Welcome everyone. We're
excited to share some country
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wisdom with you
King Solomon had a thing
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or two to say about the
path to wisdom in proverbs 4,
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he wrote let your
eyes look directly forward
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and your gaze be
straight before you
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keep straight the path of
your feet and all your ways
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will be sure join us
now for Country wisdom.
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You know, Janice did you know
you can choose your thoughts and
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think things on purpose?
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I know the theory
Jim and I fail far
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too often. There is
are there are too many
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moments in the day when I'm
not in complete control of my
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thoughts. But you know, it's
really true. We don't have to be
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held captive to just
whatever falls into her head
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and be drug along that
Direction with it. And that's
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what happens with
me. Especially if I get a
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little worrying thought
instead of conquering it
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replacing it with
positive thoughts turning
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to a text or to
a prayer too often.
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I start building on that
thought. It's like, oh that's
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right. And then
other thoughts come in
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and pretty soon this
one nagging little doubt or
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one worry has
just blossomed into
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something that has
completely taken over and there
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goes, you know,
the whole next hour
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and too often that's happening
about two in the morning.
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I think about you talking about
that I think about rolling a
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little snowball just you
know, kind of over the edge of
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the hill and then it grows and
grows picks up more speed and
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more and picks up whatever
crud maybe a body or no pretty
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soon. You've got this monster
thing rolling down the hill
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because you didn't get control
of it earlier didn't ask for
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can help
controlling it. Yeah. I've got
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a good text. I wanted to
read you in Proverbs 23:7 says
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as he or a man
or woman thinks in
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So is he where the Mind
goes then? Basically it's
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saying the body follows.
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And is the one
that steers the ship?
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Where my thoughts go there my
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entire nervous system
goes my blood pressure
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goes that direction
the whole limbic system
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gets involved
then all because of a
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thought that came
through I used to teach stop
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smoking plans.
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And it was kind of interesting
because people you know, they
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reach in they get that
cigarette. They light it up.
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They puff along they never even
think about anymore. It's become
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this habit and it basically
begins steering their life that
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little tiny thing
becomes the whole Rudder
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of their entire life.
They're no longer captain of the
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ship and that's really I think
what you know Proverbs seeing
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we need to become the
captain of the ship again.
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I was reading an
article one time about you
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know, losing weight
maintaining that control
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and it mentioned that
little Habits Like just
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sitting down to
watch television too often
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triggers. I need a
snack because you've
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sat down with a
snack to watch TV.
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So often that
now just the act of
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sitting it's like Pavlov's
dogs. They hear the bell and
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start salivating. Yeah. Yeah we
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Basically, you know,
we need to get out of
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the conditioning that you're
talking about. We can change
those condition responses.
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We used to tell people. Hey what
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after dinner
don't sit back and relax
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in your same old easy
chair that's full of smoke and
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everything and you doing the
same thing you used to do just
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automatically that neuromuscular
habit reach in light up don't
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even have to think about it
you begin needing to form new
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patterns in the brain.
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I reached for the
Bible because I thought of a
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You used to be far
from God your thoughts
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made you his enemies
and you did Evil things.
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But his son became a
human and died. So God made
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peace with you. And
now he lets you stand in
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his presence as people
who are holy and faultless and
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innocent that's
Colossians 1 verses 21
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and 22, but it's
really verse 21 that
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that I want you to
think about. We used
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to be far from
God. Why because our
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thoughts made us his enemies
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and we did Evil things too often
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people get that
backwards. They're starting with
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the evil things
people think sin is out here.
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It's in what I'm
doing. Well this didn't
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start. We're out
here in my fingers.
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It started here
right here. Yeah right in
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between right and
if we don't get new
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thoughts somehow
if we don't get that
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mind transplant,
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We're going to just keep
doing the things that are
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out here the sin that's out here
at our fingertips. It's true.
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You know, I think
about Philippians chapter
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2. That's perfect
for what exactly what
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you're talking about. Matter of
fact, there's a cool staircase
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in the home here. I'd like to
take you over there and and
actually illustrate
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the scripture.
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Satan was constantly nipping
at my heels and I just couldn't
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catch my breath. I
was grieving. I felt
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scared confused
anxious and depressed.
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My life was literally
turned upside down and
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falling apart. I
didn't know what to do. But I
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knew who had
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All right, Jamie got
me up the stairs, which is
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you know, no easy feat.
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That's a big
staircase. It is pretty good.
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And I assume that you
have a purpose for dragging me
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It wasn't just a
stare at me. No, it
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smells that's cute. No, it's
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really it's about
a chiastic structure.
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Did I did I kind of leave you
on that one? Do I look blanket?
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Yeah, you do
basically a chiastic structure
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in the Greek.
It's some informs an
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X in this staircase is kind
of that perfect situation and
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what it's all that's right.
There are some books that do
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that the Bible
exactly. It's coming
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back to me now some old
college classes about how
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it will take
you like on One path
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and then come right
back many riders. Not only
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biblical writer many writers
will do that type of thing, you
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know, but it's so perfect
here because Philippians chapter
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2, isn't it just an astounding
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chapter about God.
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And it starts out
in verse 5 let this
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mind be in you
which was in Christ Jesus.
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Who being in the form of
God thought it not robbery to be
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But made himself of
no reputation took upon
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him the form of a servant.
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And he was made in the likeness
Amendment. He humbled himself he
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found himself.
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Fashionism Manny humbled himself
and became obedient unto death.
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Even the death of
the Cross. Now. Let
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me take you down the stairs
to kind of explain this and so
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cool in my mind
because here he is. He's God,
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right? That's my
on the stairs. You
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can get high on the stairs
you can get so he's God then
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he empties
himself takes a step down.
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You take a step down to cool.
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Then it became a man
takes another step down big step
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big step.
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Became a servant
takes another step.
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becomes obedient to death
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and then the biggest step of all
the most humiliating terrible
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He died on a cross the worst
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death that you can
have as far as what Humanity
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figured at the time. That
was the most horrendous of
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death. It was used
for the lowest of the
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criminals and was
also used because it
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was complete
humiliation. Yeah. Yeah.
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So here is God.
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Who wants to save Humanity?
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First of all said let
this mind be in you what mine
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the mind of Jesus what kind
of mind was that one that comes
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down down. You know,
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I think as humans.
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We think of ourselves as being
the top of the food chain, you
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know, I adore my little dogs,
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but they're way
beneath me. Right? We think
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we are the top look
around the earth. There is no
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creature better than we
are and we don't realize how
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far Jesus descended to get
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to where we are. We
think this is so great and it
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was like no
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matter of fact when you think
of when he took on Humanity
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Realized at that moment. He was
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no longer the same
God that he'd always been
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for eternity forever.
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Because he cumbered
himself with human flesh. He
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is now our elder
brother. He can no longer
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be in every place at once the
father and the Holy Spirit can
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but not Jesus
Jesus gave that part of
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himself up now. I doubt if
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you can demand I
certainly can't imagine.
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What it's like to
give up that kind of
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No, I fantasize
about having some Powers,
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you know in our
family sometimes my daughter
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and I'll joke about what
superpower we would want and and
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I said at the end
of one conversation
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I said, you know, it's probably
a good thing that I don't have
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any superpowers. I cannot
guarantee that I would use my
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powers for good and
can you imagine having that
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superpower?
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and giving up
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being able to use it doing
it all up. Yeah for eternity
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forever.
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And and he did that for
us that's that descent to
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that Heavenly
staircase that he came down, you
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and then I think about
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What kind of mine was that
that that self-humbling mind?
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I want to go up. You know,
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I want to turn the staircase
around. We're always trying to
make ourselves look better.
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Yeah, exactly. I want to send
the staircase a lot of times,
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you know and matter
fact I think about well,
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there's been
many times but I will
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probably even go ahead and
all of them, but but you know,
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I've I've been preaching
some place like man pretty good.
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You know that good
job, Jim and I remember
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one preacher one time.
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He just come off the pulpit.
He's out shaking hands with
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people and the laser. You
did such a good job. You did
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Brother. You did a wonderful
job. You said why thank you. He
said the devil told me the same
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I oh that's good. That's
good. Well, you know the verse
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in the Bible that says
Pride goes before a fall. It's
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assuming that Pride
you're up above you can't
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fall if you're already as
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low as you can get there's
no Pride involved with already
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being on the ground.
Yeah now juxtapose this
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with the Devil
the devils in heaven.
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He says I want to be like
the most high he's already
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higher than any of
the other created being
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created being. Yeah, and
that's not good enough. Yeah. I
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will send to the sides of
the north. I will do all these
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things. I I he had
a real eye problem.
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You know, he only saw himself
when he looked in the mirror
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only saw But there's something
else that's even more exciting
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now Because
it's the second half.
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And the second half is pretty
incredible because God the
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Father steps in.
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Verse 9 of chapter 2
wherefore. God has highly
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exalted him and we begin taking
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the stairway.
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other side
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that's the chiastic structure
you're talking about he descends
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but God exalts him.
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That's what God's looking for.
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You know in us, too.
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And being exalted is alright, if
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it's God who's exalting you?
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Because he wouldn't
do that to someone where.
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Going back to the superpower.
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God's not going to give you
a superpower that's going to
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destroy you. Yeah,
and so exalting Christ
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obviously was not
going to hurt him.
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He had already proven
that he could handle that.
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Yeah. Yeah. So
let me take you on the
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journey up the other side and
through the text here. It's
pretty incredible. All right, I
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really get excited because
this is where the father gets
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involved. He
takes Jesus over here to
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the stairs. Listen
to this in verse 9.
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Wherefore God also
hath highly exalted
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him Jesus and given him a name
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which is above every
name that at the name of Jesus
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Every Nation bow things in
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heaven things in the earth
things under the Earth and that
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every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord to
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the glory of God the
Father. It's amazing all this
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is to the glory of
God the father now, so
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just kind of reiterate.
What do we do? We we go
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from this this
position of the cross.
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And he gives him a
name which is above every
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name takes him up the stair.
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Then he says every
knee will bow takes
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him up again.
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Things in heaven takes
him up again another stare.
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And under the Earth
everything under the Earth
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takes another step
and finally he gets to
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the point The Next Step
where all the universe confesses
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that truly Jesus
Christ is Lord to the
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glory of God the Father.
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And that's the chiastic
structure exactly you threw me
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when you first said it because
well, it's be honest. How
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often do you throw the word
chiastic into your daily
conversation? Never
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but you know,
the the brain cells
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have been waking up here.
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isn't isn't the root of
that word the letter X it
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is that the key
from the Greek from the
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Greek and
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I remember thinking the first
time I ever heard I understand
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the whole concept of
the the mirror image, you
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know the down and then back
up but always seem to me that
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that's a v not an
ex and I was objecting
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my literal little
brain was going that's a
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v that's not an
ex, but I understand.
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And that's a big symbol if you
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go to Rome.
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Yes, it is. Right.
You see that symbol all
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over on early
Christian artwork and
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architecture.
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You think about
this in you know,
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it's God the Father Who exalts?
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God himself all
God came down down
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down and then
the father lifts him
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up the same thing
that he wants to do in each
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Amazing stuff. We have
to have the mind of Christ
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that's willing to First
be lowered. Yeah willing.
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There it is. Yeah,
our will our will is
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the only thing that can
get involved to stop this whole
00:15:05.80\00:15:08.54
amazing process because
otherwise we'll just keep going
00:15:08.54\00:15:09.60
down. You know and when
we think we're going up.
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I mean that's that is
the interesting thing. We
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can we can strive for everything
in this world everything in
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this planet and it
gets us and look pretty
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high up there to the
world. Yeah. Yeah, but
00:15:22.42\00:15:25.95
we're really down low. We don't
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have the mind of
Christ and all of
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that is just going to drag
us down you think about it? How
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long is a new car going to last?
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Not long enough.
Yeah, how long is a
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House going to
last in this world.
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You can drive around see
all kinds of dilapidated homes.
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You know, how long is
the gold in the silver
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going to last not too
long? But I think about there's
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there's a another amazing
text still in Philippians.
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I can find it here. Let's see.
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Verse 13 for it is God
which works in you both
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the will and to
do his good pleasure.
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It's God's pleasure
to lift us up. It's God's
00:16:06.29\00:16:09.46
will that each one of us
will be lifted Higher and
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Higher and it's only three we
can't do it ourselves. I think
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humanity is proven that we
cannot improve ourselves. Yeah.
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It's only
Christ in us that gives
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us a brand new mind that
mind transplant. And what
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does it take? It takes that
surrender that Jesus surrendered
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to go down the
stairs step by step by step
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and the payoff is
marvelous because God is
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gonna lift this
higher and higher and higher.
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When we were inside we
were talking about we need
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the mind of Christ
basically to replace our mind.
00:17:38.52\00:17:41.29
We need a new
mind and my husband's
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a surgeon and I was
thinking of mine transplants.
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I have joked that you
00:17:47.76\00:17:50.37
know, oh finally had
someone else's brain, you
00:17:50.37\00:17:53.34
know, do they do
brain transplants yet?
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But in a transplant, you
know, you don't go in for a
00:17:57.34\00:18:00.44
kidney transplant
and less you recognize
00:18:00.44\00:18:03.45
that your kidney is
not functioning the way
00:18:03.45\00:18:06.45
it's supposed to you have
to first recognize my kidneys
00:18:06.45\00:18:09.32
bad before you ever follow up
00:18:09.32\00:18:12.35
on getting a new kidney and with
00:18:12.35\00:18:15.86
us, it's the same way
if you don't recognize
00:18:15.86\00:18:18.33
just how twisted how evil
00:18:18.33\00:18:22.06
our minds really are.
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You're never going to need or
ask for that transplant. You're
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never going to go
to where you the power
00:18:28.77\00:18:31.11
that you need
to replace the Mind
00:18:31.11\00:18:34.98
thoughts that you have
right. Now it very true. It's
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very true I think about
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You've got to
compare to see if we are
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And here's where it tells us,
you know, whether we're sick or
00:18:44.75\00:18:47.76
not and we talked about
this mind to Christ. Well, what
00:18:47.76\00:18:49.82
really was that mind?
00:18:49.82\00:18:50.06
Let me read you one in
Matthew 20 verses 26 to 28 says
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but whoever desires to
be great among you let him
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be your servant.
00:18:58.50\00:18:59.13
Oh that little
different than we see in the
00:19:00.80\00:19:03.51
world isn't it? And whoever
desires to be Chief among
00:19:03.51\00:19:06.44
you let him be
your servant but it's at
00:19:06.44\00:19:09.61
a double time. So within
scripture when it hits the same
00:19:09.61\00:19:12.55
thing a couple times, it's
really pounding and home here.
00:19:12.55\00:19:13.21
Because I think we all
have a tendency to want
00:19:14.82\00:19:17.22
to be the served not the
one doing the serving. We
00:19:17.22\00:19:20.76
don't even respect people who
00:19:20.76\00:19:22.92
serve
00:19:22.92\00:19:23.16
You know look at Society, who do
00:19:24.46\00:19:27.40
we honor more the blue
collar workers who are really
00:19:27.40\00:19:30.17
doing the work or
the CEO and the air
00:19:30.17\00:19:33.87
conditioned office, you know,
making half a million every
00:19:33.87\00:19:36.50
other day. Yeah with which one
are you going to dress up for?
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You know, if you have an
appointment, is it the Burger
00:19:39.81\00:19:42.11
King worker or like say the
CEO and the Ivory Tower we tend
00:19:42.11\00:19:45.78
to do that all the
time. It continues on says
00:19:45.78\00:19:47.32
but the son of man did
not come to be served but to
00:19:49.32\00:19:52.25
serve whoa that
totally different mindset.
00:19:52.25\00:19:55.42
So if you find
myself thinking oh,
00:19:55.42\00:19:59.16
somebody else can do
00:19:59.16\00:20:01.26
that that that's kind of
beneath me. My pride won't let
00:20:01.26\00:20:04.40
me do that job or take
on that particular task.
00:20:04.40\00:20:06.60
Right there. I can go. I
don't think I've got the mind of
00:20:09.37\00:20:11.87
Christ right now. Yeah matter of
00:20:11.87\00:20:15.58
fact I think about it
talking about that. You'll see
00:20:15.58\00:20:18.65
sometimes they'll write up about
an actor an actress and say
00:20:18.65\00:20:20.15
They just seem so
human they they you know
00:20:22.25\00:20:23.99
were out here eating with
someone or they came out of
00:20:26.29\00:20:28.36
their trailer and ate
with the crew and I'm and it's
00:20:28.36\00:20:31.36
like should that be so
amazing but it is because
00:20:31.36\00:20:34.50
the crew who's making them
look good, but because it's the
00:20:34.50\00:20:37.97
kind of world we live in you
know, it's where we are. Now,
00:20:37.97\00:20:40.64
here's the last part of that
in Jesus came to give his life
00:20:40.64\00:20:43.10
a ransom for
many. Now the mini in
00:20:43.10\00:20:46.74
this case. Is anybody who wants
to I think you you mentioned one
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time but anybody who wants
to accept the ransom right? You
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have to recognize your prisoner.
00:20:51.78\00:20:52.31
You know and want
to be ransomed you have
00:20:54.28\00:20:57.19
to accept being
ransomed. Yeah, because we
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are captive down here.
00:20:59.85\00:21:00.56
We really are whether we want to
admit it or not. Yeah. Yeah, and
00:21:02.56\00:21:05.29
it it's a situation that the
00:21:05.29\00:21:08.53
devil so controls our
minds to turn everything in
00:21:08.53\00:21:11.63
a different direction that
we never recognize, you know.
00:21:11.63\00:21:12.53
What really is that
mind to Christ? Well, there's
00:21:14.44\00:21:15.54
on the stairs you
brought up the point of he was
00:21:17.57\00:21:20.58
so willing to Humble
himself to lower himself. So
00:21:20.58\00:21:23.85
if I'm not willing
to do that, I don't have
00:21:23.85\00:21:26.25
the mind of Christ yet
and we talked here about
00:21:26.25\00:21:29.42
being willing to serve
which I think is quite related
00:21:29.42\00:21:32.65
to being willing to humble
yourself, but there's another
00:21:32.65\00:21:34.66
verse that
00:21:34.66\00:21:34.72
I have to look it up because
I'm not really good at quoting
00:21:37.86\00:21:39.86
things on the Fly.
00:21:39.86\00:21:40.33
Acts 20 verse 35
00:21:42.76\00:21:44.60
I've shown you all
things that working in
00:21:46.77\00:21:49.20
this way. We ought to
help the week and to remember
00:21:49.20\00:21:52.41
the words of the Lord Jesus now
if it's something that he said
00:21:52.41\00:21:54.98
himself probably
fairly important. So
00:21:54.98\00:21:58.88
the words of the
Lord Jesus that he
00:21:58.88\00:22:01.52
himself said, it is
more blessed to give
00:22:01.52\00:22:04.09
than to receive, you know.
00:22:04.09\00:22:05.72
We've all used that on our kids
and I'm sure when we were kids
00:22:08.79\00:22:11.56
and we were making these huge
long Christmas lists. You might
00:22:11.56\00:22:15.06
have had, you know, Grandma say,
you know, it's more blessed to
00:22:15.06\00:22:17.97
give than to receive and nobody
believed it when you're eight
00:22:17.97\00:22:20.24
years old, but it
really is I've experienced
00:22:20.24\00:22:23.51
that where when you
have given something
00:22:23.51\00:22:27.01
to someone else
especially if maybe it
00:22:27.01\00:22:29.11
was a little bit of a sacrifice.
00:22:29.11\00:22:29.54
But you're still
happier afterwards, then
00:22:31.31\00:22:34.75
you were before oh
and it's not just money. I
00:22:34.75\00:22:37.52
think we think of that
verse as applying to to money,
00:22:37.52\00:22:41.06
you know to giving
offerings at church or
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supporting charities.
00:22:42.69\00:22:43.22
But it is so much easier
to write a check than to give
00:22:45.53\00:22:48.20
some of your time.
I remember you are the
00:22:48.20\00:22:51.53
one who talked me into going on
my very first mission trip, and
00:22:51.53\00:22:54.80
I didn't want to go
you wanted Steve. I can
00:22:54.80\00:22:57.64
remember you said what can
I do? Right? I understood how
00:22:57.64\00:23:01.18
you wanted Steve because you
were doing some medical work,
00:23:01.18\00:23:02.94
but it's literally
00:23:02.94\00:23:03.21
Okay, I'm you couldn't
drag me into a medical clinic.
00:23:05.45\00:23:07.78
I'd be useless.
00:23:07.78\00:23:08.15
And you were building it was
a church or a school building a
00:23:10.55\00:23:13.29
church and doing my career read.
00:23:13.29\00:23:16.76
Yeah. I am not known for
my construction skills. And
00:23:16.76\00:23:20.33
then I was thinking well,
00:23:20.33\00:23:22.60
I suppose I could work in the
kitchen and help feed people.
00:23:22.60\00:23:25.27
Well, you know
in those two weeks.
00:23:25.27\00:23:26.53
I strapped on a tool
belt and I learned how to
00:23:28.54\00:23:31.17
lay rebar and
build these cement block
00:23:31.17\00:23:34.31
walls and I was
having a blast doing
00:23:34.31\00:23:37.41
it and at the end of
those two weeks we had
00:23:37.41\00:23:39.81
this beautiful little church.
00:23:39.81\00:23:40.38
That was built people
were so grateful. But I
00:23:42.42\00:23:45.29
distinctly
remember feeling like I need
00:23:45.29\00:23:48.69
to do that again. Do
you got the book? Yeah,
00:23:48.69\00:23:51.53
you just kind of hope.
I hope that that meant as
00:23:51.53\00:23:54.46
much to them as this
whole experience is meant to me
00:23:54.46\00:23:57.13
that's that's the
real key is is in giving
00:23:57.13\00:24:00.50
we really receive
and that's really the
00:24:00.50\00:24:03.41
mind of Christ. I mean,
what did he spend all of his
00:24:03.41\00:24:06.54
time doing you're giving going
up Healing The Sick cleansing
00:24:06.54\00:24:09.68
the lepers raising the
Dead really and sharing the
00:24:09.68\00:24:13.01
love of God
because everybody that
00:24:13.01\00:24:15.52
he came to had a
misconception who God was he
00:24:15.52\00:24:18.62
came to share
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00:24:27.66\00:24:30.87
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00:24:33.44\00:24:36.47
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I think of everything we've
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00:26:03.89\00:26:06.06
in John 15 versus 13 to 16 says
00:26:06.06\00:26:09.46
no one has greater
love than this speaking of
00:26:09.46\00:26:12.43
Jesus that a
manly down his life for
00:26:12.43\00:26:15.40
his friends. You
are my friends. If you
00:26:15.40\00:26:16.97
do whatever a command you
no longer do I call you service
00:26:18.47\00:26:21.61
for servants? They
don't know what the master
00:26:21.61\00:26:24.25
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called you friends for all
00:26:24.25\00:26:27.72
things that I've heard
from the father. I'd be known to
00:26:27.72\00:26:30.45
you and this is
really the key part. You have
00:26:30.45\00:26:33.09
not chosen me,
but I have chosen.
00:26:33.09\00:26:34.62
And if you respond
to his choosing and you
00:26:37.26\00:26:40.30
choose to be a
friend of his to accept that
00:26:40.30\00:26:42.83
friendship.
00:26:42.83\00:26:43.13
You're on your way to getting
that chiastic structure in
00:26:45.37\00:26:48.20
your own life because
we are all down here and he
00:26:48.20\00:26:51.97
promises I will grab you and I
00:26:51.97\00:26:54.81
will lift you up. I will
literally lift your mind up.
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Yeah, you know and folks this is
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a real key. This was
what God wants to do with each
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one of us. First of all, he
wants to be our friend right
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our best friend. He wants
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to take us and draw closer
and closer and closer just like
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me disciples. He walked
with them for three and a
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half years sharing
everything with them.
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He wants to share with you. He
wants to walk with you. He wants
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to change your life. He wants
to give you that mind transplant
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the mind of
Jesus Christ. And who
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does it? It's the father.
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The father will take a
step by step by step closer
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and closer to him,
please today choose
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him choose this
life. I mean we can
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sit here you and I can
talk all the time and urge.
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People it doesn't do any good
if you don't respond personally,
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right it comes down
to saying I need that
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mind transplant. My
mind is not doing any
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good for me get me a new one.
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Choose the new mind
of Jesus Christ today.
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Thank you for watching join
us again for another exciting
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country wisdom.
See you next time.
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