Praying for Impact | 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

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Michael's coming in here with a
fashion statement.

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That's right.
Turning some heads.

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Hopefully.
Tell, tell me about this hat.

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Are you just, you know?
Yeah, I think I got it back when

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we were doing Western Day those
many years ago.

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I got some boots and this hat,
and I just thought, you know, we

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had been wearing different hats
and I thought I'd wear it the

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day that we did the cold.
I loved it.

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Yeah.
Yeah, it was great.

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It was a good look.
He should have brought the boots

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too for the cool plants.
Did it really keep the?

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How do you know I could be
wearing the boots?

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They don't know.
They don't know.

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We'll keep that to the to the
mystery.

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He could be.
I'm gonna really insulate some

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heat on that cold plunge.
Kind of really keep.

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I thought so and and I was
planning on recording a few

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podcasts that day 'cause we went
from there to recording a few

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podcasts, but I didn't think
about the earphones.

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So I got some boy.
Those are really nice.

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What are they?
Called in ears.

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They're just Apple Apple.
The normal, you know, 8.5mm.

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Jacket You feel pretty, pretty
like, you know, like you're a

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cowboy walking around.
I kind of feel like a cross

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between a cowboy and Indiana
Jones, you know, You know.

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Oh.
Yeah, do you have a whip?

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I don't, no.
I think Jonathan Compton has

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one, or had one 'cause you used
to be able to do that.

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Yeah, we used to be like people,
like I grew up in a church that

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did things like revivals and
some of the for whatever reason,

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I feel like we had evangelists
that like used whips and it was

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like a big or like BBS and used
it as a big part.

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Like we had some crazy and like
kids would be scared into

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getting saved.
But the the whips were like

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amazing.
And they were so loud.

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But that's.
So funny to me, but you know,

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the end of the whip, what makes
that sound?

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Do you know?
I don't know.

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It's because the tail end of
that whip goes faster than the

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speed of sound when it gets when
it's because it's like it rolls

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and it it, you know, whips it
whip literally whips the tail

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end of it around and it cracks.
That crack is the Sonic boom.

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Man, I, I should have looked
this up.

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I'll try to, I'm gonna try to
find out this guy.

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But there's a guy who came like
a whip would do like all these

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whip things.
Vacation Bible school.

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Then we had a guy, I might have
said this on a podcast earlier,

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but he was like a, a knife
thrower and he'd be like, kids

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get up there.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

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Are you saved?
I'm I'm kind of dramatizing it a

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little bit, but it was
terrifying.

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A lot of kids came back for
during the invitation, if you

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know what I'm saying.
We had record numbers.

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I don't know, but it's like this
guy, he was, he was a real.

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Guy approves, he I'm sure he
approves.

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Mustache and he was like, I
mean, it wasn't like, you know

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those videos you see where it's
like kids are up there and

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they're they're like threading
the needle.

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He wasn't like that like he
would built in more here I have

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someone stand up there and like
hit a balloon that wasn't like

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right on their head, but it was
still like it was like tiny kids

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kind of the parents to.
Be trusting in your skills, like

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you better know how to throw
that knife because I mean, one,

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it's one thing for an adult to
consent to have a knife thrown

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at you.
I don't know, like legally a

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child can't consent to a knife
being thrown at them.

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I'm not that.
Old, but a lot, I feel like a

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lot's changed with like our, you
know, we had like a bus

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ministry, picking up kids all
the time off the street and

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stuff.
A lot of things would not work

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in today's culture, 'cause
you're right.

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I mean, I I played a lot of
basketball in my life.

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I'm pretty good at dribbling.
But guess what?

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Sometimes I dribbled off my
foot.

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Like you don't want to make that
mistake.

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Maybe you're nailing it 100
times out of 101 that one time

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that you throw it and it doesn't
go where.

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Maybe he's so good that his
misses are our you know, he's

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aiming for a spot that's like
right here.

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His miss is here, but that's
still this far.

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Away, that's true.
Hopefully that that's what it

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is, yeah.
I I'm, I'm glad the hat we just,

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you know, really did you ever
have any crazy evangelist

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revivals, VBS people that, that
those are probably the the IT

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wasn't like every summer was
like that, but it was we, we had

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some crazy ones.
No, we had this guy named Gerald

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Mitchell.
He would preach a lot of

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revivals and that we would say
in Jill's family, we, we

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remember him.
I think he's passed on now, but

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he was we, we, we looked back at
him finally.

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But one of the things he would
say is young people come up to

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me and they say, I want to be
saved.

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And I say, well, do it.
Don't just talk about it.

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And so.
And and I feel like come.

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Back to Brother Mitchell, I I.
Love it.

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I feel like every revival was at
least the ones we had did have

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like a certain cadence, did have
like a certain act.

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Like the way they talked
himself.

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It was like they were just like
hammering it home.

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And I guess, you know, and they
had really a lot of times, I

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mean, really powerful messages.
I think, you know, you say

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something 80 times like you just
go around saying this and you

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get like you nail it.
And it was like so dramatic when

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I've got got some some good
stories about, you know, really,

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really, definitely on the guilt
side of things, really trying to

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guilt it to get.
Sick.

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I mean, there's bad news.
That's true.

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There's bad news.
So would you say, you know,

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let's talk about that, Whip?
Yeah, yeah.

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Hopefully it never hit anyone.
Never.

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Oh, never impacted.
But but the whip was like, I

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don't know what the normal size
of a whip was, but it was a

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pretty long whip.
Like it like we were in a

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gymnasium and people work in the
state.

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Like you had to have a lot of
space.

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Right, I've seen people do it
with chains.

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Like literal metal chains it but
the knives they impacted.

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I see what you're saying.
Impact the kids, right?

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Yeah, not it did not impact what
a great segue just connecting

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the sermon, which spoiler alert,
not in Romans this.

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Week not in Romans.
So we are looking forward to a

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missions conference and so I
think we picked out these

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verses. 2nd, 2nd Thessalonians
111 through 12 as kind of our

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theme verses for missions
conference.

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And lo and behold, they talk
about having an impact.

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Boom, boom, there we go that we
want to have.

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So let's take it to the next
level.

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From the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
Missions conference is always

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kind of a highlight at
Charleston Bible Church.

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A lot of emphasis is given over
to it.

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And so Pastor Joel, like you
mentioned in the intro, kind of

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set in the way prepping us for
missions conference, taking this

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detour.
And he'll say this kind of thing

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a lot with his normal sermons
too.

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But it's like we don't want this
to come and go to be a blip, but

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something we want to work with
throughout the year, not just

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say something and move on, but
let it impact our lives in a in

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a really significant way.
Yeah, and specifically

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mentioned, and I, I hope I'm not
stealing any of our Thunder, but

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he's talking about not not only
our missions conference, but we

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have a missions trip to Cuba.
And you know, there's four

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younger guys going and you know
that that would have impact, you

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know, on us as a church, on them
as they go and then on the

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church that we're ministering it
to in Cuba.

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So we're always looking for
lasting stuff.

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And that's why I appreciate
about Joel and about, you know,

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everyone at CBC who leads a
ministry.

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Like it's not just activity for
activity's sake.

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Like we're wanting to be
conformed to the image of of God

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and through that have impact on
ourselves, on our families, on

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our community, and ultimately on
the world.

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And.
And so we're in Second

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Thessalonians.
It's not First Thesalonians.

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It's not first.
Because there's no, there's no

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verses, I think 11 or 12 in
chapter. 1.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can be.
You can be searching for those

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for a while.
And really, Paul is writing to

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give this church hope.
So Pastor Joel kind of opens up

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with his illustration from David
Jeremiah from I, It's from a

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book, Slaying the giants in your
life, I don't know, or.

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Honestly I took what Pastor Joel
said and gave it to ChatGPT

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because he didn't have a slide
because I was.

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Where did this come from?
So ChatGPT says it comes from

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slaying the giants in your life.
But but.

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That's pretty good work, you
know.

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The best I could do so.
And and it centered on on this

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concept of hope, like what what
can a human take talking about

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this person lost a lot, a lot of
bad things had happened.

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We've looked at some of it, some
of it here.

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This guy Lewis Hanratty was
nearly electrocuted to death.

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His lawyers did did not turn
well in in court, Lost his wife,

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lost his car, lost his
apartment, lost workers comp,

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everything that could go wrong
basically did go wrong with this

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guy.
Yep.

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And I, and I think he was, they
asked him how he made it

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through.
And he's like, well, there's.

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Always there's there's always
something.

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I mean, I've been in far less
terrible situation like this is

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hopeless and and just trying to
connect that to it's.

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Like a modern day job.
Yeah, that's whoo.

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That is a lot going on where if
you read through 1st and 2nd

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Thessalonians, you'll you'll
notice that Paul writes a lot

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about Christ's return hits.
It hits it unusually heavy in

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these two letters.
And and that's part of what

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Paul's trying to say.
Hey, there is hope.

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Things are not always going to
be perfect here and now, but but

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our hope is looking forward to
Christ's return.

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Yeah, and I think specifically,
you know, first Thess is written

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because they're concerned about
those who died and before

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Christ's return.
But and because I think they had

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an expectation of a more
immediate return.

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It's like, what about these
people who died?

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And you know, there's this
famous passage, you know, the

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dead in Christ will rise 1st and
then these those of us who

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remain will be caught up
together in the air.

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So we will be forever changed.
So Paul's giving them hope and

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then second theft, this book
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really like, oh, what if the
second comings already happened

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and we missed it?
And and that's where he says,

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you know, this isn't going to
come about until the, the, all

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these things happen 1st.
And so really the goal of both

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of these is to give them hope in
troubled times and when you're

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get near to the end of times or
in death, like, what's that hope

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that we can have?
And so really, he's writing to

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help start them on and to give
him that hope.

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And so let's outline these two
verses, verses 11:00 to 12:00.

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We'll give an outline and we'll
read the passage title, the

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sermon, Praying for impacts.
Because what what we'll see here

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is, you know, Paul, he gives a
series of petitions, 3 different

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petitions that that he's
praying, he'll move on to what?

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What's the goal?
Why am I petitioning God for

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these things?
Then how does it get done?

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What's the means of fulfillment?
So that kind of gives us an

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outline.
It kind of works pretty

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logically.
What's the amount?

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What's the goal?
What's the means?

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So, Michael, if you want to go
ahead and read these two verses,

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we'll hit it.
Yeah, it says.

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To this end also, we pray for
you always, that God, that our

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God will count you worthy of
your calling and fulfill every

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desire for goodness and the work
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name of our Lord Jesus will be
glorified in you and you and him

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according to the grace of our
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Praying for impact, that's the
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kind of how this passage opens
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We also pray for you always.
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Christ being glorified.
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with this passage, but that if
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we've got it.
We got to be praying for these

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God uses prayer.

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emphasize prayer, you're
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results because that's what God
uses something we're trying to

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emphasize very heavily at
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number of different ways.
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kind of put together this
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associate pastor's been working
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get a bunch of churches to come
together to be praying

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throughout the month.
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time midweek to emphasize a
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with prayer meetings.
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And we have a quote here from J
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highlighting something that
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he says no great spiritual
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the world apart from united with
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So there's this, you know, all
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have happened because people
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prayer.
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know, so prayer, maybe we can
talk just a few minutes about

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pray Charleston 'cause there,
there could be people well in

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Charleston, but around the world
that might want to start

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something different.
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are banding together to try to
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that people can sign up for and

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they can pray.
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you're working second and third
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times that may be less
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But, you know, there's nothing
wrong with waking up praying for

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an hour, going back to bed once
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seems very doable and
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And I, I've also asked this in
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personally.
Yeah, it made me like if there,

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if there were a number of
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because we have a lot of
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say whatever day of the week,
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just pick one day of the week.
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maybe that's not it, where we'll
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to 1:00 and you just show up and
if you want to, you're a person

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of prayer.
You don't have to be a member of

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this church.
But because we're all spread

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out, like, not all of us work
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I could go to, you know,
Riverside Baptist or something,

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go in, spend 30 minutes in
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people all over the city were
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think there'd be value in that
for transforming us and

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transforming our city,
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nation.
Yeah, I, I love this concept a

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lot.
It's it's going to kick off I

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think in October.
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idea from there was, you know,
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sure to other cities as well,
but I think I think that's good,

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gives us a little bit more of a
awareness of brothers and

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sisters in Christ.
So let's get back to the the

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sermon and look at the series of
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The first petition has to do
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of your calling.
And so we're about to throw a

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lot of shade at the Carolina
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So if you're a fan of buckles
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probably the Panthers feel what

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we're about to say, too.
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we could talk about how this
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I think part of it is we're just
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quarterbacks in too early and
then they're losing the

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confidence they're getting in
their mind, they're getting, you

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know, physically harmed.
But if you're a Carolina Panther

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fan and you've heard me say
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where this is going.
But you have this quarterback,

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Bryce Young from Alabama.
I've heard it's an OK school for

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a while in football.
I think it's on the downside.

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Not like the Patriots, but they
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him and they traded a lot of
their picks to get to this first

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round picked.
And recently, I guess this was a

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couple Sundays ago, booed by
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That's tough, Yeah, when you
don't have your home crowd

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wasn't starting last, you know,
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this.
And we kind of know how that

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went because we're recording
this a little bit after it

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ended.
We should pretend like we're

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predicting the future and
people, really.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This.

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What is his name?
Annie Dalton.

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Annie Dalton and and the way I
don't like the way Pastor said

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he's like some old 35 year old
quarterback.

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I was like, I'm getting
dangerously close to 35, but he

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did very well.
He did very well.

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Yeah, he did.
Did very well.

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And so, you know, the question,
you know, why are we talking

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about this football player?
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know, give us a practical idea
of the Panthers in a sense

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called Bryce Young to their
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And he sacrificed a lot for it.
And then the question is, was he

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worth this calling that they
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Because in the same way, much
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Christians, Christ sacrificed a
lot for us to quote UN quote,

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get us on his team.
Now, are we walking in a manner

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that's worthy of that calling?
And that's a that's a tough

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question 'cause we probably all
feel that we fall short every

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now and then.
And I mean, I'm not going to get

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into it, but like you mentioned
it, I don't know how much we

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blame the offensive line.
I don't know where that analogy

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goes in the spiritual world.
But speaking about this calling,

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it's something we've kind of
talked about a lot in, in the

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past weeks.
But in one sense, you know,

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when, when we're called, we're
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Christ by being a Christian, by
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Christ, we have access to all
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We just had a bunch of them in
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You start with Romans 5, you go
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peace that were adopted.
We have the spirits.

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We have so many different things
by by being incorrect.

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That's one part of it where
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By being connected to Christ, we
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And then in another sense, we've
got some work to do.

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We're called to do certain
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Some of these things are very
obvious, even though I think

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most of us get hung up on the
obscure things that were called

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to, you know what I mean?
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So the Great Commission and I
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I don't remember who it was that
that really said the Great

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Commission, we should stop
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We should call it the everyday
Commission because we shouldn't

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think of it as something that
is, you know, we're ascending to

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the mountains to do 'cause
really we're being called to

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make disciples for Christ and
baptize them, teaching them to

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obey everything.
So that really includes these

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two ideas of evangelism and
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Like we need to go, you know,
help centers become Christ's

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followers and then help Christ's
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It's kind of like what we talk
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CBC.
So we have the great or the

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everyday Commission and then
Ephesians 210, you know, it's 28

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and 9.
You know, we were by grace

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you're saved, not through faith.
That of it was a gift.

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So it's not of yourself so that
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It's a pretty close quote, but
then Ephesians 10 will go on to

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say, and do you have it there?
Do you want to read Ephesians

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10?
So I'm not just loosely quoting.

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This is the ESV, so you might
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would be OK, for we are his
workmanship created in Christ

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Jesus for good works which God
prepared beforehand that we

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should walk in them.
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workmanship is poema, which is
eventually becomes where we get

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the word poem from.
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the fallacy that we would just,
oh, that just means we're the

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poem, 'cause you might hear
people say that, but it has that

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same idea.
Like if you've ever written

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poetry, you have to really work
at getting the meter and the

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rhyming scheme and doesn't make
sense and, and all of those

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things.
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workmanship, like God has put a
lot of work into us.

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So go walk through the good
works that he has for us that,

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you know, he didn't save us just
so that we could be dumb, fat

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and happy.
He saved us to go, you know, do

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stuff for the Kingdom.
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an Air Commission.
Another place we can look in in

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Scripture is Bible's filled with
all these one another's and

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that's one of those things you
know you are called to do.

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You're called to, you know, love
with one other bear birds

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without another it the list
really goes on and off.

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You're looking for things to do.
That's a good, good word study.

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Just do that.
Put up to your life and say,

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Hey, am I doing this?
Because those are for sure

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things that you are called to
walk in.

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That's good.
So are you worthy?

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And, and really what we should
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that finish line that we would
hear those words, well done,

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good and faithful servant.
And you know, if you think about

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where those were said, they were
said in a parable where you had

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one servant who took his talent,
took his resources.

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He didn't make use of those
resources.

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He didn't do the things that he
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And Jesus really excoriates him.
He's like, you know, you're a

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worthless servant.
Like take what he has and give

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it to someone else.
And but the other ones, he says,

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well done, good and faithful
servant, and that it's a little

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bit scary to make sure that
you're using your gifts for the

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Kingdom and and that you are,
you know, working as much as you

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can, motivated out of love for
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Yeah, that, that, that's great.
And if we look at maybe how Paul

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would say this in another part
part of scripture, looking at

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second Timothy, you know, we're
getting to the end of Paul's

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life and he's basically saying,
Timothy, you've got to be

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willing to to die for the
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He talks about where he is at in
life and writes for I am already

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being poured out as a drink
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And the time of my departure has
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I have fought the good fight.
I have finished the course.

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I have kept the faith in the
future.

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There is laid up for me the
crown of righteousness, which

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the Lord, the righteous judge
will award to me on that day,

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not only to me, but also to all
who have loved his appearing

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some good encouragement that you
know, with there's some there's

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some fight, there's a there's a
good fight to be active in and

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that there there are rewards and
and Paul saying, Hey, I've, I've

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done this, you know, do do what
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just for me, but all who are
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They they will take part in this
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Alright, so first petition was
that we would be worthy of Our

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Calling.
Second petition that God would

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fulfill every desire.
This is great.

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I I like this 1A.
Lot.

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Yeah.
So that means tubas can't wait.

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Cars, you know.
Oh, I forgot every desire for

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goodness.
Is is the rest qualifier.

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That's that's important makes
makes this connection with

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really how we got our youth
group is called resolve kind of

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comes out of this out of this
passage.

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And I heard someone say, was
this your comment?

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Someone at Home group said, man,
Impact was said a lot during

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this sermon, but no mention of
our group of the college group

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called Impact.
But now we're going to go to

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this like a version of that.
We don't even use the resolve to

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get to the youth group name, but
you know it, it is the exact

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verse that Resolve gets their
name from.

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So I guess it's OK.
And and did.

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You want to lodge any
complaints?

453
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,320
I I for the record, it was not
me that brought up at home

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groups, but I'm I'm happy it.
May have been, may have been

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Chloe or or Christopher.
It seemed like one of them we're

456
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,680
talking about.
That's great.

457
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And kind of looking at this word
desire, ESP resolve, pastor's

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really pushing the point that we
need to, we need to dream big

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00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,800
with our desires.
But you know, like you said,

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00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,440
qualify it.
We need to think about it and

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00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,320
goodness and the light of the
Kingdom of God, But don't don't

462
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,200
limit it and say, well, you
know, I'll, I'll do this or

463
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,400
that, but dream really, really
big and align those desires

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00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,000
with, with God's well, because
God does work in big ways.

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And we often don't think in
those terms or pray in those

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terms.
Yeah, And I'll just quick

467
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,520
reference the Martins.
I've referenced them before on

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00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,640
this podcast.
They were a big impact on me

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00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:12,080
when I was end of high school,
growing in in the college, a

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kind of a local Arkansas music
group.

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But they have a song called
Dream Big, and it's kind of

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based on this idea of dreaming
big for God.

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So if you don't know it, go out
and find it on Spotify or Amazon

474
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,960
or YouTube.
But yeah, go listen to Dream Big

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00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,840
by the Martins.
That, that, that's great.

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00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,400
Now I'll say what what I like
about that is that God does put

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00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,080
desires in your heart.
You have to discern that a

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little bit and make sure they
are oriented toward toward

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goodness.
But it's not.

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00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,760
I mean, those things work in
tandem that you should run after

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00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,560
those things because I think I
think God uses those in amazing

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00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,240
way.
But that that brings us to our

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00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,600
third petition that God will
fulfill your works of faith

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powerfully.
Kind of on the same idea of

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00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,920
dream big.
We've got this idea of power

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00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,880
kind of parallels.
Pastor Dole makes the point with

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00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,400
this second petition.
If you're reading it, you kind

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00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,200
of see they're kind of put in
there together.

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00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:08,960
And it's really not just about
getting by the same idea.

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It's about thriving and
flourishing and really

491
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,480
conquering, being victorious,
Not, not just, you know,

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00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,200
staying, keeping your head above
water.

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00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,280
Right.
Yeah, and Joel mentioned this

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00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:26,240
prayer at the end of Ephesians 3
that ends with, you know, God

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00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,200
can do far more abundantly
beyond all that we can ask or

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00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:34,000
think and when.
So I used this recently because

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00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,760
Joel reached out to the elders
for our definition of which

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00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,440
we'll get to on our Thursday
podcast of Walking with the

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00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,000
Spirit.
And Joel and I traded some

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00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000
emails with the rest of y'all
off 'cause I can't kind of gave

501
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,920
him some more.
And then afterwards I was like,

502
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,640
this is probably far more bone
beyond all that you could ask

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00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,800
for thought that you would get
from me on this definition of

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00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,840
walking on the spirit.
But that's what we're that's

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00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:02,960
what we're called to do is to to
dream big and to not think that

506
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:07,880
God is limited with resources.
And so I, you know, there's no

507
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:12,720
promises made because you know
God has his will on how he's

508
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,440
going to accomplish things.
But you know, if you're walking

509
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,760
where God wants you to, there's
really no limit to what He can

510
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,160
accomplish in you and through
you for His Kingdom.

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00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,240
That those are good words to to
remember and try to put some

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00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,200
flesh on this.
Think of some examples.

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00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,360
We talked about this Cuba team.
We've got some, you know, young

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00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,720
men going on this and what we
really desire do a lot of good

515
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,600
work in Cuba that's good.
But not just that, but that

516
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,560
lives would be transformed both,
both through maybe this ministry

517
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,640
in Cuba and people that are
going on on this trip that, you

518
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,640
know, they're they're at this
stage in life where they're

519
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,000
young.
They've got, I mean, it's

520
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,640
cliche, but their whole life
ahead of them.

521
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:58,000
And it's like, man, this can be
instrumental in the life of, of

522
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,240
how God, God can use them.
Another one, we're kind of in

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00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,800
kids club.
Your your daughter's very

524
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,040
involved in this.
Yeah, yeah.

525
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,200
So kids Club, it used to be
Connect Kids.

526
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,000
I think that organization
folded.

527
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,120
So we have, we came up with a
very original name kids connect

528
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,520
to to carry it on.
But really there was a little

529
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,240
bit of a quote UN quote fight to
get into the school.

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00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,160
They, they can't legally keep
you out, but you don't want to

531
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,200
just, you know, you want to win
friends and influence people.

532
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,640
So, you know, we were working to
get into that school.

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And as we've gotten into that
school, we have seen

534
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,880
transformation.
You know, some of the kids have

535
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,400
gotten kind of attached to
Chloe.

536
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,440
She does crafts there and stuff,
but it's not just about, you

537
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,720
know, giving them a good
afternoon, you know, helping

538
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,120
them.
You know it as good as that is

539
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:49,840
giving them some love in that
time, but it's really showing

540
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:54,640
them here is Jesus and we want
to transform your lives and we

541
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,640
want that transformation to
transform your parents lives and

542
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:02,440
to have this ripple effect where
you know, us delivering, you

543
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:08,800
know, some snacks and some songs
and the gospel like those things

544
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,400
would have a huge multi
generational transformation in

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00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,440
these lives of these kids.
Yeah, great, great way to impact

546
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,840
the city.
And and Pastor Jill pulls up

547
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,800
this quote.
Is it Nancy Spiegelberg?

548
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,000
Spiegelberg.
Spiegelberg.

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00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,400
I think you're good.
And and she she talks about,

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00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,920
I'll just read the quote.
Lord, I crawled across the

551
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,800
bareness to you with my empty
cup, uncertain but asking for

552
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,680
any small drop of refreshment.
I think a lot of people can kind

553
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,520
of resonate to that, like, Lord,
just give me something.

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00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,400
And her response is so good.
If only I had known, she says,

555
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,680
if I only had known you better,
I'd have come running with a

556
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,800
bucket because there's so much
that that was poured out.

557
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,240
And you know, you hear in the
Gospels, you, you know, O ye of

558
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,880
little faith.
It's like, man, we should expect

559
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,880
big things because our God is a
big God.

560
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,760
So that kind of wraps up the
three petitions.

561
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:00,880
Yep.
So first.

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00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,520
One, God will count you worthy.
Second one, that God will

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00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,320
fulfill all your desires for
goodness.

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00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,840
Third one, God will fulfill your
works of faith powerfully.

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00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,520
And then the goal, if you look
back at the text, is that the

566
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,120
name of our Lord, just Christ,
Lord Jesus Christ would be

567
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,960
glorified in you and you in him.
So this is a both.

568
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,280
And it's like we want to
represent Christ well and so

569
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:25,800
that he would be glorified in
us.

570
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,280
But that man, we would, you
know, boast in Christ.

571
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,240
That's what Paul would say.
It's like I don't want to boast

572
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,960
in anything but in in Christ and
and make that known for us.

573
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,520
And it helps we back up a little
bit.

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00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,040
We'll, we'll read verses 6
through 8 to kind of help us

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00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,760
understand this a little better,
get a little more context.

576
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,720
Paul writes, You also became
imitators of us and of the Lord,

577
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,920
having received the word in much
tribulation with the joy of the

578
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,560
Holy Spirit, so that you may
become an example to all the

579
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,400
believers in Macedonia and in
Achaea.

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00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,760
For the word of the Lord has
sounded forth from you not only

581
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,080
in Macedonia and Achaea, but
also in every place your faith

582
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,840
toward God has gone forth, so
that we have no need to say

583
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,520
anything.
Always good to you know, you're

584
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,120
you take a couple verses kind of
kind of Riddle before a little

585
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,160
bit after and you can kind of
see what what Paul's really

586
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,800
driving home when it when it
comes to the goal of the of what

587
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,480
he goes on to say that we
covered Yep.

588
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,800
So we have those 3 petitions.
The goal, like we said, was that

589
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,760
the Lord Jesus Christ be
glorified in you, you and him.

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00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,280
How is that going to happen?
Well, he goes on to say

591
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,160
according to the grace of our
God and Lord Jesus Christ.

592
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,360
So we know that ultimately this
is unmerited favor that God

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00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,760
extends toward us.
And it's just, you know, it's of

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00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,640
God when when all this works
together.

595
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,600
And as we get to the kind of the
end of the sermon gives this

596
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,720
really striking illustration.
It sounds very terrible.

597
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,440
I'm going to you can say the
name like I'm going to butcher

598
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,240
this this Russian.
Theodor Dostoyevsky.

599
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,560
Dostoyevsky.
Yeah, he wrote a number of

600
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,520
books, I think.
Warren Peace maybe I, I, I

601
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,120
probably The Three Brothers
Karamov, he wrote.

602
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,680
So.
He, he was sentenced to

603
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,320
execution by a firing squad in
the mid 1800s.

604
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,080
And you know, you hear stories
of people just trying to break

605
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,120
you down.
This was actually a mock

606
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,880
execution where he just thought
he was going to die and he

607
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,600
didn't.
And, and kind of reflecting on

608
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,520
it, looking back, he kind of
mentions that he has this

609
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:32,360
greater appreciation for life.
There's a quote from from the

610
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,520
story that says this.
This guy was living in the face

611
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,640
of death, and later he would
confess that he had lived more

612
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,840
than what he had been convinced
were the last moments of his

613
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,840
life than he had ever lived
before.

614
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,160
Each moment and each experience
leading up to that mox execution

615
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,960
had been seized with passion,
and he had tried to suck out of

616
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,480
what remained of life all that
could possibly give.

617
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,040
He had learned in the face of
death to live out the ancient

618
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,280
Latin admonition, carpe diem,
seize the day.

619
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,440
Seize the day.
So it kind of had the opposite

620
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,320
effect because they're trying to
break him down and he's like,

621
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:07,040
man, it just made me appreciate
everything all the more.

622
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,880
Like each moment became
basically a lifetime of OK,

623
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,160
this, I'm going to savor this.
I'm going to enjoy this.

624
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,800
I'm going to make the most of
that.

625
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,800
And in a sense, that's kind of
what it should be for us.

626
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,400
Like we should seize the day.
We should see each moment as a a

627
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,640
time where we can and, and we
talk.

628
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,600
We're talking big.
Yeah.

629
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,400
Yeah, yeah.
But sometimes it's, you know,

630
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,400
I'm going to seize the day.
I'm going to show Christ to my

631
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,240
child.
I'm going to show Christ to my

632
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,720
spouse.
I'm going to walk in a way that

633
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:41,000
loves them, shows Jesus to them.
And in so doing, you know,

634
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,080
fulfill what we're being called
to do.

635
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,560
And sometimes that's in the the
small things of Christ.

636
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,720
So dream big.
But you know, you also have to

637
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,960
walk like where bloom where
you're planted.

638
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,320
And right now you may be planted
in a home with little toddlers

639
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:57,320
and stuff.
Yeah.

640
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:58,560
You talking to me?
I'm just kidding.

641
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,120
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm talking to my wife.

642
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,960
There you go.
Yeah, that that's that's good.

643
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,200
Because I think through all this
talk, some of that, some of that

644
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,440
can get lost.
And this is such an encouraging

645
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,560
passage.
And we've heard this quote

646
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,280
probably a million times.
It's really good.

647
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,280
Only one life and soon it's
passed.

648
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,520
Only what's done for Christ will
last.

649
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,560
Make make the most of this life.
Seize the day.

650
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,600
I'm not always easy, but but I
think God does work with our

651
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,320
desires.
There's this tension and you

652
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,120
know, it's like anything else
that's worthwhile.

653
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,480
Take some work, but it is
worthwhile and you can look back

654
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,880
and there is a joy.
It's kind of hard to articulate

655
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,440
that, but I think, you know, if
you've done many hard things in

656
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,720
life, you can you can see that.
So let's move to application.

657
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,000
The first easy application is
pray this passage.

658
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,880
This is a prayer.
Pray it.

659
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,040
We were encouraged to pray this
heading into our missions

660
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,800
conference.
To teens and really could be

661
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,400
anyone but teens.
Do you have any big dreams about

662
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,800
God working through your life?
Parents, 'cause this can be

663
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,600
scary.
Are you instilling those dreams?

664
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:08,040
Are you open to your teen maybe
going to Japan for 36 years?

665
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,960
You know, that would be, you
know that.

666
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,360
But we sang a song today.
You know what would be too great

667
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:20,080
a cost to give someone, you
know, who's lost the the gospel?

668
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,679
So yeah #3 would you feel
comfortable standing before God

669
00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:26,320
and having him evaluate your
lives?

670
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,719
I think none of us are going to
say yes.

671
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,920
And are there changes that need
to be made at the end of Jude?

672
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,440
You know, he says that he will
make you to stand in his

673
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,400
presence boldly.
And then, you know, OK, all

674
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,960
right, I'll, I'll be able to
stand before him, not because of

675
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,800
who I am, but because of who he
is and and what he's done for

676
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,840
me.
I like this one much better.

677
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,920
I thought the other question was
great but it makes me I'm not

678
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,520
feeling comfortable.
Like application for what

679
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,400
desires for goodness do you
have?

680
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,960
Are you praying for them?
I think this is good to, you

681
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,960
know, you can make a list, think
through things, things are not

682
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,600
going to work out.
But I, I think if you are

683
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,480
praying for God's will to be
done through you, you'll find

684
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:10,680
things that you can participate
in.

685
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:11,760
That doesn't have to be
drudgery.

686
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,640
It doesn't have to be like the
worst things in, in the world.

687
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,680
And we'll round it out with
application #5 are you able to

688
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,160
look at your life and very
specifically see works you are

689
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:25,360
engaged in for your faith?
I think, oh, in a way similar to

690
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,840
question 3, it's good to
evaluate this yourself because

691
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,200
we're all going to all going to
fail in this area.

692
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,040
One wants us people to see, you
know, God, God has worked in you

693
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,080
to do some of these good, good
works that he has prepared

694
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,280
beforehand.
Are you actively engaged in

695
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,120
these?
No, I think those are great

696
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,760
questions and I think it's good
to struggle a little bit.

697
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:52,080
Like I want to be balanced here
because and maybe sometimes

698
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,160
we're not called to balance, you
know, sometimes we're called to

699
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,440
really just go all the, all the
way.

700
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,800
But there, you know, again, I,
there's got to be some balance

701
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:08,080
'cause you know, your life is
not necessarily called to look

702
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,200
like, you know, someone else's
life.

703
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,920
And, and so, but it's good to
take a step back and go, all

704
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,040
right, am I doing what I should
be doing?

705
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:21,080
Am I living a lot?
Are there places where I am, you

706
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,600
know, kind of missing it?
How can I change that?

707
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,040
And it could be in the things
that you do, but it could also

708
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,680
be in, you know, the reflection
of the fruit of the Spirit, You

709
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:34,280
know, am I really being gentle?
Am I really being kind?

710
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:35,640
Am I really being
long-suffering?

711
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,160
So all those things, I think
it's good to take an inventory

712
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,400
and then go, OK, God, show me
where I'm not measuring up.

713
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,800
Help me to, to, to measure up.
Yeah.

714
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,800
I think I think that is great
heading into missions

715
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,880
conference.
Any parting words?

716
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,560
No, I think that's it.
Well, be on the lookout for some

717
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,880
more missions conference content
in the future, but that's our

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take.
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Two.
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