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Original Schematics | The Kingdom Blueprint | Pastor Caleb Thomas
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Welcome to Free Life Chapel, where we
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help you discover and live the free life
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in Christ. My name is Bria, and I want
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website, freelifeetravel.org,
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to learn more about who we are, what we
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do, and how you can be a part. Now,
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let's get into what you've been waiting
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for. Check out this message.
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>> How many of you, you know how to read
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blueprints?
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How many of you are like me and when you
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see blueprints, it just looks like a
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really cool coloring sheet?
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That's how it is for me. This This just
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looks like a grown man's coloring book.
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That's all. This is the blueprints, some
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of them, for this property that you're
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on right now for Free Life Chapel. is
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right here. THAT BEFORE YOU EVER got the
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chance to sit here, before we ever had
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an opportunity to worship, before there
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was ever a message that was preached,
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before there was ever an aroma cafe
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drink that was purchased, before there
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was ever a handshake that was given,
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there were lines that were put on a page
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in order to talk about how do we
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maintain
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a structural integrity
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to where no matter what happens in life,
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this building will be able to stand.
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These lines that were on the page, they
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they determined where weight would be
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carried, where where pressure would be
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absorbed and what would hold it whenever
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the storms of life would hit.
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>> Now, here's the thing about some
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blueprints. It It could be cool to have
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them,
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but it's not really smart to not use
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them. Imagine if imagine if the people
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who built this building, they did
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whatever they felt like doing. Even
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though they had the blueprints right
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next to them the whole time,
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we probably wouldn't be standing here. I
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I I don't know how much it would be
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standing. I I'd be scared uh to to be in
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this building. I'm glad it's the house
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of the Lord, but I need you to go buy
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some schematics. Let's go by some
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blueprint. Like, don't don't play with
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my life.
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>> Do that as you want to. Not not my life.
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structure,
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these lines,
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these blueprints. It did not limit this
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building. It actually made it possible.
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And there's times in our life, times in
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my life where I have viewed structure or
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I have viewed the ways of God as being
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things that limit me when they actually
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provide me the opportunity to live life
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to the fullest, to live life the way
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that God designed to do it, his
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blueprints. Because here's the reality.
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These lines did not draw themselves.
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>> It took a designer. It took an
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architect. It took somebody who wasn't
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thinking of what was in front of them,
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but had a bigger picture, a bigger
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perspective as to what was going on.
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That's who made this. And that's the
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same thing that happens in your life, in
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my life. See, the average person when we
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walk when I walk into a room or I walk
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into a building, I'm looking at your
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paint color.
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>> I want to see how dirty are them
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baseboards.
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Are they as dirty as mine? I want
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Hey, look. I'm only half Puerto Rican.
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We only wipe down half of the
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baseboards.
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Get that later.
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I look at I look at the lighting
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fixtures. I I look at the things that
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are seen.
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But an architect doesn't just look at
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what people will see. They look at the
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integrity. They look at what we would
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call the heart of a human. But they look
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at the internal structure. Can this
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support the beauty that it's going to
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get wrapped in? Because what good is a
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building if it's beautiful, but if it
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can't stand?
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>> What good is it to be wrapped and look
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lavish, but it can't withhold the weight
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and the challenges of life? And so, the
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designer, the architect, his goal isn't
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for it to just look pretty, although
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they make that happen. And his goal is
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to make sure that it lives better than
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how it even looks. This is why the Bible
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says this in Proverbs 3:es 5-6. I'd love
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for you to read the highlighted parts
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with me. Says this, "With all of your
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heart, you must trust the Lord and not
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your own judgment. Always let him lead
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you and he will clear the road for you
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to follow."
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If we needed a designer to build this
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building, then you better believe you
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and I need a designer for us to build
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our life.
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>> This life is above my pay grade for me
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to just do whatever it is that I feel.
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This life has too much impact. There's
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too much collateral damage that can
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happen if all I did was what I thought
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was right. If I lived my life based off
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of my feelings, my emotions, or my
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understanding, no matter how good or
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wise you are, you're not going to be
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able to carry that weight. It's above
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us. And so, I don't want to build my
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life based off of what I can figure out.
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I want to trust the one who sees the
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whole structure cuz the designer sees
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what you and I cannot see. So, don't
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limit. I don't want to limit my life to
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my understanding. I want to maximize my
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life to the person who sees and knows
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everything, who has never once been
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surprised. That's who I want to take in
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to my life. There's a there's a verse
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that I want us to focus on that, man, if
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I'm going to be honest, I've been
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wrestling this with this verse for a
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couple years because I did not like it
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because it punches me between the eyes.
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And so, I didn't haven't really even
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known how to really express this verse.
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And so all I can do is express what I
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feel like Holy Spirit has been speaking
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and talking to me. Paul says this in 1
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Corinthians 6:12.
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All things are lawful for me, but not
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all things are helpful.
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>> All things are lawful for me, but I will
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not be dominated by anything.
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Paul, he's writing this letter to the
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church of Corenth. And and as he's
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writing to them, they they they were
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they were pagans before this. They they
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they believed in a lot of different
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gods. Uh they they lived life to please
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themselves. So whatever felt good,
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that's exactly what they would do. Uh
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sounds like my life without Jesus. I'm
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just going to do whatever I think I feel
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cuz why not? It's a selfish. It's
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whatever is self-gratifying. So Paul's
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writing this message to them and a lot
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of scholars will say whenever he's using
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the phrase of all things are lawful for
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me. That was something that the
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Corinthians used to say that the church
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in Corinth used to say the people of
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that time that all things are lawful for
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me. And here's what they were doing.
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They were misusing God's idea of grace.
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That because I am under the grace of God
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all things are lawful for me. Because
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where sin abounds, grace does that much
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more abound. Right? And so they were
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using it as an excuse not to live to his
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standards, but to proclaim his blessings
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over their life without the standards of
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God's word inside of their life. So then
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Paul, he begins to reframe their
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mindset. He says this, uh, if it masters
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you, it's not freedom.
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If it dominate, if you can't have it and
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not operate, then it's not freedom. I
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just got challenged by this a couple
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weeks ago. I was looking on social media
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or a couple days ago and I saw this this
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pastor that was speaking and he was
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talking about, man, we we talk about
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things that dominate our life and like
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the things that like no, I don't want
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anybody to know of. I got convicted of
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how many times have I said don't talk to
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me before I have a cup of coffee.
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It's funny how we allow even allow even
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the smallest things to dominate me. So
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now my coffee determines if I'm able to
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give people the honor that the word of
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God says for me to give. So now my mood
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determines the lens that I'm looking
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through social media. So I no longer
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know how to be loving to people because
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of something that has happened. No, Paul
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Paul was saying this love grace. Embrace
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the grace. Embrace the grace. It is
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something that you and I need every day
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of our life. But don't abuse and don't
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attempt to manipulate it because if it
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masters you, it's not freedom. And then
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Paul goes on to say this that you and I
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were bought by a price. WHICH MEANS THAT
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YOU AND I, we don't belong to impulse
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anymore. We we don't belong to the first
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thing that comes to my mind is exactly
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what I have to say. I just couldn't hold
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it back. I just had to. No, I didn't.
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Because if I just had to, that means
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that it owned me. Now I'm a slave to
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what? My thoughts, to my actions, to my
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mouth. I have to check me. AND THAT'S
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WHY I DIDN'T LIKE THIS VERSE.
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>> We all love everybody else being held
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accountable.
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>> I don't like being held accountable.
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>> It doesn't feel good. IT DOESN'T SOUND
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GOOD, but it lives good. And God is more
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important with how we live than how we
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just sound when it comes to life. And so
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here here's what Paul was saying. You
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don't belong to impulse anymore. You
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don't belong to culture anymore. You
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belong to Christ. Which means this. Not
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everything that is available is
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beneficial.
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>> Not everything that's available to me is
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beneficial to me. One of the I've said
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this, one of one of the hardest
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decisions that I find myself having to
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make right now as a dad, y'all. I got a
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four-year-old and a two and a
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halfyear-old. They did not I don't have
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a license for those kids.
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>> Didn't nobody teach me what I I learned
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that I got taught some things, but there
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was no cl parenting class that I took.
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The hospital just gave me them kids and
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said, "Good luck."
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Like, y'all know how crazy I am. And
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they mama real crazy. like you just
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going to give it to us?
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I find that the hardest decisions that I
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make in life are not just between right
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and wrong. It's between better and best.
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>> It's hard that not everything that's
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available for me is actually beneficial
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to me. I remember a conversation I had
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with Pastor Scott talking about the
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structure of this building. I said, "Yo,
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P, we it was while we were going through
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painting and looking at redoing a couple
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things." I was like, "Hey, daddy, what
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what you think about like if we knock
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down this one area?" Like, I get it.
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It's there, but like if we could do
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that, then it would open it up and then
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we could do this and this. You know,
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brains going 1 th000 miles an hour.
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Puerto Rican side came out. So, I'm
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talking and he says, "Son, that is a
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structural wall. It is a loadbearing
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wall. We can't take it out.
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You can, but we ain't having church in
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here that following Sunday. something is
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going to crumble. I find that there's so
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many things that I misval when it comes
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to scripture that I think is an extra or
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an additive when God said this is
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loadbearing. This can handle the entire
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weight of your life. And if you stand on
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it and you allow it to be the foundation
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of your life, you're going to be good.
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But the moment, Caleb, that you try to
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alter it,
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>> better be careful what pressure you're
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poking at. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FRACTURE
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you're going into, you don't know when
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it's going to collapse. You don't know
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how it's going to collapse because the
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damage happens inside, not always on the
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outside.
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>> And then you're left picking up the
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pieces,
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cre removing walls that God has placed
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up. It doesn't create freedom. It
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creates turmoil. It creates collapse.
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And that's what happens when we make
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decisions based off of only what we see
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or what we know. Because God makes
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decisions based off of what he sees.
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Proverbs 14:12, the Bible says it this
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way. What you think is the right road
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may lead to death.
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What you think it can feel right and
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still destabilize me.
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You can have the opinion wrapped around
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facts but doesn't make it truth.
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>> There's a difference. There's a
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difference. And so how am I deciding to
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live my life? I can we can follow every
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single desire and impulse we have. We
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can remove every boundary. We we can
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live without restraint. We could chase
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everything that culture celebrates and
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have that be the focal point of our
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life. We can redefine what truth is. But
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can does not mean should.
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>> Can does not mean should. There has to
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be something that holds me and not
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everything that's available to me is
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beneficial to me. We see this with Adam
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and Eve. From the very beginning, we've
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had a problem with our free will. We've
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had a problem of too many choices. You
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know, like when you go to the ice cream
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shop
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>> and they say, "What flavor you want?"
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And you just looking and like,
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"Row three is what I want. Row three."
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So many options we can get paralyzed and
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I I don't know which one to choose.
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Sometimes I allow there to be options in
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my life that should not be there.
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Shouldn't even be an option. And it's a
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non-negotiable. What do you mean? I mean
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where God has an opinion, mine is
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irrelevant. And so whether I understand
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it or not, it really doesn't make a
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difference. As long as I do things his
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way, I'm able to get his results. Adam
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and Eve, they see this. God puts them
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into this gu garden. Full freedom,
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full protection of all vulnerability.
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The Bible talks about how they were
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naked, not just in what they were
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wearing, but they had nothing to hide.
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Full openness and oneness with God.
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nothing missing, nothing broken,
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absolutely beautiful. And then the enemy
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comes in and he he tempts them with
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autonomy. He tempts them with free will.
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He tempts them with, "I know this is
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what he said, but have you thought?
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>> Have you thought of it this way? Did he
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really mean it this way?" And he wasn't
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trying to get them to say that God was
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wrong. He was just trying to get them to
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ask the question, is there potentially
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another way that I could do it to where
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it would benefit me more? And so the
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issue was never the fruit that they ate.
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The issue was that they were trusting in
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their understanding rather than God's
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design. Because freedom outside of God's
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design brings bondage to your life and
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to my life. And but here's the good
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news. protection lives inside of the
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lines of God's design. Again, these
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lines, they they they carry weight.
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Again, I don't I'm not smart enough to
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read blueprints.
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Y'all who do teach me later? It's a new
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free life group. How to read a
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blueprint.
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The these don't mean much. Some of these
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lines are solid. Some are dashed. I
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don't know. Some of them look like my
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son drew them. I don't know that. Some
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of them look like there was a race with
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a mechanical pencil. You remember that
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mechanical pencil? Some of them look
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like that. I I I DON'T I DON'T KNOW
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EVERYTHING THAT'S ON THESE LINES. BUT
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here's what I do know. That the designer
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whenever he created this, he wasn't just
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looking at what it would look like. He
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was trying to feel what would it feel
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like? What would the weights right here
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feel like? What what would the weight h
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how would it FEEL WHEN WE'RE BUILDING
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OUT THIS BALCONY? CAN THE WALL that
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they're sitting on, can the support
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beams that they're sitting, can it
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handle the weight of the people that are
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there, these lines, they carry weight.
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And when we remove them, damage begins
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to happen. Structural damage happens
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behind the walls. Deuteronomy chapter 5
Deuteronomy 5 chapter mention
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starts talking about this exact thing in
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Deuteronomy 5, the beginning of the
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Bible. Hey, I my daddy has taught me
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this. Old school is still teaching
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school. So just cuz it's the Old
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Testament don't mean there ain't no new
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revelation you and I can gain from it.
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Deuteronomy 5:32-33
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scripture says this. So be very careful
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to do what? Act exactly as God commands
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you. Don't veer off to the right or to
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the left. Walk straight down the road
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God commands so that you'll have a good
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life and live a long time in the land
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that you're about to possess. Protection
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lives inside of the lines of God's
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design. We see this in the story of see
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this in the story of Samson.
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Samson, Pastor Scott has said it this
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way and I love it. He's a he man with a
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she weakness.
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Samson
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this cat who world's strongest man, best
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IFBB power uh bodybuilder, powerlifter.
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I hold auto record like Buddy was
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yolked.
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But he was walking around in a tank top
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24/7, 30 degrees outside, but he's like,
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"I know what God gave me."
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>> I mean, that Bible don't say that.
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That's just my imagination.
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Samson over the top strength that came
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from God. And God was using him in the
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book of Judges in order to show how
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amazing God is. But Samson, he began to
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do this. He began to compromise
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his convictions.
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He he began to s to to what culture will
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call right now deconstruct
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how much of this structure that God has
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put do I need to actually have in my
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life versus how much should I have in my
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life? The difference between what do I
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have to do and what do I need to do just
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to get by. Like you remember in school
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you asking that teacher what do I need
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to do to get a 88 on this test? I don't
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want to do all the studying for a 100. I
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only need a 88 to pass. So, WHAT DO I
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NEED? WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO NOT
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WHERE'S the line for me to not get
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fired? Like, how how many times can I be
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late?
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How many emails can I get reprimanded
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for? Like, WHAT WHERE IS THE LINE?
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Samson saw himself doing this
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and honestly gets very sad for Samson. I
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saw a verse that I had never I had never
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identified before. His his collapse
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didn't happen overnight. It happened
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gradually due to his compromise. And the
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Bible actually says in Judges chapter 16
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verse 20 that when he got woken up
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saying that the enemy is here for you,
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he said, "I'm going to go outside and
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I'm going to handle it the way that I
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had done before whenever I was doing
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things based on God's blueprint." But
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Judges 16:20, the Bible actually said
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this. He did not know that the Lord had
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left him.
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He didn't even realize
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how far gone he was. He didn't even
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realize how much he was pulling away at
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God's design to where the structure that
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used to protect you. The structure that
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used to hold you is now not even there
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anymore. Now, let me make this very
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clear. Let me make this very clear.
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There was nothing wrong WITH GOD. GOD
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DID not leave. Samson stepped outside of
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God's design. GOD SAYS, "I WANT TO BLESS
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YOU. I want to set you up. I want to do
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some things in your life." But it
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happens inside of this place. The
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blessing comes from proximity, from
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being close to God. I can't claim his
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blessings, but be on the whole other
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side of town away from his covering.
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That's what Samson did. compromises led
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him away from God's way of doing things
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which then left him feeling like he was
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there by himself. When you step outside
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of God's design, you step outside of his
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covering because protection lives inside
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the lines because the designer sees what
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you and I don't see can't see.
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>> Anybody like puzzles?
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>> Like puzzles. My son is into puzzles.
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It's the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Come
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inside. It's fun inside.
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It's where we're at. Jesus and Mickey is
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where we're at.
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My son really enjoys puzzles. And
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honestly, it doesn't even matter what
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kind. Talia got a puzzle yesterday for
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Valentine's Day. A princess puzzle.
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Malachi did it. Mal Malachi wanted to do
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the puzzle. Um my son, he he enjoys
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puzzles. We enjoy doing them with him.
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But there's something he only gets like
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the 24 puzzle piece puzzles. Like that's
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a lot.
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That's a lot. And it takes us some time.
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But the colors are really bright. The
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the the shapes are really really big. So
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it makes it a lot easier in order to to
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to put them together. Uh the problem is
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I act as if my life is only 24 puzzle
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pieces and it's not.
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We have thousands
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of pieces
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inside of our life. Timing, calling,
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relationships, consequences,
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generational things, a generational
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impact that has happened. And when my
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son and I are putting together the
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puzzle pieces, because it's only 24
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pieces, I don't have to know what it's
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supposed to look like for me to be able
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to figure it out.
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>> We can figure it out.
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But you know that the bigger the puzzle
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p the bigger the puzzle, the more pieces
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that you add, you better have a
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reference point. Otherwise, you'll think
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that what goes in the bottom left corner
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goes all the way up or bottom left
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corner goes all the way up on the top
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right. We can get so discombobulated. So
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we have to have a visual reference for
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what our life is supposed to look like
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because our life is a puzzle which means
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this. You don't work anywhere. You work
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somewhere.
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>> Yeah. You and I, when we were birthed
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into this earth, there was a puzzle
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piece that got pulled out of our heart
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that the only one who fits inside of
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that piece is the one who hung on the
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cross for you and I. But you could we
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could try to fill it with thing after
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thing and person and bottle and social
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media and success and another business
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and another boat and another house and
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another vacation and then still be
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frustrated because they were never meant
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to fill the void of our life.
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>> We have we have to understand the
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severity, the impact and the the the the
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how large our life actually is. give it
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the the respect that it deserves and
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understand it's above my pay grade for
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me to try to assemble all on my own. I
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need the master designer to give me the
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blueprints for my life to let me know
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where things are supposed to be. This is
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what Jeremiah was talking about.
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Heard my whole life Jeremiah 29:11
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quoted. But Jeremiah
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the prophet in the Old Testament as he's
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writing, he wasn't talking to people who
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just won the Super Bowl.
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>> HE HE HE WASN'T TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT
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WERE ON A MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCE. He was
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talking to people who were in exile.
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Talking to people who were in bondage.
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Talking to people who felt like it was
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all over. Talking to people who were
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ready to just throw in the towel because
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it what happened? The people of Israel,
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they stopped doing things God's way.
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They went away from his blueprint, his
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design of doing things. They came into
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captivity. And while they're there,
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they're frustrated. And you have false
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prophets that are saying one thing. Then
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you have people that are left with
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disappointment, unmet expectations,
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saying, "God doesn't work anymore. We're
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in a different place. So then God must
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not work. God only worked for my
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grandma, grandmama and them. He don't
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work for me." You have all these people
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that are battling this idea. They're
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dealing with the consequences of their
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decisions of lack of obedience. And then
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Jeremiah steps up and he says, "For I
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know the plans I have for you."
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>> Says who?
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>> Not the king.
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>> Not the person in charge. Not the oldest
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guy and not the youngest guy. Not the
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one that had the most money. Says, "I
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know the plans that I have for you,"
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says the Lord. They are plans for good
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and not for disaster. to give you a
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future and a hope. They thought that
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their structure had collapsed and God
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said, "I still see the finished design."
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Jeremiah 29:11. It's not a promise of
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ease that you and I are going to have in
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life to get to our future. It's a
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promise of God's sovereignty that even
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when you and I don't understand the
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season of life that we're in, the
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designer still sees the plan. He still
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knows the blueprints. And although I
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have stepped away, the design is still
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perfect. He calls us back into
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alignment. And if you'll get back in
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alignment, you'll see that the plans
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that I have for you are to set you up in
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a way that you can't do if you were to
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try to go away from my blueprint, away
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from my way of doing things and try to
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do them on your own.
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We deal with this aspect of the choices
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that we make due to sin.
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When sin entered into the world, uh,
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humanity stepped outside of the design
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of God. When sin entered in, it it it
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made us question, uh, God's way or my
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way. God's thoughts, my thoughts, God's
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way of doing things versus my way of
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doing things. And God's design has
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always been perfect. Please don't get it
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twisted. When sin entered in, God didn't
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say, "Whoops, didn't plan for that.
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didn't know how to handle that. He
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wasn't caught off guard. God's design
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was always perfect, but our alignment to
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his design is what stepped outside. But
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Romans 5:8 says, "But God showed his
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great love for us by sending Christ to
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die for us while we were still sinners."
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Jesus,
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this guy that we talk about with grace
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and with mercy and forgiveness,
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he didn't come to create a new design.
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>> That was not his MMO. He came to restore
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the original one.
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>> This is right. Scripture calls Jesus
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Christ the cornerstone.
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that when when you get the cornerstone
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placed just right, everything else is
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able to be built off it. When he is in
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his rightful place, when the cornerstone
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is secured, everything else can realign.
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The design was never wrong.
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We just happened, I happen to step
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outside of God's design.
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Jesus came into this world and comes
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into our life to get us back under God's
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original plan and design for our life.
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So, back to the original verse, staple
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verse for this message,
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1 Corinthians 6:12,
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all things are lawful for me, but not
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all things are helpful. Do they push me
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towards Christ? Do they push me away
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from Christ? If it's helpful to me, then
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it builds this relationship. Anything
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that goes against or pulls me away from
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building this relationship is not
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helpful. All things are lawful for me,
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but I will not be dominated by anything.
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What is the first thing that I go to
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before I go to Jesus? That's what owns
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me. And how do I put him back in his
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rightful place as being the master
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designer, the master architect, the
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master engineer for my life? So, I'll
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just ask you, what's been dominating you
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in life?
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Where have you trusted your
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understanding over God's sovereignty?
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What what boundary have you erased? What
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have you tried to pull and deconstruct
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away from God's model
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that really we're we're living in the
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consequences
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not of what God said but of my
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misalignment
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to him. Everybody will stand to your
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feet.
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Some of you, you might be in the room
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and you might be feeling like you're in
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exile like Israel was when Jeremiah was
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talking to them.
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You might be feeling like, man, I at one
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point I was there and I was good. I've
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kind of stepped away from God's design
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and now I feel like I'm a slave to
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people's opinions. I feel like I'm a
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slave to what's said on social media. I
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feel like I'm a slave to my own mind. I
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feel like I'm a slave to the
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consequences of my decisions that I've
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been making. I don't know what it is,
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but I know that God is always calling me
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back to realignment,
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saying, "Caleb, if you just align with
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me, I know you've done it your way and
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accidentally got it right, but your life
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is too valuable to live it by chance."
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God said, "I don't want you to play the
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odds because I value you more than that.
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I've given you a structure. I've given
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you a blueprint. I've given you a way to
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do things that blesses not just you, but
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everybody who comes in contact with you.
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That this thing of generational curses.
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What about a generational setup? What
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about a generational blessing? What
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about a generational INCREASE? WHAT
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ABOUT SOMETHING THAT BECAUSE OF YOU,
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THINGS BEGIN TO CHANGE. BUT WATCH THIS.
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You can't do it without doing it his
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way.
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>> That's right. That's right.
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>> I get in his way. He's saying, "Caleb,
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just come back into alignment with me,
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son. Remember that I am the designer.
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I'm the one that sees the future."
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Caleb, just because you because you can
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doesn't mean that you should. What
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should I do? Whatever honors and
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glorifies God. What word should I say?
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Whatever honors and glorifies God. Where
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should I go? Wherever honors and
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GLORIFIES GOD. WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH my
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life? Whatever honors and glorifies God.
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Should I date this person? Would it
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honor and glorify God? Should I post
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this? Does it honor and glorify God?
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That becomes the framework for how
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everything else happens. Cuz I can
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doesn't mean I should. Protection lives
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inside of the lines of God's boundaries.
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They're not there to limit us. They're
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there to protect us. THEY'RE NOT THERE
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TO KEEP us to keep us from having fun.
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They're there to keep things from coming
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in to steal, kill, and destroy our life.
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There's protection inside of his lines.
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The designer sees what you and I don't.
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And God's design for your life is not
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restricting you. It's protecting you.
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Because here's the reality. Freedom
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starts
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where surrender starts.
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>> You want to feel freedom like you've
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never known. Bible says that where the
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freedom of the or where the spirit of
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the Lord is, there is freedom, that
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means that I get into submission of his
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word. And the moment I start submitting
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to doing things God's way, I'm able to
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experience this
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inside of life. Not because life is
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easy, not because you're not going to go
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through things, but because I don't feel
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the pressure of having to build
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something that I know I can't keep up.
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I'm deciding to do it based off of the
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master designer's plans. Let's pray.
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Father God, we love you. We thank you
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that you loved us enough to not make us
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figure out this way of life on our own.
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To not make us figure out what puts a
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smile on your face. How can we honor you
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with our lifestyle? Now, no matter what
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my occupation is, no matter if I'm
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single or if I'm married, no matter if
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I'm a male, if I'm a female, no matter
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what state, what city I live in, you've
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made it very clear to us what your
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blueprints are for our life. God, would
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you help me? Would you help all of us
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come back into alignment with you, doing
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things your way, understanding that you
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don't restrict us, you protect us like a
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parent protects a child. You have a
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divine yes and you have a divine no. So
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God, would you help us to trust your
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heart that you're not a God that is
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doing things because you're mad at us.
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You're a God that does things out of the
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abundance of your love in order to
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protect us in life. And so God, would
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you help us obey you faster, lean into
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you more even before we understand it
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fully? Would we say yes? Would we obey?
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And then grow into our understanding as
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we grow inside of our relationship with
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you. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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>> We really hope this message encouraged
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you. For more encouraging messages, feel
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