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Demons guard the heart to keep you men

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from being fired up, lion hearted,

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and full of the spirit in your life.

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In Proverbs, we read these words,

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the wicked flee when no one pursues,

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but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

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The series I'm starting over the next few episodes

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is about lions, demons, and blood.

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I don't wanna talk about being lion hearted

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and what it means to be a lion hearted man.

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I don't know what it means to be a lion hearted woman

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because I'm not a woman.

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And so I think it's different though, and I really do.

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I think that the way God works in the heart of a man

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is different than the way he works in the heart of a woman.

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And what motivates that masculine heart of men

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is that warrior heart, that worshiper warrior heart.

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In my book, Worshipper Warrior,

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I talk about the life of David.

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And David, in my opinion,

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is the epitome of the lion hearted man,

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even as a young man, where the story picks up

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in 1 Samuel, he's probably 13 or 14 years old.

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And David always lived his life as a lion hearted man.

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And so what I'm gonna do in this series

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is talk about what it means to be lion hearted.

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And I may have some different terms

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than you're used to hearing.

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So I'm gonna talk about the lion that's within the heart.

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And I'm gonna tell you about the heart

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as being like a sanctuary.

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It's a sanctuary where the fire of God

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can come into a man's life.

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But I'm gonna also speak of these demons.

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And I mean that figuratively,

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but I also mean that literally,

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in that there's true real demons.

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And if you've listened to my other broadcast

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on the demonic, you understand what I'm talking about.

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If you haven't, you should.

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But every man has these barriers

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to the lion heart within them.

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And so some of that is demonic, some of it's not.

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But I'm gonna speak of lions, demons, and blood that way,

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that demons guard the heart to keep you men

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from being fired up, lion hearted,

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and full of the spirit in your life.

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And then I talk about blood.

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And what I mean about blood

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in the way I'm speaking of it here

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is the effort that it takes to become lion hearted.

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In other words, it's bloody.

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And what I mean by that is that it just takes

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tremendous effort to release this lion within.

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So I'm not talking about anything easy here.

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If you're looking for some easy little one, two, three,

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do this, that's all you need to do kind of series,

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this is definitely not for you.

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So I'm talking about how do we face difficulties?

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How do we face failures?

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How do we face shame as men, but being lion hearted?

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And so the first thing I think is to get born again.

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If you've not given your heart to Christ,

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you need to start there.

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Can't be lion hearted the way I'm talking

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about being lion hearted without a personal, vital,

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dynamic, growing, fired up relationship with Jesus Christ.

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So when I speak of the heart as a palace of the Lord,

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that only happens when you get saved.

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That's when you receive Christ.

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And I love the way Ezekiel described the new heart,

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the new palace of our heart.

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He says, I will give you a new heart

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and put a new spirit within you.

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I'll take the heart of stone out of your flesh

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and I'll give you a heart of flesh.

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I'll put my spirit within you

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and cause you to walk in my statutes

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and you will keep my judgments and do them.

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So when we give our hearts to Christ,

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when we give our lives to Christ, we get a new heart.

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We get the Holy Spirit, we get the new spirit within us.

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So your old heart is dead

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and you now have a new, vital, fired up palace

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where your lion, and I'm speaking of the lion within,

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can begin to be birthed out of you

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to become a lion-hearted man.

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But demons guard that heart.

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And I mean that they do not want you

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to find your lion-hearted, true self

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that you were created by God for.

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Your destiny, according to God's higher purpose,

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is for you to be lion-hearted,

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for you to be excited about your life,

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to be daily getting up in the morning

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with an expectation of miracles,

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an expectation that you can reach

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your full potential that day.

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comes through God, God created you in his image.

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So you can't know what it means to be Lionheart.

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You can't know what it has to be a fully vibrant,

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pumping, dynamic, spiritual heart without knowing Christ.

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So it starts there, it starts with knowing him.

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And so what I want to talk about here in this first part

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is three kinds of men.

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So I've been in ministry for 40 years

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and I've been in counseling, doing counseling

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with guys for 40 years and then coaching,

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pastoring, leadership.

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And I think you could narrow down men

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to about three kinds of men.

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And so that's what I'm gonna do today.

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So the first is the dead lion.

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There's a dead lion of a beaten down man,

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a shamed man, a broken man.

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And I'll just tell you right now, that's most men.

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That's even most Christian men.

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They're dead, they're broken, they're ashamed,

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they have no anointing, they have no power,

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they feel defeated.

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Shame has just overwhelmed them, they've lost all nerve.

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This is a man who has nothing to offer, they're numb.

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They're just numb, they don't even have any feelings.

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They want to, I mean, I think they really do,

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but there's no real purpose, no real desire for fighting,

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for their destiny, and definitely no passion.

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And demons just control the palace of their heart

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and they're dead, there's a dead lion within.

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Man, it needs to be awakened, it needs to be shaken up.

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On Tuesday mornings at the road at Chapel Hills,

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the church that I pastor here in Colorado Springs,

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our goal with Wholehearted Men,

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which is a Tuesday morning breakfast, is that.

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We're assuming that a lot of these men are dead

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when they come, and my message is,

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are geared toward shaking them up, waking them up,

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and giving them a ferocious, passionate desire

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to go after the kingdom of God and to go after Jesus.

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So if you feel like I'm speaking to you right now,

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that you feel dead inside, you feel numb,

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you're not feeling anything at all,

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have no desire and very little hope,

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then I'm, this series is for you,

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because the reality is, is that that can change.

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Everybody's been there.

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Everybody has been of that place in their heart

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where they just feel dead.

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That's usually the man who's addicted,

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he's hopeless, has nothing to live for.

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I wanna challenge you, first of all,

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come to know Jesus Christ, give your heart to him.

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And even at the end of this broadcast,

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if you've not given your heart to Christ,

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if you're in your car, if you're in your bedroom,

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if you're in a study, wherever you are,

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kneel down, just kneel down right where you are

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and say, God, I surrender my life to you.

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I ask you, Lord, to take my dead lion within

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and God, awaken me, awaken my heart,

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give me a new heart and a new spirit

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and transform me into the man you want me to be.

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The second man is the cage lion.

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And this is a man of anger, resentment and bitterness.

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So this guy's alive in the sense

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that he's got a lot of emotion,

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but it's anger and it's resentment

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and it's built out of bitterness in that person's life.

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The cage lion is a man of anger,

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very much like a lion at the zoo

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who's pacing back and forth,

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just looking for the opportunity to have the gate opened

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and to attack.

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This is somebody who feels out of control.

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They feel angry, they've been hurt.

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They're gonna exact their revenge.

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This is a lion.

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This is a person who has a lion within

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that feels ripped off, locked up

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and they're just looking for someone to pounce upon.

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And this is a very, very dangerous person.

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And this is the kind of man that leads gangs.

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This is the kind of man that beats his wife.

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This is the kind of man that beats his kids.

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This is the kind of man that's in trouble constantly.

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It's the Cain and Abel story all over again,

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repeated millions and millions of time

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where Cain was angry because God did not acknowledge his gift

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like he did Abel and so he killed his brother.

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So this lion's dangerous.

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This is a dangerous man in a really, really bad way.

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This is someone who's very aggressive

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and anger controls their life.

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This is the lion that's.

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pacing back and forth, looking for the opportunity to hurt someone.

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He's a very, very dangerous person.

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So the third person, though, is the released lion, and this is the righteous man who's

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empowered by God and has control over his emotions.

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So this is a dangerous man, too.

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Both men are dangerous.

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There's a dangerous man who has uncontrolled emotions and anger, and then there's the released

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lion-hearted man who is pursuing God, who has control over his emotions, he's empowered

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by the Holy Spirit, and this is someone who's dangerous against Satan's kingdom.

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This is someone who's binding those demons, pushing those demons out because of the fire

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within.

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This is a lion-hearted man.

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The released lion is a man who has control over his emotions but still stokes up the

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lion within.

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The redeemed lion is the released lion.

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He's righteous, he's holy, he's loving, and he's bold.

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And this is what Solomon's talking about in Proverbs 28.1, the wicked flee when no one

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pursues but the righteous are as bold as the lion.

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This is the kind of man that makes a difference in culture.

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This is the kind of man that starts a business and flourishes in that business for the kingdom

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of God.

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This is someone who loves his wife, loves his girlfriend, treats them well, leads them

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in godly ways and righteous ways.

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This is what, this is the kind of man that Jesus created us to be.

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This is someone who's walking in their destiny.

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This is a lion-hearted man.

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That's what I want.

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I want that in my life.

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That's what I want in wholehearted men.

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That's what I want through this series is for you to have this desire to be a lion-hearted

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man.

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It was St. Aranus of Lyons who said the glory of God is a man who is fully alive.

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So I'm talking about your destiny.

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This is the destiny of the kingdom.

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This is the destiny of the man of God is that released lion, the lion-hearted man who walks

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with humble obedience with God, who's fully alive in the sun by the power of the Holy

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Spirit, living with him and fully alive, fully free and fully lion-hearted.

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Which man are you?

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That's the question because that's what we're after is to become a lion-hearted man.

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Are you the dead lion?

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Are you the angry, caged-up lion?

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Are you lion-hearted?

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You're released by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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I want to challenge you.

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Go after God.

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Seek his kingdom.

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Become a lion-hearted man.