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Hey guys, how you doing? Hope you're doing real good. Wonderful to have you with me for

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this live session. Come with me, we're at the beach. Check this out. I'll just flick

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this around. Choice. This is our new home. Yep. We live just a couple of minutes down

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the road from here, so you'll probably see this beauty a wee bit more. Alright, cool.

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Hey, so this is going to be session number one of a few chats that we're going to have.

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Four chats in this series over the next four days. We're going to do a little study and

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exploration into divine love. This series is called Love Unstoppable and it's awesome

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to have you joining. So whether you are live or whether you're on the replay, say hello.

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Just say hi there so I can see that you're with me and you're joining in. Now, it was

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a beautiful morning this morning, but it was a bit chilly and I think I've gone over the

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top right here. I've got a jumper on, so I'm just going to have to take this off because

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I am cooking here. So give me a second to get this jumper off before I cook to death

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out here. It's supposed to be winter, but I'm not feeling very many wintry vibes right

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now. So yeah, let me know how you're doing. It's beautiful to have you with me. This is

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going to be an exciting series. This session here is called The Broken Heart of God and

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we're going to explore some of the dynamics of divine love. We're going to explore why

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divine love would rather be lovesick and broken-hearted than compromise their values of purity, vulnerability

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and freedom. How good is that? Oh, great to have people with us. I see Dawn there, Kerry,

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Timsy, Elizabeth, Eli. Wonderful to have all of you guys here, you beautiful, beautiful

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people. This is going to be a wonderful session. So let's take a moment to pray. Oh, let me

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give you some of this. This is so beautiful. This right here is a picture of divine love

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in itself. Look at this. It's supposed to be winter, but it's not very wintry. All right.

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Hey, let's take a moment now to pray and then we're going to get into this. Let me bring

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you right down by the water.

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Wow, Papa, Jesus, Holy Spirit, here we are. Totally being immersed and baptized in your

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love right here. Wow, the creation is exploding with the love of God. The creation is exploding

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with the glory of God. I just feel so undone right now by divine love. Wow, how glorious

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is this? Papa, Yeshua, Holy Spirit, we want to honor you as the source of love, as the

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origin of love, as love itself. We give you all the glory that you are the genesis of

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love. You are the beginning and the end of love. You are the author of love. You are

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love in all its fullness, love in all its height, love in all its depth, and love in

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all its wonder.

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Now we come to a place, you've brought us to a place of perpetual adoration of you.

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We lift our voices in delight and we lift our voices in adoration. We lift our voices

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in love to honor you and to join you in the divine dance and to celebrate you, the wonders

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of divine love. And as we go on this journey together for the next four days, I thank you

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for taking us deeper.

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wider into the bliss and the ecstasies and the wonder and the vulnerability and

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the purity and the beauty and the brokenness and the suffering and the

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glory of divine love in your beautiful name amen

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all right family okay so we're gonna jump into we're gonna jump into this

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session now and we're gonna we're gonna start with Luke 15 looking at the story

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of the lost son but anytime you're going to talk about divine love really almost

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anytime I think you're going to talk about the nature of God we have to start

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we have to start with the beauty of the divine dance and if you followed much of

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my message and training and and story and DNA over the you know over the

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past many years as I've been talking about these concepts then it always

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starts with the divine dance you know divine dance is perfect family divine

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dance the divine dance is the fellowship of the Trinity in you know theologians

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have spent centuries talking about it as perichoresis, peri meaning to go up and

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down and choresis is the genesis the root word of the word choreograph so

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perichoresis is this word they try to use to capture the limitless dynamic and

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the it's it's a word used to try and capture the limitless dynamics of divine

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love that are experienced in the fellowship of the Trinity so let me take

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a moment to try and capture the wonders of this which so in the fellowship of

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the Trinity you have the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit each experiencing

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the fullness of perfect love so imagine the Father and the Son summoning all of

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their force and take a moment here to think of the force of all creation the

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force of the waves the force that created the heavens and the earth the

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force that put the stars in the sky the force that spoke and there was Sun there

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was light that created all that we know and see that force poured out all its

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power the Father and the Son summon all their power and all the extremity and all

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the glory and all the wonder to pour out the fullness of their love on the Holy

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Spirit and the Holy Spirit receives this love perfectly and then the Holy Spirit

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and Jesus they turn on the Father and they pour out the extravagance of the

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wonder of divine love on the Father and then the Father and the Holy Spirit pour

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out this unrelenting extravagant outrageous phenomenal baptism of love on

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the Son and so it goes on and on forever each member of the Trinity trying to

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summon the fullness and just summoning the fullness of their extravagance and

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the fullness of their wonder and the fullness of divine love to pour it out

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on one another and this is the fellowship of the Trinity that is perichoresis

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that is the divine dance this place of perfectly receiving divine love and

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giving perfect expression to divine love and it was out of that context that the

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Trinity created humanity to participate effortlessly perpetually perfectly in

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the divine dance and this is what Sonship is and the journey into Sonship is the

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journey of discovering how to receive divine love perfectly and give perfect

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expression to divine love so that we can participate in seamless union so we

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can participate in the divine dance that we were created for so now we begin our

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conversation around around the broken heart of God this is session one in a

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series love unstoppable and we are going to journey on this and the idea in the

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heart of this journey is that we will get to participate more perfectly in the

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divine dance ourselves because the divine dance is the atmosphere of heaven

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that's the genesis of heaven that is the very heartbeat of heaven right there is

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the fellowship of the Trinity unbroken cycle of divine love constantly being

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received and expressed and as we step into our Sonship we participate

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perfectly in the atmosphere of heaven we participate fully in the atmosphere of

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heaven we participate in it fully and it's through our full participation in

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the divine dance that we are empowered to bring an authentic expression of

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heaven into the earth and that's what we're called to do is we're called to

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bring nothing less than authentic expression of heaven to the earth but

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it's only possible as we are empowered to participate in this oneness of the

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divine dance as we are empowered to participate in seamless union and the

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beauty and the extravagance

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of the wonder of the divine dance so let's uh let's get into Luke 15 I'm just going to have to

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get um posited up and set up uh somewhere here so that I can um I can read some bible to you

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look I see a log down there and we're going to make our way there to this log so uh join with

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me as we stride through the sand to the log and we're we're talking about the story of the lost

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son okay now the story of the lost son is in Luke 15 and in Luke 15 Jesus does three stories all

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about the word lost okay so the word lost in the greek is apollumi okay it's the same word you

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that's also translated as perish okay so when you hear people talking about someone's going to

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perish or someone's lost it's the same word it's the greek word apollumi and Jesus dedicates the

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whole chapter of Luke 15 to giving his definition of what it means to be lost what it means to be

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apollumi so he does a story on the lost coin the lost sheep and the lost son and the story

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Luke 15 the lost son is the single most beautiful articulation of the gospel that there is I've

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written an entire book on Luke 15 called the good father uh if you go into um if you go into

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the description or at the top of on the you know the top of this group you can get a free copy of

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the good father that goes deeper into this but lost let's go now and we'll start reading it right now

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so yeah just uh part of the dynamic of speaking to you from the beach is

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struggling a couple things that are slightly different to when i'm normally at the desk but

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i thought it's more fun who thinks it's better to come to you from the beach i reckon it's better

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to come to you from the beach so um let me make this statement and then we'll read it even at

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the expense of a lovesick and broken heart the integrity of divine love refuses to compromise

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its value for vulnerability freedom and purity beautiful eh ha ha come on all right Luke 15 11

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to 32 the parable of the lost son Jesus continued there was a man who had two sons the young one

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said to his father give me my share of the estate so he divided the property between them not long

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after that the young son got together all he had set off for a distant country and there squandered

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his wealth in wild living after he had spent everything there was a severe famine in that

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whole country and he began to be in need so he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that

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country who sent him to his fields to feed pigs he longed to fill his stomach with the pods that

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the pigs were eating but no one gave him anything when he came to his senses he said how many of my

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father's hired servants have food to spare and here i am starving to death i will sit out and go

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back to my father and say to him father i have sinned against heaven and against you i am no

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longer worthy to be called your son make me like one of your hired servants so he got up and went

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to his father but while he was still a long way off his father saw him and was filled with

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compassion for him he ran to his son threw his arms around him and kissed him the son said to him

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father i have sinned against heaven and against you i am no longer worthy to be called your son

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but the father said to his servants quick bring the best robe and put it on him put a ring on his

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finger and sandals on his feet bring the fattened calf and kill it let's have a feast to celebrate

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for this son of mine was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found so they began to celebrate

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meanwhile the older son was in the field when he came near the house he heard music and dancing

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remember that music and dancing say that with me music and dancing

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so he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on your brother has come he replied

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and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound the older

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brother became angry and refused to go in so his father went out and plead with it pleaded with him

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but he answered his father look all these years i've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your

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orders yet you never even gave me a young goat so i could celebrate with my friends but when

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this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home

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you killed a fattened calf for him my son the father said

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You were always with me, and everything I have is yours, but we had to celebrate and be glad,

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because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.

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Beautiful. Okay, that is it, my friends. That is the story of Luke 15. And so we're gonna, um,

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we're gonna pull a few of the different dynamics of this, um, out. And, oh look, here we go,

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we've got some mates. Hey buddy, how you doing? No worries. Hey bud. Um, hey buddy.

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Oh, we got, got a little visitor. Hey bud. No worries. See ya. Um, so, uh, we're gonna,

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we're gonna, as we go through and explore divine love today, we're gonna pull out some of the

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dynamics of this chapter here, okay, of, um, of Luke 15. All right, so what we're gonna start

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with is we're gonna start with vulnerability, okay, the divine, uh, value for vulnerability.

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So vulnerability, let me just rattle a few things off to you about the, about how divine love's

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value for vulnerability actually expresses itself and what it looks like. So vulnerability

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will never be fake or give false reasons or excuses. So I want you to imagine this,

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you can imagine in any context you like, you can imagine this in the context of God with us seeking

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to be that. And we have to remember as well, God's intent is, God's intent is to always bring us into

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the fellowship of the divine dance and to the greatest, most extravagant, most outrageous

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expressions of love that we have ever imagined or experienced beyond what you've ever experienced or

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imagined. God wants to take you deeper into the divine dance on a daily basis than you have ever

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been. Whatever you've ever thought you could imagine in the realm of goodness, God's got more

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for you. He wants to take you deeper into this dimension of perpetually and effortlessly living

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in the divine dance. And I want you to say that perpetually, that means 24 seven. So you never

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take a break. It just becomes your normal, your default setting, your within, and it's, God designed

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it to be effortless, right? God did not design it to be like, God did not design, the divine design

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for humanity is not that it would be difficult to love God, right? The divine design that we have,

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when we're operating in our identity, when we know who we are as sons, the divine design, when we

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step into that place, it makes the ability to participate in the divine dance effortless and

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perpetual and 24 seven, and it changes our entire state of being. And we start to participate in the

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fullness of heaven on earth. So it's a journey worth going into, right? And so imagine this

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dynamic of vulnerability being expressed in the context of God, trying to call you into the deepest

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expression of intimacy possible. And God is like, he is a lovesick romantic. God is,

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in many ways, a lovesick romantic. In many ways, God is, you know, like the father in Luke 15 here,

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who, his son ran away, and his son's going through all sorts of exploitation. His son's in all sorts

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of darkness, his son's in all sorts of states of lostness and oppression and self-hatred and,

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you know, doing, you know, participating in destructive behaviors and addictions, and his son

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is fully lost. And in that space, you see an expression of the broken heart of God, like,

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here's God brokenhearted for his son, because make no mistake, the good father in that is Jesus

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drawing a parallel between, exact parallel between the nature of God and the longing of God

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for us in our lostness, for us in our darkness. And that son, that lost son, you know, he treated

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his father as an enemy. And in the Jewish culture, there is no greater offense that the son could

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have committed. There's no greater expression of dishonor that the son could have committed

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against his father. That was seen as high treason. And the son was guilty of a, you know, he was

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liable for the death sentence in that context. So there's God as a brokenhearted lover longing for

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us, lovesick for us, but at the same time refusing to compromise on his own value system. And one of

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those values is vulnerability. So one of the values of divine love is vulnerability, and God

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never compromises on his value for vulnerability. So love, let's talk about vulnerability.

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Vulnerability will never be fake or give false reasons or excuses in a relationship for how

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they're feeling or what's going on. So you can think about this as well, you know, in the context

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of a romantic relationship or a relationship where you want to create real intimacy, okay?

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If you want to create real intimacy, then you have to have vulnerability. And it's always going to be

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real. It's always going to be transparent because this is the nature of love. Love

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never creates excuses, love, even when it is difficult.

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to be honest, love is honest. Love is transparent. Love is vulnerable. Even if that vulnerability

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and transparency is going to hurt someone else's feelings, even if that love or that

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vulnerability or that transparency is going to put you at risk or put you at danger, the

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nature of divine love is that it will never compromise vulnerability. It will never step

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into the kingdom of darkness and exchange vulnerability for the compromise of deceit,

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for the compromise of a half-truth. Half-truths belong to the kingdom of darkness. Vulnerability

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belongs to the kingdom of light. Vulnerability is an expression of true love. So vulnerability

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never hides itself, and vulnerability is not weak as well. In the kingdom of darkness and

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in this world, sometimes vulnerability is considered a weakness, but not in the kingdom

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of God. In the kingdom of God, vulnerability is as bold as a lion. If you actually look

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at vulnerability, vulnerability is not a weakness. Vulnerability is the greatest force that

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you could possibly have to make a stand. So vulnerability actually is a lion in a stand.

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Vulnerability is a statement. Vulnerability says, this is who I am. This is what I stand

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for. These are my values. There's nothing hidden. There's no guessing with vulnerability.

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The goalposts never change. So imagine this in your relationship, where there's nothing

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hidden. There's nothing that you never have to guess. You never have to wonder. You never

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have to assume, because you've got all the exact, precise information at your fingertips

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that you could ever wonder. How's that person thinking? How's that person feeling? Are they

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changing or not? Well, vulnerability makes it absolutely crystal clear, and they make

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a stand on the integrity of vulnerability. It makes a stand on, this is who I am. This

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is what I value. This is what I feel. This is what I think, and it's not a place of shifting

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sands. You never have to guess with divine love. The goalposts never shift. There's no

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guile. There's no deceit. Like it or not, the vulnerability of divine love is an immovable

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force. So someone might not like your vulnerable stance. Someone might not like your vulnerability.

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Many times, and especially in the world we're in right now, vulnerability around your value

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for love, around your value for Christ, around your value for the kingdom, that vulnerability

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now, it's becoming very polarizing. People might hate it. So people might hate your vulnerability,

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but this is where vulnerability is as bold as a lion. It's vulnerable anyway. So let

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me tell you one story about vulnerability in a beautiful, powerful way, because here's

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the thing. What does vulnerability look like in a crowd? What does divine love look like

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in a crowd? Did Jesus make a stand in a crowd? Did Jesus compromise in a crowd? No, Jesus

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wasn't weak. Jesus wasn't hidden. Jesus wasn't withdrawn in a crowd. This is the thing about

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divine love and vulnerability, is that it's not withdrawn. Vulnerability is actually as

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bold as a lion. It's outspoken. It takes a stand. It's not hidden away. It's put out

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on display. So there was a monk. Do you know the monk Tally Marcus? Have you heard of the

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monk Tally Marcus? Because this is a take on vulnerability that most people don't understand

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or don't see, but this is the nature of vulnerability and how vulnerability is as bold as a lion.

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So this monk Tally Marcus in 391 AD. So we're going way back. We're going into the times

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of the Roman Empire. And at this point, Tally Marcus, what he does, he goes on a pilgrimage

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and he walks all the way to Rome. I can't remember the village that he walked from,

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but he walked a long way and he walked all the way to Rome. And when he got to Rome,

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he was absolutely appalled at everything that he saw. He's like, wow, Rome is like disgusting.

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The culture of Rome, it just, it was breaking him. The culture of Rome, everything about

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it was just like, I hate this. This is disgusting. This is terrible because the culture of Rome

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completely opposed his value system. The culture of Rome celebrated darkness and celebrated

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evil and put evil on display as though it was something to be aspired to, something

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to be championed, something to be celebrated. And Tally Marcus hated evil. He was like,

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no, I hate this. I don't love this. I'm not going to celebrate this. I hate this. And

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so Tally Marcus wasn't hidden. All right. With his feelings, Tally Marcus, you didn't

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have to guess what Tally Marcus's feelings was because it all came to a point when Tally

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Marcus went to the gladiatorial games and he went to the gladiatorial games and he saw

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all of these people championing and cheering on and celebrating the death and the murder

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of all these people in the gladiatorial games. And you'll hear, you know, there's a few different

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renditions of this story. It's a wee while ago now, nearly 2000 years ago.

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ago you know this happened in 391 AD in Rome and Telemachus actually jumped

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into the arena where the gladiators were fighting and tried to stop them in the

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middle of a full-blown gladiatorial battle and he was in there trying to

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like stop them and this is this what you're seeing is the vulnerability of

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divine love on display as Telemachus jumps in there and he's like opposing

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he's trying to fight he's trying to he's actually trying to shut down he's

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trying to stop the gladiatorial games can you imagine the boldness that's

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where vulnerability is as bold as a lion it's not put it's not hidden this is

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where it's at you don't have to guess and so Telemachus some people say that

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the gladiators killed him but it seems I would say that in my research that a

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more accurate interpretation is that it was actually the crowd that stoned

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Telemachus to death but Telemachus died that day and it looks like you know some

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people say that the gladiators killed him but the more accurate accounts look

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like it was actually the crowd that actually stoned Telemachus that day but

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his stance right even though his vulnerable stance of what his value was

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his value for love his value for life and his his refusal to celebrate what is

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evil caught the attention of the Emperor and you have to understand that at this

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point the gladiatorial games have been going on for you know over a thousand

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years so it's around about a thousand years that the gladiatorial games have

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been unfolding and Telemachus after that point his sacrifice his death catches

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the attention of the Emperor and that is the beginning of the end of the

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gladiatorial games some people will say that after that there was no more games

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but it would be probably more accurate to say that it took a process of about

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15 years and that the last recorded gladiatorial games was on the 1st of

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January 401 AD so but here's the beauty of that is that Telemachus's

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vulnerability which is as bold as a lion his stance that wasn't being hidden it

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caused the end of a thousand-year evil tradition where you celebrate the murder

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of people and the shedding of innocent blood that's pretty wild right let me

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know what you think about Telemachus so let's go on a little bit more about

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vulnerability because it's not you know it's not like vulnerability is not about

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aggressively just making stand to make a point as though there's no purpose to it

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so the bone like the purpose of vulnerability is actually intimacy all

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right the purpose of vulnerability that this is this is what vulnerability is

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about vulnerability is about making your values and how you feel and how you

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think absolutely crystal clear as an invitation to intimacy for others like

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it's an invitation to relationship it's not about you know starting fights it's

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an invitation to intimacy so I want to share with you how vulnerability is

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always in the divine mindset vulnerability is always created as an

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open door and an invitation to deeper levels of intimacy so the vulnerability

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of love will let you know what it needs to feel safe and it will give you the

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very best information that you need in order to create the opportunity for you

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to draw closer in relationship and build deeper intimacy now the integrity of

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divine loves vulnerability it won't allow compromise all right it won't

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allow compromise that will create a shortcut or a cheapened version of

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intimacy for you divine love is only interested in pure the finest heavens

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finest intimacy and won't create shortcuts it won't create a cheapened

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version of intimacy for you all right so let's explore this the vulnerability of

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divine love it will keep us accountable to very to the highest standards of

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divine love if you want to journey into the depths of intimacy here's how that

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here's how that works so divine love basically says it gives you all the

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information real clear real upfront you don't you don't have to figure it out

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and the same with God you don't have to figure out how to have how to go deep

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into intimacy with God it's real crystal clear he makes he gives you all the

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information of how to do it and we'll explore that more in this as well like

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that how do you have intimacy with God how do you build intimacy with God God

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doesn't make that a secret so and this applies to our any relationship right so

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here's how vulnerability could look like in a relationship with you and it could

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be anyone this could be a work person this could be a family member this could

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be a marriage this could be someone that you're dating this could be anything

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right so vulnerability always gives the best information here's a few real

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simple type of statements that give you a blueprint for how to communicate

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vulnerably in a way that gives

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information that actually invites deeper intimacy. So this I would say that, let me

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just give you more about vulnerability. Vulnerability of divine love, so

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divine love right, divine love, you have to understand that divine love is really

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really happy to always give to anyone grace. Divine love and the

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nature of love will always give grace to anyone. God will give grace to anyone.

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God will honor anyone right. God honors everyone. God loves everyone and this is

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this is our calling as followers of Jesus is that we're there to give grace

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to everyone. We're there to honor everyone. We're there to love everyone.

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Okay those three things, grace, love, honor, they are non-negotiables for us. If we

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want to walk in the divine nature they're non-negotiables. If we want to walk in

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the divine nature then those are unconditionals okay. Those are

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unconditionals of the divine nature. So if we want to personify the divine

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nature then unconditional grace to others, unconditional honor of who others

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are that they're made in the image of God, unconditional love towards others

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that they're as loved as love can be, those are unconditionals. But what we

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have to be very careful to understand is that with divine love some things are

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unconditional and some things are conditional okay. So love is love cannot

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be earned. Love is not performance based acceptance but intimacy, trust and

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respect are a process okay. So so get your head around this grace, honor, love

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are unconditional in the kingdom but trust, respect and intimacy are always a

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process okay. Trust, respect and intimacy you don't just throw those away. That's

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why Jesus said don't throw your pearls before swine because

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trust, respect and intimacy are a process okay.

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And vulnerability gives people the opportunity to build and develop deeper

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levels of trust, respect and intimacy okay. Some people with their boundaries, you

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don't use boundaries, they use boundaries wrongly, they use boundaries as a

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weapon. But divine love never uses boundaries as a weapon saying oh you're

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not a safe person and cutting them off. In the context of divine love, boundaries

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always point the way home and I got to thank my friend Ben Runciman for helping

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me see and discover that. But in the kingdom, boundaries are not there to cut

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people off but to show people the way home. And vulnerability is very very very

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strong with boundaries. It will not compromise its boundaries but its

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are not there to isolate, discriminate or cut people off or push people away.

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Vulnerability has very powerful boundaries that will not be compromised

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that are there to show people the way home to deeper levels of trust and

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respect and intimacy and it's just exactly how God is. He refuses. He will

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never compromise on darkness. He will never accept darkness. He will never

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celebrate darkness but his refusal to celebrate darkness is not to push us

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away but to draw us into the kingdom of light. How beautiful is that? Do you love

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that or what? Discovering that for me is awesome and putting that in action in a

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marriage is beautiful. Putting that in action in your relationship with other

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people is beautiful. Putting that in action in your relationship with God is

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beautiful. So here's a few statements of beautiful communication. So those

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three elements, trust, respect and intimacy, divine love reserves those for

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those who learn how to meet the vulnerability of divine love in the

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place of beautiful communication and safe behavior. So those three, trust,

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respect and intimacy are reserved for those who meet the vulnerability of

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divine love in the place of beautiful communication and safe behavior.

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It's the place of beautiful communication and safe behavior. This

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is what vulnerability is refusing to compromise on. Vulnerability will never

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compromise on communication and safe behavior. If you want to dance the divine

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dance you're going to have to understand whether this is with God or an

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in a marriage or in another relationship, if you want to build true divine trust,

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respect and intimacy, you must master beautiful communication. So say this, say

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beautiful communication, beautiful communication, beautiful communication

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and safe behavior. That is what vulnerability is waiting for.

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Vulnerability draws a line in the sand that says I'm not budging and I'm not

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going to give you trust, I'm not going to give you respect, I'm not going to give

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you intimacy until you meet me in the place of safe behavior and beautiful communication.

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beautiful communication, okay?

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But once you meet vulnerability in the place

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of beautiful communication and safe behavior,

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a world starts opening up for you.

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and deeper intimacy that you share beautifully together

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as you participate in your own journey of divine dance

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and sharing the beauty of divine dance together.

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So let me give you one blueprint on some,

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just a communication tool that's helped me a lot

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in this process of communicating with somebody

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if they're making you feel unsafe.

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Because a lot of times people, you feel unsafe

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and you trigger and you push people away, right?

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oh, I put up a boundary.

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You didn't put up a healthy boundary.

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You just isolated yourself.

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You just rejected people.

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You just discriminated.

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You just pushed away.

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That's the nature of darkness to do that, all right?

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That's like this whole concept of,

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I saw a T-shirt as I was walking down the other street,

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just down the street the other day,

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and it said, F off with all your hate, right?

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It's a self-righteous dynamic out there

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in the world right now that kind of has this mindset

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that if someone disagrees with you, you can hate them,

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but your hate is justified and their hate isn't, right?

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It's a mess.

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It's a total mess.

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like the kingdom never steps into that messy world.

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Vulnerability draws a line in the sand and said,

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this is what I stand for,

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but I want to meet you in a place of beautiful communication

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and safe behavior,

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and then let's go deeper into trust, respect, and intimacy.

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But vulnerability, and in the kingdom,

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the kingdom refuses to celebrate what is evil,

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whereas the world right now is celebrating what is evil.

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So this is the statement that's really helped me.

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When I'm chatting to someone

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and I wanna draw them into this place,

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this is what vulnerability looks like.

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This is what love looks like with skin on.

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It looks like giving people really good information.

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if there's a reconciliation in place,

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if there's a broken relationship,

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and I wanna mend that relationship,

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and I wanna build, and I wanna invite,

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this is what boundaries look like in action.

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It's like, hey, and you create a safe place.

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Don't do this in a place

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where they're gonna feel vulnerable, insecure.

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And I know with reconciliation and connecting with people,

423
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I've had plenty of times

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where I've tried to do this with people,

425
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and they're just not interested, and it doesn't work.

426
00:37:16.300 --> 00:37:18.340
And sometimes you have to wait it out for years

427
00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:21.700
until they change or you change your approach.

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And that's not always the other person.

429
00:37:23.860 --> 00:37:25.380
Never assume that's the other person.

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00:37:25.380 --> 00:37:28.060
Always be asking yourself, what does love look like?

431
00:37:28.060 --> 00:37:30.860
So you can become an embodiment of love in the process.

432
00:37:34.180 --> 00:37:35.380
So here's the statement.

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When you did this and give them real clear information,

434
00:37:38.620 --> 00:37:43.620
never be accusational, never say stuff like you're this,

435
00:37:43.620 --> 00:37:45.580
you're this, but just good, clear information.

436
00:37:45.580 --> 00:37:49.340
When you did this and give the exact action,

437
00:37:49.340 --> 00:37:51.100
and then this is where vulnerability comes in.

438
00:37:51.940 --> 00:37:55.140
So you just give full transparency, full vulnerability

439
00:37:55.140 --> 00:37:57.500
on exactly how you felt in that moment.

440
00:37:57.500 --> 00:37:59.820
And that is giving them all the power

441
00:37:59.820 --> 00:38:01.940
to choose how they're gonna respond.

442
00:38:01.940 --> 00:38:04.460
And then you give them some even more beautiful information.

443
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You say, if you want trust, respect, and intimacy,

444
00:38:08.220 --> 00:38:09.980
I need to feel safe.

445
00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:12.780
I feel safe when, dot, dot, dot.

446
00:38:12.780 --> 00:38:16.300
So it starts with really good information.

447
00:38:16.300 --> 00:38:19.060
When you did this, real clear information,

448
00:38:19.060 --> 00:38:21.420
I felt like this, totally vulnerable.

449
00:38:21.420 --> 00:38:24.220
And that's a moment to go 100% on vulnerability.

450
00:38:24.220 --> 00:38:28.180
And then, if you want trust, respect, and intimacy

451
00:38:28.180 --> 00:38:31.660
in our relationship, I need to feel safe,

452
00:38:31.660 --> 00:38:32.900
or I need to feel, dot, dot, dot.

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00:38:32.900 --> 00:38:34.260
And you've gotta give them that information

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00:38:34.260 --> 00:38:36.020
of how you need to feel.

455
00:38:36.020 --> 00:38:37.580
And then you give them more information.

456
00:38:37.580 --> 00:38:40.060
You say, and I feel safe, or I feel like that

457
00:38:40.060 --> 00:38:42.300
when you do this, dot, dot, dot.

458
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And what you've done in that moment

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00:38:43.740 --> 00:38:45.780
is you've given them all the power

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00:38:45.780 --> 00:38:49.660
to determine the outcome of this relationship.

461
00:38:49.660 --> 00:38:51.260
You've put all the power in their hands.

462
00:38:51.260 --> 00:38:52.420
And that's vulnerable, right?

463
00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:54.380
And we often avoid vulnerability

464
00:38:54.380 --> 00:38:58.660
because it can seem like we could get broken in that space.

465
00:38:58.660 --> 00:39:00.780
And you can, that's the whole point, right?

466
00:39:00.780 --> 00:39:03.100
That's the whole reason why God has a broken heart

467
00:39:03.100 --> 00:39:04.780
is because he's a lover who refuses

468
00:39:04.780 --> 00:39:06.780
to compromise on vulnerability.

469
00:39:06.780 --> 00:39:08.540
And listen, what we don't realize

470
00:39:08.540 --> 00:39:11.140
is when we refuse to give people the information

471
00:39:11.140 --> 00:39:13.500
that they need to make things right,

472
00:39:13.500 --> 00:39:16.180
then we refuse vulnerability, all right?

473
00:39:16.180 --> 00:39:18.020
When we refuse to be vulnerable,

474
00:39:18.020 --> 00:39:20.940
we actually step outside of the kingdom.

475
00:39:20.940 --> 00:39:23.460
When we refuse to give people the information

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00:39:23.460 --> 00:39:25.540
that they need to reconcile with us,

477
00:39:25.540 --> 00:39:27.340
then we're refusing vulnerability,

478
00:39:27.340 --> 00:39:29.180
and we ourselves are stepping outside

479
00:39:29.180 --> 00:39:30.460
of the kingdom of light.

480
00:39:30.460 --> 00:39:32.980
I understand that this is a real process

481
00:39:32.980 --> 00:39:35.060
where many times people are unsafe.

482
00:39:35.060 --> 00:39:37.660
And so you've gotta really use a lot of wisdom

483
00:39:37.660 --> 00:39:39.980
and discernment, but you've also gotta trump

484
00:39:39.980 --> 00:39:42.100
wisdom and discernment with this question,

485
00:39:42.140 --> 00:39:44.020
what does love look like?

486
00:39:44.020 --> 00:39:45.980
Okay, that has to be the most important thing.

487
00:39:45.980 --> 00:39:47.940
You ask first, what does love look like?

488
00:39:47.940 --> 00:39:50.140
And then get wisdom's direction

489
00:39:50.140 --> 00:39:53.060
and discernment's direction off what love looks like.

490
00:39:53.060 --> 00:39:54.660
Hope that's really cool.

491
00:39:54.660 --> 00:39:57.820
We're gonna go now into the purity of divine love.

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So let me.

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Let's start with Isaiah 64 verse 6, which says all of us have become like one who is

494
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unclean, and all of our righteous acts are like filthy rags.

495
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:13.800
Now the Hebrew on this is so nasty.

496
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This is possibly the nastiest, most disgusting verse in the entire Bible.

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And let me describe that, and I'm not trying to be gross, but this is exactly what Isaiah

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wrote.

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00:40:26.120 --> 00:40:28.640
So if you want to understand what Isaiah wrote, you have to go to the Hebrew on this.

500
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Very few people go to the Hebrew on this, because it is crazy.

501
00:40:31.520 --> 00:40:32.520
Why would you go to the Hebrew on this?

502
00:40:32.520 --> 00:40:38.480
It doesn't feel like that big a deal, but Isaiah is articulating the heart of God of

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how disgusted God is with something.

504
00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:45.860
So first of all, let's look at what he's disgusted with.

505
00:40:45.860 --> 00:40:48.520
He's disgusted with all our righteous acts, okay?

506
00:40:48.520 --> 00:40:54.640
So there's some righteous acts that make God feel absolutely repulsed and disgusted.

507
00:40:54.640 --> 00:41:00.600
And the righteous acts, specifically that Isaiah is referring to here, is religious

508
00:41:00.600 --> 00:41:08.320
action that is trying to buy the love of God, alright?

509
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:10.000
Let me put that another way.

510
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.720
Performance based acceptance, right?

511
00:41:12.720 --> 00:41:13.840
Performance based acceptance.

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00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:15.920
This disgusts God.

513
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:26.760
When your religion is focused on doing something to earn God's love, that disgusts God like

514
00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:27.760
few other things.

515
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:32.520
There's nothing, probably nothing in the Bible that God uses such disgusting language around

516
00:41:32.520 --> 00:41:35.560
than when people try to buy his love.

517
00:41:35.560 --> 00:41:36.560
Why?

518
00:41:36.560 --> 00:41:43.000
Because when you try to buy God's love, whether you realize it or not, but in the context

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00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.320
of the kingdom, and if you try and go into the divine dance and there you are trying

520
00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:52.800
to buy love, everyone who's participating in the divine dance will look at you like,

521
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:59.440
whoa, you're so out of step with the dance that it's craziness.

522
00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:04.840
You are so out of step right now with the dance that we can't even, we're disgusted

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00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:09.760
because what it does is it cheapens divine love down to a thing that you think can be

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00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:11.720
bought and sold.

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00:42:11.720 --> 00:42:17.960
And ultimately turns God into the great big prostitute in the sky and we live our lives

526
00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:20.560
trying to buy his love.

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00:42:20.560 --> 00:42:24.440
And this is where religion gets so twisted and nasty and we don't realize that we can

528
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:28.840
end up really living in a world that is actually disgusting to God where we have this false

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00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:33.760
mindset that love can be bought through our behavior.

530
00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:35.040
Love is unconditional.

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00:42:35.040 --> 00:42:36.400
Love is not for sale.

532
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:41.080
The moment you put a price tag on love, it is no longer love.

533
00:42:41.080 --> 00:42:43.320
And this is something of the purity, right?

534
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:51.800
So we're talking about vulnerability, purity, and freedom as natures of the divine love.

535
00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:57.320
Purity refuses ever to cheapen love to be something that can be bought or sold.

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00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:03.240
So Isaiah 64 verse 6, it says, all of us have become like one who is unclean and all our

537
00:43:03.240 --> 00:43:05.560
righteous acts are like filthy rags.

538
00:43:05.560 --> 00:43:12.920
But the Hebrew of filthy rags is, word for word, used menstrual cloths, right?

539
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:14.320
Used menstrual cloths.

540
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:16.160
That is disgusting language.

541
00:43:16.160 --> 00:43:20.240
Agree or disagree that that is disgusting language and how dare God put that in the

542
00:43:20.240 --> 00:43:21.240
Bible.

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00:43:21.240 --> 00:43:22.240
Like that is crazy.

544
00:43:22.240 --> 00:43:25.800
The modern day equivalent would be, like if we were to paraphrase that, you know, if they

545
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:31.640
did this, if they did an accurate paraphrase of this, you know, like in a modern translation,

546
00:43:31.640 --> 00:43:37.000
the accurate paraphrase of this would be, all of us have become like those who are unclean.

547
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:44.440
All our attempts to buy God's love are as pleasing to him as a handful of used tampons.

548
00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:48.680
Like that is so crazy, disgusting.

549
00:43:48.680 --> 00:43:49.680
Okay.

550
00:43:49.680 --> 00:43:53.640
So, and the reason why God is so disgusted on that is because his love is unconditional,

551
00:43:53.640 --> 00:43:54.640
right?

552
00:43:54.640 --> 00:43:58.800
And, and the moment that you think you can buy the love of God, you've just missed out

553
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:00.000
on the nature of God.

554
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.360
You've completely missed the boat of who God is and is, and the message that he, and

555
00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:08.920
God will, God will not play that game with you, right?

556
00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:10.280
God will not play that game with you.

557
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:14.840
So you will not reap the rewards of divine intimacy.

558
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:17.060
You will not reap the rewards of seamless union.

559
00:44:17.060 --> 00:44:19.560
You will not reap the rewards of effortless bliss.

560
00:44:19.560 --> 00:44:22.480
You will not reap the rewards of the divine dance.

561
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:26.680
If you play the game of religion, if you play the game where you think that your effort

562
00:44:26.680 --> 00:44:31.160
is buying God's love, God will not dance with that behavior, all right?

563
00:44:31.160 --> 00:44:37.600
The divine dance will not dance with a mindset that thinks that you can cheapen God's love

564
00:44:37.600 --> 00:44:42.400
and treat God as the great big prostitute in the sky and just you do something and that

565
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:46.880
makes him love you because that completely misses the boat on the nature of divine love,

566
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:50.560
which says, hey, you are as loved as love can be.

567
00:44:50.560 --> 00:44:52.200
You are as one as one can be.

568
00:44:52.200 --> 00:44:53.560
You are as in as in can be.

569
00:44:53.560 --> 00:44:59.000
You are as son as a son can be right now on your best day or your worst day.

570
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.080
Alright, so to we're championing along now and we're gonna move to freedom right the dynamic of freedom like freedom

571
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:09.960
Okay, freedom

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00:45:10.040 --> 00:45:12.040
in

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00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:18.560
Freedom is beautiful right freedom is the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

574
00:45:19.560 --> 00:45:22.520
Freedom is the tree of life freedom is God

575
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:27.880
Refusing to control you right because if you if love is not a choice

576
00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:32.800
It is no longer love right the moment that love is not a choice. It is no longer love

577
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.160
Let me know if you agree with that right that the moment that love is not a choice

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00:45:37.160 --> 00:45:42.280
It is no longer love and so God refuses to control people

579
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:45.000
We have to understand that yes, God will still discipline

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00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:51.560
But when God disciplines he disciplines as a father disciplining a son and the entire focus of God

581
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:53.880
Disciplining is always

582
00:45:54.040 --> 00:46:00.960
Redemptive not punitive right so in the kingdom of light and the kingdom of heaven anytime there's discipline anytime God

583
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:07.680
Engages with you to discipline you in your life. It's for redemption. Okay. It's for a redemptive purpose

584
00:46:07.680 --> 00:46:09.360
It's because he wants to take you from glory to glory

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00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:13.080
It's because he loves you so much that he doesn't want to leave you in that place of

586
00:46:13.560 --> 00:46:19.520
Performance based acceptance where you can't participate in the divine divine dance. He loves you so much that he's going to bring

587
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.000
Discipline revelation edification

588
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:27.840
Transformation into your life so that you can participate more fully and deeply in the divine dance

589
00:46:28.560 --> 00:46:29.720
so

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00:46:29.720 --> 00:46:31.240
That's freedom right the night

591
00:46:31.240 --> 00:46:37.280
And so God is refusing to control you and God's refusing to control other people because control

592
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:44.560
Defies his own value for love, but the problem with all of this right the problem with vulnerability and the problem with

593
00:46:45.560 --> 00:46:50.400
Freedom and the problem with the purity of God's love is that it sets God up

594
00:46:50.720 --> 00:46:53.840
To be because he won't compromise. He won't budge from there

595
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:57.740
He's not going to ever budge from his stance of I want love and I want it

596
00:46:58.640 --> 00:47:04.320
My way, I want it the divine way. I want freedom. You can't dance in the divine dance unless you are free

597
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:06.640
It's a prerequisite unless you're in full freedom

598
00:47:06.640 --> 00:47:13.000
You cannot participate in the divine dance and that is what God wants so God's not going to compromise the divine dance

599
00:47:13.200 --> 00:47:19.240
God will never compromise the divine dance of what is desire for relationship with humanity the blueprint of it

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00:47:19.240 --> 00:47:24.080
He will never compromise his ultimate longing and desire is for you to participate effortlessly

601
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:31.520
Perpetually fully in the most extravagant wonderful dynamics of the divine dance and the fellowship of the Trinity

602
00:47:31.520 --> 00:47:33.520
He will never compromise that dream

603
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:40.680
Despite how many people misunderstand him despite how many people abuse him despite how many people refuse him

604
00:47:41.080 --> 00:47:46.360
All right, he will never compromise his desire for us to step into the divine dance

605
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:51.280
so what we have as a result is we have exploitation and

606
00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:55.440
Suffering and God living as a lovesick

607
00:47:56.240 --> 00:47:58.520
Romantic and a broken-hearted father

608
00:47:58.640 --> 00:48:02.920
So it's just like in Luke 15 if we look at back to this if we reflect back to Luke 15

609
00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:07.080
God refuses to control his son there, right? He's not he doesn't control his son

610
00:48:07.080 --> 00:48:09.080
He gives his son full freedom to go off

611
00:48:09.160 --> 00:48:13.920
God doesn't but also he doesn't go with the Sun. He doesn't compromise his value for

612
00:48:14.560 --> 00:48:19.240
Purity by following the Sun into his darkness and becoming lost himself. He waits for the Sun

613
00:48:19.240 --> 00:48:23.840
He's like this I want this so much, but I will not compromise my value for purity

614
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:28.640
I will not follow you into your darkness. Now. That's not saying that God won't find you in your darkness

615
00:48:28.640 --> 00:48:31.440
That's different like God found his son in his darkness

616
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:34.360
Even when the Sun came back his son was still lost in darkness

617
00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:39.760
His son was someone still had a misperception of who the father was the Sun still had a misperception of his own identity

618
00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:45.960
And but God smothered him in love. All right. The love was unconditional. The love was extravagant

619
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:51.880
The love was outrageous and remember when we read Luke 15 where it ended up it ended up with a great feast with a great

620
00:48:52.160 --> 00:48:54.160
Celebration with the sound of music and with what?

621
00:48:54.760 --> 00:49:00.080
Dancing the sound of dancing what they what is that? That is so priceless that Jesus put that in that

622
00:49:01.080 --> 00:49:06.880
Description because it's about God's heart to bring humanity back into the divine dance and he included that and

623
00:49:07.120 --> 00:49:10.960
Included the power of that in Luke 15 so that we would always remember that God

624
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:16.680
Really wants us to bring to be brought back into the divine dance. That's his heart for us

625
00:49:16.680 --> 00:49:23.400
That's where he wants us to be. That's the longing of his heart is the divine dance how outrageous amazing fantastic

626
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:29.280
Dynamic beautiful wonderful is that that God's desire is for us to participate in the divine dance

627
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:35.360
But he refuses like his vulnerability is a line in the sand, right? He's like, this is my stance

628
00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:40.720
And this is how I do love he doesn't change that. He doesn't root. He doesn't compromise his vulnerability for his son

629
00:49:40.720 --> 00:49:46.200
He doesn't compromise as pure his value for purity and he definitely doesn't compromise his son's value for freedom

630
00:49:46.200 --> 00:49:52.240
He values the Sun's freedom so much that he even sells off the farm and gives him his inheritance right then

631
00:49:52.240 --> 00:49:57.440
How outrageous is that and then the Sun gets to decide what he's going to do with his inheritance and so do you and I?

632
00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:00.480
We get to decide what we're going to do with our inheritance. We don't really

633
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.320
But God's already sold the farm for us, you know, God's already sold the farm for us given us the most extravagant outrageous

634
00:50:07.200 --> 00:50:09.480
Inheritance Ephesians 1 talks about you know

635
00:50:10.520 --> 00:50:12.520
Yeah, the limitlessness

636
00:50:13.200 --> 00:50:15.200
that we have the oh that we have the

637
00:50:16.720 --> 00:50:20.480
The blessing of everything that's in heaven. Oh my gosh

638
00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:26.320
They are inheritance is insane God's already sold the farm for you and I now we look at this Luke 15 again

639
00:50:26.320 --> 00:50:32.540
And we see exploitation another dynamic of the broken heart of God. So you've got the lovesick father waiting for his son

640
00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:40.200
Refusing to compromise on his value for purity by running into and becoming darkness just to meet the Sun in his darkness

641
00:50:40.200 --> 00:50:46.320
He refuses to do that and because he refuses to compromise his vulnerability and purity and desire for freedom

642
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:52.720
He the end result of that is he is a lovesick father. God is a lovesick romantic longing for you

643
00:50:52.720 --> 00:50:55.200
He's a lovesick father longing for you

644
00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:58.880
He's just waiting for you and the moment you turn right?

645
00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:05.740
He's gonna smother you and the most dramatic outrageous grace filled at just phenomenal explosion of love that you've ever imagined

646
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:12.040
He's gonna swallow you up and draw you into the divine dance as quickly as you will come to him. So

647
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:14.640
There's the beauty of that

648
00:51:14.640 --> 00:51:22.000
but then there's this other you're so there's this dynamic there where God's a bro like a lovesick father a lovesick romantic and

649
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:26.160
And waiting longing for us to come but then there's another dynamic, right?

650
00:51:27.240 --> 00:51:34.280
Where God is brokenhearted because in the story of Luke 15, you've got all the suffering of humanity included in that, right?

651
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You've got the exploitation of all those ladies that are in prostitution now

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It doesn't matter what form of prostitution you're in if this is child prostitution if this is adult prostitution if it's consensual

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Prostitution, it doesn't matter what you're calling it

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Prostitution is a total

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Like it's a total expression of darkness. It's a total lostness of your value. It's a total lostness of an understanding of love

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It's a total lostness

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So there's that in this story you have the the broken heart of God breaking for these people being exploited

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Breaking for these people who are so lost there, you know with and they might be willingly or unwillingly being exploited

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You know, they could be sex slaves. Who knows it doesn't tell you but what it captures in this picture is the

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Exploitation of humanity the suffering of humanity

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No one is gonna you know as a child dream of being a prostitute

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So it captures this essence of nasty exploitation if we look at that today in the context of today

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prostitution and

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exploitation through prostitution and sexual exploitation is through the roof like it's never been before that there's never been so much suffering in the

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Context of sexual sexual exploitation as there is in the world today right now

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Then another expression of exploitation that we see here is the Sun but you know, he is starving to death as a laborer

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He's not even getting enough to be you know to afford to be to eat that is slavery

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You know like he to eat slaves usually can afford to eat but this guy he's so exploited in his work context and his labor

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Context he can't even afford to eat. Well today we've got over 27 million slaves

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There's more slaves today than there ever was at the height of African slave trading

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So ask yourself this is this gonna be breaking the heart of God is this going to be like you imagine a father

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in our father in heaven

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So and I want you to I want to put it in context like this

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There's the waiting heart of God and there's this there's that there's a waiting dynamic of God, right?

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That's broken because he's waiting for his sons to come and then there's a another part of the broken heart

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That is broken because he's waiting for his sons to go. All right, so God's broken hearted by

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Everything that we suffer everything that we go through

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He's longing just longing as a as a lovesick father longing for us to come back into the divine dance

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But then God doesn't miss a beat every person who's raped every person who's abused every person who is more murdered every place

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And there's not just one multiple places in the earth right now where there's genocide unfolding

681
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Every place where there's tyranny every place where there's darkness every place where there's oppression every place where there's abuse and destruction and chaos

682
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it is breaking the heart of God you think of what it's like, you know, I

683
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I've been involved in anti-human trafficking work for a long time

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I know right now that there's kids the exact same age as my kids

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Just as beautiful just as loved by God just as valued just as precious that are trapped in sexual exploitation

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Now what do you think that would break the heart of your father in heaven knowing that his very own kids as little kids and

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When we're in the context of anti-human trafficking work, we've you know, you come across the stories of it's not just little kids

688
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It's babies, you know, there are predators

689
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There are pedophiles. There are

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Sadistic maniacs out there doing the most disgusting things all over the earth and you know

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God the part it's crazy part of the broken heart of God is that he never gets to turn off

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the sound of

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injustice the sound of horror

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that rises before the throne of God. We understand that our worship and our prayer rises before

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God as an incense that's pleasing to Him. I tell you what, the sound of injustice, the

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sound of the shedding of innocent blood, the sound of chaos, the sound of abuse, they rise

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before the throne of God just as much. And there is an aspect to the heart of God that

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is completely broken and just at the absolute end of itself in brokenness, feeling every,

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like, knowing every tear, feeling every dynamic of the chaos and the pain of humanity and

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the suffering of humanity. So one part of God is the lovesick, the lovesick father is

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longing for us to run back into the divine dance. Then there's the broken hearted father

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that is suffering with humanity, the broken heart of the father that's suffering and longing

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for the redemption of humanity is longing for us to go. So the lovesick father longs

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for us to come into the divine dance. Isaiah 6 says, Whom shall I send and who will go

705
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for us? Whom shall I send and who will go for us? And that is what God is asking us

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right now. Okay, will you come and will you go? Right? Will you come and will you go?

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Will you come and participate with me in the divine dance and be completely consumed in

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that space? As we wrap up, let me give you a beautiful view here, because I just think

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what we're seeing right here, just this captures like the beauty of the heart of God. This

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captures the beauty and the essence and the purity of God. This creation right here, this

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captures the purity of the heart of God. And he's saying, will you come into the divine

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dance as I'm longing for you right now, as I'm desiring for you right now, as I'm, as

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my whole heart is yearning and longing for you to come back into the divine dance. Will

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you be swallowed up in unconditional love? Will you be swallowed up in unconditional

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grace and unconditional mercy? Will you rest and will you open up your heart and will you

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receive the extravagance of my divine love? Will you allow me to love on you? Will you

717
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allow me to saturate you? Will you, will you put down all of your thoughts that I require

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performance and will you just rest and allow me to consume you in the most beautiful, unconditional,

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extravagant love? Will you open your heart up for my supernatural outpouring of love?

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Will you open your heart up for Romans 5.5 that says, the love of God is poured out into

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our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Will you rest now? Will you open wide your heart? Will

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you receive a supernatural outpouring of the love of God that baptizes you, consumes you,

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infuses you and draws you into the sacred divine dance that you were born for? Will

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you allow him to take you beyond your disappointments, beyond what you've seen, beyond your experience

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into new dimensions, into new realms of his love, into new aspects of the fiery, all-consuming

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00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:04.720
love of God. Will you allow him to take you where you've never been before? Will you allow

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him to love you like you've never been loved before? There's the waiting heart of God and

728
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then there's the Isaiah 6 where God says, whom shall I send and who will go for us?

729
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And he says, hey, will you stand with me? Will you go with me? Will you run? Will you

730
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outdream darkness? This is what God's wondering. Who will stand with him to outdream darkness?

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Will you stand with God and dare to have the faith that will believe what God believes,

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that there is redemption for all humanity? Will you stand with God and believe what he

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believes, that he will disciple nations, that he will bring heaven to earth? Will you

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stand with him? Will you go with him? Will you dream with him? Will you outdream darkness?

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Will you dare to look darkness in the face and dare to look every expression of chaos

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and tyranny and oppression and injustice in the face and say, you know what, let's outdream

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darkness. God, what do you see? What do you say? Because God sees a higher dimension.

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God sees a realm of redemption. God sees a place where you are the solution. You are

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the answer. And God is longing for you to step into that place where you receive his

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outpouring of love, where you participate in the divine dance, where you get baptized,

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00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:19.200
immersed, saturated, inundated, and receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that sets

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you on fire and sets you ablaze and takes you where you've never been before and lights

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you up like you've never experienced before and takes you into whole new dimensions. Will

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you experience that from God? And then will you take that love into a broken world? We're

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going to wrap it up. I'm going to pray for you briefly, but we're going to wrap it up

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and tomorrow our session, and you'll see the notices for when it's going live, but tomorrow

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our session, session number two is, today was the burning heart of God, the broken heart

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of God, tomorrow is the burning heart of God. So we're going to explore the burning heart

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of God tomorrow. I love you very much, fam. Let's pray. Holy Spirit, I thank you for your

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love.

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for everyone here. Holy Spirit, I thank you that you created them for the Divine

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Dance. I thank you that you created them to be fiercely, outrageously,

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extravagantly, unconditionally, perfectly, supernaturally loved. And I thank

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you that even as we're seeing the waves in the ocean right here, I thank you that

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waves of your supernatural love will flow from heaven, that waves of fire will

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flow through them, that their burning outrageous electricity of your love will

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01:00:28.920 --> 01:00:32.360
charge right through their bodies, that there'll be encounters with your love

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01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:36.160
like never before, that they'll bring freedom, healing, redemption, that they

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will set a fire in hearts like never before. Holy Spirit, I just hear the Holy

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Spirit just saying, come, come, come. Lay it down and come, come, come. Come into the

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baptism. Come into surrender. Come into this place of receiving, receiving,

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receiving. Unconditionally receiving the outpouring of the love of God. May it fill

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you and flood you and consume you like never before. And may it set you ablaze

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and empower you and light you up and equip you and send you to stand with God,

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outdream darkness and bring heaven to earth as you run into the face of

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tyranny and injustice and oppression with the love of God and a capacity to

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bring heaven to earth and draw others into the Divine Dance. In your beautiful

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name Jesus. Amen. Go see your fam. I'll catch you soon. Love you heaps. See you

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tomorrow for the burning heart of God. Alright, see ya. Bye bye.