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We need ladies, don't we, in our lives?

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I do, I'm gonna get one back too next week

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when my wife comes home.

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She's been with her mom and helping her,

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but I'm looking forward to that.

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You guys can probably imagine.

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But how many of you guys enjoying your summer so far?

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You guys enjoying your summer, right?

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And I'm glad that you're enjoying your summer

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because it's tending to come to an end, right?

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And so in a couple of weeks, not this week,

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but next the week after that,

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that public school starts and so for our teachers,

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for our students, those who work,

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that things are gonna change.

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But often in summer, we've had a break.

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You guys had a break?

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How many of you guys had a break?

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That good, right?

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You know what, what I noticed about me when I take a break,

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and not so much this year, I didn't get one yet,

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but when I take a break and I get away,

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that in the beginning, the days seem like so long.

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You guys know, like, especially if you're in a different city

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or you're a different place, and it's like,

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wow, but by the end of the trip, it's like,

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where did it go, right?

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And as something changes, time is so weird in that way.

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Not all time is the same, and I think life is like that.

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And so when we're experiencing this change that's coming up,

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that for us that who have kids who go to school

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or some of us that are going to university

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or maybe that you work there,

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that some of you might be thinking, you know,

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but my life doesn't change because, you know,

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my kids are already grown or I don't have kids

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or I'm not married or any of those things.

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But how many of you know, if you drive on the road,

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there's a big difference when school is in session

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and UH is in session, then we're not, right?

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So you're gonna make a reset as well

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about maybe when you leave and different things.

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And so naturally, all of us will reset as individuals

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or families or companies or organizations

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from time to time.

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And it's very different.

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The time scale or the measure can differ

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depending on the organization or the kind of a place.

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Like if you work in a restaurant

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and you have both lunch service and dinner service,

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at the end of lunch, what do they do?

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They reset probably like 2.30, 3 o'clock

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or whatever that is, 4 o'clock.

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Why?

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Because dinner service is coming

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and they gotta turn all that stuff over

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and get everything reset for the next thing.

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For most of us, we don't have to reset quite that often.

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For most of us, it's at the end of a week

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or maybe it's the end of a cycle, it's the end of a season.

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And sometimes you have to reset because in the middle

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that you make adjustments or changes

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that somehow just have to be made and it can't wait.

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Or sometimes it's when the vision

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or the direction has to change.

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And sometimes we just need a breath of freshness

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in the midst of that.

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So this week, we are starting a series

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and as Edna had mentioned, in the name of it,

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we're just calling it a simply reset

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because we're preparing for a new season which is coming

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and that will affect you as an individual

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and will affect us as a church community.

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And so as we look at that, as a church,

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the largest reset that we have ever experienced as a church

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happened three and a half years ago

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that when everybody else experienced this large reset,

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which was called COVID, right?

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And so it changed everything the way that we were doing.

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We used to be meeting at UH West Oahu,

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which was a really nice season

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because we hadn't been in the community

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probably for about four or five years.

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And so we got to get back in the community

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and we were there for like four or five years

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until March of 2020.

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And then all of a sudden there was this like

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where we see it coming, it's happening

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and we're not going to be able to meet.

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And so very quickly we had to find a way

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to stream a service, to broadcast something,

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just to keep people connected

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because life was so unstable, right?

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Now, we had talked about this long before

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but we just never felt like we had the expertise

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or we didn't have the time

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or we didn't have the manpower to do it.

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But you know when you're backs against the wall,

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that's the only way we're going to be able to communicate,

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somehow we found a way, right?

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Now, when I say somehow we found a way,

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that means the guys that sitting in the back,

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they found a way, right?

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The technical guy, like Dave that was reading and Brianna

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and that, you know, like our first streaming,

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you know how it happened

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because Brianna used to play games, video games.

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How many of you guys, any gamers out here, right?

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Like OBS, right?

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So praise God for OBS and the fact that she played games

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because if not, right, we wouldn't have been able to stream,

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right?

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So some of you guys, you have a skill, you have a talent,

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you have something that you do

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and you feel like there's no way God's gonna use that.

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Oh yes, he can, right?

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If God can use OBS, God can use a gaming, right?

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God can use anything, right?

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So here's this thing.

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So we had to reset and but what happened is

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in the meantime, all the face to face stuff stopped, right?

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Not just a weekend service, midweek kind of a time,

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a small group stopped, right?

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Classes stopped, all that stuff stopped and all we had,

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you guys, are you glad that we're not dependent on Zoom

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all the time now, right?

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That you don't have to go to school on Zoom,

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all that kind of, I'm glad I said teachers,

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you guys super happy, right?

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You don't have to do school on Zoom.

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And so, you know, all that was possible

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because we had this space,

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because we had a space to plan from,

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we had a space to hard set and things began to change.

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We began to do different things.

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And so, you know, I'm so grateful we have this facility.

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I have many friends that, their churches,

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they didn't have a hard set facility.

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They were totally portable

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because we still had Saturday night service here

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even before when we were meeting at UH.

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And so we had a fallback place.

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Some of those guys, they never met in person

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for almost three years, right?

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Some churches, frankly, some of my friends,

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their churches didn't survive, right?

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And because of that, so we are super grateful

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for this facility.

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But yet, at the same time,

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how many of you guys were here last week

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when we had child dedication?

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Anybody here last week when you had child dedication?

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Was it like crowded?

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Yeah, exactly, like you go like,

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oh, how come it's so crowded today?

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Like no more seats.

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And then you go upstairs and it's like,

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wow, upstairs hardly, there's no seats as well, right?

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And it's because, to be honest, over the past year,

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to be honest, we've probably doubled

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in person attendance, right?

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And so even that, even at double,

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this is still not where we used to be

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just on a regular weekend when we were at UH,

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but we feel the presence of God and God doing something, right?

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You guys sense God doing something in your midst, right?

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God doing something in your life.

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And so one of those things is that

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we didn't even have any kid's own stuff for a year and a half.

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We didn't have anything,

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because we didn't know how to do it, how to make it.

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And so then we started and kids don't start being online,

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all that stuff.

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And so now last week, there's 25 kids

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or the other week, just like in that little room.

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And so some of you guys say, right,

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well, how did they do it?

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Like I said last week, well, sometimes not so good,

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because it's pretty crowded.

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So we're coming to this place where we recognize, right?

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We recognize that this facility is limiting us.

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And even this week, they say this,

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most guys who study church girls

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say something along these lines.

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When a room hits about 80% capacity,

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people start to fall off,

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because it just gets a little more challenging,

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sometimes you'll find parking or find a seat

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and all that kind of a thing.

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And so we don't want to hinder what God is doing.

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Amen.

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You guys get to that place?

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Right, cause if we don't reset sometimes what happens

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is we start hindering the work of God.

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So we started to reset, right?

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We started to do different things.

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We started kid zone again.

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We started, we did things in this place

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that have allowed us to reset.

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But now, if we did the biggest reset

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in our experience with COVID

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and we have done little things,

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but was all based around this facility,

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it would behoove us to not reset for the new season, right?

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So we're still have to reset for the new season.

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So I am announcing today that on September 3,

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at, it will be the first service that New Hope Kapolei

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will actually have a Sunday service in Kapolei again, right?

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So we will be moving this service

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to Ho'okele Elementary School

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that it's a new school.

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Guess what?

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It has better AC than ours,

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because we just went in, it was nice, right?

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It has a bigger room than ours.

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It has separate rooms for kid zone

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and it's gonna have separate rooms for journey.

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There's different capacities to grow.

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And it will entail that, to be honest,

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that some of you might not be as so directly affected,

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but I had to talk to people at eight o'clock.

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It will mean also that we will suspend the eight o'clock service

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and that we will meet at 10 o'clock together.

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Now, it's really different to tell a 10 o'clock crew

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because why are you here at 10 o'clock already, right?

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So it doesn't matter to you,

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but for some of our friends, you know, that was a challenge.

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I talked to some folks who've been with us

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from the beginning, been with us

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like before we even had a Sunday service.

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And when I told her, I just wanted to give her her heads up,

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you know, if we're gonna be,

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we're gonna be, the last service would be

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August 27th at eight o'clock here for the time being.

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And I could see the kind of like grief, you know?

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And so I know that this move is exciting for many of us,

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but it brings change, right?

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And grief sometimes for others of us.

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You know what I'm really glad she said,

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hey, you know, I thank you for the message

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because I see what God's doing now, right?

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And so I hope this morning,

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whether whatever way that you process change,

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because some of us, you love change.

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It's exciting to you, you like it.

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But for most of us, I think it depends on the change, right?

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It depends on the change.

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We don't always like change, right?

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But how many of you would like better parking?

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Right, how much do you like the fact

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that there's not gonna be a motorcycle that goes

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in the middle of the service, right?

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Passing the doors like, how many of you like the fact

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that you know, it's like the area,

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I know some people when they first come to this facility

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that they would look at the area and they go,

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why it's an interesting area.

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You know, that kind of a thing, very diplomatic.

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They said, but I'm so glad that when I came inside,

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it looks like it's totally different, right?

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I'm really glad for that.

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But how would you like it when the area is just like,

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you have kids, there'll be a place for them

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to run around after the service.

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It's gonna have a lot of benefits,

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a lot of improvements for us.

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And it will allow us to reset for a new season.

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So beginning today, we're starting a series.

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We're just calling it reset and processing this aspect,

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how we move forward.

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Because when some of us, when God calls you to a new season

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and as we're heading into a new season,

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that some will like it and some won't like it.

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And so we're talking about it today

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as embracing change, embracing change.

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And so to start off this morning,

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we're gonna read in Ecclesiastes 3,

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would you be kind enough to stand

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and then let's read God's word.

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And this is what he says in Ecclesiastes 3,1.

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Let's read together, shall we?

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Ready?

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Begin.

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For everything, there is a season,

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a time for every activity under heaven.

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When it says there's time for every activity under heaven,

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but it says it in a season, right?

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It's like, you don't do everything at one time.

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You don't do everything in one season.

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You don't go surfing and skiing and all that stuff

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in one season, right?

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You don't, but many of us, any surfers here.

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Okay, let's change the thing.

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Well, I'll just say it like that.

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Even if you surf, most of us, even if you surf,

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you know that you probably don't go surfing

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at Waimea Bay in January.

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You know why?

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Because you don't wanna drown, right?

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That if you wanna go diving, you wanna jump the rock,

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you wanna do all that stuff.

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Yeah, you know what?

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The summer's like a lake.

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Different season, different activity.

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And so sometimes what will happen is saying,

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you're not called to do every activity at every season.

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You need to right time your activities to the right season.

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And so that's what we're talking about in some ways today.

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So before you're seated, turn to your neighbor,

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says you can right time your activities to the right season.

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You can right time your activities for the right season.

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I hope you don't go looking.

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I don't know, that's a fun group over there.

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So you gotta sit over there next week.

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But you don't go looking for mangoes in January on trees,

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right?

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You don't go and look for like, this is a fishing thing.

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You don't go looking for halla-loo in November generally,

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right?

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These things happen in seasons.

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And so in the last few years, sometimes that changes though,

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I think some of us, we hit a fatigue change,

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a change fatigue, I think.

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You know, when things were during the pandemic,

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things changed so rapidly, you guys remember that?

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Like where in the beginning it's like,

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you're going to the store, you're just doing whatever it is.

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And then all of a sudden, the stores aren't open.

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Only like supermarkets and Costco and like Home Depot's

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that those are the things that open.

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Everybody else is closed.

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Then the place where maybe you would go out to eat,

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you got to figure out, are they still doing takeout?

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Or, you know, like, can you sit down?

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And then you had to figure out, like,

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do you need a vaccine or a mask or all this kind of crazy

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stuff and things were changing so much.

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And for us as a church, whether, you know,

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that you need shields and then we bought like air purifiers

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and we did like defogging kind of a antiviral stuff,

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commercial grade, we did all these things.

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And when people used to come,

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they had to do a temperature check.

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I'm so glad there's no temperature checks, right?

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All that stuff is done.

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But when all this change was happening,

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people got tired of the change, right?

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Yeah, you just, man, I got tired of change.

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I did a funeral yesterday and I know a bunch of those guys,

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just kind of like by name and they know me just because,

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you know, over the years,

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so many things I have to do there.

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And he go, oh, wow, Glenn, we haven't seen you in a long time.

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I said, no, no, I've been still, you know,

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doing stuff around here too.

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And but sometimes at the other chapel,

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but I did a lot like Graveside and all that.

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And they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, I said, but you remember?

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You remember when in the pandemic,

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that even when like kind of like the most critical thing,

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like a funeral, that people,

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like I would, I've done a funeral with it in a giant room

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with 10 people because that was the restriction.

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And they had to sit six feet apart in individual chairs.

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You know what the funny thing was?

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They had, they came all in the same car,

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got, they was all hanging out at mom's house,

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who mom passed away,

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but they came in the same car.

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They all sat at separate places for the service

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and they couldn't even comfort one another,

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sitting next to one another.

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At the end of the service,

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they all get back in the same car and go,

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and sometimes it's craziness, right?

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It just doesn't even make any sense.

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And so when all that was done,

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I think, you know, we got a breather.

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They got, whew, man, I'm so glad that that craziness is done.

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And you kind of just built into a rhythm, right?

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After all, so now, however you're living is a rhythm.

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But there's some of us are rhythms that, to be honest,

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we gotta stretch ourselves in our rhythm,

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but you just got comfortable.

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Like I have a friend that I saw yesterday,

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I hadn't seen in a long time.

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And he used to be kind of like the head set up

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and breakdown guy for me when I was on staff

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at New Hope O'ahu.

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And I used to do a midweek service at St. Francis School.

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And so he was a great guy, you know,

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I mean, this guy didn't go to church every week.

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He's like several times a week.

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He would be every Wednesday, every Sunday, in between,

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all of that and working full time.

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And like kind of running a company

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and all of these things.

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So he was just around and I said,

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hey, he's asking me how's the church?

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So we just kind of talking back and forth and ask,

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hey, so how is it?

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And he goes like, oh, shoot,

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we haven't gone since pandemic, to be honest.

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We've just been watching online.

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And he said, you know how it is, you know,

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just kind of just develop a different rhythm.

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So Sunday became yard work day, right?

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And I said, yeah, I know how it is.

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Maybe your yard looks good already.

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How about soul work?

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You know, like, and he said, yeah, it's time.

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Yeah, I know it, it's time.

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And sometimes you just have that sense where there's time,

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time for a reset, right?

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And so this is what we're talking about.

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So what's the first thing you need to do?

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We're gonna talk about three things

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that you need to embrace change.

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The first thing about it is you gotta embrace

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a growth mindset.

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You gotta embrace a growth mindset.

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So when we're in the midst of these kinds of times

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that there will be change.

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And so because we, but it's comfortable, right?

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So when we say, okay, if we were comfortable

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and predictable and easy,

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like for us being in this place is predictable,

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it's comfortable and it's easy.

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You know how much setup we need?

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The hospitality, that's pretty much the setup.

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And then kids in the separate rooms, that's about it.

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That's all we have to do.

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No trucks, no nothing about,

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we don't have to do all that stuff.

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It's very predictable, very comfortable, very easy.

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And a lot of us like it.

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We don't have to tear down any equipment.

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We don't have to do all that kind of stuff.

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So if we're embracing a growth mindset, does that mean then

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I have to start liking unpredictable

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and liking discomfort and liking hard?

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No, that's not what it means.

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What it means is believing God

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that he is preparing us for something more.

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That if you wanna have whatever the change

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that you'll go through,

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for some of us it's the new school year.

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For some of us it's the new grade

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that you're going through, right?

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For some of us it's some kind of change

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that's happening in your life.

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Believe that God is preparing you for more,

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for different, for change to bless you

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and not to hurt you, right?

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To prosper you and not for calamity it says in Jeremiah 29,

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11, you're something he's gonna do is to grow you, right?

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And so we need to have this mindset

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that God is trying to do something more than where you've been.

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And so this is what it says about that

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in Philippians chapter three.

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Philippians chapter three, Paul said it like this.

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He says, I don't mean to say I have achieved these things

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or that I have already reached perfection.

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That resemble anybody out there, right?

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I think all of us, right today,

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like none of us would say we got it.

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I have arrived, I'm all good.

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You guys need for change?

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Go ahead, go change.

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I'm all good already, right?

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No, nobody's here yet, right?

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But this is what it says.

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But I, what?

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Press on to possess that perfection

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for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.

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And he's saying, I know as much,

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and Paul has been on missionary journeys

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and he's planted churches and he's written books

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and he's circulated letters

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and he's planted all of these churches.

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But what does he say?

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I know I haven't.

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This is not the end for me.

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I'm not where I need to be.

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Paul had a growth mindset.

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Paul had a growth mindset.

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So he goes on, he says,

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no dear brothers and sisters,

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I haven't achieved it,

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but I focus on this one thing, what?

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For getting the past and looking forward

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to what lies ahead.

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Are we grateful for the past?

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Yes.

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Be grateful for your past.

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Be grateful for what God has done in the past,

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but don't live in the past.

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Live today, right?

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Some of us, we cannot embrace relationships today

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because to be honest,

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you long so much for the relationships you had in the past

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and maybe some of them are no longer in existence,

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but God says this,

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that you need to value the past,

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but you need to press on to the future.

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Focus on what God lies ahead.

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So I press on to reach the end of the race

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and receive the heavenly prize

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for which God through Christ Jesus is calling us.

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And the reality is nothing stays the same.

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This side of heaven, nothing stays the same.

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You don't stay the same, right?

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Right?

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How many of you guys, you looked in the mirror,

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you're like, oh my gosh, what is, right?

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Like, oh my gosh, you put the belt on

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and you're like, oh my gosh, right?

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Nothing stays the same.

519
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:31,760
You don't stay the same.

520
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,320
I don't stay the same.

521
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,240
The world doesn't stay the same, right?

522
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,720
And to be honest,

523
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,600
trying to prevent change from happening

524
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,600
is really a frustrating thing.

525
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,800
Sometimes we need to learn how to embrace the change.

526
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,040
Some of the people that you really care about, they'll change.

527
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,400
Your relationships will change.

528
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:51,680
Your marriage will change.

529
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,040
Your kids will change.

530
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:54,440
Your job will change.

531
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,960
Everything changes.

532
00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,240
The issue is not that it changes,

533
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,640
just make the change positive.

534
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,400
Make it be growth rather than just loss.

535
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,440
Make it be, make it to propel you forward

536
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,040
not to drag you down, right?

537
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,040
So I hope you don't wanna stay the same.

538
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,280
You ought to want to grow.

539
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,840
Because living things, what?

540
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:18,680
Grow.

541
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:19,640
Living things grow.

542
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,240
And the growth is not always physical, right?

543
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,080
The growth is not always outward.

544
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,920
Some of the growth is inward.

545
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,080
You know, I've kind of long past

546
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,560
where that my physical strength used to be the thing

547
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:34,880
that I would work on.

548
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:35,880
I can work hard.

549
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,000
I can work long.

550
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,160
I can give all.

551
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,400
But you know, sometimes it's like, I can still do that.

552
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,480
But my strength lies elsewhere.

553
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,560
If that's the only thing I give my,

554
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,800
that's what I rely on, I haven't grown, right?

555
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,000
Because I need to be using my heart.

556
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,240
I need to be using my mind.

557
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,600
I need to be developing other people.

558
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,280
And so in this aspect,

559
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,960
that sometimes that's where change happens.

560
00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:02,120
Maybe you need to grow mentally or emotionally

561
00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:03,280
or spiritually, right?

562
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:04,640
That professionally.

563
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,400
Don't ignore, don't just be one dimensional in that sense.

564
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,160
I like what Albert Einstein said.

565
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,160
He said, and arguably one of the brightest men

566
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,040
that existed, he says, the more I learned,

567
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,960
the more I realized how much I don't know.

568
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,800
You guys in that place before?

569
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,560
When I first became a believer,

570
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:25,880
I knew I didn't know anything.

571
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,280
Cause I never went to church and never read the Bible.

572
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,640
You know, I was an adult already.

573
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,200
I was in like 21.

574
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,680
And when I didn't know, I didn't know anything.

575
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,640
And when I started to read the Bible,

576
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,480
I didn't understand a lot of it.

577
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,200
But I understood that I could sense God trying to talk to me.

578
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,440
So I kept reading and went to Bible study,

579
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,640
went to church and did all those things that I grew

580
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:46,760
and I learned.

581
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,000
And you know, after about three years,

582
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,600
I felt like, oh, I know a lot, right?

583
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,040
But I didn't know as much as I needed to.

584
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,000
I went to seminary after a while.

585
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,360
I was serving the Lord in full-time ministry

586
00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,640
for like six years before I went to seminary

587
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:02,840
and I wanted to grow.

588
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,040
I wanted to be more equipped.

589
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,280
And when I came back, I thought like, to be honest,

590
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,160
when I came back, I thought I was all that.

591
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,160
You know what I mean?

592
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,640
But then today, you know what?

593
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,000
That attitude God had to correct

594
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,440
because today I realized, man, what I know right now,

595
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,360
I know surely, but there's so much more.

596
00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:27,880
Because how can a finite individual who lives,

597
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,960
you know, like I feel like up to a hundred, right?

598
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,120
That's a long life.

599
00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:34,680
But how can that one person expect to understand

600
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:39,080
all of the universe and the God who is eternal, right?

601
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,880
And the God who is, that's impossible.

602
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,640
How can I know all things?

603
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,720
And so I need to say, I need to keep growing.

604
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,880
I need to keep learning.

605
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,600
But not all change is growth.

606
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:57,600
And so growth has to be chosen, even in hard times.

607
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,680
Some of us say, I want to grow, but the season is hard, right?

608
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,760
And so I cannot grow.

609
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,760
The reality is you cannot grow in certain areas

610
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,240
without hard times.

611
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,720
There are some trees that cannot reproduce

612
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,040
until a fire burns through.

613
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,440
And that stress that happens on the tree,

614
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,920
on the physical cones allows the resin to melt

615
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,640
so that life can spring forward.

616
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,880
It's the same with people.

617
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,160
It's the same with people.

618
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,200
And he says it like this in Romans five,

619
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,160
three, five, he says, we can rejoice too.

620
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,560
Let's read this next line.

621
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:36,520
What?

622
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,880
When we run into problems and trials.

623
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:39,840
Well, let me stop here.

624
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,960
Anybody run into problems and trials this week?

625
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:43,800
Anybody?

626
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:44,760
Okay, fair amount of hands.

627
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,200
Now, how many of you, when you run into that trial this week,

628
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,600
you were like, whoo, yeah, problems and trials, man.

629
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,720
I'm stoked today, right?

630
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,280
Probably that's not what you're saying.

631
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,240
Because this is not saying be thankful

632
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,200
for problems and trials.

633
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,320
It's not saying be thankful for.

634
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:06,320
It's saying even in the midst of them, you can rejoice.

635
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:07,600
Why?

636
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,680
Now he continues.

637
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,040
He's gonna say, for we know, let's say we know.

638
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:12,880
We know.

639
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:13,720
Right?

640
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,240
That they help us develop endurance.

641
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:22,000
You see, if you never had to go through a difficult time,

642
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,840
then you don't have endurance.

643
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,880
Because if every time you hit a hard time,

644
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,720
you quit, you stop, you turn around,

645
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,320
you don't have endurance.

646
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,000
You see, it's something to grow through, right?

647
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,200
It's gonna change you.

648
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,760
It's gonna, but what kind of change?

649
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,520
Gonna grow you, right?

650
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,600
Because when you quit, all of those kinds of things,

651
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,800
what happens is you get stunted at that place.

652
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,680
But when you get through it, you've grown through it.

653
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,080
And endurance develops strength of character.

654
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,320
And I can say this pretty confidently,

655
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,040
that when I look around the room

656
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,400
and I look in the mirror for myself,

657
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,360
is that none of us possess the character we need today.

658
00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:05,680
Today, none of us possess the character

659
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,040
that we need to accomplish all God has for us.

660
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,880
That makes sense, right?

661
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,120
Because the character that you have today

662
00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:15,680
is probably sufficient for today.

663
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,200
But if God is gonna grow you,

664
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,920
he's gonna have you be involved,

665
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,400
and have more influence,

666
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,640
gonna allow you to do different things,

667
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,440
you need to grow character along the way.

668
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,000
Because without it, to be honest,

669
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000
you can have the most skillful person, right?

670
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,280
But if that person doesn't have character,

671
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:36,880
sometimes the most skillful person

672
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,280
becomes the greatest thief, becomes the greatest rebel,

673
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,720
becomes the greatest disruptor, right?

674
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:43,600
What prevents that?

675
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,840
It's character growth, not talent growth, not skill growth.

676
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,560
Skills and talents, they're necessary,

677
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,280
but character is indispensable.

678
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,960
So this is what God says.

679
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,160
I want you to develop not just endurance,

680
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,160
but strength of character.

681
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,360
And character strengthens what?

682
00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:02,600
Our confident hope of salvation.

683
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:03,880
What does that mean?

684
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,280
That whatever you face, he's saying this,

685
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,400
that I know God's gonna take me through.

686
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,600
That whenever you hit rough waters, God, you know,

687
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,320
God's gonna take you through.

688
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,440
It's not gonna last forever,

689
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,360
because this hope will not lead to disappointment.

690
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:21,960
For we know how dearly God loves us,

691
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,160
because he has given us what?

692
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,840
The Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

693
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:32,200
Aren't you grateful that you can experience God?

694
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,560
You guys grateful for that?

695
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,600
And for some of us, you know, maybe in the worship time,

696
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,720
you experience God, maybe in the message,

697
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,560
sometimes you experience God, maybe in fellowship.

698
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,080
But wouldn't it be sad

699
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,120
if the only place you could experience God was here?

700
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,040
That would be sad, right?

701
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,560
It's not to experience God,

702
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,240
Jesus's gotta come to a particular building.

703
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,680
What is it saying?

704
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,160
That where does the, what does the Holy Spirit fill?

705
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:58,800
Our hearts.

706
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,520
So this is what God's solution is.

707
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:01,800
When you believe in Jesus,

708
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,440
he places the Holy Spirit where?

709
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,240
In you.

710
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,200
The Holy Spirit is in you, so what?

711
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,560
When you go to work, can you experience God?

712
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:11,400
Yes.

713
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:12,800
When you go to school, can you experience God?

714
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:13,640
Yes.

715
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,640
When you talk to that person that rubs you the wrong way,

716
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:16,880
can you experience God?

717
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,000
Well, sometimes that doesn't feel like you're experiencing God,

718
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,800
but yes, you can experience God in that place.

719
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:21,640
Why?

720
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,520
Because the Spirit of God is with you, right?

721
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:25,720
And so this is the thing.

722
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,960
And so when we gather corporately, what happens?

723
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,400
There's a greater kind of like an anointing on that

724
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,440
because the people of God, when they're coming to seek God,

725
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,800
the Spirit of God is moving our hearts corporately.

726
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,120
So there is a greater sense sometimes when we gather,

727
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,920
but the good news is that wherever you are,

728
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,840
wherever you are, that God, you can experience it.

729
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,120
I'm grateful for that, amen?

730
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:52,960
Right?

731
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,400
And so when you believe it like that,

732
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,920
when you reframe your mind, you reset your mind to say,

733
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,840
I'm gonna have a gross kind of a thing.

734
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,560
It's almost like Babe Ruth, he said it like this.

735
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,760
You know, one of the things, every strikeout

736
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,960
just brings me closer to my next home run, right?

737
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,480
Because he's learning whatever the situation,

738
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,040
whatever change happens, he's saying,

739
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,960
I'm adopting a gross mindset.

740
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,160
Here's the second thing, three principles.

741
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,760
The second thing is this, don't say,

742
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,160
I'm never and fill in the blank, right?

743
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,800
How many of you guys said, I'm never doing that again?

744
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,040
And what?

745
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,080
Did again, right?

746
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,520
And now I'm not saying when I say that,

747
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,400
like don't get wisdom or, you know,

748
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,960
I'm not gonna, I'm never gonna blow up my marriage again,

749
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,840
or I'm not gonna ignore my responsibility.

750
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,880
I'm not talking about that kind of a never,

751
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,680
but sometimes we're gonna make vows,

752
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,400
we're gonna make promises to ourselves.

753
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,360
And this is one of those things that sometimes

754
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,560
they're not based on faith, they're based on hurt.

755
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,360
And so, or disappointment.

756
00:30:55,360 --> 00:31:00,360
And so the first job I ever had was at Jack in a Box,

757
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,440
you know, first job in Wahiawa on Kilania Avenue.

758
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,040
Some of you know Wahiawa, but you go for different things,

759
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,960
but that's where my first job, and I got that job,

760
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,200
it was five minutes walk from my house.

761
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,800
But one of my best friends, his older brother

762
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,280
was assistant manager there.

763
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,680
So we're talking, hey, we have nice spending money, right?

764
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,240
So let's go work, where can we work?

765
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,160
Who's gonna hire us?

766
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,520
He says, hey, Sheldon, he'll hire us, right?

767
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,480
So we went, but how many of you guys know,

768
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,920
like when you're in high school

769
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,720
and you got your older brother's, the boss,

770
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,880
that sometimes that's a hard relationship, right?

771
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,880
You're not the boss with me, yes I am, right?

772
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,320
I got work, and so we lasted there two weeks, right?

773
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,560
But at the end of the two weeks, what did I say?

774
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:49,560
I'm never working in a fast food restaurant again.

775
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,080
And I didn't for a little while, right?

776
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,720
And the jobs that I had was like doubled my income,

777
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,640
doing, you know, from what a minimum wage was,

778
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,280
and like even in high school, right?

779
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:03,120
That was nice, right?

780
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,360
It's like doing the office maintenance

781
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,040
and doing yard service and all that kind of stuff,

782
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,240
and it made a little money.

783
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,320
And I became a believer in college right before I graduated,

784
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,840
and I went on a summer mission trip

785
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,400
because I wanted, I felt God leading me to go to this place.

786
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,880
So the mission trip was stateside,

787
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,000
and so we went to this little town

788
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,000
that has like a winter time population of 25,000 people.

789
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:29,800
It's called Wildwood, New Jersey.

790
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,680
It's in the tri-state area.

791
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,320
And it's a little island actually,

792
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,680
but on 4th of July, so just a few weeks ago,

793
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,840
the average is it swells to about a million people.

794
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,160
So it is like tourist town, like crazy,

795
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,920
way more than Waikiki, that kind of a feel, right?

796
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,600
So it's just crazy.

797
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,840
So what we do in that town is people came from all over

798
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,400
the US and we kind of do a mission team,

799
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,200
and we were there for 12 weeks.

800
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,640
First four weeks, three to four weeks was all training.

801
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,680
And then they say this, that they'll continue to,

802
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,240
will continue to do training and all that,

803
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,600
but now you gotta go get jobs in the community.

804
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:11,680
Why is that?

805
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,720
Because the majority of your life,

806
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,760
if you're gonna do ministry, it's you still gotta work, right?

807
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:17,760
You still gotta go to school,

808
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,560
and so you gotta learn how to get along with the people,

809
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,880
you gotta learn how to share with your friends at work,

810
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,600
and do all that kind of stuff.

811
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,360
And so I said, oh, okay, but guess what job I'm avoiding?

812
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:29,600
Fast food, right?

813
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,200
I said, I'm never doing that again.

814
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,040
So I go to the landscape place, oh shoot,

815
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,080
some guys already got all those jobs.

816
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,760
And so I went to kind of like a bank,

817
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,480
they had a bank thing and I'm, nope, not, you know,

818
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:42,800
hey, I'm Asian, I can do math.

819
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:43,800
No, it's kidding.

820
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,600
But you know, they didn't work, right?

821
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:50,100
So the whole thing, and so there was one job that was left,

822
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,680
and it looked like the golden arches

823
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,080
were part of the logo, right?

824
00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,360
And so I worked at McDonald's and I hated it,

825
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,200
and I complained about it, and I was like sour about it,

826
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,160
and when I went home, I smelled like French-Rye oil,

827
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:11,280
and I had to wear this like really kind of cheesy,

828
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,240
maroon, double knit, nylon uniform,

829
00:34:15,240 --> 00:34:16,720
and no matter how much you watch it,

830
00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:18,040
it still smells like French-Rye's,

831
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:19,720
and it kind of hated it.

832
00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:21,240
But you know, one of the things that was good,

833
00:34:21,240 --> 00:34:23,320
they paid for it, they gave us free lunch,

834
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:27,320
so man, we'd make pancakes this size on a break,

835
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,080
or whatever, like eat 20 McNuggets,

836
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,760
but you know, young, you can just eat whatever,

837
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,720
and so, but then one of the things that,

838
00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:37,280
even though I hated it, if I never went there,

839
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,980
you know what, I never would have met this kid named Tony.

840
00:34:39,980 --> 00:34:43,640
Tony was a senior, going into the senior year

841
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:48,440
in high school, a black kid, and never been a church,

842
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,680
and you know, I started to share the gospel,

843
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,240
shared my testimony, like what are you doing from Hawaii?

844
00:34:53,240 --> 00:34:54,960
You know, you guys ever get the hit start,

845
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,280
like what are you guys, what are you doing here?

846
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,120
Are you from Hawaii?

847
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,720
And so it came, you know, I shared my story,

848
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:00,720
it wasn't raised in the church,

849
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:02,520
so you know, I experienced God, and this and this and this,

850
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,000
would you like to get to know Him?

851
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,160
And I got to lead Him to Jesus, right,

852
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,480
after work one day, got to lead Him to Jesus,

853
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,120
and then I told Him, hey, Tony,

854
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,680
why don't you come to church with me?

855
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,840
And He says, I can't, sorry, I can't,

856
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:15,680
I go, oh, why not?

857
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,720
He says, I don't have the clothes for it.

858
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,160
And being raised in Hawaii,

859
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,680
and being raised in the church in Hawaii,

860
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,600
when you know, my experience in faith being in Hawaii,

861
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,720
I didn't, I never experienced that, right?

862
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:30,840
Cause you can come in shorts and T-shirt, right?

863
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,600
Rubber slippers, or you can come,

864
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,000
you can dress up if you like, right?

865
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,280
No problem, you can just,

866
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:36,880
hey, come how you feel comfortable, right?

867
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,440
As long as you have clothes, you can, you know, welcome.

868
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,880
So we're, and so that's why I said, no, you crazy,

869
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,360
just, let's just go, right?

870
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:49,360
And then I brought Him, and then I understood,

871
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,640
because I went to a church that was close to His house,

872
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,720
and I hadn't gone there before,

873
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:58,280
but everybody was like in a suit and a tie.

874
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,080
And then I knew that I felt,

875
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,040
and I had worn a long sleeve shirt,

876
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,120
because he told us, you know, go and do that

877
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,720
when you go into the new church, and it was like, oh,

878
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:12,440
a long sleeve and shirt, you know, kind of dressed up,

879
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,680
I felt underdressed.

880
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,800
Now, if I had never let Him to Christ,

881
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,400
and didn't go with Him,

882
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,280
how much likelihood would He have ever gone to that church?

883
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:25,120
Zero.

884
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,840
But you know what, God used something

885
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,920
that made me uncomfortable, that when I said never,

886
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:37,480
I'm so glad that Tony got to experience Jesus,

887
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,040
and got to get connected and plugged into that church, right?

888
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:46,880
But you know, when you say, I'm never gonna do that again.

889
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,200
I've said that many times in different things, right?

890
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,880
When we left couple A Middle School,

891
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,840
it was a great experience.

892
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,560
We were there for eight years.

893
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,760
It was a great experience for seven years.

894
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,520
The last year, not so much.

895
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,440
They had a leadership change,

896
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:10,440
and that principle, the acting principle didn't like us,

897
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,000
and we couldn't figure it out, right?

898
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,400
She just kind of resented a little bit,

899
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,520
like the favor that we had with the previous principle.

900
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,000
And so just all of a sudden became hard.

901
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,760
So when we left, guess what I said?

902
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:28,560
Never go into a public school again, right?

903
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,880
And guess when we looked for our locations

904
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,400
in different places, and we've been looking for years,

905
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,760
and when couple A, I mean, Okele Elementary showed up,

906
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:45,240
what if I just said, I'm never doing that again?

907
00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:49,400
I would have bypassed the blessings of God.

908
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:54,200
So here's the thing, some of us, you have made those vows.

909
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,600
I'm never letting somebody get that close again.

910
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:02,080
I'm never putting myself in this kind of a position again.

911
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:06,360
And it's not a vow of wisdom and faith.

912
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,400
It's a vow of out of your wound, right?

913
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,680
It's a vow out of your hate or out of your hurt.

914
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,000
And so, you know what?

915
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,580
Mine was like that.

916
00:38:17,580 --> 00:38:19,200
You know what I had to do?

917
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,200
I had to repent.

918
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,360
I had to repent.

919
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,120
Because this is what I said, God, it is impossible

920
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,920
for you to work in that.

921
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,960
And if I had said that, it would have not just crippled me,

922
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,520
it would cripple the church.

923
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,240
And some of us, your vows, they don't just hurt you,

924
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:42,920
they're hurting those around you.

925
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:47,240
This is why we have courses like Finding Freedom.

926
00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:50,760
Because all of us get hurts and wounds along the way.

927
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,920
And sometimes you don't know what to do with them,

928
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,920
but you just shouldn't carry them all through life.

929
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,480
Don't make your hurt your identity.

930
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,320
It's not your identity.

931
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,680
That's not who you are.

932
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,200
Yes, you've been hurt.

933
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,120
But God says this, I'm with you.

934
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:09,400
You're a son or a daughter of God that he's in you.

935
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,440
He's gonna help you to overcome.

936
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,320
But you gotta, sometimes you need help,

937
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:14,920
how to get rid of that stuff.

938
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,560
That's why we have classes like that.

939
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,200
We're gonna have one in the fall.

940
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,920
If that's you, you found that you've made some vows.

941
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,080
And that vow prevents you from engaging life.

942
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,400
It prevents you from embracing a growth mindset.

943
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:29,960
Because you're never again,

944
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,760
it's keeping you from the blessings.

945
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,840
Maybe it's time to learn how to get rid of that stuff.

946
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,280
Learn how to deal with that stuff.

947
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,400
And so the scripture say it like this in James 4-10.

948
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:42,840
Let's read what it says.

949
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,320
Ready?

950
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,520
Let's read.

951
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,360
Humble yourselves before the Lord.

952
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:49,280
And what?

953
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,240
He will lift you up in honor.

954
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,320
You don't have to just grovel to people.

955
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:55,480
That's not what it's saying.

956
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,000
It says humble yourself before God.

957
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,800
God, I need help.

958
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,560
God, I cannot fix this.

959
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,520
I don't know how to do this thing, right?

960
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,080
Humble yourself before God.

961
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:09,160
I need you God.

962
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,920
I love that we sang that song.

963
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,720
Oh God, my God, I need you, right?

964
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,000
Oh God, my God, I need you.

965
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:16,920
When?

966
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,240
Now.

967
00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:21,360
How I need you now.

968
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,800
Man, that's a humbling thing to say, right?

969
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,320
I'm not saying God might be a nice idea

970
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:27,480
if you could help me.

971
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,720
I'm singing that song, I need him.

972
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:32,080
And I humble myself before him.

973
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:33,080
But this is the good news.

974
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,360
When you do that, God lift you up.

975
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,320
It's not weakness.

976
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,440
It's wisdom, right?

977
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,560
It's honesty.

978
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,600
It's being, so humble yourself before the Lord.

979
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,280
Don't let the past poison you, right?

980
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,840
Now, in the midst of that,

981
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,880
is the other thing is it's a protection.

982
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,520
It's a protection for you.

983
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,520
Because he says this in Proverbs 16, 18.

984
00:40:58,520 --> 00:40:59,680
Because why?

985
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:03,200
Because pride goes before destruction.

986
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,680
And haughtiness before a fall.

987
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,680
We all probably understand pride, right?

988
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,960
And, but haughtiness, what is haughtiness?

989
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,840
Haughtiness means when you raise yourself up

990
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,360
above other people.

991
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,520
And so all of a sudden,

992
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,480
this is when you kind of get a haughty spirit.

993
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,320
It's like, nah, I did my time already.

994
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,160
I'm not gonna do that.

995
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,640
That job is beneath me, right?

996
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:23,960
I'm not gonna, like, you know what?

997
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,240
I did that, like, as a young guy growing up

998
00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:30,240
in the ministry, I like, I drive the truck.

999
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:33,880
I would set up, like, I would, at one point,

1000
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,720
I was on staff at another church.

1001
00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:40,720
You know, there's times I would drive the truck,

1002
00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:44,360
help set up the church, get everything together,

1003
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:45,920
help the worship team to practice,

1004
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,080
and not to play an instrument,

1005
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:48,360
because then it would sound horrible

1006
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:49,800
if I helped it and done that.

1007
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:54,800
But get up, preach, help break down, drive the truck home.

1008
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,440
And drive the truck back to the church office.

1009
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,920
Because it was like a satellite kind of a service.

1010
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,160
And you know, when I went to school,

1011
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,760
I went to seminary and did all that stuff.

1012
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,800
When I came back and came on staff,

1013
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,840
I was a pastor, and I went on staff at New Hope O'ahu.

1014
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,280
You know, one of the first things that I had to do

1015
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,840
was help set up and break down with guys like Art,

1016
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,120
you see me and Maddie over there, like, right?

1017
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:18,960
Remember?

1018
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,080
What time, you know, we used to go?

1019
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:22,600
Two o'clock in the morning.

1020
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,080
I was a pastor, I was a missionary,

1021
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:27,280
went to seminary and all this stuff.

1022
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,000
But you know what I said?

1023
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Yeah, humble myself.

1024
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:31,960
Whatever, you know what I mean?

1025
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,760
Like, there's nothing I'm not willing to do.

1026
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,600
I mean, as long as I'm capable.

1027
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,560
Don't ask me to play keyboard,

1028
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,440
like, no, O'ahu is gonna run out of the room.

1029
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,880
So, you know, but the things that I can do,

1030
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:48,320
and there's nothing that I'm not too proud to do it, right?

1031
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,800
And so, let's make sure that we do that.

1032
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,200
Because once we start saying,

1033
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,480
yeah, I'm not doing that again, I cannot do this thing.

1034
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,040
That's like, just let other guys do it.

1035
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,640
Then be careful because pride goes before destruction

1036
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,160
and haughtiness before a fall.

1037
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,240
So, it's a safety thing, right?

1038
00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:07,440
So that we embrace who we are in Jesus.

1039
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:08,920
Make sense?

1040
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:09,760
Amen.

1041
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,760
So, and this is the last point, right?

1042
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,120
And we're kind of rounding the bases here.

1043
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,840
And so, do you guys ever feel like in this change process,

1044
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,040
you know, you're not quite there yet,

1045
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,240
but you're not quite where you started from.

1046
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:25,760
You're in this weird in-between middle, right?

1047
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,880
And so, the people of God,

1048
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:32,120
we have experienced this kind of a process a lot,

1049
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,200
that when you're not here and you're not there,

1050
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,720
and what do you do in the midst, right?

1051
00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:39,960
And so, when you look at the people of God,

1052
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,320
that in Israel, when they were called out of slavery,

1053
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,320
they were aware in Egypt, 430 years, right?

1054
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,720
430 years of like no wins.

1055
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:53,320
That's a long losing streak, right?

1056
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,360
And so, God delivered them, right?

1057
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,560
Through Moses and then all these plagues and stuff,

1058
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,120
and then they got through, they went through,

1059
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,640
we sang the song, that he led them through the Red Sea,

1060
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:04,880
right, led them through the ocean,

1061
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,920
they get to the kind of the desert in the promise,

1062
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,240
toward going toward the promised land.

1063
00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:15,240
But all of a sudden, food runs out,

1064
00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:17,000
that they could carry, right?

1065
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,800
Drinking water is hard to come by

1066
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,440
in a lot of different places.

1067
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,440
And so, what were they thinking?

1068
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,400
Some of them said, what?

1069
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,520
Let's go back to Egypt.

1070
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:32,120
And God said, no, no, you're never going back there.

1071
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:32,960
Why?

1072
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:37,000
Because the way to grow is to move forward.

1073
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,120
The way to grow is to move forward.

1074
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:42,560
I am grateful for the past,

1075
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,800
but I don't wanna be the guy that all I talk about

1076
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,640
is like all the wrestling accolades in high school.

1077
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:48,560
You know what I mean?

1078
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,280
I don't wanna be the guy that, like,

1079
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,200
I'm telling all the stories, it's like,

1080
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,840
hey, remember, and it was like 30, 40, 50,

1081
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,480
you know, however long ago, I don't wanna be that guy.

1082
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,800
I wanna move forward.

1083
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:00,080
I'm grateful for those things.

1084
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,480
And there's times to talk about those things,

1085
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,880
but I don't wanna live there, right?

1086
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,320
Don't live in your past.

1087
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,680
Like, launch from the past.

1088
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:10,920
Move forward.

1089
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,600
So this is what God said.

1090
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:13,800
How does he provide?

1091
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,560
Because they didn't have food, right?

1092
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,440
So what does it say?

1093
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,920
It says it like this in Exodus 16.

1094
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,280
Let's read what it says.

1095
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,360
Then the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down bread.

1096
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,960
Let's say those words, rain down bread, right?

1097
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:28,800
Pretty clear.

1098
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:29,640
What are you saying?

1099
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:30,480
I'm gonna provide.

1100
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,040
From heaven for you, the people are to go out each day

1101
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,800
and gather enough for that day.

1102
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,040
In this way, I will test them

1103
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,840
and see whether they will follow my instructions.

1104
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,280
On the sixth day they did to prepare what they bring in.

1105
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,200
That's to be twice as much as they gather on the other days

1106
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:47,560
because there was a Sabbath day

1107
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,720
and you were supposed to rest and not just be working.

1108
00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:52,560
Now, so what did God promise?

1109
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,280
I'm gonna rain down what?

1110
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:55,800
Bread from heaven.

1111
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,960
And so that God did that the next day.

1112
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,160
It's called, anybody know?

1113
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,320
Mana, that's right, mana.

1114
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,320
And so, but you know what mana looks like?

1115
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:11,040
It looks like little flakes.

1116
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,960
Like was little white delicate flakes on the ground.

1117
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,560
You guys know what mana means?

1118
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,160
What is it?

1119
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,160
In other words, God promised bread.

1120
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:22,680
They saw white flakes on the ground.

1121
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:24,400
They go, well, what is that?

1122
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:25,640
Right?

1123
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:26,640
What is that?

1124
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:27,760
Where's the bread?

1125
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,200
They're looking for bagels, right?

1126
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,360
They're looking for like pita bread or whatever.

1127
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,400
Like they're looking for French bread.

1128
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,040
But I got flakes on the ground.

1129
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,480
And this is the thing.

1130
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:43,480
The way to go forward, some of us envision change one way,

1131
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:45,320
but it's gonna look a little bit different

1132
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,800
than what you think.

1133
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,280
But it's not gonna be less than,

1134
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,600
it's not gonna be worse than,

1135
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,520
it's gonna be better, but it's not the way you imagined it.

1136
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:56,760
And so why?

1137
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,440
Because this bread fed them for the next 40 years.

1138
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:01,120
Right?

1139
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,960
Bagel, I'm sorry, your bagel, your favorite bagel

1140
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,920
cannot feed you for the next 40 years.

1141
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,640
But this mana came every day.

1142
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:10,400
But what did it involve?

1143
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,000
They had to go out and gather it.

1144
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:13,760
Right?

1145
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:15,640
And you know what can happen is

1146
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,200
not everybody gathered the same amount.

1147
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:19,040
Why?

1148
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:20,360
Because when I look around the room,

1149
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,800
there's some of you, you guys need to eat.

1150
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,120
I talked to some people, I know some people,

1151
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,120
I'm trying to gain weight, but I just can't.

1152
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:29,200
But it says eat more.

1153
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,360
No, but, and some of us, you know what?

1154
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,960
We wish that, let me just give you some of mine.

1155
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,400
And so we eat different, right?

1156
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:39,240
But what is it?

1157
00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:42,400
Like if it depends on you, depends on your family,

1158
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,160
depends on your needs, right?

1159
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,480
And so, you know what?

1160
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,040
Some people, when we go through change,

1161
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,200
it's gonna look like some people have more

1162
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:54,120
than you, but don't judge them for it

1163
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,760
because they need more, right?

1164
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,880
And some of us can less and don't judge them for that,

1165
00:47:58,880 --> 00:47:59,720
you know why?

1166
00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:00,560
Because they need less, right?

1167
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:01,600
Don't worry about that, right?

1168
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,880
But everybody has to gather.

1169
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:05,240
But what does it say?

1170
00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:06,200
How often?

1171
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,920
Every day, except the Sabbath day.

1172
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,240
And what is the principle behind that?

1173
00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:15,760
The principle is this, because you cannot live

1174
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:20,760
off old manna today, you need fresh bread

1175
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:22,800
from heaven every day.

1176
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,320
You need a fresh anointing every day.

1177
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,600
You need a fresh experience with Jesus.

1178
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:29,800
You need to bring, seeking Him.

1179
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:34,640
Please don't live your faith from Sunday to Sunday.

1180
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,480
Live it every day, right?

1181
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:41,160
Please don't live from Christmas and Easter, right?

1182
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,720
And obviously you guys aren't, you guys are here, right?

1183
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:44,720
But this is what it's saying,

1184
00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,160
that we need a fresh, fresh anointing, right?

1185
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,200
Fresh experience, a fresh Jesus every day.

1186
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,520
And, but when do you find it?

1187
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,480
When you go look for Him, when you go gather Him.

1188
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,080
And so this is how, what did it do?

1189
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:00,880
It grew them forward.

1190
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:07,200
And when we started this journey of looking for new places,

1191
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,840
we looked at a lot of different places.

1192
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,080
We looked at movie theaters,

1193
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,720
we looked at kind of storefronts

1194
00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:19,600
that are long, very prominent places.

1195
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,760
We looked in Kamakana Ali'i.

1196
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:26,000
We looked at an old supermarket that was the right size.

1197
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,240
Some of them were just too small.

1198
00:49:27,240 --> 00:49:28,520
You had to look big on the outside,

1199
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:29,800
you go inside, it's not that big.

1200
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:34,120
And, you know, there's some like the supermarket was great.

1201
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,360
There's, be bigger than this place, nice size room.

1202
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,120
We could make it whatever we want,

1203
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:40,920
but the terms kept changing.

1204
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:42,600
And all the things that they promised,

1205
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,720
like you wouldn't need a permit now,

1206
00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:46,320
all of a sudden you got to get a permit,

1207
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:47,840
but we can't even get our permit.

1208
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:49,720
And, you know, they have a master permit.

1209
00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:51,320
And so this got complicated

1210
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:52,600
and you want us to sign a lease,

1211
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,960
but you kind of tell you when you can take occupancy.

1212
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,400
You kind of tell you when every, you know,

1213
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,240
so like we couldn't do that, right?

1214
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:03,440
So we're looking, we looked at the old New Hope,

1215
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,960
Leeward space, the old Ace hardware in Kapolei

1216
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:07,800
by Home Depot.

1217
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:08,920
We looked at that space.

1218
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,160
We cannot afford that space, but you know what?

1219
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,440
I'm going to pitch a number, I said,

1220
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:14,400
but we can afford this.

1221
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,160
This is better than zero, right?

1222
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:18,400
We'll do it for short term.

1223
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:19,840
They entertained it.

1224
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,880
Didn't quite work for them at the end, right?

1225
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,600
And so some of you, you're like me.

1226
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:26,840
You've been trying to move forward.

1227
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:28,360
You've been trying to make a change,

1228
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,640
but you've been getting a lot of no's, right?

1229
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:31,480
You're getting a lot of no's.

1230
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,720
It's discouraging, I understand.

1231
00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:34,560
But you know what?

1232
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,040
When you get a lot of no's in life,

1233
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,680
don't focus on the no's because right now,

1234
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,360
all I needed was one yes, right?

1235
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:46,000
And I don't want you to care about the rest anymore, right?

1236
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,000
There's a yes for you in the future.

1237
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,160
When you embrace change, yes.

1238
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,240
Sometimes you're going to get a lot of no's.

1239
00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:54,440
Don't worry about it.

1240
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,920
All you need is one yes, amen?

1241
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,360
Let's bow our heads when we close in a word of prayer.

1242
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:03,360
Father, today we are grateful.

1243
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,240
We are grateful because you were faithful to us

1244
00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:11,160
in some of the craziest seasons as a church,

1245
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,320
Father, as a people.

1246
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,200
Lord, that you were so faithful.

1247
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,200
And Father, we're thankful that you'll be faithful

1248
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:19,400
in the future.

1249
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,800
And Father, we don't want to live out of,

1250
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,160
we don't want to live in our past,

1251
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:28,160
but we want to live based on things we learned in our past.

1252
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,760
And so Father, for some of us today,

1253
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:35,440
we're learning to not just see all the challenges

1254
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,520
and all the unknowns, but Father,

1255
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,320
we're going to embrace a growth mindset.

1256
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,160
Because even when things look good

1257
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,880
or when things look hard, we're thankful we can grow

1258
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,280
and we can change and we can become better.

1259
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:49,800
That you can grow our character

1260
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:54,120
and you're going to, in that process, grow our influence.

1261
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,600
And for some of us, maybe you need to examine the,

1262
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,880
I'm never's, the vows you've made.

1263
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:03,600
Be careful about those things.

1264
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:08,440
Don't let them rob you of the potential that God has for you.

1265
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,360
That you only know healing

1266
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,880
when you deal with some of those hurts, right?

1267
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:16,920
You only know through those things.

1268
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,080
Would you maybe just invite God into that?

1269
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:21,600
And to be honest, for most of us,

1270
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:26,280
you'll probably need some help to process that.

1271
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,120
It doesn't mean you go to therapy per se,

1272
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:33,480
but maybe understand that God has a process

1273
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:37,200
by which we get free from the hurts from our past.

1274
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:38,200
We have a course for that.

1275
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:39,920
It's called Finding Freedom.

1276
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,360
Would you prayerfully consider,

1277
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,560
God, is this the season for me to do that?

1278
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,480
But Father, we're thankful that we can grow forward today.

1279
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,280
Even when we're not where we want to be

1280
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,640
and we're not in the comfort place where we used to be,

1281
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,800
God, we're thankful we can grow forward.

1282
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:01,640
So Father, would you speak to your people

1283
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,240
about Lord the places that they're at

1284
00:53:04,240 --> 00:53:07,800
and maybe what they, you're really challenging them to do?

1285
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:09,360
What you're really encouraging them in?

1286
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,720
What you're really comforting them in?

1287
00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:16,400
Father, we receive, you have that message for us today.

1288
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,040
Father, I know there's some out there

1289
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:21,960
that have never said yes to Jesus,

1290
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maybe like my friend Tony,

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that you haven't experienced it before.

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But today, maybe today's your day.

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Today you're recognizing,

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God, if you really want me, I want you.

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God, if you really can receive me

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and all the things that I've been through,

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you know what he really can?

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That God wants you.

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You just have to receive him.

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You just have to respond to him.

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So we're gonna pray a very simple prayer

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to respond and receive the grace of God for you.

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You know, the scripture says this,

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that when we come before God,

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we come not before a God of judgment.

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Although he is a judge and one day we'll all be judged.

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But this is what he says.

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When you come now,

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when you come before the judgment,

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this is what he says.

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You receive grace.

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You receive mercy.

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That's what we're receiving today.

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His grace and His mercy.

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We're gonna pray that prayer.

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If it's you're saying it for the first time,

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would you join me?

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If you're maybe saying it as well,

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just to kind of renew something in your faith

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that we invite you to join along.

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We're gonna pray.

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Dear God, thank you for seeing me

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and all the changes that's going on in my life

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and receiving me.

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Thank you for Jesus who died in my place.

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I don't understand everything about that.

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But today, I open up my heart

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and would you come live inside me today?

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I trust Jesus to be my savior and my Lord.

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Thank you, he paid the price for me.

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Help me to understand your will and your ways.

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Help me to understand your words

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00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:11,720
so I can trust you more and build my faith.

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And Lord, would you bring people around me?

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Because I need some help in how to grow.

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And Lord, I thank you that relationships

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are something you made.

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And so help me to encourage others as well.

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I say this now because it's useful, you can hear me.

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And I can hear myself that Jesus is my savior,

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he's my Lord and I belong to him.

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In Jesus' name, amen, amen.

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Hey, can we say congratulations to those folks?

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God bless you guys, thanks for joining us this weekend.

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Thank you for tuning in to the New Hope Kapolei Messages Podcast.

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We hope you enjoyed this weekend's message

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and that it brought you inspiration and encouragement

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in your journey of faith.

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If you'd like to listen to more messages

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or stay connected with us,

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00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,680
visit our website at newhopekapolei.org

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or follow us on social media.

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00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,600
Remember, no matter where you are in life,

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there is always hope and a new beginning in Christ.

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So let's continue to grow and learn together

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as we pursue a life of purpose and impact.

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Thanks again for listening.

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We'll see you next time.

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Aloha and God bless.