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you can't be half-hearted.

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If you're gonna be half-hearted,

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you're gonna lose out on half of your life.

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If you're wholehearted,

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you can experience everything that God has for you.

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Habit nine is be wholehearted.

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So all of the other habits fall under the rubric

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of being wholehearted.

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That is giving your total self,

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everything to God and to these habits

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that we've been talking about.

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You can't be half-hearted.

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If you're gonna be half-hearted,

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you're gonna lose out on half of your life.

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If you're wholehearted,

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you can experience everything that God has for you.

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Now, this is amazing.

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There's over 31,000 verses in the Bible

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and some 24,000, over 24,000 talk about the heart.

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You could argue that the Bible

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is exclusively about our heart.

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Jesus, when he was asked,

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what is the greatest commandment?

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What is the greatest way to live?

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And he said, you shall love the Lord your God

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with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength,

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and your neighbor as yourself.

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And I think that sums up what wholehearted is

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and what I believe it is.

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It's loving God with all of your heart

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in everything that you do.

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It's loving him with all of your soul,

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your mind, your strength.

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It's loving him with all of your being.

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That's what I mean by wholehearted.

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Wholehearted is loving God with everything.

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Most of us are living half-hearted

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because that's the way we've been taught.

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And that's because of shame in our life,

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because of failure in our life,

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because of hurt relationships,

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because we've had betrayal in our hearts and in our lives,

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we retreat into fear.

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We retreat into a lack of courage.

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And my challenge to you here on this final chapter

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is be wholehearted.

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That means live free.

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Go for it with your life.

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Whatever it is you're giving yourself to at your job,

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in your marriage, in your relationships,

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in your future vision that you have, in your research,

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whatever it is God's called you into,

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be wholehearted, be all in.

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And because of that,

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the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy.

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So Jesus said, I came that you might have life,

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John 10, 10, and that you might have it abundantly.

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But the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy, Jesus said.

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So the enemy comes to steal away your desires,

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to destroy your passions,

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and to create death over your life,

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and to make you, push you down,

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and press you into being half-hearted

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in everything that you do.

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And God wants you wholehearted.

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He created you to be wholehearted.

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It was the church father, Arrhenius, who said,

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the glory of God is a man fully alive.

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So God wants you fully alive.

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He wants you to love him with everything.

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He wants you to love what you do.

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He wants you to give all that you can

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in everything that you do.

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So what's the problem?

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Why do we struggle with this?

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And the reason we struggle is because of several things.

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And the first one I would say,

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is we've learned to be posers.

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We've learned to be pretenders.

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We've learned to hide who we truly are.

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And so being wholehearted is recognizing

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that we tend to pose.

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We tend to care more about what other people think about us

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than being authentic to who we really are.

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I wanna challenge you that God wants to break

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that posing spirit and give you

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a wholehearted devotion to him.

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And that comes through intimacy with God.

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That comes through having an intimate relationship

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with Jesus Christ and being aware of who you are in Christ

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and that you're beloved, that you're loved,

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that you're a son of God, that you're a daughter of God,

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that God has created you for a purpose.

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He's created you to be a priest and a king.

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And with that comes confidence.

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And the more confidence you have,

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the more wholehearted you can be.

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And so I think that this posing attitude,

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this posing and pretending kind of spirit

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comes over all of us.

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We all struggle with that.

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And that's related to shame.

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It's because of that shame in our background

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that has caused us to go inward

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and to lose our self-confidence

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and to lose our God confidence in our life.

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And so we break out of that by asking God,

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Lord, would you empower me with your Holy Spirit?

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Would you free me up with your Holy Spirit?

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We have this mantra that we say

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when we have our whole heart advances.

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And these are men's retreats.

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that we do once a year up in the mountains of Colorado.

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Someone shouts out, whole heart,

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and then the guys all respond with, live free.

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Whole heart, live free.

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Whole heart, live free.

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That's living with your whole heart.

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That's living free.

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That's walking in that joy and in that freedom

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that God has for you,

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is taking action in those areas of our life

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that are hindering us,

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whether it's shame, pride, arrogance,

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that cause us to be posers.

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So I wanna challenge you in this last episode of my book,

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How You Walk and How Do You Break Out

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of These Fears in Our Life.

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We do that, men and women, by being wholehearted,

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asking God to give us his presence and his power

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to break out of half-hearted living.

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So as we go into the end of this,

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I just wanna challenge you, be wholehearted.

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Give everything you've got to God,

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and let God set you free on a course of wholehearted living

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that's going to set you free.

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I love you.

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