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Good morning everyone, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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Good morning, good morning, good morning.

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I'm a little bit late, about a one minute late, because I was arguing with my husband

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and it's a perfect, it's a perfect example of what we're going to talk about today.

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It's a perfect example of what we're going to talk about today.

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And so let's look to the Lord.

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Father God, we're so thankful for you.

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So thankful that you give us a fresh supply of mercy and grace every day.

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And so we want to step into that.

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We want to grab a hold of that with both hands.

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Thank you that you love us, that you're patient and long suffering with us, that you understand

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what we're made out of, which is pretty much dirt.

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And so Lord, we thank you.

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We thank you, Lord, that even though our frame is fragile, our spirit is strong.

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The good things that are inside of us are you.

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The good things that are inside of us all are you, Lord.

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And so we're so thankful for all of those things.

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And we ask God that you would be with us, that you would speak to us and through us

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this morning.

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In Jesus name.

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Amen.

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All right.

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So guys, today's Supernatural Saturday is so important.

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And Holy Spirit has asked that you would help me to deliver this with the intensity that

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you want it delivered in.

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Because I feel like today, like all Supernatural Saturdays, that the topics are life changing,

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I think, and I'm learning right along with you as Holy Spirit downloads the information

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for me as well.

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But today especially, I really feel like this could be a massive life changing, game changing

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thing if we would grab a hold of it and we would put it before our eyes.

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The Bible says that you can't just be a hearer of the word, you have to be a doer of the

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word.

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And in order to be a doer of the word, you know, some of you make to-do lists, I'm sure.

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I feel like the older I get, the more, if I don't write it down, I'll forget about it.

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I have a good memory, but I'll forget about it.

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If I don't put it on my calendar, if I don't schedule it.

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I had a friend that used to say, you don't get what you expect, you get what you inspect.

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That's really good.

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And I think you guys should grab a hold of that because it's not just about having expectations,

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right?

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They all have good intentions, but it's about inspecting, it's about keeping it in front

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of you.

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It's about looking at it.

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And so when you hear today and you hear anything that God's sharing with you, make sure that

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you put it in a place where you can look at it, where you can meditate on it, where you

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can do well in it, abide in it.

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You know, John 15 says that if you abide in me and my words abide in you, that's when

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you're going to have a lot of fruit in your life, right?

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That's when we're going to have a lot of fruit.

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And so we want to meditate on what God says.

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We don't want to just be hearers of the word, we want to be doers of the word.

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In order to be a doer of the word, you got to put it on a to-do list, don't you?

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Got to put it on a to-do list.

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That's a novel idea.

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And so whatever it is that you glean from today, I want you to put that on a to-do list

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for yourself to continue.

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Truly every day, put it in front of you so that you can remind yourself.

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And this is one of those things that we're going to have to remind ourselves of.

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You know why?

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Because it is in us intrinsically, in our flesh, okay?

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In our flesh, we're hardwired to do something opposite than that.

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I want to let you know that in each and every one of you dwells divine detail.

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In each and every one of you dwells divine destiny.

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In each and every one of you, including me, dwells divine design.

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It's in there.

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It's in there, you guys.

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But along with it, there's an opposition.

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Along with all of that divine detail and divine design and divine destiny, there's an opposition.

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And it lives with you and in you.

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You know what it's called?

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Your flesh.

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The thing that you see in the mirror, that's opposing you.

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And so I never give a title to our Supernatural Saturdays, but I'm going to give one today.

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And it's just titled, War in Your Members.

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There's a war going on inside of you every single day.

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Every single day, there's a war waging inside of you.

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You can read about it all through the New Testament.

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Jackie's not just making this up today, but God highlighted it to me this week because

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of my own life, because of some war going on in my own members.

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And he wanted me to see that winning that war had a lot to do with what I chose to side

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with.

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Spirit or team flesh?

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What are you gonna side with?

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You guys, and here's the thing,

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even if you've been siding with one

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and not the other for a minute,

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every day is a new day to pick sides.

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Every day is a new kickball game.

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Remember all of us from the 80s and 90s?

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It's a new time to pick sides,

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to pick teams for the kickball, all right?

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I was never chosen for that.

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I don't know why.

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I'm really tall, I have long legs.

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You think that people would see that I'm athletic,

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but I am athletic.

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And guess what?

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The people that didn't pick me, losers.

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Okay, so here we go.

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Which team are you gonna choose?

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And you gotta choose every single day.

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And you can't choose according to your feelings,

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because I'm gonna tell you what,

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your feelings usually are gonna have you picking team flesh.

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Your feelings are your foes, friends.

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In my life, very, very seldom have my feelings

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ever lined up with my faith.

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Very seldom in my life have my feelings ever lined up

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with the promises of God,

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and the things that God was telling me

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were gonna happen in my life.

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Let's talk about that.

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And we're gonna talk about,

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we're gonna talk about how that all comes to pass

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in just a second.

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I wanna stay here for a second, though.

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Team spirit or team flesh?

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And every day we have a new choice, right?

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We have a new choice.

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I wanna tell you something that, religious ideas,

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and this is probably gonna offend some people,

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but I'm gonna go ahead and go for it,

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because God's trying to break us out of a prison.

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He wants us to be free.

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Who the son has set free is free, okay?

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Who the son has set free is free indeed.

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He's free, she's free.

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Okay, so someone needs to hear this this morning.

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The law, okay?

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Religion, the law.

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It came for a very specific purpose.

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It came for the purpose to show you that your flesh is weak,

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and you can't save yourself, and you need a savior.

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That is what the law was meant to do.

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God has his creation running around fatherless,

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thinking that we don't need him,

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having an independent spirit, an orphan spirit,

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trying to get everything on our own.

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So he had Moses give the people the law

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so that they would see that as they tried to,

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and you guys, they only just had,

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they just only had 10 little laws at the beginning.

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And do you know that the Jews,

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that they have expanded that to 627 precepts now?

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That means if you're an Orthodox Jew,

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there's 627 things that you have to make sure

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that you do or don't do every single day.

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That sounds exhausting, y'all.

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By one man's disobedience, we all became sinners,

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but by one man's obedience, we all became righteous.

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Jesus was called the second Adam for a reason.

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And so God has his creation running around,

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his kids running around.

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They're not fatherless, but they're acting fatherless.

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They're acting like orphans.

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They're trying to do everything in their own strength,

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their own power, because that's what the curse did to us.

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It didn't just separate us from God.

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It separated us from our own identity.

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It separated us from our own royal identity.

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And so we're running around paupers.

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And so the law came, 10 little laws.

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Can you do it?

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Can you do it?

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Can you keep this law?

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No, they can't.

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And then they started adding, this is what flesh does.

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This is what humans do.

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They started adding all kinds of other things.

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Okay, well, let's add to that.

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Don't go by anything dead.

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Don't touch anything dead.

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Oh, let's add to that.

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Don't get near a menstruating woman.

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Let's put her outside the camp somewhere until she's done,

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because she's got a bad attitude anyway,

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so that makes sense to us.

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Let's do that.

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And then let's add this and add that and add this.

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You guys, the law was created to show us

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how desperately we need a savior.

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That's why Jesus said this,

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all you that are weary and heavy laden come to me

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and I will give you rest.

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What do you think he was talking about?

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He was talking about rest from all of this law,

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rest from all of these rules and regulations

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and all this stuff that you just cannot do.

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You can't save yourself and I'm here to save you.

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And so the reason why I'm saying this

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in today's Supernatural Saturday

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is because we're talking about team spirit

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versus team flesh, right?

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And I want you to see very clearly

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that the law is only powered by your flesh.

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So if you're in the law, if you're in religion,

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you're living in your flesh.

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Come on, y'all.

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Someone's got to get ahold of that right now.

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You're living in your flesh.

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You are living in your flesh.

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The law is only powered by the flesh.

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It's only things that you can do in your own strength.

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In your own power, in your flesh.

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If you're living in religion,

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you are living in your flesh.

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If you are alive in the law,

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you are dead in the spirit, friends.

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And we want to be team spirit, don't we?

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I do.

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I'm going to tell you right now.

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I want to be team spirit for sure.

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So there's this war going on inside of us every day.

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And the reason why I use that as an example,

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because sometimes the war can seem good on the outside.

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You're going along in your little self-righteousness

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and you're crossing all your T's

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and you're dotting all your I's

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and you're quoting the scriptures

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and you're just as religious

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as you can be judging people

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that aren't doing the right thing, doing all the stuff.

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And then boom, you trip over a pothole

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and fall flat on your face.

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Because that's what happens in the flesh.

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If you were in the spirit,

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Holy Spirit would have been like,

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hey, there's a pothole there.

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Oh, yes, you're right.

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But as long as you think you can do it on your own,

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guess what?

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God will let you.

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He will let you do it on your own if you think you can.

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Why does he do that?

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Because he wants you to see that you need him.

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So he's given us this beautiful thing called free will.

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It's a gift of choice.

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And you can choose or not choose.

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So every day, if you're gonna choose team spirit,

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there's going to be a supernatural surrender.

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You're gonna get up and you're gonna say,

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hey, you know, God, I know that I can't do this myself.

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In me, there's no good thing except for you.

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You are the good thing in me.

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And so I'm asking for your protection.

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I'm asking for your help.

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I'm asking for your grace and for your mercy.

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And while I'm getting that from you,

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I'm gonna give it to others.

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Because I'm gonna tell you right now,

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I have learned this the hard way

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over the course of my life.

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Whoever God is to you, he will be through you.

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Whoever God is to you,

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he will be that same thing through you.

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If God is a taskmaster, then through you,

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people are gonna learn that God is a taskmaster.

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You're gonna make God a taskmaster to other people.

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If God's a judger, that's what he's gonna be through you.

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if he is kind and good,

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then that is the God that you will display

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in your life as well.

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That's what will happen.

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we're gonna get up every day and we're gonna say,

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hey, I can't do this on my own.

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And God's like, oh, I'm so glad to hear you say that

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because you weren't created to do this on your own.

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Yes.

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So years ago, I heard a story,

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and I'm sure you guys have heard this story too,

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about the man that went on a journey,

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the young man that went on a journey

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to find out the meaning of life

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and to find out all the secrets that he needed to know.

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And he heard about a wise man

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that lived on top of the mountain.

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And he climbed this mountain

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to get to this portal of wisdom, this oracle.

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And when he got there, he asked him,

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he said, listen, he said,

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I have this dream, and in this dream,

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there are these two dogs inside of me

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that are always fighting.

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They're always fighting, he said,

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and I know that this is important for my life.

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I know that it's kind of my dark side

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and my light side that are fighting inside of me.

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And I just wanna ask you the question,

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which one is gonna win?

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The question that torments me is,

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which one is gonna win?

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And the wise man simply said,

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whichever one you feed the most.

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Whichever one you feed the most.

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this is not a one and done situation.

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If you've been feeding your flesh

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and your life is an example of you feeding your flesh,

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then it's time for you to switch teams.

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You can start feeding the spirit.

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It doesn't have to take a long time

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for you to start seeing the fruit of that.

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In fact, let's talk about that for a second.

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Hang on there, everyone, hang tight.

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Feel like Holy Spirit's taking us somewhere.

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Right, Galatians 5 is what popped into my spirit, so I went there.

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It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.

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Whoa!

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We can just stop there and just stay here and just pray for the rest of the time that

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we're together.

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It is for freedom that Christ has set you free.

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I want you to say that over yourself, it is for freedom.

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Why did God, why did Christ set you free?

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So you could be a good little soldier, so you could do what you're told, so that you

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can, you know, be, you know, good and not bad.

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No, it is for freedom that Christ has set you free.

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God wants you to live in freedom.

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It is for the sake of freedom that Christ has set you free.

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So stand firm and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

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What's that talking about?

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It's talking about the law right there.

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Mark my words, I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ

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will be of no value at all to you.

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So he's talking to the Galatians, and why is he talking to them?

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Because when you read the New Testament, especially the letters that are written, whether they're

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from Peter or Paul or Timothy, it's important that you understand, or actually Paul wrote

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to Timothy, but if whoever the letter is from, why are they writing it?

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Who are they writing it to and why?

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So who's writing it, why are they writing it, and who are they writing it to?

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Now can we glean information for our current modern age from these letters?

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Yes, but not everything is for us.

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Not everything is for us.

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Everything in the Bible, I believe, is inspired of God.

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I do.

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It's all the inspired word of God through his messengers, but not all of it's going

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to apply to your life in a modern age.

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It just isn't, okay?

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Because it was for a specific people at a specific time.

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Everything in the Gospels are things that you should really grab a hold of, although

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a lot of it cannot be fully understood without an understanding of Judaic history.

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You need to understand Hebrew history to understand some of the things that are happening there.

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Case in point, if you've listened to my Divorce and Remarriage session, I fully explain what

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Jesus meant when the Pharisees were trying to trip him up and ask him about divorce and

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adultery.

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And if you listen to my teaching, you'll hear that unpacked fully.

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Because what Jesus meant by what he said, you'd have to be a Jew to understand.

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And so these are important things, friends.

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And the reason why I'm saying that this morning, because I feel like Holy Spirit's trying to,

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is for freedom that Christ has set you free.

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Some of you are entangled in the law, you're entangled in religion, and I'm just going

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to go a little further.

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You're even entangled in bad teaching of religious ideas.

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Not only are you entangled in religion, but you're also entangled with teachers that have

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been teaching things that they're not teaching correctly.

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Because they were taught it the wrong way, and now they continue to teach it the wrong

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way.

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They're not bad people.

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They're just not people that have grown in their understanding.

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The Bible says that if you're going to be a teacher, which is a five-fold gift, right?

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Pastor, teacher, evangelist, prophet, apostle.

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If you're one of those gifts that Christ gave to the body for the edification of it,

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for the education of it, for the purification of it, then the teacher gift is one that you

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have to continue in continuing education.

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The Bible says continue to study, right?

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To show yourself approved.

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And so you cannot propose to teach, even if you have the gift, if you're not willing to

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continue to learn.

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Come on.

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All right, let's keep reading.

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So Paul was dealing with these Galatians.

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They were one of his church plants, so to speak.

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They were conversions to Christ.

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They became Christ's followers.

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But now some Jews had come along and were trying to get them to get circumcised.

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It was a mixture.

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It was like, oh yeah, you're following Christ.

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Okay, great.

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Let's cut your wieners now.

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Okay?

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That was an old covenant.

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That was an Old Testament covenant that God made with Abraham.

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It wasn't a new covenant.

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And you guys, if you want new wine, you got to throw out old wine skins.

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You have to.

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Whoa.

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I felt that.

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I think you felt that.

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If you want new wine, you got to throw out the old wine skins.

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The Bible says you can't put new wine in old wine skins because the old wine skins cannot

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contain it.

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They will burst.

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And so Father, we're asking you right now to give us new mind skins.

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We need new mind skins.

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You said, be transformed by the renewing of your minds, Father, renew our minds in Christ

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right now.

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Woo.

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You guys, I'm about to have a Holy Spirit party.

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Woo.

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Mm.

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I got more goose pimples than a goose.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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You don't have to do this.

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This is not going to make you holy.

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In another, in another, I believe it's even in Galatians, in another, in another passage

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of scripture, Paul says, who has bewitched you?

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You know, who's trying to bring you into Christian witchcraft, where you're doing all these things

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in your own self and in your own power, trying to get God.

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If you've begun in the spirit, you can't continue in the flesh, but he says, and you're

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like, Whoa, Jackie, Christian witchcraft.

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That's that's strong.

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No, not really.

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Because the Bible actually, we make it strong.

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We make it, because we're watching all these, you know, witchcraft movies and, you know,

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makes it look like you gotta, you know, have green skin and, you know, be doing all this

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crazy stuff.

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No witchcraft is just rebellion.

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Rebellion against what?

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Rebellion against God being father and you being child.

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Rebellion against the idea of your divine design, which is he is God and you are not.

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He is your protector and your provider.

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He is all of those things.

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He's Jehovah Jireh.

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He's Jehovah Nissi and Rapha.

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He's all those things.

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And you're the recipient of his goodness.

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I know that kind of makes it a whole different story, doesn't it?

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Like, oh, whoa, rebellion, rebellion.

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Huh?

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And it calls stubbornness, idolatry.

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Why is stubbornness, idolatry?

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Because you're stubborn.

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You're making the things that you want to do an idol, right?

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You're putting those on the throne instead of King Jesus.

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You guys, we all do it.

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There isn't one of us here.

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When we choose in the morning team flesh that are not operating in what the Bible calls

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rebellion and stubbornness or witchcraft and idolatry, if you prefer.

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I kind of prefer the rebellion and stubbornness, but that's fine.

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And we get really freaked out by that, not understanding that it's just about us surrendering,

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giving the pen to God.

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Yeah, there's going to be things that we have to do, but we're going to be empowered to

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do them.

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What does Ephesians 3.20 tell us?

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To him who is able to exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or imagine by

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the power that works in us.

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What power is that?

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Is that the power of our flesh?

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No, that's the power of our surrendered will in the Holy Spirit.

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You have a will and it's yours and you can choose what to do with it every single day

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of your life.

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A surrendered will makes you an available vessel that God can work through.

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And that's what Ephesians 3.20 is talking about.

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So let's go on.

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Again, I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey

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the whole law.

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You can't just obey parts of it that you like.

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If you decide to live by the law, you're going to die by the law, friends.

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You got to do all of it, all of it, not just a little thing of it.

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So you who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ.

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That's such strong language right there.

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You have fallen away from grace.

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For through the Spirit, we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.

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For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.

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The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

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You were running a good race.

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Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?

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That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

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A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.

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That's talking about the leaven of the Pharisees.

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Remember what Jesus was talking that the leaven leavens the whole lump.

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For those of you that bake, you understand that a tiny little bit of yeast, a little

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half a teaspoon of yeast, it permeates all of the dough.

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So it's saying a little bit of the law, a little bit of legalism, a little bit of religion

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is going to make y'all religious, all of you, like your whole person.

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I'm confident in the Lord that you will take no other view.

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The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the

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penalty.

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All right.

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So I'm going down.

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I came here to get to the fruit of the spirit versus the works of the flesh, because I told

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you team spirit, team flesh.

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And even if you haven't been choosing team spirit, if you start choosing team spirit,

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you're going to start to see the fruit of that right away.

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It's not going to take forever to see the fruit.

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And if you're choosing team flesh, the same, the same applies.

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It's not going to take you forever to see the fruit.

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So let's talk about it.

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So I say, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

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Okay.

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Another scripture, another translation says, if you walk after the spirit, you won't fulfill

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the lusts of the flesh, right?

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For the flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit and the spirit, what is contrary

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to the flesh.

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They are in conflict with each other so that you are not to do whatever you want.

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00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.480
But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.

499
00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:05.600
The acts of the flesh are obvious.

500
00:25:05.600 --> 00:25:08.400
Okay, so here are some, if you choose team flesh,

501
00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:10.880
here's some situations you might find yourself in,

502
00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:12.640
and you're like, no, never, not me.

503
00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:14.880
Well, the Bible says it.

504
00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:15.760
So let's go for it.

505
00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:19.840
Sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,

506
00:25:19.840 --> 00:25:24.000
idolatry, and witchcraft, hatred, discord,

507
00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:27.760
jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,

508
00:25:27.760 --> 00:25:31.280
dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness,

509
00:25:31.280 --> 00:25:34.720
orgies, orgies, whoa, and the like.

510
00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:38.480
I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this

511
00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:39.920
will not inherit the kingdom of God.

512
00:25:40.560 --> 00:25:44.800
But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,

513
00:25:44.800 --> 00:25:47.600
forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

514
00:25:47.600 --> 00:25:49.120
gentleness, and self-control.

515
00:25:49.840 --> 00:25:52.000
Against such things, there is no law.

516
00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.520
The reason why it says that there is no law

517
00:25:53.520 --> 00:25:55.360
is because Jesus came and fulfilled the law.

518
00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:59.040
And he gave us the comforter, he gave us the counselor,

519
00:25:59.040 --> 00:26:00.640
he gave us the teacher, Holy Spirit,

520
00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:03.600
to be with us and in us, right?

521
00:26:03.600 --> 00:26:06.720
To lead us into all abundance, right?

522
00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:08.160
To lead us into all truth.

523
00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:11.120
And so when we're choosing team spirit,

524
00:26:11.120 --> 00:26:13.760
we're gonna see this fruit in our lives.

525
00:26:13.760 --> 00:26:16.240
We're gonna see love, and joy, and peace,

526
00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:18.880
patience, and kindness, and goodness,

527
00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:21.040
and faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

528
00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.000
And this is why I tell you when you're dating,

529
00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:25.840
when you're out there meeting people,

530
00:26:25.840 --> 00:26:27.440
instead of being gift inspectors,

531
00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:29.360
because the gifts of God are without repentance.

532
00:26:29.360 --> 00:26:32.400
And so someone can have a smooth talk in tongue,

533
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.800
they have the gift to be able to communicate,

534
00:26:35.600 --> 00:26:37.600
they can talk, they can quote scriptures,

535
00:26:37.600 --> 00:26:38.800
they can do all the things,

536
00:26:38.800 --> 00:26:41.360
they can, for those of you that are the more charismatic

537
00:26:41.360 --> 00:26:43.440
Pentecostal types, they can speak in tongues,

538
00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:45.760
and they can go to those five-hour worship services,

539
00:26:45.760 --> 00:26:47.600
and raise their hands, and roll in the gold dust.

540
00:26:47.600 --> 00:26:48.160
Okay, great.

541
00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:50.480
But do they have the fruit?

542
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:53.440
Is it evident in their life

543
00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:55.200
that they have been following after the spirit,

544
00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:58.240
that they have been choosing team spirit?

545
00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:00.400
Or can you tell right away

546
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:02.640
that they've been eating their carnal cornflakes

547
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:03.360
every morning?

548
00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:08.960
They've been choosing their carnality, right?

549
00:27:11.840 --> 00:27:12.960
This is important stuff.

550
00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:18.880
As I'm having some church up in here in my own body.

551
00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:22.560
All right, so I wanna tell you something important.

552
00:27:22.560 --> 00:27:24.400
And you're like, okay, well, you know, Jackie,

553
00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:25.200
I'm gonna try.

554
00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:26.720
I'm gonna try to choose team spirit.

555
00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:27.840
And I'm gonna tell you back to you.

556
00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:28.720
I'm gonna tell you back.

557
00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:30.000
I'm gonna try too.

558
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:32.000
And you know why I'm gonna try to choose team spirit

559
00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:32.720
every day?

560
00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:35.920
Because your flesh is trying to kill you.

561
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.600
Please write that down.

562
00:27:39.040 --> 00:27:41.920
Your flesh is trying to kill you.

563
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:43.680
You are sleeping with the enemy.

564
00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:50.160
It might seem kind of harmless to choose the flesh

565
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:51.120
every once in a while.

566
00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:52.160
And you guys were going to,

567
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:53.120
because we're not perfect.

568
00:27:53.120 --> 00:27:54.000
And we're not supposed to be.

569
00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:55.440
And that's what grace and mercy are for.

570
00:27:57.280 --> 00:27:59.600
But hopefully you won't be very far into your day

571
00:27:59.600 --> 00:28:02.000
before you realize that you ate your carnal cornflakes.

572
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:05.200
And you're like, oh no, I gotta come back.

573
00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:08.320
I gotta come back and eat some.

574
00:28:09.120 --> 00:28:11.760
I gotta come back and eat some manna.

575
00:28:11.760 --> 00:28:16.720
I gotta eat some angel sponge cake or whatever.

576
00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:17.680
I don't remember what it is.

577
00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:19.600
I know that the devil has devil food cake.

578
00:28:19.600 --> 00:28:21.280
But isn't there some angel food cake too?

579
00:28:21.280 --> 00:28:21.920
I think there is.

580
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:23.840
Your flesh is trying to kill you.

581
00:28:25.280 --> 00:28:26.800
There's a scripture in the Bible that says,

582
00:28:26.800 --> 00:28:31.040
if you sow to the flesh, you will reap death.

583
00:28:31.760 --> 00:28:34.800
But if you sow to the spirit, you will have life and peace.

584
00:28:36.320 --> 00:28:37.440
What does that mean to sow?

585
00:28:38.560 --> 00:28:40.080
What does it mean to sow to something?

586
00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:43.120
It means to invest in it, right?

587
00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:47.440
As a farmer goes out and sows his fields for a crop.

588
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:51.840
Remember we just talked about the fruit of the spirit

589
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.240
or the works of the flesh.

590
00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:02.080
When you sow to your flesh, when you invest in your flesh,

591
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:05.360
when you continue to let your flesh have its own way,

592
00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:08.800
because it feels good in a moment.

593
00:29:08.800 --> 00:29:10.160
And we're gonna talk about that in a second

594
00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:11.040
because it really does.

595
00:29:14.560 --> 00:29:18.960
The product of that or the outcome of that is death.

596
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:20.560
And you guys, not just physical death.

597
00:29:20.560 --> 00:29:22.000
I know when we hear the word death, we're like,

598
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:23.200
oh yeah, physical death.

599
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:25.440
You're gonna get yourself in a situation

600
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:26.880
that's gonna get you killed.

601
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.320
Yeah, maybe, but that's not what I'm talking about.

602
00:29:30.320 --> 00:29:31.760
I'm talking about just death,

603
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.240
walking around in death, not alive, right?

604
00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:38.720
Walking around with death in your emotions

605
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:40.960
and in your mind and in your body,

606
00:29:41.600 --> 00:29:47.120
dis-ease and disease and depression and anxiety

607
00:29:47.120 --> 00:29:48.560
and all kinds of stuff.

608
00:29:48.560 --> 00:29:50.160
But if we sow to the spirit,

609
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:53.840
how do you sow to the spirit?

610
00:29:53.840 --> 00:29:56.320
By coming into alignment with the word of God

611
00:29:56.320 --> 00:29:57.120
instead of your feeling.

612
00:29:57.120 --> 00:29:58.320
How do we sow to the flesh?

613
00:29:58.320 --> 00:29:59.680
We sow to the flesh by,

614
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.700
Every thought comes in our head, we just run with it.

615
00:30:03.700 --> 00:30:05.280
The Bible tells us very clearly

616
00:30:05.280 --> 00:30:07.720
that we have to take our thoughts captive.

617
00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:11.460
Friends, do you think that God would waste his time

618
00:30:11.460 --> 00:30:13.620
using a messenger to tell us

619
00:30:13.620 --> 00:30:15.620
that we need to take our thoughts captive?

620
00:30:15.620 --> 00:30:19.060
In the passages of scripture about warfare

621
00:30:19.060 --> 00:30:21.300
and spiritual warfare,

622
00:30:21.300 --> 00:30:23.760
at the top of the hierarchy of spiritual warfare,

623
00:30:23.760 --> 00:30:25.800
he's talking about your thoughts.

624
00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:33.600
Let's take, let's read the scripture.

625
00:30:33.600 --> 00:30:35.480
I feel like some of you just need proof

626
00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:36.820
and we're just gonna go there.

627
00:30:36.820 --> 00:30:39.240
Didn't plan on doing that, but we're gonna go there.

628
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.280
You guys, I don't want you to think I'm preaching at you,

629
00:30:47.280 --> 00:30:50.080
I'm preaching to myself, all right?

630
00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:50.920
I really am.

631
00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:55.920
All right, so you guys are gonna go to 2 Corinthians 10.

632
00:31:10.800 --> 00:31:13.480
I'm gonna look at it in a specific translation

633
00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:15.440
because I wanna see what it says there.

634
00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:19.200
Oh, I love this, I thought it would be good, okay.

635
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.440
All right, so it says,

636
00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:24.440
we can demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God

637
00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:27.520
and breaks through every arrogant attitude

638
00:31:27.520 --> 00:31:31.520
that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God.

639
00:31:31.520 --> 00:31:36.120
We capture like prisoners of war, every thought,

640
00:31:36.120 --> 00:31:40.640
and insist that it bow in obedience to the anointed one.

641
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:45.320
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

642
00:31:46.320 --> 00:31:49.000
We can demolish every deceptive fantasy.

643
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:51.560
Some of y'all have some problems with fantasizing.

644
00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:56.280
And that is going to your flesh,

645
00:31:56.280 --> 00:31:59.560
that's being on team flesh, you're fantasizing.

646
00:31:59.560 --> 00:32:01.600
You're fantasizing about things.

647
00:32:01.600 --> 00:32:04.960
You're watching movies and you're listening to music.

648
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:07.360
You're reading books that are spicy.

649
00:32:07.360 --> 00:32:09.160
Come on, I know you are.

650
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:12.680
And you might even be going further than that.

651
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:14.000
You might be watching porn.

652
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.440
You guys, porn rewires your brain and not in a good way.

653
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:20.040
Okay, it rewires your brain.

654
00:32:20.040 --> 00:32:21.080
I know all of you know

655
00:32:21.080 --> 00:32:23.320
that there's things called triggers, right?

656
00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:29.680
And triggers are things that, like little booby traps.

657
00:32:29.800 --> 00:32:31.560
Triggers are like little booby traps.

658
00:32:31.560 --> 00:32:34.360
And so when someone sets off a booby trap in your life

659
00:32:34.360 --> 00:32:36.680
by a word that they speak or an action

660
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:39.240
or a facial expression or a situation,

661
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:42.000
that little booby trap inside of you, okay,

662
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.960
it causes there to be massive chaos, right?

663
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.520
It flips a switch inside of you

664
00:32:47.520 --> 00:32:51.600
that causes physical, mental, emotional upheaval.

665
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.480
But we have to get those traps,

666
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:57.960
all those traps have to be deactivated.

667
00:32:57.960 --> 00:32:59.160
I had a mouse in my garage

668
00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:03.240
and I had to activate a mouse trap, right?

669
00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:05.040
And that mouse trap is on a hair trigger.

670
00:33:05.040 --> 00:33:05.880
It's meant to be.

671
00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:09.000
So that if anything activates it, it's gonna snap shut.

672
00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:11.400
We have those things going on inside of us.

673
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:13.360
And that's what the heart work is all about.

674
00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:16.040
And so I don't want you to continue to live in heart work.

675
00:33:16.040 --> 00:33:16.880
I don't want you to,

676
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:19.160
I'm not telling you to go back to the heart work module.

677
00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:21.200
Some of you are still there and that's great

678
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:23.960
and definitely spend your time there well.

679
00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:27.000
But I am saying that all through your life,

680
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:28.240
when you see these triggers

681
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:31.080
and you feel these booby traps go off in your heart

682
00:33:31.080 --> 00:33:32.560
and in your mind,

683
00:33:32.560 --> 00:33:35.960
it's important for you to take inventory in that moment

684
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:38.960
of what you were thinking about, of what was happening.

685
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:40.800
Gotta get to the root of that trigger

686
00:33:40.800 --> 00:33:42.520
because we want to deactivate it

687
00:33:42.520 --> 00:33:44.600
so that it doesn't go off anymore.

688
00:33:44.600 --> 00:33:46.520
And we deactivate it through repentance

689
00:33:46.520 --> 00:33:48.920
and confession and forgiveness.

690
00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:50.520
And we wanna do that.

691
00:33:50.520 --> 00:33:52.440
But let's go back to the porn thing.

692
00:33:53.560 --> 00:33:55.240
What happens to all of us

693
00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:59.080
is that things are associated with other things, right?

694
00:33:59.080 --> 00:34:01.800
When there's trauma and porn is a trauma.

695
00:34:01.800 --> 00:34:04.600
Porn is sexual abuse that happens to you.

696
00:34:06.280 --> 00:34:08.280
When you participate in pornography,

697
00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:10.400
you are sexually abusing yourself.

698
00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:15.280
Okay, and as an adult survivor of sexual abuse,

699
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:19.440
I was sexually abused from the ages of two to 10 years old

700
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:20.560
by a family member.

701
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:25.639
And as an adult survivor of incest and sexual abuse,

702
00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:28.040
I can tell you that there were certain smells

703
00:34:28.040 --> 00:34:31.480
and there were certain things that correlated to that abuse.

704
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:35.800
And unfortunately, the people that are partaking of porn,

705
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.600
and this is the enemy's plot against you,

706
00:34:38.600 --> 00:34:43.239
is that the pleasure that you are deriving from that,

707
00:34:44.520 --> 00:34:48.600
the climaxes, the things that are happening in your body,

708
00:34:48.600 --> 00:34:51.400
they have now become their own triggers.

709
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:52.239
What does that mean?

710
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:54.440
That means that sex is gonna bring you shame.

711
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:58.800
It means that when you feel the feelings of arousal,

712
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:00.200
when you're trying to go...

713
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.520
about your life with your spouse in the future

714
00:35:02.520 --> 00:35:04.540
and enjoy the physical intimacy

715
00:35:04.540 --> 00:35:06.280
that God has gifted you with,

716
00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:08.240
you are gonna feel shame.

717
00:35:08.240 --> 00:35:12.680
You are going to feel all kinds of sinister

718
00:35:12.680 --> 00:35:14.400
and negative things.

719
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:15.420
But there's good news.

720
00:35:15.420 --> 00:35:16.720
You can be healed of that.

721
00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:22.360
You do not want a beautiful gift that God has given you

722
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:25.040
to be tethered to trauma.

723
00:35:26.520 --> 00:35:27.480
We don't want that.

724
00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:33.320
And so fantasies, y'all, every deceptive fantasy,

725
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:35.480
all that stuff happening in those pornographic movies,

726
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:36.480
that's all fantasy.

727
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:37.640
That's not real.

728
00:35:37.640 --> 00:35:40.260
That's not what real human sexuality looks like,

729
00:35:40.260 --> 00:35:43.160
not according to God's design.

730
00:35:43.160 --> 00:35:46.180
All the other things that you lose yourself in

731
00:35:46.180 --> 00:35:47.680
that are fantastical,

732
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:53.460
demolishing those things is what the scripture says.

733
00:35:53.460 --> 00:35:57.460
All that opposes God and opposes the God in you,

734
00:35:57.460 --> 00:36:01.500
opposes the God design and the God destiny inside of you

735
00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:05.500
and breaks through every arrogant attitude

736
00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:08.860
that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God.

737
00:36:08.860 --> 00:36:10.300
The true knowledge of God, what is that?

738
00:36:10.300 --> 00:36:11.960
That he's a father?

739
00:36:11.960 --> 00:36:15.740
What is that arrogant defiance, orphanhood?

740
00:36:16.900 --> 00:36:18.220
Any thought that comes in your head

741
00:36:18.220 --> 00:36:20.980
that you have to do this life yourself,

742
00:36:20.980 --> 00:36:23.940
that you've been thrown here into this earth realm.

743
00:36:23.940 --> 00:36:25.700
Good luck, kid, I hope you make it.

744
00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:29.020
That independent spirit leads us

745
00:36:29.020 --> 00:36:32.500
into all types of entanglements

746
00:36:32.500 --> 00:36:34.660
when we're out here running around

747
00:36:34.660 --> 00:36:36.840
trying to make our lives happen for us.

748
00:36:38.200 --> 00:36:41.720
We capture like prisoners of war every thought

749
00:36:41.720 --> 00:36:45.720
and insist that it bow in obedience to the anointed one.

750
00:36:47.860 --> 00:36:50.380
Every thought, you guys, every thought.

751
00:36:51.380 --> 00:36:52.660
And I love how it says that,

752
00:36:52.660 --> 00:36:55.580
I had never read it in that translation before,

753
00:36:55.580 --> 00:36:58.940
but it really lines up because I struggled

754
00:36:58.940 --> 00:37:01.260
because of my childhood and because of the abuse

755
00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:03.020
and the trauma that I had been through,

756
00:37:03.020 --> 00:37:06.020
I struggled with what people call mental illness.

757
00:37:06.020 --> 00:37:09.700
All through my late teens and 20s and into my early 30s,

758
00:37:09.700 --> 00:37:14.700
I had diagnosed issues, okay, of mental problems.

759
00:37:17.020 --> 00:37:20.180
And one of those problems was obsessive thoughts,

760
00:37:20.180 --> 00:37:22.700
compulsive thoughts, things that they call OCD,

761
00:37:23.900 --> 00:37:26.820
intrusive thoughts, unwanted thoughts.

762
00:37:26.820 --> 00:37:29.700
And so years ago, and that's why the scripture

763
00:37:29.700 --> 00:37:31.900
in this translation is so beautiful to me,

764
00:37:31.900 --> 00:37:34.040
years ago when God was delivering me of this,

765
00:37:34.040 --> 00:37:35.940
because when God brings deliverance,

766
00:37:37.260 --> 00:37:38.740
and he will if you ask him to,

767
00:37:38.740 --> 00:37:41.060
when he brings deliverance, and what is deliverance?

768
00:37:41.060 --> 00:37:43.040
Because we've been having a lot of talk about that

769
00:37:43.040 --> 00:37:44.140
in our communities.

770
00:37:44.140 --> 00:37:48.260
Deliverance is when you have not been able

771
00:37:48.260 --> 00:37:50.740
to choose team spirit because something

772
00:37:50.740 --> 00:37:52.900
has been blocking and opposing you,

773
00:37:52.900 --> 00:37:56.720
some kind of oppression, you have been entangled in.

774
00:37:58.660 --> 00:38:01.860
And there's a moment when you're untangled.

775
00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:06.900
You're free to think again for yourself,

776
00:38:06.900 --> 00:38:08.740
you're free to choose.

777
00:38:10.660 --> 00:38:12.560
But then you have to walk out that deliverance,

778
00:38:12.560 --> 00:38:13.940
and here's the problem, a lot of people

779
00:38:13.940 --> 00:38:16.500
just keep coming back to deliverance.

780
00:38:16.540 --> 00:38:18.540
They get delivered and now they're free

781
00:38:18.540 --> 00:38:20.860
to choose team spirit again.

782
00:38:20.860 --> 00:38:23.160
But then they don't, they choose team flesh again,

783
00:38:23.160 --> 00:38:24.860
and they get back entangled in their back

784
00:38:24.860 --> 00:38:26.080
at the deliverance line again.

785
00:38:26.080 --> 00:38:28.740
No, you friends, that's not how this works.

786
00:38:28.740 --> 00:38:30.900
You have to walk it out.

787
00:38:30.900 --> 00:38:34.660
The yoke is broken over you, you're no longer yoked

788
00:38:34.660 --> 00:38:36.980
with that fantasy, you're no longer yoked

789
00:38:36.980 --> 00:38:38.780
with that addiction, you're no longer yoked,

790
00:38:38.780 --> 00:38:39.980
you're not in the yoke.

791
00:38:39.980 --> 00:38:42.500
Remember the yokes, the animals are inside by side,

792
00:38:42.500 --> 00:38:45.540
you're locked in, you gotta go, there's nothing you can do.

793
00:38:45.540 --> 00:38:48.980
That thing's pulling you along, that yoke is now broken,

794
00:38:48.980 --> 00:38:53.980
and you are able to choose, but you still have to choose.

795
00:38:56.860 --> 00:38:59.620
And I'm gonna tell you from experience,

796
00:38:59.620 --> 00:39:02.940
the more that you choose his righteousness and not your own,

797
00:39:02.940 --> 00:39:04.340
the more that you choose truth,

798
00:39:04.340 --> 00:39:06.380
the more that you choose team spirit,

799
00:39:06.380 --> 00:39:08.340
the easier it becomes to do that.

800
00:39:10.420 --> 00:39:13.580
So back in those days when I had all of these unwanted,

801
00:39:13.580 --> 00:39:15.380
obsessive and intrusive thoughts,

802
00:39:15.380 --> 00:39:17.580
and you guys, I'm gonna tell you it was bad.

803
00:39:18.900 --> 00:39:22.660
I couldn't even drink a drink if I had left it unattended

804
00:39:24.700 --> 00:39:27.460
in my own home where nobody else was.

805
00:39:28.500 --> 00:39:31.300
Bottle of water just sitting there, here's an example.

806
00:39:31.300 --> 00:39:33.540
Come back to the bottle of water, wanna take a drink?

807
00:39:33.540 --> 00:39:35.020
Can't take a drink, why?

808
00:39:35.020 --> 00:39:37.020
Because someone's poisoned it.

809
00:39:37.020 --> 00:39:39.380
Well, Jackie, that's ridiculous, there's no one here.

810
00:39:39.380 --> 00:39:42.020
I know, but they snuck in somehow and they poisoned it.

811
00:39:42.020 --> 00:39:44.060
I know that sounds crazy, you guys,

812
00:39:45.380 --> 00:39:47.460
but that was an obsessive thought of mine,

813
00:39:47.460 --> 00:39:50.820
just one of many, many, many, many, many, many millions.

814
00:39:52.460 --> 00:39:56.260
My mind was broken, didn't work properly.

815
00:39:58.380 --> 00:40:00.220
And I'd love to tell you that one day.

816
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.720
Jesus swooped in and just said, you're better now.

817
00:40:04.720 --> 00:40:08.600
And I think people do a disservice to all of us

818
00:40:08.600 --> 00:40:11.480
when they say, oh, but you've met Jesus.

819
00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:13.480
Everything's better now.

820
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:15.040
Yes.

821
00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:15.880
Yes.

822
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:18.360
Meeting Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to me.

823
00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:21.340
And I had a radical conversion of love with him

824
00:40:21.340 --> 00:40:22.880
when I became a believer.

825
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:24.520
But you know what?

826
00:40:24.520 --> 00:40:28.240
For whatever reason, all of these mental issues,

827
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:33.240
I had to walk out siding with team spirit.

828
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.640
And if you continue in my word, you will know the truth

829
00:40:41.640 --> 00:40:44.220
and the truth will make you free.

830
00:40:44.220 --> 00:40:45.960
Those are the words of Jesus.

831
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:48.520
And I think that probably the reason why

832
00:40:48.520 --> 00:40:51.240
I had less deliverance and more discipline,

833
00:40:51.240 --> 00:40:54.060
not discipline from him, me disciplining my mind,

834
00:40:54.060 --> 00:40:56.080
me taking thoughts captive.

835
00:40:56.080 --> 00:40:59.280
The reason why my discipleship looked more like

836
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:02.200
instead of just moments of huge radical deliverance,

837
00:41:02.200 --> 00:41:03.400
which I had those.

838
00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:07.600
It was more of walking out the truth every day

839
00:41:07.600 --> 00:41:11.600
in the word of God and coming into agreement with his word

840
00:41:11.600 --> 00:41:12.800
and not with my flesh.

841
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:15.440
Choosing team spirit day after day after day

842
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:18.040
is so that I could show up here today

843
00:41:18.040 --> 00:41:20.480
and be qualified to deliver this message to you.

844
00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:23.520
Because I know what it takes.

845
00:41:27.080 --> 00:41:29.120
I know what it takes.

846
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:34.440
So back in those days, God said to me, he said,

847
00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:38.360
Jackie, he said, every single time a thought

848
00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:39.200
comes in your head.

849
00:41:39.200 --> 00:41:42.920
And you guys, we have like a bazillion thoughts a day

850
00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:44.480
that are conscious thoughts.

851
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:47.040
And we have even more unconscious thoughts.

852
00:41:47.040 --> 00:41:48.280
We're not gonna get into that today.

853
00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:51.640
That'll be for another Supernatural Saturday, okay?

854
00:41:51.640 --> 00:41:54.880
Our lives are being powered by our unconscious identity.

855
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:56.240
We'll talk about that later.

856
00:41:56.240 --> 00:41:57.680
But right now the conscious thoughts

857
00:41:57.680 --> 00:41:59.080
are what I wanna talk about.

858
00:42:00.240 --> 00:42:02.240
We have thoughts that come into our minds.

859
00:42:02.240 --> 00:42:03.320
This could be so important.

860
00:42:03.320 --> 00:42:04.360
Please listen.

861
00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:06.360
This is the game changer.

862
00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:07.640
Here's the life changer.

863
00:42:07.640 --> 00:42:09.800
And God said to me, and this has been years ago,

864
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:12.360
decades ago, God said to me, he said, Jackie,

865
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.520
he said, you cannot trust your thoughts.

866
00:42:15.520 --> 00:42:17.080
He said, just because you think a thought

867
00:42:17.080 --> 00:42:18.720
doesn't mean it belongs to you.

868
00:42:18.720 --> 00:42:21.000
And he showed me the three origins of my thoughts.

869
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:23.360
They either come from him in the spirit,

870
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:25.640
they come from my flesh and my own brokenness

871
00:42:25.640 --> 00:42:27.560
and my own experiences,

872
00:42:27.560 --> 00:42:29.720
or they come from the opposing forces.

873
00:42:29.720 --> 00:42:30.800
Write it down.

874
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:33.680
Those are the three origins of your thoughts.

875
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:38.040
They come from culture, your own experience,

876
00:42:38.040 --> 00:42:40.080
things that you read and look at and see.

877
00:42:40.080 --> 00:42:41.880
And some of that has been put in front of you

878
00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:43.080
by the opposing forces.

879
00:42:43.080 --> 00:42:44.560
Please believe that.

880
00:42:44.560 --> 00:42:46.400
And some of that's been put in front of you by God.

881
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:47.680
And then they come from,

882
00:42:47.680 --> 00:42:49.440
your thoughts come from divine inspiration,

883
00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:51.040
from the word, from the spirit.

884
00:42:52.040 --> 00:42:53.760
Sometimes even from angels.

885
00:42:55.600 --> 00:42:58.120
I have a revelation angel that shows up sometimes

886
00:42:58.120 --> 00:43:00.680
and I just start thinking revelatory thoughts.

887
00:43:00.680 --> 00:43:02.280
God showed me what that was.

888
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:05.960
And then from the opposing forces,

889
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:09.120
also, the prince and power of the air.

890
00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:12.160
That's another origin, those three origins.

891
00:43:12.160 --> 00:43:14.760
So what you consciously think a thought,

892
00:43:16.160 --> 00:43:17.840
and some of you guys need to slow down

893
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:20.000
and think about what you're thinking about.

894
00:43:22.040 --> 00:43:23.600
Sometimes you're just going about your day

895
00:43:23.600 --> 00:43:24.440
and everything's great.

896
00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:26.640
And all of a sudden you start feeling like anxious

897
00:43:26.640 --> 00:43:28.600
and you're worried and you start feeling bad

898
00:43:28.600 --> 00:43:32.680
and your body starts feeling bad and tired and depressed.

899
00:43:32.680 --> 00:43:35.680
I need you to stop right then and think about,

900
00:43:35.680 --> 00:43:37.960
what have I been thinking about all day?

901
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.000
Because sometimes we're going so fast and furious

902
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:41.800
in our lives that we don't even realize

903
00:43:41.800 --> 00:43:43.800
all the thoughts that we're having

904
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:46.400
until they start showing up as feelings in our body.

905
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:48.840
So we're gonna stop.

906
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:51.720
And we're gonna take inventory.

907
00:43:51.720 --> 00:43:53.600
Remember, we don't get what we expect,

908
00:43:53.600 --> 00:43:54.640
we get what we inspect.

909
00:43:54.640 --> 00:43:57.480
We're gonna take inventory of our thought life.

910
00:43:57.480 --> 00:43:59.400
Every day as you're choosing team spirit,

911
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:00.960
as you go about your day,

912
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:02.680
when a thought comes in your head,

913
00:44:02.680 --> 00:44:03.640
you're gonna grab it.

914
00:44:03.640 --> 00:44:04.680
This is what God told me to do.

915
00:44:04.680 --> 00:44:07.520
He said, Jackie, grab those thoughts

916
00:44:07.520 --> 00:44:11.320
by the collar of their shirt,

917
00:44:11.320 --> 00:44:14.120
just like you would an intruder coming in your house.

918
00:44:14.120 --> 00:44:15.320
You're a mama bear.

919
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:17.120
An intruder's gonna come in your house,

920
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:20.160
you're gonna grab that intruder by its neck

921
00:44:20.160 --> 00:44:23.600
and you're gonna say, what are you doing here?

922
00:44:23.600 --> 00:44:24.520
What is your purpose?

923
00:44:24.520 --> 00:44:26.360
What is your business with me?

924
00:44:27.640 --> 00:44:30.080
Is it friend or foe, y'all?

925
00:44:30.080 --> 00:44:35.080
You have to treat your thoughts like that.

926
00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:38.160
Take them captive, like a prisoner of war.

927
00:44:38.160 --> 00:44:41.600
Because you are in a war, there's a war in your members.

928
00:44:41.600 --> 00:44:43.720
Death and life are fighting inside of you.

929
00:44:44.720 --> 00:44:49.720
And your thoughts are the soldiers and we have to come here.

930
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:51.960
And the thoughts don't just stay thoughts,

931
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:53.320
that's the problem.

932
00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:55.520
Your thoughts become words, friends.

933
00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:58.640
And then your words become actions.

934
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.400
And then your actions become behavior that becomes your identity

935
00:45:05.520 --> 00:45:08.960
Your thoughts become words and your words become actions your actions become

936
00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:12.460
Habitual behavior that becomes your identity

937
00:45:14.040 --> 00:45:17.160
This is why I can't fake it till you make it because you're gonna be it and

938
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:21.060
Everyone's gonna see it. That's what's gonna happen in your life

939
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:25.460
Behavior does not follow identity

940
00:45:25.460 --> 00:45:29.460
Identity doesn't follow behavior behavior follows identity is what I mean to say

941
00:45:32.660 --> 00:45:38.180
So it's gonna become who you are your thoughts are gonna become eventually who you are I

942
00:45:39.260 --> 00:45:42.060
See a lot of you posting in your group saying things like oh

943
00:45:42.580 --> 00:45:47.940
It's been having all these thoughts lately that I'm be forever alone that no one's gonna love me that this and that

944
00:45:47.940 --> 00:45:51.300
And you know just all kinds of negative things and I'm not against y'all

945
00:45:51.300 --> 00:45:56.380
Confessing James 516 and telling us where you are in your thought life

946
00:45:57.660 --> 00:46:01.700
But my next question is gonna be to you. How long you gonna stay there?

947
00:46:03.260 --> 00:46:08.540
Because I think that we have gotten this idea that thoughts are harmless and they're not

948
00:46:11.300 --> 00:46:17.580
You can't control this another thing that God told me he said you can't control what comes in but you absolutely can't control

949
00:46:17.700 --> 00:46:19.700
Guys we cannot control what comes in

950
00:46:21.660 --> 00:46:28.780
You're gonna have all kinds of thoughts come in your head even like me unwanted in an intrusive thoughts raise your hand right now if

951
00:46:28.780 --> 00:46:34.100
You have unwanted intrusive thoughts that other people if you told them they would say it that sounds crazy

952
00:46:36.940 --> 00:46:40.620
Let me see your thoughts let me see let me see your hands let me see your hands

953
00:46:40.620 --> 00:46:43.580
Let me see your thoughts. Let me see your thoughts. Let me see your hands

954
00:46:44.580 --> 00:46:51.340
Let me see your thoughts let me see let me see your hands if you have crazy thoughts see people

955
00:46:52.540 --> 00:46:57.340
That haven't probably had too much complex post-traumatic stress disorder like me

956
00:46:58.300 --> 00:47:00.940
You can dismiss those thoughts as oh, that's crazy

957
00:47:00.940 --> 00:47:02.540
And then you can just move on with your life

958
00:47:02.540 --> 00:47:08.340
But I didn't used to be able to dismiss those thoughts those those thoughts would torment me and the more stressed out that I was

959
00:47:08.340 --> 00:47:15.060
In life even as a believer the more I would succumb to that because of complex post-traumatic stress

960
00:47:17.300 --> 00:47:19.700
Look at all those hands people admitting

961
00:47:22.940 --> 00:47:24.940
Okay

962
00:47:25.740 --> 00:47:29.980
So friends it's at the thought level that we want to catch

963
00:47:34.460 --> 00:47:37.780
These intruders right it's at the thought level that we want to catch them

964
00:47:38.340 --> 00:47:42.500
But sometimes you're not going to know what you were thinking about until you start hearing your words

965
00:47:44.980 --> 00:47:48.380
Why is that because the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks

966
00:47:48.620 --> 00:47:51.580
Guys, it's it's saying out of the overflow of the heart

967
00:47:56.820 --> 00:47:58.820
Out of the overflow

968
00:47:58.820 --> 00:48:00.820
You

969
00:48:03.020 --> 00:48:08.860
Just give you guys some time to process write it down if you want to it's important that we understand

970
00:48:10.460 --> 00:48:12.540
Everything that Holy Spirit is trying to give us today

971
00:48:14.020 --> 00:48:18.340
You guys this doesn't mean that you can just get positive a mental attitude or you can get into it

972
00:48:18.340 --> 00:48:21.860
Oh, I'm gonna blab it and grab it. I'm gonna name it and claim it whatever I say

973
00:48:21.860 --> 00:48:28.300
I can have no, but you do need to take your words very seriously because they are connected to a thought pattern

974
00:48:29.380 --> 00:48:32.500
Into a root system that wants to destroy you

975
00:48:35.940 --> 00:48:38.940
They are the physical manifestation

976
00:48:42.460 --> 00:48:44.460
Right, they're the out loud manifestation

977
00:48:45.140 --> 00:48:49.580
They're gonna your words are going to become the actions and the behavior that becomes your identity

978
00:48:50.900 --> 00:48:56.060
The Bible says that what we believe in our hearts in our heart y'all the out of the abundance of the heart

979
00:48:57.060 --> 00:48:59.060
What you believe in your heart you become

980
00:49:05.220 --> 00:49:08.620
Your heart womb is where all of this is germinating

981
00:49:09.940 --> 00:49:14.140
All the works of the flesh or all the fruit of the Spirit are going to come from the heart place

982
00:49:14.140 --> 00:49:16.140
And that's why we do the heart work

983
00:49:16.140 --> 00:49:18.140
And

984
00:49:23.420 --> 00:49:28.340
Then they're gonna spill out of your mouth and Proverbs tells us that death and life are in the power of the tongue and they

985
00:49:28.340 --> 00:49:30.820
That love to talk are gonna eat the fruit of their words

986
00:49:33.180 --> 00:49:35.180
So for all of you that love to talk like me

987
00:49:35.340 --> 00:49:41.860
Gotta be extra careful what you're thinking about because you're gonna start so in all kinds of word seed, right? I

988
00:49:42.380 --> 00:49:43.380
I

989
00:49:43.380 --> 00:49:46.420
Don't want to want to get religious and weird on me and be like, oh my god

990
00:49:46.420 --> 00:49:49.660
I say negative things and now bad things are gonna happen to me. No

991
00:49:50.260 --> 00:49:52.260
That's what grace and mercy are for friend

992
00:49:54.420 --> 00:50:00.180
But God's trying to show you that you're poisoning the only you're you are poisoning

993
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.000
poisoning the well of your own life.

994
00:50:07.560 --> 00:50:10.360
Bitter and sweet water can't come from the same well

995
00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:13.380
and you are poisoning your own well.

996
00:50:18.100 --> 00:50:19.400
So what do we do about it?

997
00:50:20.560 --> 00:50:22.600
You choose team spirit, but how do we choose team spirit?

998
00:50:22.600 --> 00:50:24.560
We talked about how we choose team flesh.

999
00:50:24.560 --> 00:50:29.000
You might say, well, Jackie, what are we supposed to do?

1000
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:34.240
You know, well, some of the things I'm gonna say right now,

1001
00:50:34.240 --> 00:50:36.240
some of you are not gonna like, and I don't like it either,

1002
00:50:36.240 --> 00:50:39.200
but I'm gonna say it anyway, and that's this.

1003
00:50:39.200 --> 00:50:43.400
We gotta stop putting all of the things in front of us

1004
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:48.480
that cause us to choose team flesh.

1005
00:50:52.520 --> 00:50:54.360
The TV shows you're watching,

1006
00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:57.160
some of y'all post about TV shows that you're watching

1007
00:50:57.160 --> 00:50:59.680
in our groups, and I'm like, my God.

1008
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:04.360
Look, I ain't holy.

1009
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:06.200
I ain't sister holy over here,

1010
00:51:06.200 --> 00:51:07.360
but I'm gonna tell you right now,

1011
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:09.760
even I know that that's gonna poison your well.

1012
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:18.200
Some of us have taken that grace a little far

1013
00:51:18.200 --> 00:51:19.880
to the place where it's not grace.

1014
00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:22.660
You guys, if it's harming you, it's not grace.

1015
00:51:23.660 --> 00:51:28.300
Yes, Paul said that all things are lawful,

1016
00:51:28.300 --> 00:51:29.780
but not all are expedient.

1017
00:51:29.780 --> 00:51:32.500
You need to dig a little deeper into what that means.

1018
00:51:33.980 --> 00:51:36.100
It means that Jesus fulfilled the law,

1019
00:51:36.100 --> 00:51:38.500
and now you can do as you choose,

1020
00:51:38.500 --> 00:51:42.060
but it's not necessarily going to edify you or help you.

1021
00:51:42.060 --> 00:51:43.940
Drinking, I'm sorry.

1022
00:51:43.940 --> 00:51:46.300
Some of you, okay, so if you're gonna ask me,

1023
00:51:46.300 --> 00:51:49.380
okay, well, Jackie, because people love rules, right?

1024
00:51:49.380 --> 00:51:50.220
So you might come to me and say,

1025
00:51:50.300 --> 00:51:51.540
well, Jackie, what about this TV show?

1026
00:51:51.540 --> 00:51:52.820
Is it bad?

1027
00:51:52.820 --> 00:51:54.600
Well, you know, Jackie, I'd like to go out with friends

1028
00:51:54.600 --> 00:51:57.180
and have it old-fashioned a couple times a week.

1029
00:51:57.180 --> 00:51:58.020
Is that bad?

1030
00:51:58.940 --> 00:51:59.780
What about this?

1031
00:51:59.780 --> 00:52:00.600
What about that?

1032
00:52:00.600 --> 00:52:01.440
Is that bad?

1033
00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:02.780
Look, I'm not your judge and jury.

1034
00:52:04.340 --> 00:52:07.880
I'm about the furthest person from someone

1035
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:10.660
who is gonna give you rules.

1036
00:52:10.660 --> 00:52:12.420
I don't like rules, and I'm not gonna give you any,

1037
00:52:12.420 --> 00:52:13.820
but I'm gonna tell you this.

1038
00:52:16.140 --> 00:52:17.600
What does it produce in you?

1039
00:52:18.600 --> 00:52:21.440
That's what you should ask yourself.

1040
00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:24.120
Does it produce more flesh in you,

1041
00:52:24.120 --> 00:52:26.520
or does it produce more spirit in you?

1042
00:52:26.520 --> 00:52:30.080
Does it produce the desire to join team spirit

1043
00:52:30.080 --> 00:52:31.320
or team flesh?

1044
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:34.160
Does it produce negativity in you?

1045
00:52:34.160 --> 00:52:35.240
Look at the works of the flesh.

1046
00:52:35.240 --> 00:52:37.640
Does it have you dreaming and fantasizing

1047
00:52:37.640 --> 00:52:39.780
about sexual immorality?

1048
00:52:39.780 --> 00:52:41.920
You know, having sex with some stranger

1049
00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:45.320
or doing this or that, or does it bring up things?

1050
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:47.440
You know, people always ask me, is masturbation wrong?

1051
00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:49.120
Well, what does it produce in you?

1052
00:52:49.120 --> 00:52:50.880
Does it produce a fantasy life in you?

1053
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:55.040
Does it produce, you know, thoughts of immorality in you?

1054
00:52:55.040 --> 00:52:56.440
Very few people can masturbate

1055
00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:58.240
without fantasizing about something.

1056
00:53:00.860 --> 00:53:02.600
It's not about right or wrong, y'all.

1057
00:53:02.600 --> 00:53:04.800
You need to get rid of right or wrong.

1058
00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:07.400
Is it building your spirit or your flesh?

1059
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:09.680
Is it producing death or life inside of you?

1060
00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:14.720
Well, Jackie, can I watch Bridgerton?

1061
00:53:14.720 --> 00:53:16.160
I don't know.

1062
00:53:16.160 --> 00:53:17.560
What does it produce in you?

1063
00:53:18.680 --> 00:53:21.780
Does it produce a lust of the flesh, the pride of life?

1064
00:53:21.780 --> 00:53:24.040
Or does it produce the spirit, brute?

1065
00:53:28.120 --> 00:53:30.400
Does it have you batting for the wrong team?

1066
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:32.600
Does it rearm the enemy in your life?

1067
00:53:32.600 --> 00:53:34.540
You guys, the enemy has been defeated.

1068
00:53:36.280 --> 00:53:39.360
Okay, Jesus made him his footstool, all right?

1069
00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:41.540
He has been defeated.

1070
00:53:41.540 --> 00:53:43.320
Your enemy has been defeated.

1071
00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:46.960
But that doesn't mean that we don't rearm the enemy.

1072
00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:50.080
All the time, we give him, he's been defeated.

1073
00:53:50.080 --> 00:53:51.200
He's been disarmed.

1074
00:53:52.560 --> 00:53:55.120
Jesus disarmed him, but we rearm him.

1075
00:53:55.120 --> 00:53:57.520
We give him ammunition against us.

1076
00:53:57.520 --> 00:53:59.880
We give him weapons of mass destruction

1077
00:53:59.880 --> 00:54:01.960
against us and our families,

1078
00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:04.880
in our thought life, in our word choices.

1079
00:54:08.600 --> 00:54:10.320
Remember, it's not about thinking the thought.

1080
00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:12.040
It's about letting it stay there.

1081
00:54:12.120 --> 00:54:15.000
We invite the enemy in and those thought origins

1082
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:18.560
that come from the opposing forces about how bad you are

1083
00:54:18.560 --> 00:54:22.280
and how unworthy you are and all of those things,

1084
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:24.200
we sometimes, we invite those things for dinner

1085
00:54:24.200 --> 00:54:25.640
and we let them stay a while.

1086
00:54:28.880 --> 00:54:31.280
So my question to you, not is, is this bad?

1087
00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:32.480
If you want a list of rules,

1088
00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:34.280
I want you to go back to the religion talk

1089
00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:36.560
at the beginning of this and say, am I religious?

1090
00:54:36.560 --> 00:54:38.020
Am I legalistic?

1091
00:54:38.020 --> 00:54:40.440
I obviously wanna live by a bunch of rules.

1092
00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:42.000
The only rules that you should be living by

1093
00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:45.960
are the law of love, that you are loved,

1094
00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:49.960
that you are made by love, from love, for love, to love.

1095
00:54:53.200 --> 00:54:55.680
But what I, but your daily behaviors,

1096
00:54:55.680 --> 00:54:59.600
I want you to ask yourself, what is it producing in me?

1097
00:54:59.600 --> 00:55:00.600
The movies you watch.

1098
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.920
Do you watch the songs you listen to,

1099
00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:05.320
the social media scroll that you scroll, scroll, scroll?

1100
00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:10.480
Is it producing jealousy in you, envy, competition, comparison?

1101
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:13.000
What's it producing in you?

1102
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:19.440
Is it producing negative things, fleshly things, deathly things?

1103
00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:22.680
And if it is, stop doing it.

1104
00:55:22.680 --> 00:55:24.280
Make a decision.

1105
00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:25.760
No one's going to make you stop.

1106
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:27.340
You're a grown up.

1107
00:55:27.340 --> 00:55:29.140
You have to make a decision that I

1108
00:55:29.140 --> 00:55:30.660
don't want that fruit in my life.

1109
00:55:30.660 --> 00:55:33.220
I don't want those works in my life anymore.

1110
00:55:33.220 --> 00:55:35.060
I don't want that.

1111
00:55:35.060 --> 00:55:37.500
I want to be free from that.

1112
00:55:37.500 --> 00:55:39.220
If doing this makes it harder for me

1113
00:55:39.220 --> 00:55:41.620
to join team spirit every day, then I'm

1114
00:55:41.620 --> 00:55:44.220
not interested in this anymore.

1115
00:55:44.220 --> 00:55:47.020
Guys, we have to make sacrifices.

1116
00:55:47.020 --> 00:55:50.540
I know that we have all the sloppy agape out there.

1117
00:55:50.540 --> 00:55:52.820
But I'm just going to tell you, yes, grace and mercy

1118
00:55:52.820 --> 00:55:54.940
is for you every single day.

1119
00:55:54.940 --> 00:55:58.420
But in order to choose that merciful and grace-filled path,

1120
00:55:58.420 --> 00:56:01.100
it's a narrower path.

1121
00:56:01.100 --> 00:56:02.460
You're not going to do everything

1122
00:56:02.460 --> 00:56:03.780
that everybody else does.

1123
00:56:03.780 --> 00:56:04.900
And that's not legalism.

1124
00:56:04.900 --> 00:56:06.980
And that's not rules.

1125
00:56:06.980 --> 00:56:09.460
That's just wisdom.

1126
00:56:09.460 --> 00:56:11.060
All things are lawful for you now.

1127
00:56:11.060 --> 00:56:13.900
But not all things are edifying.

1128
00:56:13.900 --> 00:56:15.420
They're not.

1129
00:56:15.420 --> 00:56:16.740
Someone learn something today?

1130
00:56:16.740 --> 00:56:18.140
I certainly did.

1131
00:56:18.140 --> 00:56:20.900
Father, I'm so thankful for today and for everything

1132
00:56:20.900 --> 00:56:22.660
that you've said to us today.

1133
00:56:22.660 --> 00:56:25.220
And I believe that we can be people

1134
00:56:25.220 --> 00:56:28.060
that align ourselves with you.

1135
00:56:28.060 --> 00:56:30.660
And I hear Holy Spirit just nudging me and saying, hey,

1136
00:56:30.660 --> 00:56:37.260
tell him that when you do grab those thoughts captive

1137
00:56:37.260 --> 00:56:40.300
and you make them obedient to the knowledge of Christ

1138
00:56:40.300 --> 00:56:43.780
and that he died for you and that he is King Jesus

1139
00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:47.980
on the throne of your heart and that you are worthy

1140
00:56:47.980 --> 00:56:50.620
and that you are loved and you are accepted

1141
00:56:50.620 --> 00:56:53.660
and that life is for you and God is for you.

1142
00:56:53.660 --> 00:56:55.340
You have to make those thoughts come

1143
00:56:55.340 --> 00:56:56.980
into alignment with the truth.

1144
00:56:56.980 --> 00:56:59.380
And the way you're going to do that is by knowing Jesus.

1145
00:56:59.380 --> 00:57:01.860
And the way you're going to know Jesus is by knowing his word

1146
00:57:01.860 --> 00:57:06.100
because he is his word.

1147
00:57:06.100 --> 00:57:09.380
And so all of those years of me taking those thoughts captive,

1148
00:57:09.380 --> 00:57:12.540
I had to compare them because I didn't know if they

1149
00:57:12.540 --> 00:57:13.980
were good, bad, or ugly, right?

1150
00:57:13.980 --> 00:57:17.460
I had to take them and compare them to a constant.

1151
00:57:17.460 --> 00:57:18.940
And the constant is the word of God.

1152
00:57:22.620 --> 00:57:25.500
That is the litmus test of whether that thought

1153
00:57:25.500 --> 00:57:26.900
can stay or go.

1154
00:57:26.900 --> 00:57:29.220
Does it line up to my identity in Christ?

1155
00:57:29.220 --> 00:57:30.780
Does that thought line up to what

1156
00:57:30.780 --> 00:57:34.540
I have learned in the word because I have studied it

1157
00:57:34.540 --> 00:57:36.300
of who I am and whose I am?

1158
00:57:39.340 --> 00:57:40.780
So Father, we thank you that you're

1159
00:57:40.780 --> 00:57:43.460
going to give us the grace because you're not even

1160
00:57:43.460 --> 00:57:45.580
asking us to do what you're telling us this morning

1161
00:57:45.580 --> 00:57:46.660
on our own.

1162
00:57:46.700 --> 00:57:48.820
You're saying that you will empower us to do it.

1163
00:57:48.820 --> 00:57:51.860
You will help us do it if we will just surrender to you

1164
00:57:51.860 --> 00:57:55.340
daily and ask for your help and ask for your empowerment

1165
00:57:55.340 --> 00:57:57.700
and ask for your will and not our own

1166
00:57:57.700 --> 00:57:59.620
and ask for your strength and not our own.

1167
00:57:59.620 --> 00:58:02.140
And so Father, we thank you for these things.

1168
00:58:02.140 --> 00:58:03.820
We thank you that you're always for us.

1169
00:58:03.820 --> 00:58:05.660
You're always with us.

1170
00:58:05.660 --> 00:58:07.940
We thank you that you're charting a course before us.

1171
00:58:07.940 --> 00:58:10.460
We have a lot of plans, Lord, but when we let you,

1172
00:58:10.460 --> 00:58:15.380
you order our steps and order our steps in your word, Lord.

1173
00:58:15.380 --> 00:58:17.220
Let your word be a lamp to our feet

1174
00:58:17.220 --> 00:58:18.660
and a light to our path.

1175
00:58:18.660 --> 00:58:21.060
In Jesus' name, amen.

1176
00:58:21.060 --> 00:58:23.180
All right, you guys know I love you.

1177
00:58:23.180 --> 00:58:25.380
Tomorrow night, we're going to activate some more of this.

1178
00:58:25.380 --> 00:58:27.900
So if you feel like you need some more help in this area,

1179
00:58:27.900 --> 00:58:30.460
come to Sunday Night Activation, and we'll see you there.

1180
00:58:30.460 --> 00:58:32.020
Bye.