A Reasonable Service | Romans 12:1-2

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All right, Michael, we are still
kind of getting the swing of

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things.
We kind of getting really back a

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little bit and something I
appreciate about about our

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podcast, we always try to take
things in context.

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We don't want to take anything
out of context.

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We want to get the full story.
I want to run this quote I came

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across later today and see if
you can't interpret for me, you

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know, talking about doing some
sort of engagement with someone

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and they wanted to do it.
They said I'd like to do this

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before or after dinner.
So what do you think they mean?

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Do you think I mean like just
during dinner?

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They don't want to do it while
they're eating, like when they

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got a burger in their mouth?
I've, I mean, I don't know why

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that's so hard to, to follow
because there's like a, there's

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a standard dinner time that most
people eat dinner.

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Before Michael talks, this is a
direct attack, an affront to his

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character.
We were texted.

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He's like, we're like, when do
we want to do the podcast?

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He's like, you know what, let's
do it before or after dinner,

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which which, and this is a group
chat with our wives on.

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It carry on, yeah.
So I, I was just, what I was

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trying to do is I was trying to
protect my family's dinner time.

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But I thought, you know, my, but
knowing my family's dinner time

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probably is after your family's
dinner time.

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I was like, if I go now, then
it's probably going to disrupt

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my family's dinner time.
So I need to wait until because

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Jill's out shopping.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So I was like, maybe like
immediately or wait until after

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dinner.
That's what I was.

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Trying to I, I was thinking,
man, I just want to do the

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podcast right in the middle of
the Mott's dinner, right?

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Right when he's just.
Yeah.

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That was great.
Lot of lot of kitchen talk, lot

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of dinner talk on the text
thread today.

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Yeah, I so you intermittent fast
till like 4:00 in the afternoon.

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Well, I, I do that usually.
I don't do it a lot.

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I do probably do it two or three
times a week.

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I try to do at least one day
where it's like, I'll eat, well,

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not just dinner, but I'll snack
at night and then like skip

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breakfast and lunch.
Leanne really hates it, as you

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could see in the text, because
I'm getting pretty hungry by

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dinner.
Angry, angry.

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She, I like the way she just put
it.

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She said Zach likes to do this
thing where he brags about not

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eating all day long.
Weird flex.

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Then he gets home at 4:30 and
demands food because he's

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famished.
So we've already eaten.

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She was like, we ate dinner
early, 'cause I'm always like,

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let's eat dinner at 4:30.
I'm so hungry.

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And you know so but you get to
say you intermittent fast, which

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is man, what a flex.
Yeah, yeah.

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So, you know, I skip breakfast
every day, so fasting until

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around 12/12/30 and I think it's
helped, you know, because my

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doctor, you know, they're like
well, your AC, your A1C looks

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good and stuff and I'm like, it
must be because I'm fasting but.

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It's got to be I, I think it is
a lot helpful as far as how

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much, how many calories you can
push down your gullet.

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Because I will eat definitely on
those days.

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I definitely will eat a lot more
at dinner, but I don't think I

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eat enough to offset two other
meals or you know what I mean?

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I don't think I am.
Yeah, I read this book where I

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came across this idea of fasting
because basically everything

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that I was told growing up about
how to be healthy turns out to.

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Be a lie food pyramid.
Sugar is fine, salt is cold.

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Nothing but grains.
Yeah, only grains.

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Bread is good and.
Eat a little bit all the time.

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Because if you don't eat a
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your metabolism's just going to
tank.

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And so you just need to eat,
eat, eat, eat and it's all a

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lie.
But I read this book and I can't

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think of the name of it, but
it's in my Audible library.

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I could Scroll down and find it.
So I will link it.

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Maybe I'll.
Take a.

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Listen, but it is this kidney
Doctor Who was so frustrated at

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getting these diabetic patients.
He's like, we can, we can cure

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diabetes type 2 like we, we can,
we, we can through diet and

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exercise, we can get that.
Stuff, right?

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I believe that.
But I can't cure a kidney that's

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been damaged by diabetes type 2,
right?

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And so he was like, how do we
get in this, prevent it?

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And he did all these studies and
he like looked at all these

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other studies and stuff and
found that fasting was really

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key to blood sugar metabol, you
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And yeah, so that's how I that's
why I was like, well, I guess

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I'll start doing some
intermittent fasting.

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Yeah, I like it.
Shout out to intermittent

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fasting.
I think that dovetails nicely

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with Romans 12/1.
And two, that's all the rage.

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That's so, I mean, that's the
main thing.

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I just, I just really wanted to
pull up a text and, you know,

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just, you know, but I I, I get
your point.

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It makes sense.
Like you don't want to podcast

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during dinner.
Yeah, like you're protecting

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that time.
Right, Right.

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Yeah, Yeah.
Now I know we're going a little

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long on the banter.
Yeah, but apparently you desire

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to have a sauna.
I don't know how.

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Much this I've I've literally
spent next time you're at home

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groups.
I've literally spent like

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multiple home groups, like 40
minutes just going on my soapbox

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of sauna and my dream to have a
sauna.

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And I don't want to get too
harsh on the text thread, but

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you gotta you gotta have the
tradition sauna.

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Oh.
That's not gonna do it.

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That's.
Not gonna work so I can do it.

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I don't I'm not even like 1.
I don't even want to go with the

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infrared saunas.
You know, there's some that they

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make small infrared ones, but
I'm like, man, I really, you got

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to crank that bad boy.
Get up to like 180 to 200 to

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really.
That's where a lot of the

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research is at least.
All these other ones, they don't

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get quite as hot.
Seared to see no well.

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I mean, isn't that dangerous a
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Got to live life on the edge
you're not living if it's not

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dangerous I'm sure many people
have done something dumb with it

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and got got hurt but you really
have the therapeutic benefit

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your body because it because it
because it is challenging your

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body has to fight back you know
and adapt with how it.

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I told my chiropractor about us
doing the cold plunge, and he

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asked if I moved the water
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I was like, no, I was staying as
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And he's like, studies show
that, like, shivering for three

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minutes is like, 20 minutes of
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And I was like, OK, yeah, it's
interesting.

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There was, there was a study
like that.

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I did not look at the but you
see it like you see it in like a

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lot of articles, like just
referenced, but that like a lot

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of people that are hardcore,
they have the agitators in

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there.
And what they say is like, if

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you're a real, if you're like
really into it, you get out and

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let your body naturally.
You don't do a towel because of

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that.
You want to shiver to warm up,

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because then you're making your
body work versus.

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Your take care.
Yeah, exactly.

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And that so I don't, I don't
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I think some, I think it's like
one of those things there's like

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a lot of research that came out,
some good, some bad and they're

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learning more.
But that's something that

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definitely the hardcore people
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The sauna is also great.
I mean, it's not as good for

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your joints and muscles as
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rate gets cranking.
Your cardio can be really good,

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really good for basically
everything cardio is good for,

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just without the.
So we just say if someone is

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doing those kind of three things
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intermittent fasting, they're
really being set apart.

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We're.
Bringing it there.

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Yeah, I love it.
That's actually what I think

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Paul was talking about.
We'll get to application.

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I'm surprised Pastor didn't go
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What if he was like application
1 cold plunge?

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Set apart for service.
You know what I'm saying?

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Like you do those, you are ready
to go.

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Well, that's as good a Segway as
I think we're going to get.

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So hang in there for the next
few minutes as we take it to the

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next level from the hearts of
the Low Country in South

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Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
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All right, a reasonable
ServiceNow.

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Did you do any?
Yeah, I should probably ask you

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like this 30 seconds ago when we
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But it's good to have it on,
good to have it on the What does

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ESV say about spiritual or
reasonable?

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Oh, that's great, 'cause I
memorized this KJV.

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So when password was going back
to this, I was like, ah, you're

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speaking what I grew up.
It says what is Let's see, I put

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everybody, which is your
spiritual worship.

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Spiritual worship.
So I wonder why he 'cause he

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says.
I have a footnote that says or

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rational service is also.
It could go either way, so I

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wonder why.
Rational.

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Reasonable.
I wonder if it's just the the

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word in Greek has more than one
shade of meaning.

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It it might that might be right
and I wonder why the ESV went.

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They must have a good reason to
go with spiritual worship cause

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a lot of times they do.
If it's a toss up, they'll favor

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this KJV just to like familiar
reading.

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NASV is spiritual service of
worship.

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Oh, yeah.
So they're like trying to, you

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know, Yeah.
So yeah, 'cause when I heard

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that too, I was like, oh,
interesting, you know, and this

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is one of those verses it's been
hard for me to memorize because

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I've it's this one is like a KJV
classic.

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It's so it's hard to be.
Memorized in ESV or just in

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general?
No, no, just, well, probably in

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general, but KJV is just like
what's it's hard to go different

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translation because it is a
little bit different.

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Yeah, I I have found this these
two verses difficult to memorize

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too.
Like some people it just seems

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like they can roll them off and
like this one is not one that

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that that rolls off.
I just love a verse that starts.

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I beseech you.
I beseech.

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You therefore, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.

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So, you know, we're still kind
of in the New Year's, Joe.

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We kind of alluded to this in
last Thursday's podcast, the one

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we did on resolutions, but he
starts off with resolutions and

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I screenshotted it.
So we would know these top ones

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from 2024.
And we assume that but save

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money, eat healthier, exercise
more, lose weight, spend more

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time so.
You're right with the

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relationships that that that
counts for that last one, that's

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good.
That's good.

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And then so his point and all
that was maybe we should have a,

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a resolution that would be, you
know, kind of following along

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12-1 and two, to to present
ourselves as living sacrifices,

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whatever that you know, and all
that that entails.

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And all that that that entails.
And to help us understand what

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this entails, we're going to do
what we do a lot of times and

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look at context and say it with
me, Michael.

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We're going to look at the
Jensen chart.

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Jensen chart.
All right, Sorry, I was pulling

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off here in my next picture.
Yeah, so right here behind us,

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this lovely Jensen chart.
We talked about this on our last

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one, Romans 11 to Romans 12.
Huge huge section break like.

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Yeah.
Change the biggest section.

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Break of Romans?
Probably, yeah.

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No.
And and so we, we are really

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making our way through Romans
where, you know, the beginning

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of Romans is starting with our
need for salvation, talking a

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lot about sin, moving on to the
way of salvation, talking a lot

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about justification.
Then we talk about

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sanctification of the life of
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And then it's almost like we're
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11:00, talking about the scope
of of salvation and God's

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sovereignty.
Has the word of God failed?

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service of salvation.
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this, therefore in verse one,
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here's the Jensen chart.
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Here's the Jensen chart.
Because of all of that stuff we

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already talked about, this is
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Joel mentions that urge means to
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he's appealing to believers
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brethren.
So we'll extend that to females,

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sisters.
Yeah, we'll throw the sisters in

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there, but to come alongside and
they're gonna.

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He's urging us based on and the
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I like that.
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what the mercies of God are.
You don't know that you're

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missing that whole like
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Piece.
Yeah, but and then the mercies

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are both motivational and
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do.
So they motivate us to do what

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we need to do, but they enable
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well.
I like that it's, it's kind of

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both sides of that, that if you
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all that's at stake, you know,
what we, what we've read, what

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we've read about in Romans, you
understand that huge concept,

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this big understanding that's
naturally going to be a big

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motivation to, to carry out
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We're going to read a lot in
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gifts and serving others and all
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And it's like, man, you need to
really, you can't just skip to

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chapter 12 without, without
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And so he he really camped in in

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five one through 3.
So I feel like we should read

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those as part of the mercies
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But then I have some other spot
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Yeah, you're going to recognize

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them as Roman Rd. verses.
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through three says, therefore,
having been justified by faith,

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we have peace or Rene with God
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through whom we've also have
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Sorry, I can't speak by faith
into this grace in which we

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stand.
And we exalt in hope of the

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glory of God.
And not only this, but we also

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exalt in our tribulations,
knowing that tribulation brings

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about perseverance and
perseverance, proven character,

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proven character, hope, and hope
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So you really just, I mean, he,
he could keep on going, 'cause

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this opening thing is all about
some of those mercies that God

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has given us.
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And like you alluded to some of
these other big, big verses that

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kind of help us understand the
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Romans 323 this familiar one for
all have sinned and come short

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of the glory of God.
If you don't realize that, it's

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really hard to understand like
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'cause maybe you think I deserve
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And it's like, no, no, far, far
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Romans 58, another classic.
I wonder what what would you

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call the Romans Rd.
If you're going to add 8 one on

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here, We need another name for
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plus you know.
I mean 8-1 to me, I have an

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exclamation point.
I haven't I haven't handwritten

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because it is such it's like
God's grace so much to us.

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There is therefore now no
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It's good.
It's like, man, we can stand.

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And even though we are filthy
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And it's like the it's kind of
like the end point and it's

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just, it's huge.
It's like, wow, now.

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Now we can, you know, as Jude
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We can, you know, stand before
him, you know, boldly, not

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because of us, but because of
what he's done for us.

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Wow, now that's good with Romans
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I'll I did not actually say
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But God commended his love
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sinners, Christ died for us.
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I love the KJV.
You don't.

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Like demonstrated you like
commended.

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Commended and then you've also
got 828.

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I mean if you read verse 8, it
just like you know, says a Latin

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kind of culminates.
Yeah, yeah, 828 to the end, just

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that that golden chain of
redemption all the way through,

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you know, being not being able
to be separated from our love,

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his love.
And then nine through 11, it's

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like.
He's got to keep going.

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We can trust God's promises,
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You know, we, we can trust him
in there.

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And then he said something and
I'd never thought about it

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before.
He didn't make this point

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exactly, but it's like Romans 8
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security in this life.
You know what?

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You're gonna sin, you're gonna
struggle like Paul did in

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Chapter 7, but there's now no
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And then it ends with security
and eternity because that's all,

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you know, All those trials we
can go through, even death will

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not separate us from the love of
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So I mean, it's just like Romans
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It's your security.
Blank got security and then the

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security don't stop there.
We talked about his promises.

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You can to have the security
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He's he is character.
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So we think of, you know, the
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That's a lot.
That was like a 4 minute fly

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over more things we could have
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That's like the biggest of no
and those specific things are

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just kind of punching you in the
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So therefore, based on this
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we're to be living sacrifices.
And I think Pastoral is a good

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job of kind of parsing out the
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Yeah, and I remember, you know,
if you've been at CBC for a

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while and you've heard Jack talk
on these verses, he'll say stuff

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like, you know, a living
sacrifice can crawl off the

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altar, but a dead 1 can't.
And so it takes us like daily

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kind of saying, you know what?
Today I'm going to be a living

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sacrifice for you.
And but we are to be.

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He doesn't want us dead.
He wants us living an active but

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that we would give our lives
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And I've always thought, you
know, as a dad, when I, you

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know, if someone pulls a gun out
what I, you know, jump in front

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of my family, my wife or one of
my kids and take the bullet for

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them.
Absolutely.

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It's like, will I get off my
phone for them?

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You know, right?
Right.

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Right.
It's like the stakes are high.

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It's like, right automatic,
right little things.

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It's like, yeah, just how I live
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Yeah, yeah.
And, and I think the same thing

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could be said for God.
And, you know, if someone's

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like, you know, deny God or I'm
going to kill you, oh, I'm not

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going to deny.
That's right.

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But will you?
That's a kind of an easy one for

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us because it's like the big
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But will we be in our word
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Will we pray regularly?
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You know, so those are the types
of things that make it be a

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living sacrifice.
I like that.

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Not, not dead.
Next little qualifier here is to

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be holy, unblemished and set
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You know, Paul, he's talking
about sacrifices.

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You know, if you're a Jew
reading this, your mind's just

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going Old Testament sacrifices.
They would know.

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Oh, for a sacrifice to be worth
anything, it's got to be holy.

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Can't be blemished.
It it can't be common.

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It needs to be set apart in a,
in a specific way.

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I think that's a, you know.
We talked about that with the

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Passover, you know, last week
and with Dan.

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Yeah, yeah.
That's, that's exactly right.

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And then the last one is
acceptable and made this, this

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point of a sweet aroma.
I love Paul's talking about

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aromas all the time.
You know he's talking about

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aromas, Yeah.
Yeah, that's good.

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And so we already kind of had
this discussion that I had in

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the notes spiritual versus
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Maybe, you know, maybe there's a
Greek scholar, 'cause it's we

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can, we can see, maybe blue
letter vinyl would would tell it

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would.
Tell us I I should look that up

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as we as we continue on.
Yeah.

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Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll pull up.
Maybe we can.

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All right.
And so I will while you're doing

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that, talk about, you know, this
mercies, you know, the and being

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a motivation for us.
It really would not be a Romans

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sermon if Joel had not brought
out a song and sung it.

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You know, it's like that's how
you know, it really is a Roman

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sermon.
But the song he brings out is

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one of my favorites when sadly
really only singing around

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Easter time.
But it's when I surveyed a cross

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and you know, you read through
those verses if you know it, but

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the last verse, verse 4 says
were the whole realm of nature,

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mine that were present far too
small love so amazing, so

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divine, demands my life, my
soul, my all.

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And that is really what is being
said here about us being living

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sacrifices.
It demands our soul, our life,

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our all, and we should be living
for God.

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That's going to look different
for different people.

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We're all in different
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So you know, I would say, you
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We have maybe certain people we
look up to and we want to

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pattern a life off of and that
it can be good.

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But you know, you're uniquely
gifted and your circumstances

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are different.
So you know, what does it mean

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for you to sacrifice your life
in your setting for God and His

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Kingdom?
That that is really good.

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Yeah, I can give you the good, I
mean, the blue letter Bible

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update when I think of when I
spray the wondrous cross.

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Great hymn, classic hymn.
You know, there's something

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about the something about like
the rhyme scheme or something

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about like, I'm blanking on it,
but I feel like things they like

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don't rhyme perfectly.
They're like spelled the same,

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but they don't that that always
bothers me.

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I don't.
Know is it that is it that verse

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you don't like the near rhymes?
Yeah.

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Yeah, it's like, it's like, I
would rather it be not even

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close then like almost like
unless it's like close enough,

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but it's like far enough.
So let's go.

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Blue letter Bible update.
We got Romans 12 verse 1.

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And so we're looking at this
word reasonable is this Greek

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word, I'm not great at
pronouncing reek words, but it

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comes from like Lagos, Lagicos,
like that's like the root.

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So you can see how it would be
like reason.

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You know, you could you could
see that side of it, which would

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which makes sense sense to me
pertaining to speech or speaking

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pertaining to reasoning or logic
sub category spiritual maybe

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pertaining to the soul, because
the.

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Lagos is what kind of directs
something.

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It's like the underlying.
Yeah, where?

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Like a soul might give that life
to so you could see how it could

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be used in that couple different
shades there and then if my, you

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know, iPad here well, there we
go.

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If I click the right right
button, we'll go to the next

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percent your bodies of living
sacrifice, which is your

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reasonable service.
We got this word Latreya for

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service and it's in the KGB
always translated service or

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divine service.
It's usually a service rendered

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for hire, the service and
worship of God according to the

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requirements of the Levitical
law.

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So I guess a lot of times it
just connected and I think this

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is different because it's, you
know, Greg, maybe this is a

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Septuagint thing that I'm coming
across here is that service and

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worship are so, so closely
connected.

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I don't know that it helps you
think, oh, it's this shade of

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that Lagos.
Word maybe that that's where

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where they're where they're
going with it because it's I

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think service is like the go to,
but because it's so much

447
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,280
connected with the little bit
little bit Levitical law and

448
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,760
God, they're kind of making that
that service is worship and

449
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,400
making that jump so.
That's good, that's good.

450
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:57,560
I know mounts listens to this
podcast, so you know, just

451
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,720
comment below your, you know,
your thoughts on on this and

452
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:07,400
we'll we'll see it there.
All right, so we are to live a

453
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,080
living sacrifice, sacrificial
life.

454
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,880
We already talked about living,
holy and acceptable and then we

455
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,520
go from there.
We are to be, we get this verse

456
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,160
too.
So maybe read verse one and two.

457
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,320
Therefore, I urge, I'll read out
NASB this time.

458
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,560
Therefore, I urge you brethren,
by the mercies of God to present

459
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,760
your bodies a living and holy
sacrifice acceptable to God,

460
00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:31,680
which is your spiritual service
of worship.

461
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,440
So that's what we've kind of
covered so far, verse 2 And do

462
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,560
not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the

463
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,080
renewing of your mind.
So you may prove what the will

464
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,280
of God is, that which is good
and acceptable and perfect.

465
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,200
Very good.
Do not be conformed.

466
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,880
Trying to give us a sense of
this phrase, Pastor.

467
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,960
It looks at the Phillips
translation.

468
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,080
Don't let the world squeeze you
into its mold.

469
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,840
This conformity, 'cause he makes
this point that the world is

470
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,200
unrelentless, that it is
squeezing, it is conforming you.

471
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,880
It's not neutral, but there is
this pressure being applied that

472
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,080
needs to be actively resisted
'cause you ain't resisting in

473
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,240
it.
You, unknowingly maybe will be

474
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,040
shaped to that.
Yeah, and he reads this Ventura

475
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,200
quote.
He says as Christians living in

476
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,400
the 21st century, these words
are vital for us to understand

477
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,400
and to live out practically by
the grace of God.

478
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,680
That is because we are
constantly being attacked with

479
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,880
so much moral filth through
multiple outlets like music, the

480
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,920
media and many anti God
mouthpieces all around us.

481
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:40,840
Through the influences of
secularism, humanism, hedonism,

482
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,280
postmodernism, relativism and
materialism, etcetera, we are

483
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,560
continually being bombarded with
the lies of the enemy.

484
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,520
I wonder when Ventura wrote
this.

485
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,800
I don't know, like when when he
was alive, but I'm sure, I'm

486
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,280
sure.
Maybe he's alive now.

487
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,360
I shouldn't assume Ventura, I'm
sorry if you're out there also.

488
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,120
Yeah, Ventura.
And mounts are just always like,

489
00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:06,520
what are they gonna say?
But you know, in the last five

490
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,320
years got worse.
Things have escalated.

491
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,360
And he he kind of makes the
point that, you know, most

492
00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:15,240
parents probably have these kind
of concerns, you know, whether

493
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,400
they're looking at it through
this Romans 12 ones or not, that

494
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,400
there's this influence.
There's screens always in front

495
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,480
of my kids.
Yeah, and Phoebe got a little

496
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:29,800
kids Fire tablet, like Amazon.
There's age restrictions on it.

497
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,240
And like, but when we travel, we
turn the timer off of it, but

498
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,840
then I forget to turn the timer
off.

499
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,840
So I've got I I should go like
in between this podcast, like

500
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,760
turn the time limit back on so
that she can't get unlimited.

501
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,560
But but she's not she can't just
really nearly get it and stuff.

502
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,720
But but you know, you do see,
you know, there was this game

503
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,520
that was rated OK for her and
she's playing it.

504
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,920
It's like a little jump the ball
around and it has these songs in

505
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,680
the background.
We're like, yeah, you can't play

506
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,720
that one anymore because that
song is not appropriate so.

507
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,560
Yeah.
And it's like, no, not no size.

508
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,600
Yeah.
So it's just everywhere.

509
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,800
I think that unrelenting is is
great because it's like songs

510
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,280
that it's like you don't even
pay attention to.

511
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,360
Like usually terrible.
Right.

512
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,600
Well, the, The funny thing is,
you didn't grow up in the late

513
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:18,200
80s and early 90s like I did.
But there are songs that that

514
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,640
are in the back of my mind and
something will come up and I'll

515
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,320
start singing them 'cause that's
what I do.

516
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:23,760
Like that's like my little dad
joke.

517
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,000
And I'll be listening to the
words I've never actually

518
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,360
considered before.
I'm like, this is a horrible

519
00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:28,880
song.
This.

520
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:29,560
Is really bad.
Yeah.

521
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,080
I've seen a lot of like things
on social media that are kind of

522
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,640
like this, like, oh, this, you
know, kids music, I mean, music

523
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,120
days terrible.
And they're like not in my

524
00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:37,480
generation.
They're like, oh actually that

525
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,840
is pretty bad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

526
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:44,360
So we are to not be conformed.
So we're not supposed to be

527
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:48,400
squeezed in by the world, but
the counter to that were to be

528
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,280
transformed.
And the Greek word underneath

529
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,800
this, if you were to look at it,
it would look like really

530
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,120
similar to our English word
metamorphosis.

531
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,160
I like it.
Cocoon, right?

532
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:05,600
Cocoon Chrysalis, he was trying
to say that one like a chrysalis

533
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,560
was a moth and a cocoon was a
butterfly, but that's that's not

534
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,280
the case.
Most of them are chrysalis is

535
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,120
from one understand and then a
few of them do a cocoon on top

536
00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,560
of that so.
Man transform and so and, and

537
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:21,320
this transformation, it, it
doesn't happen just by existing

538
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,960
right 'cause we're just being
conformed.

539
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,200
How do you, how, how do you
transform, speed transform?

540
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,680
It's probably the renewing of
our minds.

541
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,880
So, so your minds need to be
continually renewed.

542
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,440
And we do that through things
like God's word.

543
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,880
That's a great, great way.
It's hard to combat all this

544
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,000
other stuff.
And he gives this illustration

545
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,720
of his neighbor.
I guess they had pipes burst or

546
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:46,800
something.
If I remember.

547
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,080
And they had a Porta Potti out
front and they were like

548
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,440
renovating, renovating,
renovating.

549
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,720
And they got the house ready and
they didn't even want to live

550
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,840
there anymore.
Sold the house, a new couple

551
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,320
moves in, they meet them nice
couple where they do.

552
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,600
They immediately like redo a
bunch of the stuff And he's

553
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,200
like, man, it didn't make sense
to me or Diana because it had

554
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,120
been renovated twice now.
But the point was just like that

555
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:14,000
house was kind of under constant
renovation, our minds need

556
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,320
constant renovation.
Our sinful fleshly nature is

557
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,960
always going to kind of want to
rear its head back up and we

558
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,600
need to continually renew our
mind and like you said by by the

559
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,360
word of God.
And this is one of those

560
00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:29,560
principles that, you know,
you're going to find this all

561
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,720
throughout Scripture.
It's not like it's in one place

562
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,560
and nowhere else.
He I like he kind of just takes

563
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,320
jaunts through different parts
of Scripture where, you know,

564
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,960
it's really everywhere we look
at Joshua this, you know, I feel

565
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,280
like many people are familiar
with Joshua chapter 1 and

566
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,960
talking about, you know,
meditating on the word day and

567
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,360
night and you shall have good
success and you know, will lead

568
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,160
to this meditation.
Just chewing on the Word will

569
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,360
impact your life, that will
renew your mind, that will lead

570
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:04,120
to prosperity in God's eyes.
Psalmist 119 You can spend a lot

571
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,280
of time learning about the Word
of God.

572
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:06,240
You want to read that real
quick?

573
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,240
Just the chapter, yeah, it's 9
through 11 is what he's got

574
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:10,640
here.
But we could read the whole one.

575
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,560
We could read all of it.
No, it says, how can a young man

576
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,000
keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to your

577
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,320
word.
With all my heart I have sought

578
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,160
you.
Do not let me wander from your

579
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,800
commandments, Your word.
I have treasured in my heart

580
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,240
that I might not sin against
you.

581
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,000
And so you see that cause and
effect relationship between

582
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,120
treasuring His Word and then
living a life that is mostly

583
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,760
free from sin.
That's great.

584
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,040
And then he goes to the apostle
Peter first Peter two one

585
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,720
through 3.
So put away all malice and all

586
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,200
the sea and hypocrisy and envy
and all slander.

587
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,200
So there's this.
It's kind of saying don't be

588
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,560
conformed like you're putting
this off like newborn infants

589
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,280
long for the pure spiritual milk
that bite.

590
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,120
You may grow up into salvation
if indeed you have tasted that

591
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:58,480
the Lord is good, that having
this desire, we should long for

592
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,440
it, pursue after it.
You know, umm really want this

593
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:03,720
and that.
That's how you come out with

594
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:04,600
this.
You can't just.

595
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,520
These things are hard to fight
against without the word of God.

596
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,400
Yeah.
What's your weekly screen time

597
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:12,400
today?
Let me look at it.

598
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:13,960
You know, I think I give Jill a
run for his money.

599
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,160
Mine's a little bit less than
his.

600
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,320
No, mine's mine's way more.
I think mine's like six or seven

601
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,520
hours.
I work off of my phone, like

602
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,480
almost not exclusively on my
laptop too, but I work a lot off

603
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,400
my phone.
So that's my excuse, even though

604
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:27,920
I I think I could clean it up a
little.

605
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,240
Bit yeah, mine is in that 7 to 8
hour range as well.

606
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:37,040
And, and similar, like, you
know, every Sunday I'm on it for

607
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,120
an hour and a half doing notes
'cause I take notes on it, you

608
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:45,200
know, for and then all my audio
books, I think it's up.

609
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,640
Yeah, I and.
I I always turn on maps or Waze

610
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,200
because if you don't, you're
gonna waste 10 minutes at some

611
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,760
point going the wrong way.
You know what I mean?

612
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,480
With traffic patterns and stuff.
Even if I know where I'm going,

613
00:30:58,480 --> 00:30:59,600
I'm turning it on.
Right.

614
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,320
That, yeah.
And I think people who maybe

615
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,240
like, so relatives who live in
Arkansas, who like it doesn't

616
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,960
really matter.
It may not make sense, but there

617
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,360
are like maybe four options to
get from point A to point B in

618
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,680
the Charleston area and traffic.
Can be don't take the wrong.

619
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:15,800
Option.
Yeah, don't take the wrong

620
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,560
option.
Actually phosphate is an option.

621
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,680
IF17A if rivers of seven,
there's so many that are like

622
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,120
they're I'm like I'm checking my
GPS.

623
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,720
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but
yeah, so, but like you said,

624
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,520
probably clean up, you know, get
off the.

625
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:29,920
Phone I don't know what Pastor
Joe can clean up.

626
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,720
He was like, he was like, I I
love this.

627
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,280
He was like, I do an hour a day.
Is that bad?

628
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,000
He's like, that's my he's.
Like, I can't even believe that

629
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,640
it's an hour on my on my phone.
That's amazing.

630
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,160
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty
good.

631
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,920
But yeah, his point is more
Bible time, less screen time,

632
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,080
and then he gets some other
ideas, you know, reading the

633
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,040
Bible, obviously listening to
the Bible, listening to

634
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,760
podcasts.
I so I heard you get called out.

635
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,760
I mean.
I should have, I should have

636
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,280
just like gone up there and done
like a 2 minute pitch instead.

637
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:00,800
I didn't even say her podcast
name, right?

638
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,080
I said like, take it's the Take
Two podcast.

639
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,240
Like not even Take Two theology.
I was like, yeah, I just totally

640
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,840
butchered.
It yeah, but they probably know

641
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,960
I should be like, hey, I was
listening to Joel Sherman in the

642
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,600
community group on Facebook and
here's a link to anyone who's

643
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:20,520
wanting to to listen to the
podcast fellowshipping, you

644
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,960
know, together like a Bible
study, you know, getting

645
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:29,880
together all of those things are
going to help renew our mind and

646
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,440
really renewing our mind is is
that could be an end and of

647
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,880
itself so that we could be
transformed.

648
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:43,560
But it also has it can it's also
a means, which is the Part 2 of

649
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,000
the second verse.
It's so that we can prove what

650
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,360
the will of God is that like if
you do these things, you know

651
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,320
who you're going to marry, you
know what job you should get,

652
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,480
you know where you what state
you should live in.

653
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:55,880
Is that, is that what we're
talking about?

654
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,280
Baitum And so that's why you
name your kid Bible names

655
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,600
because then you can you can be
like, Hey, I see the name of the

656
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:02,640
Bible.
That's right.

657
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,440
No, I think, I think that I, I
like this connection that Paul

658
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,360
makes here because obviously
it's not going to say, you know,

659
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,360
physical therapist or engineer,
right?

660
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,880
But this is enough to to guide
us in those areas where we do

661
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,120
get that leeway, as long as it's
in accordance with God's work,

662
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,400
because you can't have it both
ways.

663
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:21,280
Right, right.
Yeah.

664
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,840
So, yeah, I think it's obviously
talking about his moral will

665
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,120
here.
And we'll know know what to do.

666
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,440
That is right.
And we'll be learning, we'll be

667
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,240
discerning, we'll be doing those
things.

668
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,880
And if you're doing, if you're
bringing about God's moral will

669
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,760
in your life, I mean, these
things like, Hey, do I want to

670
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be a nurse?
Don't want to be PT, Do I want

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to be a teacher?
Those things are those are not,

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I don't think God what God is
really concerned about.

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But you know, are you a loving
nurse?

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Are you, are you a godly PT?
That that that that type of

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thing.
It's great, you know, as we

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we're getting towards the end
tier, he makes the note we all

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have room for for improvement.
It's a good thing to measure

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yourself against because I think
we all can be growing in these

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areas of, you know, discernment
and being good, acceptable,

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perfect.
That's that's not you're not you

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have not arrived.
That's that's always a work, a

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work in progress.
And then it kind of appeals to

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the Moravian Church from this,
from Danny's Sunday school, his

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illustration.
Yeah, it was this guy named

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Nicholas Zinzenforth.
Let me see.

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Love the name?
Yeah, something like that.

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It's very, you know, it's, it's
a very, I mean, it's a catchy

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name, but yeah.
And so he.

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Yeah.
Zinzendorf.

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Yeah.
Nicholas Zinzendorf.

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He had this estate and he set up
a church on it and basically set

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up a prayer meeting that lasted
for 100 years.

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So people would cycle in and
out, but there was basically

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continual prayer for 100 years
that kind of launched our modern

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missions movement around the
world.

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But it all started he saw this
picture of with Christ, a

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painting of Christ at this
museum when he was like 20 years

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00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,520
old and at the bottom, and it
says, I've done this for you and

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it, you know, showed the crown
on his head and stuff.

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What have you done for me?
And so that really motivated him

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to, you know, do and and Joel
was really using it as an

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00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,240
example like we should be just
like he was motivated by what

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Christ has done for us.
We should like likewise be

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motivated.
Yeah, great, great passage to

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reflect on and think about.
And it's one of those, you know,

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it's 2 verses, we're gonna spend
a sermon on it.

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You can't do that for everything
in Romans unless you're John

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00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,000
MacArthur and spend 25 years in
Romans.

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00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,600
And but this is one of the
passages you need to slow down

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in like almost every word
matters.

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And so we're looking at
application review the mercies

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of God.
These are good things.

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00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,800
Paul spends a lot of time
developing it.

714
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,360
It's not by happenstance, it's a
good thing.

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00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,200
A lot of texts to think about,
meditate on, and read over and

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00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:57,840
over.
Yep.

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And then once you've reviewed
them, allow them to motivate you

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because if you are in Christ,
you've already been enabled.

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But you know, sometimes with
that enablement, we need a

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little bit of motivation.
And with that motivation, you

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00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,400
know, inventory your spiritual
gifting like, you know, how has

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God uniquely shaped you?
And then pair that with what are

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00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:20,120
your local needs, whether it's
in your church or in your

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00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,520
community or in your family or
in your friends circle.

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How can I be a change that God
would want me to be in in this

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00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,280
area?
Yeah, and part of that change

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00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,880
would be evaluating, are you a
holy sacrifice?

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00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,960
Is there sin in your life?
Repents change.

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00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,440
Make this change, renew your
mind.

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00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:42,160
See where you don't line up
morally and in in accordance

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with God's word and make that
change.

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All right, Well, happy 2025
there.

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We go.
Happy new year, anything else to

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add?
That's all I got all.

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Right, that's our take.
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Two.
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