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We are living up in a down world.

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It's going to be a year before we know it.

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per se. Right. So tell a little bit from your perspective. Well I keep asking for

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two more weeks and I'm not getting that. I thought you said a month. You were asking for a month.

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winding down. It feels really good. I can tell. I can tell you're. I'm exhausted

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right now. I'm tired. Why are you so tired? I don't know. I feel I think the workout and we've

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energy might. It wanes. It's good one day, bad another day and I don't know. I'm

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usually on Sunday I'm very busy. I've got a full day. It's our second Sunday to go. I know it's

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really. It's gonna be hard not to be in that habit. Come Sunday morning like let's get our workout stuff on. Sorry we gotta go workout first.

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things we need to do and one is simple it's body, mind and spirit and in the

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order of spirit, body and mind. Right. So kind of looking at this in sections and

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not there's no real form or structure that's more organic in nature and

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natural but that's kind of how it's playing out. My first my first two or

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but reading a lot, studying a lot. You really are a different person. I see. Thank you.

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in a short amount of time. I can't wait to see in eight weeks what you become

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really literally because it's been it's been mind-boggling to see. It's been

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powerful and this is our coach Pastor Eddie Freeman from Gateway Church. He's

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mentoring us through this or our God has kicked off. We haven't heard

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from him since and that's the point we're not supposed to but he really set

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with everybody that would drag us back into work mode and so we're doing it and

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we're following the playbook. Well you are. I got pulled in. Well we had a

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little faux pas. Yeah. Our payroll didn't go through. Yeah that's a little scary.

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through every week and this one particular week didn't go through so I

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had to intervene. You had to slip back into work mode for a few hours. Which stunk. It was stinky. So I deserved two more weeks.

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It really took me back. It took you out. I know. It kind of reset you a little bit. I know. And I had to call our administrator at the church.

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new number which we promised we weren't giving out for two for eight weeks. Yeah.

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kind of take it and kind of roll with it you know. Yeah. Yeah. It was tough though.

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I really didn't want that to happen but I even told you. I'm proud of you though. That was the one thing I was

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worried about because we get paid every week and it's not just us. It's our all

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of our staff and we have what 14 people on our staff and to have to you know

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getting paid till tomorrow. Luckily I caught it in time for us to get paid one day late.

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another week. Yeah. I'm sorry that happened to you. That really stinks. It does.

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we're kind of it feels a little bit like Groundhog Day. We get we're doing a lot

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of the same things but I'm enjoying the predictability of that but yet we have

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freedom because we don't have an agenda per se. But we have things we're doing.

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you doing them out of the you version? Yeah. Well I'm doing the same the the the one with

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Bill Johnson and then I'm doing one with Cindy Spivey. I really like her. She's not a

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new version but she has she's on Instagram and she has this little small

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devotion she does and I really have enjoyed her. Yeah so you're feeding that

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way but also you're listening to... I listen to teachings constantly. Yeah you're listening to a

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lot of Gateway because the Gateway is doing this thing called Summer of Giants

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while Pastor Robert Morris is doing this two week away and he had to have some

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surgery back surgery. No he was supposed to be gone eight weeks. Yeah eight weeks. I

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meant two months. My bad. Okay. Thanks. Yeah you're right. So anyway he's he's

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coming back next week so he's had the two months off and so they brought in

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all these different speakers like John Maxwell. Every week. I mean powerhouses.

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R.T. Kendall today. So we both watched that today and we're gonna talk a little

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bit about it because we got so much out of it. I've listened to it twice. And I think you are too. Yes. For those of you that have joined us we want to say

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thank you. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for listening. Let us know you're

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had over 20,000 downloads or 20,000 people who've engaged and which is

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wonderful. It's all over the world though the world map is crazy it's lit up

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everywhere except China and Russia. There's a couple little dots in there.

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and we do this together. I mean Annette and I do it together but we're doing it

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with you too. We all help each other. We'd love to hear from you. Go to our

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website. Check it out. Livingupinadownworld.com and all of our podcasts are on

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there but also there's devotionals on there that I've written since we started

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this thing but nearly six months worth. I'm taking a little break here but you

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can go back through all those and they're just daily short short devotionals to

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people. So thank you for listening. We're stoked to be with you today and so I

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almost and yet we I just feel like there's so much more and we really feel

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get on the the list. Oh yeah. So you have to bring something up because I think this is really

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interesting. So something that Adam and Tina Curry are doing on their show and

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it came came up in a funny way but they're calling it KTLD and it's just

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kind of a thing. They're looking to get some merch done. They're hilarious. I know

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it's funny. So they have Curry and the Keeper. Check them out. It's an amazing

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podcast. They do it weekly. I think they release on Thursdays? Wednesday. Wednesday

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night. They record Wednesday evening and release. So go to Curry and the Keeper.

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You can find them on any of the podcast platforms. We prefer Fountain.

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Casamatic is good too. So anyway KTLD. It stands for keep the lid down. This all

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stems from, do you bump your mic there? Yes. This all stems from from Adam having

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so that he's pretty confrontive about it. Like if you're in his house he

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definitely expects you to keep the lid down. And most people don't do that. Well we found that out

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practiced that for years. That's our whole deal. We're big on that. But Adam is like

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intense on it because he's I think he's germaphobic. So gross. It is gross. You don't want to flush a toilet with the lid down. No you don't. With it up you mean?

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Because it'll it's spews. Have you ever seen one of those videos? Yes I have. Oh my gosh. I'll never flush it's a lid up again.

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I know. It goes everywhere. It does. And that's fecal matter. I mean that's gross. Yeah it is. But people don't think about that even if they're just I mean just pee going everywhere. It stinks.

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show. Now I have to tell on Adam I did this once but I remember when I went over to his house. And he left it up. We did a bro day.

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And I went into the guest and it was up. Now at that time Tina was out of town

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with you and the girls going to Pink Impact. I wonder if he had someone there. Maybe he had a guest. Maybe his lawn guy came in. Or his cool guy.

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I think we should because he is so adamant about that. Adam is adamant for sure.

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That's funny wasn't it? So anyway so they keep bringing it up. If they get merch I mean we have to get some. Oh my gosh I want a t-shirt or a cap but a t-shirt would be cool.

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That way people can just ask you what does that mean? They're gonna think it's some Christian slogan. Oh right. What does that mean? I have something. This is why I'm bringing it up. Otherwise I wouldn't have gone here about a toilet seat.

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So they bring it up on the show. It's hysterical to listen and talk about it because they just go around and around the circle on it. They go around the drain so to speak.

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But they brought it up so I was laughing about it. And then I was thinking about it so usually after I listen to the show I'll text Adam and Tina. Great show. Awesome. Just want to build up. Encourage. They do the same for us.

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Usually. And so I was encouraging him saying love the show. Fantastic. And I wrote KTLD. Keep the lid down. I said living up in a down world and keeping the lid up.

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Down. Down. Oh my gosh. I'm getting so confused. Confusing myself. But then it struck me after that and I wrote this text to him. I'm just going to share the text with you. I wrote keep the lid down. My new metaphor for shutting the lid on sin.

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One thought that I'm off of here because we were texting and we both had things to do. KTLD is my new metaphor for not letting anything that's not of God in my life. Keeping the lid down on sin, temptation and all the crap. There you go. And all the crap things that can distract and derail me from my walk with Jesus.

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And I wrote you may have started a movement. So we do need a t-shirt. Yeah. Keep the lid down on the stuff that comes your way. It's all go in the toilet anyway. How do you like that? Oh, I like that a lot. Man, sabbatical is working. I've never even heard anything like this come out of your mouth.

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Well, I mean, hey, it's not like this is a topic of conversation around our house. Anyway, I thought it was cool. And so anyway, so that's kind of a metaphor for me. I'm just going to say KTLD. Keep the lid down. There you go. Shut the door. Keep out the devil.

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So anyway, also talk about we got a very special gift. Share a little bit. This is really cool. We went to somebody's house. I guess it was Andrea's. It was David and Andrea's house. Yeah, David and Andrea's house.

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A few months ago and we did a blessing over their home where we prayed over their home. And when we got through, we walked outside and they gave us this metal cross that did you you nailed it into their.

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I remember I missed one hit. Oh, yeah, that's right. The door jam. Yeah, that's right. I felt really bad about that. I couldn't remember who did that. So anyway, they gave it's a metal cross comes in a metal container like a yeah, it's beautiful.

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And they you nailed it up there, which just signifies that this house is set apart for the Lord. And then we prayed over the house on the inside. We went with we were with many couples and it was beautiful.

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And so this week, Tina comes over and says, I have a gift and it was the cross. One of the I guess it was Jeannie and Larry told her to give us a cross so all of us could have a cross on our home. It's so cool.

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And I wanted to share their names because it was such a beautiful. And I saw the card that was just oh, that meant so much because we're kind of cut off from people right now with the sabbatical.

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We're loving it. We're enjoying it. But it is kind of we're missing our community. We are missing our friends and and you know, we can't be friends with everybody.

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We do have a lot of friends in our church that we love to do stuff with. So we're not doing that. And that's all good. But we do miss them. And so it was really sweet.

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So I'm just going to read their names, David and Andrea, Todd and Debbie, Larry and Jeannie. There's all the ones who signed the card, Jerry and Carrie and Lou and Don.

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So if you guys listen to the program, we want to say thank you. We love you. It means a ton. I can't wait to nail it up. It means more than they'll ever know.

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I have a perfect spot for it out on our porch because we know it. I can do it today or whatever. But I want to do it.

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So but it came with it. So it's it's like hand forged. So it's kind of rough but beautiful.

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And from New Mexico, old Mexico, old Mexico. And then it's the nail is a homemade nail or a forged nail, too. So it looks like a little railroad spike.

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So it's all very rustic and legit looking and it'll last forever. So I'm going to I'm going to nail that up on. I'm really excited.

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We could pray together and we are almost blessed. But we'll do it again. Yes. Just as a way to say thank you. No, it was beautiful.

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Beautiful. I appreciate it. I didn't talk about my bro date with Adam, did I? Last week, because that was last Monday.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is last Monday. I'm losing track. This is the thing about a sabbatical. You start to lose every day.

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We're we're confused every single day. What day is it? Because it is Groundhog Day for us right now.

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But we're thankful. So on last Monday, Adam and I went out on a bro date. This is our second one. And we're going to keep doing this as a tradition.

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It's just a time for two dudes to go out, have dinners and some drinks and just hang out and go deeper, you know, talk about stuff of life, marriage, our, you know, our life, our families, our walk with God.

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I call it God stuff and God stuff. And so that's that's been such a blessing. We have such a good time doing that and hanging out.

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You and Tina got together, she cooked and you went over and then then we come back to the house and hang out for a while.

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So it's really beautiful time. And during that time, I was going somewhere with that total story. Oh, oh, oh, I was thinking about anyway, just want to bring that up.

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Well, that's it. I know. I just know. OK, well, let me share something. I miss something. I'm going to share something because I know that you and Adam are talking about the marriage class that they're involved in.

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And Tina talks to me about it. I have to share it has been life changing for them. No kidding.

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Bill Lovelace has put together a booklet on what does it call? Cross centered marriage. That's it. And through at our church, they're doing Zoom calls.

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It's a Zoom call. So because not everybody can get together, can go to the church.

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It helps if you're out of pocket, you can just get on your phone and zoom in. And it's been a weekly series of teachings and it's been life changing for them.

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You don't have to have a bad marriage to go to a marriage. Exactly. It's about making your marriage the best it can be. Beautiful.

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And that's one of the things that has been exciting to hear from Tina. How life changing that's been. And I'm so thankful that Bill brought this.

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Now, Brenna and Paul Phillips, Dr. Phillips, Dr. Brenna are the ones that are leading the class. All the people you just mentioned that gave us a card. They're all participating and more.

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There's, I want to say 16 or so couples. They're doing it on a Sunday night and a Monday night.

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I think it ends either tomorrow night or the next week. But man, it has been remarkable listening to the things that have just little tweaks that have been made in Tina and Adam's life.

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And I haven't had a chance to talk to anybody else because we've been on sabbatical, but I'm grateful that we have a church that cares about marriages. Me too. Me too. Very, very grateful.

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This is powerful. And one of the things Adam said that that's been a big download for him and just a great revelation is that he now looks at Tina with a different lens, a different view.

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He sees her now as a daughter of God. He's like, how could I hurt a daughter of God? She's precious in his sight and she's his beloved. How could I ever hurt her?

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And so that's been a real eye opening for him. And then for Tina, she mentioned she's just, you know, because what they do, they do it.

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But they do. The guys are all on a zoom call. The girls or ladies are all on a zoom call. And then they do a combined thing to wrap up. Yes. And it's been so powerful because he said, man, the guys are starting.

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They're opening up and they're sharing. But this is going to be their last week, isn't it? Tomorrow night, their last week. I think so. And they're bummed about it. They're all like, oh no.

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Maybe that group will you never know something might spin off of that into another group of couples, you know, or someone else will do the same study. You know, I'm sure.

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Yeah, I'm sure that's something that we need to continue. I think it would be good for you to preach on. Yeah. You know, marriage.

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Most people in our church are married. Yeah. Well, I'm just so I'm proud of Adam and Tina going through that.

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And it really just they went in with a good open mindset and they've learned so much. And it's evident we're watching watching the growth and so proud of them.

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And I think what brought that up to my mind was I was looking at my show notes, the list.

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And the next thing on the list was we did an evening out with Adam and Tina on two nights ago. Right. Yes. Friday night. We went with her.

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And Adam and Jen, no, Julie and Ben. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. And they live in Austin. She's a messianic Jew.

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Hearing her on fire for Jesus. Oh, my goodness. Rock star. She is instrumental in Adam and Tina coming to our church. Right. And connection.

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It was really good to get to hear their stories, hers and Ben and where Ben came from. And he wasn't the one who led her back to the Lord or led her to the Lord, to Jesus.

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She knew God. She didn't know Jesus. And he wasn't the one. He started coming back to church because of her coming to church and just seeking.

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I really wanted to hear her story. You know, when we all sat down, of course, it's kind of a it's a loud it's a lab. It's a restaurant over in Dripping Springs.

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And yet I don't normally I can't hear an environment for whatever reason. I was able to stay engaged in here.

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Well, and so we kept asking her questions about her Jewish history and her family has not been happy at all.

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They've been extremely distraught over her. It's a miracle they haven't disowned her. But the only reason why they haven't is they're not secular.

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They're secular. They're not religious Jewish. They're culturally Jewish.

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So but her grandmother or was it a great grandmother? Grandmother was a Holocaust survivor.

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Died just a couple of years ago and was really the matriarch of the family and was really that imprint on their family caused them to hold to the purity of their culture.

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And so anyone who steps outside of that in the family, it's it's a big scandal for them.

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And so her heart, obviously, that they come to know Christ and as she has and she she prays and weeps over that because she loves them.

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But it was such a joy. Ben's also a delightful guy. He is. This is a guy who is an introvert that wasn't even going to church.

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When Julie started going to church, he found at first he didn't and finally started going.

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Now he leads a men's group. He's involved in a prison ministry. He's in community at the church and involved and takes numerous mission trips.

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Yeah, he is really all in. It's beautiful to see. Yeah.

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So to get to know them and just listen to their stories, it was so beautiful listening to stories.

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So that was a night of God's stories and laughter and celebration of what God's doing in our lives. Beautiful, beautiful time with beautiful people.

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Yes. And so, yeah, so that's kind of been just a couple of highlights in our week this week.

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I mean, we've been doing a lot of the same going to the gym a lot.

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We're working on the body side in terms of diet and all that and taking care of ourselves.

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And that's going really well. One of the things I wanted to talk about, and I know this is something that's really near and dear to your heart.

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And so one thing is going to lead into another. But, you know, if you've ever listened to the program, you've heard us talk about leaky buckets.

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You know, you get filled up and then go leak out the life that you have. And that's just a principle.

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But one of the ways that we leak out is through our words. It's through the things we say.

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It's through the things we type behind a keyboard, the things we text.

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It can even be the things we think because words are in our mind as well.

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We think in words and we communicate internally and externally with words.

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And something that I wanted to encourage you about is that our words are powerful.

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What we say to other people matters. What we say to ourselves matters.

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What we say to God matters. And so words are a powerful thing.

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It's that the line of communication. There's a scripture that says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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So whatever you're full of comes out through the mouth. And as a man thinketh, so is he.

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So if you're thinking negative things, you're feeling negative things about yourself, about other people, it comes out.

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Jesus, when he was teaching about the power of faith and words, he cursed a fig tree.

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And then he said to his disciples, he said, you could say to that mountain, you know, be removed and cast and see.

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It'll be done. He said, you'll have whatever you say.

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He was talking about the power of words that are anointed and under the authority of God, under the authority of Christ,

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which the word we use for that is the word anointing. That means an empowerment.

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And so in light of that, as we encourage you about watching your words, guarding your mouth,

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the scripture talked about putting a guard on your mouth.

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What led me into thinking about that, I was thinking about that. And then you listen to R.T. Kendall.

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So Pastor R.T. Kendall, he was the senior pastor at Westminster Chapel in London, England.

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We've been to Westminster. Remember, it was beautiful. And for 25 years.

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Here he is an American and he's the pastor of a classic church, you know, historical church in London, England for 25 years.

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Spirit filled man of God, full of the word, full of the Holy Spirit.

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88 years of age now. 88 years old. You would not know it the way he preached today.

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It was amazing. It was phenomenal.

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So we listened, Annette, you listened at the gym. At the gym.

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And you were crying at the gym. Well, I'm doing the last, my last set of abs.

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I was crying at the gym, but for different reasons.

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Well, I wasn't crying because the abs, the weights, it was hard.

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But literally, I just lost it because as we were listening, as I was listening to that message and at the end,

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when he culminated the whole thing into, because it was about forgiveness, into what we need to do, I just lost it.

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And I told you, I'm done. I'm bawling. I'm done. I'm going to the bathroom.

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And I sat in the bathroom and just cried because it was so moving and it was just so impactful.

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It's a word for anyone at any time, at any age, honestly. It really is.

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So, so he did seven points and he called these proofs.

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These are the proof that you have totally forgiven. The idea was being, it was total forgiveness.

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So a lot of times we'll partially forgive somebody who we're still holding something.

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You know, when you've been hurt, you've been offended.

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Something I said a while back in a sermon and I was quoting Bill Johnson,

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Pastor Bill Johnson, who said, I've given up the right to be offended.

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That's something I've really pulled into my heart to say, me too, me too.

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And in the case that it comes, I might get offended, but I'm giving up the right to be,

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which means now I have to walk in forgiveness and grace and mercy.

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And so it doesn't mean you'll never be offended. You just have given up the right to be.

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So now you've got to deal. And so there's not a human being on the planet that hasn't been offended, hurt, wounded, abused, traumatized.

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I mean, that list could get very long.

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And so that's really been impactful for Adam as well and for others who've said, man, I'm doing the same thing.

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I want to give up the right to be offended.

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So, so our T comes along and gives. OK, so what do you do about it?

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What do you do about when you've been hurt? You've been offended.

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He told a story of being extremely damaged in one and one of his children being very hurt in ministry there in in London and during that 25 year period.

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But he won't give any details. He won't out the person that did it.

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He's he's learned some things and what he and he learned through Joseph's life.

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Yes, the story of a person, a friend in Romania who happened to be in the area.

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And he decided I'm going to share what happened because I know he won't share it with anybody, but I've got to tell someone.

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And what did that person tell him? So that that pastor said to him, he said, you need to totally forgive them.

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And he's not just forgive. He's like, totally. No, I'm mad. I'm mad.

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They shouldn't have done it. He wanted his friend to kind of validate him. You should be mad.

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That was wrong, you know, because we all want that right. Yes. When we get hurt, when we get we gather a group.

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Yes, we always go tell people we can't find a human. We get on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, throw these click bait posts out there.

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I'm so upset and then dot dot dot and then 50 people. Why? I'm so old. And then you share.

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Yeah, everybody wants a pat on the back and validation.

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And so so he didn't get that from his friend. He said, no, you have to totally forgive them.

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And that started a process in R.T. of walking through what he he didn't say, forgive.

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He says total forgiveness.

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So that was powerful. And I know so we and I have this thing.

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We have this thing at the gym because we both have earbuds in.

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So we're like totally zoned out. Right.

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And we're doing different workout because you're over here for a while and we see each other.

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We may connect, you know, say hi, hi, bye.

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But we always kind of give these either text each other or these knowing nods.

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Well, the look on your face was, oh, my gosh, it was. Oh, my gosh.

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Well, then you see me crying. I really think I was crying because I was doing as funky.

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No, I know. I knew I was.

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It dawned on me and I realized as I was watching, oh, whatever she's listening to,

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I knew you were listening to R.T. Kendall.

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I knew that was rock in your world. It was.

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Oh, my goodness. So afterwards, I said, OK, so we're driving home.

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You're like, I got to tell you about this. So as you did.

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And we read the book, actually, has a book called Total Forgiveness.

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Yes. And I read it many years ago.

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But, you know, you have to be constantly reminded because we live in a fallen world.

388
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We're always going to have opportunity for offense, especially as leaders in a church.

389
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Our leaders in anything, in anything. But really, it's hard.

390
00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:40,720
I think it's a lot harder for pastors because we expect godly people to act godly.

391
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And we don't always act godly. I say we because we're in that in that genre.

392
00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:50,720
And so it's not it's not just the other people.

393
00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:53,720
We're all called to act godly.

394
00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:59,720
But we we fall short because we're what we get in our flesh. Right. Right.

395
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:03,720
So, yeah, I needed this message. I needed a reminder. Yeah.

396
00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:07,720
So I saw how it impacted you. We get in the car. You start talking about.

397
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:12,720
You got to tell me. And before you even tell me, I want to listen to it because I love R.T. Kendall.

398
00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:18,720
I actually met him up in Nashville at a meeting at at Don Finto's home.

399
00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:21,720
This gathering of calls of the Kaleidoscope. Oh, yeah, he was there.

400
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:23,720
Yeah, he's so sweet. He wasn't there to lead anything.

401
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:27,720
He was just there to participate like all of us and super nice man.

402
00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:31,720
But so he he he says this, he said, there are proofs.

403
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:34,720
These are the proofs that you have totally forgiven.

404
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:37,720
So I'm going to read them to you, but I want you to bounce on them a little bit.

405
00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:42,720
Just riff on it a little bit. And he asked this question.

406
00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:44,720
Actually, the Holy Spirit asked him.

407
00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:50,720
So while while he's sitting at the podium on the little throne there at Westminster Chapel in London,

408
00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:56,720
and he's leading the service in walks, the lady who caused so much damage.

409
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:00,720
He said irreparable damage to one of his kids. This is a second incident.

410
00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:06,720
This is the first one. And he had a visceral reaction, which is what we usually have.

411
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:10,720
I know you see somebody's car or you walk into a place and see them.

412
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:14,720
And we just automatically. You round a header at the grocery store and there they are.

413
00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:17,720
And you just you just recoil, freeze up almost.

414
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:21,720
So like I said, everybody, everybody deals with this.

415
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:25,720
And so same thing happened to him, but he's in the process of leading a service.

416
00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:31,720
So he couldn't just walk out of the room or go the other way or duck behind, you know, aisle number four.

417
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:34,720
He said he was thinking, why is she here? Why is she here?

418
00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:38,720
Yeah. So he sits down. So he had one little break where we're doing an offering.

419
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:42,720
Yeah. Elders leading the offerings. He had a moment sitting there and the Holy Spirit spoke to him.

420
00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:49,720
The short version is this. He said this. He said, do you want a greater anointing or do you want revival?

421
00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:52,720
Do you want revival? And he said, yes, of course I do.

422
00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:55,720
And he asked him again. He said, yes, of course.

423
00:36:55,720 --> 00:37:02,720
And he said, do you want judgment? Do you want me to judge her or do you want revival?

424
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:08,720
And he had to pause because everything in his flesh wanted judgment.

425
00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:13,720
Wanted her judged. And he looked up and said, I want revival.

426
00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:18,720
He said, if you want a greater anointing. And then he spoke to him about total forgiveness.

427
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:24,720
And he said, OK, so pray for her. He's like, OK, Lord, I lift her up.

428
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:28,720
He just said, no, pray for her. All right, Lord.

429
00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:34,720
He said, pray for what was the word? Bless her. Bless her.

430
00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:37,720
To be blessed. Pray for me to bless her. Yeah.

431
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:42,720
He said, oh, no, if I do that, I know you're going to do that.

432
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:46,720
And I don't want that. We want them dead. You know, we want people that hurt us.

433
00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:49,720
We want them to feel what we feel. Yes. We want them to hurt too.

434
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:52,720
And he said, OK, Lord, I pray that you bless her.

435
00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:59,720
And he said, she's one of the most prosperous women in London today.

436
00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:03,720
And I thought, wow. Another thing he said that's really interesting

437
00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:07,720
and too, I think important to say is he said he doesn't hear from the Holy Spirit like that all the time.

438
00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:14,720
This was a one time deal where it was so clear that he was literally in a conversation,

439
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:18,720
in an inner conversation with the Holy Spirit, knew it was the Holy Spirit.

440
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:22,720
So that that was profound. And he said it changed his life.

441
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:26,720
And so we gave these seven proofs. These are the first number one.

442
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:34,720
OK, when you have been hurt, damaged, number one, don't tell anyone what they've done.

443
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:38,720
That is the proof that you have totally forgiven and that you've given it to God.

444
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:40,720
You've totally you've totally.

445
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:45,720
Because when we give it, we say we give it to God, but then we go share with everybody else so we can get validated.

446
00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:48,720
What? It's the opposite.

447
00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:51,720
It just it God's like, well, you're not really giving it to me.

448
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:53,720
You just you just took it back.

449
00:38:53,720 --> 00:39:00,720
That was interesting because I know how many times we've been hurt and we can't wait to go tell someone.

450
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:03,720
We just want somebody to tell us we're OK. We want to be validated.

451
00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:08,720
Because when you've been hurt, you've been put down, you've been criticized or whatever happens.

452
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:13,720
You you want somebody it's almost like you need somebody to tell you you're OK.

453
00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:15,720
And that is a human response.

454
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:22,720
And unfortunately, though, the way we get that is by slaughtering the person that hurt us verbally.

455
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:25,720
That's what I'm saying. The power of our words against what the Bible says.

456
00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:29,720
But we don't remember that at the time because we're so hurt or so hurt.

457
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:37,720
We want somebody to tell us we're OK instead of going to the Lord and receiving his mercy and his grace.

458
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:41,720
And we're OK with God and him saying, just pray for them.

459
00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:44,720
Jesus says pray for your enemies. Can I read that scripture?

460
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:46,720
I think that'll help us even as we go through these proofs.

461
00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:54,720
Luke 6, verses 27 to 31. Jesus said this, But I say to you who hear, love your enemies.

462
00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:58,720
Do good to those who hate you. I'm feeling pain just reading this.

463
00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:02,720
Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Hate you.

464
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:06,720
Not just dislike you. Hate. Detest.

465
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:12,720
Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who abuse you.

466
00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:17,720
To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also.

467
00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:25,720
And from one who takes away your cloak or your garment or your do not withhold your tunic either.

468
00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:32,720
Give to everyone who begs from you and from one who takes away your goods, do not demand them back.

469
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:37,720
But do you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

470
00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:39,720
Wow. Wow.

471
00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:47,720
I think that's, we probably should read that every morning to start our morning because we're going to get offended.

472
00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:49,720
That's how you give up the right to be offended.

473
00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:50,720
Yeah, exactly.

474
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:54,720
Now, so let's talk a little bit about that. So don't tell anyone what they've done.

475
00:40:54,720 --> 00:41:04,720
In verse two, he said, he said, proof that you've totally forgiven a person is you won't let them feel fear from you.

476
00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:10,720
In other words, you'll get in their space. You won't run away. You won't walk away when they talk to you.

477
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:15,720
You just act like nothing's happened because you've totally given it to the Lord.

478
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:16,720
Yeah. Yeah.

479
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:18,720
Wow. That's a hard one.

480
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:19,720
That is.

481
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:20,720
For a lot of people.

482
00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:24,720
We want people to feel something. We want them to know how hurt we are.

483
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:25,720
We want them to.

484
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:30,720
It doesn't mean we don't have boundaries with people, but if you see them in a grocery store, you don't have to run.

485
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:33,720
You just go about your business.

486
00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:35,720
That's right. Which leads us to number three.

487
00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:43,720
We help them to forgive themselves. Never throw up what they did. Never throw it back in their face.

488
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:47,720
Put them at ease. Man, that's total forgiveness.

489
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:48,720
That is.

490
00:41:48,720 --> 00:42:02,720
When you're so secure in who you are in Christ that you didn't own what they were offended at you or how they offended you or whatever they said or whatever the hurt, but you actually helped them to forgive themselves.

491
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:06,720
Now, obviously, that doesn't always happen in a verbal exchange.

492
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:07,720
Right.

493
00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:12,720
It's really more about the poise and the nature, how you carry yourself.

494
00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:13,720
Exactly.

495
00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:16,720
Not with self-confidence, but with Christ confidence.

496
00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:17,720
I love that.

497
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:18,720
Big difference.

498
00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:19,720
Self-confidence is all about me.

499
00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:20,720
It's pride.

500
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:21,720
Man, I'm a lion.

501
00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:22,720
It's pride.

502
00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:23,720
I'm a king.

503
00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:24,720
But it's pride.

504
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:25,720
It's vanity.

505
00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:26,720
It's vain.

506
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:30,720
But Christ confidence understands that I stand in the righteousness of God.

507
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:32,720
He's made me righteous.

508
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:37,720
And so we help them to forgive themselves, one, by never throwing it back up to them.

509
00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:38,720
How often do you...

510
00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:39,720
How often have you heard this?

511
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:47,720
Now, I've been in these scenarios where someone says, hey, I'm sorry for what happened, but

512
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:49,720
let me tell you why I did it.

513
00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:52,720
Or I forgive you for what you did, even though that hurt me.

514
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:54,720
Even though that's not really forgiving.

515
00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:56,720
Man, that's not forgiveness.

516
00:42:56,720 --> 00:42:58,720
That is not forgiveness in any way.

517
00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:01,720
We need to change our language and we need to own that.

518
00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:03,720
We need to learn how to walk in this.

519
00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:05,720
So put them at ease.

520
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:09,720
The only way you can put someone at ease is you got to be at ease yourself.

521
00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:11,720
You can't fake this.

522
00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:17,720
This is where the Holy Spirit works in our life, living his life in us and through us.

523
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:20,720
Number four, we let them save face.

524
00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:23,720
We don't rub their noses in it.

525
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:29,720
In other words, husband and wife get into a tiff and you say, you shouldn't have done

526
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:33,720
that, or I forgive you, but it's the same thing.

527
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:39,720
We can continually bring up things from the past, which we've all done that.

528
00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:44,720
Sometimes where there's been offense and conflict, one or both parties are actually

529
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:46,720
embarrassed about how they acted.

530
00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:50,720
They're embarrassed about what they said or they're like, man, I want to say I'm sorry,

531
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,720
but man, I can't.

532
00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:57,720
But if you're the bigger person and you're in Christ's confidence, not self-confidence,

533
00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:02,720
then what you're able to do is you're able to let them save face.

534
00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:07,720
Number five, I'll finish this, we protect them from their darkest secret because if

535
00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:11,720
they've done something that's really wrong, trauma.

536
00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:16,720
And we go tell everybody we're not protecting them.

537
00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:18,720
You know, that's pretty dangerous.

538
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:23,720
That means you have given up the right to hold on.

539
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:25,720
You've given up the right to be offended.

540
00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:26,720
You're leaving me.

541
00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:27,720
I'm just going to go.

542
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:28,720
We have a roast in the oven.

543
00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:31,720
We have a roast in the oven and I have to go get it out real quick.

544
00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:33,720
I'll land the plane on these.

545
00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:35,720
Take Chevy with you.

546
00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:37,720
See you, Mr. Chevy.

547
00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:38,720
So we let them save face.

548
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:40,720
We don't rub our noses in it.

549
00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:42,720
Number five, we protect them from their darkest secret.

550
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:44,720
I just said that.

551
00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:49,720
And that is so powerful when you care about another person so much that you say, you know

552
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:51,720
what, I'm just going to keep this.

553
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:53,720
I'll never talk about this again.

554
00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:55,720
I'm going to let it go.

555
00:44:55,720 --> 00:45:00,720
And then number six, forgiveness is a lifetime commitment because you don't twit.

556
00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:04,720
Years later, pick it up and say their name.

557
00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:06,720
I just said number six and she's back.

558
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:08,720
I'm back and Chevy's back.

559
00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:12,720
So number six, it's a lifetime commitment.

560
00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:17,720
He said this is something, you know, 20 years later, you think, oh, statute of limitations

561
00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:18,720
have run out.

562
00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:21,720
So now, now I can talk about it and bring their name up.

563
00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:29,720
No, it's a lifetime commitment to love your enemy, to pray for them, to bless them.

564
00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:31,720
And that was something he brought up over and over.

565
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:33,720
And this is number seven, we bless them.

566
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:40,720
This is acting, this is walking in accordance to the scripture, walking in obedience to

567
00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:46,720
his word, to where we actually, when you see a car that looks like their car and you have

568
00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:47,720
that...

569
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:48,720
Visceral reaction.

570
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:50,720
That angst comes up.

571
00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:51,720
That's when you pray for them.

572
00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:52,720
That's just a reminder.

573
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:53,720
Let that be a God tap.

574
00:45:53,720 --> 00:46:01,720
Well, and how many times have we led a church where something happened in the congregation

575
00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:09,720
with some people, leaders, and they're gone and people are coming to their own conclusions

576
00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:15,720
about what happened because you're not as a leader saying exactly what happened, but

577
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:17,720
you're trying to protect them.

578
00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:21,720
You're trying to bless them out rather than tell the whole church.

579
00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:27,720
How many times have we had someone say, if you would just tell the church, no, if they

580
00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:30,720
come up with their own conclusions, that's their own problem.

581
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:33,720
But I'm not going to out somebody.

582
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:36,720
Jesus is very clear.

583
00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:37,720
Love your enemies.

584
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:39,720
You do good to those that hate you.

585
00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:40,720
You bless those who hurt you.

586
00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:42,720
You pray for those who abuse you.

587
00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:46,720
And in being pastors in ministry, this has happened many times.

588
00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:48,720
Over and over and over.

589
00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:53,720
And we always say, our little saying to each other is there's only one road.

590
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:54,720
It's the high road.

591
00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:55,720
There is no low road.

592
00:46:55,720 --> 00:47:00,720
There is no opportunity to make us look better by throwing somebody under the bus.

593
00:47:00,720 --> 00:47:05,720
And there have been occasions where we could have said to somebody, well, let me tell you

594
00:47:05,720 --> 00:47:06,720
what happened.

595
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:08,720
And they would have been, oh, my gosh, no wonder.

596
00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:09,720
Yeah, they needed to go.

597
00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:11,720
They needed to move on.

598
00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:12,720
But we don't.

599
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:16,720
And it makes us, sometimes we end up looking, having egg on our face.

600
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:20,720
Yeah, we've had people leave the church because of something they assumed happened.

601
00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:21,720
That they assumed.

602
00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:23,720
That didn't happen, but we couldn't tell them.

603
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:25,720
We were trying, we were doing, taking the high road.

604
00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:26,720
That's a hard one.

605
00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:27,720
It is.

606
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:28,720
It really is.

607
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:30,720
We all want people to think well of us.

608
00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:33,720
And there are just times as a follower of Christ, you just have to take the high road

609
00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:36,720
and take it and keep that for the Lord.

610
00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:38,720
Because again, it's a lifetime commitment.

611
00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:41,720
We're protecting people from their darkest secrets.

612
00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:43,720
And we're blessing them.

613
00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:45,720
That's a powerful, powerful thing, isn't it?

614
00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:46,720
It is.

615
00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:47,720
Very powerful.

616
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:50,720
So, what do we say to people listening that are hearing this?

617
00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:58,720
Well, and the reason why I was so moved and was just in tears is because I haven't always

618
00:47:58,720 --> 00:48:00,720
mastered this.

619
00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:09,720
And so I had to think of a few people that are in, that has happened recently, you know,

620
00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:11,720
in the last ten years.

621
00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:12,720
A couple years.

622
00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:17,720
And I have a friend that has hurt me so deeply, and I do.

623
00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:21,720
I have that visceral reaction when I see a car or I see them.

624
00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:24,720
And it's, I want to let it go.

625
00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:31,720
I want to, because one of the things he said, if you want a greater anointing, then this

626
00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:33,720
is what you have to do.

627
00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:34,720
Have to do.

628
00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:38,720
Not, you know, you should.

629
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:40,720
No, you have to do this.

630
00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:46,720
The way he said it to me, because I felt like it was personal to me when he was speaking,

631
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:48,720
I just, I had to let it go.

632
00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:55,720
So I went into the bathroom and he had a prayer he said, had people stand up at Gateway that

633
00:48:55,720 --> 00:49:01,720
are ready to totally forgive, and he had them say a prayer out loud.

634
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:03,720
I went in the bathroom, I said it out loud.

635
00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:06,720
I thought, I don't care if anybody's in here or not.

636
00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:08,720
I was a little under my breath, but still loud enough.

637
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:10,720
I love that about you.

638
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:12,720
Well, because I thought, this is important.

639
00:49:12,720 --> 00:49:14,720
I want God to know I'm serious about this.

640
00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:23,720
And so I am crying, and I am asking God to forgive me for things I've said, but also

641
00:49:23,720 --> 00:49:28,720
help me continually totally forgive these people every day.

642
00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:30,720
Now, I may have to do it every day.

643
00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:34,720
Which means it'll be a reminder to bless them and pray for them.

644
00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:36,720
Yes, and I blessed and prayed.

645
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:37,720
Beautiful.

646
00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:42,720
I'm not going to cry hard because a part of me doesn't want that to happen because I'm

647
00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:46,720
angry for what they did to us, but I can't.

648
00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:48,720
That's not what God would want.

649
00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:51,720
So I literally, it was real.

650
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:55,720
It was not, well, I did it because it was the end of a message.

651
00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:57,720
Because a lot of people do.

652
00:49:57,720 --> 00:49:58,720
They have a moment.

653
00:49:58,720 --> 00:49:59,720
They'll have a moment.

654
00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:00,720
This was not a moment.

655
00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:04,720
This was a, okay, God, I'm standing up.

656
00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:08,720
I'm in the bathroom, where the toilets are.

657
00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:15,720
I'm standing up and I am saying this prayer by faith that you know my heart, that I need

658
00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:18,720
to forgive once and for all and let this go.

659
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:20,720
Now, does it mean the hurt goes away?

660
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:21,720
No.

661
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:22,720
Not right away.

662
00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:24,720
It will take time, but I know it will go away.

663
00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:29,720
There's a freedom that comes because when we release them, it unlocks the door to our

664
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:30,720
own prison.

665
00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:31,720
Yes.

666
00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:35,720
And I want, much like he said, I want revival.

667
00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:42,720
I want our church and the people that are in our sphere of influence to thrive in the

668
00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:43,720
Lord.

669
00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:44,720
I want them to be overcomers.

670
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:47,720
I want them to live up in a down world.

671
00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:48,720
Absolutely.

672
00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:55,720
And if you and I as leaders don't walk this out, we can't expect everybody else to either.

673
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:56,720
You're right.

674
00:50:56,720 --> 00:51:00,720
I think this is definitely a message you should preach to the church in your own words.

675
00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:01,720
Definitely.

676
00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:03,220
It is so powerful.

677
00:51:03,220 --> 00:51:08,720
Everything he said was right on and it was life changing for me today.

678
00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:18,520
I felt as I was standing there saying that prayer, I felt a release of it doesn't matter.

679
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:19,520
What does it matter?

680
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:20,800
You've moved on.

681
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,480
They've moved on.

682
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,680
God's doing a new thing in you.

683
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:26,820
Let it go.

684
00:51:26,820 --> 00:51:28,200
It feels good.

685
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:29,200
It feels really good.

686
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:30,200
I love it.

687
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:31,640
It's a peace that I can see it on you.

688
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,040
It's settling on you.

689
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:34,040
And I love it.

690
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:35,680
You're already anointed, girl.

691
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:36,680
You're so powerful.

692
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:37,680
You're so strong.

693
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,760
I want that double anointing that Elisha got from Elijah.

694
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:44,120
I'm with you totally on this.

695
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:48,040
What we've learned through the years, I do a lot of preaching.

696
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,800
You've done a lot of teaching through the years.

697
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:52,520
There's always a decision to be made.

698
00:51:52,520 --> 00:52:00,160
Whenever I hear a message, whether I'm watching something on YouTube or listening on a podcast,

699
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:01,960
it brings me to a point of decision.

700
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,120
What am I going to do about this?

701
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,640
Now that I've heard this, what is my response to it?

702
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:08,720
And I would encourage you that's listening.

703
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:17,000
If you, not if, whoever you are hurt with, whoever has damaged you, and it could be a

704
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:18,000
number of people.

705
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,000
I mean, we probably all have an enemies list.

706
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,520
If we were to just sit down and think of how many people I need to forgive and I need to

707
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:26,520
release.

708
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:27,520
And it doesn't mean you have to go to them.

709
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:28,520
No, no, no, no.

710
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:29,520
Because that can be dangerous.

711
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:30,800
That's not always good.

712
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,040
No, that can be, yeah, that's not necessary.

713
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,040
This is something you do between you and the Lord.

714
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:42,040
And it's a commitment to pray for them and bless them, but to go up to somebody out of

715
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:43,040
the blue.

716
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:44,040
And I've had, unfortunately, as a pastor.

717
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:46,360
Yes, and you didn't even know you offended them.

718
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:47,360
And they, I forgive you.

719
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:48,360
And you're like, what?

720
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:49,360
Oh, so thank you.

721
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:50,360
I know.

722
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:51,360
I'm not sure how to.

723
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:52,360
So that's never good.

724
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:53,360
It's between you and God.

725
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:54,360
And keep it between you and God.

726
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:55,360
Absolutely.

727
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:56,360
Absolutely.

728
00:52:56,360 --> 00:53:06,440
So I want to encourage you, maybe this will help you and maybe you need to sit back and

729
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:13,680
take a moment, take a God pause and say, Lord, who am I holding things against?

730
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,520
Because you're holding them hostage.

731
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:16,760
Which holds you hostage.

732
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:21,400
Which holds you hostage because God can't do through you what he really wants to do

733
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,200
because there's a barrier.

734
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:24,680
Same thing with that other person.

735
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:31,760
So that, you know, this is what I love about a lot of pastors feel like they've learned

736
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:32,960
it all or they know it all.

737
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:34,960
I feel like we're always learning.

738
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:38,080
It's ever learning, ever growing.

739
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:43,600
And if we don't, we have to grow just like anybody else because we live in a fallen world.

740
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,520
And I don't ever want to be stagnant.

741
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:46,520
No.

742
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,440
If we ever do, we need to quit the ministry.

743
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,840
But I want to constantly be growing.

744
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:56,500
And even if it's the same thing over and over, that's okay because we're going to get offended

745
00:53:56,500 --> 00:53:57,500
over and over.

746
00:53:57,500 --> 00:54:00,200
There's going to be people come and go out of our lives.

747
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:04,120
And we can't afford to let anything fester.

748
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,080
We have to let it go.

749
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:11,520
So a question kind of to rephrase what Pastor R.T. said, you know, he says, do you want

750
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:12,520
a greater anointing?

751
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:17,120
I would say to you listening, do you want greater empowerment to thrive?

752
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:18,120
Yes.

753
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,380
Greater empowerment to live up in a down world.

754
00:54:20,380 --> 00:54:26,160
Greater empowerment to express joy and find good in this life instead of things always

755
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:27,880
seeming dark and bleak.

756
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,640
It is a down world, but you can live up in it.

757
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:36,600
Well, it may be there's a stronghold on your life that's keeping you from something that

758
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:40,980
you desire, that's keeping you from getting over that hump.

759
00:54:40,980 --> 00:54:49,300
And it may be because there's unforgiveness there that needs to be taken care of.

760
00:54:49,300 --> 00:54:51,080
And I see people in oppression.

761
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:52,880
That's usually the first thing I think of.

762
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:53,880
Absolutely unforgiveness.

763
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:54,880
Unforgiveness.

764
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,600
So let me give that scripture again, because if you're listening, you may have thought,

765
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:58,600
wow, blew through that.

766
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,440
I'm going to try to go back and find it, but I'll help you with that.

767
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,800
It's Luke chapter six, starting in verse 27.

768
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:06,400
You can read the following verses.

769
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,680
Luke six, 27.

770
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,960
I encourage you spend some time in that.

771
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,040
I mean, the lectio divina would be good.

772
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:18,540
That means just mull it over, meditate, pray, read over and over.

773
00:55:18,540 --> 00:55:21,080
Don't move on to 16 verses.

774
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:27,680
Camp out on these few verses and then respond and then actually activate it.

775
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,880
Do it, apply it and say, okay.

776
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:32,880
So it says that I'm to love my enemies.

777
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,200
I'm to do good to those who hate me.

778
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:39,200
I'm to bless those who curse me and I'm to pray for those who abuse me.

779
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:45,240
So in the name of Jesus, I lift up, I bless, I speak life over.

780
00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:53,440
I'm telling you, it is hard to stay mad and stay in angst and tore up when you're praying

781
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:54,440
for them.

782
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:57,120
That is the quickest way to get over it.

783
00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:58,840
And I'm not telling you to just get over it.

784
00:55:58,840 --> 00:55:59,840
I'm just saying, let's obey the word.

785
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:01,600
And it's our flesh that wants bad things to happen to them.

786
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:02,600
Oh, no doubt.

787
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:03,600
That's not the heart of God.

788
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:04,600
That's our flesh.

789
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,000
And we've got to break that fleshly habit.

790
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,640
And it's not the heart of our true identity because our true identity is spirit.

791
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,480
It's in Christ.

792
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,120
So our flesh is not our true.

793
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:18,520
That's our false self trying to keep reminding me, hey, I'm still here.

794
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,160
You know, yeah, you're a Christian, but I'm still here.

795
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:22,160
No, no, that's a false self.

796
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:26,000
And it's time Christians start acting like Christians and quit acting like the world.

797
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,960
Oh, now you're starting to preach, girl.

798
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,920
And I'm in that.

799
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:31,920
All of us.

800
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:32,920
We're all in that.

801
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:33,920
We're all in it together.

802
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:34,920
Yes, we are.

803
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,080
Friends and family, we are in this thing together.

804
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:40,240
And so we want you to be, we want you to thrive.

805
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:41,240
Just what we're talking about.

806
00:56:41,240 --> 00:56:42,760
To live up, to thrive.

807
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:44,480
And that's our heart for you.

808
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:51,600
Hey, just want to say after this last last week, our this is what I heard when I started

809
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:56,760
looking for crickets, crickets.

810
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:57,960
That means there was nothing.

811
00:56:57,960 --> 00:56:58,960
It was silent.

812
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,980
I mean, we got no response, no feedback, nothing.

813
00:57:01,980 --> 00:57:06,440
And so I want to encourage you, whatever app you're listening on, I would encourage you

814
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:11,840
to try a couple of new apps, go to fountain and you can find the fountain app.

815
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:16,000
It's a podcast app under iOS or under Android.

816
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,400
So download that to your phone and listen.

817
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,520
You can give feedback through Boostergrams.

818
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,880
You can earn Bitcoin while you're listening.

819
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,400
It's a fantastic platform.

820
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:31,000
And then go to our website, give us a review, leave a note, let us know that you hear us.

821
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:36,120
Because when it, when it does this, it's like, wait, did this even go out over the air?

822
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:37,600
Should we keep doing this?

823
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,200
I know it makes you wonder sometimes.

824
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:40,200
It does.

825
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:41,200
It makes you wonder.

826
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,520
And the thing about fountain is that you can practice what's called value for value.

827
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:48,680
And that is if you like what we're doing, and if this content is helpful to you and

828
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:53,960
this podcast is encouraging you, then you can, you can share that and say, Hey, you've

829
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:54,960
been a value to me.

830
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:56,360
So I want to be a value to you.

831
00:57:56,360 --> 00:58:00,860
And I can do that through a donation or through, through giving time, talents and treasure.

832
00:58:00,860 --> 00:58:03,680
And so we'd love for you to do that.

833
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:04,680
You can do that.

834
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:06,480
Also sign up for our newsletter.

835
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:12,120
You'll subscribe on our website, livingupandandownworld.com.

836
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:15,400
I'll get your, your email address and I will put that on our list.

837
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:20,280
And we send out, typically on Sunday, we send out our weekly newsletter.

838
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,840
It's just a short update or reminder.

839
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:24,560
Hey, the show's coming tomorrow.

840
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:28,760
I may put some things in there, some pictures, just, Hey, this is what's going on.

841
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,640
But we'd love for you to get more involved, more connected.

842
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:33,160
And we want to be interactive with you.

843
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,240
And we want to hear from you what you would like to do.

844
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:40,240
What you would like to hear us talk about, what would help you, what would encourage

845
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:41,240
you.

846
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:42,240
But if we don't hear from you, we don't know.

847
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,560
So we, we don't want to just keep shooting in the dark.

848
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:45,920
We want to respond to you.

849
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,840
And forgiveness is one of the things that keeps coming up with people.

850
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:53,200
Which is why when we listened to that today, it was perfect.

851
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:54,200
Just perfect.

852
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:55,200
We were perfect.

853
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:56,200
What was that?

854
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,200
That is your, is that our timer telling us we're done?

855
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:00,200
Yes.

856
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:04,200
Hey family, we love you guys and we just want you to have an amazing week.

857
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:05,200
Yes.

858
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:06,200
And live up in a down world.

859
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:07,200
What do you got to say on the way out?

860
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:12,200
Well, I'm excited to see what the week's going to bring and we'll talk with you in a week.

861
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:13,200
See you in a week.

862
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:14,200
Look forward to hearing from you.

863
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:35,560
Bye bye.