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Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller

October 10, 2020

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Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller is a weekly program that helps people live meaningful lives.

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male announcer: From nowthrough the end of the year,
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we're inviting you to activelyparticipate in our living legacy
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as we commemorate the past,celebrate the present,
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and commission the futureof "Hour of Power."
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Our East Gate Legacy Walkwill transport guests
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through the first 50 yearsof our broadcast
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and into the next as they enterthe Shepherd's Grove
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Presbyterian Church campusfrom the east side.
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Featuring 12 pillars flanked byplaques that tell the story
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of our journey and 500 stonesengraved with the names
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of those who supportthe ministry,
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we believe the East Gate projectwill inspire hope
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for future generations.
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Today, we're offering youa once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
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to become part of this uniquetribute to God's faithfulness.
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For your generous donationof $1.000 or more,
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we will honor you by inscribinga 12-by-24-inch stone to be
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inlayed in the walkway,features your name or the name
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of your family, the year youbegan watching "Hour of Power,"
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where you're from,
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and the flag of the countryfrom which you watch.
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Your participation inthis special memorial
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not only marks your vital rolein the ongoing outreach
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of "Hour of Power,"but it positions us
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to begin our second half centuryof ministry
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from a place of financialstrength that will prime us
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for even greater impactin the years to come.
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Thank you for beingan important part of our legacy,
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and remember always,God loves you and so do we.
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ Joyful, joyful,we adore you ♪
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♪ God of glory,Lord of love ♪
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♪ Hearts unfold likeflow'rs before you ♪
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♪ op'ning to the sun above ♪
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♪ Melt the cloudsof sin and sadness ♪
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♪ drive the darkof doubt away ♪
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♪ Giver of immortal gladness,fill us with the light of day ♪
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♪ Amen,Amen ♪
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♪ Amen! ♪
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Bobby Schuller: This is the daythe Lord has made.
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We will rejoice and be gladin it, good morning.
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Hannah Schuller: Good morningand welcome, church family
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and visitors.
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We're so happythat you've joined us.
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You know, time in God's presenceis the absolute best use
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of our time.
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Eternal fruit flows from thereand the God of the universe
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longs to spendthat time with you.
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You are so loved.
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Bobby Schuller: We're so gladthat you're joining us today,
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and let's begin with a word ofprayer.
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Father, we thank you so much forthe good that you're doing in
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our world.
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It's so easy to see all the badstuff that's happening, and
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there's a lot of bad stuff, butthere's so much more good.
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We're so grateful that today wewoke up, Lord, that we're alive,
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that we're in your kingdom, thatwe have people in our lives who
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love us, that you love us, andthat you are not done with us
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yet, that the best isyet to come.
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And I just proclaim that overeveryone under the sound
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of my voice.
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Father, we love you,and we thank you.
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It's in Jesus's namewe pray, amen.
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Hannah Schuller: Amen.
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Turn around to the person nextto you and say, "God loves you
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and so do I."
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male announcer:Believe it or not,
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Christmas is justaround the corner.
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And today, "Hour of Power"continues the tradition
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of offering a uniqueholiday ornament.
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Handcrafted from solid brass,then overlaid
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with 24-karat gold,this beautiful filigree angel
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lifts her hands to heavenin praise and adoration.
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Stamped with the "Hour of Power"50th anniversary logo
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was made entirely in the US,
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and is yours with a generousgift of $20 or more.
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To further light up your winterand remind you
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of the true meaningof Christmas,
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we're excited to offerthe ornament
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and our "Silent Night"nativity snow globe
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for a generous donationof $150 or more.
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Turn on the battery-operatedlight to illuminate the scene
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and place it in your homeas a source of inspiration
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throughout the holidays.
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Inside this goldenornament-shaped lantern,
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Mary and Josephlook over Baby Jesus,
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who is surrounded byswirling glittery snow.
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This unique collectibleis a wonderful way
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to usher in the season,while also keeping
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not only in your homebut in homes everywhere.
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Call, write, or go onlineand request
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Or for your giftof $150 or more,
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we'll also includethe "Silent Night"
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nativity snow globe.
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Bobby Schuller: Because of you,"Hour of Power"
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has been proclaimingthe hope of Jesus Christ
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the light of the worldfor 50 years.
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In this turbulent, weird time,we have the awesome privilege
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of sharing good news aboutthe one who is unchanging
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and in whose love hurtingand broken people
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can anchor their souls.
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By supporting this ministry,you've enabled millions
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around the world to hearthe message of the gospel,
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and we are so,so grateful.
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Thank you, and rememberas always,
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God loves you and so do we.
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Hannah Schuller: In preparationfor the message, Psalm 118:22,
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"The stone that the buildersrejected has become
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the cornerstone.
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This is the Lord's doing.
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It is marvelous in our eyes.
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This is the day thatthe Lord has made.
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Let us rejoice andbe glad in it."
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Brothers and sisters, may wework on the inner things in our
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lives and let God work on theoutside stuff, amen.
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♪♪♪
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♪ I've hearda thousand stories ♪
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♪ of what they thinkyou're like ♪
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♪ But I've heard the tenderwhispers of love ♪
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♪ in the dead of night ♪
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♪ And you tell methat you're pleased ♪
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♪ and that I'm never alone ♪
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♪ You're a good,good Father ♪
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♪ It's who you are,it's who you are ♪
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♪ it's who you are ♪
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♪ And I'm loved by you ♪
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♪ It's who I am,it's who I am ♪
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♪ it's who I am ♪
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♪ Oh, and I've seenmany searching ♪
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♪ for answers far and wide ♪
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♪ but I know we'reall searching ♪
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♪ for answersonly you provide ♪
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♪ 'Cause you knowjust what we need ♪
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♪ before we say a word ♪
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♪ You're a good,good Father ♪
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♪ It's who you are,it's who you are ♪
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♪ it's who you are ♪
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♪ And I'm loved by you ♪
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♪ It's who I am,it's who I am ♪
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♪ it's who I am ♪
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♪ Because you are perfectin all of your ways ♪
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♪ You are perfectin all of your ways ♪
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♪ You are perfectin all of your ways to us ♪
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♪ You are perfect inall of your ways ♪
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♪ You are perfectin all of your ways ♪
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♪ You are perfectin all of your ways to us ♪
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♪ Oh, your love'sso undeniable ♪
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♪ I can hardly speak ♪
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♪ Peace so unexplainableI can hardly think ♪
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♪ As you call medeeper still ♪
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♪ As you call medeeper still ♪
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♪ As you call me deeper stillinto love, love, love ♪
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♪ You're a good,good Father ♪
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♪ It's who you are,it's who you are ♪
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♪ it's who you are ♪
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♪ And I'm loved by you ♪
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♪ It's who I am,it's who I am ♪
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♪ it's who I am ♪
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♪ You're a good,good Father ♪
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♪ It's who you are,it's who you are ♪
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♪ it's who you are ♪
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♪ And I'm loved by you ♪
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♪ It's who I am,it's who I am ♪
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♪ it's who I am ♪♪
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male announcer:Adam Weber is an author
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and a pastor at Embrace Churchin South Dakota.
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He is also the host of theConversation podcast, which
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offers listeners the chance tosit down with people of all
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walks of life and heartheir stories.
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His newest book, "Love Has aName," looks at how we can love
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everyone the way Jesus did, eventhose who are different
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or difficult.
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While recalling personalaccounts of tough love in his
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own life, he connects them tobiblical stories and illuminates
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the different and difficultpeople who Jesus showed love to.
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Please welcome Adam Weber.
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Bobby Schuller: Adam,hi, welcome.
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Thank you for joining usthis morning.
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So great to see you.
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Adam Weber: A huge honor to bewith you and to be with your
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church family as well.
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Bobby Schuller: The honoris mine.
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It's always fun to talk to otherpastors too.
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We could probably commiserateoff the, you know, offset about
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various different things.
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But I'm so excited about yournew book and so glad that you're
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joining us today.
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Well, welcome anyway.
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For people who don't know muchabout your story, tell us a
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little bit about how you gotstarted in ministry and kind of
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your journey to whereyou are now.
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Adam Weber: So I'm kind of themost unlikely of people to be a
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pastor and yet I think that'soften who God uses.
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I grew up in the church, bornand raised South Dakotan, which
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is a part of the United Statesof America if you don't know
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that about South Dakota.
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But I came to Christ--
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Bobby Schuller: That's south ofNorth Dakota, right?
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Adam Weber: I always tell peoplewe live in the south, and the
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ocean frontage here in SouthDakota is amazing.
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But no, no I came to Christlater on in high school and had
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a really pivotal shift.
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I always thought I'd pursueministry in the business field,
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so I went to school for businessand marketing.
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And the summer beforemy senior year of college,
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ended up filling in for apastor, and so decided--
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I finished my business degree,went to seminary.
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I didn't wanna start a newchurch, but I ended up starting
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a church when I was24 years old.
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And again, God just continues todo the most unlikely things for
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this yahoo.
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I got four kids.
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I've written a couple of books.
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And I'm thankful that God canuse anybody.
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If you need proof of that, and Isay this jokingly, but at the
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same time really honestly, ifyou wonder if God can use you,
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just think about this yahoo.
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Bobby Schuller: Just look atAdam Weber, the yahoo.
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Adam Weber: I'm proof.I'm proof God can use anybody.
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Bobby Schuller: Well,you have this great book,
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"Love Has a Name," and it reallyis a really good book.
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There's some books that are--this is a great book.
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And one of the things I reallyappreciate about it is your
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message, which really our themefor today is how to love
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difficult people.
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I know sometimes we hear thechurch--we call them EGRs,
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Extra Grace Required, that thereare people in your life, family
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members that you love, people atyour church, or your community,
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or your school, or wherever youare that you love, that you
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don't always know how to dealwith them.
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Tell us a little bit about whyyou wrote this book and how you
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address that issue.
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Adam Weber: Yeah,that's a great question.
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So I actually wrote this bookreally out of a place in the
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first time in my life when Ididn't want to love anybody.
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One of my strengths, I have veryfew, is the gift of just
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genuinely loving people, but acouple of years back I just went
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through a season where I didn'twant to love anybody.
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I was kinda jaded.
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I wanted to love my family,a few close friends,
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and that's about it.
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And now I'm in the mostlife-giving season in my life,
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and yet the book comes out ata time when our world feels
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like I felt like two years ago.
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Bobby Schuller: Yeah.
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Adam Weber: So our world rightnow just kinda wants to love,
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you know, their family, a fewclose friends, and that's
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about it.
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Unfortunately for us, Jesus saysthat loving him and loving
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others is the mostimportant thing.
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And so I began to look at thelife of Jesus just to figure
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out, okay, for the first time inmy life, I don't want to
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love anybody.
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How do I do that?
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And Jesus was so good at knowingtwo different things.
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First off, he was so good atknowing a person's name, and not
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just the names of people thateveryone wanted to know.
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He got to know the name of aperson like Zacchaeus.
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And so he knows a person's nameand knows a person's story.
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And honestly for us, it's easyto treat people inhumanely when
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we don't see them as humans, butsomething changes when we get to
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know their name, when we get toknow their story.
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The person who thinksdifferently than us politically
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or around COVID, it's easy totreat them inhumanely when
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they're just, like, differentthan us, but when we ask what
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their name is and we find outtheir story, all of a sudden we
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begin to realize we actuallyhave a lot more in common than
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we'd ever imagine.
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And Jesus was so good at that.
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Bobby Schuller: How do we asChristians model when we have
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values that we care about, wehave things that matter to us,
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politics are important,voting is important,
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but how do we fix this?
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Can we fix it?
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Adam Weber: Yes, first off,I absolutely do agree.
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And just as you said, COVID hasjust made it even more so
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because now we're almost allbehind screens.
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And anytime we're behindscreens, it's a lot easier to
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treat people in humanely, soit's even moreso right now.
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My challenge would be thatperson you disagree with, if at
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all possible, maybe it's justlike this, it's a Zoom call, get
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face-to-face with the person,again, however you're able to,
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get face-to-face with the personand just ask questions.
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"Hey, help me understand.
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Hey, would you sharea part of your story?"
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It's a lot easier it is to throwmud and to throw rocks at each
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other, but again, Jesus was sogood at coming close to
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the person.
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Bobby Schuller: Absolutely.
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Adam Weber: And just saying,"Hey, help me to understand."
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And again, even at the end ofthe day, you might agree
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to disagree.
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I feel like that's one of theold-fashioned things that
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just disappeared.
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Bobby Schuller: Can we justagree to disagree?
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Adam Weber: Yeah, like we thinkdifferently than this on this
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issue and that's okay.
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But I think, again, that personthat you really are struggling
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with, if at all possible, sitdown with them, buy them coffee,
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and just say, "Help meunderstand."
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And don't wait to rebuke themand share your thoughts.
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Just genuinely listen to themand see what happens.
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Bobby Schuller: And that'sactually practical advice, it's
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not just moral advice.
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I have realized as someone who--I'm very combative.
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Like, my default is like, I'mgoing to get out there, and I'm
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gonna argue, and I'm gonna win,but I really learned that it's
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important to win people over,that what we really want is to
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win people over, not win, andthere's a difference between
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those two things.
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And the way you win people overat the very least is just
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humanize them, like, listen totheir story.
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Everybody has a reason for whatthey're saying.
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Everybody's hurting.
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Everybody's got some voidthey're filling, and that's what
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you're teaching people to doreally, right?
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I mean.
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Adam Weber: If we genuinely hopeto change someone's, like,
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thoughts, and life, or whatever,I've found that adults hate
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being told what to do.
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Rarely does it work.
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Yeah, rarely does it workto say, "You are wrong.
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Stop this."
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But if we began to model a lifeof Jesus and the fruits of the
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spirit exude from us, you'll beblown away by the people
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who'll come up to youand say, "Hey, Adam.
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Hey, Bobby.
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You're so different.
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Can you tell me why you're theway that you are?"
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or "I know we disagree onpolitics and I'm just
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so curious.
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Can you tell me why?"
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And you'll have a chance toshare and to genuinely have a
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chance to truly change aperson's perspective.
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And that shouldn't be the goal.
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The goal should just be to lovethe person and to bring them a
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little bit closer to Jesus, butwhen we model a life filled with
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the fruits of the spirit, peoplewill be irresistibly drawn, not
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to us, but to the Jesus insideof us, and then they'll begin to
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say, "Hey," they'll ask usquestions, "Why do you think the
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way you do?
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'Cause I'm curious, because youhave something that I don't have
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that I want."
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And I think we'll be blown away.
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The people that I am alwayslike, "They'll never change.
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They're so, like, whatever," arethe people that time and time
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again Jesus is like,"You just watch.
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You just be faithful at 'em andyou consistently show me in your
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attitude, your actions, yourwords, and I'll do things that
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will blow you away."
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Bobby Schuller: Amen.
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Adam Weber: And that's whatGod's been doing in my
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life recently.
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Bobby Schuller: Man, I loveyour books so much.
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The book is called, "Love Hasa Name: Learning to Love
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the Different, the Difficult,and Everyone Else."
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Please get this book.
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It's written by Adam Weber,who is our our guest
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and our pastor today.
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Adam, thank you so much.Any final words?
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What do you really wantpeople to walk away with
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when they read this book?
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Adam Weber: The last chapteris "You," 'cause it's the names
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of different peoplethat have loved me.
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The last chapter's "You."
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I just want you to know thatyou're the one that God loves,
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you are the onethat God delights in,
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and he's crazy about you.
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He just longs to sit with youand be with you
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and have a relationshipwith you.
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Bobby Schuller: Adam Weber,thank you.
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"Love Has a Name."Get it.
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We appreciate you so much.God bless you, sir.
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Adam Weber: God bless you too.
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ You spoke the truth,said I belong to you ♪
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♪ so why do I feel alone? ♪
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♪ You held my hand ♪
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♪ walked methrough desert land ♪
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♪ now I can't findmy way home ♪
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♪ Oh, tell me, Lord,where did you go? ♪
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♪ It seems likeI am on my own ♪
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♪ but still I'm gonnalift my soul ♪
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♪ Through the rainand the waves ♪
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♪ and the pain ♪
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♪ I will praise the Godwho will never change ♪
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♪ Every day youremain the same ♪
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♪ Again, and again,and again, and again ♪
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♪ Again ♪
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♪ When lies fill my headand cover what you said ♪
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♪ you bring me backto the truth ♪
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♪ Oh, your mighty voiceis louder than this noise ♪
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♪ My only anchor is you ♪
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♪ Through the rainand the waves ♪
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♪ and the pain ♪
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♪ I will praise the Godwho will never change ♪
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♪ Every day youremain the same ♪
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♪ Again, and again,and again, and again ♪
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♪ Again ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ You're my rockand my salvation ♪
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♪ You're my hope ♪
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♪ You're the stronghold ♪
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♪ the firm foundationof my soul ♪
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♪ You're my rockand my salvation ♪
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♪ You're my hope ♪
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♪ Oh, you're the stronghold ♪
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♪ the firm foundationof my soul ♪
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♪ Through the rain,and the waves ♪
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♪ and the pain ♪
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♪ I will praise the Godworthy of my trust ♪
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♪ When I call,I know he'll show up ♪
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♪ Again, and again,and again, and again ♪
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♪ Again, and again,and again, and again ♪
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♪ Again ♪♪
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♪ Christmas is here,bringing a cheer ♪
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♪ to young and old,meek and the bold ♪
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♪ Ding dong, ding dong.That is their song ♪
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♪ With joyful ring,all caroling ♪
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♪ One seems to hearwords of good cheer ♪
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♪ From everywherefilling the air ♪
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♪ Oh how they pound,raising the sound ♪
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♪ o'er hill and daletelling their tale ♪
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♪ Gaily they ring while peoplesing songs of good cheer ♪
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♪ Christmas is here ♪
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♪ Merry, merry, merry,merry Christmas ♪
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♪ Merry, merry, merry,merry Christmas ♪
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♪ On on they send,on without end ♪
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♪ their joyful toneto every home ♪
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♪ their joyful toneto every home ♪♪
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♪ O the stone thatthe builders rejected ♪
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Bobby Schuller: For those of youwho are watching,
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please stand where you are.
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Hold your hands out like thisas a way of receiving.
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We're gonna saythis creed together.
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Say it with me.
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I'm not what I do.I'm not what I have.
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I'm not what peoplesay about me.
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I am the beloved of God.It's who I am.
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No one can take it from me.I don't have to worry.
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I don't have to hurry.
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I can trust my friend Jesus andshare his love with the world.
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Thanks, you can be seated.
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Friend, today I want you to knowthat you don't have to be
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ashamed of wherever you are.
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And maybe you're not whereyou want to be in life.
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Join the club,especially with COVID.
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Many people have had majorsetbacks and they're embarrassed
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about where they are in theircareer, or in their family, or
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in their hobbies that they'rewanting to pursue, and so they
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double down on the fakery.
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You don't have to do that.
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You will have a joyful life whenyou're willing to bring your
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emptiness, your brokenness, yourpoverty, your addiction, your
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fears, all of these things.
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Just bring them innocentlybefore the Lord and say, "It's
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not because I haven't tried.
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It's not 'cause I haven'tgiven an effort.
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But Lord, would youhelp me with this?"
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Watch, he'll help you and he'llbegin to chisel away.
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This series we're in is abouthow the symbolism of stone and
00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:44.158
working in the quarry is centralin many parts of the Bible, and
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how your life of discipleship islike the stone being pulled out
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of the quarry of Abraham andSarah, that there is something
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really special and substantiveabout you, but that it requires
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work, effort, and even painin times, enduring suffering
00:31:01.976 --> 00:31:06.581
in order that you can becomethe person that God
00:31:06.614 --> 00:31:08.883
has called you to be.
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Today I want to talkspecifically about the
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importance of focusingon the inner life
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before the outer life.
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Your outer life matters.Your job matters.
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Your choices matter.Your family matters.
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And your imageactually matters too.
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These are important things toyou and they're important to
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God, but they're secondaryto what's truly going on
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in your inner life.
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That is your heart, yourthoughts, what you focus on, and
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the things that you wantto hide from others.
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Those are the things we need tobring before God and let him
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chisel away.
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I remember when Hannah and I, wewere so lucky that we were able
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to go and a private tour ofIsrael with a guy named
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Ronnie Winter.
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He was the son of twoJewish-German husband and wife
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who fled Germany during the Nazireign, and they fled to Israel.
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And he grew up in Israel, so hegrew up speaking both German
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and Hebrew, and he waskind of this Indiana--
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he's still a great guy.
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He's Indiana Jones type guy.
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He works for the University.He's an archaeologist.
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He even has the Indiana Joneshat and everything.
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And he's just like a JewishIndiana Jones, he's great.
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And he took us to this amazingruin called Beit She'an.
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I think we have an image of ithere, beautiful.
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It was so fun.
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Hannah and I gotto walk with him.
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And you can see the greatness ofthis former Roman city.
00:32:26.928 --> 00:32:30.665
Here are these pillars, andcolonnades, and mosaics, and
00:32:30.698 --> 00:32:34.302
roads, and marketplaces, and youcould see where the theater was,
00:32:34.335 --> 00:32:37.372
and the palace,and it's all in ruins.
00:32:37.405 --> 00:32:39.874
And he asked us this questionthat historians love to talk
00:32:39.907 --> 00:32:42.377
about and they always givea million reasons for it.
00:32:42.410 --> 00:32:45.747
Why did the Roman Empire fall?
00:32:45.780 --> 00:32:47.548
Why did the Roman Empire fall?
00:32:47.582 --> 00:32:49.350
And he looked at us, he said,"Bobby and Hannah, you want to
00:32:49.384 --> 00:32:52.487
know why the Roman Empire fell?
00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:54.288
I'll show you."
00:32:54.322 --> 00:32:55.723
And he took us to the ruins ofone of the temples in this what
00:32:55.757 --> 00:32:59.527
used to be a major city and hesaid, "Look at this--
00:32:59.560 --> 00:33:02.663
these ruins.
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Look at the outside."
00:33:04.065 --> 00:33:05.366
And he began to paint a picture,huge pillars, and this was gold
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:07.735
leaf, and here was marble, andthese great images, and there
00:33:07.769 --> 00:33:11.172
would be torches, and flames,and these huge stairways.
00:33:11.205 --> 00:33:14.709
And he's like--and you couldsee him as he was painting this
00:33:14.742 --> 00:33:16.844
beautiful temple, he's like,"Gorgeous, beautiful," and he's
00:33:16.878 --> 00:33:19.647
like, "Walk with us," and beganwalking sort of up the the ruins
00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:22.717
of the stairs into this room,into this tiny little cubby.
00:33:22.750 --> 00:33:26.888
It was like maybe like 4 or6 feet around, you know,
00:33:26.921 --> 00:33:31.993
this tiny circumferencewith a little pedestal.
00:33:32.026 --> 00:33:35.163
And he said, "The idol for thisgod would've been this tall."
00:33:35.196 --> 00:33:39.500
So the temple on the outside wasornate, and gorgeous, and
00:33:39.534 --> 00:33:43.504
beautiful, but when you wentinside the temple, it was small,
00:33:43.538 --> 00:33:47.942
shallow, boring.
00:33:47.975 --> 00:33:50.711
And he said this epitomized theRomans during this era.
00:33:50.745 --> 00:33:55.116
Everything on the outside isimportant, everything on the
00:33:55.149 --> 00:33:57.418
outside is ornate, andbeautiful, and rich, and
00:33:57.452 --> 00:34:00.254
gorgeous, but when you get tothe inside, it's hollow,
00:34:00.288 --> 00:34:05.493
boring, empty.
00:34:05.526 --> 00:34:08.329
That's not you.
00:34:08.362 --> 00:34:09.831
And he said, "This is the reasonthe empire fell."
00:34:09.864 --> 00:34:12.633
And I worry when I look at themodern world that time and again
00:34:12.667 --> 00:34:16.137
you see that as affluence andwealth comes, it's so easy to
00:34:16.170 --> 00:34:21.309
focus on the outside stuff,which again is important, but
00:34:21.342 --> 00:34:25.279
forget the inside stuff.
00:34:25.313 --> 00:34:27.515
Forget your relationship withyour spouse or your kids, or to
00:34:27.548 --> 00:34:30.318
forget the importance of yourwalk with God, or to forget that
00:34:30.351 --> 00:34:33.888
these things on the inside arewhat really matter.
00:34:33.921 --> 00:34:38.359
They don't just matter to God,they are the things that really
00:34:38.392 --> 00:34:40.394
matter to you.
00:34:40.428 --> 00:34:43.464
And when you discover theirimportance, if you haven't,
00:34:43.498 --> 00:34:45.867
I'm sure you have, butwhen you focus on those,
00:34:45.900 --> 00:34:48.169
things in life get better.
00:34:48.202 --> 00:34:51.439
It's interesting because when wereflect on Jesus's life, you
00:34:51.472 --> 00:34:55.977
know, Jesus was bornin Bethlehem.
00:34:56.010 --> 00:35:02.016
And in fear for his life,he ran to Egypt.
00:35:02.150 --> 00:35:04.285
A lot of us don't know this.
00:35:04.318 --> 00:35:06.053
He spent his time in Egypt as achild, but then when he moved
00:35:06.087 --> 00:35:09.390
back because of fear of the newHerod, they moved to the
00:35:09.423 --> 00:35:12.527
northern part of Israel calledGalilee and they lived in a very
00:35:12.560 --> 00:35:16.297
small village called Nazareth.
00:35:16.330 --> 00:35:18.799
Now, Nazareth was only about300 people in Jesus's day,
00:35:18.833 --> 00:35:23.871
and they actually believedthat the Messiah
00:35:23.905 --> 00:35:26.073
would come from their town.
00:35:26.107 --> 00:35:27.808
I think this is one reason whyMary went there, but another
00:35:27.842 --> 00:35:30.811
reason might be that they wereonly 4 miles away from the
00:35:30.845 --> 00:35:34.849
capital of Galilee.
00:35:34.882 --> 00:35:37.785
Tradition says--we don't haveany real historic evidence, but
00:35:37.818 --> 00:35:40.688
tradition says that this city,Sepphoris, was the birthplace of
00:35:40.721 --> 00:35:44.959
Jesus's mother Mary.
00:35:44.992 --> 00:35:47.061
And this city, Sepphoris,was an unbelievable place.
00:35:47.094 --> 00:35:52.066
Unbelievable.
00:35:52.099 --> 00:35:53.668
Right at Jesus's day, it wasbeing built by now Herod Antipas
00:35:53.701 --> 00:35:58.739
and it was the capital.
00:35:58.773 --> 00:36:00.074
And it had palaces, and streets,and gymnasiums, and theaters,
00:36:00.107 --> 00:36:04.512
and again, it was only a 4 milewalk from Nazareth.
00:36:04.545 --> 00:36:07.782
Now, Jesus, we all know ifyou've been goin' to Shepherd's
00:36:07.815 --> 00:36:10.851
Grove for awhile, Jesus wasn'tnecessarily a carpenter.
00:36:10.885 --> 00:36:15.856
The Bible says that Jesuswas a tekton.
00:36:15.890 --> 00:36:19.527
Tekton.
00:36:19.560 --> 00:36:20.861
That literally means a builder.
00:36:20.895 --> 00:36:22.730
Jesus was a builder, and you caninterpret that any way you do.
00:36:22.763 --> 00:36:27.368
If you're living in medievalGermany or medieval England,
00:36:27.401 --> 00:36:30.571
a builder is a carpenter.
00:36:30.605 --> 00:36:31.906
That's somebody who cuts downtrees and builds houses out
00:36:31.939 --> 00:36:34.842
of wood.
00:36:34.875 --> 00:36:36.210
But if you live in Israel wherethere are very few trees and
00:36:36.244 --> 00:36:39.347
buildings are made of stone, abuilder is typically going to be
00:36:39.380 --> 00:36:41.949
a stonemason.
00:36:41.983 --> 00:36:43.284
So it's likely that Jesusactually wasn't a carpenter, he
00:36:43.317 --> 00:36:46.787
probably could work with wood,had to know, you know, the
00:36:46.821 --> 00:36:49.724
basics, but probably historiansbelieve was actually a mason,
00:36:49.757 --> 00:36:53.794
a stonemason.
00:36:53.828 --> 00:36:55.129
Not the lodge kind,the stonemason.
00:36:55.162 --> 00:36:57.565
You work with stones,you chisel them, you cut them,
00:36:57.598 --> 00:37:00.334
you sand them, and youmake buildings out of them.
00:37:00.368 --> 00:37:02.837
And when you see the ruins inIsrael, they're all made of
00:37:02.870 --> 00:37:05.206
stone and they're beautiful.
00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:07.275
And it was so interesting whenwe got to go to Sepphoris to
00:37:07.308 --> 00:37:10.077
walk around and think, Okay,this is 4 miles from Jesus's
00:37:10.111 --> 00:37:13.781
home, which only has 300 people,and that's not a lot of work for
00:37:13.814 --> 00:37:17.451
Joseph and Jesuswhen he's a teenager
00:37:17.485 --> 00:37:19.120
in their little village.
00:37:19.153 --> 00:37:20.921
Most of the work that theywould've gotten was probably
00:37:20.955 --> 00:37:23.591
going to be in Sepphoris.
00:37:23.624 --> 00:37:25.259
We have no evidenceto support this at all.
00:37:25.293 --> 00:37:27.361
This is totally conjecture, butI believe and many historians
00:37:27.395 --> 00:37:31.032
believe that a lot of thesebuildings in Sepphoris were
00:37:31.065 --> 00:37:35.403
built by teenager or guyin his 20s Jesus.
00:37:35.436 --> 00:37:39.240
Isn't that amazing that you walkaround and it's very, very
00:37:39.273 --> 00:37:43.711
likely that Joseph and Jesus andhis brothers worked on building
00:37:43.744 --> 00:37:47.782
this theater, or worked onbuilding these streets or
00:37:47.815 --> 00:37:50.484
these mosaics?
00:37:50.518 --> 00:37:51.919
And that most of Jesus's life,you know, through his teens and
00:37:51.952 --> 00:37:55.556
his 20s, he was building things,carving things, and
00:37:55.589 --> 00:37:59.360
shaping things.
00:37:59.393 --> 00:38:00.961
And it wasn't until he was 30that he became a great rabbi.
00:38:00.995 --> 00:38:03.831
Now, that is interesting to mebecause when you look at the
00:38:03.864 --> 00:38:06.200
nature of God, and we believethat Jesus is the Son of God,
00:38:06.233 --> 00:38:10.371
and that he got to effectivelychoose his job, and that he
00:38:10.404 --> 00:38:13.774
chose being a builder, a masonor a carpenter, that he chose
00:38:13.808 --> 00:38:18.713
this profession.
00:38:18.746 --> 00:38:20.081
And I think it is so importantthat we understand that there's
00:38:20.114 --> 00:38:23.250
something about God's naturethat he loves to shape out of
00:38:23.284 --> 00:38:26.954
the gnarliness and dirtiness ofthe stone that comes out of the
00:38:26.987 --> 00:38:32.226
ground to shape somethingornate, unique, and beautiful.
00:38:32.259 --> 00:38:38.265
And that's whathe's doing in your life.
00:38:38.933 --> 00:38:41.001
Ornate, unique, and beautiful.
00:38:41.035 --> 00:38:43.270
It's about the details.
00:38:43.304 --> 00:38:45.272
It's about the little things.
00:38:45.306 --> 00:38:47.508
And that's what God'sdoing in your life.
00:38:47.541 --> 00:38:50.711
They found another discoveryin Jerusalem.
00:38:50.745 --> 00:38:53.647
When they were looking at thestones at the Great Temple, they
00:38:53.681 --> 00:38:57.852
found that so many of the stoneshad ornate carvings on the
00:38:57.885 --> 00:39:02.757
outside, beautiful images ofthings flowing and all that
00:39:02.790 --> 00:39:05.893
stuff, but the big surprise waswhen they dug up the
00:39:05.926 --> 00:39:09.463
foundation stones.
00:39:09.497 --> 00:39:11.132
That is, the stones that wereunder the earth, the stones that
00:39:11.165 --> 00:39:14.201
after they place them there,nobody would see them, that they
00:39:14.235 --> 00:39:17.304
still had the same ornatecarving on them; that the Jewish
00:39:17.338 --> 00:39:21.909
people who built the temple, themessage is they believed so much
00:39:21.942 --> 00:39:27.948
in the hidden things that whenthey carved the stuff on these
00:39:27.982 --> 00:39:31.519
little stones that even thoughno one would see them,
00:39:31.552 --> 00:39:34.822
they still wanted to givetheir all to God.
00:39:34.855 --> 00:39:37.324
This is the temple and this iswhat the Lord wants from us,
00:39:37.358 --> 00:39:42.530
that the secret things, thehidden things in our life are
00:39:42.563 --> 00:39:46.267
the important things.
00:39:46.300 --> 00:39:47.635
In other words, that we takeresponsibility for our lives,
00:39:47.668 --> 00:39:53.674
that we take responsibility forour lives, that we focus on us
00:39:54.575 --> 00:40:00.581
in terms of what needs to befixed, not everything else; that
00:40:01.549 --> 00:40:05.686
we remember that the foundationis what matters, that what's
00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:09.457
hidden is what matters.
00:40:09.490 --> 00:40:12.793
Every single Sunday for morethan 60 years, a minister has
00:40:12.827 --> 00:40:18.833
gotten onto this pulpit andopened every worship service
00:40:20.768 --> 00:40:25.473
with the same words.
00:40:25.506 --> 00:40:26.841
You might know them.
00:40:26.874 --> 00:40:28.209
"This is the day the Lordhas made.
00:40:28.242 --> 00:40:32.613
We will rejoiceand be glad in it."
00:40:32.646 --> 00:40:37.651
Those are the same words as"Hava Nagila," by the way, if
00:40:37.685 --> 00:40:40.821
you're Jewish, or you've grownup in a Jewish family, or you
00:40:40.855 --> 00:40:43.390
have Jewish friends, if you evergo to a bar mitzvah, or a bat
00:40:43.424 --> 00:40:46.794
mitzvah, or a wedding, you'regonna hear, "Hava nagila,
00:40:46.827 --> 00:40:51.098
hava nagila, hava nagila,ve nismeha."
00:40:51.131 --> 00:40:54.435
That is word for word--this is,"Let us rejoice and be glad in
00:40:54.468 --> 00:41:00.474
it," and it's--both of thoseare pulling from Psalm 118.
00:41:00.641 --> 00:41:04.478
And a lot of us have no ideathat that is--when we say,
00:41:04.512 --> 00:41:08.015
"This is the day the Lord hasmade," that's only the second
00:41:08.048 --> 00:41:10.017
half of a verse.
00:41:10.050 --> 00:41:11.385
Let's bring it up.
00:41:11.418 --> 00:41:12.753
The full verse goes like this,"The stone that the builders
00:41:12.786 --> 00:41:16.957
rejected has become thecornerstone."
00:41:16.991 --> 00:41:22.796
Did you catch that?
00:41:22.830 --> 00:41:24.131
So it's like builders werelooking at a pile of stones and
00:41:24.164 --> 00:41:27.568
they picked the ones theythought were the best, and then
00:41:27.601 --> 00:41:29.436
there was this other stone overhere and they threw it away.
00:41:29.470 --> 00:41:32.573
And somehow in the midst of itall, someone took that stone and
00:41:32.606 --> 00:41:35.876
said, "Yeah, it's a funkylooking stone, but this funky
00:41:35.910 --> 00:41:39.113
looking stone will be the mostimportant one."
00:41:39.146 --> 00:41:41.448
It's gonna be the cornerstone,which is the foundational stone
00:41:41.482 --> 00:41:45.252
at the top of the arc that holdsthe whole building together;
00:41:45.286 --> 00:41:48.956
that it may not look like theother stones, it's utterly
00:41:48.989 --> 00:41:51.225
unique, it's got this bizarreshape, but this is the stone we
00:41:51.258 --> 00:41:54.929
need to hold up everything; thatthe one they threw away became
00:41:54.962 --> 00:41:58.999
the most important thing.
00:41:59.033 --> 00:42:01.535
And it says, "So it's become thecornerstone.
00:42:01.569 --> 00:42:03.837
This is the Lord's doing.
00:42:03.871 --> 00:42:05.773
It is marvelous in our eyes."
00:42:05.806 --> 00:42:08.442
And then, "This is the daythat the Lord has made.
00:42:08.475 --> 00:42:11.679
Let us rejoiceand be glad in it."
00:42:11.712 --> 00:42:13.314
What day?
00:42:13.347 --> 00:42:14.648
The day that the things thatwere rejected, the things that
00:42:14.682 --> 00:42:18.152
were outside, became the mostimportant things.
00:42:18.185 --> 00:42:22.156
The things that they thoughtwere worthless became the
00:42:22.189 --> 00:42:25.292
best thing.
00:42:25.326 --> 00:42:26.694
The thing that's even, you mightsay, the cornerstone is often
00:42:26.727 --> 00:42:29.330
hidden, you don't see it, is themost important thing; that
00:42:29.363 --> 00:42:33.367
although it was thrown away,this is what matters.
00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:37.871
And this is what matters, so whywould you rejoice?
00:42:37.905 --> 00:42:41.642
Why is that something tocelebrate?
00:42:41.675 --> 00:42:44.011
Why is that something to jump upand down and say,
00:42:44.044 --> 00:42:45.746
"Hava nagila," about?
00:42:45.779 --> 00:42:47.915
The answer is because it's apicture of the kingdom.
00:42:47.948 --> 00:42:50.918
See, the world looks ateverything on the outside,
00:42:50.951 --> 00:42:54.121
all the vain stuff, but Godlooks at the heart.
00:42:54.154 --> 00:42:58.492
God looks at the heart.
00:42:58.525 --> 00:43:02.162
The hidden thing that ishappening today in your life is
00:43:02.196 --> 00:43:08.202
the fruit of your life tomorrow.
00:43:10.004 --> 00:43:15.542
You may have grief, you may haveanger, you may have
00:43:15.576 --> 00:43:20.648
brokenheartedness, but if yougive that empty brokenness to
00:43:20.681 --> 00:43:24.184
God, and he repairs, and heals,and works on you on the inside,
00:43:24.218 --> 00:43:29.823
if that is fixed but you'reoutside isn't, don't worry.
00:43:29.857 --> 00:43:33.861
Tomorrow's gonna be amazing.
00:43:33.894 --> 00:43:36.597
If the inside is worked ontoday, the outside will be
00:43:36.630 --> 00:43:41.468
fixed tomorrow.
00:43:41.502 --> 00:43:42.803
Jesus told us, "Seek first hiskingdom and his righteousness,"
00:43:42.836 --> 00:43:46.874
and everything else, everythingelse will be taken care of.
00:43:46.907 --> 00:43:51.278
"Everything else," it says,"will be given unto you."
00:43:51.311 --> 00:43:54.748
So in our world, let me just--
00:43:54.782 --> 00:44:00.788
Who's not worried about America?
00:44:01.455 --> 00:44:05.292
Who's not worriedabout this election?
00:44:05.325 --> 00:44:08.962
Who's not worried about the wayin which there seems to be
00:44:08.996 --> 00:44:12.766
two groups that at least usedto have some respect for
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:17.838
that hate each other.
00:44:17.871 --> 00:44:19.907
Ongoing violence, brokensystems, and all the stuff that
00:44:19.940 --> 00:44:24.411
everybody's talking about, andyet it's not getting better.
00:44:24.445 --> 00:44:29.717
The more we talk about it,the worse it gets.
00:44:29.750 --> 00:44:34.021
What's up with that?
00:44:34.054 --> 00:44:36.557
May I suggest that Jesus'smessage of fixing the inside,
00:44:36.590 --> 00:44:42.029
the heart, before fixing theoutside is the answer here.
00:44:42.062 --> 00:44:47.067
I remember when Hannah and Ihad the privilege to--
00:44:47.101 --> 00:44:50.337
I had the honor of being theyoungest chaplain at this
00:44:50.370 --> 00:44:52.539
Chautauqua Institute.
00:44:52.573 --> 00:44:55.776
It was a mega honor and I'mdefinitely bragging about it.
00:44:55.809 --> 00:45:01.048
And I remember when we werethere, there were a lot of
00:45:01.081 --> 00:45:04.118
things I liked and a lot ofthings I didn't like.
00:45:04.151 --> 00:45:06.453
One of the things that I thoughtwas kinda cheesy was there were
00:45:06.487 --> 00:45:09.723
these, you know, people thatwould get together and they will
00:45:09.757 --> 00:45:11.692
pray for peace, and they sangthe song, "Let there be peace on
00:45:11.725 --> 00:45:16.363
earth and let it--" and I alwaysthought it was--there's nothing
00:45:16.396 --> 00:45:19.433
wrong with it, I just thought itsounded like Kumbaya, you know?
00:45:19.466 --> 00:45:22.870
And now looking back, I missthose days when people
00:45:22.903 --> 00:45:27.941
used to sing songs like that.
00:45:27.975 --> 00:45:29.977
♪ Let there bepeace on earth ♪
00:45:30.010 --> 00:45:34.281
and the key line,
00:45:34.314 --> 00:45:35.916
♪ and let it begin with me ♪
00:45:35.949 --> 00:45:40.788
Who's saying, "Letit begin with me"?
00:45:42.890 --> 00:45:45.726
It's always, "Let it begin withhim, or her, or this system,
00:45:45.759 --> 00:45:51.765
or this law, or this thing,or that."
00:45:52.399 --> 00:45:55.636
Those things are important andthey matter, but if peace isn't
00:45:55.669 --> 00:45:59.773
in me, I'm never gonnaexperience peace out there.
00:45:59.807 --> 00:46:04.678
If peace isn't happening in myheart, I'm not going to
00:46:04.711 --> 00:46:08.348
experience peace on the"It's a Small World" ride.
00:46:08.382 --> 00:46:11.618
It doesn't matter where I am, Iam going to be worried and
00:46:11.652 --> 00:46:15.556
anxious, and something is alwaysgoing to seem wrong with the
00:46:15.589 --> 00:46:20.027
world I live in.
00:46:20.060 --> 00:46:21.795
If I am not at peace, if not Iam not a loving person, it will
00:46:21.829 --> 00:46:26.300
be very hard for me toexperience love and to only
00:46:26.333 --> 00:46:29.236
experience hate from others.
00:46:29.269 --> 00:46:31.538
If I am not takingresponsibility for my life, it
00:46:31.572 --> 00:46:35.008
will be so easy to blame all ofmy lack and failure on other
00:46:35.042 --> 00:46:39.012
people, or other systems,or other groups.
00:46:39.046 --> 00:46:42.182
And Jesus looks at these thingsand he cares about them more
00:46:42.216 --> 00:46:47.688
than we do, but he understandsthat at the heart of it, we have
00:46:47.721 --> 00:46:53.727
to change.
00:46:54.661 --> 00:46:56.296
I have to change.
00:46:56.330 --> 00:46:58.365
If I want a peaceful world,I have to become
00:46:58.398 --> 00:47:02.202
a peaceful person.
00:47:02.236 --> 00:47:08.242
Let me give you an example.
00:47:09.276 --> 00:47:11.745
We can look at something, maybethe most disgusting, evil thing
00:47:11.778 --> 00:47:15.749
in our world, and wecan all point at it.
00:47:15.782 --> 00:47:17.584
I don't think is anybody whowouldn't point at this and say
00:47:17.618 --> 00:47:19.586
it's not evil and disgusting.
00:47:19.620 --> 00:47:22.189
Sex trafficking.
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Very often most cases, it'schildren who are sold into the
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sex industry by gangs and such.
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Everyone will look at that andsay, "That is broken.
00:47:34.201 --> 00:47:37.938
That needs to be fixed.
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I care about that.
00:47:40.507 --> 00:47:41.875
I want that to end in ourworld."
00:47:41.909 --> 00:47:43.243
That is representative of hellbreaking into our world,
00:47:43.277 --> 00:47:46.480
something so evil.
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You know, Jesus cares more aboutthat than we do?
00:47:48.048 --> 00:47:50.050
Because Jesus not only says putan end to that, right?
00:47:50.083 --> 00:47:53.220
Jesus says anybody who harmsa child should have a millstone
00:47:53.253 --> 00:47:56.456
tied around their neckand be thrown into the sea,
00:47:56.490 --> 00:47:58.659
which I love.
00:47:58.692 --> 00:47:59.993
I love that.
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But he also says, and this iswhat's most important, that,
00:48:01.395 --> 00:48:03.797
"You have heard that it was saidsuch, and such, and such, but I
00:48:03.830 --> 00:48:06.066
say lust," right?
00:48:06.099 --> 00:48:08.502
So Jesus says lustis the problem.
00:48:08.535 --> 00:48:11.471
Now, don't get confusedwith lust and desire.
00:48:11.505 --> 00:48:13.740
Sexual desire is differentthan the word "lust."
00:48:13.774 --> 00:48:16.443
Lust means I want to objectifyand use another person for my
00:48:16.476 --> 00:48:22.382
own pleasure and gratification.
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That is at the heartof sex trafficking.
00:48:24.384 --> 00:48:27.688
All of us, all of us can lookand say genocide, the genocides
00:48:27.721 --> 00:48:32.526
that happened to the 20thcentury, or racism that pervaded
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:36.863
so much of our historyespecially in the 20th century,
00:48:36.897 --> 00:48:40.834
everybody says that's horrible.
00:48:40.867 --> 00:48:43.236
But do you know Jesus cares moreabout genocide and racism than
00:48:43.270 --> 00:48:47.007
we do?
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Because Jesus says anyone--you've heard anyone--
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"You've heard that it was said,'Anyone who murders--'"
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Let me read it to you.
00:48:57.851 --> 00:48:59.386
"And you've heard that it'ssaid, 'You shall not murder, and
00:48:59.419 --> 00:49:01.655
anyone who murders will besubject to judgment,' but I say
00:49:01.688 --> 00:49:04.725
to you anyone who is angry withhis brother or sister will be
00:49:04.758 --> 00:49:07.394
subject to judgment.
00:49:07.427 --> 00:49:08.762
Again, anyone who says to abrother or sister, 'Raca,'
00:49:08.795 --> 00:49:11.999
that's like filth, is answerableto the court.
00:49:12.032 --> 00:49:16.503
And anyone who says, 'You fool,'will be in danger
00:49:16.536 --> 00:49:19.873
of the fire of hell."
00:49:19.906 --> 00:49:22.376
We look at the outside,the racism, the genocide,
00:49:22.409 --> 00:49:26.079
the violence, but Jesus looksat the heart, contempt.
00:49:26.113 --> 00:49:30.384
If you dehumanize people, if youhold bitterness in your heart
00:49:30.417 --> 00:49:36.189
towards a person, and yeah,you've never acted on it, you've
00:49:36.223 --> 00:49:39.526
never done anything, but youhold that in your heart,
00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:41.828
that's the issue.
00:49:41.862 --> 00:49:43.530
See, Jesus cares moreabout it than we do.
00:49:43.563 --> 00:49:47.667
We say it's all about notmurdering, and of course you
00:49:47.701 --> 00:49:50.203
shouldn't murder, but Jesus saysstop chanting the stuff that
00:49:50.237 --> 00:49:55.175
you're chanting all the time.
00:49:55.208 --> 00:49:58.812
Stop going on social media andsaying to real children of God
00:49:58.845 --> 00:50:04.518
the things that you say to them.
00:50:04.551 --> 00:50:06.686
When you go on Twitter,or Facebook, or Instagram,
00:50:06.720 --> 00:50:10.023
if I have to read,"F you, racist"
00:50:10.057 --> 00:50:12.225
or "F you, libtard"one more time.
00:50:12.259 --> 00:50:16.029
See, Jesus says you want to getrid of racism, but you can't do
00:50:16.063 --> 00:50:20.634
that if you're saying,"F you, racist."
00:50:20.667 --> 00:50:23.904
You want to get rid of thingslike autocracy, but you can't
00:50:23.937 --> 00:50:27.741
get rid of that if you'resaying, "F you, libtard."
00:50:27.774 --> 00:50:30.677
When you say words of contemptand when you cuss out people
00:50:30.710 --> 00:50:34.481
online, or in real life, or inan email, when you have contempt
00:50:34.514 --> 00:50:38.318
for another person, even ifthey're an evil person, you are
00:50:38.351 --> 00:50:42.022
making it worse, not better.
00:50:42.055 --> 00:50:44.091
And that's not who you are.
00:50:44.124 --> 00:50:46.059
You are a joyful, encouraging,loving person.
00:50:46.093 --> 00:50:50.163
It is so much more important towin people over than it is
00:50:50.197 --> 00:50:54.534
to win.
00:50:54.568 --> 00:50:56.369
And that is the thing that welearn from so many believers
00:50:56.403 --> 00:51:00.373
that came before us, from MotherTeresa to Dr. King.
00:51:00.407 --> 00:51:05.112
Dr. King, look at Dr. Kingversus Malcolm X.
00:51:05.145 --> 00:51:10.050
Those guys didn'tlike each other
00:51:10.083 --> 00:51:11.985
and didn't agreewith each other,
00:51:12.018 --> 00:51:13.954
and it was for one reasonand one reason alone.
00:51:13.987 --> 00:51:16.556
One, Malcolm X, I believe wasokay with contempt and violence
00:51:16.590 --> 00:51:21.361
and Dr. King was not.
00:51:21.394 --> 00:51:22.863
It was not okay to have contemptin your heart.
00:51:22.896 --> 00:51:26.666
It was not okay.
00:51:26.700 --> 00:51:28.001
Yes, you speak, you know, withwhat you believe, but it is not
00:51:28.034 --> 00:51:31.071
okay to cuss out, and beviolent, and do all of
00:51:31.104 --> 00:51:35.342
that stuff.
00:51:35.375 --> 00:51:36.710
That is not whatwe believers do.
00:51:36.743 --> 00:51:40.547
We love our enemies.
00:51:40.580 --> 00:51:42.849
We love our competitors.
00:51:42.883 --> 00:51:44.851
We love peoplewho disagree with us.
00:51:44.885 --> 00:51:47.387
And the more people ratchet itup, the more we have to have
00:51:47.420 --> 00:51:51.391
focus on our hearts and say, "Iwill not allow bitterness, and
00:51:51.424 --> 00:51:55.862
resentment, and all of thisstuff to be a part of me.
00:51:55.896 --> 00:51:59.132
I'm gonna say what I believe,but I'm going to say it
00:51:59.166 --> 00:52:01.301
with respect.
00:52:01.334 --> 00:52:02.669
I'm going to do what I'm calledto do, but I'm gonna do it
00:52:02.702 --> 00:52:05.038
with dignity.
00:52:05.071 --> 00:52:06.373
I'm going to keep my chin up andbe honest about what I believe,
00:52:06.406 --> 00:52:09.910
but I'm not going to say,'F you this,' or 'F you that,'
00:52:09.943 --> 00:52:13.113
or any of those things."
00:52:13.146 --> 00:52:14.447
That is not helping.
00:52:14.481 --> 00:52:15.782
That makes things worse.
00:52:15.815 --> 00:52:20.687
Moreover, you cannotfix the world if you
00:52:20.720 --> 00:52:22.923
cannot make your own bed.
00:52:22.956 --> 00:52:26.259
You cannot fix the world if youcannot make your own bed.
00:52:26.293 --> 00:52:28.962
It is so important that weunderstand that if we can become
00:52:28.995 --> 00:52:32.866
the people who focus on littlethings, on our own lives, and
00:52:32.899 --> 00:52:37.370
can do that well, we're gonnahave more sympathy, grace, and
00:52:37.404 --> 00:52:41.608
wisdom when we become leaders.
00:52:41.641 --> 00:52:43.944
And that is who you are.
00:52:43.977 --> 00:52:46.646
God is asking you to take.
00:52:46.680 --> 00:52:49.182
If you have bitterness orunforgiveness in your heart, you
00:52:49.216 --> 00:52:52.252
probably have a good reason.
00:52:52.285 --> 00:52:54.654
You probably weretreated unfairly.
00:52:54.688 --> 00:52:57.324
You've probably had some traumaor something horrible that was
00:52:57.357 --> 00:52:59.826
done to you, and God sees that.
00:52:59.859 --> 00:53:02.963
And I just want to say to you,be free of that.
00:53:02.996 --> 00:53:05.432
Give that to the Lord.
00:53:05.465 --> 00:53:06.967
Hand over your contempt and yourbitterness.
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:09.669
Allow him to teach you what itmeans to love people who hate
00:53:09.703 --> 00:53:12.939
you or don't like you.
00:53:12.973 --> 00:53:14.741
Maybe you carry a lot of fear inyour heart, fear for this
00:53:14.774 --> 00:53:17.444
country, or fear for your job,or fear for your family.
00:53:17.477 --> 00:53:20.013
It just cripples you.
00:53:20.046 --> 00:53:21.982
Of course you feel that way.
00:53:22.015 --> 00:53:23.350
I'm sure something happened inyour life where you learned
00:53:23.383 --> 00:53:26.419
that, "I have to be afraid.
00:53:26.453 --> 00:53:28.121
I have to be protective.
00:53:28.154 --> 00:53:29.489
I have to be defensive, or thesethings will happen."
00:53:29.522 --> 00:53:31.791
Give it to the Lord.
00:53:31.825 --> 00:53:33.226
Give it--trust it to him.
00:53:33.260 --> 00:53:34.628
None of these things you just doovernight.
00:53:34.661 --> 00:53:36.029
It's a process, but over timebegin, as much as you can, to
00:53:36.062 --> 00:53:39.766
give your fear over to the Lord,and he's gonna give you peace.
00:53:39.799 --> 00:53:43.169
And the more peace you have inyour heart, the more peace we're
00:53:43.203 --> 00:53:46.006
gonna have inour nation actually.
00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:47.741
And I guess that'swhat I'm saying.
00:53:47.774 --> 00:53:50.510
You want a peaceful nation,become a peaceful person.
00:53:50.543 --> 00:53:55.248
You have a broken heart.
00:53:55.282 --> 00:53:57.150
Of course you havea broken heart.
00:53:57.183 --> 00:53:59.252
God sees whatyou went through.
00:53:59.286 --> 00:54:01.988
God's heart breaks with yours aswell, but allow God to come and
00:54:02.022 --> 00:54:05.725
mend those pieces together.
00:54:05.759 --> 00:54:07.294
Don't walk away from him.
00:54:07.327 --> 00:54:08.662
Don't give up on lifeor on your job.
00:54:08.695 --> 00:54:11.231
Tomorrow will be betterthan it was today.
00:54:11.264 --> 00:54:13.300
The day after that will bebetter than that day.
00:54:13.333 --> 00:54:15.635
Your future's really bright andyou'll look back and say, "I'm
00:54:15.669 --> 00:54:18.204
so glad that through this time Istuck it out with the people
00:54:18.238 --> 00:54:21.675
that love me and with the Lord."
00:54:21.708 --> 00:54:23.743
Give you a broken heart to Godand he'll mend you together.
00:54:23.777 --> 00:54:27.681
And most of all, if you'reriding the fence and you have
00:54:27.714 --> 00:54:31.251
not made a commitment to theLord, commit your life to
00:54:31.284 --> 00:54:34.287
the Lord.
00:54:34.321 --> 00:54:35.655
Become a discipleof Jesus Christ.
00:54:35.689 --> 00:54:37.891
Jesus says that anyone who lovesthe Lord with all their heart,
00:54:37.924 --> 00:54:42.128
and all their soul,and all their strength,
00:54:42.162 --> 00:54:43.963
and those who love theirneighbor as themselves,
00:54:43.997 --> 00:54:46.366
that they willhave eternal life.
00:54:46.399 --> 00:54:48.435
And I believe that.
00:54:48.468 --> 00:54:49.769
If you entrust your lifeto Jesus Christ,
00:54:49.803 --> 00:54:51.538
to his work on the cross,you'll be saved.
00:54:51.571 --> 00:54:53.873
And make a decision today.
00:54:53.907 --> 00:54:57.077
Nobody wants to makea decision about anything.
00:54:57.110 --> 00:55:01.448
I should end my sermon,but just this last thought.
00:55:01.481 --> 00:55:05.919
So often, at least I amvery tempted when I'm invited
00:55:05.952 --> 00:55:09.289
to something to say maybe.
00:55:09.322 --> 00:55:11.725
You know, I don't knowif I want to go.
00:55:11.758 --> 00:55:13.560
I'll see how I feelwhen I get there.
00:55:13.593 --> 00:55:15.595
And very often in life, this ishow we are with really important
00:55:15.628 --> 00:55:19.132
things, like should I make adecision to follow the Lord?
00:55:19.165 --> 00:55:22.369
Make a decision todayto follow Christ.
00:55:22.402 --> 00:55:25.372
We don't know how longwe're going to live.
00:55:25.405 --> 00:55:27.173
And we always--and I justbelieve that the best life that
00:55:27.207 --> 00:55:29.542
you can live is theone following the Lord,
00:55:29.576 --> 00:55:31.411
so make a commitment today.
00:55:31.444 --> 00:55:33.880
I want you to knowI'm so proud of you.
00:55:33.913 --> 00:55:36.683
I believe that God is gonnabring peace in a broken world
00:55:36.716 --> 00:55:39.552
through you.
00:55:39.586 --> 00:55:40.887
I believe that God's gonnarelieve you of whatever anger,
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:43.890
and frustration, and all ofthese things that may be tearing
00:55:43.923 --> 00:55:47.594
you up inside.
00:55:47.627 --> 00:55:48.928
He's going to bring peaceinto your life,
00:55:48.962 --> 00:55:50.263
and I proclaim that over you.
00:55:50.296 --> 00:55:52.098
And I just believe that as weseek the inner things and allow
00:55:52.132 --> 00:55:55.468
the Son of God to work on ourhearts that we're going to
00:55:55.502 --> 00:55:57.871
become the kind of people--you're going to become the kind
00:55:57.904 --> 00:55:59.773
of person the world needs today.
00:55:59.806 --> 00:56:02.175
Not another person saying,"F you,"
00:56:02.208 --> 00:56:04.277
but someone who's saying,"I'm blessing you.
00:56:04.310 --> 00:56:06.679
Let me talk to you.Let me work with you.
00:56:06.713 --> 00:56:09.382
Let me be a friend to you."
00:56:09.416 --> 00:56:10.750
And I just believe that makesall the difference in the world.
00:56:10.784 --> 00:56:13.987
Father, we love you and we thankyou so much that you've given us
00:56:14.020 --> 00:56:17.624
life and you've given usthis country.
00:56:17.657 --> 00:56:21.127
Many who are watching in allsorts of other countries facing
00:56:21.161 --> 00:56:23.563
other political issues and otherdynamics, Lord, help us in our
00:56:23.596 --> 00:56:27.333
nations and our cultures that welove, our songs, and our food,
00:56:27.367 --> 00:56:31.337
and our families, and all ofthese things that make up who we
00:56:31.371 --> 00:56:33.506
are as a people; to never forgetthat you are the most
00:56:33.540 --> 00:56:36.376
important thing.
00:56:36.409 --> 00:56:37.777
And help us always to begracious people and merciful
00:56:37.811 --> 00:56:40.780
people, quick to forgiveness asyou are quick to forgive us,
00:56:40.814 --> 00:56:45.118
quick to be people who havediscussions and conversations
00:56:45.151 --> 00:56:48.321
rather than people who arealways judging and putting down.
00:56:48.354 --> 00:56:50.590
We would never be that, Lord.
00:56:50.623 --> 00:56:51.958
I pray that you bring healingto our nation and to all
00:56:51.991 --> 00:56:54.761
the nations that are listeningonline or on television,
00:56:54.794 --> 00:56:58.598
that you bring peaceto our countries
00:56:58.631 --> 00:57:01.201
and help us to be ways inwhich that peace is coming.
00:57:01.234 --> 00:57:04.471
And Lord, we love you.
00:57:04.504 --> 00:57:06.039
It's in Jesus's name we pray,amen.
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