Put Down The Bag

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Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the ones who see the world differently, who don't fit neatly into boxes, and refuse to live by someone else's script.
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You can quote them, you can disagree with them, you can glorify them or vilify them, you can shake your head at their ideas or be inspired by their courage.
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But the one thing you cannot do is ignore them.
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Because they change things.
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They disrupt what's comfortable, they challenge what's normal, and they push the human race forward.
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Sometimes with loud revolutions, sometimes with quiet persistence that changes everything over time.
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They see possibility where others see limits.
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They dare to dream out loud when the world tells them to be silent.
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They take risks, they stumble, they rise again, and they keep going.
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Not because it's easy, but because they can't imagine doing anything else.
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These are the ones who remind us that every great leap forward was once considered impossible.
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So here's to them the ones who won't sit down, won't be quiet, and won't stop until the world is different.
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Because they're the reason it will be.
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So without further ado, here's Bob.
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Alright, today we're gonna be looking at the uh verse of the day, which is James 1.12, and I'm gonna show you something real cool because uh show you how my brain works.
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But anyway, James 1.12 in the NIV says, Blessed is the one who preserves under trial, because having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who live, who love him.
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Wow, with everything going on right now in the news and everything, that was kind of like they know what they're doing every day, don't they?
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Yeah.
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Huh?
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You think you're watching a movie?
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You even see the Bible verse that goes with everything that's going on.
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It's wild, isn't it?
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But um we talk about trials, attacks, storms, and difficult seasons in our life, and we know that those are all 100% real.
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But what if some of what we were facing isn't only about what life keeps throwing at us, but about what we refuse to give away?
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Vices, addictions, things that we don't even think of on a daily basis that may be holding us from where God is sending us.
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Does that make sense?
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Huh?
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Yes.
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Sorry, I'm shaking my head.
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Oh no, you're you're fine, you're fine.
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Um, I mean, sometimes we pray and we pray and we pray to to ask God to take things off our plate, take things off our shoulders, basically lighten the load while we keep picking it right back up and throwing it back in the truck, you know.
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And he keeps saying, you know, you can empty the truck right here.
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You know?
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So I guess a good question of we could ask our audience is how much of what you're carrying today is something God never asked you to carry anyway.
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He never asked you to pack those suitcases, he never asked you to fill those bags up, he never asked you to carry a lot of things, right?
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So if you read on in James 1, 13 and 14, it says, When tempted, no one should say, God is tempting me.
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For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone, but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticement.
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That is a lot to unfold, a lot to unpack.
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What you think?
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So God uses trials and seasons and things to strengthen what?
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Our perseverance.
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But he'll never tempt us to do evil.
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That comes from the world and the flesh.
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And a lot of struggles do come from circumstances beyond our control, right?
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We're a test of that, right?
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Oh yeah.
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Um, but a lot of them are fueled by desires and dumb decisions and unwillingness to do God's will, right?
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And a lot of times we don't even see that because we're too blinded by our feelings or the world, and we have to be careful not to blame the enemy for every consequence of the choice that we keep making.
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You know?
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So the question is are we resisting temptation?
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Are we resisting sin or are we making excuses for it?
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An excuse I was told one time not too long ago was the most manufactured thing on the planet that holds no value.
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And I find that to be pretty, pretty spot on.
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What do you think?
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I think there's a difference between being tested by what you're going through and then being trapped by what you keep going back to.
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And it's 707.
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Here we go again, 707.
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All day long.
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All day long I see him.
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Um I'll probably see 727.
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And I don't even look for that stuff.
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It just I just happen to glance at the phone as well.
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Um I take that as being on God's frequency.
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I that's just me.
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Um y'all can call me crazy, but I think that's God saying you're on the right path.
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You know, he he communicates in different ways, and I I know for a fact he communicates in symbols and numbers because the Bible tells me so.
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Definitely.
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Um so let's get back to what I was saying.
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The difference, a lot of times the difference between being tested by what you're going through and being trapped by what you keep doing to yourself or what you keep, you know, holding on to.
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Um the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
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And um, you need to kind of take that to heart and look at yourself.
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And a lot of times it's hard to look at ourselves because we don't think we're doing anything wrong.
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We're so used to it, we're so uh habit.
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Huh?
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Comfortable, yeah.
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Comfort, convenience, comfort and convenience.
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When the Bible tells me many times that in this world there will not be a whole lot of comfort and convenience.
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So, what are some of the weights that hold us back?
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What do you think, Courtney Marie?
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Pride, pride, pride before the fall, huh?
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Yeah.
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Pride and fear and control.
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False evidence appearing real, fear and control.
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Do you fear not being in control?
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Yes, or good enough.
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Fear not being good enough.
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So that would be almost like an unhealthy attachment, which is um needing uh reassurance from someone other than God, right?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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I think we all suffer from that.
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We just show we have different ways of triggering that.
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I think we all have an inner child that wants to be heard.
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Um, you might not want to admit it.
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I didn't want to admit it, but it took a man that was 12 years older than me to sit me down and tell me to shut up and listen to understand what God was trying to tell me.
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And I think he used that man, and I think um we're gonna talk more about that man.
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He's he's a great guy.
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God bless him, because it took me been trying to for 30 years.
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Well, that's the thing about that goes back to control, right?
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Yeah, you can't control that situation, all you can do is pray for it.
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So those are um pride, resentment, fear, control uh habits that we are used to every single day, and those can become unhealthy attachments.
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So when we can become so comfortable with the familiarity that we hold on to things even when it hurts, that is uh a strong statement, a big statement, and um a check in the mirror stat neck neck up, uh check up from the neck up statement.
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I mean, because think about something.
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Think about if you were running a marathon, but you had to carry a heavy backpack.
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You keep asking for strength to run faster, but you never consider like putting the bag down.
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And you don't even have to carry the bag, you're just carrying it.
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That'd be pretty dumb, wouldn't it?
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Absolutely.
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For a runner in a marathon to carry a backpack that he didn't even need.
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But yet we do that every day.
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Sometimes that's what it what strengthens us, though.
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Yeah, and sometimes we're not exhausted and tired because the road is too long and because of the environment.
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Sometimes we're that way because we're carrying that book bag that we never were supposed to carry in the first place in the first place.
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So, guys, if you um turned Ecclastes 3-6 Ecclesiastes, right?
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Is that how you say it?
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Yeah, and I'm bad with that stuff, but it's okay.
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Yeah, I like to make my own words up, but God knows what I'm talking about.
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I'm just a little dumb country boy from Georgia, you know what I'm saying?
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Um God knows exactly what I'm talking about, He knows my heart.
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Absolutely.
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But um it it says in 3-6 Ecclesiastes that a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away.
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So let's break that down.
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A time to search, and then there's a time to give up, a time to keep, and a time to throw away.
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So if we're looking at that and we look back at James, James celebrates James one twelve.
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James celebrates, and then we did Hebrews.
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No, we didn't have how do we get from James to today?
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No.
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No.
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Yeah, skip something.
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Did I skip something?
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Look at Brian skipping around the outline.
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I did skip Hebrews 12.1.
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So let's go back to Hebrews 12.1.
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It's funny, James 1.12, and then Hebrews 12.1.
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Hebrews 12.1 says, Therefore, since we are surrounded by great, such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that is so easily entangles.
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And let us run with perseverance, the race marked out for us.
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So those weights that we keep holding, those unfamiliar and unhealthy, those familiar habits and those unhealthy attachments, which can be familiar habits, we've become so comfortable with that familiarity that we hold on even when we hurt ourselves by holding on.
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And that's what I'm talking about as far as the runner in the race.
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We're carrying a backpack we never meant to carry.
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So let's skip back to Ecclesiastes 3:16.
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A time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away.
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You see, James celebrates endurance, but endurance does not mean staying attached to everything that causes you pain.
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Sometimes faithfulness means standing firm.
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Other times it means walking away from things that keeps pulling you away from God and what he desires for your life.
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So I guess a question would be is this something God is calling me to endure faithfully, or is this something that God is calling me to surrender and put it down?
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We talk about the definition of his sanity.
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We talk about doing the same things over and over again, so why not let go of the sin and the destructive attachments?
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It's hard.
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It's just like abandoning people.
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That's hard.
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Abandoning things that we're used to in our life.
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But first we have to pray for discernment.
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And then we have to pray to let God shine that flashlight on our heart to show us what we actually need discernment from.
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Because one thing we don't want to do is mistake our refusal to release something for faithfulness by keeping doing the same thing over and over.
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That's the insanity.
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So if you look at uh let's let's go to Proverbs 3, 5, and 6.
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Look, 717.
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Told you.
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And I'm not watching the clock, I just happened to look over and it was 7.17.
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That was, yeah, wow.
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Proverbs 3, 5 and 6.
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I promise I'm not crazy.
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God just shows me things.
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
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In all your ways, submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
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That's one of the most famous verses in the Bible.
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Because surrender is not given up to God, it's giving up the illusion that we can control things without him.
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Because a lot of times we want healing, but we don't want forgiveness.
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We don't want peace without obedience.
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And we don't we and we want let me say that again.
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I had that messed up.
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I can't read my own notes half the time.
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Put your glasses on, they're on your head.
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Oh yeah.
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Duh.
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We want healing without forgiveness, peace without obedience, and transformation without sacrifice.
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So let's picture that.
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That's kind of like let's imagine gripping a rope so tightly that it burns your hands.
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You're sitting there praying for the pain to stop, but you're afraid of what will happen if you let go or loosen the grip.
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So you cannot fully embrace what God is calling you toward while refusing to release what keeps pulling you backwards.
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You see the symbolism in that?
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You see that?
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Now, surrender is not going to guarantee instant relief, and some trials may remain after you've been obedient.
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But I'm gonna tell you something.
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God's faithfulness is not measured by how quickly your circumstance changes.
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I'm gonna say that again.
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God's faithfulness is not measured by how quickly your circumstance changes.
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So if we go back to James 1.2, no, excuse me, James 1.12.
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The crown of life is a promise.
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It's not a trouble-free, stress-free life that you can control.
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Guys, endurance and obedience express our love for God.
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They don't earn his love.
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And there are gonna be trials that require a lot of perseverance.
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If it was easy, anybody could do it.
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Some temptations are gonna require resistance.
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There are burdens out there and problems out there that are gonna require surrender.
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But I'm gonna tell you this every single one and every single thing that I've been talking about requires obedience to God.
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Some trials are sent to us by God as a lesson.
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Like Courtney Marie said, some trials are sent by God as a lesson.
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And then maybe you've been asking God to change your season.
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But he's still working on your heart.
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Maybe you've been asking God to open a door.
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And he's been holding the handle to the one that you need to close.
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Ever think about that?
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He wants you to close one before you open another, maybe.
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You see, sometimes the hardest part of following Jesus isn't facing what's ahead.
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It's surrendering what you're trying to carry with you.
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So, what if your breakthrough you've been praying for isn't waiting on God to move?
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But it's waiting on you to release what He has already told you to let go.
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Are you enduring?
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Something God has called you to walk through or holding on to something He has been asking you to put down?
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That's um food for thought.
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Yeah, that's food for thought in itself.
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Are you walking through life wondering why God hasn't answered your prayer, but you're doing the exact same thing over and over and calling it progression when it's insanity?
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Is that you?
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I know it's me a lot of times.
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I know getting away back to man camp with my brothers and having God shine the flashlight on my life and my heart showed me.
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And sometimes you have to get away and reflect because this life does not stop.
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This world does not stop.
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The attacks will not stop.
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This world is designed to steal your soul.
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And you have to be consciously aware of that.
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And you have to quit blaming your circumstances, quit blaming God, and start listening.
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And I'm at fault.
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Courtney Marie's just as bad.
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We are sinners and we need Jesus every single day.
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We have to put on that full armor of God every single day.
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And God has showed me that I have so many people to reach out to, and I have not been doing it.
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I have been trying to take this burden on by myself.
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And a lot of times you need a 30-foot view.
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You need somebody looking from a total distance, coming from a place of love, from their heart to kind of give you a different perspective.
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But that takes trust in itself.
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And a lot of us don't want that trust because we're scared of what the truth might be.
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We're scared of how God may use that person to reveal our dirty laundry.
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None of us want that.
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We're going to have to start letting our love shine and start trusting the process and trusting God and using the people that God brings into your life so He can help you understand what is going on in your life.
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And I don't mean use them in a bad way, I mean use them in a good way because God's going to use them for you to show you.
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But you have to listen.
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You have to be open.
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Your heart has to be ready to receive.
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That's all I have for today.
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Do you have any reflection, Miss Courtney Marie?
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I do not.
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You don't have any words of wisdom?
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I'm still drinking my coffee.
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She's still drinking her coffee.
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Well, guys, let's go to the Lord in prayer.
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Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you today, Lord.
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We just thank you for waking us up, Lord.
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As the sun shines over the horizon and rises to greet us another day, we just want to give you the thanks for your gracious, gracious, gracious mercy, your love, your commitment to us.
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The way you use life to get us on the right path, and the way you use lessons to show us.
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That they were laid down and they were forgiven and everything was taken care of, and the battle was won through your son and the blood of your son Jesus.
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Lord, we just thank you for everything you are doing in our lives, everything you have done in our lives, and everything you are going to do in our lives.
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Lord, just we ask that you reveal any pride, any unforgiveness, any fear, any bad habits or any terrible attachments that we need to surrender, Lord, that we keep stuffing in that backpack, Lord.
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Just show us that we do not need to carry that any longer.
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Lord, just give us wisdom, Lord, just to know that you are there.
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You never left, you have a plan, and that we need to trust the process.
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Lord, I pray for everybody that might be listening today that does not know you.
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I pray that you overwhelm their life and show them the power of the utmost high, the creator.
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And how good, good and great you are.
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Lord, I pray for my wife and family that you keep them in the marathon and keep those book bags on the side, waiting back at the starting line.
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And I pray that we just make it one more step and one more day with that armor of God on, with that love of Jesus in our life.
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Lord, I pray for this country.
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I pray for everything that is happening right now.
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I pray for people that are scared that you may comfort them, that they may see that false evidence just appears real.
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And that's exactly what it is.
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Because fear is a thief and fear is a liar, and we know that.
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Lord, I pray that you just lift up our country and that we get back to love.
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And I pray these things in Jesus' holy, heavenly name.
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Amen and hallelujah.
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Well, guys, thank you for tuning in today.
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My name's B.
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Rob.
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My co-pilot is Courtney Marie.
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And stay in the fight, guys.
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Stay faithful.
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Check out our website, www.forchministry.com.
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And don't forget, I can get you life insurance, but only Jesus can get you life assurance.
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God loves you.
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I love you.
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Courtney Marie loves you.
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But if you don't have a relationship with Christ, you better.
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You're right.