and it

00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:26.019
can be partly your mind, right? So it's the thing

00:25:26.019 --> 00:25:28.799
that's not your soul, necessarily, but it's the

00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:31.339
thing that you ride around in, okay? And that

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tends to build self -centeredness, comfort, worship.

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So by comfort worship, I mean it's worship where

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we're worshiping God, but we're keeping a distance

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from God. So worshiping at a distance, right?

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So I don't sing the lyrics that make me feel

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funny in my gut. I don't sing the songs that

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I have to divorce myself of my own opinions or

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I have to like say, oh, I feel bad about I lied

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or I stole or I cheated or I transgressed and

00:25:55.640 --> 00:25:57.640
I did whatever I shouldn't have done or I feel

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bad about that. So I'm not going to sing God

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made me new or I'm not going to – when everybody

00:26:03.900 --> 00:26:05.779
– Standing to give God glory, I'm not going to

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stand because that's too much. I'm not going

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to raise my hand in worship. That's too much.

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That's all comfort worship. You're avoiding any

00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:17.059
discomfort to yourself. I'll tell you a story

00:26:17.059 --> 00:26:19.900
about that in a second. Impulsiveness. To be

00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:22.140
impulsive is you make a quick decision. And the

00:26:22.140 --> 00:26:23.779
flesh does that. It's like, you've got to grab

00:26:23.779 --> 00:26:26.180
this now. You only have one chance. You might

00:26:26.180 --> 00:26:28.660
not make it. You might not get there if you don't

00:26:28.660 --> 00:26:31.500
do it right now. And flashy, quick actions that

00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:34.799
don't get the results. of what it does when God

00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:38.819
builds. Divided desires. I want this, but I also

00:26:38.819 --> 00:26:41.160
want this too. Sometimes I want them both at

00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:43.299
the same time, right? That's divided desires.

00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:46.579
And the flesh often disguises itself as, quote,

00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:51.019
what I deserve, entitlement, rights, how I feel,

00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:53.119
right? Those are all from the flesh. All of those

00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:55.079
things are fleshly. I feel like he did that.

00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:57.200
I feel like she did that. I feel bad about this.

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I feel bad about that. I feel I want to be this.

00:27:00.579 --> 00:27:03.359
I want to be that. I want that. Those are all

00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:07.859
fleshly things. I went to a pastor's conference

00:27:07.859 --> 00:27:10.359
in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm checking myself. I'm

00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:12.519
sorry. It was Fort Lauderdale, Florida. While

00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:15.299
I was there, there was a preacher who was up

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and speaking. He had about 20 minutes left on

00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.079
the clock. I was praying. I'm talking to God.

00:27:21.140 --> 00:27:22.839
God and I are having a conversation. The next

00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:24.700
thing I know, it was over. We started worshiping.

00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:26.680
I stood up and started worshiping. I said to

00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:28.400
God, I said, you know what? I really want to

00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:30.259
honor you. I put my arms up. As soon as I put

00:27:30.259 --> 00:27:31.799
my arms up, I felt like God was saying to me,

00:27:31.849 --> 00:27:34.049
Do not put your arms down until you're done worshiping.

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I'm an ordinary guy, right? I've got muscle,

00:27:37.369 --> 00:27:39.650
but it's not like Mike. Right, Mike? Paying attention?

00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:42.680
Pay more attention to this than her. Okay. All

00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:44.940
right. So I've got muscles, but I'm not super

00:27:44.940 --> 00:27:46.640
strong. But also my arms aren't super heavy,

00:27:46.740 --> 00:27:48.279
right? So everybody, put your arms up like that.

00:27:48.339 --> 00:27:49.960
After about a minute, you start to feel it, right?

00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:51.279
And I'm thinking, that's okay. It's only going

00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:53.000
to be a song or two. So I put my arms up, and

00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:54.480
I'm praising God. I'm singing out to the top

00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:56.099
of my lungs. I'm praising God. And I stayed in

00:27:56.099 --> 00:27:58.339
a song. And the song ended, and my eyes were

00:27:58.339 --> 00:27:59.099
closed. I'm like, is there going to be another

00:27:59.099 --> 00:28:00.799
song? Yeah, there's another song. Another three

00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:02.619
minutes. I'm like, oh, man. It's been like six

00:28:02.619 --> 00:28:04.279
minutes. My arms have been up in the air. They

00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:07.220
worshiped for almost 20 minutes. And my hands

00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:09.869
were quivering. And my heart stopped. so bad

00:28:09.869 --> 00:28:11.950
in my shoulders and my arms. I'm like, I'm not

00:28:11.950 --> 00:28:14.109
doing it. I'm not putting my arms down. I'm not

00:28:14.109 --> 00:28:16.150
putting my arms down. And then the song ended

00:28:16.150 --> 00:28:18.529
and I'm like, oh, I'm not putting my arms down.

00:28:18.589 --> 00:28:22.059
It was so hard. It hurt so bad. And the next

00:28:22.059 --> 00:28:24.299
day I was sore. And like all the way into the

00:28:24.299 --> 00:28:26.019
next night, I took ibuprofen. It hurt so bad.

00:28:26.339 --> 00:28:29.660
Worship is not about you. And it is not about

00:28:29.660 --> 00:28:33.019
your comfort. It is about God. And when God says,

00:28:33.220 --> 00:28:35.500
we do, that's it. You lead. God says, lead, you

00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:37.319
lead, you know. And you might be able to, maybe

00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:38.720
you can lead three inches. And God's going to

00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:40.619
make you lead three miles, you know, because

00:28:40.619 --> 00:28:42.619
he knows if you just be faithful. And you see

00:28:42.619 --> 00:28:45.380
that all over scripture. God says, we do. And

00:28:45.380 --> 00:28:48.079
so if you're like, well, certain music or certain,

00:28:48.140 --> 00:28:50.220
that is easier for me to worship when there's

00:28:50.220 --> 00:28:52.589
no distraction. Most of that is a load of crap.

00:28:52.769 --> 00:28:55.430
That's comfort worship. You just got to go, no,

00:28:55.529 --> 00:28:58.609
my focus is on God. It's all about God. And then

00:28:58.609 --> 00:29:00.890
let God have it. And the flesh builds the alternative.

00:29:01.369 --> 00:29:04.130
I had a friend of mine who said, well, most of

00:29:04.130 --> 00:29:05.490
the people in my church are over 60 and they

00:29:05.490 --> 00:29:07.470
can't stand contemporary music. They will not

00:29:07.470 --> 00:29:10.210
let the guitar play in church. It grates on their

00:29:10.210 --> 00:29:11.789
nerves. They hate it and whatever. He said, I

00:29:11.789 --> 00:29:13.410
can't get a young person to come into my church.

00:29:13.589 --> 00:29:15.730
And he had a whole congregation of 60 people,

00:29:15.829 --> 00:29:18.549
over 60, that were all comfort worship. They

00:29:18.549 --> 00:29:21.410
all wanted what was for them. for what was forgot.

00:29:21.849 --> 00:29:25.470
The world. The world builds comparison, image

00:29:25.470 --> 00:29:27.670
management, which means, again, you're worried

00:29:27.670 --> 00:29:30.789
about how you're seen, divided identity, you

00:29:30.789 --> 00:29:33.470
have confusion in who you are. The world would

00:29:33.470 --> 00:29:36.690
love to get you back on your heels so you don't

00:29:36.690 --> 00:29:39.009
know who you are. That way when they screw you

00:29:39.009 --> 00:29:41.289
over, you won't say anything, you won't do anything

00:29:41.289 --> 00:29:42.930
because you're still struggling with who you

00:29:42.930 --> 00:29:45.690
are. Men in the room especially understand you

00:29:45.690 --> 00:29:47.710
have a responsibility to stand up. When something

00:29:47.710 --> 00:29:49.289
happens in your presence, you have to know who

00:29:49.289 --> 00:29:50.960
you are. you are and when it's an injustice,

00:29:51.259 --> 00:29:53.779
you stand up. You step up, say something, do

00:29:53.779 --> 00:29:55.640
what you got to do. I'm not saying be a jerk.

00:29:55.779 --> 00:29:57.200
I'm not saying use foul language. I'm not saying

00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.559
throw a punch, right? You say, I'm standing here.

00:29:59.740 --> 00:30:01.519
You can't do that right in front of me. I'm not

00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:03.140
going to allow it. What do you mean? What are

00:30:03.140 --> 00:30:04.319
you going to do? You want to fight? You want

00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:05.880
to fight? No, I'm not here to fight you. I'm

00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:06.839
just telling you, you can't do that here now.

00:30:06.940 --> 00:30:08.299
I'm not going to allow you to do that. What are

00:30:08.299 --> 00:30:09.819
you going to do? You're going to hurt me? I don't

00:30:09.819 --> 00:30:11.299
have to hurt you. I'm telling you, you cannot

00:30:11.299 --> 00:30:13.220
do that. And then when they started to do it,

00:30:13.259 --> 00:30:15.099
if you have to, you stop them if it's an injustice,

00:30:15.339 --> 00:30:17.579
right? Or you call the police or whatever has

00:30:17.579 --> 00:30:19.940
to be done. All right. Back on task. So the world

00:30:19.940 --> 00:30:22.220
is very concerned about how they appear. They

00:30:22.220 --> 00:30:24.160
have a divided identity, and they want you to

00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:25.839
have a divided identity. They want you to not

00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:27.619
know for sure who you are, and they want you

00:30:27.619 --> 00:30:30.240
to compromise. And compromise, not without getting

00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:32.339
off on that rabbit trail, will kill you over

00:30:32.339 --> 00:30:34.500
time, slowly, a little bit, a little bit, a little

00:30:34.500 --> 00:30:37.000
bit, and you will die from compromise. All right.

00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:39.519
Then the enemy. The enemy is a sort of generic

00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:42.019
thing, but in this case, it's talking about the

00:30:42.019 --> 00:30:45.339
enemy. So Satan, the devil, right? The enemy

00:30:45.339 --> 00:30:48.759
builds hidden fracture lines. wants nothing more

00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:51.359
than for you to have a crack in your life. If

00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:53.759
he can just get you to have a crack, then a year

00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:55.539
from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now,

00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:58.319
he can use that crack to destroy somebody. You

00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:00.440
might even survive it, but in the process, you

00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:02.759
destroy the person that you're dealing with because

00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:05.079
you had a little crack that you let go for 20

00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:06.599
years, and it was still just a little crack.

00:31:06.700 --> 00:31:09.059
But then when that person comes to that... that

00:31:09.059 --> 00:31:11.059
point directly and they hit that little crack

00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:13.839
in your character, they trigger it, then you

00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:15.480
could destroy that person. You might even kill

00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:17.660
somebody. I've never. I'll tell you right now,

00:31:17.700 --> 00:31:20.420
for example, if a female in my family was raped,

00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:22.359
I would have a hard time not killing the person

00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:24.740
that did that. If a child was abused, one of

00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:26.680
my children, grandchildren, anybody in our church,

00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:28.900
I would have a hard time not being physically

00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:31.299
violent with the person who did that. Now, I

00:31:31.299 --> 00:31:33.460
believe that God would help me not be physically

00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:35.960
violent, but there's a chance I might do it before

00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:38.680
I even think about it. And they're going, yeah,

00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:41.660
I feel that. And so what I'm saying is the enemy

00:31:41.660 --> 00:31:43.839
wants to build hidden fractures on you. That's

00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:45.619
what he's out to do. He wants a little break

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:47.059
that you're going to leave alone. You're not

00:31:47.059 --> 00:31:48.619
going to worry about it so that later he can

00:31:48.619 --> 00:31:50.759
use it. Isolation. He wants to get you alone

00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:53.039
so you don't have somebody to lift you up, somebody

00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:54.940
to pull you into the fold, somebody to get you

00:31:54.940 --> 00:31:56.539
to do what's right. He wants you to be on your

00:31:56.539 --> 00:31:58.019
own and think that you don't have anybody that

00:31:58.019 --> 00:32:00.799
you can talk to. A famous quote I read, I don't

00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:02.960
know who said it. It was a pastor, I'm pretty

00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:05.420
sure. But anyway, he said, when you see somebody

00:32:05.420 --> 00:32:08.119
who's operating alone, you realize. that somebody's

00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:10.259
setting them up for failure, and it's probably

00:32:10.259 --> 00:32:12.000
them. And I thought about that with myself. I

00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.299
do a lot alone, too much. I take on too much

00:32:15.299 --> 00:32:17.000
on myself, and I don't let anybody help me with

00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.779
it. And so I always try. Truthfully, even now,

00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:21.839
I'm failing pretty bad. And so we do not want

00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:23.619
to isolate. You don't want to lock yourself away.

00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:25.420
You don't want to walk away from being with people.

00:32:25.539 --> 00:32:27.700
When you least want to be with people, that's

00:32:27.700 --> 00:32:29.900
when you most need to be with people. Isolation,

00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:32.000
that's what the enemy wants. Confusion, he wants

00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:33.839
your mind to be like, oh, I can't figure it out.

00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:36.339
Why is it not working? Why does A not equal B,

00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:38.539
you know? Why are apples brighter than oranges?

00:32:38.779 --> 00:32:40.819
I mean, why does gravity work the way, and I'm

00:32:40.819 --> 00:32:42.559
talking about funny things, but the reality is

00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:45.039
like, why does she say that? Why does he do that?

00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:47.200
Why is our relationship like that? Why do they

00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:49.339
drive that way? Why do they, anything that can

00:32:49.339 --> 00:32:52.240
get your mind focused on something other than

00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:54.660
what it should be focused on. Accusation, so

00:32:54.660 --> 00:32:56.619
he wants to tell you you're bad so that you'll

00:32:56.619 --> 00:32:58.380
start to believe that you're bad. Feel bad about

00:32:58.380 --> 00:33:01.279
you. You're not bad, right? So you were fallen,

00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:05.819
a sinner, bound for hell, met Jesus, made perfect,

00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:07.779
essentially, right? Not perfect in that you do

00:33:07.779 --> 00:33:10.539
everything exactly right, but given the righteousness

00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:12.740
of Jesus. So you're not bad. And so if someone

00:33:12.740 --> 00:33:14.880
accuses you and says that you're bad, it's one

00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:16.640
thing to say, if they say that you lied and you

00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:19.099
did, you're like, oh, I did. I'm sorry. I repent.

00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:21.160
I will try not to do that again, right? On the

00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:23.019
other hand, if they say that you are a liar,

00:33:23.099 --> 00:33:24.779
you say, well, that's not true. But I know you

00:33:24.779 --> 00:33:27.420
lied. Did I? Tell me when I lied. If it's true,

00:33:27.460 --> 00:33:29.319
I'll... confess it and I'll repent and I'll never

00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:31.740
do it again if I possibly can, right? You can't

00:33:31.740 --> 00:33:33.460
be a liar after you're saved because you have

00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:36.059
Jesus's righteousness. You can't be a thief anymore.

00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:38.660
And if you can adapt the idea, if in confusion

00:33:38.660 --> 00:33:41.720
or accusation or any of these things, hidden

00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:43.720
fracture lines, whatever, if in those things

00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:47.019
you can be a liar now after being saved, the

00:33:47.019 --> 00:33:48.400
truth is you're probably not saved. That doesn't

00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:51.059
mean you can never lie, but if you did lie, you'd

00:33:51.059 --> 00:33:52.859
want to put it to bed. You want to be done with

00:33:52.859 --> 00:33:56.400
it. Kick it out. Fix it. Apologize. Own it. Overcome

00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:59.380
it. That's accusation. He accuses. That's what

00:33:59.380 --> 00:34:01.119
he does. It's also why we don't accuse because

00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:03.640
that's what he does. Spiritual exhaustion. I'm

00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:05.700
just whipped. The Bible says do not become weary

00:34:05.700 --> 00:34:08.380
in doing good. I'm just tired. This is a hard

00:34:08.380 --> 00:34:11.219
road. I've gone a long way. I've been serving

00:34:11.219 --> 00:34:13.159
God for a long time. As a pastor, I've been serving

00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:15.539
God in this church since we constituted 10 years.

00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:20.380
As a mission pastor, 22 years. I see in a lot

00:34:20.380 --> 00:34:22.019
of the people's lives who are coming up right

00:34:22.019 --> 00:34:24.599
now, coming in, some of the same things I've

00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:26.420
seen over and over and over again. If you want

00:34:26.420 --> 00:34:28.079
to go like, well, what happened when somebody

00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:30.380
else did what I'm doing 10 years ago? I can tell

00:34:30.380 --> 00:34:31.840
you. I can go around the room right now. You

00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:33.219
ask me, tell me what's going on in your life,

00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:34.980
and I'll tell you how somebody else did it, and

00:34:34.980 --> 00:34:36.559
I'll tell you whether it worked for them or not.

00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:38.980
But the problem is life is not that simple. There's

00:34:38.980 --> 00:34:41.239
no easy pattern. You don't get to go, well, 10

00:34:41.239 --> 00:34:43.079
years ago, somebody had the same exact problem,

00:34:43.139 --> 00:34:44.679
and they did this, and it worked for them. Now,

00:34:44.699 --> 00:34:46.199
if you do it, it may or may not work for you.

00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:47.900
It might not be the right solution. Everybody

00:34:47.900 --> 00:34:49.539
has to find their way through. Everybody has

00:34:49.539 --> 00:34:51.460
to work. You've got to do the job, and they get

00:34:51.460 --> 00:34:53.480
tired doing the job. Then you rest and do the

00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:56.340
job some more satan rarely starts by destroying

00:34:56.340 --> 00:34:59.099
the whole house Do you understand the devil is

00:34:59.099 --> 00:35:01.559
he comes to kill steal and destroy, right? That's

00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:03.480
what jesus said he comes to kill steal and destroy.

00:35:03.579 --> 00:35:05.360
Do you understand that if you're safe? He does

00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:07.019
not want to kill you. I don't know if the devil

00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:09.280
kills you what happens next? Go straight to heaven.

00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:10.900
Does the devil want you to go to heaven? No.

00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:13.920
He wants you to stay here until he tries to build

00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:17.079
into you a fracture line or something so he can't

00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:19.519
get you unsaved. He can't steal your salvation.

00:35:19.739 --> 00:35:21.500
That's not possible, right? It's in the palm

00:35:21.500 --> 00:35:23.079
of the hands. It's settled. Can't take it away.

00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:25.619
But he could get a fracture line in you so that

00:35:25.619 --> 00:35:28.079
you can screw up somebody else so that they won't

00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.460
get saved. See, he can use you as his agent even

00:35:30.460 --> 00:35:32.980
though you're working for God. And that's what

00:35:32.980 --> 00:35:35.059
he wants to try to do. So he's not trying to

00:35:35.059 --> 00:35:38.079
send anybody. No. If you become so powerful in

00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:39.079
the Lord and you're a servant of the Lord and

00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:40.840
you're winning people to Christ, there is a moment

00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:42.800
in time at which he might go, I think I just

00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:44.559
better kill this person, right? Because if I

00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:47.579
kill them, then they will not win all these other

00:35:47.579 --> 00:35:49.860
people to Christ, right? But guess what? God's

00:35:49.860 --> 00:35:51.820
also in the equation. So then if he tries to

00:35:51.820 --> 00:35:53.219
do that, God says, no, this person's winning

00:35:53.219 --> 00:35:54.639
all these people. I'm not going to let that happen,

00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:57.179
possibly, okay? So he starts by weakening supporting

00:35:57.179 --> 00:35:59.760
walls. We're on the back page. So the diagnostic

00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.840
questions, the questions are this. Yes. The what

00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:08.579
word? Enemy. Confusion? No. Under the world?

00:36:08.940 --> 00:36:12.019
It's under the world. Compromise. Diagnostic

00:36:12.019 --> 00:36:13.699
questions. Yep, this is bringing us right to

00:36:13.699 --> 00:36:16.519
the end pretty much. Okay, diagnostic questions.

00:36:16.659 --> 00:36:21.360
Ask, does this move me toward obedience or rationalization?

00:36:21.619 --> 00:36:24.239
Rationalization means reasons or excuses. In

00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:25.940
other words, the thing that's being built in

00:36:25.940 --> 00:36:27.900
my life, does it move me toward obedience to

00:36:27.900 --> 00:36:30.960
God or am I making excuses? And if you're making

00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:33.519
excuses, then it's got to go, right? So if you

00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:36.099
say, I'm making excuses, that's got to go. Obedience

00:36:36.099 --> 00:36:38.559
is the road that I want. Does this strengthen

00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:42.480
truth or blur it? So this lesson strengthens

00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:44.280
truth because we understand now. We say, oh,

00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:47.400
see, there is effort that is happening to build

00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:48.760
things in our lives that we don't necessarily

00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:51.599
want. So we want to choose the things that strengthen

00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:53.920
truth. Does this thing, this new thing in our

00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:56.820
lives, increase unity in Christ or does it divide

00:36:56.820 --> 00:36:59.059
loyalties? So is this going to cause problems

00:36:59.059 --> 00:37:00.840
between me and other believers, cause problems

00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:03.420
between me and myself, between me and God? Or

00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:05.159
is this going to build up our relationships?

00:37:05.500 --> 00:37:08.179
And does this deepen humility or inflate self?

00:37:08.420 --> 00:37:10.380
So is this thing that I'm doing, does this help

00:37:10.380 --> 00:37:12.239
me remember I'm just me, I'm just an ordinary

00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.719
guy, Jesus, all that? Or does it build me up

00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:19.280
so that I feel good about myself and not worry

00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:21.860
about Jesus? So how do we determine then whether

00:37:21.860 --> 00:37:25.159
the result will be a house divided? And the answer,

00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:28.820
so we read Luke 11. And that's where Jesus says

00:37:28.820 --> 00:37:31.559
the house divided against itself will fall. So

00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:35.530
A. Public devotion, but private compromise. So

00:37:35.530 --> 00:37:37.550
if you publicly are letting people think you're

00:37:37.550 --> 00:37:39.030
living for God, you're telling everybody I'm

00:37:39.030 --> 00:37:41.110
living for God, you talk about God, you walk

00:37:41.110 --> 00:37:42.889
with God publicly when everybody was looking,

00:37:43.050 --> 00:37:44.969
but then privately you're not really living for

00:37:44.969 --> 00:37:47.849
God, that's a house divided. That's obvious,

00:37:48.050 --> 00:37:50.510
right? It's two houses, okay? The structure looks

00:37:50.510 --> 00:37:52.969
strong outwardly, but contains internal fracture.

00:37:53.289 --> 00:37:56.170
Next one, two competing identities, Christian

00:37:56.170 --> 00:37:58.630
and worldly ambition. I really want to do well

00:37:58.630 --> 00:38:00.650
in the church. I want to teach. I want to love.

00:38:00.769 --> 00:38:02.699
I want to serve. to give. I really want to do

00:38:02.699 --> 00:38:04.500
that. But then over here, I really got to do

00:38:04.500 --> 00:38:06.599
well on my job. I really got to work hard. I

00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:08.139
got to make money. I got to pay bills. I got

00:38:08.139 --> 00:38:10.880
to do all these things, right? And that's competing

00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:14.880
worldly identities. Worship and bitterness, faith

00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:17.440
and secret rebellion. Those are examples of competing

00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:20.400
identities. Constant internal instability. If

00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:21.820
you're always wondering, if you can't figure

00:38:21.820 --> 00:38:24.519
it out, should I? I know the Bible says I should

00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:26.139
just read my Bible, but I think I just want to

00:38:26.139 --> 00:38:28.119
watch TV. I think I'll just watch TV today and

00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:30.099
read my Bible tomorrow. Then tomorrow comes like,

00:38:30.139 --> 00:38:31.960
I don't know, should I read my Bible? I should

00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:34.300
pray about this before I do anything. Oh, no,

00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:35.860
I think I know what to do. I'll just do that.

00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:38.420
If you're constantly back and forth between which

00:38:38.420 --> 00:38:40.840
one you're going to go, that's double -mindedness.

00:38:41.300 --> 00:38:44.139
Divided structure cannot... consistently stand

00:38:44.139 --> 00:38:47.400
under pressure. So even if you have two structures

00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:50.280
in your life, then even if you get it right some

00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.059
of the time, it's not going to be consistent.

00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:53.460
There are going to be times where you're like,

00:38:53.539 --> 00:38:55.760
I just don't know what to do, and you're stymied,

00:38:55.860 --> 00:38:57.840
you're stuck in a place, what stymied means,

00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:01.699
or you're baffled as to what to do next, instead

00:39:01.699 --> 00:39:03.199
of just being able to go, this is what God wants

00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:05.659
me to do, I'm just going to do it. So then it

00:39:05.659 --> 00:39:08.559
goes to the inability to fully obey God. So if

00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:10.380
you find you know what it is that God wants you

00:39:10.380 --> 00:39:12.650
to do, and you just can't seem to do it, than

00:39:12.650 --> 00:39:15.750
structures that you have two houses. Your houses

00:39:15.750 --> 00:39:18.469
are divided, right? When every act of obedience

00:39:18.469 --> 00:39:21.190
feels like tearing down another kingdom, division

00:39:21.190 --> 00:39:23.510
already exists. If you're already at the place

00:39:23.510 --> 00:39:25.909
where like, God wants me to do this, but I don't

00:39:25.909 --> 00:39:28.329
want to do that. But I'm going to do it. You

00:39:28.329 --> 00:39:30.170
have to push really hard to bring yourself to

00:39:30.170 --> 00:39:32.349
do what God wants you to do. Then you have somehow

00:39:32.349 --> 00:39:35.610
divided inside yourself. We already read the

00:39:35.610 --> 00:39:37.429
scripture from 1 Corinthians 3. That's the one

00:39:37.429 --> 00:39:39.769
where it says building on the foundation. It

00:39:39.769 --> 00:39:43.510
teaches that fire reveals construction quality.

00:39:43.989 --> 00:39:46.050
Does anybody know what in the Bible fire represents?

00:39:46.349 --> 00:39:50.340
Fire represents... judgment right so when you

00:39:50.340 --> 00:39:52.900
take a metal and you burn it what happens to

00:39:52.900 --> 00:39:55.159
it nothing but if you get really really hot fire

00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:57.340
it melts and as soon as the fire is gone what

00:39:57.340 --> 00:39:59.579
happens goes back to being metal cools down at

00:39:59.579 --> 00:40:02.119
room temperature it's solid again right so that

00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:05.679
fire judges right now let's say inside that metal

00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:09.880
is some dirt Maybe some fluff, like from a stuffed

00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:11.780
animal or something. And you burn it so that

00:40:11.780 --> 00:40:13.960
the metal gets so hot it melts. What happens

00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:15.679
to the stuff that's inside the metal? Say it

00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:18.820
again. Explodes, burns away. It ceases to exist,

00:40:18.980 --> 00:40:20.860
basically. And then when the metal solidifies

00:40:20.860 --> 00:40:23.639
again, now it's more pure, right? So the idea

00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:26.119
of fire in Scripture is judgment. So God's saying

00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:29.340
that judgment will reveal the construction quality

00:40:29.340 --> 00:40:31.679
of what's been built in your life, all right?

00:40:31.780 --> 00:40:34.300
So here's how you figure this out. You ask yourself,

00:40:34.539 --> 00:40:37.139
would this thing that I am doing serve? Survive

00:40:37.139 --> 00:40:39.559
spiritual pressure. So let's say you have a habit.

00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:41.380
Let's say you like to play video games. Anybody

00:40:41.380 --> 00:40:43.019
like to play video games? Who's my video gamers?

00:40:43.139 --> 00:40:45.480
All right, got a bunch of us. So would playing

00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:48.980
video games three hours a day survive spiritual

00:40:48.980 --> 00:40:51.820
pressure? In other words, you're under pressure

00:40:51.820 --> 00:40:54.019
in your spirit and you're struggling to know

00:40:54.019 --> 00:40:55.579
what to do or you're in a really difficult time.

00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:57.840
Somebody just died and you're whatever. Would

00:40:57.840 --> 00:40:59.579
playing video games three hours a day survive

00:40:59.579 --> 00:41:02.099
that situation? The answer is no because when

00:41:02.099 --> 00:41:04.199
you're setting up funeral arrangements and you're

00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:05.719
taking care of your loved ones and you're hugging

00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:08.900
your... crying girlfriend, your wife, your mother,

00:41:09.059 --> 00:41:11.880
your son, whatever, those things are more important.

00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:13.880
So then video games would just go away. So that

00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:16.280
means that you can't let video games build a

00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:19.079
structure in your life that is going to accomplish

00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:23.519
certain things because it won't survive spiritual

00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:26.599
pressure. If you run to video games, the next

00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:28.400
time you need to know what you're supposed to

00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:31.239
do with your life, you're in trouble. So the

00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:33.900
question was, would whatever, and I just use

00:41:33.900 --> 00:41:35.469
video games as an illustration. You may even

00:41:35.469 --> 00:41:37.780
disagree with me on that. But I play video games,

00:41:37.780 --> 00:41:39.300
and the way I play them, I'm talking to God all

00:41:39.300 --> 00:41:40.699
the time, and it's completely different than

00:41:40.699 --> 00:41:42.260
the way most people do. You figure that out for

00:41:42.260 --> 00:41:44.320
yourself. Would this survive spiritual pressure?

00:41:44.619 --> 00:41:47.619
Would this survive suffering? If I were suffering,

00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:50.139
could I still do this? If I got hit by a car,

00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:52.599
and I was in a wheelchair, and I'm trying so

00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:54.800
hard to learn to walk again, would I still be

00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:56.800
playing video games for three hours a day? I'm

00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:57.820
just going to stick with the same illustration,

00:41:57.980 --> 00:42:01.219
but I'm not picking on video gamers. I could,

00:42:01.340 --> 00:42:02.900
I don't, but I could play video games just the

00:42:02.900 --> 00:42:04.860
same as anybody else. I'm not good at it, so

00:42:04.860 --> 00:42:07.469
maybe I don't do it. Would this survive suffering?

00:42:07.590 --> 00:42:09.230
If I was really suffering and I was in pain,

00:42:09.309 --> 00:42:11.030
would I keep doing this thing? What would you

00:42:11.030 --> 00:42:12.550
do? What are the things that you would do if

00:42:12.550 --> 00:42:13.789
you were really suffering and in pain? Those

00:42:13.789 --> 00:42:15.809
are the things that you want to keep to, right?

00:42:15.869 --> 00:42:17.710
Or at least put the most emphasis on. Would this

00:42:17.710 --> 00:42:20.449
survive exposure? So in other words, let's say

00:42:20.449 --> 00:42:22.389
you're doing something like you're watching something

00:42:22.389 --> 00:42:23.989
you shouldn't be watching. You're doom scrolling

00:42:23.989 --> 00:42:26.650
on your phone. Or you're playing a video game

00:42:26.650 --> 00:42:29.269
that's kind of raunchy. It's not like pornography,

00:42:29.530 --> 00:42:31.710
but it's got a lot of violence in it. Maybe some

00:42:31.710 --> 00:42:34.030
violent crimes toward other people. And there's

00:42:34.030 --> 00:42:36.260
a lot of foul language. You're like, if God was

00:42:36.260 --> 00:42:37.679
in the room with me while I was playing this

00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:39.119
video game, would I still be playing this video

00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:41.760
game? And you say, well, no. If it was exposed

00:42:41.760 --> 00:42:44.099
to the truth, if everybody knew this about me,

00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:46.760
I would stop. See, if you don't think that way,

00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:49.380
then that creates a... fracture in your life.

00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:52.599
And people know how. Worldly people, the devil,

00:42:52.739 --> 00:42:55.519
enemies, they know how to use those things. If

00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:57.139
you're intimidated by, let's say you don't like

00:42:57.139 --> 00:42:59.880
loud voices and you're intimidated by loud voices,

00:42:59.920 --> 00:43:02.139
then the devil knows that. And the next time

00:43:02.139 --> 00:43:04.139
God wants you to do something and make a difference

00:43:04.139 --> 00:43:06.059
for him, the devil could use your intimidated

00:43:06.059 --> 00:43:08.960
by loud voices trait against you to stop you

00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:11.099
from doing what God wants you to do. You understand?

00:43:11.340 --> 00:43:14.280
So we can't allow things that will not survive

00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:17.500
exposure to build in us. Would this survive a

00:43:18.109 --> 00:43:20.639
So, in other words, Jesus comes again, the horn

00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:23.119
blows, the next day will you still be doing it?

00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:25.420
Because if you, now I'm not saying that we have

00:43:25.420 --> 00:43:27.039
to cut it out, right? Because dressing is an

00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:28.860
example. We wouldn't be dressing the next day,

00:43:28.900 --> 00:43:32.059
for example. Or we wouldn't be washing dishes

00:43:32.059 --> 00:43:34.619
maybe or working on our cars, right? Because

00:43:34.619 --> 00:43:36.000
there probably won't be any cars in heaven. So

00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:37.139
there are things like that. So I'm not saying

00:43:37.139 --> 00:43:40.440
you can't do it, but it can't become a structure.

00:43:40.659 --> 00:43:43.760
It can't become so important to you that it changes

00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:46.019
your identity, changes who you are, that kind

00:43:46.019 --> 00:43:47.780
of thing. So if you wouldn't do it in heaven,

00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:49.780
then it can't. become a thing that changes your

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priorities, affects your mind, you get disappointed

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if it doesn't happen, all those things that we

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talked about before. So what action steps should

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I take? We're going to skip the Bible verse,

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guess the book game, because we're out of time.

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So we'll start with the Bible guess the book

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game in two weeks when we get together. We're

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going to finish this last little bit. So if I

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discover structures that are contrary to God's

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will, what should I do? This is huge. You with

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me, Mike? This is it. Look at your life and you

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see things are building in your life that are

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contrary to God's will, these are the steps that

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you take to deal with them. Number one, deny

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it the materials that it needs. So sinful structures

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survive because we continually feed them, okay?

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So we lie, and then we don't want anybody to

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know that we lied, so we lie some more to cover

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it up, we lie some more, we're deceptive, we

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don't talk to some of the people that can figure

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it out, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, right?

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So don't provide it the materials that it needs,

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okay? Some examples of those things that could

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be used against you, and they're probably a a

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bunch of them. One of them is unchecked entertainment.

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So sometimes we feel like we want to be alone

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or somebody hurt our feelings or whatever. And

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so we just go watch a bunch of TV or read a bunch

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of books or play a bunch of video games or those

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kinds of things. Well, that's fuel to build stuff

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in your life. So you have to be careful. If you

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run to video games or run to a book, even run

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to the Bible. Be careful, right? Even run to

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the Bible. Every time something happens that

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you don't feel comfortable about, and you say,

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well, I'll just read my Bible. I'll be good.

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I'll just read my Bible. That'll be fine. And

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you feel comfort in reading your Bible, be careful.

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While the Bible is good and it builds in our

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lives, the Bible is about God. It's God that

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we need to be running to, not just the Bible.

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That's why we have to be not just hearers, but

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also doers of the word, right? So we have to

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be walking with Jesus, not just reading about

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Jesus like he's this fantastic guy that everybody

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should worship, all right? So unchecked entertainment,

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bitterness, pride, and that list could go on.

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You're going to ask in your own life, what are

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the things that if I keep supplying them to the

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enemy, he's going to use them against me. Secrecy,

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toxic relationships, ungodly ambition. So instead,

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this is what you do. Confess honestly. You can't

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repair what you refuse to acknowledge is a problem.

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Tear down agreement with false builders. Sometimes

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repentance is not just being sad that you did

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something wrong, right? Actually go, look, I

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really don't want to do that anymore. So you

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did something. Somebody comes to you and says,

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hey, you did that. I don't agree with that. You're

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like, you know what? You're right. I just don't

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want to do that anymore. So basically you're

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revoking permission for that enemy to build something

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in your life. Rebuild on the right foundation.

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Let's go back to where we were. Remember that

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text? Build on the right foundation. For other

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foundation can no man lay than that which is

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laid, which is Jesus Christ. In other words,

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build on Jesus. Hard to build this on Jesus?

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Don't build it. Invite accountability. Talk to

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somebody about what you're doing. Say, look,

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sometimes I do this and I don't want to do that.

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I remember Josh and I, for a while, Josh and

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I and a couple other people, we had an 11 p .m.

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accountability. It didn't last too long, but

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we didn't really need to because most of us adhered

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to it. We all said we're going to go to bed by

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11 p .m. We all said if we're not in bed by 11,

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we're going to correct that. So we start checking

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in with each other and making sure that we're

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going to bed by 11 o 'clock. Part B, if I determine

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God is doing a new thing. So this is the flip

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side. Yay! God's doing something good. I figured

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this out. Number one. Cooperate instead of resisting,

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even if it doesn't seem like something you want

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to do. Sometimes it's uncomfortable. God's taking

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you outside your box. When I started preaching,

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when I started teaching, they were discomforting,

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right? But I cooperated because I was scared

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not to, frankly. Submit to the construction process.

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God frequently tears down before he rebuilds,

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okay? Or go into the cafeteria for snacks with

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them in a minute. Hang tough, hang tough. Stay

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unified around Christ. New callings should deepen

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your devotion, not divide your devotion. Expect

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testing. Anything God builds will eventually

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endure testing. So if something's going to happen

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and you're going to trust in it, you're going

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to do what God wants you to do because you see

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God's building a new thing, and then sometimes

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it's going to get hard, but it's going to stand.

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It's going to be all right, okay? We'll skip

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the verse for a second. You can read it later.

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Faith proven through fire becomes stronger. Every

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season is construction. The question is not,

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is something being built? So in other words,

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listen to me. If you think, is the debate, is

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anything being built in my life right now? The

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answer is a resounding yes. Every season builds

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something. If you think, I don't see anything

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being built in my life right now, you're wrong.

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You really need to look at what is being built

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in your life. The truth is, if you can't see

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anything being built, then probably what's being

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built is not good. You should try to find it

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and figure it out. The questions are, who is

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building? What materials are being used? What

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kingdom is the structure serving? Will this thing

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stand united under Christ? Because eventually,

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every structure reveals its foundation. 20 years

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with that problem in you, eventually it's going

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to blow up in your face or it's going to hurt

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somebody, and then it's going to be revealed

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as a bad foundation. You've got to start over

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after 20 years. A house divided doesn't usually,

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I put never, but doesn't usually collapse suddenly

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at first. It collapses internally long before

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it falls publicly. In other words, someday it'll

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all come out. Maybe just when we get in front

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of Jesus, someday it'll all come out.