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All right, good morning everyone and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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I am out on the West Coast, Best Coast so it's very early.

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So kudos to all of you West Coasters that come regularly to prayer.

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I know it's early for you.

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So if I sound a little sexy this morning, it's just my morning voice.

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Welcome to it.

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All right, so Supernatural Saturday is a time every week where we get together and we look

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to heaven to find out what heaven's saying, what's the current prophetic reality of our

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life as a community individually.

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And we hope that you will come live to this session.

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If not, it is always available in replay.

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All right, so here's the thought that God dropped in my heart.

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First of all, I want to let you know that my daughter got engaged yesterday.

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That is why I'm out here.

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It was a surprise engagement.

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It was amazing.

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She had no idea.

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She knew that her parents, me and her dad were out here to visit her.

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She knew that her boyfriend was here to visit her.

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She knew that her brother was here to visit her, but she did not know that her sister

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and her sister's husband had flown in.

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She did not know that her now fiance's sister and her husband had driven down.

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She did not know that her fiance's mother had flown in.

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And so there was a lot of surprises.

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It was amazing, you guys.

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She's so happy.

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Let the wedding planning begin.

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So I only have one more single child, my oldest son, 29.

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I will auction him off later to someone.

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I'm just kidding.

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All right, so we're going to get started.

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I'm sitting out in the car because the whole house is asleep.

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And it was a long day yesterday, big party afterwards at the house here at the Airbnb.

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And so I'm out in the car just ready to talk to you guys this morning.

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And I woke up this morning and I was like, Lauren, what are we going to talk about?

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And here's the one thought that he gave me.

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He actually gave it to me a little bit yesterday.

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And I was like, no, that can't be what we're going to talk about.

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So I kind of dismissed it.

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Anyone else do that?

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I just dismissed it.

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I'm like, no, that's not it.

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All right.

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I'll just wait.

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I'll just wait.

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God, you'll tell me.

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I know you're going to tell me.

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And then this morning, same thing.

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And I'm like, all right, let's go.

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Let's go.

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And here's the one thought that we're going to launch off of this morning.

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Are y'all ready?

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You ready for this?

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He said, and I had a dream actually that sort of coincides with this as well, that I'll

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tell you briefly about, this is what he said.

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He said, are you enjoying your one and only life?

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You guys, you only get, you only get one life on earth.

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You're going to live for eternity.

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You're eternal.

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Your spirit is eternal.

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You're going to have an eternal life.

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So this, this, um, limited engagement, this show, my brother, I have an older brother

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that always texts me and he'll say to me, how's your show?

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And what he means is my life.

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This is my show.

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I'm the star of this show.

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How's my show?

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Right.

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And so your show is a limited, has a limited earthly engagement.

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Are you enjoying your show?

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Are you enjoying your life?

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So I want you to just close your eyes and ask yourself that and be honest, please.

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And then we're going to talk about it.

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Close your eyes, ask yourself, am I having fun?

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Am I enjoying my life?

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Or is it get up and try to survive every day?

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Is it get up and try to figure out how to make it through another day?

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Is it lots and lots of problems and trouble and conflict?

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And then every once in a while, an enjoyable moment, am I living for those very few and

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fleeting enjoyable moments?

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Do I live my life for the weekend?

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Do I live my life for a brief week of vacation in the summertime?

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Do I live my life for Christmas, the holidays, a three day weekend, a long weekend?

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Do I live my life for, you know, those short little brief blips of happiness?

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Come on, let's get honest.

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Do I describe life as hard?

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Is life hard?

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Do I have a whole big, huge list of rules and do's and don'ts for myself?

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Whole big list of rules of do's and don'ts.

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And some of my favorite things, some things that I look longingly at, would love to try

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or do is kind of on my list of Christians don't do that kind of thing.

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So let me just, while you're thinking and while you're meditating on that, closing your

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eyes and thinking about it, I'm going to share a little blip of my dream last night.

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So in a little blip of my dream last night, I was in some kind of Christian sort of events

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and it was all women and the woman that was speaking, she was saying something and then

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she like said a few, a few words.

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from a Taylor Swift song and then I picked up

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where she left off and I just kind of belted it out

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and then she kind of gave me a look.

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And you guys, I'm used to getting the look

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because I'm very, very rarely not out of order

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in some way, shape or form.

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I was made that way.

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And so she gave me the look and I said,

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I said, come on.

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I said, that was fun.

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I said, let's go dancing.

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and everyone was just kind of giving me the side eye.

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And I was like, what, are we the Christians

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that don't dance?

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I'm sorry.

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Is this the group of, is this,

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is this effective Christianity where we don't dance?

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And really what I was saying is like,

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is this the group of people where we don't have fun?

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We don't know how to have fun over here.

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Remember that?

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Who's those, who saw that movie Footloose?

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Those kids were being kids and they got in trouble

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and someone got hurt and got killed.

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And that happens because y'all, that happens, right?

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But then it's like, no one's ever dancing again.

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No dancing allowed.

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Guys remember that movie, Kevin Bacon back in the day?

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I think they remade it, but all remakes are horrible.

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So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So we have to ask ourselves, am I having fun?

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I want you to picture father God

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as a really good daddy, all right?

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I know it's difficult to do that

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if you haven't had a good earthly role model example

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of that, but I want you to,

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you have to know someone who has a good father.

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Someone who has an engaged father, a present father,

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a loving father, a fun father.

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Fathers should be fun.

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Yes, they definitely need to be fathers.

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They definitely did teach us right from wrong

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and correct our behavior.

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You guys not punish our behavior.

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Come on, stay with me this morning.

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We're going somewhere important.

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Not punish our behavior.

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The Bible doesn't talk about punishing your children.

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It talks about correcting them.

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A lot of you were punished.

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You were done, something was done to you

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that would be considered child abuse now a days.

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You were sent to your room and you were grounded

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to your room for maybe weeks, right?

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That happened to me.

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Not allowed to come out.

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Go to school, come back, go back in your room.

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Isolation, solitary confinement.

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Guys, that's not healthy for children.

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Yeah, give them a little time out

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to think about what they've done

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and then let's have a conversation about what you've done.

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A lot of times parents don't wanna deal with kids

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that have done something wrong

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or they don't wanna deal with their kids at all.

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oh, go to your room and leave the kid there

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for days and weeks.

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when they come out for meals or school.

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Why?

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Because they don't wanna be a parent.

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And that's sad.

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They don't wanna have to deal with you.

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And all that does in a child's heart

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is sparks rebellion and depression.

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When I get out of here, when I get out of this house,

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I'm gonna do whatever I want.

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You know, when you over correct a child,

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when you're too strict with them,

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when you're too controlling with them,

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all it does is the pendulum swings over

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to just total anarchy, right?

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And rebellion, that's what happens.

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So some of you were over-disciplined.

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You were spanked, but you were spanked with a belt

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or a spoon or a paddle or a strap or a switch or something

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because you're being punished, not corrected.

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You're being punished, not corrected.

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I remember going to a softball practice

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when I was like 10 years old.

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My legs were covered with welts

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from a very thin belt that my mom had used.

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As I was running around my room trying to avoid it,

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it's like being whipped, like when we whip a horse,

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you know?

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And you guys, that's not the heart of God.

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God doesn't teach us to punish our children that way.

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That type of punishment does not correct behavior.

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All it does is create distance between you

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and where you don't trust them,

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where you see them as violent,

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where you see them as unsafe people, right?

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A lot of you are putting up some horror stories

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in the chat right now.

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And so this is a problem, right?

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Because a lot of times when we find religion, okay,

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we find this new family, this new family of God,

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and we haven't come from such a great biological family.

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We just assume, especially if we're being discipled

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by the elders of this new family,

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to tell us that God loves rules.

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He's real strict.

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He's very controlling, right?

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We have to try to somehow make him happy, make him.

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And a lot of you have experienced that in childhood

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where you didn't ask for anything

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until your parent was in a good mood

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and they were rarely in a good mood.

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You had to make sure that they had.

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had a good day at work,

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or they weren't fighting with each other.

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There was a peace and calm in the house

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where you could go and ask if you could borrow the car,

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ask for some money, for some shoes, for something,

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or whatever it was.

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You had to make sure they were in a good mood,

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or you had to wait until they weren't drunk,

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or you had to wait until they were drunk,

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because that's when they were in a good mood.

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All different types of people here today on the call,

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and all of us have experienced something different

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when it comes to family and parenting and being parented.

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But good news, here's the good news today.

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God's not like that.

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He's not like your earthly father, your earthly mother.

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He's not like those people.

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That means when he gives us a gift,

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and he did, he gave us lots of gifts.

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And the first one we wanna talk about today

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is the gift of life.

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He gave us the gift of life.

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He knit you together in your mother's womb.

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He gave you the gift of life.

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And then like any good parents

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that would give a child a present on their birthday,

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or Christmas, or some other special occasion,

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or just for no special occasion at all, just because.

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You watch that child open that gift,

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and then you want to see the surprise on their face,

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the excitement on their face.

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You wanna see them playing with that gift.

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You wanna see them enjoying that gift.

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And your Papa in heaven is looking down,

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and his question is,

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are you enjoying the gift that I gave you?

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Are you enjoying it?

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Do you love it?

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Because here's the news.

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Here's the news flash this morning, friends.

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If we're not enjoying it, we're doing it wrong.

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I know that a lot of us, and I could feel this way,

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and I used to feel this way.

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We feel like, you know, we were born a day late

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and a dollar short.

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We were born with all of these things

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that were already against us in life,

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and we're never gonna catch up.

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We didn't come from a good family,

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not a good lineage, not a good legacy.

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We didn't have opportunities like other kids

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that we went to school with.

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Maybe we didn't get to go to college.

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Maybe we had to go right to the workforce.

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You know, maybe we did get to go to college,

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but we chose something that we didn't really wanna do

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because we didn't have a lot of input.

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We didn't have anyone cheering us on

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and telling us to go after our dreams.

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We didn't even know what our dreams were.

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And now we have a bunch of debt from school,

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or, you know, we're working someplace

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where we don't want to.

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Here is the good news.

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It's not too late to change your life.

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It's not too late to do something different.

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It's not too late.

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Yes, it's not going to be easy at first.

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Yes, you're going to have to, you know,

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stretch a little bit.

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You're going to have to make some sacrifices

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to go after something else,

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but it's not too different to enjoy this one and only life.

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For those of you that are surrounded by relationships

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that are hard and difficult,

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and, you know, you go to a job every week, every day

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that you don't like because the people there are difficult

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and the job is grueling and there's no satisfaction,

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you don't have to do that.

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You don't.

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There's a whole big wide world out there

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of all kinds of things where you can go

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and you can do something that you really enjoy.

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And you get the opportunity to find out what that is.

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You don't just have to jump out of the frying pan

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into the fire.

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You can actually go find out what it is that you enjoy.

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You're like, Jackie, how do I do that?

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By sampling.

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Do something that I call sampling.

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Go and take a class.

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Don't sign up for four years of college.

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Go take a class.

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Most colleges will let you audit a class.

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You don't even have to pay.

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As long as you don't want to get the credit for it,

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you can go audit it.

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You can just go sit in.

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Don't have to pay for it.

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You can just go sit in and see if you like it,

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whatever it is.

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And then if you see that you like it, then guess what?

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You sign up and you pay for it and you take it for real.

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Guys, there's all kinds of colleges that have, you know,

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classes where you can learn stuff.

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You're not necessarily trying to get a degree.

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You just want to sign up and take a couple of credit hours

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to do what?

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To do an art class.

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Maybe you want to go do an art class.

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Maybe you want to, you know, do a pottery class

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or do a drawing class or painting class.

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You just want to see all kinds of people.

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Your neighborhoods have rec centers where they have classes,

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dance classes.

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Remember my dream was about dancing.

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By the way, yes, we are the Christians who dance.

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We're the Christians who dance.

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Now we might not booty dance, all right?

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If your dance, if you're dancing equals looking like

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you're having sex out in public,

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you might want to switch that up, all right?

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Looking like, you know, everyone in the room's just like,

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hey, you know, that girl or that guy, you know,

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wants to have sex.

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That's the takeaway.

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You might want to switch that up a little bit,

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but we have been.

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created to move our body.

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Your body wants to express the life that's inside of it.

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We have been created, listen please, to move, to move.

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You have not been created to sit around.

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You are not a potato.

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Just so you know, you're not a potato.

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You might look in the mirror and feel like a potato.

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You might even look a little bit like a potato right now.

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That all can be, that can all be fixed.

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By what?

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By moving.

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When we sit around a lot,

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we start to resemble things that sit around a lot,

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like potatoes.

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Okay, that's why they call it a couch potato.

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And so let's get up and move our bodies.

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Your body's been created to move.

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It's been created to move y'all.

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That's why you have those legs and those feet.

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That's why you have that core

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that keeps your body stabilized and that spine.

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That's why you have those bones and those muscles.

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Your body's been created to move.

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So walk, dance, run if you can, jog,

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do other types of movement, exercise.

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I know that people are like, yoga's bad.

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It's worshiping the devil or the God of the sun.

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I don't believe any of that.

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To the pure, all things are pure, y'all.

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Okay, greater is he that is in us

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than he that's in the world.

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If I accidentally do some pose

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that pagans do to their sun god,

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I'm not doing it to their sun god.

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It doesn't automatically become me worshiping a sun god.

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It doesn't.

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It doesn't, y'all.

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There's a lot of, there's something called hard intention

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that goes into anything.

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You think you can accidentally just walk out of your house

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and make the wrong movement with your body

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and all of a sudden you're worshiping the devil?

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Come on.

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Why do people believe this?

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Now, if you used to be a part of the occult

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and you used to worship other gods

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or you used to be a Wiccan or a white witch

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or something like that,

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then maybe that's a trigger for you.

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But don't put that on everybody else.

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It could be a trigger for you

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because you were participating in something

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with a hard intention.

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With a hard intention.

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You see how that's necessary?

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You were participating in something occultish

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with a hard intention to do something

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other than worship the one true and living God.

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So maybe that stuff now is a trigger for you.

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Those movements are a trigger for you.

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They take you someplace you don't want to go.

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Okay, we get that.

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And we bless you to do something different with your life

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that feels peaceful, that brings you shalom,

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that doesn't trigger you.

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But the rest of us, we just fat, dumb, and happy out here

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just moving our bodies and stretching.

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Leave us alone, okay?

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We want to be flexible

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so that when we're old, we don't break.

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You understand?

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The best thing you can do for yourself as you are aging,

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ladies and gentlemen, is stretch your body.

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Stretch your body.

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Pilates, yoga, things like this

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that cause you to be flexible, all right?

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Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.

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We want to be flexible.

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We want to make sure we are.

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Because if we're not, then we start breaking bones.

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We start getting problems.

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And so we don't want to do that.

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We don't want to be stiff.

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We don't want to be stiff old people, y'all.

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And so we have to move.

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Just so you know, movement is worship to God.

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Movement is worship to God.

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When we move, we're worshiping the Lord.

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We're doing what God created us to do.

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And anytime you do anything that God hardwired you

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and created you to do, that is worship to him.

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Let's go on and talk about a couple other things.

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He created you to dance.

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David was a man after his own heart,

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and that man danced like a fool.

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Okay, he did some other things too.

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And we're going to get to that in a second,

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because I believe that this life is our childhood,

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and God expects us to fall down and skin up our knees.

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He wants to pick us up from that position

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and dust us off and love us up and set us back on our way.

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You're allowed to make mistakes,

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and we're going to talk about that in a second.

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We're going to talk about movement still, though.

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He created us to move.

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He created us to take deep, deep belly breaths,

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you guys, like babies.

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Breathe it all in.

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Breathe it in, breathe it out.

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Inhale love and exhale fear.

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You've been created to breathe and to move and to dance.

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You've been created to do these things.

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You've been created to sing, that's right.

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You've been created to sing.

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I don't care if no other human being

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likes the sound of your voice.

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Your father in heaven loves the sound of your singing.

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Sing, belt it out, sing off key, do it.

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It's fine.

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It's fine.

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For people who think that they're tone deaf,

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you're really not.

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You just don't have a lot of experience with music

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and you just don't hear it,

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maybe like other people do

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that are naturally gifted to hear that.

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that beat or that key of the song, but just pray.

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Say, hey God, will you help me to hear it?

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I really love to sing.

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I really love to sing out more.

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I even love to sing out in church,

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but people give me the side eye

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because I'm not singing the right key.

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Lord, can you just help me with that?

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And he will.

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He will.

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Guys, I just had my first piano lesson

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because I'm a child in this grownup body.

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And if I get to be 110 years old on this earth,

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I'm still gonna be a child in this body

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because this is my childhood.

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This whole entire life is your childhood.

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You're here to learn.

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You're here to grow.

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You're here to love and be loved

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because you're made from love.

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That is what you're here for.

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Please watch and observe children,

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how they get on the playground

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and they're not ashamed to say goofy

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and crazy things to strangers.

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How they're not ashamed to try it out

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and to be afraid to try it out, but to do it afraid.

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How they're not ashamed to go up to each other

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and give each other a big hug,

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even though they don't know each other.

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They're not ashamed to do these things.

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God said, be a little child, come into the kingdom.

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He said, you know what?

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You can't even experience,

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you can't even see the kingdom

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if you don't come as a child.

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You gotta come as a child.

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The problem is a lot of us,

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our child has got robbed from us.

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We didn't get to be children when we were children.

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We had to grow up too fast

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because of the environments that we were in were not safe.

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We came out of our mother's wombs running for our lives,

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but guess what?

520
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We get a do over, not in heaven someday, right now.

521
00:21:49.760 --> 00:21:51.840
Just so you know, Supernatural Saturday

522
00:21:51.840 --> 00:21:55.520
used to be called Child Something Saturday.

523
00:21:55.540 --> 00:21:57.260
Who remembers what we used to call it?

524
00:21:57.260 --> 00:21:59.120
Free Child Saturday or?

525
00:22:00.340 --> 00:22:01.620
Child's Play.

526
00:22:01.620 --> 00:22:02.860
Child's Play.

527
00:22:02.860 --> 00:22:04.540
Child's Play Saturday.

528
00:22:04.540 --> 00:22:05.700
Thank you so much.

529
00:22:05.700 --> 00:22:07.080
Child's Play Saturday.

530
00:22:08.340 --> 00:22:11.220
Guys, we are never, never closer to heaven

531
00:22:11.220 --> 00:22:14.140
than when we are doing things like children.

532
00:22:16.560 --> 00:22:19.480
God wants to see the wonder and awe on your face.

533
00:22:20.820 --> 00:22:23.300
He wants you to get out of bed with your heart beating fast

534
00:22:23.320 --> 00:22:25.880
because you're so excited about your life.

535
00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:27.700
He wants you to live that way.

536
00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:30.280
He wants you to live that way.

537
00:22:31.120 --> 00:22:33.840
What are some of the things that have robbed us of that?

538
00:22:33.840 --> 00:22:34.940
Our childhoods.

539
00:22:36.040 --> 00:22:38.760
We had authoritarian parents.

540
00:22:38.760 --> 00:22:40.200
They were strict.

541
00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:42.320
Maybe they were abusive.

542
00:22:42.320 --> 00:22:43.720
What else has robbed us?

543
00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:44.920
Permissive childhoods

544
00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:47.400
when your parents just let you do whatever.

545
00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:51.080
There were no rules, there were no boundaries, right?

546
00:22:51.080 --> 00:22:52.500
You didn't feel safe.

547
00:22:52.500 --> 00:22:53.780
On the other side of the spectrum,

548
00:22:53.780 --> 00:22:55.240
your parent wasn't too hard on you.

549
00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:56.480
They weren't too controlling.

550
00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:57.880
They weren't too abusive.

551
00:22:57.880 --> 00:22:59.200
They were abusive in a different way.

552
00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:01.360
They acted like they were not, they didn't care.

553
00:23:01.360 --> 00:23:02.720
Oh, whatever you want to do.

554
00:23:05.520 --> 00:23:06.360
Right?

555
00:23:06.360 --> 00:23:08.280
And then maybe some of you went to legalistic churches

556
00:23:08.280 --> 00:23:10.160
when you were young.

557
00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:12.080
Maybe that's who discipled you.

558
00:23:12.080 --> 00:23:16.520
Those religious churches tell us God's not fun.

559
00:23:16.520 --> 00:23:17.600
You're not allowed to have fun.

560
00:23:17.600 --> 00:23:18.700
God's not fun.

561
00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:21.960
God's a rule keeper.

562
00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:23.420
God's watching.

563
00:23:23.420 --> 00:23:26.580
He's watching to make sure you don't have any fun.

564
00:23:26.580 --> 00:23:28.940
Everything, there's a rule against everything.

565
00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:30.540
Can't do this, can't do that.

566
00:23:32.540 --> 00:23:33.380
Right?

567
00:23:34.700 --> 00:23:35.540
No.

568
00:23:36.700 --> 00:23:37.940
God wants us through childhood.

569
00:23:37.940 --> 00:23:39.020
Remember, we're here to learn.

570
00:23:39.020 --> 00:23:40.140
We're here to make mistakes.

571
00:23:40.140 --> 00:23:41.380
We are here to make mistakes.

572
00:23:41.380 --> 00:23:43.060
That is how we learn.

573
00:23:43.060 --> 00:23:44.780
But not mistakes that come from sin

574
00:23:44.780 --> 00:23:46.820
because sin comes from a lack of trust.

575
00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:50.380
You guys, all sin is, is you running out

576
00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:53.200
and trying to get for yourself something

577
00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:56.520
without asking God to help you get it.

578
00:23:56.520 --> 00:23:58.000
That's all that sin is.

579
00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:01.040
Sin is when we think that we are getting something

580
00:24:01.040 --> 00:24:03.360
that God doesn't want for us.

581
00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:05.440
Let's take a few big, you know,

582
00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:07.160
areas of sin that people have.

583
00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:08.640
Sex, let's talk about sex.

584
00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:10.600
Let's talk about sex, baby.

585
00:24:10.600 --> 00:24:12.520
Listen, God created sex.

586
00:24:12.520 --> 00:24:14.120
He wants you to have sex.

587
00:24:14.120 --> 00:24:15.520
Sex is God's idea.

588
00:24:15.520 --> 00:24:17.080
I want you to say that to yourself.

589
00:24:17.080 --> 00:24:19.360
Sex is God's idea.

590
00:24:19.380 --> 00:24:20.940
I know that a lot of people think sex

591
00:24:20.940 --> 00:24:22.460
just came because of the fall.

592
00:24:22.460 --> 00:24:23.400
And now Adam and Eve,

593
00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:25.680
they were going to be forced into having sex.

594
00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:28.540
Here's your punishment, Adam and Eve.

595
00:24:28.540 --> 00:24:30.400
You're going to have sex now.

596
00:24:31.260 --> 00:24:32.920
And then Eve, you're going to bear children

597
00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:35.520
and it's going to hurt like the Dickens.

598
00:24:35.520 --> 00:24:36.900
Okay.

599
00:24:36.900 --> 00:24:39.180
And then you're going to raise rebellious children

600
00:24:39.180 --> 00:24:42.980
that say, I hate you by the time they're 17 years old.

601
00:24:42.980 --> 00:24:44.020
Yeah.

602
00:24:44.020 --> 00:24:46.740
Yeah, that might be part of the curse, but sex is not.

603
00:24:46.740 --> 00:24:49.680
Adam and Eve were going to have sex in the garden,

604
00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:51.000
you guys.

605
00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:52.600
Why do you think when Adam saw her,

606
00:24:52.600 --> 00:24:55.600
he was like, woo, man, woman.

607
00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:59.080
Yes.

608
00:24:59.080 --> 00:25:00.080
There was going to be.

609
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:01.860
and more life.

610
00:25:01.860 --> 00:25:03.900
Adam and Eve were just the starter set.

611
00:25:03.900 --> 00:25:05.580
There was going to be more humans

612
00:25:05.580 --> 00:25:08.620
and they were going to come from Adam and Eve

613
00:25:08.620 --> 00:25:11.420
in this beautiful divine lineage of divine design.

614
00:25:13.180 --> 00:25:16.820
You guys, I think that there's a redeemed version

615
00:25:16.820 --> 00:25:18.780
of sex we can get back to,

616
00:25:18.780 --> 00:25:20.900
where it's not layered with shame.

617
00:25:20.900 --> 00:25:23.900
You know what happened to sex after the fall?

618
00:25:23.900 --> 00:25:26.000
It became shameful.

619
00:25:28.020 --> 00:25:29.900
It's like, oh, I'm doing this.

620
00:25:29.900 --> 00:25:30.740
I'm married.

621
00:25:30.740 --> 00:25:33.820
I know I'm allowed, but there's something in me

622
00:25:33.820 --> 00:25:35.940
that's like, oh, this is not right.

623
00:25:35.940 --> 00:25:37.900
I shouldn't be doing this.

624
00:25:37.900 --> 00:25:39.140
I shouldn't be feeling this way.

625
00:25:39.140 --> 00:25:40.820
What if God's watching?

626
00:25:40.820 --> 00:25:41.780
God is watching.

627
00:25:44.420 --> 00:25:45.440
That's a buzzkill.

628
00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:48.340
But listen, the only reason it is a buzzkill

629
00:25:48.340 --> 00:25:50.300
is because we've somehow believed that sex

630
00:25:50.300 --> 00:25:53.980
is something that should be secretive, right?

631
00:25:53.980 --> 00:25:55.660
Now we don't do it open and in public

632
00:25:55.660 --> 00:25:57.300
because it's intimate and it's something

633
00:25:57.300 --> 00:25:59.700
that is very private between you and your spouse.

634
00:26:00.460 --> 00:26:03.500
It's a time of intimacy, a type of oneness for each other.

635
00:26:03.500 --> 00:26:06.280
But at the same time, it's not shameful.

636
00:26:07.300 --> 00:26:09.520
Do you guys know that they used to not let pregnant women

637
00:26:09.520 --> 00:26:11.680
out of the house when they started showing?

638
00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:13.400
They had the time of confinement.

639
00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:14.240
Why?

640
00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:17.100
Because being pregnant in public was considered indecent.

641
00:26:17.100 --> 00:26:17.940
Why?

642
00:26:17.940 --> 00:26:19.540
Because everyone knew you had sex.

643
00:26:20.520 --> 00:26:21.360
What?

644
00:26:21.360 --> 00:26:22.880
Get the hell out of here.

645
00:26:25.940 --> 00:26:28.240
You guys, we were raised in this society.

646
00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:30.520
Why do you think we're not fun anymore?

647
00:26:30.520 --> 00:26:31.640
Everything's shameful.

648
00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:33.860
That's good and fun and feels good.

649
00:26:33.860 --> 00:26:34.840
God created sex.

650
00:26:34.840 --> 00:26:35.860
Please tell yourself that.

651
00:26:35.860 --> 00:26:36.880
God created sex.

652
00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:38.040
He created sex.

653
00:26:38.040 --> 00:26:39.200
God loves sex.

654
00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:40.440
He wants you to have intimacy.

655
00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:42.440
He wants you to have oneness.

656
00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:44.460
He wants you to have orgasms.

657
00:26:44.460 --> 00:26:45.820
He made it that way.

658
00:26:47.540 --> 00:26:49.440
He made it that way.

659
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.560
All right, so religion has this big, huge list of things

660
00:26:52.560 --> 00:26:53.800
that you're not allowed to do,

661
00:26:53.800 --> 00:26:55.840
and all of them are the fun things to do.

662
00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:02.400
Sex is not something that God hid from us.

663
00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:04.600
He placed it in covenant for us

664
00:27:04.600 --> 00:27:06.480
because that's the only place that it's safe,

665
00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:09.900
especially now because of the curse in the earth.

666
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:16.120
People will use and abuse each other, right?

667
00:27:16.120 --> 00:27:19.840
For their own pleasure, and that's why it's where it is.

668
00:27:19.840 --> 00:27:23.140
God wants to redeem some things in your heart right now.

669
00:27:25.320 --> 00:27:27.120
He wants to redeem some things in your heart.

670
00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:29.120
I'm gonna go even further and say this.

671
00:27:29.120 --> 00:27:32.720
Modesty is a heart posture.

672
00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:35.120
If you walk out the door in the morning,

673
00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:38.280
gentlemen or ladies, with the intention

674
00:27:38.280 --> 00:27:41.400
of seducing someone sexually with your appearance,

675
00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:42.520
that's on you, boo.

676
00:27:44.300 --> 00:27:48.740
But our skin and our bodies just in general are not,

677
00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:52.720
we can't weaponize them sexually.

678
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:54.240
Stop weaponizing your body

679
00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:57.440
because you came from some modest as hottest church

680
00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:59.000
where the women had to cover up

681
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:02.040
like they were stinking nuns or something.

682
00:28:02.040 --> 00:28:04.020
Y'all, I live in Texas and it's hot.

683
00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:07.540
It's hot outside.

684
00:28:07.540 --> 00:28:12.240
It's already 85 degrees there, and it's February, okay?

685
00:28:14.080 --> 00:28:16.000
I don't walk out my door

686
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:20.240
trying to get some man to look at my goodies, all right?

687
00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:21.960
But I'll tell you this.

688
00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:25.240
If he does try to look at my no-no places,

689
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.480
that's on him, not me.

690
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:29.160
That's on him.

691
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:31.620
Ladies, we are not here to police men's morality.

692
00:28:31.620 --> 00:28:34.520
Gentlemen, you don't want us to do that, do you?

693
00:28:34.520 --> 00:28:36.120
We're not here to keep you from lusting.

694
00:28:36.120 --> 00:28:39.820
That is your issue, not our issue.

695
00:28:39.820 --> 00:28:41.240
Now, if we walk out the house

696
00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:43.480
purposely trying to get people to lust after us,

697
00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:45.440
whether we're male or female,

698
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.160
then you don't have a modest heart.

699
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:49.720
It's not about having a modest body.

700
00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:51.420
It's about having a modest heart.

701
00:28:54.280 --> 00:28:58.540
My skin is not evil.

702
00:28:59.600 --> 00:29:00.600
It's not evil.

703
00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:04.660
Ladies, for those of you that are battling this

704
00:29:04.660 --> 00:29:06.320
and it's making you no fun,

705
00:29:06.320 --> 00:29:09.360
it's making you frigid and rigid,

706
00:29:09.360 --> 00:29:12.200
I really want to just release this over you right now.

707
00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:13.840
God wants you to glow,

708
00:29:13.840 --> 00:29:15.880
and he showed me that it's an acronym,

709
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:17.500
and the acronym means this.

710
00:29:17.500 --> 00:29:19.540
God loves our womanhood.

711
00:29:22.300 --> 00:29:24.300
Those little milk sacks on your chest,

712
00:29:24.300 --> 00:29:25.460
those are to feed babies.

713
00:29:25.460 --> 00:29:27.900
And if you don't feed babies with them, guess what?

714
00:29:27.900 --> 00:29:28.720
They don't go away.

715
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:29.640
They're still there.

716
00:29:31.080 --> 00:29:33.080
That's what they're for.

717
00:29:33.080 --> 00:29:36.980
And if people are offended by them, that's their problem.

718
00:29:36.980 --> 00:29:40.760
If people want to sexualize your body, that's on them.

719
00:29:40.760 --> 00:29:43.320
Please don't sexualize your body.

720
00:29:43.320 --> 00:29:45.320
Please don't sexualize your body, y'all.

721
00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:48.780
Can you be free to be in your skin?

722
00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:52.280
I live in the country,

723
00:29:52.280 --> 00:29:54.920
and I went outside and sat on my porch

724
00:29:54.920 --> 00:29:56.760
butt naked the other day.

725
00:29:56.760 --> 00:29:57.800
You know why?

726
00:29:57.800 --> 00:29:59.540
Because my skin likes the sun.

727
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.380
There's nobody around but if someone's using binoculars from their house far far away to look at me, that's their problem

728
00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:15.240
Right, I'm not famous enough for the paparazzi to be taking pictures of me so I'm safe

729
00:30:17.340 --> 00:30:19.340
But my I don't see my body

730
00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:26.580
Sexually now my husband does because we have that type of relationship and if someone else out there does

731
00:30:26.700 --> 00:30:32.140
That's their problem because I'm not trying to get them to see it that way. Do you guys see where I'm going with this?

732
00:30:32.660 --> 00:30:34.860
All of this makes us no fun

733
00:30:36.660 --> 00:30:41.060
We're constantly trying to cross every T and dot every I we're so worried about

734
00:30:41.580 --> 00:30:47.280
Getting in trouble and doing the wrong thing you guys that's gonna rob you of your enjoyment of life

735
00:30:50.060 --> 00:30:52.220
It's gonna rob you of your enjoyment of life

736
00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:54.220
I

737
00:30:56.620 --> 00:30:59.380
Been to a lot of beaches and you know what I

738
00:31:00.020 --> 00:31:04.980
Do not remember the best body person on that beach or the worst body person on that beach

739
00:31:04.980 --> 00:31:06.980
I have never seen anyone in a bathing suit

740
00:31:07.020 --> 00:31:11.540
That I was just that that made some kind of impression on me that I remember them forever now

741
00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:15.180
What am I trying to say by that

742
00:31:15.380 --> 00:31:21.340
Go have fun. Even if you think your body don't look good in a bathing suit. No one cares

743
00:31:23.060 --> 00:31:27.220
You go swim in the ocean breathe in the salt air

744
00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:36.340
We all have stretch marks we all have cellulite gravity is taking its toll on everyone

745
00:31:39.860 --> 00:31:41.860
It's time to have fun

746
00:31:42.900 --> 00:31:45.740
Gentlemen dad bods are in go to the beach

747
00:31:48.220 --> 00:31:50.740
Dad bods are sexy right now. It's a thing

748
00:31:53.220 --> 00:31:56.300
Sexy and you know it come on

749
00:31:57.860 --> 00:32:03.260
You guys you recognize this isn't like a normal prayer call you like oh my god, are we having prayer right now?

750
00:32:03.740 --> 00:32:05.740
Yes, because God's fun

751
00:32:06.700 --> 00:32:11.740
God is fun. And that's that's the message today that he's trying to get across to you. I'm fun

752
00:32:12.460 --> 00:32:14.780
So I feel like God's asking us. Um

753
00:32:15.820 --> 00:32:17.860
What what do you think? Heaven's like?

754
00:32:18.380 --> 00:32:20.700
Do you think heaven's the somber place y'all

755
00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:26.780
Just so you know all the stuff in its original form from the garden that we have now

756
00:32:26.780 --> 00:32:31.180
But we're not enjoying because it's weaponized and it's got all this red tape around it

757
00:32:31.180 --> 00:32:36.060
That's what heaven's like heaven's like the garden was at the beginning

758
00:32:40.540 --> 00:32:42.540
There's not all these rules anymore

759
00:32:42.980 --> 00:32:48.500
There's not all these rules anymore, there's not all this stuff that's keeping us from being able to enjoy

760
00:32:49.020 --> 00:32:51.020
The life that God has given us

761
00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:54.380
So I say that we just bring heaven earth and start right now

762
00:32:59.220 --> 00:33:03.820
Right, okay, so let's talk about David for a second because God said hey I

763
00:33:04.740 --> 00:33:06.740
Like this kid. I

764
00:33:06.780 --> 00:33:11.820
Don't just love him. I like this kid. Why because he was willing to try things

765
00:33:12.540 --> 00:33:14.540
He's willing to trust God, right?

766
00:33:15.540 --> 00:33:19.980
Remember when he broke into the showbred and ate it all the priests were like, what are you doing?

767
00:33:20.660 --> 00:33:23.540
David's like I was hungry. He wasn't being disrespectful

768
00:33:25.380 --> 00:33:31.940
He was just being like, you know, I think we can all like I see David kind of as like a good-hearted frat boy

769
00:33:31.940 --> 00:33:33.940
It's like well

770
00:33:34.260 --> 00:33:39.980
Kind of making some mistakes. They're a little immature little immature, but at the same time got a good heart and

771
00:33:40.620 --> 00:33:46.220
That's what it's all about. It's about having a good heart, you know, David did some big big bad things, right?

772
00:33:46.980 --> 00:33:48.980
Bath Sheba that whole dealio

773
00:33:50.580 --> 00:33:56.280
Uriah her husband all the things we know that was that was not good. That was bad

774
00:33:57.380 --> 00:34:01.900
But you know what David repented David saw the error of his ways David came to God

775
00:34:02.700 --> 00:34:04.460
you know

776
00:34:04.460 --> 00:34:09.380
Asked for forgiveness wanted to do better and you don't see David making those kinds of mistakes for the rest of his life

777
00:34:09.380 --> 00:34:15.500
you guys the proof of I'm sorry has changed behavior, but we'll never ever change our behavior if we believe that God is

778
00:34:16.020 --> 00:34:18.020
Against us and not for us

779
00:34:18.260 --> 00:34:19.300
Why is that?

780
00:34:19.300 --> 00:34:25.420
Because all sin stems from us believing God's not gonna give us something because he doesn't want it for us

781
00:34:25.420 --> 00:34:27.420
So we have to go get it ourselves

782
00:34:28.620 --> 00:34:30.620
Whether that's peace

783
00:34:31.020 --> 00:34:33.020
right, whether that's healing whether that's

784
00:34:33.659 --> 00:34:35.659
some other kind of

785
00:34:35.659 --> 00:34:40.940
Gratification for some God-given desire that you have God's giving you the desires that you have

786
00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:46.940
And he wants to fulfill those things through things that are not going to cause you more pain and shame

787
00:34:47.739 --> 00:34:50.980
Righteous ways not churchy ways. Please hear me

788
00:34:51.860 --> 00:34:59.820
There's two different versions of the right way to do things. There's a righteous way, which is God's way, which is fun and freeing

789
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:08.800
and makes you feel free makes you feel like you can go sit on your porch naked and then there's the religious or churchy way of doing things.

790
00:35:10.080 --> 00:35:20.080
And some of y'all super churchy and I appreciate it, because I used to be super churchy too and there's a reason why they call it leaven once you get that yeast in the dough it's hard to get out.

791
00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:27.040
I was about to say we're yeasty but that's gross, so we don't want that mm no.

792
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:44.400
I happen to think that God is funny and i'm funny i've been craving God's image, and I think that God likes it that i'm funny I think that God, I think I make God laugh I think he's like man you're funny.

793
00:35:45.240 --> 00:35:45.800
I do.

794
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:48.560
I really do I think that.

795
00:35:49.600 --> 00:35:57.400
yeah that's why I like the early episodes of that show the chosen because it shows Jesus it shows him with a sense of humor right.

796
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:06.680
It shows him light hearted and silly and with a sense of humor and I know it's getting serious because he's headed to the cross and he's getting a little more somber and I get that.

797
00:36:06.680 --> 00:36:32.080
But I love to see a Jesus that's you know, full of reverence for heaven, because you can hold those two things together those things can be held in your body simultaneously a reverence for God and all of God and honor of God i'm not down with the God is my homeboy kind of idea I I am in awe of God.

798
00:36:32.200 --> 00:36:34.920
At the same time, I really do think God is fun.

799
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.560
I think that he doesn't just love me he likes me.

800
00:36:41.040 --> 00:36:58.760
A lot of times our conversations, even when he's correct me i'll just be going about my business i'll be doing my thing and i'll see someone else doing their thing and then i'll be a little side I be a little judgy be like oh I don't know about that right and then immediately Holy Spirit like you do that.

801
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:27.800
And i'm like touche uh I see you're right, I do and that's why i'm noticing this other person doing it and that's usually my response is touche i'm like oh touche mm hmm and that's kind of the relationship now there's other times when things get serious, but a lot of times it's a light hearted correction that happens where it's like i'm able to be shown the error of not being able to do the right thing.

802
00:37:29.120 --> 00:37:38.280
of my ways very quickly i'm being able to be led by the eyes of God he doesn't have to sit me down and correct me correct me because i'm teachable.

803
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:46.680
I don't get a hard heart like no I don't I don't do that i'm perfect that's not I don't do that.

804
00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:55.800
But if you do that it might be because you don't feel like you're allowed to make mistakes and therefore it's hard for you to admit when you make them.

805
00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:01.520
Oh y'all, this is good, this is good today.

806
00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:13.840
Almost almost didn't lead prayer I almost was like hey can someone take it this morning because it's seven o'clock in the morning and i'm tired and it's cold outside and everyone in the House is asleep.

807
00:38:14.160 --> 00:38:20.760
And all the excuses and i'm glad I came because this ministering to me to sometimes I forget to have fun.

808
00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:22.280
Now.

809
00:38:23.160 --> 00:38:31.000
That pendulum can swing too far not everything's going to be fun in life, sometimes you got to do the dirty work that you don't want to do so that you can have the fun.

810
00:38:32.160 --> 00:38:40.960
You got to make sure there's not and not anything that you do in life, no, no job that you have no vocation no ministry you're not going to like all the parts of it.

811
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:44.280
Now, like all the parts of it.

812
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:46.360
Right.

813
00:38:46.360 --> 00:39:02.920
I mean I love making engagement announcements and wedding announcements I love going to people's weddings I love you know getting excited with you because you're getting a breakthrough I don't like the hard parts that we have to all get to get there, the hard work stuff it's rewarding yeah but it's hard right.

814
00:39:04.600 --> 00:39:05.320
But we got to do it.

815
00:39:07.560 --> 00:39:08.520
And we do it together.

816
00:39:10.560 --> 00:39:11.320
We push through.

817
00:39:13.040 --> 00:39:14.320
So we can get to the good stuff.

818
00:39:17.160 --> 00:39:17.960
The good parts.

819
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:29.440
yeah alright so i'm going to reinstitute starting today, it is supernatural Saturday but we're bringing back child's play child's play day.

820
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:34.640
We got to get back in touch with our free child that lives inside of us.

821
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:38.240
that's your divine design, you are hardwired for that.

822
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:40.840
you're hardwired.

823
00:39:44.040 --> 00:39:44.800
To have fun.

824
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:59.560
you're hardwired to believe that God loves you and likes you not just loves you but likes you for God so love the world that he sent his son and I don't think he minds me saying for God so liked the world.

825
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.640
that he sent his son. He likes you.

826
00:40:06.240 --> 00:40:08.320
I believe that heaven is going to be amazing.

827
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:13.360
Are we going to be, are we going to learn things for eternity? Sure, we're going to learn things.

828
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:17.440
We're going to be stretched. We're going to grow. We're going to evolve.

829
00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:27.200
Otherwise, think about it, y'all. It's eternity. We have to be stretching, evolving, and changing.

830
00:40:27.200 --> 00:40:34.960
Otherwise, it doesn't make sense, does it? It doesn't make sense.

831
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:42.880
Some of you worry too much, and you need to start moving your body and worshiping,

832
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:48.960
right? You won't worry if you stop sitting around like a potato, right?

833
00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:55.520
One thing that helps with worry, just, I know this for just personal experience, is moving.

834
00:40:56.160 --> 00:41:04.000
Turn on the music. Have a little dance party in your kitchen. Move your body. Move it.

835
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:12.800
I like to move it, move it, move it. You got to move it. You'll stop thinking if you start moving.

836
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.200
Start being. You are a being.

837
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:27.200
Yes, I'm seeing your comments. Yes, yes, yes. Start moving. You want less anxiety? Start moving.

838
00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:32.160
There's things that you want to do that you've been afraid to try, afraid to do.

839
00:41:32.160 --> 00:41:38.000
I want you to really be honest with yourself, you know. Am I enjoying myself? Am I enjoying myself?

840
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.920
I want you to really be honest with yourself, you know. Am I enjoying this gift called life

841
00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:51.360
that God has given me? Or is it 80% drudgery for the 20% of fleeting fun?

842
00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:58.480
Fleeting fun. You guys, I just said that there are going to be hard parts,

843
00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:01.680
but it shouldn't be the majority. If the majority of your life is hard,

844
00:42:01.680 --> 00:42:06.720
then we got a problem, Houston. We do. The majority of your life cannot be hard.

845
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:13.120
There's a verse in the Bible that says, take my feet off this path of pain and lead me back to

846
00:42:13.120 --> 00:42:20.720
you. Yes, we do have moments of pain in life. That stretches us. Pain is our friend. Pain creates

847
00:42:20.720 --> 00:42:26.080
change. A lot of times necessary change, but it's not supposed to stay indefinitely.

848
00:42:29.120 --> 00:42:36.320
It's just here to guide us to some change. And if we're really teachable, we can avoid the pain

849
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:40.800
and just change before the pain comes. Woo. Come on.

850
00:42:46.160 --> 00:42:51.360
So I want you to begin to pray as of today. And I want you to, I want you to activate this by

851
00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:55.120
making it child's play day. Do something that you would do when you were a child.

852
00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:59.760
You know, I know you're on keto, but have an ice cream cone today. It's not a slippery slope.

853
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:06.000
It could be coconut milk, whatever you not, whatever you need. It can be the adult version

854
00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:15.280
of it. Eat the cookie by the shoes sometimes. Now, if you do that every single day, then,

855
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:23.040
that every single day, then, you know, you might end up with potato with good shoes on.

856
00:43:28.640 --> 00:43:35.280
But you have to be, you have to, you have to be willing to sometimes color outside the lines.

857
00:43:36.160 --> 00:43:41.200
Can't do everything perfect. And if you have the mentality that you have to do it,

858
00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:44.320
this is where we have to start. You need to do something messy.

859
00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:51.760
I remember I have a, I have a best friend and I remember she's the kind of person who always looks

860
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:55.680
put together. When we were younger, she wouldn't walk out of the house. Her makeup was perfect.

861
00:43:55.680 --> 00:44:00.080
Her hair was perfect. Her clothes were perfect. There was a wrinkle on her clothes to be seen.

862
00:44:00.080 --> 00:44:05.280
Everything was perfect. She never had any stains on her shirt like me. Cause I dropped a bunch of

863
00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:10.960
crap on myself when I was eating, you know, she never had any of that stuff. Her house was perfect.

864
00:44:11.520 --> 00:44:16.400
Clothes were folded perfectly, hospital corners on her bed, all the things. And I said, Hey,

865
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:23.040
I signed up for this mud volleyball game. I said, do you want to come? She gasped. What? Mud

866
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:28.160
volleyball? I was like, yeah, just put on some old clothes and let's go. I don't know.

867
00:44:31.040 --> 00:44:34.160
I finally talked this girl into doing this. And you guys,

868
00:44:36.240 --> 00:44:38.800
you have never seen someone have more fun in their lives.

869
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:43.040
Just give herself permission to be fully covered with mud.

870
00:44:44.240 --> 00:44:49.840
Right. And just so you know, she only came to watch me. So she didn't even wear clothes that

871
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:54.000
could get muddy. Right. So she's with me to go watch me. And we're, we're headed towards the

872
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:58.400
volleyball court and this, this like a tournament thing. So all these mud volleyball courts and

873
00:44:58.400 --> 00:44:59.760
everyone's super excited.

874
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.960
For muddy and having fun and we finally get to the one that we're going to be i'm going to be playing at and i'm like come on.

875
00:45:06.520 --> 00:45:16.000
And she's like oh no, no, no, so I reached down in the mud and I put my hand in it, and then I just put my handprint right on her boob big muddy handprint right on her shirt.

876
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:24.000
Shots have been fired friends shots have been fired she was super mad at me, but we are best friends, so I knew she'd get over it.

877
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:32.000
She was super mad at me and then you know what she got down because I hadn't neither one of us had any mud on us yet and she threw some mud at me.

878
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:40.000
And then it ensued into a full on mud fight and then so she was so muddy and then she got involved in the day, and it was the best day of her life.

879
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:43.000
Best day ever.

880
00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:44.000
Best day ever.

881
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:47.000
You guys.

882
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:56.000
Look, I know we're eternal so we don't die, but no one's getting out of this life alive all right.

883
00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:00.000
This body is not getting out of here alive.

884
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:03.000
So you better go ahead and ride it to the wheels fall off.

885
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:07.000
This is it.

886
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:14.000
Some other things that you need to know is that, you know, the, the marriage kind of marriage that we're talking about that's reserved for this life.

887
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.000
So gentlemen, ladies, there's no time better than now.

888
00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:28.000
And you're going to have to grow. We were toasting my new son in law to be and my daughter last night, and just saying hey we know they're going to grow together we know that they're going to give each other grace.

889
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:42.000
We know that they're going to overcome things together. You know, that's all that it takes. Just choose someone that you want to, you know, overcome the obstacles of life with that you're willing to give all the grace that you've ever given anyone.

890
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:52.000
You're willing to forgive more than anyone that you're willing to, you know, make, you know, give mercy to more than anyone.

891
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:54.000
And let's get the show on the road.

892
00:46:55.000 --> 00:47:02.000
Because what we're talking about here, it's only for this life. Yeah, there'll be a marriage in heaven but we'll all be involved in it, it's going to be different.

893
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.000
It's going to be different. And so this one is for now. This one's to get you ready for that one.

894
00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:14.000
Marriage and family is God's maturity process. Let it mature you.

895
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:20.000
Let it make you more easygoing, let it make you more fun, let it make you, you know, less rigid.

896
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:22.000
That's what it's here to do.

897
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.000
More full of grace, more full of mercy.

898
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:31.000
Choose someone.

899
00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:38.000
Seriously, choose someone who's teachable, someone who's going to listen to the voice of the Lord, that's the most important thing.

900
00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:41.000
Because when you can't talk to them, God can.

901
00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:43.000
Because when you can't talk to them, God can.

902
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:50.000
Someone with a soft heart towards God, and let's just go.

903
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:01.000
Yes, yes, yes.

904
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:03.000
All right.

905
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:08.000
I have about nine minutes left here so think about what you're going to do today and put it in the chat.

906
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:10.000
What are you going to do?

907
00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:14.000
To find the little girl, little boy that lives inside of you, what are you going to do?

908
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:18.000
What did you used to like to do when you were a child before people told you you need to grow up?

909
00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:53.000
By the way, going back to the modest thing for a second, you have to remember that America was founded by the Puritans, right?

910
00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:03.000
And so, so much of what we consider quote unquote modest has just been handed down for us from a whole lot of very religious ideas.

911
00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:13.000
So keep that in mind when you dress like it's winter time and it's 100 degrees outside.

912
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:24.000
People are going to go to the park and swing, anything, listen, anything that activates that child-likeness inside of you.

913
00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:26.000
That's it. Let's do it.

914
00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:28.000
Maybe it's doing something creative.

915
00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:36.000
Why don't you get, why don't you get some paper and some paints and, you know, do some finger painting.

916
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:42.000
Get messy. You guys, kids are messy. Get messy.

917
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.000
Get the ingredients and get in your kitchen and make something that you don't let yourself eat all the time.

918
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.000
Make some cookies. Get your hands in that dough. Get your hands in there.

919
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:56.000
Get messy.

920
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.840
Go out and for those of you that it's a you know, whether appropriate go out and do some gardening dig in the dig in the dirt

921
00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:13.660
Start thinking about what you're gonna plants and what you're gonna do and you know ground yourself you guys. That's another thing

922
00:50:14.380 --> 00:50:18.080
We've been created from creation and we need it

923
00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:23.880
If you're the kind of person that's like, oh, yeah, I don't like to go outside. Then you have to change

924
00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:30.440
That is not your natural state your natural state is I don't like the outdoors that is not

925
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:35.040
Healthy for you. It's not healthy for you

926
00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:42.040
Some of you just need to go lay in the grass you're like, well, what about ticks and Lyme disease? Come on y'all

927
00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:52.820
Take your shoes off when you see grass and put your feet in it

928
00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:56.880
Put your feet in it climb a tree.

929
00:50:58.960 --> 00:51:00.480
Pick some wildflowers.

930
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:08.840
I want to see the hands of the women that either made Danny line crowns mama had a baby in her head fell off.

931
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:21.680
Or put it under your chin to see if you liked butter. Right. You know what I'm talking about. Are you picked wildflowers make crowns out of them or just pick them. Give them your mom or your auntie. Come on, let's see our

932
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:31.640
Come on, let's see our and then of course the adults in our lives are like, those are weeds. They're pretty to me. They're flowers to me. That's what I feel like God's like

933
00:51:32.800 --> 00:51:36.360
People like those are weeds and God's like, no, they're flowers.

934
00:51:39.120 --> 00:51:44.920
I want to see the hands of the ladies. Come on, and gentlemen, you as well. Let's see that. Let's see the hands of the guys that

935
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:56.280
You know, had a bike that's chain was off and you were constantly fixing the chain on your bike or pumping up a tire going looking for crawl dads in the creek or tadpoles or ladies, you too.

936
00:51:56.720 --> 00:52:08.800
I was a total tomboy so tadpoles crawfish crawl dads crayfish who knows what you call them. They nasty people eat those things. Alright, so went fishing

937
00:52:09.640 --> 00:52:20.720
Let's see. Sometimes you've got to go fishing. Right. I always threw him back but you can go fishing. If you're going to eat it, you can catch it. Don't kill it unless you're going to eat it. All right. That's not fair.

938
00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:24.680
If you're gonna eat it. Cool. There's not there's not very many hands up

939
00:52:25.720 --> 00:52:28.320
Guys are not fun. I don't know what's happening.

940
00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:38.280
Look, I'm just going to tell you something about myself that you probably already figured out. And that's if it's not fun if there's not fun involved somehow in it. I don't want to do it.

941
00:52:40.640 --> 00:52:45.840
Yeah, there can be hard parts. Sure. But the majority of it has to be fun.

942
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:51.120
Yeah, there can be hard parts. Sure. But the majority of it has to be fun.

943
00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:58.560
So that some of you need to build something you like to build you want to build

944
00:52:59.880 --> 00:53:03.240
Go to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy the stuff and build something

945
00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:10.680
Rochelle wants to ride a horse. Come on. Or you maybe see your name, Rachel. I'm not sure because I never now.

946
00:53:12.200 --> 00:53:12.480
Right.

947
00:53:13.040 --> 00:53:13.600
Come on.

948
00:53:15.120 --> 00:53:15.920
Come on.

949
00:53:17.120 --> 00:53:19.960
Legos. Yes, Legos. My husband loved Legos.

950
00:53:26.640 --> 00:53:28.800
Go out at nighttime and catch some fireflies.

951
00:53:33.080 --> 00:53:35.680
Don't paint your fingernails with it. That's cruel.

952
00:53:36.520 --> 00:53:45.120
I didn't do that, y'all. I never wanted to hurt or kill anything, but I had girlfriends who painted their fingernails with the firefly butts. Look, our nails glow. Yeah, but you kill that bug.

953
00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:48.280
It's not a it's a good bug. Not a bad bug.

954
00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:58.480
You put them in lanterns. Just make sure you let them go after you enjoy them for a moment.

955
00:53:58.600 --> 00:54:07.960
You guys, we have to be kind to nature. We have to be kind, you know, God created that ecosystem, even those spiders and those bugs that you don't like they're doing something important in the earth.

956
00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:18.440
And so if you can let them go free. Let them go three free. The only things that I give you permission to kill. You don't need my permission is flies.

957
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:28.760
I know they do a good job decomposing things y'all I know but remember death is not part of anything but the curse. And so anything that only exists to decompose things. I got a problem with that.

958
00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:33.320
I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit of a

959
00:54:34.320 --> 00:54:44.120
I know they do a good job decomposing things y'all I know but remember death is not part of anything but the curse. And so anything that only exists to decompose things. I got a problem with that.

960
00:54:48.160 --> 00:54:52.120
Spiders are good. They keep all the ugly nasty mosquitoes and stuff away.

961
00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:58.160
And does that mean that I want a spider crawling in and out of my mouth while I'm sleeping. No.

962
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.200
You guys, I saw that on the internet and I've never been okay since.

963
00:55:07.200 --> 00:55:09.920
That's another thing that might be robbing you of your joy.

964
00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:13.040
Don't look at the internet.

965
00:55:13.040 --> 00:55:16.640
If the internet makes you feel like you're not enough and you're not pretty enough or

966
00:55:16.640 --> 00:55:22.360
this enough or that enough or you're not successful enough or it gives you scary ideas about spiders

967
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:27.040
crawling in and out of your mouth while you're sleeping, then don't look at it.

968
00:55:27.040 --> 00:55:28.680
Seriously.

969
00:55:28.680 --> 00:55:32.960
Get outside, all right?

970
00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:33.960
Go to the farmer's market.

971
00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:34.960
You guys, it's Saturday.

972
00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:35.960
There's farmer's markets.

973
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:38.040
Go to the farmer's market.

974
00:55:38.040 --> 00:55:42.400
Get in touch with your crunchy hippie that lives inside of you.

975
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:47.560
Guys, I believe in our core, all of us are crunchy granola hippie people.

976
00:55:47.560 --> 00:55:52.640
I believe that's what the garden looked like, okay?

977
00:55:52.640 --> 00:55:57.320
Walking around, breastfeeding our children in public, buying sourdough starters.

978
00:55:57.320 --> 00:55:59.800
Let's go.

979
00:55:59.800 --> 00:56:00.800
Let's go.

980
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:03.400
All right, I love you and I bless you.

981
00:56:03.400 --> 00:56:04.960
Father God, I thank you for your sons and daughters.

982
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:08.640
I thank you that they're going to come alive like never before.

983
00:56:08.640 --> 00:56:13.680
Childlikeness is going to come out of them, something that's pure, Lord, and lovely.

984
00:56:13.680 --> 00:56:15.320
Joy is going to rise up.

985
00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:16.320
Hope is going to rise up.

986
00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:21.000
They're going to start enjoying this one and only time on earth called their life.

987
00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:25.480
Lord, I pray that you would give them opportunities for enjoyment and pleasure and excitement

988
00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:27.200
and anticipation, Lord.

989
00:56:28.080 --> 00:56:31.720
I pray that you would begin to take this seed and water it and water it and water it until

990
00:56:31.720 --> 00:56:37.400
all of us are living that John 10, 10 fully alive experience in Jesus name, amen.

991
00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:38.400
Love y'all.

992
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:39.400
Bless you.

993
00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:39.400