Welcome back.
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Thank you.
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It's been too long.
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Good to see your
smiling faces again.
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And Brother Rudy has agreed
to lead us in prayer today.
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Thank you.
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Dear Father in heaven Lord,
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we are so joyful to
be here in Your presence.
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You have done everything
possible for us to be saved.
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You've reached down and
You've chosen us sinners
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to represent You and
represent Jesus to the world,
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what a privilege it is.
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We have no way of refusing Lord,
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because You reach down
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with such a
strength, such power.
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Christ has done
everything possible for us
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to be free from sin
and to be saved right now
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to have eternal
life right here on earth.
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We don't have to wait.
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And we praise Your
name, we praise Jesus' name
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and praise the Holy Spirit,
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and we praise for
the indwelling presence
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of the spirit in our lives,
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so that Jesus can
manifest His motives,
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and His actions, and
His purposes in our lives.
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I pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you very much.
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So if I remember correctly
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I was in the
middle of the story?
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Yes.
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And I'm going to
review to make sure
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we are all on the same page.
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But I've been preaching
vigorously in this church
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for an hour on the
righteousness of Jesus,
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and I'm standing at
the doors shaking hands
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with the congregation
and I see this couple
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that I've known
for at least 15 years,
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that couple
probably in their late 40s,
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and I'm always happy to see them
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and he came out and
he was his usual self,
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and his wife followed
and she shook hands with me
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and she had a face like thunder,
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and without smiling at me
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or anything she
says, I hate him.
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I said, well, thank you so
much for sharing that with me.
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It just made my day complete,
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especially after
I've just preached
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on the righteousness of Jesus.
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By the way I hope your
hatred is not directed at God.
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Oh, no she said and she turned
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and pointed to her
husband, him the snake.
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And he's starting
to wither on the vine,
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and she said, changing time
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would you have
lunch with us today?
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I said, you have no idea
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what a joy that would be for me,
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to have lunch with someone
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who hates her
husband as much as you do.
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I can hardly wait to get there.
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Oh, good she says,
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she took it seriously
failing to miss my humor.
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She said, we'll
keep a seat for you,
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and tables were
set up and a couch out,
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it was a
beautiful California day.
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So I went through the
line, got my plate of food,
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they were already
out there waiting for me.
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He sat on one side of the table
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and she sat on the other,
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so I said to
myself, wisdom would suggest
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that I sit on her side,
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unless she thinks the men
are ganging up against her.
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So I sat down on
her side of the table
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and she started in again.
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I can't tell you how
much I hate this man?
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I said, I want to
tell you something.
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Listen very carefully
because I'm the kind of person
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who has to enjoy his meal.
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If you say that one more
time and I'm leaving this table,
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I have many
friends in this church,
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I'm just gonna
go to another table.
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So my advice to you
is and I went like this.
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She sat there glaring at me.
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I said by the way,
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would you like to
change your attitude
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towards your husband
in the next 60 seconds?
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Oh, she said, we all
know that's not possible.
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Oh, I said,
apparently you have the hearing
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as well as the speaking problem,
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I didn't ask you if
would were possible,
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I asked you if you would
like to change your attitude
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towards your husband
in the next 60 seconds.
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She said, it
takes 60 repetitions,
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you got to repeat
in action 60 times
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before you can make a change.
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I said, you do
have a hearing problem.
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I'm gonna try one last
time and I'm picking up my plate
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and I'm getting
ready to flee this table.
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My advice to you
is that you give me
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either a yes or
no answer this time.
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Would like to
change your attitude
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towards your husband
in the next 60 seconds?
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She hesitated and she went--
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I said good.
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Put your hand here, she
put her hand on the table,
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I said to him put
your hand on top of this,
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and I put my hand on top of his,
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I said I'm gonna ask a
very unusual request of God,
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I'm gonna ask God's
permission to accept the prayer
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that I'm about to pray
and you will repeat after me,
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I'm going to ask God
to accept this prayer
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as coming from you.
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So I went ahead and asked
God to receive this prayer
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as coming from
her, and I said to her,
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I want you to
repeat only what I say,
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don't add anything
or subtract anything,
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do you agree?
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She said mm-mmm.
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so I began to pray and
I said, God forgive me,
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I just sat in a
sermon where Jesus Christ
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has been lifted up before me,
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His life, death
and resurrection,
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and I've been unable to hear it
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because of the bitterness
and hatred that's in my heart.
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Please forgive me
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for missing out on
the message of Jesus
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and the love of God,
she prayed the prayer.
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I said, I'm trying to move
back into faith at the moment,
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I'm coming to the cross,
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and even now I feel
so dirty and unclean,
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I'm looking at
Jesus hanging there
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and I realize it's me...
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please declare
me to be righteous.
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I don't feel righteous,
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I know, I'm not but by
faith I'm claming the privilege,
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I believe that I'm dead to sin
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because Jesus Christ died
substituting Himself for me.
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Amen.
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She prayed the prayer,
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and I said at this very
moment as I move into faith,
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I claim the
privilege of having the mind
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of Jesus coming to me.
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Amen.
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So that the next
words I speak to my husband
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will be the words of Jesus.
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Amen.
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The next thoughts I
have towards my husband
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will be the thoughts of Jesus.
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Amen.
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I give you
permission to do this.
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Amen. Amen.
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We finished praying,
she prayed the whole prayer.
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The hands were taken back
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and we just sat there
grinning at each other.
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Well, as a good friends,
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and I will never
forget this as long as I live,
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she reached her
hand across the table
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and she took hold
of her husband's hand.
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This is 60 seconds is going by,
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and she looked at her husband
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and she said,
honey, I forgive you.
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This was the words of Jesus.
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She said not only--
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and I have no idea
what happened between them,
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I never asked, she said,
not only do I forgive you
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she said with the
grin on her face she said,
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you know, I still
love you very much.
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And he was an appropriate male
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and he melted
and he grinned at me
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and he said, would you excuse us
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we need to go
for a walk together.
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And they walked off hand in hand
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and came back an hour later
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and finished the
weekend seminar with us.
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And I look at
this and I say, well.
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Amen.
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Sixty seconds.
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Yes.
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With the mind of Jesus in you
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and you've gone from bitterness
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and hatred to
forgiveness and love.
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Amen.
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I want to tell
you that is a miracle.
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Amen. Amen.
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That is a miracle of God's grace
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when that happens.
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And I began to
realize that I have missed
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so many opportunities in life
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because I have failed
to take the time to ask
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for the mind of Jesus
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to replace my crazy
thoughts with His thoughts.
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You know, what I'm
learning about Jesus.
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He's not selfish.
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He's not even self centered.
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He is willing to sacrifice
so that others may feel good.
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And that others may be restored.
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Amen. And be made whole again.
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I'm getting a
whole new appreciation
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of what it means
to have Christ in you.
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It means that you're
giving Him access to your mind.
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You can even start
thinking His thoughts
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and the good news is,
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you can start
feeling His feelings,
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is that good news or what?
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Yes. Yes.
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You may have bad
feeling towards somebody,
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but He doesn't.
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He may be seeing them
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from a whole new
perspective to you.
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Amen. He is a gracious God.
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Amen.
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So open your
Bibles to Romans 12,
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Romans 12.
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Romans 12:2.
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It's a well
known verse by the way.
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"Do not be
conformed to this world."
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I'm not-- I love
Phillips' translation,
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I know it's not a
regular translation,
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it's a paraphrased but it
reads so beautifully here.
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"Do not let the world around you
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squeeze you into its mould."
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I love that, I love that.
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And the regular version say,
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"Don't be
conformed to this world."
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it doesn't quite have
the same vitality, does it?
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As "Don't let
the world around you
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squeeze you into its own mould."
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"Don't be conformed
to this world, but be..."
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Transformed.
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Here is the human mind.
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And Paul's urging is
be transformed by what?
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"By the renewing."
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"By the renewing of..."
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"Your mind."
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"Renewing of your mind."
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Wow.
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Lot of interest in
health and exercise today,
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you can actually
have a beautiful body,
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you can develop
it to the ultimate,
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but if the mind is
not renewed along with it,
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you've become like
the ancient Greeks,
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who've treasured a perfect body
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in a highly developed
mind but not necessarily a mind
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that was Christ
centered or God filled.
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By the way the word transformed,
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great word, it's the
same word in English,
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we borrowed it from the Greek.
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Who knows what word it is?
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It's the word--
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thank you, Mike, it's
the word metamorphosis,
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the same word that's
used from the caterpillar,
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is in the cocoon
and emerges sometime
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later as a
beautiful butterfly stretches
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his wings and flies away.
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That's the word metamorphosis,
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same in English
as it is in Greek.
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So Paul is actually
saying be metamorphosed,
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be so transformed that
you won't even be recognized
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as the original creature.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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You will be transformed
from a grub into a moth.
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May be one with
beautiful color in its wings
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and you will fly away.
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Now, you know Paul is
an interesting writer.
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Whenever he writes,
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he always links
his thoughts together
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and he has a
favorite conjunction in Greek,
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it actually reads in order that,
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in order that.
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In English unfortunately
we lose a lot of the emphases,
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we shorten it.
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And my version
says simply just that.
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Some versions say so that,
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if we're being strictly
biblical to the original text,
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our Bibles would read in
order that much more emphatic,
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so let's make sure
we're hearing at this morning,
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be transformed, be metamorphosed
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by the renewing of your mind.
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And we already
know that is the work
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of the Holy Spirit bringing
the mind of Jesus into us.
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By the way this is
an incarnation divinity
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is fusing with humanity.
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And I got very good
news for you this morning,
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when the divine mind fuses
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with the sinful human mind,
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guess which one prevails?
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You know the
answer to that, don't you?
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Not even the most carnal mind
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can withstand the
presence of divinity within it.
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Your mind will
be so transformed,
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you'll be amazed
that's your own thoughts
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and your own feelings.
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This is God's grace now.
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This is how God breaks
the power of sin in our lives
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through our thinking.
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Amen.
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And I've discovered
that the mind of Jesus
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is so radically different
from my mind, it's a delight
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to put it on and see how
He's thinking again today.
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And every time I look at
someone or something I realize
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that Jesus is seeing
it differently from me.
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And that of course to act upon
that becomes quite exciting.
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So be
transformed by the renewing
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of your mind in order that--
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still in the same verse,
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you may what word kicks in now?
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For some versions say prove,
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mine says know,
anyone have a different word?
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There are other words
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but may be we
don't have a variety
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of translations here today.
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You may prove,
you may know, what?
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Read it to me,
now who has got it?
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Go ahead, read it up.
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"That you may prove
what the will of God is,
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that which is good and
acceptable and perfect."
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Thank you very much, Anne.
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What the will of God is?
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I'm very fascinated by the means
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that people use to
find the will of God.
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I have a friend who
gets his messages from God
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by reading the
number plate on the car
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in front of him on the highway.
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I think it's the
craziest thing I've ever heard.
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He called me up recently,
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he's in the
middle of Washington DC.
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Hello, here, he
says you got to help me,
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I said what's up?
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I was at the car in front
of me it has this number plate,
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I'm wondering what message
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God is sending me
through that symbol,
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keep, read me the number plate
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I'm very good at
interpreting these metals,
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I'm trying to
keep a straight faith,
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this is a highly educated man,
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I can't believe
he is doing this,
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and a professed believer.
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He says, well...
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it's the last part
of the number plate
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that it ends in 666.
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He said, what do
you think of that?
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I said what it's saying to me
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is that you are about to
have a really beastly day.
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Because he took it seriously,
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why do you
think that's what it--
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what it means?
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I said absolutely, absolutely.
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And I just hang up the phone,
I can't-- couldn't believe
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I'm having this conversation
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with such an
educated mind as his
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and yet he's going
to get his messages
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about God's will for the day.
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Okay, I have another
friend who reads street signs
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and gets the
messages from street signs.
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I have other
friends believe it or not
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who read their horoscopes.
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Oh, wow.
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And they try and
get the will of God
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from a horoscope, and
then you can write things
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that will fit nearly everybody,
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if you're broad
enough and general enough,
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anyone can write
a column like that
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and it's gonna hit you
some way and I get all excited
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because a part of it
matches them perfectly.
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God's revealing his
will through a horoscope.
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How many of you
walked down Venice Beach?
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Whenever I get
friends from Australia,
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they always want to go
and walk down Venice Beach,
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so we are strolling down,
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I got some
Australian relatives with me,
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we're strolling
starling down Venice Beach,
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and there's
about a dozen umbrellas
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and these umbrellas
have all the fortunetellers
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sitting underneath them,
they're reading tarot cards
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and they have crystal balls
and I'm just strolling along
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and this woman
who has been sitting
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under the umbrella
and she got no customers
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so she jumps up and rushes out
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and grabs hold of
my hand like this,
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in front my
friends and she goes...
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She said, I know
what gonna happen to you,
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this week, oh, it's so terrible,
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I'm enjoying
this moment immensely,
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so I let her go on,
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I said you know, I
have the same gift.
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I actually know
what's going to happen to me
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in the next 60
seconds, she said what?
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I said, I'm gonna flee from you.
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And I pulled my hand
away and walked away,
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I'll never forget that.
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I can see what's coming
into your life this week.
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I hope you not having to
do those kinds of things.
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Well, that's lot of conviction
coming through this morning.
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The word of God
is crystal clear.
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Be transformed through
the renewing of your mind.
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In order that you may prove
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or know the will of God,
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that which is good
and pure and perfect.
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You got two minutes
to turn to your partner
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and identify exactly
where you will look for
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and find your understanding
of the will of God.
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Two minutes do not write,
put your pens down and turn
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and actually communicate
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with the person
sitting next to you.
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Where will you seek for
and find the will of God?
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And I want you
to listen carefully.
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Shh!
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I want you to pull the
answer out of this too.
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Stay in the verse and
pull the answer out of there.
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If your partner is absolutely
refusing to talk with you,
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quickly jump up
and change tables,
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so you can have
a good experience.
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Where will you seek for
and find the will of God?
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That's the question.
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