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 Tonight I'm going to be talking about sonship, man as a son.

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! So basically to start I want to give a quick intro, a little bit of background.

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 So I actually moved here in January 2012. I was living in Mexico at the time. I had just kind of gotten right with the Lord. And I didn't have much direction. I didn't have much of a plan for my life.

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 And I was talking to my older brother Tony, who was in Mexico. He's been friends with Josh for a while. And he was like, hey man, Josh is about to start doing some men's training in Kansas City with a bunch of guys.

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 And he's going to be born into a small, back then a small group of guys, probably five, six guys or something. And he's like, hey, consider moving to Kansas City and jumping in with those guys.

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 They were just starting a new church plant at their house. And so I moved in with them. And that was January 2012. And then shortly after we did our first man camp.

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 And I don't know how many we've done since then, 15 years, almost every year, maybe. There might have been a few years we've skipped or whatever.

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 But anyway, I've been a part of all the man camps. I've attended all of them.

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 And one of the things about man camp, or one of the things about men's training and talking about what it looks like and what it is to be, what it means to be a biblical man

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 and live in accordance with what God says in his scriptures is, every time I went to man camp, there's always something new.

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 Like you can hear it. It doesn't matter how many times you hear it. You're in a different stage of life.

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 There's always something new. Like it's wild. Like you think, I've heard it all.

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 No, no, no, no. It's really, really sweet material. Very curated. And so, really excited about this man camp.

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 So, anyway, that's a little bit of the back story. I've been very blessed. I've been very blessed by man camp.

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 And I can actually confidently say that it is, attending, being part of men's training has actually changed the course of my life.

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 Like I've, it really has. It's, I've been very blessed to benefit over and over and over from this material.

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 So, if you can, if you're here tonight, you should really try and make it to the other eight weeks because it's awesome.

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 And invite your friends. We've got a bunch of flyers back there. So, grab them, invite your friends.

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 So, to kind of get into this, I'm going to give somewhat of a brief overview of what we're going to get into.

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 Kind of an opening statement. This is kind of what I'm going to be focusing on is,

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 so, we have a great need today for men to understand what it means to become sons, then brothers, then fathers.

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 Right? This is a great need in our culture, in our society, in our lives.

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 This is an incredible, incredibly great need.

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 We, men, today, we as men need to get this right.

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 We cannot treat this lightly. We shouldn't.

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 Yeah, we really, really, very, very important.

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 To start off, I want to kind of, I actually want to, I want to give some statistics.

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 I'm sure a lot of you know, or have heard a lot of these statistics, whatever, but,

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 I kind of want to talk about the fatherlessness problem we have before we get into sonship.

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 Because I think it really, it's kind of a foundational reason for why we're even doing this.

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 So, we have to understand what it means to be a son first, then brother, then fathers, eventually.

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 So, I'm just going to start off by just reading some statistics about fatherlessness in our country, in our culture.

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 So, fatherlessness affects approximately 18 to 24 million children in the U.S.

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 who live without the relative fathers.

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 Crisis linked to higher risk of poverty.

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 So, this, the, the, the, yeah, it, it leads to all kinds of chaos and destruction when we, when men miss it on this topic, okay?

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 Behavioral disorders, incarceration, substance abuse.

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 It's just a huge social problem here in our, in our society, culturally.

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 And, so, a few statistics.

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 Again, this is roughly 33% of children in our country, 24.7 million, live in homes without their biological father.

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 Behavior, this is behavioral and mental health.

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 85% of children with behavioral disorders and 60, 60% of youth suicides come from fatherless homes, okay?

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 Incarceration and crime.

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 Boys and father, father absent homes are twice as likely to serve time in jail by age 30.

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 With fatherlessness being a stronger predicator of incarceration than poverty.

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 So, education, 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.

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 So, girls face an eight times higher risk of teenage pregnancy and higher risks of depression overall.

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 Boys often struggle with direction, discipline, and emotional regulation, okay?

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 So, lack of a father in our, in our lives is, it just greatly impacts our culture, our society, everything.

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 Again, it's going to, it leaves, it causes men to abandon, leave their, leave their wives, leave their kids.

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 Non-marital child, non-marital childbearing, incarceration, all this stuff.

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 Unbelievable, the ripple effects of when, when men get this wrong, okay?

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 So, we, we want to combat that.

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 This is, so, to, but to start, we need to understand what it is to be a son, what it means.

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 So, we're going to get into it.

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 Isaiah 43, verses 6 and 7 says,

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 Bring my sons, this is God speaking,

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 Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth,

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 everyone who is called by my name and whom I have created for my glory,

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 whom I have formed, even who I have made.

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 So, whom I have created for my glory, this is key.

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 Man is the glory of God.

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 Man was created to glorify God with our lives.

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 It's the purpose of man, to glory, glorify God.

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 So, we need to point and give glory with our lives to God.

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 This is our aim.

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 This is our purpose.

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 This is our reason for existence, okay?

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 So, if we get this off,

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 our lives are utterly, like, we will have missed the mark, okay?

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 Very, very important.

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 Apart from coming into a bright relationship with our Heavenly Father,

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 our lives will add up to a big pile of nothing.

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 We will have missed the mark.

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 We just wouldn't have.

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 We will not fulfill the purpose for our existence.

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 Big, big thing here.

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 So, again, so what is it?

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 Quickly defining sons, okay?

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 What does it mean to become a son?

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 To come into a right relationship with our Heavenly Father

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 and gain a spirit of sonship, okay?

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 Come into a right relationship with our Heavenly Father

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 and gain a spirit of sonship, okay?

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 This is going to affect our identity.

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 It's going to affect everything about how we go about our lives, okay?

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 Brothers.

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 Brothers.

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 So, once we establish, once we find our identity as sons of our Heavenly Father,

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 then we learn to become brothers.

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 We're brothers.

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 And we serve.

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 So, what this means is we learn to love our brothers

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 in the way that Christ loves us, loved us,

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 and wash each other's feet, okay?

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 Serving one another, serving our wives,

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 serving the people around us.

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 It says, Christ did not come to be served, but to serve

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 and give His life a ransom for many.

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 So, this is what He calls us to as well.

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 And so, and then the next layer would be fathers, okay?

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 This leads us to become good fathers.

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 So, what it means is, this is just a brief definition.

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 It means to impart our Heavenly Father's love for us

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 to sons in the same way that we have received it, okay?

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 There's a responsibility that we have.

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 It's a weighty one.

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 So, the problem we're going to get into,

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 the problem is there's sin in the world, okay?

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 And sin derails and corrupts our design

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 and our relationship and our communion with our Creator.

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 It disrupts it.

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 And we see this right away in Genesis 3, okay?

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 Before we go to Genesis 3, I want to kind of reiterate.

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 In 1 Samuel chapter 30, verse 22, it talks about worthless men.

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 So, this is a thing that the Bible says,

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 it's a possibility that you could be a worthless man.

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 You could be worthless.

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 This is a thing.

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 This is, it's really brash and it's very kind of in your face,

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 but the Bible, God's Word, says that this is a thing.

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 We can be worthless men if we're not careful.

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 So, we don't want to be worthless men.

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 We want to fulfill our calling, okay?

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 So, sin.

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 Sin corrupts us.

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 We're going to look at,

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 we're going to look at Genesis chapter 3,

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 verses 7 through 13.

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 So, again, sin and the fall corrupted our relationship with God.

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 And, man, we lost our, in the fall,

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 we lost our identity and our sense of value and purpose.

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 And we were left with the shame of our inadequacy.

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 That's what we were left with in the fall.

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 We're left with shame, okay?

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 And we don't know what to do with it.

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 Unless we, unless we look back to His Word, right?

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 So, I'm just going to, I'm going to read,

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 I'm going to read this section of Scripture here in Genesis 3,

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 because I'm going to kind of keep going back to it

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 and referencing it as the whole time we talk, okay?

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 So, and this is what it says.

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 Then the eyes of both were opened,

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 and they knew that they were naked.

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 And they sewed fig leaves together

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 and made themselves loincloths.

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 And then,

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 and they heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden

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 in the cool of the day.

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 And the man and his wife hid themselves

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 from the presence of the Lord God

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 among the trees of the garden.

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 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him,

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 Where are you?

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 And he said,

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 I heard the sound of you in the garden,

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 and I was afraid because I was naked.

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 So, remember back in the beginning,

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 they were naked and unashamed before sin,

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 before the fall.

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 They were naked and unashamed.

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 But now we see sin corrupts this relationship, right?

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 It says,

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 I was afraid because I was naked,

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 and I hid myself.

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 And he said,

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 and God said,

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 Who told you that you were naked?

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 Have you eaten from the tree

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 which I have commanded you not to eat?

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 And the man said,

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 The woman you gave me

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 to be with me,

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 she gave me the fruit of the tree,

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 and I ate.

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 And the Lord said to the woman,

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 What is this that you have done?

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 The woman said,

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 The serpent deceived me,

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 and I ate.

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 Okay?

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 We're dodging responsibility.

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 That's another topic we're going to talk about

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 man is responsible.

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 I'm not going to get into that.

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 But we see that right away.

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 Okay?

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 And this is kind of,

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 the thing about Genesis 3,

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 it's really,

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 there's a lot of,

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 this is deep.

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 There's a lot of insight into human nature,

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 who we are.

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 We were born into Adam.

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 Right?

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 We were born into sin.

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 Okay?

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 So,

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 basically,

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 what we're going to look at

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 is we're going to look at

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 the difference between

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 orphan heart spiritual slavery.

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 So,

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 an orphan heart,

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 it's a spiritual slavery.

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 There's a spiritual slavery

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 that we're,

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 by default,

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 what sin is caused.

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 We're going to look at that

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 versus

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 a heart of sonship.

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 A servant heart of sonship.

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 Okay?

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 So,

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 we're going to get into

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 some characteristics

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 of an orphan heart.

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 Okay?

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 So,

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 Adam and Eve,

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 and us,

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 in our nature,

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 in our flesh,

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 we were tempted

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 to doubt God's goodness.

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 If you think about this.

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 So,

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 God laid it out in the garden,

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 and then the enemy comes

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 and tempts.

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 Basically,

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 it says,

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 it caused,

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 another prescription,

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 John 8,

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 44,

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 it caused the devil,

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 Satan,

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 the father of lies,

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 i.e.,

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 a counterfeit father.

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 So,

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 they believed the father of lies.

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 They believed this lie.

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 And one of the things

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 that's kind of baked into this lie

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 is that God is,

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 God is actually withholding

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 dead from you.

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 He doesn't,

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 he's actually withholding something.

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 And he,

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 he lies to them.

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 And he says,

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 nope,

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 you can actually be like God.

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 You don't need to glorify God.

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 You can,

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 you can be like God.

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 You can live for your own glory.

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 Right?

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 And so,

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 baked into this,

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 like I said,

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 there's a subtle lie,

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 an accusation of God's goodness.

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 So,

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 getting into it,

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 the result of believing

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 the father of lies

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 is all kinds of confusion

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 about our identity,

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 who we are,

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 and what our purpose is.

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 And there's all kinds of shame.

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 We try and cover us,

00:14:21.079 --> 00:14:21.879
 cover ourselves up.

00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:22.019
 So,

00:14:22.019 --> 00:14:22.899
 I want to kind of share

00:14:22.899 --> 00:14:24.240
 a little bit of a,

00:14:24.340 --> 00:14:24.700
 um,

00:14:25.539 --> 00:14:25.980
 personal,

00:14:26.179 --> 00:14:27.740
 personal kind of experience.

00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:28.580
 So,

00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:28.919
 I,

00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:30.039
 for,

00:14:30.220 --> 00:14:31.159
 I don't know how many years,

00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:32.340
 a good chunk of my life,

00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:32.580
 probably,

00:14:33.019 --> 00:14:36.000
 maybe 17 to like 22 or so,

00:14:36.019 --> 00:14:36.700
 about five years,

00:14:37.139 --> 00:14:39.639
 I lived in a spirit of orphan thinking.

00:14:40.019 --> 00:14:40.879
 I lived in this,

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 because I believed this lie.

00:14:43.220 --> 00:14:44.860
 I actually believed that God wasn't good.

00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:45.779
 I did.

00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:47.500
 And the ramifications of this,

00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:48.379
 the implications of this,

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 were absolutely terrible.

00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:50.399
 Like,

00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:51.759
 um,

00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.000
 I did not believe God was good.

00:14:54.059 --> 00:14:54.179
 So,

00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:55.820
 my mom died when I was seven years old,

00:14:56.100 --> 00:14:56.340
 okay?

00:14:56.899 --> 00:14:57.240
 And,

00:14:57.460 --> 00:14:58.899
 I kind of,

00:14:59.059 --> 00:15:00.139
 at the time,

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 I didn't really,

00:15:01.580 --> 00:15:01.899
 you know,

00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:02.200
 whatever,

00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:03.000
 just kind of going,

00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:04.320
 going through the most of whatever.

00:15:04.700 --> 00:15:04.899
 Well,

00:15:04.939 --> 00:15:05.840
 it kind of fleshed out,

00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:08.340
 by the time I came of age,

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 to start making my own decisions,

00:15:10.779 --> 00:15:11.539
 I,

00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:13.299
 I had bitterness in my heart towards God.

00:15:13.379 --> 00:15:14.439
 I did not believe He was good.

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 It was like,

00:15:15.620 --> 00:15:15.940
 you know,

00:15:15.940 --> 00:15:18.920
 I didn't understand why He took my mom.

00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:19.760
 But,

00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:20.440
 here's the thing about,

00:15:20.520 --> 00:15:21.580
 here's the thing about this.

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 It's very important to take what the Bible says,

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 and expect what,

00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:28.240
 take God's promises,

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 and expect them to be true.

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 So,

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 He,

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 God never promises understanding,

00:15:33.219 --> 00:15:33.379
 right?

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 In,

00:15:34.179 --> 00:15:34.219
 in,

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 in,

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 in relation to hardship,

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 necessarily.

00:15:37.699 --> 00:15:37.979
 But,

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 He does promise peace,

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 that surpasses understanding.

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 And then He says,

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 that peace,

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 that He promises,

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 will guard our hearts.

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 It'll guard our hearts,

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 and our minds,

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 okay?

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 Very,

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 very crucial,

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 very,

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 very important point here.

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 Because,

00:15:56.059 --> 00:15:57.159
 our hearts,

00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:57.799
 and our minds,

00:15:57.879 --> 00:15:58.399
 need,

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 to be guarded,

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 from the Father of Lies.

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 And,

00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:03.639
 we need peace with God.

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 This is what we need.

00:16:04.420 --> 00:16:04.520
 So,

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 it was a corrupted.

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 So,

00:16:07.259 --> 00:16:09.600
 I didn't understand why He took my mom.

00:16:10.060 --> 00:16:10.879
 I didn't understand why,

00:16:11.139 --> 00:16:12.259
 a few other things,

00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:12.580
 you know,

00:16:12.620 --> 00:16:13.780
 that cause shame,

00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:14.879
 and guilt,

00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:15.860
 and condemnation,

00:16:16.040 --> 00:16:17.160
 things happen.

00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:18.300
 Sin happens.

00:16:18.460 --> 00:16:19.080
 Hurt people,

00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:19.700
 hurt people,

00:16:19.780 --> 00:16:19.980
 right?

00:16:20.420 --> 00:16:20.680
 So,

00:16:20.820 --> 00:16:21.120
 sin,

00:16:21.460 --> 00:16:22.860
 is a thing.

00:16:23.660 --> 00:16:23.780
 And,

00:16:23.980 --> 00:16:24.820
 people are sinners.

00:16:25.040 --> 00:16:25.140
 And,

00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:26.400
 people sin against us.

00:16:26.900 --> 00:16:27.140
 And,

00:16:27.220 --> 00:16:27.879
 we don't know why.

00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:28.900
 We don't understand why.

00:16:29.699 --> 00:16:30.019
 But,

00:16:30.620 --> 00:16:32.980
 God promises peace.

00:16:34.019 --> 00:16:34.220
 Okay?

00:16:34.779 --> 00:16:35.500
 Very important.

00:16:36.779 --> 00:16:37.819
 Expectations are everything,

00:16:38.059 --> 00:16:38.240
 right?

00:16:38.579 --> 00:16:40.240
 You expect God to give you,

00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.639
 perfect understanding of why He does everything He does,

00:16:42.699 --> 00:16:43.000
 and allows,

00:16:43.259 --> 00:16:45.059
 that's our problem.

00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:46.279
 That's the problem of expectations.

00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:47.340
 He'd never promised,

00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:48.919
 but He did promise peace.

00:16:49.299 --> 00:16:49.459
 Okay?

00:16:50.579 --> 00:16:51.059
 So,

00:16:51.139 --> 00:16:51.319
 anyway,

00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:54.000
 this leads to,

00:16:54.699 --> 00:16:55.399
 confusion,

00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:55.519
 confusion,

00:16:56.100 --> 00:16:56.980
 about who we are,

00:16:57.259 --> 00:16:57.899
 and our purpose.

00:16:59.039 --> 00:16:59.439
 So,

00:16:59.519 --> 00:16:59.779
 we try,

00:16:59.860 --> 00:17:01.480
 what do we do with this inadequacy?

00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:02.579
 What do we do with this shame?

00:17:03.319 --> 00:17:04.059
 By default,

00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:05.119
 we try and cover up.

00:17:05.740 --> 00:17:06.539
 Our go-to,

00:17:06.779 --> 00:17:07.619
 is to cover up,

00:17:07.879 --> 00:17:08.960
 in pride,

00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:09.680
 and,

00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:11.440
 we try to clothe ourselves,

00:17:12.099 --> 00:17:12.339
 with,

00:17:13.019 --> 00:17:14.099
 you name it.

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 I mean,

00:17:14.399 --> 00:17:15.059
 there's so many,

00:17:15.259 --> 00:17:16.399
 the list is endless.

00:17:17.099 --> 00:17:17.279
 So,

00:17:17.419 --> 00:17:18.059
 we see this,

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 I'm not going to go back into it,

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 a whole bunch,

00:17:20.419 --> 00:17:20.559
 but,

00:17:20.819 --> 00:17:21.659
 a lot of it,

00:17:21.699 --> 00:17:23.119
 if you want to study this,

00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:23.839
 again,

00:17:24.199 --> 00:17:24.879
 Genesis 3,

00:17:25.379 --> 00:17:25.899
 but we see,

00:17:26.019 --> 00:17:26.719
 man and his wife,

00:17:26.899 --> 00:17:27.579
 hit themselves,

00:17:27.819 --> 00:17:28.819
 from the presence of,

00:17:28.819 --> 00:17:29.639
 of God.

00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:30.700
 Okay?

00:17:31.099 --> 00:17:31.639
 They hid.

00:17:32.579 --> 00:17:32.919
 They hid.

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 You hide,

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 and then you well up in pride,

00:17:35.220 --> 00:17:36.879
 and you try and cover your inadequacy,

00:17:36.980 --> 00:17:38.159
 you try and cover your shame,

00:17:38.399 --> 00:17:40.000
 by yourself.

00:17:40.220 --> 00:17:40.359
 And,

00:17:40.539 --> 00:17:41.039
 the thing is,

00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:42.379
 that's an impossibility.

00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:43.039
 You can't.

00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:44.119
 We cannot cover,

00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:45.700
 our shame by ourselves,

00:17:45.700 --> 00:17:47.259
 because we're sinners.

00:17:47.779 --> 00:17:47.919
 Okay?

00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:49.259
 We need another.

00:17:49.980 --> 00:17:51.839
 We need another to cover us.

00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:53.399
 This is what we need.

00:17:53.460 --> 00:17:53.960
 We need a bad.

00:17:54.500 --> 00:17:54.720
 Okay?

00:17:55.439 --> 00:17:55.639
 So,

00:17:55.899 --> 00:17:55.819
 we,

00:17:55.939 --> 00:17:56.059
 well,

00:17:56.399 --> 00:17:56.960
 I mean,

00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:58.159
 there's all kinds of examples.

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 We withdraw from things that expose us.

00:18:00.860 --> 00:18:01.820
 We pull back from,

00:18:02.019 --> 00:18:05.080
 we withdraw from things that expose our inadequacies.

00:18:05.380 --> 00:18:07.100
 We isolate or distance ourselves,

00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:08.960
 and close ourselves off to other people.

00:18:11.700 --> 00:18:12.400
 We say,

00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:12.680
 you know,

00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:15.960
 if they actually find out who I am,

00:18:16.019 --> 00:18:16.820
 they're not going to love me.

00:18:17.320 --> 00:18:18.940
 If they knew who I was,

00:18:19.060 --> 00:18:20.440
 they knew this about me,

00:18:21.040 --> 00:18:22.220
 they'll reject me.

00:18:23.360 --> 00:18:23.800
 So,

00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:24.440
 I've got to hide.

00:18:24.580 --> 00:18:25.100
 I've got to pride.

00:18:25.140 --> 00:18:26.060
 I've got to try and cover up.

00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:27.019
 This is what we do,

00:18:27.100 --> 00:18:27.480
 by default.

00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:28.860
 We escape to sports.

00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:30.240
 We escape to games,

00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:30.620
 hunting,

00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:31.140
 work,

00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:32.400
 alcohol,

00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:33.079
 drugs,

00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:33.539
 whatever this,

00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:35.160
 one of my problems is basically,

00:18:35.299 --> 00:18:36.339
 I had this reality.

00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:39.759
 I had this weight of inadequacy and sin,

00:18:39.860 --> 00:18:40.620
 and I knew I wasn't,

00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:41.019
 I was God.

00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:41.579
 I knew it.

00:18:41.980 --> 00:18:42.440
 I knew it.

00:18:42.700 --> 00:18:42.819
 So,

00:18:42.900 --> 00:18:43.220
 what did I do?

00:18:43.299 --> 00:18:44.259
 I ran into drugs.

00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:44.860
 I literally said,

00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:47.019
 my reality made me very uncomfortable.

00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:48.880
 I didn't like my reality.

00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:49.960
 I knew,

00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:51.079
 I was under the wrath of God.

00:18:51.140 --> 00:18:51.900
 I was living under the law.

00:18:51.900 --> 00:18:53.860
 The law is a schoolmaster.

00:18:53.980 --> 00:18:55.800
 It exposes our sin.

00:18:55.940 --> 00:18:57.440
 It exposes our inadequacy.

00:18:57.580 --> 00:18:57.700
 Right?

00:18:58.519 --> 00:18:58.720
 Well,

00:18:58.720 --> 00:18:59.360
 what did I do?

00:19:00.360 --> 00:19:00.720
 I was like,

00:19:00.780 --> 00:19:02.440
 I don't like this feeling.

00:19:03.280 --> 00:19:05.140
 I got to just run around,

00:19:05.220 --> 00:19:05.540
 try and fuck.

00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:06.680
 Anything.

00:19:07.040 --> 00:19:08.060
 Take this feeling away.

00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:08.440
 Whatever.

00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:08.799
 So,

00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:11.880
 I became comfortably numb.

00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:12.940
 I used substance.

00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:13.620
 I mean,

00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:14.180
 comfortable,

00:19:14.660 --> 00:19:15.120
 quote unquote,

00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:15.880
 comfortably numb,

00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:16.100
 right?

00:19:17.660 --> 00:19:18.140
 Substance.

00:19:18.420 --> 00:19:19.480
 Running from my reality.

00:19:19.840 --> 00:19:21.340
 You can run down high at the end of the day.

00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:21.840
 Like,

00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:25.080
 I was not sober for years.

00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:25.400
 I mean,

00:19:25.460 --> 00:19:25.660
 there's,

00:19:26.120 --> 00:19:26.480
 anyway.

00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:27.680
 Well,

00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:28.400
 that's exhausting.

00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.240
 Sin brings,

00:19:30.600 --> 00:19:33.340
 unbelievable pain.

00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:33.820
 And it,

00:19:34.019 --> 00:19:34.940
 every time,

00:19:35.120 --> 00:19:36.340
 sin over promises

00:19:36.339 --> 00:19:37.819
 and under delivers

00:19:37.819 --> 00:19:39.299
 every single time.

00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:39.980
 There's a,

00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:42.159
 we're left with a hole in our hearts.

00:19:42.579 --> 00:19:43.220
 A void.

00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:43.779
 Okay?

00:19:44.259 --> 00:19:45.159
 We need

00:19:45.159 --> 00:19:46.379
 that communion.

00:19:46.819 --> 00:19:48.000
 The only thing that satisfies,

00:19:48.199 --> 00:19:49.559
 the only thing that comforts,

00:19:50.539 --> 00:19:51.579
 truly comforts,

00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:51.779
 is

00:19:51.779 --> 00:19:52.959
 a great relationship

00:19:52.959 --> 00:19:53.720
 with our Heavenly Father.

00:19:53.959 --> 00:19:54.179
 Okay?

00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:55.319
 This is what it is.

00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.740
 And I've lived for years of my life

00:19:56.740 --> 00:19:57.779
 under this.

00:19:58.379 --> 00:19:58.599
 Okay?

00:19:59.639 --> 00:20:00.119
 So,

00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:02.019
 shame.

00:20:02.379 --> 00:20:02.799
 There's sin.

00:20:02.879 --> 00:20:03.599
 There's this problem.

00:20:03.779 --> 00:20:03.959
 Okay?

00:20:03.959 --> 00:20:05.720
 We look for counterfeit affections.

00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:06.579
 We look for passions.

00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:07.480
 We look to pleasures.

00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:08.420
 We look to possessions.

00:20:08.600 --> 00:20:10.000
 We look to position,

00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.240
 performance before other men.

00:20:12.660 --> 00:20:13.920
 We look for relationships.

00:20:14.180 --> 00:20:15.039
 We look to other people

00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:16.180
 to fill this gap.

00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:17.539
 Surprise,

00:20:17.600 --> 00:20:18.400
 surprise doesn't work.

00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:19.460
 It doesn't,

00:20:19.539 --> 00:20:20.079
 and it's,

00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:21.000
 it's temporary.

00:20:21.380 --> 00:20:22.680
 It does not fulfill.

00:20:23.019 --> 00:20:23.200
 Okay?

00:20:23.980 --> 00:20:24.160
 So,

00:20:24.220 --> 00:20:24.539
 but we're,

00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:26.059
 we're still in that,

00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:26.759
 we're just,

00:20:26.940 --> 00:20:28.380
 this is baked into all of us.

00:20:28.460 --> 00:20:28.860
 And so,

00:20:30.120 --> 00:20:30.900
 during this time,

00:20:30.980 --> 00:20:31.240
 I love,

00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:32.539
 I'm going to drink a water real quick.

00:20:32.539 --> 00:20:32.980
 Um,

00:20:32.980 --> 00:20:34.480
 I'm going to go to drink a water real quick.

00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:34.960
 Um,

00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:38.440
 during this time in my life,

00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:40.120
 I'm living as an orphan.

00:20:40.500 --> 00:20:40.660
 Okay?

00:20:41.380 --> 00:20:43.620
 I kind of idolized Bob Dylan for a long time.

00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:45.240
 I wanted to be him essentially.

00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:45.600
 So,

00:20:45.600 --> 00:20:47.400
 I saw it fit

00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:48.579
 for tonight

00:20:48.579 --> 00:20:50.700
 to read a poem by Bob Dylan

00:20:50.700 --> 00:20:53.100
 because I think he really beautifully describes it.

00:20:53.579 --> 00:20:54.000
 So,

00:20:54.120 --> 00:20:54.740
 forgive me

00:20:54.740 --> 00:20:56.240
 in advance

00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:59.960
 because I might not make it

00:20:59.960 --> 00:21:02.079
 without crying a little bit.

00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:02.699
 but,

00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:03.639
 that's what we're talking about,

00:21:03.639 --> 00:21:03.839
 right?

00:21:03.919 --> 00:21:04.079
 Like,

00:21:04.139 --> 00:21:04.699
 I don't,

00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:07.220
 I'm fine being presented as weak

00:21:07.220 --> 00:21:09.659
 because Christ is my strength.

00:21:09.679 --> 00:21:10.179
 I don't care.

00:21:10.439 --> 00:21:10.619
 Right?

00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:11.319
 He's,

00:21:11.439 --> 00:21:11.619
 I'm,

00:21:11.619 --> 00:21:13.000
 I'm secure in who I am in Christ.

00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:13.299
 I'm,

00:21:13.399 --> 00:21:14.339
 I'm a son now.

00:21:14.419 --> 00:21:14.599
 Okay?

00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:15.379
 But,

00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:18.000
 the reason I get a little bit emotional

00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:18.679
 on this poem

00:21:18.679 --> 00:21:19.419
 is because it,

00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:20.059
 it,

00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:20.419
 um,

00:21:20.579 --> 00:21:22.879
 kind of describes how I was living

00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:23.140
 and,

00:21:23.140 --> 00:21:23.420
 and,

00:21:23.420 --> 00:21:24.460
 anyway,

00:21:24.560 --> 00:21:25.300
 I'm going to get into it.

00:21:25.460 --> 00:21:25.620
 So,

00:21:26.340 --> 00:21:26.760
 here we go.

00:21:27.100 --> 00:21:27.540
 It's called

00:21:27.540 --> 00:21:29.860
 Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie.

00:21:30.220 --> 00:21:31.160
 Some of you probably heard it.

00:21:32.180 --> 00:21:32.800
 Have you read this, Adam?

00:21:33.120 --> 00:21:33.320
 No?

00:21:33.820 --> 00:21:34.060
 Alright,

00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:34.400
 anyway.

00:21:35.260 --> 00:21:35.560
 Alright,

00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:37.340
 the poem's actually really long.

00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:38.820
 Way longer than

00:21:38.820 --> 00:21:40.900
 would make sense to read.

00:21:41.140 --> 00:21:41.260
 So,

00:21:41.320 --> 00:21:42.360
 I've chopped it down to

00:21:42.360 --> 00:21:43.240
 two pages.

00:21:44.820 --> 00:21:45.260
 So,

00:21:45.320 --> 00:21:46.640
 just stick with me.

00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:46.920
 Just,

00:21:46.980 --> 00:21:47.800
 just track with me.

00:21:47.840 --> 00:21:48.460
 It's not that long.

00:21:48.540 --> 00:21:49.220
 They're short lines.

00:21:49.420 --> 00:21:49.560
 Alright?

00:21:50.220 --> 00:21:50.520
 Alright.

00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:52.160
 When your head gets twisted

00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:53.799
 and your mind grows numb.

00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:55.240
 When you think you're too old,

00:21:55.339 --> 00:21:55.740
 too young,

00:21:55.819 --> 00:21:56.240
 too smart,

00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:56.779
 or too dumb.

00:21:57.339 --> 00:21:58.660
 When you're lagging behind

00:21:58.660 --> 00:22:01.139
 and you're losing your pace.

00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:03.099
 In a slow motion crawl

00:22:03.099 --> 00:22:04.240
 of life's busy race.

00:22:04.879 --> 00:22:06.139
 No matter what you're doing,

00:22:06.220 --> 00:22:07.440
 if you start giving up,

00:22:08.339 --> 00:22:09.440
 if the wind don't come

00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:10.359
 to the top of your cup.

00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:12.500
 The wind's got you sideways

00:22:12.500 --> 00:22:14.480
 with one hand holding on

00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:16.539
 and the other starts slipping

00:22:16.539 --> 00:22:17.819
 and the feeling is gone.

00:22:18.660 --> 00:22:20.440
 And your train engine fires

00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:22.100
 and your train engine fire

00:22:22.100 --> 00:22:22.960
 needs a new spark

00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:23.779
 to catch it.

00:22:24.460 --> 00:22:25.580
 And the wind's easy finding,

00:22:25.840 --> 00:22:27.019
 but you're lazy to fetch it.

00:22:28.860 --> 00:22:30.660
 And your sidewalk starts curling

00:22:30.660 --> 00:22:32.299
 and the streets get too long.

00:22:33.600 --> 00:22:35.299
 And you start walking backwards,

00:22:35.580 --> 00:22:36.640
 though you know that's wrong.

00:22:37.779 --> 00:22:38.440
 And lonesome.

00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:41.019
 Sorry.

00:22:41.019 --> 00:22:41.080
 Sorry.

00:22:43.900 --> 00:22:44.380
 Sorry.

00:22:44.600 --> 00:22:45.360
 Let me find my place.

00:22:45.460 --> 00:22:45.740
 I gotta hit.

00:22:46.820 --> 00:22:47.860
 And lonesome comes up

00:22:47.860 --> 00:22:48.880
 as the day goes down

00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:50.460
 and tomorrow's morning

00:22:50.460 --> 00:22:51.500
 seems so far away

00:22:51.500 --> 00:22:52.580
 and you feel the reins

00:22:52.580 --> 00:22:54.340
 from your pony are slipping

00:22:54.340 --> 00:22:56.340
 and your rope is a slide

00:22:56.340 --> 00:22:57.440
 because your hands are dripping

00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:59.840
 and your sun deck deserts

00:22:59.840 --> 00:23:01.039
 and evergreen valleys

00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:02.440
 turn to broken down slums

00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:03.580
 and trash can alleys.

00:23:03.579 --> 00:23:07.899
 You need something

00:23:07.899 --> 00:23:08.799
 to open your eyes.

00:23:10.639 --> 00:23:11.639
 You need to make it,

00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:13.079
 you need something

00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:13.839
 to make it known

00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:14.919
 that it's you

00:23:14.919 --> 00:23:15.859
 and no one else

00:23:15.859 --> 00:23:16.399
 that owns

00:23:16.399 --> 00:23:18.000
 that spot that you're standing

00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:18.119
 in,

00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:19.139
 that space that you're sitting

00:23:19.139 --> 00:23:19.359
 in,

00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:20.679
 that the world

00:23:20.679 --> 00:23:21.480
 ain't got you beat,

00:23:21.859 --> 00:23:22.759
 that it ain't got you licked.

00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:24.579
 It ain't,

00:23:24.819 --> 00:23:26.559
 it can't get you crazy

00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:28.099
 no matter how many times

00:23:28.099 --> 00:23:29.119
 you might get kicked.

00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:31.439
 You need something special,

00:23:31.579 --> 00:23:31.699
 alright?

00:23:31.879 --> 00:23:32.839
 You need something special

00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:33.579
 to give you hope

00:23:33.579 --> 00:23:35.099
 but hope's just a word

00:23:35.099 --> 00:23:36.500
 that maybe you said

00:23:36.500 --> 00:23:37.279
 or maybe you heard

00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:39.059
 on some windy corner

00:23:39.059 --> 00:23:40.739
 around the wide-angle curve

00:23:40.739 --> 00:23:42.519
 but that's what you need,

00:23:42.619 --> 00:23:42.759
 man,

00:23:42.819 --> 00:23:43.539
 you need it bad

00:23:43.539 --> 00:23:45.039
 and your trouble is

00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:45.819
 you know it too good

00:23:45.819 --> 00:23:46.699
 because you're looking

00:23:46.699 --> 00:23:49.000
 and you start getting the chills

00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:50.819
 because you can't find it

00:23:50.819 --> 00:23:51.659
 on a dollar bill

00:23:51.659 --> 00:23:54.559
 and it ain't on Macy's windowsill

00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:56.539
 and it ain't no rich kid's road map

00:23:56.539 --> 00:23:59.480
 and it ain't no fat kid's fraternity house

00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:02.399
 and you yell to yourself

00:24:02.399 --> 00:24:03.960
 and you throw down your hat

00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:04.559
 saying,

00:24:04.639 --> 00:24:04.920
 Christ,

00:24:05.379 --> 00:24:06.740
 do I gotta be like that?

00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:08.159
 Ain't there no one here

00:24:08.159 --> 00:24:09.079
 that knows where I'm at?

00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:10.279
 Ain't there no one here

00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:11.339
 that knows how I feel?

00:24:11.819 --> 00:24:12.639
 Good God almighty,

00:24:12.740 --> 00:24:13.579
 that stuff ain't real

00:24:13.579 --> 00:24:16.159
 but that ain't your game,

00:24:16.279 --> 00:24:17.039
 that ain't your race.

00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:19.339
 You can't hear your name,

00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:20.799
 you can't see your face,

00:24:21.639 --> 00:24:22.879
 you gotta look some other place.

00:24:24.420 --> 00:24:25.740
 Where do you look for this hope

00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:26.359
 that you're seeking?

00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:28.299
 Where do you look for this lamp

00:24:28.299 --> 00:24:28.900
 that's burning?

00:24:29.900 --> 00:24:31.039
 Where do you look for this oil

00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:31.920
 that's well gushing?

00:24:32.859 --> 00:24:34.120
 Where do you look for this candle

00:24:34.120 --> 00:24:34.940
 that's glowing?

00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:38.059
 Where do you look for this hope

00:24:38.059 --> 00:24:39.160
 that you know is there

00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:41.039
 and out there somewhere

00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:43.339
 and your feet can only walk

00:24:43.339 --> 00:24:43.819
 two down,

00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:46.000
 walk down two kinds of roads

00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:47.559
 and your eyes can only look

00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:48.640
 through two kinds of windows.

00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:50.480
 Your nose can only smell

00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:51.400
 two kinds of hallways.

00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:53.519
 You can touch and twist

00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:55.619
 and turn two kinds of doorknobs.

00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:56.920
 You can either go

00:24:56.920 --> 00:24:58.000
 to the church of your choice

00:24:58.000 --> 00:24:59.180
 or you can go

00:24:59.180 --> 00:25:00.339
 to Brooklyn State Hospital.

00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:01.920
 You can find God

00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:02.900
 in the church of your choice,

00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:04.980
 you can find Woody Guthrie

00:25:04.980 --> 00:25:06.700
 in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

00:25:07.879 --> 00:25:09.099
 And though it's only my opinion,

00:25:09.220 --> 00:25:10.740
 I know it may be right or wrong,

00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:12.240
 you'll find them both

00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.139
 in the Grand Canyon,

00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:13.720
 sundown.

00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:18.880
 So, basically what we see here

00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:20.660
 is we see a vagabond.

00:25:20.940 --> 00:25:22.400
 We see a hobo.

00:25:22.500 --> 00:25:23.279
 He's identifying.

00:25:23.420 --> 00:25:24.299
 He's got no place.

00:25:24.779 --> 00:25:26.220
 There's no place on earth

00:25:26.220 --> 00:25:28.579
 where he's found to be home.

00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:29.200
 Right?

00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:30.720
 So, he's looking to Woody Guthrie.

00:25:31.360 --> 00:25:31.539
 Okay?

00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:32.839
 He idolized Woody Guthrie.

00:25:32.980 --> 00:25:34.019
 I idolized him.

00:25:34.380 --> 00:25:35.120
 I idolized Dylan.

00:25:35.539 --> 00:25:36.240
 We're looking.

00:25:36.900 --> 00:25:37.620
 We know it.

00:25:37.660 --> 00:25:38.420
 We know it's there.

00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:39.059
 Okay?

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.039
 So, this is what he did.

00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:42.720
 So, Dylan did.

00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:43.599
 He idolized him.

00:25:43.980 --> 00:25:44.879
 He's actually, I mean,

00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:46.700
 Woody Guthrie was on his deathbed

00:25:46.700 --> 00:25:47.379
 when he wrote it.

00:25:47.919 --> 00:25:48.319
 And he goes,

00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:49.019
 I don't know if you guys

00:25:49.019 --> 00:25:50.019
 have seen that new Dylan movie,

00:25:50.059 --> 00:25:50.960
 he goes and visits him.

00:25:51.379 --> 00:25:52.779
 But he's looking at Woody Guthrie

00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:53.460
 for affirmation.

00:25:54.299 --> 00:25:55.359
 We see Bob Dylan

00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:56.379
 opens his heart up wide

00:25:56.379 --> 00:25:58.740
 and he beautifully describes

00:25:58.740 --> 00:25:59.919
 this void in his heart.

00:26:00.299 --> 00:26:00.460
 Right?

00:26:00.980 --> 00:26:02.339
 What he needs,

00:26:03.139 --> 00:26:04.500
 he needs sonship.

00:26:05.539 --> 00:26:06.759
 Woody Guthrie doesn't have it.

00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:07.980
 Okay?

00:26:08.380 --> 00:26:09.339
 Nobody has it.

00:26:10.099 --> 00:26:10.660
 Where do you look?

00:26:10.940 --> 00:26:11.920
 Where do you look for this hope?

00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:13.660
 So,

00:26:14.180 --> 00:26:14.500
 um,

00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:16.700
 in the day,

00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:18.259
 no one can love us

00:26:18.259 --> 00:26:19.019
 like God can.

00:26:19.339 --> 00:26:19.819
 No one.

00:26:20.339 --> 00:26:21.240
 All other loves

00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:21.960
 are insufficient.

00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:23.620
 All other loves

00:26:23.620 --> 00:26:25.420
 will not do it.

00:26:26.140 --> 00:26:26.900
 Your wife's love

00:26:26.900 --> 00:26:28.019
 is not going to satisfy.

00:26:28.259 --> 00:26:29.039
 It's not enough.

00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:30.700
 I one time watched this,

00:26:30.740 --> 00:26:31.019
 uh,

00:26:32.299 --> 00:26:33.700
 this YouTube video

00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:34.339
 of, uh,

00:26:34.980 --> 00:26:36.140
 this live performance

00:26:36.140 --> 00:26:37.680
 of Whitney Houston

00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:38.480
 singing,

00:26:38.820 --> 00:26:39.900
 I will always love you.

00:26:40.300 --> 00:26:41.160
 And I'm like,

00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:41.520
 it,

00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:43.259
 something hit me about it.

00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:44.320
 I just like,

00:26:44.820 --> 00:26:45.820
 broke down

00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:46.640
 weeping

00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:47.460
 and tears.

00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:48.480
 Man,

00:26:48.540 --> 00:26:49.420
 that's powerful.

00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:50.259
 You know,

00:26:50.259 --> 00:26:51.220
 I will always love you.

00:26:51.600 --> 00:26:52.200
 God,

00:26:52.600 --> 00:26:53.320
 it's incredible.

00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:53.759
 Well,

00:26:54.919 --> 00:26:55.579
 Whitney's dead.

00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:56.139
 Okay?

00:26:56.399 --> 00:26:56.539
 She,

00:26:56.700 --> 00:26:59.700
 that's,

00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:00.759
 that's temporary.

00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:01.139
 Okay?

00:27:01.259 --> 00:27:01.500
 That,

00:27:01.500 --> 00:27:01.679
 that,

00:27:01.679 --> 00:27:02.359
 that feeling,

00:27:02.460 --> 00:27:03.339
 whatever feeling you get

00:27:03.339 --> 00:27:04.299
 from temporary love,

00:27:04.399 --> 00:27:05.159
 it's fading.

00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:06.200
 It's grass.

00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:06.919
 It fades away.

00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:07.420
 It's mist.

00:27:07.539 --> 00:27:09.340
 It's not everlasting.

00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:11.720
 We need an everlasting love.

00:27:12.060 --> 00:27:12.300
 Okay?

00:27:12.700 --> 00:27:13.960
 We need the rock of ages

00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:15.259
 that was cleft for us.

00:27:15.340 --> 00:27:15.539
 Okay?

00:27:15.980 --> 00:27:17.240
 We need to hide ourselves

00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:18.600
 under the wing.

00:27:19.300 --> 00:27:19.580
 Okay?

00:27:19.840 --> 00:27:21.600
 Of all sufficient God.

00:27:21.900 --> 00:27:22.060
 Okay?

00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:23.300
 Unconditional love.

00:27:23.380 --> 00:27:24.640
 This is the way God loves us.

00:27:25.180 --> 00:27:25.340
 Okay?

00:27:25.380 --> 00:27:25.920
 Moving on.

00:27:26.779 --> 00:27:27.259
 So,

00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:28.840
 we fight.

00:27:29.140 --> 00:27:29.980
 We fight for this.

00:27:30.060 --> 00:27:31.060
 We look for this everywhere.

00:27:31.340 --> 00:27:31.500
 I mean,

00:27:31.539 --> 00:27:32.400
 I'm kind of exhausting

00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:34.860
 this orphan tendency.

00:27:34.859 --> 00:27:38.099
 I'm exhausting this.

00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:40.339
 We've kind of established

00:27:40.339 --> 00:27:41.199
 a foundation here.

00:27:41.339 --> 00:27:42.119
 This is fleeting.

00:27:42.339 --> 00:27:43.500
 You can look anywhere else.

00:27:43.859 --> 00:27:44.799
 You can try and find

00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:45.799
 your identity

00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:47.399
 and your approval

00:27:47.399 --> 00:27:48.159
 from men.

00:27:49.299 --> 00:27:50.339
 It's not going to work.

00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:51.619
 It's going to leave you

00:27:51.619 --> 00:27:52.539
 still in the same spot.

00:27:52.619 --> 00:27:53.119
 It's going to leave you

00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:53.679
 worse off.

00:27:53.740 --> 00:27:54.939
 It left me in a bad spot,

00:27:55.019 --> 00:27:55.199
 man.

00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:56.559
 It left me bad.

00:27:57.199 --> 00:27:57.479
 Basically,

00:27:57.539 --> 00:27:58.019
 I got to the point

00:27:58.019 --> 00:27:58.439
 where I'm like,

00:27:58.519 --> 00:27:58.759
 all right,

00:27:58.939 --> 00:28:00.139
 either this thing,

00:28:00.779 --> 00:28:01.759
 this right relationship

00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:02.740
 with my creator

00:28:02.740 --> 00:28:03.619
 is a possibility

00:28:03.619 --> 00:28:04.859
 or I literally

00:28:04.859 --> 00:28:05.479
 don't care

00:28:05.479 --> 00:28:06.579
 to carry on.

00:28:07.139 --> 00:28:07.759
 I'm ready to pull

00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:08.179
 the plug in

00:28:08.179 --> 00:28:08.679
 the whole thing.

00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:09.719
 I literally was.

00:28:10.339 --> 00:28:10.559
 So,

00:28:10.819 --> 00:28:11.059
 anyway,

00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:13.399
 that's what

00:28:13.399 --> 00:28:14.239
 orphanhood does.

00:28:14.299 --> 00:28:15.199
 That's what slavery does.

00:28:15.339 --> 00:28:16.519
 I was a slave to sin.

00:28:16.579 --> 00:28:17.399
 I had no power

00:28:17.399 --> 00:28:18.199
 to stop sin.

00:28:18.959 --> 00:28:20.039
 I needed another.

00:28:20.459 --> 00:28:21.399
 I needed someone else

00:28:21.399 --> 00:28:22.299
 to cover my shame.

00:28:22.859 --> 00:28:23.779
 Not only cover my shame,

00:28:23.859 --> 00:28:24.259
 but actually

00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:25.859
 give me the power

00:28:25.859 --> 00:28:28.679
 to walk in victory

00:28:28.679 --> 00:28:29.379
 over my sin.

00:28:29.959 --> 00:28:31.339
 I can't do this.

00:28:31.479 --> 00:28:32.279
 I'm not righteous.

00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:33.440
 I need the righteousness

00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:34.099
 of Christ.

00:28:34.619 --> 00:28:35.420
 I'm going to move on.

00:28:39.500 --> 00:28:39.940
 Yeah.

00:28:40.740 --> 00:28:42.399
 This is the ripple effects

00:28:42.399 --> 00:28:42.740
 of sin.

00:28:42.859 --> 00:28:44.200
 This is what believing

00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:45.619
 the Father of Lies does.

00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:46.599
 This is what gets us.

00:28:46.819 --> 00:28:47.539
 Utter despair.

00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:48.920
 Overpromised.

00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:49.899
 Undelivered.

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:50.460
 Every time.

00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:51.680
 Okay.

00:28:51.940 --> 00:28:53.879
 We look to whatever.

00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:54.759
 We look to women.

00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:55.660
 We look to pornography.

00:28:55.899 --> 00:28:57.700
 We look to whatever it is.

00:28:58.099 --> 00:28:59.519
 And then we feel bad about it.

00:29:00.099 --> 00:29:01.200
 And then we try and cover it

00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:02.039
 and run from it.

00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:03.440
 We do everything under the sun.

00:29:03.779 --> 00:29:04.680
 But it's not enough.

00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:05.220
 It doesn't work.

00:29:05.600 --> 00:29:05.799
 Okay.

00:29:06.220 --> 00:29:06.660
 So,

00:29:06.900 --> 00:29:09.140
 we're going to step into

00:29:09.140 --> 00:29:10.580
 sonship.

00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:11.220
 Okay.

00:29:11.220 --> 00:29:12.279
 What does it mean

00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:13.220
 to come into this

00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:14.019
 right relationship

00:29:14.019 --> 00:29:15.860
 with our Heavenly Father?

00:29:16.080 --> 00:29:16.880
 What is this?

00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:18.039
 Okay.

00:29:18.779 --> 00:29:20.539
 Sin broke our relationship again.

00:29:20.539 --> 00:29:20.759
 So,

00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:22.920
 Matthew 3,

00:29:23.059 --> 00:29:24.440
 16 and 17.

00:29:25.140 --> 00:29:25.240
 So,

00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:25.720
 we see

00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:30.220
 Jesus was baptized.

00:29:31.900 --> 00:29:33.779
 And when Jesus was baptized,

00:29:34.120 --> 00:29:34.579
 immediately

00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:36.420
 he went up from the water.

00:29:36.740 --> 00:29:37.299
 And behold,

00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:38.900
 the heavens opened up

00:29:38.900 --> 00:29:39.539
 to him.

00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:41.620
 And he saw the Spirit of God

00:29:41.620 --> 00:29:42.839
 descending like a dove

00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:45.600
 and coming to rest on him.

00:29:46.279 --> 00:29:47.019
 And behold,

00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:49.279
 a voice from heaven said,

00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:52.680
 this is my beloved son

00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:54.819
 with whom

00:29:54.819 --> 00:29:56.099
 I am well pleased.

00:29:56.639 --> 00:29:56.819
 Okay.

00:29:58.200 --> 00:29:59.000
 Side note,

00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:00.440
 important detail.

00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.500
 Jesus hasn't done

00:30:03.500 --> 00:30:04.160
 any miracles.

00:30:04.860 --> 00:30:05.700
 He's not done,

00:30:06.539 --> 00:30:08.920
 there's not any performance

00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:10.840
 that earned

00:30:10.840 --> 00:30:13.580
 this well-pleased disposition

00:30:13.580 --> 00:30:14.700
 from the Heavenly Father.

00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:17.480
 This is the first account

00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:18.500
 that we see Jesus show up

00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:19.480
 on the scene in the Gospels.

00:30:20.320 --> 00:30:20.420
 So,

00:30:20.620 --> 00:30:21.059
 before he lived,

00:30:21.299 --> 00:30:21.580
 I mean,

00:30:22.100 --> 00:30:25.880
 he lived a sinless life.

00:30:26.080 --> 00:30:27.160
 He was perfectly obedient

00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:27.940
 in every way.

00:30:28.100 --> 00:30:29.080
 He lived without sin.

00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:30.960
 But there's something here

00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:32.139
 to be said about

00:30:32.139 --> 00:30:33.419
 he didn't,

00:30:33.619 --> 00:30:34.199
 there's no,

00:30:34.419 --> 00:30:35.500
 I think that's intentional.

00:30:36.259 --> 00:30:36.399
 Right?

00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:39.240
 God the Father

00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:40.019
 was well-pleased

00:30:40.019 --> 00:30:40.659
 in his Son.

00:30:41.259 --> 00:30:42.199
 They had perfect fellowship

00:30:42.199 --> 00:30:43.799
 from the beginning of time

00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:44.460
 to the end,

00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:45.039
 Alpha and Omega.

00:30:45.159 --> 00:30:46.079
 They had perfect fellowship

00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:46.720
 with one another.

00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:48.500
 And what Christ did

00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:49.119
 on the cross,

00:30:49.399 --> 00:30:49.899
 he came,

00:30:50.539 --> 00:30:51.119
 lived the life

00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:51.839
 we couldn't live

00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:53.179
 on our behalf.

00:30:53.639 --> 00:30:54.939
 And they opened up

00:30:54.939 --> 00:30:56.119
 and he gave us

00:30:56.119 --> 00:30:57.099
 the right to become

00:30:57.099 --> 00:30:58.000
 sons of God.

00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:59.359
 He opened it up.

00:30:59.779 --> 00:31:00.680
 Spirit of adoption.

00:31:00.859 --> 00:31:01.339
 This is the spirit

00:31:01.339 --> 00:31:01.880
 of adoption

00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:04.059
 that adopts the orphan.

00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.400
 It sets the captives free.

00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:08.019
 Okay?

00:31:08.819 --> 00:31:09.720
 This is what Jesus

00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:10.700
 has the ability

00:31:10.700 --> 00:31:12.079
 to do in your lives.

00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:13.440
 Okay?

00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:15.440
 He can set you free

00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:16.740
 from your besetting sin.

00:31:17.019 --> 00:31:18.099
 He can and will

00:31:18.099 --> 00:31:18.920
 give you purpose.

00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:19.900
 Okay?

00:31:20.420 --> 00:31:21.920
 This is the power of God

00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:22.660
 for the salvation

00:31:22.660 --> 00:31:23.460
 of all who believe it.

00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:24.180
 This is the Gospel.

00:31:24.180 --> 00:31:26.080
 We have sinned.

00:31:26.420 --> 00:31:27.460
 We've tried to cover up

00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:28.080
 our own sin.

00:31:28.600 --> 00:31:29.299
 We've tried to cover up

00:31:29.299 --> 00:31:29.840
 our shame

00:31:29.840 --> 00:31:31.900
 with anything and everything

00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:32.560
 under the sun.

00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:35.039
 And it leads to utter despair

00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:37.539
 and restlessness.

00:31:38.539 --> 00:31:39.380
 No peace.

00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:41.220
 Okay?

00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:43.279
 No dignity.

00:31:44.740 --> 00:31:46.279
 We need to be clothed

00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:46.960
 by God

00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:49.299
 with the dignity

00:31:49.299 --> 00:31:50.480
 of sonship.

00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:51.840
 Okay?

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.460
 We need to be clothed

00:31:53.460 --> 00:31:54.000
 by God

00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.519
 with the dignity

00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:56.700
 of sonship.

00:31:56.700 --> 00:32:05.259
 Right after this

00:32:05.259 --> 00:32:05.759
 we see

00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:07.480
 the counterfeit father

00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:08.519
 come in.

00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:09.279
 He goes out

00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:09.779
 to the wilderness.

00:32:10.779 --> 00:32:11.420
 His sonship

00:32:11.420 --> 00:32:11.960
 is tested.

00:32:12.980 --> 00:32:13.160
 Okay?

00:32:13.779 --> 00:32:14.519
 Matthew 4

00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:16.019
 The devil says

00:32:16.019 --> 00:32:17.940
 if you are the son

00:32:17.940 --> 00:32:18.340
 of God

00:32:18.340 --> 00:32:19.240
 command these stones

00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:20.519
 to become loaves

00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:20.920
 of bread.

00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:21.620
 He's been fasted

00:32:21.620 --> 00:32:22.279
 for 40 days.

00:32:22.539 --> 00:32:22.660
 Okay?

00:32:23.100 --> 00:32:23.700
 Command these

00:32:23.700 --> 00:32:25.580
 stones

00:32:25.579 --> 00:32:26.919
 become loaves

00:32:26.919 --> 00:32:27.259
 of bread.

00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:28.879
 Jesus answered

00:32:28.879 --> 00:32:31.779
 it is written.

00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:32.839
 Okay?

00:32:33.399 --> 00:32:33.919
 I'm not going to go

00:32:33.919 --> 00:32:35.339
 through that whole scripture.

00:32:35.639 --> 00:32:36.359
 The point here

00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:37.419
 is

00:32:37.419 --> 00:32:39.519
 we need to learn

00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:40.419
 to answer

00:32:40.419 --> 00:32:42.740
 the father of lies

00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:43.839
 with truth.

00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:46.000
 Where is truth?

00:32:46.299 --> 00:32:47.159
 Truth is absolute.

00:32:48.220 --> 00:32:49.240
 I am the way

00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:49.720
 the truth

00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:50.399
 and the life.

00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:51.720
 No one comes

00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:52.299
 through the father

00:32:52.299 --> 00:32:53.259
 except through me

00:32:53.259 --> 00:32:54.339
 says Jesus speaking.

00:32:54.539 --> 00:32:54.679
 Okay?

00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:55.820
 We answer

00:32:55.820 --> 00:32:56.880
 we silence

00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:57.380
 the voice

00:32:57.380 --> 00:32:57.940
 of the enemy

00:32:57.940 --> 00:32:59.000
 the accuser

00:32:59.000 --> 00:32:59.420
 that says

00:32:59.420 --> 00:33:00.340
 you're not enough.

00:33:00.539 --> 00:33:01.640
 You'll never make it.

00:33:01.700 --> 00:33:02.580
 You'll never add up

00:33:02.580 --> 00:33:03.100
 to anything.

00:33:03.779 --> 00:33:04.660
 You're nothing.

00:33:05.320 --> 00:33:06.320
 You can't do it.

00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:08.140
 How do we silence this?

00:33:08.340 --> 00:33:09.160
 We silence it

00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:09.860
 with the word of God.

00:33:10.019 --> 00:33:11.519
 We counteract

00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:12.700
 the lies

00:33:12.700 --> 00:33:13.560
 with truth.

00:33:14.140 --> 00:33:15.080
 It is written.

00:33:15.420 --> 00:33:15.940
 We need to get

00:33:15.940 --> 00:33:16.539
 into our work.

00:33:16.700 --> 00:33:17.400
 We need to know

00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:18.019
 the word of God.

00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:18.759
 There's power

00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:19.620
 in the word of God.

00:33:20.060 --> 00:33:20.259
 Okay?

00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:21.519
 He can set us

00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:22.200
 free from this.

00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:24.559
 He invites us

00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:25.980
 into this perfect fellowship.

00:33:26.299 --> 00:33:26.840
 John 15.

00:33:26.840 --> 00:33:27.400
 It's one of my

00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:28.019
 favorite verses.

00:33:28.660 --> 00:33:29.080
 It's one of my

00:33:29.080 --> 00:33:29.840
 all-time favorite verses.

00:33:30.059 --> 00:33:30.720
 John 15.

00:33:30.779 --> 00:33:32.539
 Jesus talks to the disciples.

00:33:33.080 --> 00:33:33.340
 He says,

00:33:33.339 --> 00:33:35.500
 Just as the Father

00:33:35.500 --> 00:33:36.579
 has loved me,

00:33:36.899 --> 00:33:38.639
 so I have loved you.

00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:40.459
 Now remain in my love.

00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:42.139
 And another part

00:33:42.139 --> 00:33:42.419
 of the scripture

00:33:42.419 --> 00:33:42.740
 he says,

00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:43.599
 If you've seen me,

00:33:43.679 --> 00:33:44.480
 you've seen the Father.

00:33:45.139 --> 00:33:45.779
 I and the Father

00:33:45.779 --> 00:33:46.139
 are one.

00:33:46.819 --> 00:33:47.039
 Okay?

00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:48.819
 We need perfect love.

00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:50.279
 Okay?

00:33:50.639 --> 00:33:50.879
 It says,

00:33:50.980 --> 00:33:51.579
 Perfect love

00:33:51.579 --> 00:33:53.019
 casts out all fear

00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:53.699
 because fear

00:33:53.699 --> 00:33:54.500
 has to do with punishment

00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:55.419
 and the one that fears

00:33:55.419 --> 00:33:57.099
 has not been perfected

00:33:57.099 --> 00:33:57.799
 in love.

00:33:58.500 --> 00:33:58.740
 Okay?

00:33:58.740 --> 00:34:02.140
 Very, very important.

00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:02.920
 We need a revelation

00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:04.079
 of God's love for us.

00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:04.880
 Okay?

00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:05.660
 It's His kindness

00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:06.359
 that leads us

00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:06.940
 to repentance.

00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:07.940
 Right?

00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:09.139
 It's His kindness

00:34:09.139 --> 00:34:09.699
 that leads us

00:34:09.699 --> 00:34:10.179
 to repentance.

00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:13.559
 Your masculinity

00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:14.480
 comes from

00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:15.340
 an unchanging,

00:34:15.579 --> 00:34:16.199
 unconditional,

00:34:16.739 --> 00:34:17.820
 loving Father.

00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:18.940
 Unconditionally

00:34:18.940 --> 00:34:19.659
 loving Father.

00:34:19.780 --> 00:34:19.960
 Okay?

00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:21.320
 When God gave me

00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:21.699
 a revelation

00:34:21.699 --> 00:34:22.400
 of His love for me,

00:34:22.900 --> 00:34:23.579
 I was undone.

00:34:23.659 --> 00:34:23.960
 It was game,

00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:24.519
 set, and match.

00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:25.659
 I had confusion.

00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:26.260
 I had all kinds

00:34:26.260 --> 00:34:26.659
 of thoughts.

00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:27.019
 Right?

00:34:27.099 --> 00:34:27.559
 It was done.

00:34:27.780 --> 00:34:28.139
 It was done.

00:34:28.139 --> 00:34:28.759
 It was over.

00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:29.980
 I was running around.

00:34:30.279 --> 00:34:30.940
 I moved to Mexico.

00:34:31.099 --> 00:34:32.000
 I got caught up in,

00:34:32.139 --> 00:34:32.539
 like I said,

00:34:32.619 --> 00:34:33.099
 I got caught up

00:34:33.099 --> 00:34:34.819
 in a bunch of crap.

00:34:35.259 --> 00:34:35.759
 Just drugs.

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.420
 Trying to look

00:34:36.420 --> 00:34:37.119
 here, there,

00:34:37.179 --> 00:34:37.519
 and everywhere.

00:34:38.539 --> 00:34:39.139
 And basically,

00:34:39.299 --> 00:34:39.839
 I literally got to

00:34:39.839 --> 00:34:40.179
 the point where

00:34:40.179 --> 00:34:41.159
 I probably could have

00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:42.079
 overdosed on cocaine.

00:34:42.279 --> 00:34:42.500
 Probably.

00:34:42.699 --> 00:34:43.900
 I tried a few times.

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:44.359
 Kind of.

00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:45.759
 Not intentionally,

00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:47.059
 but I did not care.

00:34:47.179 --> 00:34:47.779
 I didn't have,

00:34:47.859 --> 00:34:49.139
 I didn't value my life.

00:34:49.819 --> 00:34:50.639
 I didn't know

00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:51.440
 why I should

00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:53.279
 because I didn't have

00:34:53.279 --> 00:34:53.960
 the value of,

00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:55.259
 I didn't know my worth.

00:34:55.839 --> 00:34:57.139
 I forgot I was created

00:34:57.139 --> 00:34:57.960
 in the Mijics God.

00:34:58.579 --> 00:34:59.460
 I lost sight.

00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:00.139
 Right?

00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:01.019
 I lost sight of this.

00:35:01.059 --> 00:35:02.480
 It drove me to the ground

00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:03.400
 and hard.

00:35:04.059 --> 00:35:04.299
 Okay?

00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:06.579
 I moved to Mexico.

00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:07.480
 I'm like,

00:35:07.539 --> 00:35:07.739
 all right,

00:35:09.099 --> 00:35:10.359
 I'm trying to do

00:35:10.359 --> 00:35:11.400
 all this good stuff for you.

00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:14.380
 I moved to the ministry.

00:35:14.380 --> 00:35:15.019
 I'm like,

00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:15.860
 I had a bunch of street kids.

00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:16.160
 I'm like,

00:35:16.200 --> 00:35:16.980
 I had this idea.

00:35:17.059 --> 00:35:17.420
 All right, God,

00:35:17.460 --> 00:35:18.440
 I'm doing all this good stuff.

00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:20.240
 Where's the warm and fuzzy feelings?

00:35:20.500 --> 00:35:21.039
 Where are they at?

00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:22.079
 Like, look,

00:35:22.180 --> 00:35:23.099
 can't you see everything

00:35:23.099 --> 00:35:24.000
 I'm doing for you?

00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:25.800
 I'm doing all this stuff.

00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:26.079
 Look.

00:35:26.579 --> 00:35:27.099
 Check it out.

00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:28.059
 Look what I did.

00:35:28.900 --> 00:35:29.440
 And it's like,

00:35:29.500 --> 00:35:29.820
 nope.

00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:32.200
 You can't do anything

00:35:32.200 --> 00:35:33.400
 on your own accord.

00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:34.500
 We can do nothing

00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:35.980
 to merit

00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:37.559
 and deserve

00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:38.700
 God's love.

00:35:39.240 --> 00:35:39.559
 Nothing.

00:35:39.780 --> 00:35:40.180
 It's actually,

00:35:40.420 --> 00:35:40.820
 the Bible says,

00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:41.539
 filthy rags.

00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:42.119
 Our attempts

00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:43.320
 to be righteous

00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:44.079
 on our own,

00:35:44.180 --> 00:35:44.700
 apart from Christ,

00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:45.360
 filthy rags.

00:35:45.420 --> 00:35:46.059
 He's disgusting.

00:35:46.759 --> 00:35:47.539
 So it drove me.

00:35:47.659 --> 00:35:48.219
 I got to the point.

00:35:48.279 --> 00:35:48.820
 I was sneaking out.

00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:49.940
 I was sneaking out.

00:35:49.940 --> 00:35:50.380
 I was still an addict.

00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:51.079
 I was sneaking out.

00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:51.219
 I was saying,

00:35:51.259 --> 00:35:52.019
 I'm walking the dog.

00:35:52.139 --> 00:35:52.599
 Oh, I'm going to go

00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:53.000
 walk the dog.

00:35:53.059 --> 00:35:54.019
 Slam 240.

00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:55.320
 It's in 20 minutes.

00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:56.259
 240 up here.

00:35:56.619 --> 00:35:56.900
 Slam.

00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:57.799
 Come back.

00:35:58.460 --> 00:35:58.940
 Pass out.

00:35:59.000 --> 00:35:59.139
 Whatever.

00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:00.099
 I had a problem.

00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.079
 I had a heart problem.

00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:03.059
 You can change your externals,

00:36:03.699 --> 00:36:05.400
 but until we let God

00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:06.559
 change our hearts,

00:36:06.739 --> 00:36:07.179
 we're going to get

00:36:07.179 --> 00:36:07.699
 the same ourselves.

00:36:07.860 --> 00:36:08.320
 There you are.

00:36:08.380 --> 00:36:08.759
 Wherever you go,

00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:09.360
 there you are.

00:36:09.579 --> 00:36:09.739
 Right?

00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:10.579
 So,

00:36:11.579 --> 00:36:12.199
 I got to the point

00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:13.139
 where I was about to roll.

00:36:13.299 --> 00:36:14.380
 I was looking at flights.

00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:15.639
 I was going to go back

00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:15.960
 to Madison.

00:36:16.059 --> 00:36:16.199
 I was like,

00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:16.579
 what am I doing?

00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:17.480
 I'm drinking with a dog

00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:17.659
 then.

00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:18.219
 I got friends

00:36:18.219 --> 00:36:19.019
 that needs to do this.

00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:20.059
 Like back in Madison.

00:36:20.699 --> 00:36:23.339
 I'm looking at flights

00:36:23.339 --> 00:36:25.119
 and doing dishes

00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:26.299
 after dinner,

00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:27.599
 having a conversation

00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:30.199
 with the pastor's daughter.

00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:31.619
 Not going to go

00:36:31.619 --> 00:36:32.159
 into all of that.

00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:32.480
 Anyway,

00:36:32.839 --> 00:36:33.519
 Lord used her

00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:34.539
 in that season

00:36:34.539 --> 00:36:37.039
 to speak to me

00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:37.759
 a prophetic word.

00:36:37.839 --> 00:36:38.219
 I believe it was

00:36:38.219 --> 00:36:38.859
 a prophetic word

00:36:38.859 --> 00:36:39.400
 that I needed to hear.

00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:42.319
 She basically

00:36:42.319 --> 00:36:43.319
 prophesied over me.

00:36:43.379 --> 00:36:43.900
 Basically said,

00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:45.000
 this is,

00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:48.639
 she actually challenged

00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:49.299
 my character

00:36:49.299 --> 00:36:50.219
 as a man.

00:36:50.420 --> 00:36:51.039
 She actually challenged

00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:51.400
 my character

00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:52.119
 and it was exactly

00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:52.480
 what I needed.

00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:53.519
 It was a time and season.

00:36:54.019 --> 00:36:54.619
 She challenged

00:36:54.619 --> 00:36:55.159
 my character

00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:55.619
 as a man.

00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:56.239
 Oh,

00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:56.639
 you're going up,

00:36:56.799 --> 00:36:57.219
 she goes,

00:36:57.639 --> 00:36:58.559
 you're going up a mountain,

00:36:58.739 --> 00:36:58.980
 right?

00:36:59.199 --> 00:36:59.799
 You get to a point

00:36:59.799 --> 00:37:00.299
 where it's hard,

00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:01.199
 right?

00:37:02.099 --> 00:37:03.199
 Are you the type of man

00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:03.759
 that gives up?

00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:05.739
 You're just going to give up,

00:37:05.819 --> 00:37:06.299
 throw in the towel,

00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:06.739
 give up?

00:37:07.219 --> 00:37:08.000
 There's a summit

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.139
 at the top of the mountain.

00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:09.779
 There's a summit.

00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:10.500
 She's prophesied.

00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:10.659
 She says,

00:37:10.820 --> 00:37:11.760
 for no plans I have

00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:12.000
 for you,

00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:12.400
 declare us,

00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:12.559
 Lord.

00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:13.980
 Probs me not to harm you.

00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:14.800
 Plans to give you

00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:15.420
 a hope in the future.

00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:16.940
 Are you a man

00:37:16.940 --> 00:37:17.739
 that gives up?

00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:18.760
 All right?

00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:20.139
 It says,

00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:20.840
 if you seek him,

00:37:20.860 --> 00:37:21.400
 you'll find him.

00:37:21.500 --> 00:37:22.039
 If you seek him

00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:22.599
 with all your heart.

00:37:23.139 --> 00:37:23.900
 She prophesied over me,

00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:24.519
 prayed over me.

00:37:24.659 --> 00:37:25.079
 And I'm like,

00:37:25.139 --> 00:37:25.360
 okay,

00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:25.920
 is this true,

00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:26.199
 God?

00:37:26.380 --> 00:37:27.500
 Is what she's just said

00:37:27.500 --> 00:37:28.300
 true about me?

00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:28.900
 Could that be true

00:37:28.900 --> 00:37:29.420
 for me too?

00:37:30.099 --> 00:37:30.960
 So I go up on the roof

00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:31.420
 down there.

00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:32.280
 I got these flat roofs.

00:37:32.380 --> 00:37:33.099
 I go up on the roof

00:37:33.099 --> 00:37:34.059
 and I'm calling out

00:37:34.059 --> 00:37:34.420
 to the Lord

00:37:34.420 --> 00:37:35.280
 and he just totally

00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:36.460
 reveals his love to me.

00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:37.360
 I'm calling out,

00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:38.000
 is this true?

00:37:38.139 --> 00:37:38.460
 It's just,

00:37:38.900 --> 00:37:39.220
 Michael,

00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:40.619
 he just met me

00:37:40.619 --> 00:37:41.059
 where I was at.

00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:42.480
 I've known you.

00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:43.599
 I've loved you

00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:44.599
 with an everlasting love.

00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:45.920
 I love you through this.

00:37:46.059 --> 00:37:46.320
 I love you.

00:37:46.380 --> 00:37:47.079
 She kind of showed me

00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:47.400
 pictures.

00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:48.159
 I knit you together

00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:49.019
 in your mother's womb.

00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:50.000
 You thought I wasn't there.

00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:50.980
 I was there the whole time.

00:37:51.500 --> 00:37:52.099
 I had a picture.

00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:53.280
 There was a picture

00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:54.220
 of my mom

00:37:54.220 --> 00:37:54.780
 was getting raised.

00:37:56.240 --> 00:37:57.260
 Her casket was going

00:37:57.260 --> 00:37:58.260
 on into the ground.

00:37:58.619 --> 00:37:59.019
 Funerals.

00:37:59.019 --> 00:37:59.579
 It happened to me

00:37:59.579 --> 00:38:00.340
 on my seventh birthday.

00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:02.059
 I had a picture

00:38:02.059 --> 00:38:03.219
 of Christ holding me

00:38:03.219 --> 00:38:04.099
 as a seven-year-old boy

00:38:04.099 --> 00:38:05.179
 weeping over me.

00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:06.900
 He was there.

00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:08.219
 He is there.

00:38:08.739 --> 00:38:09.679
 He's not absent.

00:38:09.860 --> 00:38:10.920
 He is not an absent father.

00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:12.199
 He is very much here.

00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:14.280
 He loves us

00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:15.420
 with an everlasting love.

00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:16.519
 He spoke over me.

00:38:16.579 --> 00:38:16.980
 I was there.

00:38:17.059 --> 00:38:17.840
 I was loving you then.

00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:18.980
 I'm loving you now

00:38:18.980 --> 00:38:21.239
 and I'll never leave you

00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:21.699
 or forsake you.

00:38:21.780 --> 00:38:22.239
 That's what he said.

00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:23.199
 And it was game,

00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:23.619
 set, and match.

00:38:23.619 --> 00:38:23.980
 It was done.

00:38:24.059 --> 00:38:24.280
 I was like,

00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:24.460
 okay.

00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:25.679
 All right.

00:38:26.579 --> 00:38:27.059
 That's it.

00:38:27.719 --> 00:38:28.579
 A few months later,

00:38:28.579 --> 00:38:28.799
 whatever.

00:38:29.299 --> 00:38:29.799
 Fast forward,

00:38:29.900 --> 00:38:30.299
 then I moved

00:38:30.299 --> 00:38:31.500
 to Kansas City

00:38:31.500 --> 00:38:32.119
 and all that.

00:38:32.179 --> 00:38:32.500
 But anyway,

00:38:32.799 --> 00:38:33.360
 we need to revelation

00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:34.360
 to God's love for us.

00:38:34.699 --> 00:38:35.440
 He loves us.

00:38:36.319 --> 00:38:36.719
 Unconditionally.

00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:38.440
 While we were yet sinners,

00:38:38.619 --> 00:38:39.460
 Christ died for us.

00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:39.699
 Okay?

00:38:40.059 --> 00:38:41.239
 And he invites us

00:38:41.239 --> 00:38:42.319
 into sonship.

00:38:42.699 --> 00:38:43.420
 He invites us

00:38:43.420 --> 00:38:44.420
 into fellowship.

00:38:44.799 --> 00:38:45.559
 Perfect fellowship

00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:46.019
 with him.

00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:46.880
 Okay?

00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:48.360
 Sonship.

00:38:48.759 --> 00:38:50.219
 We need sonship.

00:38:50.299 --> 00:38:50.940
 We need to know

00:38:50.940 --> 00:38:52.000
 who we are in Christ.

00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:53.480
 We need to know.

00:38:53.699 --> 00:38:55.039
 He gives us dignity.

00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:56.219
 This is my son

00:38:56.219 --> 00:38:57.860
 in whom I am well pleased.

00:38:58.759 --> 00:38:59.860
 Christ in us

00:38:59.860 --> 00:39:01.519
 is our only hope of glory.

00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:02.699
 Okay?

00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:03.619
 That's it.

00:39:04.420 --> 00:39:05.539
 It's Christ in us.

00:39:07.759 --> 00:39:08.239
 Okay.

00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:09.820
 I'm going to talk

00:39:09.820 --> 00:39:10.340
 a little bit more

00:39:10.340 --> 00:39:10.980
 about the fruit

00:39:10.980 --> 00:39:13.739
 of a sonship heart,

00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:14.639
 spirit of sonship.

00:39:14.940 --> 00:39:15.099
 Okay?

00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:16.320
 So sons

00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:17.440
 are accepted

00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:18.059
 in the son.

00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:18.920
 Okay?

00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:20.860
 Fruit of sonship

00:39:20.860 --> 00:39:22.320
 makes secure men.

00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:24.120
 It makes us secure

00:39:24.120 --> 00:39:24.820
 in who we are.

00:39:25.740 --> 00:39:26.840
 Not by anything,

00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:27.660
 not because we've

00:39:27.660 --> 00:39:28.220
 done anything good.

00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:29.980
 This is not performance.

00:39:30.720 --> 00:39:31.700
 It's because of

00:39:31.700 --> 00:39:32.620
 what Christ has done.

00:39:33.680 --> 00:39:34.780
 And only that

00:39:34.780 --> 00:39:36.120
 we are secure

00:39:36.120 --> 00:39:36.740
 in his love.

00:39:37.240 --> 00:39:37.400
 Okay?

00:39:38.740 --> 00:39:39.519
 He makes us

00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:40.500
 emotionally stable.

00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:41.160
 Our wives,

00:39:41.240 --> 00:39:41.880
 people around us

00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:42.420
 need to be,

00:39:42.820 --> 00:39:43.860
 they need us

00:39:43.860 --> 00:39:45.400
 to be emotionally stable.

00:39:46.120 --> 00:39:46.780
 We need to be

00:39:46.780 --> 00:39:47.340
 stable men.

00:39:48.099 --> 00:39:48.660
 We don't need

00:39:48.660 --> 00:39:49.160
 to be tossed

00:39:49.160 --> 00:39:49.720
 to and fro.

00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:51.379
 The only way

00:39:51.379 --> 00:39:52.519
 that we have stability

00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:53.419
 or we'll ever

00:39:53.419 --> 00:39:54.319
 get stability

00:39:54.319 --> 00:39:55.839
 is

00:39:55.839 --> 00:39:58.379
 by coming

00:39:58.379 --> 00:39:59.519
 into

00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:00.519
 right relationship

00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:01.719
 with the Alpha

00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:02.199
 and Omega,

00:40:02.439 --> 00:40:03.359
 the beginning and end.

00:40:03.819 --> 00:40:04.000
 Okay?

00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:05.519
 He's unchanging.

00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:06.939
 He is constant.

00:40:07.799 --> 00:40:08.739
 Nothing else

00:40:08.739 --> 00:40:09.719
 in this world

00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:10.679
 is constant.

00:40:11.219 --> 00:40:12.339
 It's all fluid.

00:40:12.819 --> 00:40:13.819
 It's here for a minute.

00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:14.519
 It's gone.

00:40:14.919 --> 00:40:15.439
 It gives you

00:40:15.439 --> 00:40:16.219
 fleeting hope.

00:40:16.299 --> 00:40:16.659
 It gives you

00:40:16.659 --> 00:40:17.439
 fleeting pleasure.

00:40:17.779 --> 00:40:18.619
 Whatever you think

00:40:18.619 --> 00:40:19.379
 is going to make you

00:40:19.380 --> 00:40:20.539
 happy or fulfill you,

00:40:21.099 --> 00:40:21.760
 apart from Christ,

00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:22.300
 it's a lie.

00:40:22.640 --> 00:40:23.280
 It really is.

00:40:23.660 --> 00:40:24.200
 It just is.

00:40:24.460 --> 00:40:25.380
 And it's unreliable.

00:40:26.240 --> 00:40:26.680
 Let's say,

00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:27.780
 let's do a thought experiment.

00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:28.539
 Let's say you

00:40:28.539 --> 00:40:30.180
 perform perfectly

00:40:30.180 --> 00:40:31.480
 all the goals

00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:32.280
 and all the things

00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:32.760
 in your heart

00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:33.539
 that you have,

00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:34.780
 all of your ambitions,

00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:35.460
 everything.

00:40:36.260 --> 00:40:36.760
 Let's say you

00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:38.200
 succeed perfectly.

00:40:39.180 --> 00:40:40.380
 You get the trophy wife.

00:40:40.460 --> 00:40:41.119
 You get the

00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:42.079
 million dollar house.

00:40:42.180 --> 00:40:42.519
 You get the

00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:43.380
 whatever.

00:40:44.180 --> 00:40:44.960
 You get the salary.

00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:46.500
 whatever.

00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:48.659
 You're going to die.

00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:51.699
 Okay?

00:40:52.659 --> 00:40:53.800
 Not even your life

00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:55.380
 is reliable.

00:40:56.760 --> 00:40:57.760
 It says we need

00:40:57.760 --> 00:40:58.420
 to learn to

00:40:58.420 --> 00:41:00.599
 number our days

00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:01.400
 and gain a heart

00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:01.840
 of wisdom.

00:41:02.619 --> 00:41:03.119
 Not another

00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:03.420
 guarantee,

00:41:03.639 --> 00:41:04.199
 not a day,

00:41:04.900 --> 00:41:05.679
 not one more day

00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:06.079
 is guaranteed.

00:41:06.340 --> 00:41:07.220
 Nothing is guaranteed.

00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:09.599
 What is guaranteed

00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:12.819
 is if we remain

00:41:12.819 --> 00:41:13.380
 under the wrath

00:41:13.380 --> 00:41:13.739
 of God

00:41:13.739 --> 00:41:15.420
 with unrepentant hearts,

00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:16.799
 we will rightly

00:41:16.799 --> 00:41:17.739
 be under the wrath

00:41:17.739 --> 00:41:18.119
 of God

00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:19.719
 and separated

00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:20.559
 from His presence.

00:41:21.900 --> 00:41:22.960
 That's a guarantee.

00:41:23.900 --> 00:41:24.860
 That's reliable.

00:41:25.420 --> 00:41:26.739
 That is a reliable truth.

00:41:27.699 --> 00:41:28.839
 Another reliable truth

00:41:28.839 --> 00:41:30.480
 is that we

00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:31.719
 have been given

00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:33.219
 the opportunity

00:41:33.219 --> 00:41:34.860
 to be adopted

00:41:34.860 --> 00:41:36.819
 into His kingdom,

00:41:36.980 --> 00:41:37.860
 into His family.

00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:38.539
 Okay?

00:41:38.539 --> 00:41:39.779
 everlasting,

00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:40.920
 unchanging love,

00:41:41.219 --> 00:41:41.880
 new identity

00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:43.500
 as sons

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:44.759
 secure in

00:41:44.759 --> 00:41:45.159
 who we are

00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:45.579
 in Christ.

00:41:45.579 --> 00:41:45.699
 Amen.