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Hey everyone! All right, so I have been talking all day about the fact that I

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would get on live and address some of the questions and feedback that

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y'all been giving. I've been... this is perfect. This is exactly what should... the

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way that I was hoping that it would go is that you would listen to the

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information, listen to the teachings and you bring up your questions and think

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well, you know, such-and-such is hitting me this way or I don't understand how

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that reconciles with whatever. I now don't understand this verse over here

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and it's like raising some big, big, you know, concern or issue in your mind.

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You know, we all have those a little bit, but, sorry, let me see if I can adjust this so you can actually see me a little bit better, but, you know, if

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there's just something that is just really weighing on you, that is... you

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feel is hindering you in making progress, you feel it is this roadblock, that's

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exactly what we should be talking about. So, please feel free to continue to, you

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know, comment or ask questions or whatever because that is what the

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intensive is for. If it was just teachings, then I would just record the

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teachings and not take my time, you know, to do things like this live and then I

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would go off and do my own thing and you all could watch the teachings on your own

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time, but rather what the Lord has put it on my heart to do and what I've done

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with my one-on-one clients and what I'm now wanting to do in the group program

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is to provide people with the opportunity to be able to walk this out

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without being alone in it, without being alone in the journey. Actually having

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somebody to ask the questions, being able to balance ideas or frustrations

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or apparent, like, seeming contradictions that you're experiencing, you know,

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off of because I, for the longest, didn't have anybody to walk this journey with

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and, of course, the Lord is sufficient and the Lord's enough, but it developed in me

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an understanding for and an acknowledgement and realization of a need

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that's out there to have someone to walk with you through this type of a

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transition because even having someone with you, it can feel a bit lonely in

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traversing it and there's just something about having

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someone to ask questions of. So, anyway, no question is off-limits, so please feel

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free to continue to give me feedback based on the teachings and, hey, look, ran

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into this today or I thought I understood it, but then I tried to apply it and it

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didn't seem like it worked, you know. Trust me, been there, done that. All of the

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questions that in the feedback that people are bringing up, same questions

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that I've asked myself, you know, all of these things like, you know, if I don't

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have to do anything, why is it that I have to believe? You know, if God's

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love is unconditional, why am I always being presented with another

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condition? Trust me, I've asked all of these questions. They're very normal and

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another thing I wanted to clarify from last night, from my video last

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night, is the fact that I did actually believe that God was as so-called, that

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He was as good as He said, hey Steph, that God is as good as He said that He is. I

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believed in Him, which is why I was willing to sacrifice everything. I was

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willing to sacrifice my life, was willing to sacrifice my livelihood to the point

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where I lived to be, you know, 30 some odd years old at the time and had an

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identity crisis because that was December of 2018. I had an identity

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crisis, a midlife crisis, because I thought, oh my word Lord, I believed You

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and I waited for You. I endured and I did whatever it is that I had to sacrifice

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because I knew You would come through for me and You didn't. So that, I got to

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that point believing Him, where believing Him to the point where I did it in works.

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I poured my, I sacrificed everything. I poured everything into of my life and my

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desires and my dreams into this bottomless pit expecting that at the end

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He would be there. Expecting at the end He would give me what it is that He

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promises that as a good father He would give me.

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I believe all of those things. So, even though, yes, I believe that he required

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all of those things of me, it's mixed in with the belief that I did

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believe that he would do what he said that he would do.

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Oh, sorry about that. I think I might have must have some messenger

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up. Let me see if I can cut that off so that it won't be... Here we go.

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So, I can turn that off so it won't be beeping at us.

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There we go. Okay. Otherwise, I might just have these dings periodically.

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Hey, Cheryl. Okay. So, getting back to what we're talking about. Okay. Now,

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why do I have to believe in order to get?

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Or, why is belief required to offer the Lord in exchange for a

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gift? It's not, actually.

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Belief is not a currency with the Lord. God does not require belief in

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exchange for him giving something. He gives it

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to us regardless. Hey, Gary.

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Regardless of whether or not we believe. Period. And that is

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confirmed repeatedly in both the Old and the New

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Testament, including Jesus. Jesus gave

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even though he was confronted by people who did not believe.

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So, belief is not required. So, if belief isn't required,

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what on earth is this whole belief thing about that we keep hearing? You know, when

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the disciples asked Jesus, what is it that we can do to please the Father? What

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is it that we can do to do the works of the Father?

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You know, how can we receive, you know, the gifts, etc.?

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Well, belief is not required in order for God to give us something,

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but it is required in order for us to receive

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something. And that's because we have free will.

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So, it's completely within our control. So,

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God, if we ask the Lord for it, he will send it.

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He will give it, but it will not manifest in our lives

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if we do not choose to receive it. That is the difference. That's what that

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whole belief thing is. Because if we believe God is as good as

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he says that he is, we will naturally receive what it is

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that he's sending. But he's already sent it.

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We asked. He's a good Father. He sent it, but we just didn't receive it.

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Let's see if you can see this. You can probably see all kinds of, like,

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other chicken scraps on it.

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So, you see what we were talking about the other day, where, you know, this is

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your container. Now, this, I have it filled with, like, the

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good things. But you remember that this is the

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container. This is who you are. And God will effortlessly send you

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things to effortlessly receive, but we can't

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receive them if we have that container filled with

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something else. If we don't believe that God is as good

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as he says that he is, we're not a container prepared and

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ready to be able to house and hold and receive

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the thing that has already been sent. That's the issue. So, that's what the

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whole believing thing is. And the whole, and the believing thing

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is simply believing that God is as good as he says

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that he is, period. So, let's walk through this because

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right now it can probably hit you in the same way that hit me for so long,

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which is that I just continue to see it as more self-condemnation.

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This is my fault. You know, apparently, see, I just knew it. God is doing

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everything, and he's wonderful, and he's good, and I'm the problem.

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And no matter what I do, there's always something else I need to learn.

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I apparently have been believing, but believing in the wrong way.

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And now I've got to work harder and believe differently.

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That's not what I'm saying, so let me, let me go through the rest of it. But I

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did want to clarify the difference that God

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is not limited by our, whether or not we believe. He even

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gives good gifts to those who don't believe him.

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And he gives, even those who don't believe that he's God.

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Then he also gives gifts to people who do believe that he's God,

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but don't believe that he's that good. He still gives people those gifts, and they

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receive them, but those are typically people that are

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very, very young in their faith. And just like we treat a two-year-old

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differently than we treat a 15-year-old, you know,

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as a, you know, child of ours. We treat the two-year-old very

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differently than we treat the 15-year-old.

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God does the same thing with us. So sometimes,

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you know, if we're, when we're really, really young in the faith, like say for

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instance, when we were all in college, I had, I had roommates that would just be,

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that would just be randomly sent gifts of money in the mail.

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People weren't randomly sending gifts, money to me in the mail, but they were to them, right?

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And sometimes God wasn't, they weren't even praying for it, or they didn't believe, or maybe

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they were praying for it, but really they didn't believe that God was going to come through for

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them. Well, God's a good father and he wants to kind of nudge us in the right direction. So when

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we're young in the faith, when we're young in our spiritual walk, especially in a certain area,

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then God is gonna, God's gonna do those kinds of things. He's gonna, you know, not even require

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us to come through and believe him in order to kind of hit us over the head or something,

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but as we mature, but what God desires us to, desires to do with us is to mature us in our

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faith so that we understand that, hey, if you harness faith, really weird used, or harness

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belief, really weird phrase to use, then we are able to step into greater and greater measures

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of the gifts that he is sending our way because we are now, we've now been matured to the point

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where we can handle that weight because it, because there's a responsibility that obviously

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comes with the gifts, not a responsibility of duty. We always tend to think of responsibility

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as like this very heavy, oppressive thing. Trust me, in the Lord, it is not heavy. Remember what

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Jesus said, he said, come to me for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Responsibility from

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the Lord is not heavy. We, we unfortunately see a lot of those, those phrases in, in that old paradigm

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if we're not careful. So, so let's see here. Okay. All right. Remember again that love is

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unconditional. So God's, God shows up and reveals himself according to who we declare him to be.

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So if we declare him to be this good, he appears in our life as that good. If we declare him to be

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this good, he will limit himself and only appear to us to be that good. And by limiting himself,

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it's not really him limiting himself so much. It is, but that's, that's a little, that's a little

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complicated to get into. Trust me, it's not anything oppressive. And the Lord walks me into

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that as well. In fact, the Lord continues to, I continue to want to see something newer and bigger

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of how big the Lord is. And he keeps telling me, Ashley, I'm here, but you cannot see me. He said,

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I am here that big, as big as you want to see me, but you can't see me because your eyes, you,

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you still have accusation against me. You refuse to believe and truly accept the fact that I'm that

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big. So I can't show you I'm that big yet because you don't have a grid to consume it.

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I'm presenting myself, but you can't see me. And so he's, he's walking me into maturity and all of

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that. Um, but I just, I just wanted to provide that caveat, but he does reveal himself to us

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according to what we declare his character to be. So we can declare that he's as big as we want him

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to be, and he will show up like that. We cannot out declare how big, how good God's character is.

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Trust me, the creation cannot out declare the creator. We cannot think bigger than he is.

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We can't declare him to be something in our imagination that is bigger than the imagination

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of the, of the one who created us. So you honestly, you cannot out declare God. I promise you that.

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So you don't have to worry about any of that. Um, uh, so yes, so we limit him. We limit the,

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what we experience about God based on us. So with, with, even with declarations,

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it'll come out in declarations that will make such as, you know, God, I have been doing what you asked

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or I don't, I don't deserve, Amy mentioned this in her, in, in her post, which I thought was

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wonderful because I'm so very grateful for y'all's honesty and transparency in these,

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because the more honest and transparent that you are about your journey, the faster that you will

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progress, the faster that you will move. And all of these things, I promise you, you cannot say

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something that the rest of us haven't experienced or haven't thought. Trust me, we've all thought

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them. We just all think that we haven't, that we're the only ones that have thought that.

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And so we want to keep it to ourselves out of like, I don't know, again, that self-condemnation

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or shame, trust me, you can't tell me something that I haven't thought myself. So, so the more

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honest that you can be, even if you don't want to be in the group, be more honest and transparent

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that you are with your own thoughts and your own feelings, the faster that you will progress and

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the faster that you will grow in the Lord. I promise you. Um, one of the dangers that people,

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people have, especially in certain denominations is when I was just talking to a client about this

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and this afternoon, which is why my, my live was delayed really late tonight as I had a client

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call. Um, and I was talking to them about this.

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well I was saying whatever we do we cannot deny reality. If we are hurt or if

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we think something or if we're worried about something or if we are if we think

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that God might be evil. I've had that thought. The Lord had to work

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with me on that and which I know sounds terrible for me to just kind of like

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drop that bomb on you and so I might have to tell you that story because that

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was very that was a very very interesting story. The Lord told me when

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I was in that moment he said Ashley you have literally hit the lowest point that

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a human can hit. Some people hit this point by having lost a spouse

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other people lose it by having lost a child. He said you didn't do either one

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of them and yet you still hit that pit. He said literally this is the lowest

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that a human being can ever ever go. He also promised me when I was down there

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he said I promise you you'll never be here again. So and he's right ever since

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then as awful of things as I walked through I always remember it was never

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that you know it has not yet ever been as bad as that moment. Anyway it was the

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Lord walked me through that but we just remember that it's very important for us

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to not deny reality. That if we really are hurt if we really are thinking

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something about the Lord that we're honest about it. He knows that we have

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accusations against him and believe things about him in our hearts that

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we're not even conscious of because remember 95% of what it is that we act

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on is in our subconscious and hasn't even come into our consciousness. So God

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knows all of this 95% that drives us drives our decisions drives our thoughts

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whatever that we can't even we're not even aware of let alone even have the

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courage to face. God already knows we're there so trust me you can't say

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anything to shock him. You do remember all the people in the in the Bible right

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of the people that were murdered someone. David after all the goodness that he'd

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seen in the Lord and he seeing the Lord save him from life and death situations

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he goes and he grabs one of his best friends wives you know so so trust me

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you know that it's very important that we face those things in us because as

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soon as we as as we acknowledge those and bring this to the surface the Lord

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can then deal with those faster and not in a bad way understand God is always

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very loving but he'll walk us through it but he can't walk us through it if it's

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hidden so allow it to come up a lot to come up when it that when and because

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he'll he'll allow us to go through through situations that would trigger

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those things to come up don't squelch them let them come up acknowledge them

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God already knows they're there anyway don't be afraid of them there's nothing

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to be afraid of they're there whether or not you knew that they were there and

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whether or not you're conscious about it so just just present him before the Lord

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and you will watch them disintegrate in the look of his love for you as he loves

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you all of those things the fact that you thought he was evil the fact that

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you thought he was this the fact that you're hurt the fact that you think no

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matter how hard I work I'm just still not good enough you will walk and I know

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I shouldn't believe that with that all of those things will disintegrate in his

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love so don't ever be afraid of that so that's very important so very long

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rabbit trail to say I'm very glad when y'all are and very y'all are willing to

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be very transparent and open in walking this path and process because it doesn't

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matter whether or not you tell other people it doesn't matter whether or not

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you post it or tell me or tell each other that didn't matter at all it's

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totally up to you what matters is that the fact that you actually put it down

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tells me they're really they're really being honest with themselves they had to

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actually think the thought and be willing to face it in order to actually

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write it down so they brought it into their consciousness so whether or not

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you show the rest of us the important thing is that you had brought it up out

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of your consciousness to take care of it to be thinking about it so all of these

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things understand you know I don't deserve him to be that good which is

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something that I'm Amy brought up that she said that she was something that she

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was battling I have I battle that one as well it's probably been one of the

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biggest battles if not the biggest battle of my life or God I have been

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doing what you asked all of those things we might be surprised to know are

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actually accusations of his character against his character we think that we

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are being self-condemning we believe that we are that that is us being humble

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but really all of those things are accusing God's character because God is

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saying I am this good and we're somehow saying that something about us affects

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the goodness of God that it somehow changes it that he would change his

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nature and how he would interact with us based on us that is an accusation about

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the goodness of God it's not declaring something about us

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limited or that there would be some kind of a condition placed on it by the fact

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that I am this. And that is why everything that we say is actually or

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believe is actually always an accusation against the character of God. Even if we

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think that it's saying something, we're saying something about us. Well Lord, you

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know, I have been doing what you asked. I don't deserve you Lord to be that

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good. Therefore I've got a problem with how I view myself. No, you have a problem

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with how you view God. That how you view yourself has form. Sorry, I'm trying to

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figure out what it's doing. Huh, I've never seen it do that before.

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That is so weird. Sorry, where it shows that the live popped up, it

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then said that it was recording. I don't know. And it said it in like

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this gold orange color and it replaced the live with, hey it's

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recording. So I don't know if like my live stream broke up there for a

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minute and it was still recording in the background. I don't know what was going

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on there. Okay, so here's another interesting thing. Remember that the

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reason I want to say this is my point in tonight is to relieve us of all of the

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chains that in conditions that we believe that we are under and that we

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believe is hindering God's character. Oh Cheryl, what does it say? It does that to

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me when my connection is iffy. Okay, good to know. Thank you. I appreciate it. I

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hope that it didn't affect my streaming and that y'all were able to still hear

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everything. So apparently it was still recording it in the background kind of

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like offline and then it's just gonna like piece it all together. So I

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appreciate you letting me know. I've never seen it before. Okay, so the reason that I'm about to say

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that what I am is I want again I want to break off these chains that we have

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that the Lord and his love and his goodness and giving us gifts has any

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condition whatsoever. Because what I'm about to say is a big one that we use as

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a condition and we don't realize we're using it as a condition. We think we're

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quoting it. We think that we're quoting the Bible and we think that it's very

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holy and it's actually incorrect. So what we say sometimes is that God gives

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good gifts to us and God is kind to us and God looks on us lovingly because of

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Jesus. In other words, that he doesn't see us. He sees Jesus and because he looks at

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us and he sees Jesus he's like okay well I don't see the worm that's underneath

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you. I don't see the worm Jesus that you're protecting but I see you and

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because it's you I'll give it to you. But if I'd seen the worm without you

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protecting it then I wouldn't I wouldn't give it and that's actually incorrect

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because that is believing that we're not restored back in right standing with the

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Lord and we have been fully restored into right standing with the Lord. Yes we

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are in Christ and yes it is because of Jesus's work on the cross that we will

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be that we were have now been fully restored. So in that aspect it's because

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of Jesus because of his work but what we have to be careful of is that we don't

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say that well because Jesus God is looking at us and Jesus is the one

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asking that it's only because it's Jesus that he's like okay well I'll give it to

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you. No no no no he'd give it to Jesus he'd give it to me he'd give it to you

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we're in full right under restoration with the Lord. I want to repeat yes it is

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because of Jesus's finished work on the cross that we were able to be restored

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but God looks at us fully knowing that we're in Christ and when he looks at

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Christ he sees Christ and he sees us. He's not giving us a gift because he

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sees Christ and doesn't see us. He is seeing both of us at the same time

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because we're one. Remember that's very very very important and the reason I

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wanted to bring that up is because otherwise we still use it as a condition

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it's just a holier declaration of the condition.

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He wouldn't give it to me, or maybe we wouldn't even say that,

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but it's the fact that he can see Jesus that he'll give it to me

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because Jesus asked him for it and therefore God would give it to Jesus

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because he loves Jesus. Here's the important thing. Here's why God

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gives gifts. God doesn't give gifts because he's looking at the one

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he loves and decides whether or not the person deserves it, even if it's Jesus.

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That is not why God gives gifts. God gives gifts because it's in God's

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nature to love, period. God reigns on the good and the evil.

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God's the one who said that. He said, I reign on the good and the evil. I give

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gifts to everyone because it's in the nature of the giver. Remember that

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gifts have everything to do with the giver and nothing whatsoever to

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do with the object of the giver's love. Yes, the giver loves the

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object of his love, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with the nature of the

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person that the giver loves. It has everything whatsoever to do with the

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nature of the giver, period. So that's why I say that it doesn't matter whether or

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not we're saying, well, he's looking at me and he sees me and

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therefore he would give it to me because he realizes that he's

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forgiven my sin or that he doesn't see me and he only sees Jesus and therefore

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he would forgive my sin. The only reason I want to bring that up is

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strictly that we don't realize that we're using it as a condition. We think

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that we're repeating the Bible and that's not what the Bible is saying.

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It makes God so much more personal. Yes, I know. I know. He's really wonderful.

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So the prodigal son got the party but not the older brother. So the

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prodigal son, yes, it's because it's the nature. So remember, why did the

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older son not get the party? Because the father said, you could have always had a

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party. I gave you everything. You chose to not receive it. That's why. The father

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gave both sons everything. The the prodigal actually received it. In a way,

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he received it but he ran off with it. The older son didn't receive it. The

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older son lived in the middle of the gifts, interacting with the gifts,

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governing the gifts, and wouldn't receive it as his own. So that's why. The

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father always gives gifts to both. He's already given the gifts. They don't even

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have to ask for it, which is one of the reasons why the

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fact that the prodigal son asked the father for his inheritance early,

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why it hurt the father. I was like, why? Why do you need to take it and go

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off somewhere? You can just live here like the older brother and have it all

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the time. Why do you need to take it early? I haven't died yet. Why do you need

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to take it, run off somewhere, and use it? You can stay here and it won't run out.

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You can just govern it and have it. But the older brother who stayed and

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didn't run off with it, he still even chose not to receive it. So you see how

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it's all about him. It's all about the receiving. It has nothing to do with the

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father. The father never changed in the entire story. The father never changed. The

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only difference was how the sons interacted with them and how good they

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declared their father to be. The prodigal son didn't

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believe that his father was good enough to give it to him, but he

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didn't believe that his father was good enough to bless him and provide him

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a better life with him staying there and him receiving the gifts. He thought he

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had to run off somewhere and use them because he wouldn't be allowed to use

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them in a particular way under his father's jurisdiction. He went off to

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provide for and to protect himself. The older brother thought, no, you know, this

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is the right place to be, but I don't deserve him to be

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that good. So he chose to not receive it, even though he stayed and chose to

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govern everything the Lord gave him. So it's not necessarily directly what we

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believe, but what we're willing to and open to receive. Yes, okay, so the whole

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believing thing, the believing thing is believing that God's as good as he says

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that he is. That is what makes us open to receive. That's what belief is.

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Belief is strictly like, if God says that he's that, okay, then he's that. It's not

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trying, and this is what we're going to get into later, it's not trying to believe.

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that he's that good. That's a problem and so again we're going to talk about that

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later. That's that old mindset that we're trying to bring into the new mindset.

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Okay, all I have to do is believe. I don't have to do all this other stuff but

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what we bring into with it that what we bring of the old mindset into this is

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the fact that we think we have to try to believe. That belief does not come

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naturally and that is false. Believing is believing in your father is your nature.

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new man rose again. We are now that new man. That new man has never sinned ever.

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never been sinners. The part of us that had been the sinner, he died. We have

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literally never been a sinner. So I beg of you to save yourselves and don't

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ever call yourself a sinner saved by grace again ever because that person

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died. Stop trying to resurrect him. So you're the new man. The new man

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has never sinned. So yes it's and the new man doesn't have to try. The new

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man is born of God. It is the new man is of the very nature and essence of God. He

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doesn't have to try to believe his father. That is in his nature to believe

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his father. What we have done is we keep thinking that it's not our nature and we

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keep thinking our nature is that old man that we were in the habit of

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living in and therefore we keep acting like that. We keep thinking that's our

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old nature and Paul keeps saying why on earth you keep acting like the old man

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who said that's not you. It's in your nature to believe your father. The old

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man it wasn't in your nature but you still think you're the old man so you

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keep trying to believe. He's like stop trying to believe. You don't have to try

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anymore. It is who you are. It is in your DNA. Just FYI, total side note. Good thing

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I have notes here because otherwise I might have a hard time getting back from

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this rabbit trail. I was thinking about that the article where I read

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this. This is really fascinating and I think it was it was a Jew. It was a

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Jewish scientist who discovered this. I think it wasn't that long ago

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either. He discovered that our DNA actually spells Yahweh. Did you know that?

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That our DNA, it spells in Hebrew, it spells Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh which is Yahweh.

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It's a long explanation. I'll see if I can find the article but I thought

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that was really cool. That our actual DNA, we were meant to

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house God. We were meant to make the invisible God visible. If we live on

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earth and that's what God is trying to do. He's like I want you to stop being

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like the old man so that you can be the very essence of the nature in which the

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new man exists and then you will effortlessly put on display what Jesus

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did which is to make the invisible father actually visible. Philip asked

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Jesus how can we can you show us the father and Jesus said if you've seen me

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you've seen the father. That was an example of how we're supposed to live.

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When people look at us, when you look at me, you're supposed to be able to see the

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father and how I act and what I say etc. Now you can't fully see that yet

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because I haven't released enough of the old man to look fully like the new man

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that I really am and it's the same thing with all of you. It's our

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very nature. So now back from that rabbit trail.

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before that so I'll show you in Scripture this it says remember that we

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don't need you don't need to be even be in Jesus for God to bless you. You don't

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even need to be a Christian for God to bless you. In fact that was it's one of

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the things that we're all very frustrated with right? That Lord you know

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why did the wicked prosper? Was that in Ecclesiastes? It was either in Proverbs

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or Ecclesiastes or maybe it was Lamentations. You know one of those

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written written by Solomon where he says you know why do the wicked prosper? It's

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frustrating right? Because God reigns on the just and the unjust. We do not have

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to be believers. We do not have to be following the Lord. We do not have to be

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honoring and obeying him in order for him to believe it in order for him to

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bless us.

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God Himself declared that He reigns on the just and the unjust. Jesus healed

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Gentiles and Jews. And by Gentiles, some of these were Gentiles that didn't seem

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to even believe that He was God. Very interesting, which we'll talk about in a

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second. But yeah, non-Christians are getting the same blessings that you've

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asked God for. Okay, is that frustrating for anybody or has it just been

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frustrating for me? Things that you just cry out to the Lord for and you watch

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all the non-believers get them. So what the Lord showed me this passage, really

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really fascinating, in the Old Testament. So because God talks about in the

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Old Testament and in the New Testament. So here's in the Old Testament. It is a

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long, a bit of a long passage, but please hang with me because it's really, really,

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really good. This is in Deuteronomy. Don't go to sleep. It's in Deuteronomy 2.

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Okay, so remember that in Deuteronomy, this is the context, was

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going to go into the Promised Land. And they decided that even though God had

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promised them the Promised Land, then they were afraid. They went in and

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they saw the Antiquites. They were giants. They saw there were grasshoppers in their

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sight, you know, and they were afraid. Even though God's just like, hey look, I

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promised this to you and therefore you can claim it. Let's see. I feel

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selfish and guilty. Yes. Yeah, sometimes they're frustrating. I know. Yeah, so that

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whole selfish and guilty thing. Yes, no more

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condemnation. There is therefore now no more condemnation. So yes, we do. I

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fully admit, I have felt it's very important to admit reality, right? Do not

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deny reality. This is how we feel. It is frustrating. But see, if we present it

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before the Lord and we present it before His love, He shows us and

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reveals to us how it's not true without us having to convince ourselves, well, I

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shouldn't believe like this. And trying to find in Scripture some way to prove

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to ourselves that that's not possibly right. All we have to do is admit, Lord,

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this is how I feel. And I'm asking that you transform me with your light and

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your love and your knowledge so that I won't feel like this anymore. So that is

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how we transition between these thoughts, which we need to fully acknowledge are

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there, and then how the Lord will just come in and completely change it.

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Remember, we don't have to try to stop thinking a particular way. All we have to

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do is just let go of it. Not fight it, battle it, and be like, oh, I shouldn't, I

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shouldn't. I need to convince myself otherwise. Just let go of it.

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When you let go of it, it'll naturally float away because its natural state is

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to not exist in you and your natural nature is not to hold things like that.

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So it will float away of its own accord and you won't have to fight it out,

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to remove it. And then what you are naturally supposed to be filled

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with, the truth that those beliefs are supposed to be

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replaced with, will naturally come in and fill us and we'll naturally believe like

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we're supposed to. We don't have to work for it. We don't have to convince

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ourselves. We don't have to go find all of the logic and scripture and all of

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that. God might show us in scripture where all those things are, but we don't

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have to fight it out. This isn't a battle that we have to convince ourselves of.

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Okay, so in Dunhuang, like I said, so they rejected it. They left. God

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said, okay, you didn't believe, so you've got to go. You're gonna wander around in

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the wilderness. And there's more to that story, which is very fascinating, about

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how, why the Lord led them into the wilderness after they didn't believe.

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They didn't believe that they could claim the land. So they're wandering

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around. And so the next generation comes up and that's what Deuteronomy, that's

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where Deuteronomy picks up. Deuteronomy picks up when the new

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generation, you know, the younger generation, everybody who was younger

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than 20 years old, is still alive. And now they've come to the edge of the

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promised land. Now they've come to the, I don't remember where they are at this

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point. I don't remember if they're at Jordan, the command to leave Horeb. I don't remember now.

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Anyway, but they're just right there, you know, about to enter Canaan. And so

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Moses is talking to this new generation and he's recounting, hey, by

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the way, when y'all were really young, this is what happened the last time that

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your parents were here. Your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents,

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because all of those generations were here. And this is what they

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experienced. This is what they rejected. And now you have the same opportunity

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that they did. What are you going to do? So this is really, really, really

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fascinating. Okay, so in Deuteronomy 2, where am I going to start? I'm just going to start

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1st one. So we're gonna go 1 through 23. So this is Moses talking. He says,

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when we turned back and set... This is Moses talking to the Israelites. He's

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not talking to the reader. He's talking to the Israelites. He's up there, you know,

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he's making a big speech. So he's telling the generation,

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when we turned back... He's recounting the story of their forefathers. When we

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turned back and set out... Oh no, I'm sorry. He's recounting that generation,

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what that generation had just been going through the past... I think it's been the

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past two years, if I recall correctly. The last two years that they had been going

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through. It says, then we turned back and set out towards the desert along the

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route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our

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way around the hill country of Seir. Then the Lord said to me, you have made

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your way around this hill country long enough. Now turn north and give the

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people these orders. So give this younger generation these orders. You are about to

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pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who

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live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. Do not provoke them

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to war, for I will not give you any of their land. So the whole point of this is

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we're talking about how Esau and their descendants, and then later on

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Moab and his descendants, and Ammon and his descendants. So three. Esau's

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descendants, because remember Esau was a counterpart to Jacob, and then

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Ammon and Moab. Ammon and Moab were brothers. Ammon and Moab were the sons of

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Lot. Remember when Lot lost his wife, when she became a pillar of salt, when

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they fled Sodom and Gomorrah? And he went up into the mountains with his two

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daughters, and his two daughters bore sons out of incest with their father

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Lot. That was Moab and Ammon. So we have

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counterparts to Abraham, because the counterpart to Abraham is Lot, and so Lot's

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two descendants are Moab and Ammon. And then we have the counterpart to Jacob,

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which is Esau. We're totally missing a generation in there, you know, Abraham,

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Isaac, and Jacob. I'm getting a little bit of detail. We're missing

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the counterpart to Isaac, which is Ishmael, because we all know what Ishmael is often

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doing. The Lord blessed Ishmael, you know, on behalf of Abraham, and he said, okay,

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well, he can't take any part in the covenant, but I will bless him and I'll

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make him many people. So he's out in the Arab desert somewhere, you know, building

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all of his warrior descendants. So anyway, that's why he's not mentioned, but

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the other two generations are the counterpart to Abraham, the two sons

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there, and then the counterpart to Jacob, Esau. So that's important, because

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remember that none of these people are heirs of the promise. None of these

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people were chosen as God's chosen nation, but watch what God did to them.

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So again, picking up, for I will not give you any of the Edomites, the

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descendants of Esau. I won't give you any of their land, not even enough to put

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your foot on. So he's talking to the Israelites, who are his beloved, and he

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says, I will give you all the land of Canaan. I'm doing this for you, and I'm

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doing this for you, and I'm doing this for you. However, I will not allow you to

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trespass on the land that the Edomites have. Well, he's already proven that

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the Israelites are more beloved, but he's refusing to even allow them to step on

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the Edomite land. He said, I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his

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own, and you are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you

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drink. Sorry, I'm trying to get some of this so we can go through it faster. So

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verse 8, so we went on past our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in

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Seir. We turned from the Arab road, which okay, verse 9, then the Lord said to me,

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do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any

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of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession. Okay,

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so here's what's really fascinating. Here's where Moses, it's not driving a

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knife in, but remember, the Israelites were promised Canaan, and they were like, no,

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they're too scary. You know, there's the giants. So Moses is now saying, okay, you

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didn't believe God. What about these other people who were not God's chosen

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that God

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never gives us any indication in here

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that they believed God, that they followed God,

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that God promised them the land,

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and yet watch them all claim it

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and fight the exact same giants

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that the Israelites refused to fight.

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That's the whole point of this.

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So it said in verse 10, the Emites used to live there,

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a people strong and numerous,

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as tall as the Anakites.

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So a people as strong and numerous and tall

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as the people that the Israelites were afraid of

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are the very people that the Moabites conquered

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and took their land,

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because the Moabites believed that they could do it,

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and so they did.

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The Edomites believed that they could do it, and they did.

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The Israelites believed they couldn't do it

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even though God told them so, and they didn't.

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So Moses, it reminds you of Moses driving in a knife,

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but he's not, he's not driving a knife.

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He's not bringing in shame.

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He's not bringing in condemnations.

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He's saying, hey, look, these other people believed.

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So let's see, like the Anakites,

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they too were considered Raphaites,

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but the Moabites called them Emites.

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So in other words, he's saying, hey, look,

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the people that you were afraid of in Canaan,

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the exact same people are the ones

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that the Moabites conquered.

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The Horites used to live in Seir,

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but the descendants of Esau drove them out.

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So both Moabites and Esau drove out these people

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that were as big as the Anakites.

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They destroyed the Horites from before them,

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settled in their place, just as Israel did,

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in the land God gave them as their possession.

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Let's get down to 16.

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Now when the last of the, no, no, no.

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Okay, yeah, now when the last of these fighting men

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of the old generation of the Israelites,

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among the people had died, the Lord said to me,

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today you are to pass by the region of Moabitar.

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When you come to the Ammonites,

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here's the third group now,

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the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war,

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for I will not give you possession of any land

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where it belonged to the Ammonites.

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I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.

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That too was considered a land of the Raphaites,

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those big giants who used to live there,

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but the Ammonites called them Zamzamites.

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They were a people strong and numerous

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and as tall as the Anakites.

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The Lord destroyed them from before the Anamites

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and drove them out and settled in their place.

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The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau,

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who lived in Seir,

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when he destroyed the Horites from before them.

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Okay, so basically what God was saying here

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was he's saying, hey, look,

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these are three groups of people,

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three nations that believed that they could conquer

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the same giants that the Israelites were afraid to,

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even though the Israelites were the ones

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that God promised to them that he'd given them that land.

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They couldn't even believe God's promise

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when God himself said that he would go before them,

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while other nations who were not chosen by God,

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so like non-believers,

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they went out and conquered the same giants

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and God gave them the land and wouldn't allow,

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as a blessing, and would not allow,

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because of their faith,

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and wouldn't allow his firstborn, his treasured sons,

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to set foot on their land.

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That is, so we do not,

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so even non-believers can receive God's tremendous blessing

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and it's considered sacred to the Lord.

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It's like, you know, sons of God,

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you're not allowed to touch this,

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not allowed to touch this.

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So that was huge when I read that,

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absolutely huge when the Lord showed me that.

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I was really shocked.

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I was like, oh my goodness, see?

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If non-believers can conquer it, why can't I?

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All right, so then the centurion,

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so in the New Testament,

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so do you remember the centurion came to Jesus

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and he said, hey look, my armor bearer is sick

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and I know that all you have to do

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is just say the word and he'll be healed.

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You don't even have to come.

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See, the Israelites were always coming to Jesus

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and saying, hey look, we've got somebody who's sick,

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can you come heal them?

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We want a gift from you, can you come and come do it?

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The centurion said, no,

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all you have to do is speak the word

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and Jesus turned to the Israelites and he said,

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I haven't seen faith like this in all of Israel.

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The centurion, remember, he's Roman.

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He's not under the Hebrew law.

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So.

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Without the law, you don't have condemnation. You don't have any reason

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why God wouldn't do that for you. But Christians, along with the

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Jews, have all kinds of laws and rules and traditions and reasons why we think

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that God wouldn't do something for us. So we're creating all of this limitation

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because we're using ourselves as the standard and as a reason

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and a condition upon that would limit God's goodness. That's the problem. It's

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the fact that we believe that it limits God's goodness. It's not that it limits

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His goodness. It's the fact that we believe that it limits God's goodness.

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That is how powerful our belief is. Going back to the

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importance of belief, that's how powerful our belief is. If we're one with Christ,

640
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we have tremendous power, position, and authority, including to

641
00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:07.880
declare what will and will not be manifested as the character of God onto

642
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:11.720
the earth because we've limited Him because we don't believe that it's true.

643
00:51:11.720 --> 00:51:17.040
So therefore, we refuse to receive it. It says in the Bible that

644
00:51:17.040 --> 00:51:21.560
the heavens are the Lord and that He gave earth to the sons of man. So if God

645
00:51:21.560 --> 00:51:26.640
wants to send something down but we refuse to receive it, to receive it on

646
00:51:26.640 --> 00:51:30.720
behalf of the earth, if we refuse to receive it and then pass it on to the

647
00:51:30.720 --> 00:51:36.320
earth, the earth can't have it because we're the gatekeepers. That's the problem.

648
00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:41.200
We were sent to have dominion. We were sent to be a bridge between heaven and

649
00:51:41.200 --> 00:51:48.040
earth because spirit is in heaven and body is on earth. We bridge the

650
00:51:48.040 --> 00:51:53.360
two and we're meant to bring heaven into earth. That's the power of our

651
00:51:53.360 --> 00:52:02.480
belief. It's not an exchange program. God isn't limited by it. We are. We're

652
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:07.400
limited by our own belief. So anyway, the centurion had no law. He didn't

653
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:12.680
understand why God wouldn't do it for him because he was strictly relying on

654
00:52:12.680 --> 00:52:16.720
God's character. He's saying, Jesus, you're that good. You would do that. You have

655
00:52:16.720 --> 00:52:19.680
this kind of authority and I know that because I had that kind of authority for

656
00:52:19.680 --> 00:52:23.680
my people. All I have to do is say this and they're gonna do it. So I know that

657
00:52:23.680 --> 00:52:28.400
that's all that's required and for you to do it. He was calling on Jesus's

658
00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:33.960
character and Jesus said, you believe that that's who I am? Very well done. That

659
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.440
is who I am. Now these people out here, they don't believe that that's who I am

660
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.120
but you believe that that's who I am so therefore that's how I will come through

661
00:52:40.120 --> 00:52:45.560
for you. All those other people, you know, Jesus would go with them to the place

662
00:52:45.560 --> 00:52:50.480
and whatever. This Roman came up, the Roman pig that they would call them.

663
00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:59.400
The pig came up and Jesus is like, sure, according to your faith so be it.

664
00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:03.640
Now that's not where Jesus, I don't think that that's where Jesus quoted that.

665
00:53:03.640 --> 00:53:08.120
He quoted that for someone else but it's the same principle. It's the exact

666
00:53:08.120 --> 00:53:11.720
same principle. According to your faith so be it. That's who you declare that I am

667
00:53:11.720 --> 00:53:16.760
and that's who I will be for you because God's always the same. He's the same

668
00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:20.440
yesterday and today and forever. The difference is what it is that we choose

669
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:23.760
to receive and the centurion said this is what I'm willing to receive and God

670
00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:29.520
said, great, you can receive so much more of me, so much more of my character that

671
00:53:29.520 --> 00:53:33.480
I am expressing than these people can receive. They can only receive the

672
00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:42.160
part of it that they're willing to. So just remember that what we're doing is

673
00:53:42.160 --> 00:53:51.040
we are relying on who God is without any regard to who you are. That's the key.

674
00:53:51.040 --> 00:53:58.000
That's what it is that we need to do. Rely only on who God is and take

675
00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:05.240
yourself out of the equation. Period. That's what we have to do. No more

676
00:54:05.240 --> 00:54:10.280
trying. No more believing. Well, I know that sounds a little

677
00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:13.960
confusing so let me know if you need me to explain that a little bit more. I can

678
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:19.600
go into more detail. I'll get to that in just a second. So we

679
00:54:19.600 --> 00:54:24.600
struggle with self-condemnation even when hearing freedom. So if someone says

680
00:54:24.600 --> 00:54:27.280
something and they're talking in tremendous freedom and they're like, oh my

681
00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:30.960
goodness, there could be this and you know life can be like this and God is

682
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:41.680
like this or whatever, but we only hear according to what we own. What

683
00:54:41.680 --> 00:54:50.020
we hear is based off what filter that we send the information through. So if we

684
00:54:50.020 --> 00:54:56.660
send them information through a filter that just believes that we are, that

685
00:54:56.660 --> 00:55:02.100
through a self-condemning filter, then

686
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.000
then that's all that we heard and then that's what we can hear in a message from a pastor or

687
00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:10.080
that's what we can hear in the Bible because it's the filter through which we're seeing it.

688
00:55:10.080 --> 00:55:16.400
What is it that I need to do? Whatever we look for, we're going to find. That's something even

689
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:23.040
non-believers believe. It's a universal principle. Whatever you look for, you will find. So that is

690
00:55:23.040 --> 00:55:26.960
the filter through which you look is what is it that I need to do? You'll always find something

691
00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:35.920
that you need to do but if you look at life in the Lord through the filter that there's nothing

692
00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:40.480
else I need to do, then you will discover and see how beautiful and big that God is.

693
00:55:41.360 --> 00:55:45.920
You will find whatever it is you're looking for and God will present himself to you

694
00:55:46.720 --> 00:55:52.160
according to however you declare that he is. However big, however small, however good,

695
00:55:52.160 --> 00:56:03.040
however, I don't want to say evil, but restrictive, strict, wrathful that you declare that he is.

696
00:56:03.840 --> 00:56:08.560
He will show up like that because that's what you're looking for. So it's not that God will

697
00:56:08.560 --> 00:56:15.840
present himself like that, it's that that's the only way you can see him. So say for instance

698
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:20.400
that God is shining all of these colors but you have a red filter through which you're looking,

699
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:24.160
all that you're going to see is red. You're not going to see all the other colors of the

700
00:56:24.160 --> 00:56:27.920
rainbow that he is, you're only going to see through the filter that you're looking through.

701
00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:32.160
So that's where we get these questions of things like, so there's something else I have to do now

702
00:56:32.720 --> 00:56:38.080
or so this whole time it's been me. I mean I could have had all of these gifts but this whole

703
00:56:38.080 --> 00:56:42.880
time it's been me. We receive, if we're not careful, we're receiving messages like this

704
00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:48.240
is self-condemning. We're looking back, we're trying to reconcile, we're trying to balance

705
00:56:48.240 --> 00:56:53.520
the scales, we're trying to end and that is the opposite of what we need to do. Trust me,

706
00:56:53.520 --> 00:56:57.920
I'm the queen of doing that. I promise, I promise you I could outperform all of you, probably

707
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:07.200
combined. It was terrible. I haven't even begun to tell you how bad, how difficult that my life

708
00:57:07.200 --> 00:57:13.280
has been. I tried to give you a picture but trust me that was one little snapshot yet last night

709
00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:17.040
or was it last night or the night before, whenever that was. It was just one snapshot.

710
00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:24.960
It was very, very, very impressive. So I would also think things like, okay so now

711
00:57:26.080 --> 00:57:32.800
I need to remove my limiting beliefs. So that's good. So I've got limiting beliefs and all I have

712
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:37.600
to do is remove them but oh my word now I have to do it. You know there's something, see I knew it,

713
00:57:37.600 --> 00:57:42.000
there's always something more for me to do. Do you see how that's the filter that I'm looking

714
00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:46.480
through? That's all I'm able to see but you don't have to remove your limiting beliefs

715
00:57:49.120 --> 00:57:54.080
and there's nothing else you need to do, period. So we'll talk about that in a second. So what

716
00:57:54.080 --> 00:57:59.680
else do I need to do with it to engage with it or to agree with it to allow it to manifest?

717
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:07.200
Nothing, nothing. You don't need to agree with it anymore. You don't need to engage with it,

718
00:58:07.200 --> 00:58:12.080
none of it. We'll talk about what it is you do need to do. So remember that the whole process

719
00:58:12.080 --> 00:58:17.440
of this April Intensive is to remove beliefs that we've believed. It's not, we're not adding new

720
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:22.800
ones. It's nothing new because it's your nature. We're removing anything that we have taken from

721
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:27.440
the old man and we're trying to operate out of the new man with those old methods and they're

722
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:35.440
not working and there's those old lies and we need to remove them. And so the key is to, is not

723
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:49.840
to try to stop limiting God. The key is to stop doing anything. Stop trying and I'll qualify this

724
00:58:49.840 --> 00:59:00.080
in a minute but stop believing, stop trusting, stop being willing to stop. That's all you have

725
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:10.240
to do. Release. Stop it. There is nothing else you need to do. The problem is we're doing too much.

726
00:59:10.240 --> 00:59:16.560
The problem is we're doing period. That's the problem. Just stop doing. So just believe that

727
00:59:16.560 --> 00:59:21.360
he loves you and you will naturally stop limiting God without trying to focus on it,

728
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:29.200
without trying or focusing on it because remember this right here. So just, if you just believe that

729
00:59:29.200 --> 00:59:33.760
he loves you, if you just release what you, what you're holding on to, just release it. It'll flow

730
00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:38.160
away. You didn't even have to fight for it to leave. It'll naturally leave if it's in accord

731
00:59:38.160 --> 00:59:43.520
and then you'll naturally believe that he loves you and you will naturally stop limiting God

732
00:59:43.520 --> 00:59:49.200
and you don't even have to try because it's your nature. Problem is we're acting contrary to our

733
00:59:49.200 --> 00:59:52.720
nature and that's what we need to stop doing. If we stop acting according to our nature,

734
00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:59.280
or if we stop acting contrary to our nature, we'll naturally start acting according to our nature.

735
00:59:59.280 --> 00:59:59.840
Those of you who...

736
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.320
So essential oils, you're very familiar with this

737
01:00:02.320 --> 01:00:03.840
because y'all talk about this.

738
01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:05.960
Essential oils do not heal.

739
01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:08.960
Essential oils and all kinds of other things

740
01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:13.960
simply remove the hindrances that the body is experiencing

741
01:00:16.080 --> 01:00:18.520
that won't allow it to naturally heal itself.

742
01:00:18.520 --> 01:00:21.120
So essential oils simply allow the body

743
01:00:21.120 --> 01:00:24.200
to do what it's supposed to do and heal itself.

744
01:00:24.200 --> 01:00:26.320
But essential oils do not heal the body.

745
01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:28.640
And then other things, but I just mentioned essential oils

746
01:00:28.640 --> 01:00:30.720
because I know a couple of you are with Young Living

747
01:00:30.720 --> 01:00:32.200
and I love essential oils.

748
01:00:32.200 --> 01:00:35.060
So it's just something that came to mind as an example.

749
01:00:36.440 --> 01:00:38.680
So just wanted to kind of draw that parallel

750
01:00:40.280 --> 01:00:45.280
because you will naturally do what you were made to do.

751
01:00:47.640 --> 01:00:50.460
You don't have to try to be you, you're you naturally.

752
01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:55.440
Okay, so we are almost done here.

753
01:00:55.440 --> 01:00:59.320
So just remember that what you did to get here

754
01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:01.400
to this point in your life,

755
01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:04.960
to this part of the process won't get you out.

756
01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:06.360
It won't get you further.

757
01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:08.720
That's an old system we're bringing in

758
01:01:08.720 --> 01:01:10.400
and we can't use that old system

759
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:12.000
to try to get us some of the new systems.

760
01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.400
So the way that we've made decisions,

761
01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:16.440
the way that we have filtered information,

762
01:01:16.440 --> 01:01:20.020
old foundations on which we had believed God,

763
01:01:20.020 --> 01:01:23.040
that we had believed that the Bible said certain things,

764
01:01:23.040 --> 01:01:25.120
those things will not serve us.

765
01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:29.840
And they will not allow us to step into the new system.

766
01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:31.840
So it's hanging onto these things

767
01:01:31.840 --> 01:01:34.280
that is hindering us from moving forward.

768
01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:36.960
We have to release these things.

769
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.240
We have to release anything that is alive.

770
01:01:40.240 --> 01:01:43.920
So that's why this whole April Intensive

771
01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:45.360
is all about releasing.

772
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:46.480
It's all about releasing stuff.

773
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:49.240
I don't need to add anything to any of this

774
01:01:49.240 --> 01:01:51.720
and give us any more new information or knowledge

775
01:01:51.720 --> 01:01:53.280
because we already have it all.

776
01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:55.480
The problem is that we don't know that we have it all

777
01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:56.840
and what we've done is we've added in

778
01:01:56.840 --> 01:01:58.520
all of these other things that aren't natural

779
01:01:58.520 --> 01:01:59.760
and we just need to get rid of it.

780
01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:00.920
And if we get rid of it,

781
01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:04.000
we'll naturally start doing what we're supposed to do

782
01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:06.320
because we're of the very essence of God.

783
01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:10.120
So the secret is not to try harder

784
01:02:10.120 --> 01:02:13.800
or to wait longer for what it is that you want.

785
01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:15.140
It's not the secret.

786
01:02:15.140 --> 01:02:18.420
We're not gonna try harder and we're not waiting longer.

787
01:02:18.420 --> 01:02:23.420
The whole secret is to stop trying all together.

788
01:02:23.620 --> 01:02:26.220
So then you will effortlessly step into it

789
01:02:26.220 --> 01:02:29.100
because your nature is to believe your father.

790
01:02:29.100 --> 01:02:32.300
So last thing, last section here.

791
01:02:32.300 --> 01:02:33.460
So here's what you do do.

792
01:02:33.460 --> 01:02:34.900
So I've told you all of these things.

793
01:02:34.900 --> 01:02:36.980
Let's not do this, let's not do this, let's not do this.

794
01:02:36.980 --> 01:02:38.380
So here's what you can do.

795
01:02:39.340 --> 01:02:43.420
Okay, so don't be shocked, right?

796
01:02:43.420 --> 01:02:46.620
I can walk each of you through this or a private session

797
01:02:46.620 --> 01:02:51.020
or if you have, if you want to add a post or do a live,

798
01:02:51.020 --> 01:02:54.780
you know, and ask me this, you know, just feel free.

799
01:02:54.780 --> 01:02:55.860
If there's something that you're wondering,

800
01:02:55.860 --> 01:02:58.620
okay, okay, Ashley, here's an exact example.

801
01:02:58.620 --> 01:03:00.020
How does it work out in this case?

802
01:03:00.020 --> 01:03:01.920
Because I'm trying and I'm struggling.

803
01:03:03.020 --> 01:03:04.740
Or I tried to apply it, not try,

804
01:03:04.740 --> 01:03:07.220
but I applied it and it didn't work

805
01:03:07.220 --> 01:03:10.100
or I'm not sure if I did it correctly.

806
01:03:10.100 --> 01:03:11.260
Sorry, just one second.

807
01:03:12.140 --> 01:03:17.140
Hmm, so the thing that we need to do, stop believing.

808
01:03:19.700 --> 01:03:21.140
And the reason that I mentioned that

809
01:03:21.140 --> 01:03:23.260
is that seems to be our hang up right now.

810
01:03:24.180 --> 01:03:26.420
Well, I'm trying to believe, I'm trying to believe.

811
01:03:26.420 --> 01:03:28.420
All of these new things, Ashley, I'm trying to believe.

812
01:03:28.420 --> 01:03:31.140
Stop believing, stop, just stop trying to believe.

813
01:03:31.140 --> 01:03:32.580
Just stop.

814
01:03:32.580 --> 01:03:35.420
Sorry, that's my dog, apparently she's thirsty.

815
01:03:35.420 --> 01:03:37.420
Just let it go.

816
01:03:37.420 --> 01:03:40.700
Stop trying to believe, just let it all go.

817
01:03:41.540 --> 01:03:43.060
Is it because, here's the thing.

818
01:03:43.060 --> 01:03:44.980
If anything feels hard,

819
01:03:46.020 --> 01:03:49.420
if anything feels hard, stop doing it.

820
01:03:51.060 --> 01:03:54.500
If you're trying to trust and it feels hard,

821
01:03:54.500 --> 01:03:55.860
stop doing it.

822
01:03:55.860 --> 01:03:58.240
If you're trying to believe and it feels hard,

823
01:03:58.240 --> 01:03:59.080
stop doing it.

824
01:03:59.980 --> 01:04:01.840
If you're trying to be willing,

825
01:04:01.840 --> 01:04:04.500
if you're trying to do something good, stop, stop.

826
01:04:06.060 --> 01:04:08.780
We need to first learn how to release

827
01:04:08.780 --> 01:04:11.180
because we're not in a healthy place

828
01:04:11.180 --> 01:04:14.140
to be able to understand how to naturally

829
01:04:14.140 --> 01:04:15.300
do all of these things.

830
01:04:15.300 --> 01:04:17.300
All of those things that I mentioned, those are all good.

831
01:04:17.300 --> 01:04:20.740
Being willing, believing, trusting,

832
01:04:20.740 --> 01:04:21.780
all of those things are very good

833
01:04:21.780 --> 01:04:24.220
and they're of the nature of God and they're of your nature.

834
01:04:24.220 --> 01:04:27.460
The problem is we're currently only understanding them

835
01:04:27.460 --> 01:04:29.820
according to our old system and our old nature

836
01:04:29.820 --> 01:04:31.140
and the old man who has died.

837
01:04:31.140 --> 01:04:32.340
And we're trying to believe.

838
01:04:32.340 --> 01:04:35.740
We're trying to act in the new man

839
01:04:35.740 --> 01:04:38.100
according to the way that the old man understood

840
01:04:38.100 --> 01:04:42.900
believing and trying and being willing

841
01:04:42.900 --> 01:04:45.940
and hoping and all of those things.

842
01:04:45.940 --> 01:04:48.060
So that's why I'm saying,

843
01:04:48.060 --> 01:04:51.820
before we can actually move forward,

844
01:04:51.820 --> 01:04:54.540
we have to stop whatever it is that we're doing

845
01:04:54.540 --> 01:04:55.780
because we're not,

846
01:04:57.500 --> 01:04:59.580
it's the old man and it's unhealthy.

847
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:06.320
Just stop. Stop believing. So if all of those things, you know, trusting, being willing,

848
01:05:07.520 --> 01:05:12.560
believing, faith, all of those things, all of those are effortless because they're of your

849
01:05:12.560 --> 01:05:19.760
nature because you are of God. They're effortless and they're of your nature. So if they're hard,

850
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:26.400
there's something wrong. It's not the things that are in you that are natural,

851
01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:32.320
it's something out of the old man we're trying to resurrect. So if we're trying for them,

852
01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:39.040
it's not the real thing. If we're trying to believe, if we're trying to be willing,

853
01:05:39.040 --> 01:05:44.000
if we're trying to be hopeful, it's not the real thing. So just let them go.

854
01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:50.800
And you're under no obligation. Remember, you're not even under any obligation to love God

855
01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:55.600
and he's not worried that you're gonna not love him. Okay, you're gonna love him,

856
01:05:55.600 --> 01:05:59.600
you're gonna grow in hope, you're gonna grow in willingness, you're gonna grow in love,

857
01:05:59.600 --> 01:06:04.480
you're gonna grow in belief, you're gonna grow in faith, you're gonna grow in all of these

858
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:12.320
wonderful godly things. God is not worried that you're not going to reflect him. You are. You're

859
01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:19.040
gonna reflect his character. But right now, we're just doing all those things because they're godly

860
01:06:19.040 --> 01:06:25.840
words that we have learned and tried to understand and looked up in the dictionary

861
01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:32.240
and asked pastors what they really meant and tried to follow them. And we're trying to follow

862
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them like a list of do's and don'ts, but we're not relying on them as the essence of our nature.

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So remember that if you're trying for them, it's not the real thing and you're under no

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obligation to do any of them in order to be accepted and loved by the Lord. So the way that

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we can start moving into freedom is to let all of that go. And then it'll be replaced with the

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effortlessly, what we're talking about, with the real belief, with the real nature of who you are,

867
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which is the effortless belief, the effortless faith, the effortless hope, the effortless

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willingness. It's gonna naturally come in because you got rid of that old stuff

869
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and that was so hard to maintain. You gotta hang on to it all the time.

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So I promise you that your beliefs and your relationship with God, if you let all this

871
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stuff go, I promise you it won't fall apart because I did it. I let it all go. I finally

872
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got desperate enough. I let it all go and I didn't even have someone to tell me that it was going to

873
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be okay on the other side. I was willing to risk it. If you have somebody who's walked through it

874
01:07:36.720 --> 01:07:43.200
already, who can confirm to you, I promise you won't lose your salvation because you can't lose

875
01:07:43.200 --> 01:07:47.680
your salvation, but you won't lose it. You won't lose your relationship with the Lord. The wrath

876
01:07:47.680 --> 01:07:53.840
of God won't come down. You won't lose yourself. One of the things that I was worried about is I

877
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would lose myself in the nothingness of it, that I wouldn't be able to find my way back.

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You don't have to worry about any of that. Those are the things that are holding you back.

879
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You got to let them go. Got to jump in with both feet. It's the new system. You don't leave off all

880
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of these old things. So basically stop believing and just choose it. So if you want something to

881
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do, if it makes you feel better, if it gives you an anchor for your soul, what do I do Ashley?

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Choose it. Choose that that's your reality. You don't have to try it. Trust me. I've chosen a lot

883
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of things. It's not hard. What's hard is the letting go of the other. It is effortless to

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choose that God is as good as I want to believe he is. That God is as loving as I want to believe

885
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he is. That God is as good and as loving, as freedom, as whatever that I want to believe

886
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that he is and I need to declare that he is. And I just choose it. It's very different than my old

887
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idea of drumming up faith and belief for it. I just chose it. I'm just going to choose that it's

888
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my reality and I'm going to go about my day. So in short, just remember let go of responsibility.

889
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Be a child. Let God be your parent. Let him take care of all of this for you. Don't carry any more

890
01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:30.560
responsibility. Just be a child before God. Enjoy your father and then go play.

891
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And you will effortlessly by doing that, what you're doing is you're releasing. You're choosing

892
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to release and when you choose to release all of this other will naturally come down and you don't

893
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even know it's happening. You don't know how it's happening. You're just allowing yourself to

894
01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:54.880
just bask in the love of God. Just allowing yourself to be and for it to be enough.

895
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Not thinking I should have done more work today.

896
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wonder why I didn't do this. I should probably do this better tomorrow. All of

897
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those old thoughts, stop thinking about them. Stop thinking about, oh, I

898
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should do better tomorrow. I wish I hadn't done this. Release all of those

899
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things. There will be a time and a place where you can approach them in

900
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a much more healthy way, much more healthy perspective where those things

901
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won't burden you. But right now, I would venture a pretty strong guess, if

902
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you're anything like I was, that it brings on... that you can't hear

903
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those things without being self-condemning, without thinking, I must

904
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be better tomorrow. I must do better next time. I need to analyze the past, figure

905
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out what I did wrong, and not do it again. No, none of that. Just allow

906
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everything to be without asking the Lord for forgiveness, and watch

907
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that he's just as good there as he is when you've asked him for forgiveness.

908
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Just allow the Lord to love you, and for it to be enough, and then he will

909
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heal you, and he will restore you, and then we will build from here. We're

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not leaving us here like this, like what I'm describing, where you just stop all

911
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of this stuff, and you don't believe, and you don't be willing. We're not going to stay

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here for the rest of our lives. What I'm talking about is we're

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trying to transition from the old man into the new, from the habit of that old

914
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perspective that isn't serving us anymore, and so I'm talking about we've

915
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got to let go of what we think that the new man is. We're having to

916
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just scrap the whole thing, so we have to scrap everything in order to start over.

917
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It's like taking off training wheels off of the bike. We knew very well how to

918
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operate in life with training wheels, very well. Now let's take off the training

919
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wheels and just ride the bike, so you're gonna look worse at living life for a

920
01:12:14.520 --> 01:12:19.280
while wobbly on this bike. You're like, look, if I just have my training wheels, I

921
01:12:19.280 --> 01:12:23.720
know how to do this thing. I was pro with this, and God's like, I know, but you

922
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can't do all the things. You're not really riding the bike, and you can't do

923
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all of the things that you can do riding a bike. You can't do those just with if

924
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you still have training wheels, so allow yourself to wobble for a while for it to

925
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be scary where you don't have all of your bumpers that you're used to. You

926
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don't have all of the self-protection that you're used to. God's very aware

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that it's gonna look like that for a while, and he doesn't condemn you for it.

928
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He's the one who created the world to work like that, where to go from

929
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training wheels to a bike looked like that. God didn't expect you to get off

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the training wheels onto a bike and be perfect at it. He didn't create the human

931
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body. He didn't expect it to work like that. He didn't create it to work like

932
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that, and therefore he won't condemn you that you're following his creative

933
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process. It's okay. It's okay. So we're not going to stay here forever, but we need to

934
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release ourselves. We need to give ourselves freedom and space. So to let

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go of responsibility, be a child, enjoy your father, and just go play. That's a

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choice. That is rest. This is what our businesses need. Our businesses

937
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need us, and if we're not in a healthy place, then our business can't be healthy.

938
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So we're going to talk more specifically later about where to go from here into

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01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:50.640
actual business situations, like how to be a leader in business, how to make

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decisions in business, what business is from God's perspective.

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All kinds of stuff, but this is why we're laying this foundation.

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A business is just an extension of life. It's nothing particularly special.

943
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Well, it is very special, but it's not anything that you can separate

944
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from who the leader is and who the person is that's breathing life into it

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with their spirit. So anyway, I hope this is encouraging. Remember that you will

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naturally look like your father because you naturally are like your father. We're

947
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just getting rid of all of this other stuff in order to allow our nature to

948
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finally be able to come forth, just like the essential oils that I talked about.

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So I hope that y'all all have a good night, and this was a bit of a longer

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one, but I really wanted to cover it well. I feel that this is, especially based on

951
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the feedback I was getting, this is very, very, very foundational and felt that it

952
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just needed to really be driven home. This is, and it is true, this is the

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foundation.

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of so much of our understanding of rest because we're having to release that old

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paradigm and we struggle sometimes understanding how to release that old paradigm.

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Anyway, I love each and every one of you and I will see you tomorrow. We will be

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doing the our Q&A. I mean our Zoom group session,

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remember, is going to be all Q&A, no teaching. So, I look

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forward to getting to see y'all tomorrow. Okay, talk to you later. Bye.