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Alright, welcome to Supernatural Saturday. If you're new to Supernatural Saturday, this is the day where we lean into current prophetic realities as a community.

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What is heaven saying to us today? What is heaven saying to us during this season of our community, of our movement, but also individually?

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And so that is what we do on Saturdays. I am on location this Saturday. I am in Daytona Beach for a birthday party.

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My twin niece and nephew turned 18 on Friday, and we are here to celebrate them.

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And I'm going to talk about that a little bit, about just a few things that I think are really pertinent.

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But before we do that, let's look to the Lord.

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Father God, we're so thankful. We're so thankful that we are able to come together on this Resurrection weekend and remember what your Son did for us.

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That he came, you sent him to us as a gift to the world to come and to sacrifice himself so that we would all be reunited to you together.

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That he would be the firstborn among many brethren, and we are those brothers and sisters.

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And so we thank you that you have reconciled us to yourself.

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We thank you that we are now seated with Christ in heavenly places because of his sacrifice.

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Today, as we wait for the Victory Resurrection morning tomorrow, we come into agreement with what happened on that cross.

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We come into agreement with what was done for us and as us, Lord.

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And this morning, we ask that you would lead us and guide us into a greater revelation of that for our own lives and for our families.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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I think it's important when we talk about the Resurrection, when we talk about Easter, when we talk about, you know, the finished work of Calvary, that we remember that Jesus didn't just die for us.

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Hebrews 6 tells us very clearly that he also died as us.

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Go ahead and pause on that for a second.

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I want you to think about that.

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And the reason why it's important is because I heard, even though I had not really had my spiritual awakening yet, I hadn't had my real come to Jesus moment in my life yet.

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When I was young, I heard about the finished work of the cross.

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I heard about Calvary.

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I heard about Jesus coming and dying for the sins of mankind.

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I heard that.

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But guess what?

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It wasn't personalized to me.

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When I heard that story as a young person, you know, in the context of Easter specifically, it didn't mean anything to me.

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It didn't mean anything to me because it wasn't personalized.

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And it's really easy, especially when you feel far away from God or you don't feel emotionally involved with God or Him emotionally involved with you.

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Those are just stories.

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Those are just stories that people tell, you know, about, you know, some sort of some sort of legend behind a holiday.

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Right.

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And it's like, OK, great.

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Jesus died for the sins of the world.

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But you don't personalize that.

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That doesn't really have anything to do with your life.

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If you even believe it's true.

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So it's important for us this morning to pause and reflect that Jesus didn't just die for us because you can opt out of that.

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You can opt out of that.

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Well, he didn't die for me because, you know, what I've done is unforgivable or what's happened to me means that, you know, I'm not important or I'm insignificant to this story.

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But he didn't just die for you.

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He also died as you.

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Each and every one of us, whether we like this idea or not, were born under a curse.

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We were born into a counterfeit identity.

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Think about it that way.

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You were born into a counterfeit identity.

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The heart in you was shrouded under the death clothes of sin.

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You were born into it.

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And I've had a front row seat.

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And, you know, it's easy to forget what your children are like.

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My youngest is 23 years old.

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And it's easy to forget what they're like as babies.

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But as a grandparent, I have a front row seat to twin 18 month olds.

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And guess what?

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They're mean to each other.

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And they have been since they came out of the womb.

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Are they sweet babies?

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Yes, they're sweet babies.

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But the innocence of children, when we're like, oh, babies are so innocent and they're so sweet, they're also born under a curse.

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And if we don't teach them, if we don't train them in the way that they go, the way they should go in life, to share, to be kind, to be loving, if we don't impress upon them the kingdom and we don't show them by our example of what it looks like to be a Christ follower,

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then they're going to grow up and be whatever the curse leads them to be.

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That curse state is going to continue and continue and continue and continue.

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My little 18-month-old granddaughter, when she was born.

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He was about 13 months old, came right in front of me,

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and just smacked her brother in the face

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for no reason at all.

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And I'm like, oh yeah, I see it, Lord, I see it.

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I see the tendencies in the flesh, right?

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Because this flesh is born cursed.

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And so what happened on that resurrection day,

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that Good Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

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what happened on that is that Jesus did not just die

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for you so that you can get into heaven someday.

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He died as you.

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He put to death the curse that was holding you hostage.

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And when we step into that new life,

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and that's why it's a new life experience,

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it's a new birth experience.

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When you receive Christ as your savior,

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you're not just saying, okay, Jesus,

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thank you for dying for me

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so that I can get into heaven someday.

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You're saying, I accept that you didn't just die for me

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because you're the spotless lamb,

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because you're the only sacrifice

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that could end this curse of sin and death.

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But because you died as me, now I can be born new.

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I can be born, you were born from your mother's womb,

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cursed, but you were born from the womb

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of the finished work of the cross, redeemed.

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Come on, y'all.

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If we got ahold of that, it really could change everything.

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And the reason why is because he was wounded

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for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities,

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the chastisement of our peace was upon him,

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and by his stripes we are healed.

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But we don't fully understand that passage of scripture,

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and part of the reason why is because we don't know

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the actual language that it was written in.

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There might be someone here on this call this morning

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that speaks Hebrew, but most people don't.

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And so we just take it at face value,

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and I really wanna encourage you,

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all of you, and myself, of course,

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to understand that our English language,

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and some of you might be native Spanish speakers,

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or you might have a first primary language

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that's not English, but this call is in English.

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Most of us here are native English speakers.

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When the Bible was translated into English,

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it's not that it lost things in translation,

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but some of the words that we understand in English

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to mean something very one-faceted,

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the actual Hebrew word that was translated

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into that one-faceted word for us is very multi-faceted.

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What I'm trying to say is that there's depth

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in the word of God, there's depth.

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You can't just take it at surface value.

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And I know that we have these

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Read the Bible in a Year programs,

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and those are awesome, and I think it's great

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for you to get the word in your heart,

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and if you wanna be on one of those reading schedules,

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and you just wanna accomplish that, that's great.

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But in my heart, a lot of times we would be better off

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to take one little passage of scripture,

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maybe even one verse of scripture,

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and meditate on it for months.

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Meditate on it for months,

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allow it to really get inside of you,

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and the meaning behind it to really get inside of your heart,

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to really get inside of your heart,

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the true meaning behind it,

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to really research it and go to the depths of it.

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You know, take any really popular passage of scripture

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that people love, like this one that I just quoted,

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and if you really dug into it,

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and you really meditated on it, what does that mean?

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That means that to rehearse it over yourself,

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to kind of chew on it every single day,

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to declare it over yourself,

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until you get the full meaning of it,

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the full meaning of it, you make it your own,

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you apply it to yourself.

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So I'm gonna dig into this,

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and I wanna talk about just being here at the beach too,

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so hopefully I don't forget to do that,

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because there's a lesson to be learned in that as well,

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this morning, but let me just go ahead

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and talk about just a little piece of this verse today.

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Okay, Isaiah 53, five.

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The Hebrew word, okay,

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that's translated among his wounds and bruises,

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among his bruises, that word bruise

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actually is a word in Hebrew that I can't say,

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I'll butcher it, I butcher English,

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I'm definitely gonna butcher Hebrew,

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but shabura, it means the blueness,

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it means the blueness, right, the bruise is blue,

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like when you get bruised, it's kind of blue,

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that's why it's like, oh, I'm black and blue, right?

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And that word, the root word, shabar,

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means to join together, to unite, to have fellowship,

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to become a couple even, right?

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that we were united to him,

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almost like in a marriage type of way, right?

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It's very interesting that that is happening.

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So we have become one in his suffering.

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He suffered for us.

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We were joined together to that suffering.

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We were united to that.

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we were united in that situation.

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but he died as us.

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He died as us.

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But the word peace is what I really wanted to focus on.

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The chastisement of our peace was upon him.

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And that word is the Hebrew word shalom.

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And I oftentimes find myself saying this

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when I'm praying over people, I will pray shalom over them.

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The word shalom means to devour the chaos

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and confusion of a situation.

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even for healing, I'll pray shalom over it.

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Whatever chaos and confusion is happening in their body,

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in the cells in their body,

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that shalom would come, right?

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To the devour of chaos and confusion.

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But that word means more than that.

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It means peace, prosperity, wholeness, success, well-being.

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And so I wanna focus on that for the majority of this call

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that not only did Jesus die for you,

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but he also died as you.

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For what reason?

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So that you can go to heaven someday and have eternal life?

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Yes, that's one of the many reasons.

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So that you can have your rightful place in eternity.

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Okay, so that you can be a son and daughter of God

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on this earth.

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Not so that you can go to heaven someday only,

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but that you can have heaven invading earth

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on your behalf through you daily.

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That's one reason.

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But what does it look like

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when heaven invades earth through you?

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It means that you have a life that is marked by peace,

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by that shalom, by prosperity, by wholeness,

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by success, by well-being.

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All of these things have come

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through the finished work of the cross.

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I know a lot of Christians from different denominations

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who are just waiting for that payday.

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What Jesus paid for on the cross,

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they're waiting to receive that someday

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when they go to heaven.

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That's what they're waiting to receive.

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They can't wait.

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They're like, oh, you know,

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someday when we all get to heaven,

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what a day of rejoicing that will be, right?

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When we all see Jesus,

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we're gonna sing and shout the victory.

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That's not how this works, y'all.

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My grandma used to sing all those songs.

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I got more to go to heaven for that I had yesterday.

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All of those things are a future payday

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of the finished work of the cross.

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You guys, the finished work of the cross is finished.

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And this might be, you know, for you, Sunday School 101,

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but we don't live like it's true.

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I'm talking to myself.

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We don't live like it's true.

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We don't.

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We don't live like it's a finished work.

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We live like it's an unfinished work.

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One day when we get to heaven, we'll be healed.

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We'll be whole.

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We'll have all the things that Jesus died to give us.

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Guys, the things that Jesus died to give us

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is the garden you before the curse.

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And I say this and I've said this at churches

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and I know that it's not necessarily

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something that is widely received,

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but we will contend for things like healing

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because we believe that Jesus died to give us those things.

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But we won't contend for marriage.

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And yet marriage is part of the whole garden story,

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isn't it?

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Isn't that what happened in the garden?

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That's what my Bible says.

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My Bible says that in the garden, there was just a man.

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which contained the masculine and feminine of God.

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There needs to be two of them.

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They need to be separated.

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The masculine and feminine need to exist in their own forms.

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So they can come together in unity.

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So they can come together in family.

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So that they can procreate.

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So that they can look like the holy family of heaven,

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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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Three but one, right?

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That's the whole oneness mystery of marriage.

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Two separate becoming one.

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You see this?

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But when we talk about what Jesus died to give us,

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we don't include that.

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He's putting everything right.

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Everything that went wrong through the curse,

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he's putting right on the finished work of the cross.

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He's giving us shalom.

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He's giving us access once again to what?

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To peace, prosperity, wholeness, success.

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well-being. Part of that word wholeness has to do with reconnecting you to your original design.

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Guys, everything that happened in the garden was part of OG design. It's original design.

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It's God's original intent for you. And so that means that when you think about the finished work

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of the cross and what Jesus died and paid for for you, you can also think of marriage.

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That goes against a lot of modern theology, doesn't it? The modern theology of the gift

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of singleness and, oh, you know, maybe some of you are going to get married and maybe you're not.

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There is no doubt that there are people on this earth that have a very different type of assignment.

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It does not include any kind of domestic life.

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Any kind of domestic life. It doesn't. They have a different refining process

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that they've been chosen for, and I will tell you they are few and far between.

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There are very few of them.

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Okay, very, very few of them. But what has happened because of sin and because of the

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curse, and remember the curse that Jesus broke on the cross, because of that and because

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oftentimes we realign ourselves to a broken curse rather than to the finished work,

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we take on ideas and even theologies that will allow us to stay in our pain. Am I right?

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I will tell you this, friends. I would rather spend every breathing moment of my life on this earth

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trying my best to align myself to the finished work of the cross than to just to sit down and

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accept a counterfeit theology because it's easier and it's less disappointing.

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When my mom laid in that ICU bed four years ago,

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till she took her last breath and even kind of afterwards,

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I was waiting for her to be raised up.

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You might say, well, are you disappointed because it didn't happen? Instead, you know,

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she had a greater resurrection. I know that she had the greater resurrection. She went to heaven.

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I wanted her to have the lesser resurrection because I'm selfish and I wanted her to stay here.

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But at the same time, because by his stripes, we were healed, because he said that it says in the

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word of God that all the sick came to him and were healed because of the theologies of

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Jesus that I have accepted, the words of Christ that I've accepted. I sat there every single day

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sat there every single day and I prayed into agreement with heaven and fully expected and

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wanted there to be a earth healing. And when there wasn't, I accepted that and I accepted that,

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you know, that there was a better way for my mom. And I walked on from there, but not a moment

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before that. You understand that, right? And I don't regret one second of it.

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And guess what else? At her celebration of life, there were sick among us and we laid hands on

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them and prayed for them. But wait a second, that didn't work for your mom. So why do you

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still believe that? Because I believe it. I believe that Jesus died, that we could be free

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from dis-ease and disease in this life. That is not part of the life that we are meant to live.

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That is not part of the life that we are meant to live on this earth.

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And so can we apply that to marriage?

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Can we apply that to family? The word is very clear that,

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you know, God places a solitary in family in the book of Proverbs.

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What does that tell me? That means that in our natural state, in our divine state,

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in our original state that Jesus sacrificed to give back to us,

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there is no scenario in which you are created to be alive and alone.

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You have been created first and foremost for family, for community, and I also believe for

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marriage. So why are so many people single? Because there's a lot of hurt in the world.

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There's a lot of people still operating under a broken curse. A lot of people.

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And we do people to save. We do people to save. We do people to save.

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And we do people to service when we say, oh, you know, you heard about

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Jesus, everything's better now, or you met Jesus, everything's better now. There's a process.

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Jesus said himself, if you continue in my words, if you continue in my words,

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you will know the truth and it will make you free.

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Why will you know the truth if you continue in the words of Jesus? Because he is the truth.

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And the more that you continue in his words, friends, the more that you know him and the

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more free you become. It's not about the more you'll know the Bible. He was being very specific

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about, hey, if you continue in my words, you will know me. And what does he say so many times on

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earth? He says, if you've known me, you know the father. So if you want to know the father and the

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son, then go into your New Testament and focus on the words in red.

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Focus on the red letter words. After this resurrection celebration tomorrow,

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I want to encourage all of you to focus on the red letter words.

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Read them in several translations. I know a lot of you know them, even know them by heart.

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Read them in several translations. Take something that Jesus said. If you want some place to start,

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start at the Sermon on the Mount, which is really the yoke of Jesus.

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As a rabbi, all rabbis had yokes. Their teachings, the set of teachings that rabbis taught,

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because all of them taught different sets of teachings from the Torah,

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all of them taught different sets of teachings that they really focused on,

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that they were known for. The Sermon on the Mount would be Jesus' yoke. And that's why he said,

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all you that are weary and heavy laden with what? With the law, with these yokes of all

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these other rabbis that are oppressing you. I have come to what? To take that off of you,

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because my yoke is easy and my burden is light. He was saying, come and listen to my teachings.

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They will take that heavy yoke of the bondage of the law off of you.

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So if you want to be under Jesus' yoke with him, then go to the red letters and study Jesus.

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Because if you know his word, his words, if you continue in his word, you will know him.

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Because he says, you will know the truth and it will make you free. And he is the truth.

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He is the truth. And guess who will help you? The spirit of truth. If you read the words of Jesus

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with the help of Holy Spirit, you will know Jesus better and better and better and better and better

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and better. And guess what will happen then? You will become one of his true disciples.

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People will see Jesus in you. One of the best compliments that I have ever received in my life

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is someone who says, I can tell you've been with Jesus. I can tell you've been hanging out with

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Jesus. Other people have admonished me and said, you know, Jackie, you have a mercy gift and it's

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a little too strong sometimes. You know, sometimes you, you know, you need, you shouldn't be so

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merciful. What? Now I understand when you don't have boundaries and you have a mercy gift, you

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get yourself in a lot of trouble. It is true. It's true. And so we want to be careful. If you

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have a mercy gift as well, that is great. But if you don't have boundaries, you definitely can

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hurt yourself with your own mercy gift. And so let's make sure that we're having mercy on ourselves

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and not just others. Very important. Very, very important stuff, right?

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So Jesus, we are so thankful that you didn't just die for us, but as us and help us to understand

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that you are inviting us into knowing you more intimately,

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knowing you not through the lens of fear, not through the lens of religion,

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legalism, but through the lens of love. Holy Spirit, we're asking that you would come

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and help us specifically in this area.

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Teach us the ways of Jesus. Help us be furthered into knowing you more intimately.

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His words and His teachings and fully understand them and not just understand them for a bygone

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era, but understand what they mean and how we could apply them in this modern life that we live.

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How can we apply them not just for ourselves, but the laws of love for others in this modern

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era in which we have been matched with? What does it look like? What do those scriptures look like

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in 2024?

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Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.

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Blessed are the pure of heart because they will see God. What does this mean for us now?

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Help us in Jesus name. I want to challenge all of you to do that and you don't have to start

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you don't have to start the Sermon on the Mount, you don't have to start with the Beatitudes,

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you can start wherever you want, but let's celebrate Jesus from Easter on by really

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getting to know Him better. Can we? Can we do that? I feel like it will be life-changing for

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all of us. All right, so I want to transition into talking about being here, you know, Daytona

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Beach, you know, when you think of beaches, this is not the beach that you think of and you're like,

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wow, that's amazing, you know, not like Rosemary Beach or Destin or, you know, some beach in the

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south of France. I mean, Daytona is objectively a little raggedy, right? I would say it.

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My older brother brought the twins over here because it was close to where they live in Orlando

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and everything else was super, super, super crowded and so this is where we came. But still,

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even if it is a raggedy beach, y'all, it is still the ocean and it is still majestic,

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right? It is majestic, it is beautiful and so we're staying here at, you know, a place that he

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got for us at the Hilton, all of us, the whole family's here, so it's a good time. But we were

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at the front desk checking in and he got a block of rooms for all of us and they wanted to keep us

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together on the same floor. They couldn't though because they had overbooked and so they had to

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move one of us to the eighth floor and instead of having just a regular room, if that person was

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willing to leave the group and go to the eighth floor, they would have a ocean view room. Come on,

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y'all, they'd have an ocean view room, right? And so we were chosen as the people because we're the

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only couple amongst the group, me and my husband, and the only other beds that were available was

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one bed, a king bed, not two double queens. And so we were chosen to get the upgrade and go to the

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eighth floor to have the ocean view room. You got a door, you open it, you can look at the ocean.

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All right, that's all wonderful. That sounds great. It's like, woo,

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winter, winter chicken dinner, right? It's incredible. But y'all, is it? It's beautiful

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looking at the ocean, hearing the waves. It's all really nice. But guess what? The ocean doesn't shut

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off at nighttime. It doesn't. So when you're trying to sleep, the ocean is not partying.

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It is with its waves and its cute little, you know, ocean self out here, just

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burning up all night long. And it's loud. So we're turning up the heat or the air in our room,

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trying to drown out the loud ocean. All right, and then at the butt crack of dawn, people,

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people, they want the ocean. That's what they're here for. So what are they doing?

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They're out on the beach, blasting their music at six o'clock in the morning,

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out here partying with the ocean. I'm trying to sleep. I just want to get some sleep.

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I've not played volleyball for like 15 years. But on this trip, I was asked to play some sand

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volleyball, not just regular volleyball, y'all, sand volleyball. All right, sand volleyball.

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You know how that uses every muscle in your entire body. When I came back to the room last

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night, after two hours of sand volleyball, I felt like I was 150 years old. Every single muscle in

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my body hurt muscles that I have not seen since childhood. I didn't even know they still lived

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here. Right? It was not a good thing. And all I wanted to do was get in bed and go to sleep.

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But no, the ocean was partying.

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It was up all night, windy out there, big huge waves and then you guys, it's like six

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o'clock in the morning, some crazy people decided that they were going to get a megaphone

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and get a whole bunch of carnival music and they were going to have an Easter egg roll

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on the beach.

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I was hitting my husband, I was like hitting him next to me, I'm like, turn off that music,

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why is that your phone, you have an alarm set, what is that, why are you have that music

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going, he's like, and he thinks it's himself.

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So he gets up, he starts checking all of his devices, he's like, yeah, yeah, I'll turn

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it off, I'll turn it off, he's half away because that dude could sleep in a hurricane.

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Look he would have been sleeping with Jesus on the boat, him and Jesus would have both

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been asleep, it doesn't matter how bad that storm is, my husband, as soon as he gets on

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any vehicle, a boat, a plane, a train, he's immediately snoring, it's the most ridiculous

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thing you've ever seen and also an amazing talent.

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But he gets up and he tries to find it and then he looks out the window, he goes, oh

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no babe, he goes, it's not me, it's this.

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And why am I telling all of you this?

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Because whatever you think would be the most amazing thing in the world is going to have

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parts of it that you don't like.

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And I want you really to apply that to your love stories.

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The thing that you've been dreaming of, objectively I think that it would be amazing to stay on

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the beach, in fact I've thought in the past that I would even love, wouldn't it be great

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to have a house on the beach?

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Well after this trip, not so much because the ocean, I'd never go to sleep and I'm not

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one of those people that can just put in earplugs and go to sleep, if it's loud, I'm just going

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to be up.

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So some of the things that I thought that I wanted and I thought would be fun or nice,

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guess what?

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They're not exactly how I expected them to be.

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It's so great, I'm so thankful for the experience, but it's not exactly what I imagined.

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And what am I learning?

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I'm learning that there are some aspects of the quote unquote dream that I actually in

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reality don't really like that much and probably would have wanted to do again.

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So I called the front desk this morning and I said, hey, I said now that everyone is leaving

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for the weekend, Sunday, tomorrow, this last night, did you have anything open back up

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on the fifth floor where the rest of the family is?

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I said, preferably without an ocean view.

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And she's like, oh really?

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She goes, well, we have a roof view and I was like, I'll take it.

452
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:47.840
I'll take that roof view.

453
00:32:47.840 --> 00:32:49.520
She's like, yeah, most people don't prefer that.

454
00:32:49.520 --> 00:32:51.960
I said, yeah, I'm not most people.

455
00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:52.960
I want that roof.

456
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:57.960
Give me that roof view, that quiet roof that goes to sleep at night, that doesn't party

457
00:32:57.960 --> 00:32:59.080
all night long.

458
00:32:59.080 --> 00:33:01.760
I'll take that roof.

459
00:33:01.760 --> 00:33:06.520
Some of you guys need to understand that these things that you've been dreaming about in

460
00:33:06.520 --> 00:33:12.080
the opposite sex are not necessarily things that you would like up close, personal and

461
00:33:12.080 --> 00:33:15.240
in real time.

462
00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:20.040
And that is why it's really important that you meet a variety of people because whatever

463
00:33:20.040 --> 00:33:25.560
it is that you thought that you wanted, you might not actually want.

464
00:33:25.560 --> 00:33:29.080
You might be happier with a roof view.

465
00:33:29.080 --> 00:33:30.920
Why?

466
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:33.600
Because we value different things.

467
00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:39.280
I can go outside and I'm going to after this call and I can look at the ocean all day long.

468
00:33:39.280 --> 00:33:42.520
I don't need to see it from my room.

469
00:33:42.520 --> 00:33:47.040
And when I go to sleep at night, I can go to sleep in a peaceful, quiet room that's

470
00:33:47.040 --> 00:33:49.160
not facing the ocean.

471
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:54.160
I can kind of have my cake and eat it too, right?

472
00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:57.080
So I want you to think about that with Holy Spirit.

473
00:33:57.080 --> 00:34:02.720
What are some things on my list that I need to check that out?

474
00:34:02.840 --> 00:34:05.800
They don't do a lot of this and they should do more of this, but when kids are in high

475
00:34:05.800 --> 00:34:11.679
school and my niece and nephew, they're going to graduate next year, they just turned 18.

476
00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:15.600
They were held back when they were really young because they started school early.

477
00:34:15.600 --> 00:34:22.600
And so they're turning 18 now and they're going to go their senior year next school year.

478
00:34:22.600 --> 00:34:25.639
But trying things out as a young person is super important.

479
00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:31.800
I've never understood the idea of us having kids go straight from school to college and

480
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:35.400
choose what they want to do for the rest of their life and not only choose it, but put

481
00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:40.560
a lot of money down on it.

482
00:34:40.560 --> 00:34:46.360
It makes more sense to give them an opportunity to go and intern and co-op with all different

483
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:47.360
types of professions.

484
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:49.360
Doesn't that make more sense?

485
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:53.159
So that they can see what those professions look like up close and personal.

486
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:56.920
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a lawyer, but specifically wanted to be a lawyer because

487
00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:59.720
of L.A. Law, the TV show.

488
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.360
Guess what?

489
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:04.640
That's not what being a lawyer looks like.

490
00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:09.320
Being a lawyer for the most part is super boring and I wouldn't have liked it.

491
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:15.040
It's a lot of paperwork and it's super boring and I wouldn't have enjoyed doing that.

492
00:35:15.040 --> 00:35:21.360
And so I really want to encourage you to start testing out some of the things that you think

493
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:28.480
that your life would be so much better if you could have those things.

494
00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:30.720
Start testing that out.

495
00:35:30.720 --> 00:35:31.720
What does that look like?

496
00:35:31.720 --> 00:35:35.160
Because some of the things that we think we want, and I'm not just talking about the characteristics

497
00:35:35.160 --> 00:35:40.280
in the opposite sex and in a romantic possibility, but some of the things that we think we want

498
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:50.720
so much in life are things that are based on some broken and wounded part of us.

499
00:35:50.720 --> 00:35:54.680
And if we could only have this, whatever it is, X, Y, or Z, then that part of us would

500
00:35:54.680 --> 00:35:55.680
be healed.

501
00:35:55.680 --> 00:35:56.680
But guess what?

502
00:35:56.680 --> 00:36:04.920
That we can have wholeness from the finished work of the cross.

503
00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:08.240
We can have wholeness from the finished work of the cross.

504
00:36:08.240 --> 00:36:13.400
Isaiah 53.5 in the Passion Translation says, but it was because of our rebellious deeds

505
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:16.720
that he was pierced and because of our sins that he was crushed.

506
00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:26.120
He endured the punishment that made us completely whole and in his wounding, we found our healing.

507
00:36:26.560 --> 00:36:28.560
Nothing is missing and nothing is broken, friends.

508
00:36:28.560 --> 00:36:29.560
Shalom.

509
00:36:29.560 --> 00:36:31.080
Shalom to you.

510
00:36:31.080 --> 00:36:43.760
You're not waiting for some outward opportunity to heal the inward you.

511
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:45.500
We can walk in wholeness now.

512
00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:52.040
And what will happen is those outward opportunities will only reinforce that you're healed.

513
00:36:52.040 --> 00:36:54.360
They reinforce it.

514
00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:55.720
They make that healing stronger.

515
00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:57.760
They show you that you're healed.

516
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:02.040
How many of you would be honest and say that after you did the heart work, you actually

517
00:37:02.040 --> 00:37:06.160
saw that healing in real time when you were faced with situations and you realized you

518
00:37:06.160 --> 00:37:11.320
didn't react the way that you used to?

519
00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:12.320
What is that?

520
00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:15.200
That's just the evidence of healing.

521
00:37:15.200 --> 00:37:26.680
And the reason why it's important that we adopt the idea that we can be made whole and

522
00:37:26.680 --> 00:37:34.760
that we have been made whole by what Jesus did for us is because when we have these opportunities,

523
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:40.800
we will be able to receive these things at face value instead of through some sort of

524
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:42.800
rose-colored glass.

525
00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:48.040
You guys know what I'm saying?

526
00:37:48.040 --> 00:37:55.320
If you're not looking for a man or a woman to complete you or heal you, then you're able

527
00:37:55.320 --> 00:38:01.960
to accept what they bring to the table, good, bad, and ugly.

528
00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:05.600
Because remember, everyone's going to bring stuff to the table.

529
00:38:05.600 --> 00:38:09.160
You're able to accept that when you're not looking, you're not sifting through the stuff

530
00:38:09.160 --> 00:38:19.400
that they bring to the table, trying to find something in that pile to heal yourself with.

531
00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:26.480
But you're able to come to each other in process and it becomes true that we're whole in Christ,

532
00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:29.560
completed in assignment through marriage, and then healed in family.

533
00:38:29.560 --> 00:38:31.360
What is that healed in family part of it?

534
00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:39.120
It is that we get to deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper understanding of the healing

535
00:38:39.120 --> 00:38:49.200
that Jesus did in us and for us at the cross through the scenarios that come through family.

536
00:38:49.200 --> 00:38:53.960
Just making sense?

537
00:38:53.960 --> 00:39:00.920
It's important because otherwise you're going to wait your whole life to have this opportunity

538
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:04.560
to be in a room that faces the beach.

539
00:39:04.560 --> 00:39:11.280
And then you're going to realize once you're there that I don't really like this that much.

540
00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:13.080
I don't really want this that much.

541
00:39:13.080 --> 00:39:18.120
You can apply that to whatever it is that you've been pining away after.

542
00:39:18.120 --> 00:39:23.760
And you can start to understand your own heart and your own mind to a place where I believe

543
00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:31.240
you can know what it is that you really want and not what some broken heart wants

544
00:39:31.240 --> 00:39:32.640
in order to feel special.

545
00:39:32.640 --> 00:39:38.840
It saved a lot of time, guys.

546
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:40.200
It would save a lot of time.

547
00:39:40.200 --> 00:39:44.840
Going back to the analogy of kids being able to test things out after they get out of high school,

548
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:51.680
before they have to go to college and learn all about one thing that once they start doing it,

549
00:39:51.680 --> 00:39:57.520
they probably may not even like.

550
00:39:57.520 --> 00:39:58.720
I've worked a lot of.

551
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.780
crazy jobs in my life like serving and retail.

552
00:40:03.780 --> 00:40:05.540
And I was always surrounded by people

553
00:40:05.540 --> 00:40:07.300
that had bachelor's degrees,

554
00:40:07.300 --> 00:40:09.820
sometimes even master's degrees and PhDs.

555
00:40:09.820 --> 00:40:12.660
What were they doing working in a restaurant serving tables?

556
00:40:12.660 --> 00:40:15.220
They didn't like whatever they got their degree in.

557
00:40:17.740 --> 00:40:19.140
They went to work and did it

558
00:40:21.560 --> 00:40:23.900
and realized that they didn't like it

559
00:40:23.900 --> 00:40:25.460
or that I didn't make enough money

560
00:40:25.460 --> 00:40:27.180
to cover their student loans

561
00:40:27.180 --> 00:40:29.640
or whatever the reason was.

562
00:40:30.580 --> 00:40:35.580
And so I want to ask all of you

563
00:40:37.620 --> 00:40:39.780
when it comes to your love lives,

564
00:40:39.780 --> 00:40:41.160
try some new things out.

565
00:40:45.580 --> 00:40:46.960
Try some new people out.

566
00:40:48.100 --> 00:40:50.320
Go out with people that, you know,

567
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.680
wouldn't make your short list before

568
00:40:52.680 --> 00:40:54.700
as far as like maybe what they do

569
00:40:54.700 --> 00:40:57.220
or where they come from or what they look like

570
00:40:57.220 --> 00:40:59.860
or the color of skin they have

571
00:41:00.700 --> 00:41:03.380
or their native language or it doesn't matter what it is.

572
00:41:03.380 --> 00:41:05.860
I cannot tell you how many of our love stories

573
00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:07.440
start with the phrase,

574
00:41:08.740 --> 00:41:10.340
this person was not my type.

575
00:41:13.620 --> 00:41:15.160
So many of them.

576
00:41:17.340 --> 00:41:19.980
And so I really felt in my heart to reinforce those ideas.

577
00:41:19.980 --> 00:41:21.080
I know that we teach this,

578
00:41:21.080 --> 00:41:24.420
we teach this in your love story accelerator,

579
00:41:24.420 --> 00:41:26.600
teach this in a lot of the dating calls,

580
00:41:26.600 --> 00:41:29.420
the coaching Ask Jackie calls that I do.

581
00:41:30.020 --> 00:41:31.420
But I want to reinforce it today

582
00:41:32.260 --> 00:41:36.660
because number one, when Jesus died on that cross,

583
00:41:36.660 --> 00:41:38.820
he reunited all of us as a family.

584
00:41:40.700 --> 00:41:42.180
We're all family now.

585
00:41:42.180 --> 00:41:44.340
And so no matter where you come from

586
00:41:44.340 --> 00:41:47.960
or where, you know, your ancestors have come from,

587
00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:49.860
we're all going to the same place now

588
00:41:49.860 --> 00:41:51.760
and that's called being equally yoked.

589
00:41:53.540 --> 00:41:54.720
Doesn't matter where you come from,

590
00:41:54.720 --> 00:41:56.580
all that matters is where you're going.

591
00:41:56.580 --> 00:41:58.020
And if we're going the same direction

592
00:41:58.020 --> 00:42:01.980
then we can travel together, right?

593
00:42:03.340 --> 00:42:04.700
And who does that apply to?

594
00:42:04.700 --> 00:42:07.660
That applies to people who have accepted

595
00:42:07.660 --> 00:42:10.440
and received what Jesus did for them.

596
00:42:11.740 --> 00:42:15.580
Guys, you don't have any business

597
00:42:15.580 --> 00:42:20.580
messing around with someone who doesn't have that.

598
00:42:22.260 --> 00:42:24.900
They haven't accepted Jesus as their savior.

599
00:42:24.900 --> 00:42:26.780
They're not a Christ follower.

600
00:42:26.780 --> 00:42:29.020
And they don't have to be your brand of Christ follower.

601
00:42:29.020 --> 00:42:30.780
They don't have to have followed him

602
00:42:30.780 --> 00:42:32.820
as long as you have followed him.

603
00:42:32.820 --> 00:42:34.460
They don't have to know the scriptures

604
00:42:34.460 --> 00:42:35.860
the same way that you know them

605
00:42:35.860 --> 00:42:37.380
or to the degree that you know them.

606
00:42:37.380 --> 00:42:40.140
Some of y'all could be like theologians.

607
00:42:40.140 --> 00:42:42.580
You could be Bible school teachers.

608
00:42:46.460 --> 00:42:48.660
And just remember, needing to have

609
00:42:48.660 --> 00:42:52.580
another Bible school teacher type person be your spouse

610
00:42:52.580 --> 00:42:55.040
might be the equivalent of wanting a room

611
00:42:55.040 --> 00:42:56.380
that faces the ocean.

612
00:42:57.740 --> 00:42:59.640
That might not be what you think it is.

613
00:43:03.420 --> 00:43:04.740
Because I'm gonna tell you, in a man,

614
00:43:04.740 --> 00:43:06.580
and my husband is very wise.

615
00:43:06.580 --> 00:43:08.500
He knows the Lord very well.

616
00:43:08.500 --> 00:43:10.700
And he actually used to be a Bible school teacher.

617
00:43:10.700 --> 00:43:13.060
But I will tell you this, that's why we fit

618
00:43:13.060 --> 00:43:15.460
because I'm not and I wasn't and I didn't.

619
00:43:15.460 --> 00:43:18.080
And I'll tell you that when I want him to do something

620
00:43:18.080 --> 00:43:20.580
I don't want him to quote me a Bible verse about it.

621
00:43:20.580 --> 00:43:25.180
I want him to fix the door or whatever.

622
00:43:26.100 --> 00:43:28.300
I don't want him to write me a song about it.

623
00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:31.860
But he's an amazing worship gift in the Bible,

624
00:43:31.860 --> 00:43:33.800
in the Bible, in the body of Christ.

625
00:43:36.220 --> 00:43:39.300
They used to, his name is David and he was named aptly

626
00:43:39.300 --> 00:43:43.960
because he can sing and he can play the instruments

627
00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:46.260
and he can do the things.

628
00:43:46.260 --> 00:43:50.060
But when it comes to being married, I like that about him.

629
00:43:50.060 --> 00:43:52.020
But that's not what I like best about him.

630
00:43:52.020 --> 00:43:53.920
I like what I like best about him

631
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:55.600
is that he's a good partner.

632
00:43:55.600 --> 00:43:57.680
And when it's time to get stuff done,

633
00:43:57.680 --> 00:43:59.600
he knows how to do stuff.

634
00:43:59.600 --> 00:44:04.600
Like for instance, when the snowpocalypse hit Austin

635
00:44:05.520 --> 00:44:08.280
and all the pipes in that city on the houses

636
00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:09.680
are not buried far underground

637
00:44:09.680 --> 00:44:10.520
because guess what?

638
00:44:10.520 --> 00:44:11.340
It doesn't snow there.

639
00:44:11.340 --> 00:44:12.800
It's not cold there at all.

640
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:16.320
It hadn't snowed in 36 years when this happened.

641
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:17.360
And I blame us.

642
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:18.680
You know, we moved from Ohio

643
00:44:18.680 --> 00:44:20.720
and we were in the weather protection program

644
00:44:20.720 --> 00:44:23.580
but then the weather found us in Austin, Texas.

645
00:44:24.220 --> 00:44:25.700
And it blew that city up.

646
00:44:25.700 --> 00:44:27.380
They don't even have salt in that city, y'all.

647
00:44:27.380 --> 00:44:29.660
They don't even know what to do with snow and ice.

648
00:44:29.660 --> 00:44:31.460
It's just crazy.

649
00:44:31.460 --> 00:44:35.140
And my husband, so our pipes broke

650
00:44:35.140 --> 00:44:37.820
and water's just everywhere gushing out, you know,

651
00:44:37.820 --> 00:44:42.060
and all the plumbers in the city were tied up obviously

652
00:44:42.060 --> 00:44:44.220
because everyone's pipes were broken.

653
00:44:44.220 --> 00:44:47.020
And my husband was out there fixing our pipes.

654
00:44:47.020 --> 00:44:48.260
I kept looking out the window at him.

655
00:44:48.260 --> 00:44:50.440
I'm like, dang, that's hot.

656
00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:53.260
Wow, he's out there fixing this problem.

657
00:44:53.940 --> 00:44:55.700
And he knows how, he knows how to do it.

658
00:44:55.700 --> 00:44:56.860
How does he know how?

659
00:44:56.860 --> 00:44:57.860
I don't know.

660
00:44:57.860 --> 00:44:59.020
Is that man school?

661
00:44:59.020 --> 00:45:00.080
I'm not sure.

662
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.580
I don't know, as far as I knew in the first, you know, 15 years of our marriage before

663
00:45:05.580 --> 00:45:12.720
this happened, I had never seen him fix a pipe, but somehow he just knew how to do it.

664
00:45:12.720 --> 00:45:15.140
And it was just amazing.

665
00:45:15.140 --> 00:45:16.900
So I like that in a partner.

666
00:45:16.900 --> 00:45:19.300
What do you like in a partner?

667
00:45:19.300 --> 00:45:22.380
Make a list and then check it out.

668
00:45:22.380 --> 00:45:27.660
Check it out, meet some people that have some stuff on that list and see if that is really

669
00:45:27.660 --> 00:45:33.100
what you like.

670
00:45:33.100 --> 00:45:34.220
Is it really what you like?

671
00:45:34.220 --> 00:45:35.860
Is it really what you need?

672
00:45:35.860 --> 00:45:42.160
Because my Bible says that God knows what you have need of before you even ask.

673
00:45:42.160 --> 00:45:46.700
And maybe it might be what you think you need in this season of your life, but also is it

674
00:45:46.700 --> 00:45:53.580
what you need where you're going, where you're headed someday?

675
00:45:53.580 --> 00:45:59.580
Because remember, we want to be partnered with people that can't just be partnered with

676
00:45:59.580 --> 00:46:07.260
us in this season, but also in all the seasons to come.

677
00:46:07.260 --> 00:46:09.820
All the seasons to come.

678
00:46:09.820 --> 00:46:13.780
So remember, friends, the finished work of the cross doesn't just have to do with your

679
00:46:13.780 --> 00:46:14.780
healing.

680
00:46:14.780 --> 00:46:19.600
It doesn't just have to do with your salvation, your sozo, your shalom.

681
00:46:19.600 --> 00:46:23.740
It has to do also with your relationships.

682
00:46:23.740 --> 00:46:30.400
It has to do with putting us back into alignment with God's original intent and our original

683
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:31.400
design.

684
00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:35.400
And his original intent for us is that we would live in families.

685
00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:36.560
Come on, y'all.

686
00:46:36.560 --> 00:46:39.760
We would live in families.

687
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:42.120
We would live in marriages and families.

688
00:46:43.120 --> 00:46:50.960
is the random outlier that's called to a different ministry and assignment than that in the day

689
00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:51.960
and age that we live in.

690
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:55.000
But you guys, that only happened because of the curse.

691
00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:56.920
You know that, right?

692
00:46:56.920 --> 00:47:01.020
It only happened because of the curse.

693
00:47:01.020 --> 00:47:06.400
People having these ministry assignments where, you know, they're missionaries and they don't

694
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:09.000
take anyone with them, like the Paul's of the world.

695
00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:14.440
That wouldn't be a thing without the curse, right?

696
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:16.960
And those people just want what they want.

697
00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:17.960
That's it.

698
00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:18.960
They don't.

699
00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:19.960
They don't want.

700
00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:24.040
They're not sitting around me and like, oh, I wish that I had a different assignment.

701
00:47:24.040 --> 00:47:28.120
I wish that God didn't call me to this.

702
00:47:28.120 --> 00:47:35.360
I would love to be married and have a family, but no, it's God's will that I be alone.

703
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:38.000
That is not what these people are like.

704
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:48.520
The evidence that you want to partner tells me that you have been created to partner.

705
00:47:48.520 --> 00:47:54.760
Now, that being said, I will tell you that there has been a recent word, a prophetic

706
00:47:54.760 --> 00:48:00.880
word that God gave me that I released in a couple different places already that where

707
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:04.400
God was talking about this harvest that's coming.

708
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:07.640
Throw out the net, right?

709
00:48:07.640 --> 00:48:14.360
Pull in all the fish, so to speak, and let me sort them out.

710
00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:19.560
And in that net and in that harvest, I believe there are, I believe that God said to me that

711
00:48:19.560 --> 00:48:26.120
there are a lot of partners for our community.

712
00:48:26.120 --> 00:48:32.880
A lot of the single people that have been waiting for partners, their partners are coming

713
00:48:33.040 --> 00:48:37.440
in this evangelistic harvest that's happening right now.

714
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:42.960
So if you do the math with me, that means that the person that you partner with would

715
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:44.760
be a new believer.

716
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:53.640
And so my question to you is, are you willing to do that?

717
00:48:53.640 --> 00:48:55.240
Are you willing to do that?

718
00:48:55.240 --> 00:48:57.880
And here's something that I want to say to you.

719
00:48:57.880 --> 00:49:06.800
When I met Jesus at 22, I was radically converted and I never turned back around ever again.

720
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:11.480
Do you believe in radical conversions of people or do you believe that they have to kind of

721
00:49:11.480 --> 00:49:15.080
test it out for years and years before you can trust that they're really going to follow

722
00:49:15.080 --> 00:49:16.720
Jesus?

723
00:49:16.720 --> 00:49:20.920
There is a type of conversion that happens to people where they never turn back around

724
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:22.400
to their old ways.

725
00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:25.640
And you might be like, well, Jackie, you know, you were just a good person already.

726
00:49:25.640 --> 00:49:26.640
No, I wasn't.

727
00:49:26.640 --> 00:49:29.240
I was a thief.

728
00:49:29.240 --> 00:49:31.080
I was a foster kid.

729
00:49:31.080 --> 00:49:35.920
I stole stuff to survive all kinds of different things.

730
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:36.920
And guess what?

731
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:40.000
When I met Jesus, I never stole another thing ever again in my life.

732
00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:45.560
And that's been 28 years again.

733
00:49:45.560 --> 00:49:50.800
The Bible says that, you know, if you were a thief, steal no more.

734
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:51.800
Doesn't it?

735
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:55.560
Just so you know, a lot of people that steal are not criminals.

736
00:49:55.560 --> 00:50:00.000
A lot of people that steal, steal out of necessity because they're poor or homeless.

737
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.040
or destitute.

738
00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:08.160
I was also a liar.

739
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:12.920
I was a liar all of my life

740
00:50:12.920 --> 00:50:15.000
from the time that I started getting sexually abused

741
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.920
by my grandfather at three years old, I became a liar.

742
00:50:19.680 --> 00:50:23.160
Lying was a necessity for survival for me.

743
00:50:26.080 --> 00:50:26.980
Secrecy.

744
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:31.840
And guess what?

745
00:50:33.080 --> 00:50:35.160
I'm one of the most honest people that you'll ever meet.

746
00:50:35.160 --> 00:50:36.320
Kind of to a fault.

747
00:50:38.600 --> 00:50:41.280
My pendulum swung a little bit too far the other way.

748
00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:46.960
If I even smell deception, I don't like it.

749
00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:52.440
I don't even like to do things that I think are dishonest,

750
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.680
like park in a parking spot that is meant for somebody else

751
00:50:56.640 --> 00:50:59.280
and just be like, oh, I didn't see it.

752
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:01.200
Because I've been with people that are like,

753
00:51:01.200 --> 00:51:03.120
oh, you know, it's fine.

754
00:51:03.120 --> 00:51:05.720
Like, no, it's not, it's dishonest.

755
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:08.720
So I say all that to say this,

756
00:51:08.720 --> 00:51:12.200
that when you truly meet Jesus,

757
00:51:12.200 --> 00:51:14.000
you become a new creature in Christ.

758
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:18.000
And I guess I want to tell you that

759
00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:19.600
because I want to give you an example

760
00:51:19.600 --> 00:51:21.760
of what it looks like to be truly converted

761
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:23.960
so that you understand that the people

762
00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:25.160
that are coming in this harvest,

763
00:51:25.160 --> 00:51:28.120
they can also have that new birth experience

764
00:51:28.120 --> 00:51:31.320
and you don't have to judge them by their past.

765
00:51:33.160 --> 00:51:35.800
You can deal with them from their future to their present

766
00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:38.000
instead of from their past to their present

767
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:42.640
because they're seated with Christ in heavenly places.

768
00:51:47.200 --> 00:51:48.760
And I feel like that's a really important word

769
00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:49.960
for some of you because some of you

770
00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:51.280
are going to have the opportunity,

771
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:53.240
just like we've been talking about today,

772
00:51:53.240 --> 00:51:55.640
to test this out in real life really soon.

773
00:51:56.600 --> 00:51:59.320
You're going to have the opportunity to test this out

774
00:52:01.240 --> 00:52:03.200
because you're going to come across people.

775
00:52:03.200 --> 00:52:04.160
And I'm just going to be honest with you.

776
00:52:04.160 --> 00:52:07.080
I love all of you, you know, and I'm here to coach you.

777
00:52:07.080 --> 00:52:09.760
And, you know, we're here to help you.

778
00:52:10.720 --> 00:52:12.960
But some of y'all as religious as you can be,

779
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:17.760
I ain't judging you

780
00:52:18.720 --> 00:52:20.880
because I was discipled by the Pentecostals

781
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:23.880
and you can't really get more religious than that.

782
00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:25.880
Those people don't even think women

783
00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:27.240
are allowed to wear pants.

784
00:52:30.120 --> 00:52:33.400
Seriously, murdering someone and wearing makeup,

785
00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:34.760
same thing, going to hell.

786
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:40.800
So I know I've been exposed to lots and lots and lots

787
00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:42.120
and lots of religion, but you know what?

788
00:52:42.120 --> 00:52:44.880
Deep inside my heart, it never sat right with me.

789
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:47.320
Just never really felt like that's who God was.

790
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:49.160
I didn't feel like he was like this big,

791
00:52:49.160 --> 00:52:52.400
mean judge in the sky waiting to just slam you

792
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:53.840
every time you did something

793
00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:56.320
outside of his quote unquote will.

794
00:52:56.320 --> 00:52:57.720
There was something inside of me

795
00:52:57.720 --> 00:52:59.440
that just said, that's not true.

796
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:00.280
And what was it?

797
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:02.560
That was Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth,

798
00:53:02.560 --> 00:53:07.160
leading and guiding me into all truth,

799
00:53:07.160 --> 00:53:10.040
helping me to continue in the teachings of Jesus.

800
00:53:10.040 --> 00:53:12.360
And that's why I want you guys to start studying Jesus

801
00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:15.400
from this Easter, this resurrection day on.

802
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:16.600
I want you to study it.

803
00:53:16.600 --> 00:53:17.720
I want you to get in it.

804
00:53:17.720 --> 00:53:20.080
I want you to ask Holy Spirit to help you to understand

805
00:53:20.080 --> 00:53:21.480
what the nature of Jesus is,

806
00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:23.920
because some people will use the words of Jesus,

807
00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:26.920
the words that are written and read to hurt people

808
00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:29.720
because they have the words of Jesus,

809
00:53:29.720 --> 00:53:31.680
but they don't have the heart of Jesus.

810
00:53:34.120 --> 00:53:37.560
And this world needs to see Jesus.

811
00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:41.400
It needs to see Jesus.

812
00:53:43.240 --> 00:53:45.880
And the only Jesus it's ever gonna see is you and me.

813
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:48.840
And I'm gonna tell you, because I'm married

814
00:53:48.840 --> 00:53:50.640
and I've been married for 17 years,

815
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:53.880
the person that you're gonna have to show Jesus to

816
00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:56.120
more than anybody else in your entire life

817
00:53:56.120 --> 00:53:57.840
is your partner and your children.

818
00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:01.720
And if you're not ready to do that,

819
00:54:01.720 --> 00:54:03.520
then you're not ready to be married.

820
00:54:06.680 --> 00:54:08.320
I've had to forgive David more than anyone

821
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:11.080
I've ever had to forgive in my entire life.

822
00:54:11.080 --> 00:54:13.400
And not because he's some evil, bad man,

823
00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:15.800
but because when you live in close proximity like that,

824
00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:18.400
you're gonna offend each other right and left,

825
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:20.160
especially if you're coming into the marriage

826
00:54:20.160 --> 00:54:22.960
with a heart that's already been offended a lot

827
00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:25.640
and already has a lot of bruised and broken places.

828
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:32.880
You know that old saying that says, don't go to bed angry.

829
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:37.240
We don't even go an hour angry.

830
00:54:37.240 --> 00:54:38.920
It's nothing about going the whole day

831
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:40.120
and making sure you make up

832
00:54:40.120 --> 00:54:41.200
before you go to sleep at night.

833
00:54:41.200 --> 00:54:44.640
No, we keep a very, very short list of our offenses.

834
00:54:44.640 --> 00:54:47.680
We talk things out, we talk things out pretty quickly.

835
00:54:51.160 --> 00:54:53.760
Hey, what you just did hurt my feelings.

836
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:55.560
Oh, it did, okay.

837
00:54:55.560 --> 00:54:56.400
Why?

838
00:54:58.200 --> 00:54:59.360
Hey, I don't like it.

839
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.000
My husband just started hormone replacement.

840
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:04.240
You guys, he's given himself testosterone shots.

841
00:55:04.240 --> 00:55:05.200
Don't tell him I said that,

842
00:55:05.200 --> 00:55:06.080
because maybe I shouldn't.

843
00:55:06.080 --> 00:55:06.720
I'm not sure.

844
00:55:06.720 --> 00:55:09.200
This is where my filter, this is very confusing.

845
00:55:12.080 --> 00:55:13.440
But all of you guys over 50,

846
00:55:13.440 --> 00:55:14.400
you should give it a shot

847
00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:15.680
because dude is losing weight

848
00:55:15.680 --> 00:55:18.000
and he's got more energy than I've ever seen him.

849
00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:18.720
All right.

850
00:55:18.720 --> 00:55:20.800
But it is testosterone.

851
00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:22.880
So he's been a little, you know,

852
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:24.400
a little bit like a bro lately.

853
00:55:25.040 --> 00:55:26.720
Been a little bit bro-ish lately,

854
00:55:26.720 --> 00:55:28.720
a little frat boy-ish lately

855
00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:30.880
in the way that he's a her, rah, rah, rah.

856
00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:32.640
And I'm like, excuse me, sir.

857
00:55:34.720 --> 00:55:35.760
I will kill you in your sleep

858
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:36.880
and make it look like an accident.

859
00:55:38.560 --> 00:55:39.040
All right.

860
00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:44.240
Because if you want to keep on taking

861
00:55:44.240 --> 00:55:46.240
your little magic shots,

862
00:55:46.240 --> 00:55:47.360
you're going to act better.

863
00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:53.040
And then of course, we both start laughing about it.

864
00:55:56.080 --> 00:55:58.160
Really enjoying and loving your spouse,

865
00:55:58.160 --> 00:55:59.600
but really enjoying them

866
00:55:59.600 --> 00:56:01.200
and being friends with them

867
00:56:01.200 --> 00:56:04.640
is 100% necessary for a good marriage, you guys.

868
00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:06.800
All right.

869
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:10.000
So that should be on the top of your qualities list.

870
00:56:10.560 --> 00:56:13.040
Someone who has, you know,

871
00:56:13.040 --> 00:56:15.360
good rebound rate from offense,

872
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:18.240
you know, someone who has a good sense of humor,

873
00:56:18.960 --> 00:56:21.920
you know, someone who you actually like.

874
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:24.000
Very important stuff.

875
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:25.680
So I really feel like that's what God wants us

876
00:56:25.680 --> 00:56:27.120
to take away from this today,

877
00:56:27.120 --> 00:56:30.080
is that, you know, we have an assignment.

878
00:56:32.080 --> 00:56:33.520
And in order to know that assignment,

879
00:56:33.520 --> 00:56:36.320
we have to really know what happened for us on that cross,

880
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:39.120
what we were reconnected to,

881
00:56:39.120 --> 00:56:41.440
what we can have now as a result of it,

882
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:43.840
not in heaven someday, but here on earth,

883
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:46.720
but also to be able to know Jesus,

884
00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:49.440
to be able to know God,

885
00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:50.960
to be able to know Jesus,

886
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:54.240
not just his words, but his heart,

887
00:56:54.240 --> 00:56:56.400
so that we can keep that going.

888
00:56:58.160 --> 00:57:00.240
What Jesus did didn't end with him.

889
00:57:00.240 --> 00:57:02.240
He said it was finished, but guess what?

890
00:57:02.240 --> 00:57:03.840
It gets finished through us.

891
00:57:03.840 --> 00:57:05.600
Greater than these things will you do

892
00:57:05.600 --> 00:57:06.800
because I go to my father.

893
00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:10.080
And you guys, if there's any greater than

894
00:57:10.080 --> 00:57:12.560
in this day and age that we live in, it's love.

895
00:57:12.560 --> 00:57:13.840
It's not better miracles.

896
00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:15.760
It's not better dead raisings.

897
00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:16.320
It's love.

898
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:20.320
If we're still able to love after everything

899
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:22.080
that we've experienced in this life,

900
00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:24.320
that is a miracle.

901
00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:27.840
And that is really the only miracle

902
00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:29.120
that people need to see now.

903
00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:33.120
And they're gonna see it through you.

904
00:57:33.120 --> 00:57:34.880
They're gonna see it through your future marriages.

905
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:36.640
They're gonna see it through the children that you raise.

906
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:39.600
People come to me all the time.

907
00:57:39.600 --> 00:57:40.720
Your children are amazing.

908
00:57:42.080 --> 00:57:43.760
Wow, your children are so kind.

909
00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:45.200
Your children are so gracious.

910
00:57:45.200 --> 00:57:46.960
Wow, you must be so proud.

911
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:47.840
I'm gonna cry.

912
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:50.800
I am so proud because guess what?

913
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:52.640
Those children come from a broken,

914
00:57:53.200 --> 00:57:55.600
but mended and blended family.

915
00:57:56.720 --> 00:57:58.160
And they still turned out like that.

916
00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:00.400
So for all of you that have kids,

917
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:01.920
don't let the enemy tell you that,

918
00:58:02.560 --> 00:58:05.040
even if your kids are acting a little crazy right now,

919
00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:07.440
I believe that God has kinsmen

920
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:09.600
redeeming relationships for you.

921
00:58:09.600 --> 00:58:12.720
I believe that God is going to give you what you need,

922
00:58:12.720 --> 00:58:13.920
not just what you want

923
00:58:13.920 --> 00:58:15.440
and also what your children need,

924
00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:17.040
not just what they want.

925
00:58:17.040 --> 00:58:19.200
So that someday when they're adults,

926
00:58:19.200 --> 00:58:20.720
people will come to you amazed

927
00:58:20.720 --> 00:58:22.080
at how amazing your children are.

928
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:25.200
And I release that over you.

929
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:32.000
David and I are not special, okay?

930
00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:37.520
We're just showing everyone who's been divorced

931
00:58:37.520 --> 00:58:39.360
and remarried what is possible

932
00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:43.840
through the power of the finished work of the cross

933
00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:47.600
and the ministry of Holy Spirit and laid down lives.

934
00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:51.280
So Father, we thank you for today.

935
00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:53.440
We ask that you would just take everything

936
00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:54.400
that is from heaven

937
00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:57.920
and that you would help get it planted in our hearts.

938
00:58:57.920 --> 00:58:59.760
And I pray that you would water it quickly,

939
00:58:59.760 --> 00:59:02.160
that you would give a quick increase to it.

940
00:59:02.160 --> 00:59:04.400
Help us to be ready for whatever's coming.

941
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:06.960
Help us to let go of the things that we don't really need.

942
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:09.120
And they aren't really things that we would want.

943
00:59:09.120 --> 00:59:11.120
And help show us and highlight to us

944
00:59:11.120 --> 00:59:12.560
what it is that we really need

945
00:59:12.560 --> 00:59:14.160
and what we really want

946
00:59:14.160 --> 00:59:17.360
if we were operating in our most authentic selves.

947
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:19.040
Let us go from this place.

948
00:59:19.040 --> 00:59:22.160
Let us represent you well in the earth.

949
00:59:22.160 --> 00:59:24.800
When people see us, they see our Father.

950
00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:27.120
Help us to understand not just the words,

951
00:59:27.120 --> 00:59:28.720
but the heart of your son.

952
00:59:28.720 --> 00:59:30.160
In Jesus name, amen.

953
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:31.600
I love y'all.

954
00:59:31.600 --> 00:59:32.960
Have a supernatural Saturday,

955
00:59:32.960 --> 00:59:34.000
and I'll see you soon.