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Praise | January 10, 2017

Praise

January 10, 2017

59:01

Matt & Laurie Crouch host Hillsong Conference 2016 with Casey Treat and music by Hillsong Worship

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Praise | January 10, 2017

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[music]
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How wonderful
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how glorious
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back to Hillsong Conference
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in Sydney, Australia,
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and this is our first time to
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a Hillsong Conference
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[music]
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Debt is paid
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From death to life
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- Casey Treat: You don't know
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what God is setting up
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- Matt: We're gonna go inside
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to the main arena.
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Casey Treat is taking
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the main stage.
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knowing the right things,
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you start going
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in the right direction.
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When you think
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the right thoughts,
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you do the right steps.
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When you're thinking right,
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you're doing right.
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- Matt: When he comes back,
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we're gonna be sitting right
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- Casey: In this world
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we are Christlike.
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In this world we can be
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the people that God created us
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program is from Sydney,
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Australia.
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Hillsong Conference.
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the truth, the truth'll
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make you free.
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But if you don't know it,
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[music]
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I'll see Jesus and
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from death to life
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I will sing your praise
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in the wonder--
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C'mon, sing of praise
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When I see that cross
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I see freedom
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When I see that grave
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I'll see Jesus
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And from death to life
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I will sing your praise in
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the wonder of your grace
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How my soul will sing
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your praise in the wonder
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of your grace
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How my soul will
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sing your praise
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How wonderful
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how glorious
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my Savior's scars
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victorious
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My chains are gone
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My debt is paid
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From death to life
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and grace to grace
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When I see that cross
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I see freedom
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When I see that grave
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I'll see Jesus
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And from death to life
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I will sing your praise
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in the wonder
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of your grace
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When I see that cross
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I see freedom
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When I see that grave
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I'll see Jesus
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And from death to life
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I will sing
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your praise
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in the wonder
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of your grace
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How my soul will sing
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your praise in the wonder
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of your grace
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How my soul will sing
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your praise
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How wonderful
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how glorious
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my Savior's scars
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victorious
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My chains are gone
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My debt is paid
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From death to life
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- Casey: Hey, guys.
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Good morning.
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Give somebody a high five
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as you're being seated.
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We brought two things with us
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from Seattle.
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One's called "Be You."
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It's a little 30-day plan,
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a little 30-day process.
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And then our new book called
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"Renewing the Mind 2.0:
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With God's Grace,
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You Can Change."
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I'll tell you why that statement
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"You can change" is important
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But what got me going back to
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this lesson again is because
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someone stopped me at church not
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long ago and they said, "Pastor,
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I like coming to church but what
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you say doesn't help me much
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because you don't understand.
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I have real problems."
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And I was kind of shaken by that
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because, as a pastor, you know,
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I'm always trying to relate to
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people and help people
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with their real problems.
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But somehow I couldn't
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connect with her.
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Something I was saying didn't
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reach her, and she looked at me
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as a guy on stage that didn't
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understand what she was going
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through.
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Maybe you do that.
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We see these amazing leaders.
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Maybe we let Brian and Bobbie
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and all of the guests get a
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little bit larger than life and
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we think they've got such great
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callings and anointings and
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abilities and what they've done
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is so amazing.
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And then they stand on stage and
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we're, like, "Wow!
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That was awesome."
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Maybe it causes us to disconnect
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from reality a little bit.
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But these are just people who
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got saved and, no matter how
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long ago it was, today they're
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still trying to walk with God
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and be like him and fulfill his
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plan and honor him and glorify
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him.
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And I think every one of them
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would say, "It is our heart's
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cry that at the end of the day
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God doesn't say, 'Look how many
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people,' or 'Look how many
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books,' or whatever.
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But he says, 'Well done,
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good and faithful servant.'"
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C'mon, let's give
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the Lord a handclap right there
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'cause I believe
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that's all of our desire.
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And no matter if you're a brand
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new Christian or you've been
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walking with God for a while or
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it's been decades, I think you
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are like me and I am like you.
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We're just trying to be like
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him.
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And we're trying to find his
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plan and his purpose and his
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will for our life.
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We're trying to do what he
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created us to do so we can stand
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before him and hear him say,
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"Well done,
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good and faithful servant."
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When I got saved at 19,
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I was in a drug rehab center.
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And I was so down,
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so discouraged.
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You know, 19 years old you
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should be full of way too much
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testosterone but I was full of a
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lot of other drugs, not natural.
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I was so down, I was fearful.
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I was afraid of the future
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'cause I had no vision.
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Felt bad about myself.
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I felt so awkward.
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In the first pages of the book,
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I wrote a little paragraph
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that kinda described me.
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"My life for the first 20 years
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seemed to be a dream
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about someone I knew
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but can't clearly remember.
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I can recall how I lived,
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what I felt, how I struggled,
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but it seems like
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the life of someone else.
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I felt awkward, uncool,
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unable to do the things
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that would make my life better.
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I remember despising myself and
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feeling so bound in my problems
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and I regularly thought
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about giving up."
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So that's where I was
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and I started getting arrested.
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I got busted several times.
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Finally, my probation officer
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said, "If you'll go into
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a rehab center, the judge
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might let you stay there
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and not put you in prison."
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So I said, "Let's go to rehab.
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Sounds better than prison."
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I remember that first day
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my dad dropped me off.
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Kinda felt like everything
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was done.
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I am at the bottom.
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I'm the worst of the worst.
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I'm a drug addict in rehab.
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I mean, if I had any ounce
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of dignity left,
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it was leaving quickly.
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And I sat in the hallway of the
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Washington Drug Rehabilitation
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Center and I thought,
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"What's gonna happen?
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What am I gonna do?
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What am I gonna be?
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I am just totally lost."
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And I'd been to the counselors
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and the therapists
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and the classes
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and the groups and the doctors.
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I wanted something different.
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Had no idea how to get it.
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Here's what I looked like
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on that day.
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Here's the mugshot
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of the last time I got arrested.
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Mm-hm.
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I know, I wasn't
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a hardened criminal,
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I was just a spaced-out kid.
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And you know, the world wants
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to make it look so fun.
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It's not fun.
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Just being wasted and
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just trying to medicate the pain
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of reality is not fun.
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It looks glamorous on TV
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in the show, but in reality
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I was just a miserable guy.
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I'm sitting in the hallway, the
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entrance of Washington Drug
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Rehabilitation Center, which was
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just an old house, and I met
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a man who I didn't realize would
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change everything in my life.
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This is what he looked like.
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His name was Julius.
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He was about 50 years old
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when I met him.
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And he'd been raised
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in Washington, D.C.
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At 14, they put him into
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some kind of detention center
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for 4 years and he said
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to the judge,
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"Give me 40 years.
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Four is not enough."
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The judge said to him,
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"You'll be back.
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You'll probably get your 40
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but let's start with 4 now."
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Well, he was back.
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He ended up doing 24 years
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in penitentiaries.
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Eventually, he ended up
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at the State Penitentiary
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in the state of Washington.
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While he was there, he met some
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Christian guys and he started
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to change.
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He didn't even know how or why.
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But finally one day,
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he prayed a prayer.
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He said, "God, if you could
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use me, I'll help young men
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not end up like I have."
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He was a heroin addict, he was
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a murderer, he was a convict.
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Well, he'd been convicted
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of the Habitual Criminal Act,
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which in America means you're
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never getting out of prison.
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Somehow, something happened
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and they released him.
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He doesn't even know why.
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And he started this program
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called Washington Drug Center.
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Well, I walked in
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in the 3rd month
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Little did I know that months
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before when I put my head in the
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pillow in a local jail and said,
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"God, I don't know what to do
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but if you could help me, I want
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to change," around that same
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time, Julius was in
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a penitentiary on the other side
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And he was saying,
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"God, if you could use me."
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You don't know who else is
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praying when you're praying.
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C'mon, somebody.
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You don't know what God
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is setting up
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when you feel like all is lost.
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You don't realize your end
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is probably your beginning.
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And so I walked into
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Washington Drug Center.
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Here's what it looked like.
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Little tiny house.
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I'm sitting right behind
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that door right there.
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It's over 40 years ago now.
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Freaked out, scared to death.
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I'd used all the drugs I could
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find that morning to try to get
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through the day 'cause that's
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what you do when you go
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to rehab, you know,
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you take all the drugs you got.
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Get ready for it.
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Julius walked in.
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I stood up, you know, I thought
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that's what I was supposed
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to do.
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He was shorter than I was.
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I didn't know
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what our future holds.
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Julius looked up at me
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and he said, "Big Red."
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That became my name
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from then on.
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He said,
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"Big Red, you can change."
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He knew me.
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It's like he looked into
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my soul.
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He knew what it felt to be lost
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and be addicted and to be sad
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and medicated and scared and in
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jail and in prison and all that
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I was going through, all the
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emotions and all the confusion.
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It's like he just knew it all
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and he looked into me
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and he said, "You can change."
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He didn't say, "You have to."
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He didn't say, "You better."
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He just said, "You can."
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And I'd been trying to tell
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people ever since that day no
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matter what circumstance you're
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in, no matter what you feel
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that's not so good and you wish
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it was different, could be your
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own personal life, it could be
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your own addictions, it could be
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your own private secrets.
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It could be a marriage issue or
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a financial issue or a ministry
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issue, whatever it might be.
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I'm just here today to say
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to you, you can change.
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Your circumstance can change.
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The negative things can change.
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There's nothing that
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is impossible.
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I didn't know how it could
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happen but something went off
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on the inside of me.
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You know, all the counselors I'd
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been to and all the doctors I'd
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been to and all the probation
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people I'd been to,
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they said a lot of things to me.
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It never seemed to make
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any difference.
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I'd just go right back
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to the same old behaviors.
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But when Julius said,
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"Big Red, you could change,"
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I believed him.
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Something happened inside of me.
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I didn't believe in God.
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I didn't know the Lord.
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I didn't believe in myself.
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I felt like I was a loser
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but I believed him.
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Well, a couple of weeks later,
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Julius took me to church
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and everything started.
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Everything.
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That day I gave my life
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to the Lord.
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I was born again.
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The next week I was baptized
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in water,
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filled with the Holy Spirit.
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I was full in.
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I mean, you know, if you're
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gonna be full in for the world
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and full on for the devil, can
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you do anything less for Jesus?
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And I was in.
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Within a year, I'd started Bible
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school and committed to 4 years
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in a theology degree.
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That's where I met Wendy.
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We began to date soon after
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we started school.
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And could I just say,
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I really went to school
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seeking the Lord and
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then I just couldn't escape her.
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I mean, you know
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what I'm saying.
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We were married
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in our 2nd year of school.
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We graduated after 4 years.
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We started
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Christian Faith Center
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that same year we graduated.
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There's our family today.
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I think we have a family photo.
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Three kids, one grandchild.
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We're still on the journey but
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we've made a little progress.
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Hey, I look different than
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that mugshot, don't I?
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Okay, maybe not.
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I think I look a little better.
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But soon after I was saved,
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I started having some
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of those same thoughts,
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those same feelings, those same
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anxieties that I remember
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in the rehab center.
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Feeling inadequate, feeling,
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"I don't know what to do."
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Feeling,
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"I don't know where to go."
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Feeling like, "I can't do this."
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And I think many people come
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to the Lord but get stuck there.
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Don't know how to grow
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in the Lord.
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I found myself wondering if
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I could be a Christian,
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wondering if I could make it.
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Wondering if I could
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even live this life.
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In fact, for the first over a
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year of my Christian life, I
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never thought I could make it.
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I never thought I would stay
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free from drugs.
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I fully assumed I'd end up back
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in jail, even though I was born
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again, I believed in Jesus, but
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I so struggled to live it.
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That's when I came across
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Romans chapter 12 and verse 2.
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And Paul says it to the church.
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It's not to the world.
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It's not in the Gospels.
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It's in the writings of Paul
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to the church at Rome.
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"Do not be conformed to the
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world," he said, "but
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transformed by the renewing of
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your mind, that you may prove
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what is that good and acceptable
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and perfect will of God."
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And so I started this journey
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of renewal.
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And you know, in many ways,
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church, it hasn't changed.
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I'm still a kid in rehab trying
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to renew my mind.
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The first goal, the primary
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objective, the main mission
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of every Christian is to be
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like Jesus.
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Before you think about ministry,
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before you think about all
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the other aspects of your life,
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your primary mission, my primary
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mission, is to be like Christ
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in everything we say
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and everything we do.
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We call ourself Christians!
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Doesn't that mean Christlike?
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We don't just call ourself
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ministers.
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We don't just call ourself, you
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know, whatever it is, preachers
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or teachers or whatever role or
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whatever job or whatever career
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we may be going after.
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First of all, we are Christians.
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That means to be like Christ in
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everything that we say and
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everything that we do.
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That's our primary call.
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And maybe that's where some of
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us get off track.
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We're so busy trying to be
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something that we forgot to be
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the one thing that really
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matters.
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Like him!
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Well, I'm not there.
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You can ask Wendy.
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There are days, probably moments
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in every day, where I don't act
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like Jesus.
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Now, don't look so innocent
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out there, like you're,
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"Oh, I can't believe that."
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We all have thoughts
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and emotions and attitudes
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and responses that we know
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within ourself,
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"Uh, that's not so good.
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That's not like Jesus."
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Sometimes I do what I know
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is right but it's not because
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I want to.
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'Cause it's easy to get stuck in
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our emotions and our own needs
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and our own wants and our own
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circumstances and forget,
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"Wait! I'm a Christian.
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I'm called to be like Christ.
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That's my primary mission."
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And so, since I'm not there, I'm
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in this process of change, this
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process of renewal, transformed
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by the renewing of my mind
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to be like him.
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So I can live his good,
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his acceptable,
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and his perfect will.
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Every day, you and I get up
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with the thought, "I can change.
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Today I can take another step.
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Today I can have a new thought.
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Today I can get a little deeper.
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Today I can be a little more
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like Jesus."
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If all of you believe that, give
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the Lord a handclap right there.
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- Matt: We welcome you back to
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this "Praise the Lord" program.
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Our guests,
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Casey and Wendy Treat.
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First of all, love you guys.
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- Wendy Treat: Love you.
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- Matt: And every time I see
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you, I kinda wanna giggle
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because we know each other
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pretty well and we won't
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get into exactly what all that's
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about but been in your home,
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okay?
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- Wendy: Yeah.
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- Casey: We're family.
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- Matt: Yeah.
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- Wendy: We have great
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memories.
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- Laurie Crouch: Forever.
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- Wendy: Lots of laughter, lots
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of surprises.
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It's all good, isn't it?
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- Matt: I used to produce your
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TV show.
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- Wendy: Yeah, there you go.
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- Matt: Okay, Casey, you're
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speaking.
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One of the main speakers.
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And you're speaking on
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"Renewing the Mind."
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Brand new book.
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This is not as much of a book
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and a subject for you
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as your life message.
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- Casey: It really is.
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- Matt: So you need this--you
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need to unpack this somewhat for
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our audience here.
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- Casey: You know, Matt, when I
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got saved I was in a rehab
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center so it was more than just
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I need the Lord,
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I need eternal life.
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I needed a whole new life.
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I mean, I needed to know how
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to get up in the morning,
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how to get a job, how to have a
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marriage, how to have a family.
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So after I became a Christian,
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I realized,
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"Oh boy, there's more to this.
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I need a lot more."
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And that's when I found
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Romans chapter 12, verse 2.
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And Paul said to the church,
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right?
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Not to the world, to the church.
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He said, "Don't be conformed to
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the world but transformed
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by the renewing of your mind.
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And then you'll find the good,
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acceptable,
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perfect will of God."
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So that got me on a journey of
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not just being saved but being
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in God's will in every part
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of my life.
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And so I started that journey
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while I was in a drug rehab
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center, little over 40 years
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ago.
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Within the first year or two,
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went to Bible school, met Wendy,
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and I was seeking the Lord
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but she distracted me.
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- Wendy: We love it.
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- Casey: Yeah, and then we were
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married a couple of years later
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and then started
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Christian Faith Center.
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So now that we've been pastoring
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the same church 36 years.
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So when people say, "Well, how
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do you get to be a pastor?"
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I say, "First go to rehab and
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then you can be a pastor."
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- Matt: Okay, so Wendy, jump in
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here.
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- Wendy: Yeah, I will.
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I'll get it all straightened
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out.
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Yeah, go on.
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- Matt: The idea, though, is
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that you couldn't really have
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started from a lower, you know,
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position.
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I mean, rehab means that you had
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replaced what God says he is to
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a life and drugs became
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what--you know, the answer for
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everything.
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So that was a deception, so.
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- Wendy: And also, like, Casey
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was not raised in church at all.
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So he had no real God sense
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except just living in America.
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I mean, you know, sometimes
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people go, "Well, is that God
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sense?"
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Not really.
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So when he--he either had the
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option.
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He went to prison or he went to
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this drug rehab center.
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So renewing your mind is getting
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God thoughts.
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And everybody, everybody, needs
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to understand how to live our
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Christian life getting the God
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thoughts.
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So he began at this amazing
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first part of being a Christian
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with getting this revelation
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that I believe many Christians
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don't get.
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I think a lot of Christians
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struggle with being a Christian
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because it's kind of like,
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"Well, can't--won't God just
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make it go away?"
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Or, "God, just touch this area
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and make it go away."
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But God says, you know, to
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renew, to think the thoughts of
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God, to transplant the--your
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anger for God's peace.
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Well, how do you do that?
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Well, when we--I just love
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"Renewing the Mind" because it
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really takes God's promises of
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God's Word and it makes it the
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how to.
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"Oh, I'm thinking angry.
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God's Word teaches me how to
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think kind and loving.
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But I have to do it."
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And so really, that's what we
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have just set our hearts at.
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Our--for our own personal life
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'cause we have to do it ourself.
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- Casey: How to live it.
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- Wendy: You know?
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I mean, it just doesn't come
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free.
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So we started off this amazing
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journey, beginning to take the
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bad thoughts in life and
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that--that, lot of times, see,
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the world knows there's bad
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thoughts and they have all the
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positive thinking that tries to
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make it go away.
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But if you don't have God's
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grace and God's strength and
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God's more than enough that
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that's what you're pulling from,
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God's strength, not just my
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strength.
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And renewing the mind is saying,
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"God, I need help in this area.
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I am full of unforgiveness or
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I'm full of anger or I'm full of
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bitterness and I just--it just
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consumes me.
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What do I do?
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And yet I'm saved."
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And this is where we ask God,
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"God, help me.
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Help me to get my thoughts
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right," and he's so big
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and so loving and so kind
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that he helps us.
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And that's really where
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"Renewing the Mind" is such a
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beautiful message that God gives
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us--promises in his Word.
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- Casey: Yeah, we're having fun
00:26:05.120 --> 00:26:06.220
with it.
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And it really is a never-ending
00:26:07.120 --> 00:26:09.000
lifestyle, right?
00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:10.290
Some people say, "Oh yeah,
00:26:10.290 --> 00:26:12.050
I heard you teach that once
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and I did that."
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But you know what?
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- Laurie: Every morning.
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- Casey: It's not something
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you do one time.
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I found when I turned 50, when I
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turned 60, I had some new
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thoughts I had to renew.
00:26:24.110 --> 00:26:25.250
Things I had never dealt with
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before.
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Seasons of life bring
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new thoughts, new fears,
00:26:29.220 --> 00:26:31.190
new worries, right?
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Learning how to transition
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our life, our ministry,
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to our children.
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That's put us through
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a lot of changes.
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We've gotta keep seeking God,
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keep asking God,
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"Help me think right.
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Help me see the truth."
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Remember, Jesus says
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if you abide in his Word,
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you'll know the truth.
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That truth'll make you free.
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So we're trying to help people
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like you renew your mind
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to truth wherever
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your life struggles.
00:27:00.120 --> 00:27:02.060
So when I started, I struggled
00:27:02.060 --> 00:27:03.220
with drugs, alcohol, addiction,
00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:06.140
but maybe it's finances or maybe
00:27:06.140 --> 00:27:09.040
it's fear or maybe it's sexual
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addiction or family struggles.
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Wherever you're struggling, God
00:27:17.230 --> 00:27:19.250
has truth that'll make you free.
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So we're loving it.
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We're living this life
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not just once in a while
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but daily renewing our mind
00:27:28.150 --> 00:27:30.050
and finding God's will.
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- Matt: When you had a new
00:27:32.150 --> 00:27:35.140
challenges at 60, when you
00:27:35.140 --> 00:27:37.110
turned 70, what were they?
00:27:37.110 --> 00:27:39.140
I'm kidding.
00:27:39.140 --> 00:27:40.270
- Casey: I'll tell you when
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I get there.
00:27:41.170 --> 00:27:42.050
- Matt: Yeah, okay.
00:27:42.050 --> 00:27:42.230
Oh, you're not there yet?
00:27:42.230 --> 00:27:43.180
- Wendy: We're not there yet.
00:27:43.180 --> 00:27:44.150
- Casey: I'll let you know.
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- Matt: So first of all,
00:27:45.210 --> 00:27:48.000
do this for us.
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:50.170
Be practical in the way that the
00:27:50.170 --> 00:27:52.220
old Casey's mind worked and what
00:27:53.120 --> 00:27:56.120
was a thought that came to your
00:27:56.120 --> 00:27:58.100
head and what is the transverse
00:27:58.100 --> 00:28:00.250
truth that you had to
00:28:00.250 --> 00:28:02.170
dwell on to displant that
00:28:02.170 --> 00:28:05.070
incorrect thing?
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Give us an actual thing.
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- Casey: Yeah.
00:28:10.010 --> 00:28:10.280
You know, I struggled
00:28:10.280 --> 00:28:11.290
with self-esteem, self-worth,
00:28:11.290 --> 00:28:14.260
identity, feeling so awkward.
00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:18.240
Feeling like a loser
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:20.250
in high school,
00:28:20.250 --> 00:28:22.060
feeling like I wasn't cool.
00:28:22.060 --> 00:28:25.060
So my answer was,
00:28:25.060 --> 00:28:26.140
"Well, smoke pot.
00:28:26.140 --> 00:28:27.280
Take speed.
00:28:27.280 --> 00:28:30.070
Snort some coke."
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- Matt: And what did that
00:28:31.090 --> 00:28:31.280
do for you?
00:28:31.280 --> 00:28:32.220
Did that take away--
00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:34.110
what was happening with that?
00:28:34.110 --> 00:28:36.160
- Casey: It gave me--
00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:37.050
first of all, I felt better.
00:28:37.050 --> 00:28:39.010
You know, the drink, the joint,
00:28:39.010 --> 00:28:40.160
whatever it is, you feel better.
00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:42.140
It changes that anxiety.
00:28:43.030 --> 00:28:46.030
But the second thing it did,
00:28:46.030 --> 00:28:47.070
it gave me a group.
00:28:47.070 --> 00:28:48.250
It gave me a culture.
00:28:48.250 --> 00:28:50.230
And that's where some people
00:28:50.230 --> 00:28:51.250
don't realize is breaking
00:28:51.250 --> 00:28:53.270
addictions, overcoming
00:28:53.270 --> 00:28:55.110
those issues, is more than
00:28:55.110 --> 00:28:57.090
just stopping using drugs.
00:28:57.250 --> 00:29:00.270
It's finding a new culture,
00:29:00.270 --> 00:29:02.220
it's finding a new family.
00:29:02.220 --> 00:29:04.140
And that's where church life
00:29:04.140 --> 00:29:05.080
came in for me.
00:29:05.080 --> 00:29:06.150
So I had to stop thinking,
00:29:06.150 --> 00:29:08.220
"How do I medicate my pain?"
00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:10.270
And I started thinking,
00:29:10.270 --> 00:29:12.190
"What's God saying to me?"
00:29:12.190 --> 00:29:14.160
God says, "You're my son.
00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:16.230
I love you.
00:29:16.230 --> 00:29:17.260
Got a plan for you.
00:29:17.260 --> 00:29:19.040
I got you.
00:29:19.040 --> 00:29:20.060
I'm with you.
00:29:20.060 --> 00:29:21.110
You're not alone."
00:29:21.110 --> 00:29:22.190
And then meeting Wendy,
00:29:22.190 --> 00:29:24.050
we became part of church life
00:29:24.050 --> 00:29:25.020
and one of the great things here
00:29:25.020 --> 00:29:26.290
at Hillsong was creating that
00:29:26.290 --> 00:29:29.100
family, that feeling of being
00:29:29.100 --> 00:29:31.090
a part of something.
00:29:31.090 --> 00:29:33.100
When you feel like you belong,
00:29:33.100 --> 00:29:36.050
you're less likely to need to
00:29:36.050 --> 00:29:37.160
medicate your anxieties.
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:40.100
So those are the steps that
00:29:40.100 --> 00:29:41.150
I went through.
00:29:41.150 --> 00:29:42.140
- Wendy: You know, before we
00:29:42.140 --> 00:29:43.080
even move--when he said
00:29:43.080 --> 00:29:44.100
that about, you know, he was
00:29:44.100 --> 00:29:45.170
a drug-addicted teenage kid and
00:29:45.170 --> 00:29:47.070
I know right now there's moms
00:29:47.070 --> 00:29:49.010
and there's dads and there's
00:29:49.010 --> 00:29:50.130
brothers and sisters and wives,
00:29:50.130 --> 00:29:52.110
husbands,
00:29:52.110 --> 00:29:53.120
that's happening in your life
00:29:53.120 --> 00:29:55.110
and in your family.
00:29:55.110 --> 00:29:56.240
There's people that are involved
00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:58.020
with drugs and it's just you
00:29:58.020 --> 00:30:00.000
feel hopeless.
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.170
And I know his parents felt
00:30:01.170 --> 00:30:02.150
hopeless too and yet God touched
00:30:02.150 --> 00:30:05.050
him in a very unique way because
00:30:05.050 --> 00:30:07.040
there's always unique ways that
00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:08.130
God will touch.
00:30:08.130 --> 00:30:09.170
But let's pray for your family
00:30:09.170 --> 00:30:10.270
member right now and believe
00:30:10.270 --> 00:30:12.240
that there's a unique touch in
00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:14.230
their life.
00:30:14.230 --> 00:30:15.200
Father, we pray right now for
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:16.250
every single person right now
00:30:16.250 --> 00:30:18.200
that has a family member that's
00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:20.080
involved with the drug life and
00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:22.030
culture and the family of that,
00:30:22.030 --> 00:30:23.290
the--that need that they have
00:30:23.290 --> 00:30:26.260
that's drawing them into that
00:30:26.260 --> 00:30:28.100
negative dark pathway.
00:30:28.100 --> 00:30:30.080
But, God, we speak your light
00:30:30.080 --> 00:30:31.220
right now.
00:30:31.220 --> 00:30:32.180
We speak a redemption.
00:30:32.180 --> 00:30:33.270
We speak that that ugliness is
00:30:33.270 --> 00:30:35.070
broken around them.
00:30:35.070 --> 00:30:36.220
What we believe for divine
00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:38.000
intervention, God, people that
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.280
begin to speak life to them,
00:30:39.280 --> 00:30:41.210
events that start happening,
00:30:41.210 --> 00:30:43.170
people they meet that will draw
00:30:43.170 --> 00:30:44.280
them into your truth and into
00:30:44.280 --> 00:30:46.290
your life.
00:30:46.290 --> 00:30:48.030
God, we just don't know how it
00:30:48.030 --> 00:30:49.190
will happen but we expect
00:30:49.190 --> 00:30:51.030
miracles.
00:30:51.030 --> 00:30:52.060
We expect intervention.
00:30:52.060 --> 00:30:53.200
We expect them to be set free in
00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:55.110
the name of Jesus, amen.
00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:58.240
- Casey: Amen.
00:30:58.240 --> 00:30:59.170
- Wendy: Amen.
00:30:59.170 --> 00:31:00.130
- Laurie: You know, I love--
00:31:00.130 --> 00:31:01.040
- Casey: She's gonna open
00:31:01.040 --> 00:31:01.230
a rehab center.
00:31:01.230 --> 00:31:02.070
- Laurie: Do what?
00:31:02.070 --> 00:31:02.230
- Casey: Wendy's gonna open
00:31:02.230 --> 00:31:03.210
a rehab center.
00:31:03.210 --> 00:31:05.030
- Laurie: You should.
00:31:05.030 --> 00:31:06.160
You know, I love what the Lord
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:07.220
does for us, though, is that he
00:31:07.220 --> 00:31:09.070
never leaves us alone.
00:31:09.070 --> 00:31:10.270
You mentioned being lonely.
00:31:10.270 --> 00:31:12.190
He never leaves us.
00:31:12.190 --> 00:31:13.290
And when you renew your mind you
00:31:13.290 --> 00:31:16.000
start opening yourself up to the
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:18.110
goodness of God that's already
00:31:18.110 --> 00:31:20.010
there for you.
00:31:20.010 --> 00:31:21.030
But I think when you start
00:31:21.030 --> 00:31:22.050
changing your mind and you start
00:31:22.050 --> 00:31:23.220
listening to what God does have
00:31:23.220 --> 00:31:25.180
to say about you, it changes
00:31:25.180 --> 00:31:27.140
your heart and God just floods
00:31:28.150 --> 00:31:31.150
in and he's so more than enough
00:31:31.170 --> 00:31:34.170
for you that he meets you there
00:31:34.170 --> 00:31:36.070
every time with his goodness and
00:31:36.070 --> 00:31:38.080
his mercy and his grace and it
00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:40.060
just continues, doesn't it?
00:31:40.060 --> 00:31:42.170
- Wendy: The benefit of us now
00:31:42.170 --> 00:31:43.240
teaching on "Renewing the Mind,"
00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:46.020
though, that I feel so just
00:31:46.020 --> 00:31:48.030
energized about, is the second
00:31:48.030 --> 00:31:49.230
line there.
00:31:49.230 --> 00:31:50.270
It says, "Renewing the Mind
00:31:50.270 --> 00:31:51.270
2.0," but, turn around and it
00:31:51.270 --> 00:31:52.270
says--I gotta read exactly
00:31:52.270 --> 00:31:54.120
'cause it says, "With God's
00:31:54.120 --> 00:31:56.130
grace, you can change."
00:31:56.130 --> 00:31:58.150
See, our age now, we really,
00:31:58.150 --> 00:32:01.150
really have an understanding
00:32:01.150 --> 00:32:03.260
from God that it's not just
00:32:03.260 --> 00:32:05.080
about I can do it.
00:32:05.080 --> 00:32:07.030
Because when we first learned
00:32:07.030 --> 00:32:08.130
renewing the mind, 20s, 30s,
00:32:08.130 --> 00:32:10.150
40s, you know, you're, like,
00:32:10.150 --> 00:32:11.290
"Okay, God, I'm gonna do this."
00:32:11.290 --> 00:32:12.280
And you really put a lot of me
00:32:12.280 --> 00:32:15.120
onto the renewing your mind and
00:32:15.120 --> 00:32:17.160
you don't really recognize that
00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:19.030
oh, no, no, wait a minute, God
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who created the mountains across
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.010
the globe, God who created the
00:32:23.010 --> 00:32:25.000
oceans that flow all over, God
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:26.260
that created these beautiful
00:32:26.260 --> 00:32:28.040
animals that we get to see,
00:32:28.040 --> 00:32:29.170
God's big enough to help me.
00:32:29.170 --> 00:32:32.170
And so that grace that has
00:32:32.170 --> 00:32:34.110
helped us, that goes, "You know,
00:32:34.110 --> 00:32:36.030
God, I don't know what to do
00:32:36.030 --> 00:32:37.140
right now about this issue that
00:32:37.140 --> 00:32:39.040
I'm thinking, you know?
00:32:39.040 --> 00:32:40.120
I feel bad or I feel alone or
00:32:40.120 --> 00:32:41.150
I feel angry or
00:32:41.150 --> 00:32:43.150
I feel depressed or I--"
00:32:43.150 --> 00:32:45.030
You know, all the different
00:32:45.030 --> 00:32:45.250
emotions of life that
00:32:45.250 --> 00:32:47.070
the devil loves to just drive
00:32:47.070 --> 00:32:48.200
into us, we can reach out to God
00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:51.240
and say, "Okay, God, I wanna
00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:53.290
think your way right now.
00:32:53.290 --> 00:32:55.290
I wanna understand how to have
00:32:55.290 --> 00:32:57.250
your peace and how to have your
00:32:57.250 --> 00:32:59.200
joy and--but I can't do it on my
00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:02.040
own.
00:33:02.040 --> 00:33:02.240
And thank you so much that
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:04.150
you're big enough to work that
00:33:04.150 --> 00:33:06.020
grace in me," so that victory
00:33:06.020 --> 00:33:08.050
starts working in our soul.
00:33:08.050 --> 00:33:11.000
And there's joy in our Christian
00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:12.090
life as opposed to just
00:33:12.090 --> 00:33:13.180
constantly the works.
00:33:13.180 --> 00:33:16.050
You know, trying, trying, and
00:33:16.050 --> 00:33:18.000
trying.
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:18.250
- Matt: Casey, just kind of
00:33:18.250 --> 00:33:19.270
final thoughts.
00:33:19.270 --> 00:33:21.120
If somebody is really, you know,
00:33:21.150 --> 00:33:24.150
what's the baby steps?
00:33:25.110 --> 00:33:28.110
What's some of the initial
00:33:28.110 --> 00:33:30.220
things they need to do to get
00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:33.040
over some issue because
00:33:33.040 --> 00:33:34.200
everybody's got one and so--
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:36.200
- Casey: Yeah, we all got
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:37.180
issues.
00:33:37.180 --> 00:33:38.060
- Matt: You know, you gotta
00:33:38.060 --> 00:33:39.050
just--you gotta just start from
00:33:39.050 --> 00:33:40.150
somewhere.
00:33:40.150 --> 00:33:41.100
How do we get started in this
00:33:41.100 --> 00:33:42.030
thing?
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- Casey: Yeah, of course,
00:33:42.290 --> 00:33:43.250
connect with God, right?
00:33:43.250 --> 00:33:45.010
Connect with Jesus.
00:33:45.010 --> 00:33:46.010
Get born of the Spirit.
00:33:46.010 --> 00:33:47.200
Here with the Trinity family,
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:50.070
you always have somebody ready
00:33:50.070 --> 00:33:52.020
to talk with you, pray with you.
00:33:52.020 --> 00:33:53.180
Call us.
00:33:53.180 --> 00:33:54.030
Give us a call.
00:33:54.030 --> 00:33:54.230
Number's on your screen.
00:33:54.230 --> 00:33:56.110
And we'll pray, help you connect
00:33:56.110 --> 00:33:57.260
with God.
00:33:57.260 --> 00:33:59.020
Get born again.
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That's first step: connecting.
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Then recognize God's got a plan
00:34:03.280 --> 00:34:06.240
for you.
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:08.170
You're not trying to make your
00:34:08.170 --> 00:34:09.140
own way.
00:34:09.140 --> 00:34:10.150
You don't have to make a living
00:34:10.150 --> 00:34:11.120
and make a way of life.
00:34:11.120 --> 00:34:13.150
God has a plan for you,
00:34:13.150 --> 00:34:15.100
a destiny.
00:34:15.100 --> 00:34:16.130
He has a purpose for you.
00:34:16.130 --> 00:34:18.090
And that adds such peace to
00:34:18.090 --> 00:34:20.130
our spirit and our soul.
00:34:20.150 --> 00:34:23.150
And so I would encourage you to
00:34:23.150 --> 00:34:25.050
begin to think in terms of
00:34:25.050 --> 00:34:26.230
"I'm gonna find God's plan.
00:34:26.230 --> 00:34:29.030
Gonna find God's will
00:34:29.030 --> 00:34:29.270
for my life.
00:34:29.270 --> 00:34:30.250
I'm gonna find God's purpose
00:34:30.250 --> 00:34:31.230
for my life.
00:34:31.230 --> 00:34:32.280
I'm not getting up every
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:34.040
morning, trying to make a
00:34:34.040 --> 00:34:35.050
living.
00:34:35.050 --> 00:34:36.090
I'm gonna start trusting that my
00:34:36.090 --> 00:34:37.150
steps are ordered of the Lord."
00:34:37.220 --> 00:34:40.220
And when you talk to us here at
00:34:40.220 --> 00:34:42.030
Trinity, we're always praying to
00:34:42.030 --> 00:34:44.020
help you find what God has for
00:34:44.020 --> 00:34:46.050
you.
00:34:46.050 --> 00:34:47.110
And once you start thinking,
00:34:47.110 --> 00:34:49.000
"God has a purpose for my life,"
00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:51.020
you really get that thought,
00:34:51.020 --> 00:34:52.220
you're not so on your own.
00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:56.000
We don't do good on our own.
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:57.160
We get a little weird.
00:34:57.160 --> 00:34:59.050
But when we're living this life
00:34:59.050 --> 00:35:00.250
that God has purpose for us,
00:35:00.250 --> 00:35:03.050
things get better and he begins
00:35:03.050 --> 00:35:04.270
to help you and you begin to
00:35:04.270 --> 00:35:06.090
follow and miracles start
00:35:06.090 --> 00:35:09.020
happening, so.
00:35:09.020 --> 00:35:10.020
- Wendy: And "Renewing the
00:35:10.020 --> 00:35:11.040
Mind" works in every single area
00:35:11.040 --> 00:35:12.110
of your life.
00:35:12.110 --> 00:35:13.110
Your natural life, your physical
00:35:13.110 --> 00:35:15.110
life, your financial life, your
00:35:15.110 --> 00:35:17.230
emotional life, your family
00:35:17.230 --> 00:35:18.250
life.
00:35:18.250 --> 00:35:19.240
And God's big in every single
00:35:19.240 --> 00:35:22.000
one of those realms if we'll go,
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.010
"God, how do I think about that?
00:35:24.010 --> 00:35:26.080
And God, how do I think about
00:35:26.080 --> 00:35:27.090
that?
00:35:27.090 --> 00:35:27.290
And now, now that I know what
00:35:27.290 --> 00:35:29.040
I'm supposed to think, can you
00:35:29.040 --> 00:35:30.250
help me?"
00:35:30.250 --> 00:35:32.100
You know, "God, help me to think
00:35:32.100 --> 00:35:33.090
those kind of thoughts," because
00:35:33.090 --> 00:35:35.060
we've got Christians walking all
00:35:35.060 --> 00:35:37.000
across the earth, unfortunately,
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:38.290
and they're thinking not the
00:35:38.290 --> 00:35:41.000
thoughts of God toward the
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.250
issues that are causing them
00:35:42.250 --> 00:35:44.240
such stress.
00:35:44.240 --> 00:35:46.080
So our whole life, you know,
00:35:46.080 --> 00:35:48.140
kind of message is to help
00:35:48.140 --> 00:35:50.020
ourself but to help others to
00:35:50.020 --> 00:35:51.270
go, "Okay, I don't need to be
00:35:51.270 --> 00:35:53.260
pressed down with the burdens of
00:35:53.260 --> 00:35:55.150
this earth.
00:35:55.150 --> 00:35:56.120
I wanna think the God thoughts
00:35:56.120 --> 00:35:57.150
so that I can actually live in
00:35:57.150 --> 00:35:59.030
this amazing place of God
00:35:59.030 --> 00:36:01.100
freedom," that he will give to
00:36:01.100 --> 00:36:02.190
us in all realms of our life.
00:36:02.190 --> 00:36:04.150
But mind you, all realms of our
00:36:04.150 --> 00:36:06.110
life you're constantly living
00:36:06.110 --> 00:36:08.040
the next day on earth.
00:36:08.040 --> 00:36:10.070
So again, the next day on earth,
00:36:10.070 --> 00:36:11.270
it's another day.
00:36:11.270 --> 00:36:13.180
So you can't just say, "Okay,
00:36:13.180 --> 00:36:15.050
one time I'm never--I'm done,"
00:36:15.050 --> 00:36:16.160
you know?
00:36:16.160 --> 00:36:17.150
I'm, like, "No, we have the--we
00:36:17.150 --> 00:36:18.250
are blessed that we're living on
00:36:18.250 --> 00:36:20.260
earth and we're blessed that God
00:36:20.260 --> 00:36:22.100
never leaves us or forsakes us
00:36:22.100 --> 00:36:24.060
and he's always helping us.
00:36:24.060 --> 00:36:26.260
- Laurie: Amen, amen.
00:36:26.260 --> 00:36:28.070
- Matt: It seems like it's
00:36:28.070 --> 00:36:29.020
God's way of making sure we
00:36:29.020 --> 00:36:30.060
always wanna be thinking about
00:36:30.060 --> 00:36:31.250
him and that communion and
00:36:31.250 --> 00:36:33.280
that's just--that's awesome.
00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:35.050
- Laurie: Every morning, wake
00:36:35.050 --> 00:36:36.030
up and renew your mind.
00:36:36.030 --> 00:36:36.260
His mercies are new every
00:36:36.260 --> 00:36:38.230
morning.
00:36:38.230 --> 00:36:39.190
- Matt: "Renewing Your Mind,"
00:36:39.190 --> 00:36:40.210
Casey and Wendy Treat.
00:36:40.210 --> 00:36:41.250
Let's go back into the big
00:36:41.250 --> 00:36:42.270
arena.
00:36:42.270 --> 00:36:43.200
- Casey: In 1 John chapter 4,
00:36:47.030 --> 00:36:48.180
verse 14, John writes,
00:36:48.180 --> 00:36:51.040
"We have seen and testify
00:36:51.040 --> 00:36:52.220
that the Father sent
00:36:52.220 --> 00:36:54.010
the Son as Savior
00:36:54.010 --> 00:36:55.110
of the world.
00:36:55.110 --> 00:36:57.160
And whoever confesses Jesus is
00:36:57.160 --> 00:36:59.180
the Son of God, abides in him,
00:36:59.180 --> 00:37:02.000
and he in God.
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.170
Love's been perfected among us
00:37:04.170 --> 00:37:06.030
because as he is,
00:37:07.060 --> 00:37:10.060
You know, sometimes we give up
00:37:13.160 --> 00:37:14.170
and we just say, "Well, when I
00:37:14.170 --> 00:37:15.280
get to heaven, I'll be like him.
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:17.050
When I get to heaven, in my
00:37:17.050 --> 00:37:19.180
glorified body, I'll finally be
00:37:19.180 --> 00:37:21.200
what God wants me to be."
00:37:21.200 --> 00:37:24.000
But look at--that Scripture
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:25.070
said, "As he is,
00:37:25.070 --> 00:37:26.240
so are we in this world."
00:37:27.180 --> 00:37:30.180
In this world,
00:37:30.180 --> 00:37:31.260
we are Christians.
00:37:31.260 --> 00:37:33.070
In this world,
00:37:33.070 --> 00:37:34.130
we are Christlike.
00:37:34.130 --> 00:37:36.150
In this world, we can be
00:37:36.150 --> 00:37:38.080
the people that God created us
00:37:38.080 --> 00:37:40.290
to be.
00:37:40.290 --> 00:37:43.000
That's why we're here at
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:44.000
Conference and that's why
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:45.040
we purchase the books.
00:37:45.040 --> 00:37:47.020
That's why we read our Bibles
00:37:47.020 --> 00:37:49.120
and that's why we are studying
00:37:49.120 --> 00:37:51.070
his Word because we want to be
00:37:51.070 --> 00:37:53.130
transformed by the renewing of
00:37:53.130 --> 00:37:55.140
our mind.
00:37:55.140 --> 00:37:56.130
Not to fit into some
00:37:56.130 --> 00:37:57.280
denominational mold, not to
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.210
become like some preacher or
00:37:59.210 --> 00:38:01.240
other people.
00:38:01.240 --> 00:38:03.040
But to be like Christ.
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:06.280
How much desire, how much
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:08.050
passion, how much commitment,
00:38:08.050 --> 00:38:10.110
do you feel on the inside to be
00:38:10.110 --> 00:38:12.160
like him today?
00:38:12.160 --> 00:38:14.190
Don't lose it.
00:38:14.190 --> 00:38:15.200
If you've never had it, get it.
00:38:15.200 --> 00:38:17.190
And if you got it,
00:38:17.190 --> 00:38:19.050
don't lose it.
00:38:19.050 --> 00:38:20.170
You don't wanna turn into
00:38:20.170 --> 00:38:21.080
a grumpy old Christian
00:38:21.080 --> 00:38:24.010
that's just given up and
00:38:24.010 --> 00:38:26.030
now you just got an attitude.
00:38:26.030 --> 00:38:28.040
You don't give
00:38:28.040 --> 00:38:28.260
and you don't serve.
00:38:28.260 --> 00:38:30.060
You don't even try to be
00:38:30.060 --> 00:38:33.020
like him.
00:38:33.020 --> 00:38:34.200
No, that's not who we are.
00:38:34.200 --> 00:38:36.290
We're here because as he is,
00:38:37.070 --> 00:38:40.070
so are we in this world.
00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:44.000
I love Romans chapter 8
00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:45.120
and verse 29.
00:38:45.120 --> 00:38:47.280
Romans 8:29, "Whom he foreknew
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:49.100
he also predestined,"
00:38:49.100 --> 00:38:52.010
predestined, established
00:38:52.010 --> 00:38:54.080
a destiny, "to be conformed
00:38:54.260 --> 00:38:57.260
to the image of his Son, that
00:38:59.010 --> 00:39:02.030
Jesus might be the firstborn
00:39:02.030 --> 00:39:03.290
among many brethren."
00:39:03.290 --> 00:39:06.020
Before God predestined you for
00:39:06.020 --> 00:39:07.210
ministry, before he predestined
00:39:07.210 --> 00:39:09.240
you for family, before he
00:39:09.240 --> 00:39:11.220
predestined you for anything
00:39:11.220 --> 00:39:13.140
in this world, he knew you
00:39:13.140 --> 00:39:15.260
and he predestined you to be
00:39:15.260 --> 00:39:18.170
like Jesus.
00:39:18.170 --> 00:39:21.110
So today,
00:39:21.110 --> 00:39:22.150
let's take another step.
00:39:22.150 --> 00:39:23.240
Today, let's get a new thought.
00:39:23.240 --> 00:39:25.210
Today, let's make a change.
00:39:25.210 --> 00:39:27.180
Today, let's agree to an
00:39:27.180 --> 00:39:29.100
adjustment on the inside so
00:39:29.100 --> 00:39:31.110
we can be more like him.
00:39:31.110 --> 00:39:34.020
That's my destiny.
00:39:34.020 --> 00:39:35.230
That's my destiny.
00:39:35.230 --> 00:39:36.230
C'mon, give him a handclap.
00:39:36.230 --> 00:39:37.220
That's my destiny, to be
00:39:37.220 --> 00:39:40.090
conformed to the image of Jesus.
00:39:45.120 --> 00:39:48.120
No one's there but we're all
00:39:48.160 --> 00:39:51.160
on that journey.
00:39:51.160 --> 00:39:52.160
We're all on that road.
00:39:52.160 --> 00:39:53.270
We're all on our way.
00:39:53.270 --> 00:39:56.010
We are children of the way.
00:39:56.010 --> 00:39:58.260
Which way are you going?
00:39:58.260 --> 00:40:00.250
To be more like him.
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:03.280
Let's stay conscious of it.
00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:05.100
Let's stay engaged with it.
00:40:05.100 --> 00:40:07.150
And let's make it part of who we
00:40:07.150 --> 00:40:08.250
are and how we live every day.
00:40:11.290 --> 00:40:14.290
We are the Epistles.
00:40:14.290 --> 00:40:17.120
The world is reading about
00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:19.150
our Lord.
00:40:19.150 --> 00:40:22.010
Remember, Paul wrote
00:40:22.010 --> 00:40:22.290
in 2 Corinthians chapter 3,
00:40:22.290 --> 00:40:24.260
"You are our Epistles written
00:40:24.260 --> 00:40:27.030
in our hearts, known and read
00:40:27.030 --> 00:40:28.260
by all men; clearly you are
00:40:28.260 --> 00:40:31.120
an Epistle of Christ."
00:40:32.270 --> 00:40:35.270
Maybe the world doesn't really
00:40:35.270 --> 00:40:37.250
know Jesus 'cause those of us
00:40:37.250 --> 00:40:39.160
who are Christians aren't very
00:40:39.160 --> 00:40:41.130
good letters for them to read.
00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:45.240
I don't think they listen
00:40:45.240 --> 00:40:46.220
to our sermons.
00:40:46.220 --> 00:40:48.000
I think they listen
00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:48.250
to our lives.
00:40:48.250 --> 00:40:51.200
Let's make sure we give an
00:40:51.200 --> 00:40:53.120
accurate representation not out
00:40:53.230 --> 00:40:56.230
of pressure, not out of stress,
00:40:56.230 --> 00:40:58.090
not out of condemnation, but out
00:40:58.090 --> 00:41:00.250
of the joy of walking with God
00:41:00.250 --> 00:41:02.220
and knowing the Lord and being
00:41:02.220 --> 00:41:04.170
on our way to eternal life
00:41:04.170 --> 00:41:06.230
with him.
00:41:06.230 --> 00:41:08.030
Out of the grace of God we
00:41:08.030 --> 00:41:09.230
change to become more like him.
00:41:14.070 --> 00:41:17.070
Christians who don't grow,
00:41:17.070 --> 00:41:19.260
who don't change and become more
00:41:19.260 --> 00:41:21.220
like Christ, become frustrated,
00:41:22.140 --> 00:41:25.140
unhappy.
00:41:25.210 --> 00:41:28.210
If you're not moving in destiny
00:41:28.210 --> 00:41:30.270
and you are predestined to be
00:41:30.270 --> 00:41:32.220
conformed to the image
00:41:32.220 --> 00:41:34.040
of Christ, as he is,
00:41:34.040 --> 00:41:36.050
so are you in this world.
00:41:36.050 --> 00:41:38.020
So if you're not in that
00:41:38.020 --> 00:41:39.020
process, if you're not taking
00:41:39.020 --> 00:41:40.110
steps, Christian life starts
00:41:40.110 --> 00:41:42.090
feeling heavy and you get down
00:41:42.250 --> 00:41:45.250
and you get discouraged.
00:41:45.250 --> 00:41:47.080
If you're not growing, if you're
00:41:47.080 --> 00:41:48.180
not learning, you're like a
00:41:48.180 --> 00:41:50.020
little child who's stuck at home
00:41:50.020 --> 00:41:51.210
with nothing to do.
00:41:51.210 --> 00:41:53.190
They wanna go to school.
00:41:53.190 --> 00:41:55.190
They wanna read.
00:41:55.190 --> 00:41:56.120
They wanna experience
00:41:56.120 --> 00:41:57.150
new things.
00:41:57.150 --> 00:41:58.110
They wanna see what's out there.
00:41:58.110 --> 00:42:01.080
And if you don't let 'em go,
00:42:01.080 --> 00:42:02.100
they just get frustrated
00:42:02.100 --> 00:42:04.100
and start doing bad things
00:42:04.100 --> 00:42:05.250
and wrong things.
00:42:05.250 --> 00:42:08.060
Many Christians have their mind
00:42:09.050 --> 00:42:12.050
on birth control pills.
00:42:12.200 --> 00:42:15.200
They haven't given birth
00:42:15.200 --> 00:42:16.210
to a new thought in years.
00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:21.280
Stuck in their routines,
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:26.000
not learning, not growing,
00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:27.250
not seeking.
00:42:27.250 --> 00:42:29.000
And then they think,
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:30.110
"Well, it's the church.
00:42:30.110 --> 00:42:31.210
I'm frustrated and I'm sad
00:42:31.210 --> 00:42:33.130
and I don't feel fulfilled.
00:42:33.130 --> 00:42:35.040
I need a new church."
00:42:35.040 --> 00:42:36.080
Well, you keep going to new
00:42:36.080 --> 00:42:37.060
places and everywhere you go,
00:42:37.060 --> 00:42:39.270
there you are!
00:42:41.120 --> 00:42:44.120
That's the problem.
00:42:44.120 --> 00:42:46.040
We think it's out there.
00:42:46.040 --> 00:42:47.160
We think it's the pastor,
00:42:47.160 --> 00:42:48.180
we think it's the church, we
00:42:48.180 --> 00:42:49.180
think it's something around us.
00:42:49.180 --> 00:42:51.100
But it's what's in us.
00:42:51.250 --> 00:42:54.250
When you're in the process of
00:42:54.250 --> 00:42:55.290
renewal, there's an excitement,
00:42:55.290 --> 00:42:57.240
there's a passion, there's
00:42:57.240 --> 00:42:58.260
an energy, there's a newness
00:42:58.260 --> 00:43:00.250
to life every day.
00:43:01.080 --> 00:43:04.080
The mercies of God,
00:43:04.080 --> 00:43:05.160
the ministries of God,
00:43:05.160 --> 00:43:07.210
are new every morning.
00:43:08.090 --> 00:43:11.090
So renewal is exciting and
00:43:11.090 --> 00:43:14.060
energizing and keeps you fresh
00:43:14.180 --> 00:43:17.180
and keeps you going with God.
00:43:18.110 --> 00:43:21.110
Never let your Sunday disconnect
00:43:21.110 --> 00:43:23.080
from your Monday.
00:43:23.270 --> 00:43:26.270
"Oh, that was a good sermon
00:43:26.270 --> 00:43:27.250
on Sunday."
00:43:27.250 --> 00:43:28.170
What are you gonna do with it
00:43:28.170 --> 00:43:29.140
on Monday?
00:43:29.140 --> 00:43:30.050
"Ah, it doesn't really work
00:43:30.050 --> 00:43:30.280
in my real life."
00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:33.110
Wait, you have a real life
00:43:33.110 --> 00:43:34.180
that's different than
00:43:34.180 --> 00:43:35.110
your Sunday life?
00:43:35.110 --> 00:43:38.000
You're missing the point!
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.060
What we're doing as we worship
00:43:40.060 --> 00:43:41.210
and as we pray and as we hear
00:43:41.210 --> 00:43:43.250
the Word is the real life.
00:43:43.250 --> 00:43:46.070
Now let's connect it to Monday
00:43:46.070 --> 00:43:47.230
and Tuesday and Wednesday
00:43:47.230 --> 00:43:49.200
and make it work every day.
00:43:51.210 --> 00:43:54.210
And in that process of change
00:43:54.210 --> 00:43:56.020
and renewal, we find
00:43:56.020 --> 00:43:57.240
this excitement about living
00:43:57.240 --> 00:43:59.100
with God.
00:43:59.100 --> 00:44:00.070
Maybe you've lost the passion
00:44:00.070 --> 00:44:02.010
and lost some energy 'cause
00:44:02.010 --> 00:44:03.210
you just haven't made
00:44:03.210 --> 00:44:04.250
any changes lately.
00:44:04.250 --> 00:44:07.160
You haven't experienced
00:44:07.160 --> 00:44:09.030
renewal lately.
00:44:09.160 --> 00:44:12.160
And maybe we've never gone deep
00:44:12.160 --> 00:44:14.110
We're trying to do what he does
00:44:16.220 --> 00:44:17.230
but we don't know
00:44:17.230 --> 00:44:18.260
why he does it.
00:44:18.260 --> 00:44:19.250
You know, we don't know where
00:44:19.250 --> 00:44:20.260
it came from, we don't know
00:44:20.260 --> 00:44:22.040
what's the motivation,
00:44:22.040 --> 00:44:23.050
we don't know what's the spirit,
00:44:23.050 --> 00:44:24.200
what's the heart.
00:44:24.200 --> 00:44:25.220
So let's plug in to
00:44:25.220 --> 00:44:27.060
what would he think.
00:44:27.060 --> 00:44:29.190
Do you have a Bible just so you
00:44:29.190 --> 00:44:31.060
His thoughts are higher
00:44:34.060 --> 00:44:34.270
than our thoughts.
00:44:34.270 --> 00:44:37.060
So when we get his thoughts,
00:44:37.060 --> 00:44:38.180
we get his ways.
00:44:38.180 --> 00:44:41.030
You get the thoughts of Jesus,
00:44:41.030 --> 00:44:42.010
you get the ways of Jesus,
00:44:42.010 --> 00:44:44.110
Christian life gets fun.
00:44:44.110 --> 00:44:46.240
"I just don't know what to do."
00:44:46.240 --> 00:44:48.010
'Cause you don't know
00:44:48.010 --> 00:44:48.250
how to think.
00:44:48.250 --> 00:44:51.120
Mm, thank you
00:44:51.120 --> 00:44:52.000
for your exciting response.
00:44:52.180 --> 00:44:55.180
Right?
00:44:55.180 --> 00:44:57.030
"I dunno what I should do."
00:44:57.030 --> 00:44:58.080
Do you know how to think?
00:44:58.080 --> 00:45:00.180
Right, we're teaching our
00:45:00.180 --> 00:45:01.130
children, we're going to Bible
00:45:01.130 --> 00:45:03.010
school, we're listening
00:45:03.010 --> 00:45:04.060
in church so we can get
00:45:04.060 --> 00:45:05.170
the thoughts of God, then we can
00:45:05.170 --> 00:45:07.290
have the ways of God.
00:45:07.290 --> 00:45:10.030
I know what to do 'cause
00:45:10.030 --> 00:45:11.120
I know how to think about
00:45:11.120 --> 00:45:12.230
this circumstance,
00:45:12.230 --> 00:45:13.230
about this problem,
00:45:13.230 --> 00:45:14.240
or about this situation.
00:45:14.240 --> 00:45:17.150
Our world is confused.
00:45:17.150 --> 00:45:20.090
And so I read my Bible
00:45:20.090 --> 00:45:22.220
and I ask myself,
00:45:22.220 --> 00:45:23.250
"What would Jesus think?"
00:45:23.250 --> 00:45:26.130
When I get his thoughts,
00:45:26.130 --> 00:45:27.150
I'll get his ways,
00:45:27.150 --> 00:45:28.170
I'll know what to do.
00:45:28.170 --> 00:45:30.190
And life gets clear and his will
00:45:30.190 --> 00:45:32.000
gets clear and his plan gets
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:33.160
clear and his destiny gets clear
00:45:33.160 --> 00:45:35.190
and my heart gets clear
00:45:35.190 --> 00:45:38.060
and I'm having some fun now.
00:45:38.160 --> 00:45:41.160
That's what God's called you to.
00:45:45.070 --> 00:45:48.070
You know, the Holy Spirit didn't
00:45:48.070 --> 00:45:50.100
come to change you.
00:45:50.100 --> 00:45:52.140
I know we want him to.
00:45:52.140 --> 00:45:53.250
We want the Holy Spirit to fix
00:45:53.250 --> 00:45:55.130
us or at least fix our kids,
00:45:57.010 --> 00:46:00.030
right?
00:46:00.030 --> 00:46:02.050
We want the miracles, we want
00:46:02.050 --> 00:46:03.130
the Holy Spirit to come and zap,
00:46:03.130 --> 00:46:05.230
boo!
00:46:05.230 --> 00:46:07.140
And we're, like,
00:46:07.140 --> 00:46:08.030
"Thank you, Lord."
00:46:08.030 --> 00:46:10.220
But you know, the Bible says
00:46:10.220 --> 00:46:12.040
the Holy Spirit will lead
00:46:12.040 --> 00:46:13.090
and guide you into all truth.
00:46:13.090 --> 00:46:15.240
In other words, he's not gonna
00:46:15.240 --> 00:46:17.000
fix it, he's not gonna change
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:18.110
it, he's gonna help you to think
00:46:18.110 --> 00:46:20.150
the truth and then that truth
00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:24.000
will make you free.
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:25.150
And remember the Holy Spirit
00:46:25.150 --> 00:46:27.010
said he will help you.
00:46:27.010 --> 00:46:28.210
Romans chapter 8,
00:46:28.210 --> 00:46:29.170
"The Holy Spirit will help you."
00:46:30.040 --> 00:46:33.040
That's not, "Do it for you."
00:46:33.040 --> 00:46:36.020
My little Willow, she's 3 years
00:46:36.020 --> 00:46:37.080
old, my granddaughter Willow.
00:46:37.080 --> 00:46:38.250
And we were supposed to be
00:46:38.250 --> 00:46:40.000
picking up the room.
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:41.030
We had toys everywhere, spread
00:46:41.030 --> 00:46:42.000
everything--everywhere, and so
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:43.130
I said, "Willow, I'll help you."
00:46:43.130 --> 00:46:45.090
And she said,
00:46:45.090 --> 00:46:46.290
"Papa, will you just do it?"
00:46:48.120 --> 00:46:51.120
She's honest, right?
00:46:51.120 --> 00:46:54.010
I said, "No, but I'll help you."
00:46:54.010 --> 00:46:56.250
'Cause if I do it for her, she
00:46:56.250 --> 00:46:58.130
never grows, she never develops,
00:46:58.130 --> 00:47:00.150
she never has discipline,
00:47:00.150 --> 00:47:01.200
never has obedience.
00:47:01.200 --> 00:47:03.010
Then she grows up to be
00:47:03.010 --> 00:47:03.260
crazy like some of you.
00:47:04.160 --> 00:47:07.160
Yeah, I'm just checking to see
00:47:07.160 --> 00:47:08.160
if you were listening.
00:47:08.160 --> 00:47:11.090
No, I'm not gonna do it for her,
00:47:11.090 --> 00:47:13.120
right?
00:47:13.120 --> 00:47:14.000
When our kids have homework,
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:15.170
we don't sit down
00:47:15.170 --> 00:47:16.100
and do their homework for them.
00:47:16.100 --> 00:47:18.260
Okay, well, sometimes I did.
00:47:18.260 --> 00:47:20.020
When Tasha, my daughter, was
00:47:20.020 --> 00:47:22.190
at college she would go to these
00:47:22.190 --> 00:47:23.290
theology classes, I would get so
00:47:23.290 --> 00:47:25.080
fired up about it, I would say,
00:47:25.080 --> 00:47:26.220
"Hey, give me that laptop.
00:47:26.220 --> 00:47:28.050
I'll type the paper for you."
00:47:29.090 --> 00:47:32.090
And then Wendy would walk--"
00:47:32.090 --> 00:47:33.100
What are you doing?"
00:47:33.100 --> 00:47:34.150
"Quiet.
00:47:34.150 --> 00:47:35.000
I'm doing some homework."
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.170
Wendy said, "I don't think
00:47:37.170 --> 00:47:38.100
you're helping your daughter."
00:47:38.100 --> 00:47:39.170
"Shhh!"
00:47:39.170 --> 00:47:42.090
No, it's not good to do it
00:47:42.090 --> 00:47:43.080
for you but that's what we want
00:47:43.080 --> 00:47:45.030
the Holy Spirit to do.
00:47:45.030 --> 00:47:46.030
"Just fix me, Lord.
00:47:46.030 --> 00:47:48.060
Change me.
00:47:48.060 --> 00:47:49.280
Heal me.
00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:51.100
Help me."
00:47:51.100 --> 00:47:52.220
But he said,
00:47:52.220 --> 00:47:53.120
"No, I'll help you."
00:47:53.120 --> 00:47:55.100
In fact, in 1 Corinthians
00:47:55.100 --> 00:47:56.110
chapter 2, the Bible says, "You
00:47:56.110 --> 00:47:58.210
have received not the spirit
00:47:58.210 --> 00:48:01.060
of the world but the Spirit
00:48:01.060 --> 00:48:02.250
who's from God," that we might
00:48:02.250 --> 00:48:04.290
know--that we might know
00:48:05.020 --> 00:48:08.020
the things that have been
00:48:08.020 --> 00:48:09.190
freely given to us by God.
00:48:09.190 --> 00:48:11.030
He didn't say that we would get
00:48:11.030 --> 00:48:12.100
'em, that--but he said
00:48:12.100 --> 00:48:13.200
he will help you know them.
00:48:13.200 --> 00:48:16.010
And when you start knowing the
00:48:16.010 --> 00:48:17.030
right things, you start going
00:48:17.030 --> 00:48:18.100
in the right direction.
00:48:18.100 --> 00:48:19.230
When you think
00:48:19.230 --> 00:48:20.130
the right thoughts,
00:48:20.130 --> 00:48:21.100
you do the right steps.
00:48:21.100 --> 00:48:23.000
When you're thinking right,
00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:24.070
you're doing right.
00:48:24.070 --> 00:48:25.110
When you know the truth,
00:48:25.110 --> 00:48:26.240
the truth'll make you free.
00:48:26.240 --> 00:48:28.130
But if you don't know it,
00:48:28.130 --> 00:48:29.220
the Holy Spirit can't fix you.
00:48:30.070 --> 00:48:33.070
So we have the Holy Spirit
00:48:33.070 --> 00:48:34.240
so we'll know.
00:48:34.240 --> 00:48:35.230
Now, if you keep on reading,
00:48:35.230 --> 00:48:37.000
"The natural man does not
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:38.070
receive the things of the Spirit
00:48:38.070 --> 00:48:39.250
of God, they're foolishness
00:48:39.250 --> 00:48:41.020
to him; nor can he know them,
00:48:41.020 --> 00:48:42.190
'cause they're spiritually
00:48:42.190 --> 00:48:43.280
discerned."
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:44.250
But we have the mind of Christ.
00:48:46.090 --> 00:48:49.090
Everybody say it.
00:48:49.090 --> 00:48:50.050
We have the mind of Christ.
00:48:51.200 --> 00:48:54.200
Why do you have the mind
00:48:54.200 --> 00:48:55.170
of Christ?
00:48:55.170 --> 00:48:57.130
So you can think like him
00:48:57.130 --> 00:48:59.160
and then live like him.
00:48:59.160 --> 00:49:02.040
Why is it so hard for some of us
00:49:02.040 --> 00:49:03.220
to live like him?
00:49:03.220 --> 00:49:05.110
'Cause we're not thinking right.
00:49:05.240 --> 00:49:08.240
Plug into the Holy Spirit.
00:49:08.240 --> 00:49:10.270
Plug into the Word of God.
00:49:10.270 --> 00:49:12.280
Get serious about having the
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:15.050
mind of Christ 'cause when you
00:49:15.050 --> 00:49:17.190
think his thoughts, you'll take
00:49:17.190 --> 00:49:19.140
his steps and you'll be that
00:49:19.140 --> 00:49:21.060
person that he's called you
00:49:21.060 --> 00:49:23.150
to be.
00:49:23.150 --> 00:49:26.000
In Colossians chapter 3 and
00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:27.210
verse 1, it said, "If you were
00:49:27.210 --> 00:49:29.030
raised with Christ," if you're
00:49:29.030 --> 00:49:30.220
born again, if you're a
00:49:30.220 --> 00:49:32.110
Christian, "seek those things
00:49:32.110 --> 00:49:34.130
which are above, where Christ
00:49:34.130 --> 00:49:36.040
is, sitting at the right hand of
00:49:36.040 --> 00:49:37.190
God.
00:49:37.190 --> 00:49:38.160
Set your mind on things above,"
00:49:41.120 --> 00:49:44.120
not on 4 hours of television
00:49:44.120 --> 00:49:46.010
every night.
00:49:46.010 --> 00:49:48.250
Set your mind on things above,
00:49:48.250 --> 00:49:50.090
not on some of the websites that
00:49:50.090 --> 00:49:52.160
keep popping up on your
00:49:52.160 --> 00:49:54.050
computer.
00:49:54.050 --> 00:49:56.130
Set your mind on things above,
00:49:56.130 --> 00:49:58.150
not on your fear, not on your
00:49:58.150 --> 00:50:00.190
worry, not on your anxiety, not
00:50:00.190 --> 00:50:03.100
on your negative identity.
00:50:03.100 --> 00:50:05.130
Set your mind.
00:50:05.130 --> 00:50:06.290
You know what?
00:50:06.290 --> 00:50:07.150
That's so encouraging to me
00:50:07.150 --> 00:50:08.130
because when I first started
00:50:08.130 --> 00:50:09.210
this journey and Julius said to
00:50:09.210 --> 00:50:11.110
me, "You can change," I believed
00:50:11.110 --> 00:50:13.060
him but I doubted me.
00:50:13.160 --> 00:50:16.160
And I thought my mind was so
00:50:16.160 --> 00:50:17.230
gone, I thought maybe it was the
00:50:17.230 --> 00:50:19.180
drugs.
00:50:19.180 --> 00:50:20.130
Hah, and I've learned 40 years
00:50:20.130 --> 00:50:22.010
later, no, it's just me.
00:50:22.010 --> 00:50:23.130
I have to--I have to practice, I
00:50:23.130 --> 00:50:26.120
have to focus to set my mind.
00:50:26.160 --> 00:50:29.160
But the fact that God said I can
00:50:29.160 --> 00:50:30.280
do it means I can do it.
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:35.000
I have the ability to set my
00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:36.260
mind and not think on the fears,
00:50:36.260 --> 00:50:39.220
not think on the worries, not
00:50:39.220 --> 00:50:41.130
think on the abuse, not think on
00:50:41.130 --> 00:50:43.120
the anger, not think on the sin,
00:50:43.180 --> 00:50:46.180
but I can set my mind on things
00:50:46.180 --> 00:50:48.200
above and start becoming more
00:50:48.200 --> 00:50:50.210
like him.
00:50:50.210 --> 00:50:53.100
Every day we face a choice to be
00:50:53.100 --> 00:50:56.060
conformed to the world or
00:50:56.060 --> 00:50:57.200
transformed by the renewing of
00:50:57.200 --> 00:50:59.240
our mind.
00:50:59.240 --> 00:51:01.290
What's it gonna be?
00:51:01.290 --> 00:51:02.280
Today in your marriage, today
00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:05.040
with your ministry friends,
00:51:05.040 --> 00:51:07.120
today at lunch, tonight wherever
00:51:07.120 --> 00:51:09.240
you might be.
00:51:09.240 --> 00:51:11.060
Tomorrow wherever you go.
00:51:11.060 --> 00:51:13.070
Is it conformed to the world and
00:51:14.180 --> 00:51:17.180
the way everything goes and the
00:51:17.180 --> 00:51:19.090
way you've always been?
00:51:19.090 --> 00:51:21.210
Or is it transformed by the
00:51:21.210 --> 00:51:24.070
renewing of your mind?
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.280
It's possible.
00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:30.230
God said it.
00:51:30.230 --> 00:51:32.180
If you can't do it, he wouldn't
00:51:32.180 --> 00:51:33.110
have said it.
00:51:33.110 --> 00:51:35.080
If it's impossible, he wouldn't
00:51:35.080 --> 00:51:36.040
have told you.
00:51:36.040 --> 00:51:38.120
So you can set your mind on
00:51:38.120 --> 00:51:41.100
things above.
00:51:41.100 --> 00:51:43.050
You can be transformed, not
00:51:43.050 --> 00:51:45.230
conformed.
00:51:46.060 --> 00:51:49.060
Every now and then, I look
00:51:49.060 --> 00:51:50.080
around at our church or at my
00:51:50.080 --> 00:51:52.190
children who are now all adults,
00:51:53.050 --> 00:51:56.050
at Wendy and I still together
00:51:56.050 --> 00:51:57.180
after 40 years, 38 years
00:51:57.180 --> 00:52:00.020
And I remember, the little kid
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:08.000
just out of jail sitting in a
00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:11.000
rehab center and Julius said to
00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:13.230
me, "Big Red, you can change."
00:52:16.240 --> 00:52:19.240
And now, I can say, "Julius,
00:52:20.210 --> 00:52:23.210
you were right.
00:52:23.210 --> 00:52:26.110
And you can change.
00:52:32.140 --> 00:52:34.130
Whatever the debt, whatever the
00:52:34.130 --> 00:52:35.200
hurt, whatever the abuse,
00:52:35.200 --> 00:52:37.180
whatever the failure, whatever
00:52:37.180 --> 00:52:39.040
the fear, whatever the worry,
00:52:39.040 --> 00:52:41.250
whatever the challenge might be,
00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:45.280
you can be transformed by the
00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:48.220
renewing of your mind and move
00:52:48.220 --> 00:52:51.160
into good and the acceptable and
00:52:52.160 --> 00:52:55.160
the perfect will of God.
00:52:56.040 --> 00:52:59.040
Father, I pray for our friends
00:52:59.040 --> 00:53:00.170
today.
00:53:00.170 --> 00:53:02.120
Let that new thought, let that
00:53:02.120 --> 00:53:04.060
new creation reality, let that
00:53:04.060 --> 00:53:06.060
word of truth, let the mind of
00:53:08.120 --> 00:53:11.120
Christ, penetrate every other
00:53:12.130 --> 00:53:15.130
thought.
00:53:15.130 --> 00:53:17.290
May we not leave here like we
00:53:17.290 --> 00:53:19.140
came, in Jesus' name, but may we
00:53:21.060 --> 00:53:24.060
enter into the good, the
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acceptable, and the perfect will
00:53:27.100 --> 00:53:30.100
of God.
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Love you, church.
00:53:31.250 --> 00:53:32.280
Your love so great
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Jesus in all things
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I've seen a glimpse
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of your heart
00:53:55.050 --> 00:53:57.100
A billion years
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still I'll be singing
00:54:01.020 --> 00:54:04.020
How can I
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- male: C'mon!
00:54:08.220 --> 00:54:10.020
How can I
00:54:10.020 --> 00:54:11.090
praise you enough?
00:54:12.240 --> 00:54:15.240
You are the Lord Almighty
00:54:17.070 --> 00:54:20.070
outshining all the stars
00:54:20.070 --> 00:54:22.040
in glory
00:54:22.090 --> 00:54:25.090
Your love is like
00:54:25.090 --> 00:54:26.110
the wildest ocean
00:54:27.020 --> 00:54:30.020
Oh, nothing else compares
00:54:35.060 --> 00:54:38.060
Creation calls all
00:54:38.060 --> 00:54:40.140
to the Savior
00:54:42.040 --> 00:54:45.040
We are alive
00:54:45.040 --> 00:54:46.090
for your praise
00:54:46.090 --> 00:54:48.100
In earth and sky
00:54:48.100 --> 00:54:50.180
no one is higher
00:54:51.010 --> 00:54:54.010
Our God of wonders
00:54:54.010 --> 00:54:56.200
you reign
00:54:57.110 --> 00:55:00.130
Our God of wonders
00:55:00.130 --> 00:55:01.240
you reign
00:55:03.180 --> 00:55:06.180
You are the Lord Almighty
00:55:08.080 --> 00:55:11.080
outshining all the stars
00:55:11.080 --> 00:55:13.080
in glory
00:55:13.110 --> 00:55:16.110
Your love is like
00:55:16.110 --> 00:55:17.150
the wildest ocean
00:55:18.040 --> 00:55:21.040
Oh, nothing else compares
00:55:23.220 --> 00:55:26.220
You are the Lord Almighty
00:55:28.180 --> 00:55:31.180
outshining all the stars
00:55:31.180 --> 00:55:33.290
in glory
00:55:33.290 --> 00:55:36.170
Your love is like
00:55:36.170 --> 00:55:38.020
the wildest ocean
00:55:38.190 --> 00:55:41.190
[music]
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Not to us but to your name
00:56:01.070 --> 00:56:04.070
we lift up all praise
00:56:05.240 --> 00:56:08.240
Not to us but to your name
00:56:10.180 --> 00:56:13.180
we lift up all praise
00:56:16.040 --> 00:56:19.040
Not to us but to your name
00:56:21.070 --> 00:56:24.070
we lift up all praise
00:56:26.110 --> 00:56:29.110
Not to us but to your name
00:56:31.130 --> 00:56:34.130
we lift up all praise
00:56:35.240 --> 00:56:38.240
You are the Lord Almighty
00:56:40.090 --> 00:56:43.090
outshining all the stars
00:56:43.090 --> 00:56:45.040
in glory
00:56:45.040 --> 00:56:48.000
Your love is like
00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:49.080
the wildest ocean
00:56:50.050 --> 00:56:53.050
Oh, nothing else compares
00:56:56.020 --> 00:56:59.020
You are the Lord Almighty
00:57:00.170 --> 00:57:03.170
outshining all the stars
00:57:03.170 --> 00:57:05.160
in glory
00:57:05.160 --> 00:57:08.130
Your love is like
00:57:08.130 --> 00:57:10.010
the wildest ocean
00:57:10.210 --> 00:57:13.210
Oh, nothing else compares
00:57:17.190 --> 00:57:20.190
Not to us but to your name
00:57:22.210 --> 00:57:25.210
- male: All praise!
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:31.270
Not to us
00:57:31.270 --> 00:57:33.020
but to your name
00:57:33.020 --> 00:57:35.250
- male: We're gonna lift it up.
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:43.000
Not to us
00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:43.220
but to your name
00:57:43.220 --> 00:57:46.080
we lift up all praise
00:57:48.020 --> 00:57:51.020
Not to us but to your name
00:57:53.080 --> 00:57:56.080
we lift up all praise
00:57:57.140 --> 00:58:00.160
You are the Lord Almighty
00:58:01.250 --> 00:58:04.250
outshining all the stars
00:58:04.250 --> 00:58:06.250
in glory
00:58:06.250 --> 00:58:09.220
Your love is like
00:58:09.220 --> 00:58:11.060
the wildest ocean
00:58:11.250 --> 00:58:14.250
Oh, nothing else compares
00:58:17.190 --> 00:58:20.190
You are the Lord Almighty
00:58:22.120 --> 00:58:25.120
outshining all the stars
00:58:25.120 --> 00:58:27.090
in glory
00:58:27.090 --> 00:58:30.060
Your love is like
00:58:30.060 --> 00:58:31.200
the wildest ocean
00:58:32.100 --> 00:58:35.100

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