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Watch What You Say | Jason Martin
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You're listening to a message to go from axt church. We hope this message
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will light up your day today. Actually, I was doing a series in
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Klang on purpose. You know, all of us want to know what's our
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purpose. If you go into a bookshop, one of the biggest genre of
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books is self help books. Right, everyone wants self help books. Everyone
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wants to know what's my purpose? Why am I here on earth for?
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And stuff like that. So today's sermon, right, it will be one
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part of that purpose series. Okay, So let me just bring up my
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first slide. Right, So you have a plan, okay, and you
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have your reality. I think if you are on Facebook and stuff like,
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I would have seen this meme. How many of y'all? Right, your
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plan looks like the above. Right, all of us have a very very
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good plan. We write it in our planner. You know it looks awesome
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first, uh, most of us? Okay, you you probably think you
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you're born, you go to school, you go to college, you graduate,
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you get a good job, you marry your wife, hot wife,
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and then you get kids, and then you uh do well, and then
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after that you retire and you live happily away after and then go back to
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heaven. You know, that's your plan or that's or some of us we
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had a plan today. You know, when you wake up in the morning,
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you have a plan. If you don't have a plan, the plan,
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the day become the day dictates your plan for you. And you know
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that most of the time, uh, it does not go according to plan.
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Right, how many of y'all your plan has always gone according to plan?
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None? Okay, then I am in good hands because my plans also
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have never gone according to plan. So I'm right wondering. So I actually,
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why do we plan if our plans are not going according to plan?
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Why do we need to plan? Right? But in actual fact, our
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days are numbered? Right? We have to be good stewards of what God
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has given to us, be it time, be it talent, be money,
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whatever it is. We have to be good Stuwards. And to be
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good Stuwards, you have to plan right. Imagine right, you go,
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how many of y'all are have done a bit of investing before? You've done
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a bit of investing before? Okay, it might be property, or you
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may have put it in stash away, or you put it into crypto,
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whatever it is, right, So when you put it there, right,
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you are expecting. You have a plan for your money. You have a
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plan for your money. And look here Philip is laughing. Love. People
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have a plan for the money. Wake up. One day right, the
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market crash, you know, crypto crypto especially have a plan. It's going
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to the moon. It's going to the moon. One hundred USD one hundred
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is going to hit. Right, you have a plan for that. And
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one day, right you wake up, palm, it is fifty percent.
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Then like, okay, don't worry, it'll be okay. Next day you
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wake up, it's twenty five percent the value. And then after that now
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it's like, oh man, I don't know what happened to my money.
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I had a plan, but the plan failed, right, and the same
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goes in line with our purpose. Okay, we have a plan for our
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life and we know that God has a plan for our life. Right,
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it is a good plan. God does not make mistakes. He has made
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us acclauding to his plans and purposes. So every talent, every gifting that
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you have where you are right now, even sitting here listening to this,
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God has a plan for that, right, and it is in line with
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his overarching plan for your life. Okay, So what happens when things don't
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go according to plant? You know? So you have your dips. You
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know, you have your dips. You dip and then you come out of
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it. So you have a lot of peaks and valleys, right, you
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have a lot of pigs and valleys. And how many of us have come
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out of peaks, come out of pits, come out of valleys? Loud,
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I'm confusing myself using too many How many of us have come out of
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valleys before? Right, So pat yourself on the back. You have come
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out of valleys before. You will come out of valleys in the future,
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Right, you will, because none of us I can safely say, right,
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everyone has come out of a value before. It means you are an
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overcomer. You are an overcomer. And when you come out of your valley
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and you go up to a peak, right, you are progressing. Right.
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When when you are progressing you come you will face different challenges? Right,
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So they say, right, the higher, the higher the level,
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the bigger the devil. You know, you play a game, right,
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you play a game, each boss becomes harder. Nobody if my kids,
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I give you a gamer, it's too easier. They're like, this is
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boring. You know this, say it's boring, but how come right,
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we do not have that sign that kind of approach to life. When a
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new challenge comes, we say, wow, bring it on, God,
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you have brought it. You have brought me before through the valley of the
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shadow of that I will fear no evil. So I am sure this current
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value that I'm going through you will bring me through again. Right, So
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we know that in games, we know that in different scenarios, how many
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of us right we finish our I'm trying to think of the exam. There's
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no more ups R there ups or PMR or SBM. That's how old I
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am. Okay, okay. We we went through those challenges and then we
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went up a level. If my kid came to me and say, hey,
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stand, no one is stuff, I think I'll stay here for life,
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It's not gonna happen. Right, you have to progress. Okay.
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So today the angle that I'm coming from, right is when you are in
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the valley, When you are in the valley and you are at your lowest,
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right, how do you feel? How do you feel? Because how
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you feel dictates what you speak. Right, and usually in the valley,
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right, what do you speak? What are the words that come out of
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your mouth? Should I? I don't know how? Where is God?
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I have no idea? Why is this happening to me? And all this
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alleged? You know, all this alleged. So the title of today's sermon
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is next suspense. Suspense is killing me? Okay, I give you all
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the title. I mean a valley right now, coming out to the Okay.
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So the title is watch what you say, Watch what you say much?
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I'm real, calm down right, timing, all right, So watch
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what you say? And why do we have to do this? Right?
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Can you imagine actually just driving here right just now? I was pondering on
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the title. Right, most of us do not watch what we say.
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And I mean that literally, you know, right, because if if you
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type out everything that you're going to say, you're actually seeing what you're saying.
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And then when you see what you say the backspace. I think I
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shouldn't say that, But this is what we need to do. We need
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to watch what we say, especially in the valley, especially in the pit,
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because that is where we are at our lowest. All right. So
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the scripture for today, next verse, next line, So James one,
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my dear brothers and sisters, take note of this. Everyone should be quick
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to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry, because human
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anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of
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all moral filth and and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept
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the word planted in you which can save you. Okay, So this is
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the worse, So turn to your neighbor, or you can just say it
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out loud. Quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
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Again, quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger. Okay,
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So this is what James said, right, And you know James right,
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you have to take him seriously. You know why not? He is
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the brother of Jesus. James is the brother of Jesus. So all right,
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when doing a bit of research, you know that you don't hear much
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about James until after jesus Resurrection. You hear him more in the Book of
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Acts onwards. And then I was, I mean, one one of the
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persons that was listening to right, He was saying that it probably could be
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the reason. Why is that? What would you do if your brother comes
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to tell comes and tells you that I am the Lord, your God?
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What what would how would James respond? James like, yeah, right,
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then give him a knock or something, you know. So maybe James didn't
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take him seriously at first, probably, But when your brother dies and resurrects
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and performs miracle after miracle he resurrected the dead, James had no choice but
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to believe that his brother Jesus is the Messiah. So you know, there
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is a lot of weight in what James has to say because he is fully
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convinced that Jesus Christ is Lord. And if you read a book of James
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right, it is actually a short book. It's about you can probably read
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it within half an hour, but it is straight shooting. It's a very
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straight shooting book. So when you see here, he says, quick to
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listen, slow to speak, slow to anger. So this is the approach
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that we need to take during our value period. All right, So the
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first point, there are three points today, So what do we need to
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do? The first thing? Quick to listen? So how are we supposed
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to be quick to listen? Have you thought about it? Quick to listen
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listening comes automatically. You cannot turn off your year and you cannot turn it
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off. So what doesn't mean by quick to listen? Right? So you
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may be hearing, but are you listening? You may be hearing, but
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are you listening? Because a lot of times when we hear, we listen
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to respond because somebody says something, I'm like, I'm listening so that I
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can come in and have my say as well. Okay, next light,
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So I highlighted it here. Everyone should be quick to listen. So who
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should be quick to listen? Everyone? So can you imagine if everyone is
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quick to listen, who is quick to speak? No one? And if
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no one is quick to speak, can you imagine how many arguments could have
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been solved if everyone is quick to listen. So most of the times when
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we are in the valley, right, it is one of the major reasons
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is because of our conflicts with others. This is not it's not the whole
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reason, but one of the main reasons. No man is an island,
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right, and we have mismatch of expectations. My plan was this, but
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your plan was different, and then because of that I had to take two
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steps back, right, So, and conflicts happen, and that's what causes
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us our plans to go awary. So when everyone is quick to listen,
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slow to speak, slow to become anger angry, this is one of the
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key tools for us to get out of the valley victoriously and to move forward.
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Okay, let's go to the next line. So what is Proverbs eighteen
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say, the heart of the discerning acquires knowledge. The years of the wise
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seek it out. I read it out again, right, the heart of
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the discerning acquires knowledge. The years of the wise seek it out. So
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you can see right, the years of the wise seek it out. If
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something is not going according to plan, Oh, God, you said this,
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why is this happening? Most of the time, right, we will
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be asking God first, why why? Why? Why? Why? Why
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why? Instead of if we take a step back and then we say we
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are quick to listen and say, God, what are you trying to teach
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me here? Why? What am I going to learn through this? You
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have brought me from a previous valley? Why do we have testimonyes? Testimonies
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were testings which God came true for us, which results in testimonies. He
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has done it before, he will do it again. So when we are
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when we continue the mature, we are quick to listen, God will reveal
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his plans and purposes to us. Okay, next uh, next line.
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All right, So everything that everyone does, says, or believes makes perfect
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sense to them. Is this true? You see it? Right? Like
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right now? The whole thing that's happening in the Middle East. You ask
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anyone, everyone has a point of you and everyone everyone's point of view is
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right to them. And that's why they respond or react or say or type
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what they do because everything that everyone does, says and believes makes perfect sense
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to them. So this is something that we have to understand. They are
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not purposely going against me. There is something that they believe. There is
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something that they why they are doing this is because of their belief, because
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of their experience, what they went through. So then leads us to the
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next question. Okay, next life, and you get very annoyed. You
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get very annoyed, and you will tell I don't know why this person did
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this. I have no idea why this person says this. I have no
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idea. How can they believe this? It doesn't make sense. Okay,
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have you used this phrase before? I have? Right, But in this
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phrase, right, who needs the education? Who needs the education? Because
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he says here, I don't know. I don't know, so what do
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I need to do? I need to find out. Just because I don't
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know doesn't mean they are wrong. Just because I don't know it doesn't make
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sense to me, doesn't mean that I'm always in the right. So if
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someone has a different point of view and conflict, be quick to listen.
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Only when we are quick to listen, we are understanding the person's point of
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view. Because if you are quick to speak what happens nothing, you will
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stay your conflict. So why do wars happen? Wars start from words?
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You know, every war starts from words. Where two people have different point
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of view and they keep on there is disagreement, it escalates and it becomes
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a war. There's continuous escalation until it becomes a war. So when you
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catch yourself and when you are in a valley right and you are facing challenges
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with people and people don't see your way or you can't see their way,
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and you find yourself asking this question, I don't understand. I have no
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idea why they're acting like this. This is when, as James says,
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we have to be quick to listen. All right, So how many of
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y'all. You know this famous book, the Seven Habits for Highly Effective People,
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right next light. So one of the habits seek first to understand,
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then to be understood. Understand people first. Only when you understand, then
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you can sort of know where they're coming from, and then you can talk
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to them in such a way that, okay, this is why I think
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this way, and then you can come to a sort of resolution. So
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do you know this? Have you all played with this? Team? Can
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with the string? Okay, so how do you use it? One person
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will put it at the year, one person will speak. What happens if
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both speak? No one is listening, nothing happens. There's this misunderstanding,
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there's miscommunication. No one goes anywhere, there is no progress. So if
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we want people to understand us, we first understand take the effort to understand
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them. Right, got that? So first point again is what quick too
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listen? Okay? So now my second point, So the second point is
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what do we need to stop? We need to stop being quick to speak
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and quick to anger. Right, have you been triggered before? Have you
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been triggered before? Very easy? If you haven't been triggered before, it's
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amazing, it's amazing in this time and age. Right, anything can trigger
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you. You go on Facebook can be triggered. I tell your most interesting
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thing, right is not to read the Facebook post. You know, you
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read the comments. Comments are more interesting. You know. Some one person
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posts something this, yeah, and then within second people are responding. Everyone
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is quick to speak, quick to speak everyone, and you see, right,
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So as part of my job, right, I do customer experience,
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right, And you know you want your brand to have social media presence and
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all this stuff. So it's very ironic, right that for example, you
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you choose, say McDonald's, like, okay, either McDonald's or whatever it
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is, whatever restaurant you choose, you go and like the Facebook page.
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Why do you like the Facebook page? Why do you like a restaurant or
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a place most of the time? Right, you like the page because you
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dislike them. Now you go there and spam. You know, I had
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a bad experience here. It was horrible, blah blah blah. But you
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before you tell them that you have to go and like the page, you
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know. And it's quite ironic, so everyone right once to give everyone a
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piece of their mind, you know. So let's see what James says,
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right, so slow to speak, slow to become angry. Do you have
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an anger management problem? You know how you solve it? Zip up,
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slow to speak, quick to listen, and then your anger you will be
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able to manage your anger better. Right, so let me bring us to
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the next slide. Proverbs eighteen. So just now there was a verse from
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Proverbs eighteen about listening. This one is about speaking full Proverbs eighteen. Fools
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find no pleasure in understanding, but delight in airing their own opinions. Like,
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wow, this is in the Bible. This is in the Bible.
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I felt that it should be like one of the rules when you sign up
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for Facebook. This is agree you know, But this is what the Bible
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says. Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but delight in airing their own
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opinions. I don't care what you think, but what I think is this,
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you know, So everyone has their own version of the truth right now,
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right, we are living in a time where there are no more absolutes.
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Last time, it's very clear, it was quite funny. So I
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was you all know that the song every Levin uh skater boy skate boy by
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Averill Levin, old school song. Right, so the One of the lyrics
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of the song right was He's just a boy, She's just a girl.
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Can it be any more obvious? I think right now cannot not obvious already?
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You know, we are living in that kind of stage right where everyone
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can identify to be anything. And I don't care what you say. What
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I believe is this. What I believe is this, What I say is
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this, And you don't bother to understand people. So it's the same thing
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that happens. It feels like everyone is speaking, speaking through the tin cans,
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and no one is listening. So there's a lot of noise, and
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noise causes conflicts, causes anger to arise. I tell you, there is
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so much anger in the world right now. There is so much anger in
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the world right now. Everyone has an opinion, and because of that,
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if people don't agree with their opinion, they get angry and the event they
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take frustration. Right, So you say, easier fools find no pleasure in
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understanding, but delight in airing their own opinions. So remember that the next
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time when we are we are triggered or one to respond or react, not
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respond, but most of our time react. We react. When we respond,
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it takes effort. We formulate our response, but when we react,
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it's very triggered. We are triggered, and this is how I react.
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Okay, Next one probabs tand sin is not ended by multiplying words, but
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the prudent hold their tongue. So out talking someone is not the way.
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Just because you can argue and shut people down with your words. Sin is
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not ended by the multiplying of words, but the prudent hold their tongue.
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Why do they hold their tongue because they are quick to listen, and that
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is how we should respond. Okay, next slide. Okay, So Proverbs
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fourteen twenty nine. Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is
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quick tempered displays folly. What is folly? Folly is another word for foolishness?
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So why do I put this picture? If you have a kid,
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right, you will have experienced this one way or another every day all day.
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I don't know. It depends on what side of the baby. Wake
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up on that. Okay, So kids throw tantrum right spouse to dangerous,
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But I'll be quick to listen, quick to listen. But why do kids
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throw tantrum because they are not getting things? Their way. When they are
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not getting things their way, they react, They react and they try and
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argue or they scream, they shout, they multiply their words and you know,
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funny enough, right, it doesn't stop with kids when we multiply our
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words and because we are not getting our way, essentially we are throwing tantrums.
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And when we are throwing tantrums, right, it says a quick tempered
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person displays foolishness folly when we are throwing tantrum. When a kid throws tantrum,
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right, he doesn't get his way. I know, a good parent,
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right, will never negotiate with terrorists, you know, So sometimes the
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kids act like terrorists. You know, they try to, but they will
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never get their way in So, why is it that we, when we
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are adults, we think that by using harsh words, by cutting people down,
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we can get away. By out talking someone, we can get away.
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That's why it says here slow to speak, okay, next, so
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slow to anger. It's both a decision and a result. Think about it.
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You don't choose to be slow to anger in the moment. You have
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to decide beforehand. You know, you have to decide beforehand because in the
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heat of the moment. It is very difficult to control. But if we
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decide beforehand, slow today, I will be slow to anger, slow to
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speak, slow to anger. Then it is a decision and when you decided,
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then there will be a result. Okay, have you all been in
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a car accident before? Yay? Somebody knocked you? Okay, somebody knocked
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you. You get out of the car, right, what do you do?
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Huh? Okay, you check your car face and then and then what
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you do? Call husband? Okay, take photo and I see. Okay,
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before you take photo and I see, you have to talk to them
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first, right, So how do you How do you talk to the person
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who has seen you? Remember, slow to anger is a decision, so
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you can't choose because right, you can come out of the car like,
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hey, you blinder, why is this? How come you? How come
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you come in here? You know, and gets so angry and worked up?
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How do you think the other person will react? Yeah, the other
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person will get defensive. And when you're pushed into a corner, it's fight
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or flight, right, So it depends if they are way of dealing with
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When pushed into a corner is fight. That's what results in road rage.
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But what is the best way. So imagine, right, someone knocks your
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car, You get out of the car, you check your car okay,
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and then after that, right, you go to the person, hey,
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are you okay? It diffuses the whole situation. You find out from that
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person are you okay? And the person will be caught back up. It
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will be probably really like, hey, how come I knock his guy?
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And then he's asking you that I'm doing okay? And then from there his
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defenses are down. And then you are able to communicate someone wants to listen
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to my side of the story and not accuse me, And then because of
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that I can communicate well. And that's how you get out of the valley.
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So for example, right, that car accident right could be a value
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moment. How you get out of that value right? It depends on how
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quick you are to listen, how slow you are to speak and slow to
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anger? Right. Next, so it says here because why slow to anger?
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Right? So James one says here because human anger does not produce the
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righteousness that God desires. There is godly anger and there's human anger. So
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you say, it's my right to be angry. I have a right to
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be angry. If everyone has a right to be angry, you will live
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in an angry world, you know. So what is what is righteousness?
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You know it's easier, right, The human anger does not produce the righteousness
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that God desires? But what is righteousness? So I wanted to also understand
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it? Right, make it a bit more easier for me to understand.
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So righteousness of God the divine attribute that describes God as acting always in a
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way that is consistent with his own character. That is righteousness of God.
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So if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior, you
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are called a Christian? Right shadoh God, I mean in your a gamma,
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you will put that Christian? What is a Christian? Little Christ?
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If you are little Christ? Is your character consistent with God? That is
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what righteousness is? Is my character consistent with who God is? Because human
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anger does not produce that. Human anger does not produce that. So if
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I want to become more and more like Jesus, I have to be slow
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to anger. Got that all right? So you said quick to listen,
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slow to splait, slow to anger, right, So you got all this
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titling right, And I'm like Okay, now I know how to manipulate the
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conversation and convince the other person is that the goal. That is not the
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goal. You may win, you may get things to go your way if
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you are if you can communicate masterfully, but that is not the goal.
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You know the goal. Next line, there are three agendas in a conflict.
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There is my agenda, there is your agenda, and there's God's agen
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So when we are quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,
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right, it's not to convince people that my agenda is the right way.
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We need to say what is God's agenda? What is God's agenda in
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this circumstance, in this situation, God, what do you want me to
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do? You know? If not, it is manipulation, and manipulation is
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not from God. All right, Next, so don't settle for being right,
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make things right, don't attack the person. A lot of times right
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when we are in this agreement, right, we go below the belt one
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we were cut the person down. What is canceled culture? You know we
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are living in a world where it cancel culture. Right, What is canceled
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culture? I don't agree with you, so I cancel you. You are
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dead to me? But is that God's way. Jesus came into a world
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where everyone was against him, and who flocked to Jesus people who uh that
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the churches right now sadly are not very welcoming to you know, the people
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that flocked to Jesus were tax collectors, There were prostitutes, there were all
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all of them were non believers. They were not Most of them were not
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scholars, pharisees or that you sees. There were people who are out there
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because God's agenda was not to come and say that, hey, this is
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my way, follow my way. God came down to earth to make things
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right with God and men was the false spiritual laws. No man has fallen
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shot. God came down and he restored us, restored the relationship. So
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God values the relationships over opinions. Do we value our relationships with people over
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our opinions? Because right, like, honestly, the cancel culture right is
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really toxic. You have no idea who this person is, but you can
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just cut them off or white the mouth just because of what they say or
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what they believe in. Right next, the longer we listen, the more
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we learn, the less angry we become. Because when we listen and we
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understand where this person is coming from. And slowly we'll come to that.
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Oh, no wonder, no wonder, this person is responding this way or
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reacting this way. No wonder he says this or believe this. And once
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we understand, we become less angry. So seek first to understand, then
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to be understood. Right, Okay, y'all are like quick to listen,
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Yeah, so slow to speak. I'm not sure what it's a good thing
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or a bad thing here. You can be quick to speak because okay,
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okay, all right? And final point, final point. So the first
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one is what do we need to start quick to listen? What do we
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need to stop being quick to speak, quick to anger? Third point,
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how do we do? So? We have to get rid of filth and
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humbly accept the word. Okay, So next slide James one. Therefore,
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get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and
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humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. So what
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is moral filth? Right now? Right? Anything of the world is moral
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filth? I was sharing previously in klank. I was saying that y'all took
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moral in SPM and you know, you had the eighteen Nili. You had
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to memorize the eighteen nila. You have to write it exactly that way.
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You know, right now right, how many of that eighteen nilai right is
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actually been exercised in the world today. Actually, the value of moral right
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it has degraded. There is no like what I said. There is no
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more absolutes. This is my truth and Christianity right or Jesus right. Jesus
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is absolute. I am the Way, the truth and the life. No
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one comes to the Father except through me, you know, and right now
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right, just by saying that Christians are deemed saying hate speech because we are
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not being inclusive and not about diversity. But that is not the case.
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Jesus came that all may be saved, you know. But you can see
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right that the enemy is out too perverse and to confuse us. So you
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know what the technique, the trick of the devil to confuse us. He
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just has to get us to doubt that God is good. He did that
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in the garden of Eden. He did that from the start of time.
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Did God really say, you know, so, if we are not careful
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and if we are feeding ourselves from the world instead of the word. We
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will slowly become more and more of the world. So that's why it says
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he get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent.
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Evil is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word planted in you are we
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planting the word of God in our lives. If we are planting the word
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of God in our lives, it will be so much more easier to be
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quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger. If we are
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planting moral filth in our lives, we will be quick to speak, quick
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to anger, slow to listen. And this is what God has told us.
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Right, So whenever we are going through the valley and we're going through
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different challenges, especially with different people, know what James says, be quick
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to listen. Let's all say it together. Quick to listen, slow to
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speak, slow to anger. All right. I just wanted to share a
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story, all right, So the last slide right, So this is a
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story. Even as I was preparing for this sermon, right a couple of
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weeks back. So on the drive back, I was listening to a Christian
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radio station, and then this collar called up and wanted to share his testimony,
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and I thought, wow, this is such a powerful testimony that is
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in line with with what God has been speaking to me. So there's this
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guy. He is I think he's probably middle aged, fifties, plast like
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that, right, he's a grumpy guy la by his own admittance, he
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said he's grumpy. Everyone in this neighborhood is like scared of him, and
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he never smiles, always gets angry. So whenever he when he described that,
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right, I just remember the guy from up, remember the guy from
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up again. So that's how I picture him, very angry, all the
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kids scared of him and stuff. So as he was walking home, he
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passed by this lemonade storm and this girl selling a lemonade. Okay, so
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the girl said in lemonade twenty five cents per cup. Then he just said,
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no, I don't want it, said it very harshly, and he
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walked off and then he went back home. Ten minutes later, the girl
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rang on the door doll and say, and brought him a glass of lemonade,
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icy clothed glass of lemonade for you. It's on the house. The
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guy straightway like, no, I told you I don't want it. Get
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lost and he slammed the door, slammed the door. Next day, when
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he came back from work, there was a cold glass of lemonade waiting outside
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his door. Again he saw. He was fuming. He was so angry.
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He took the glass of lemonade. He walked across the neighborhood to the
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girl's house. He knocked on the door and told the parents. I told
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her that I don't want any lemonae. Take this glass and tell her not
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to disturb me. And gave the glass back to the parents. Not drunk,
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okay, and he walked back home. Next day he walked back there
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was another glass of lemone, ice, cold glass. Same thing he did
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it. This thing happened for the next thirty days. Every day he came
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back, there was a cold glass of lemon On the thirtieth day, right
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when he saw that glass of lemonade, he just broke. Something in him
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broke. He said something, and he broke and I just started crying.
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I just started crying. So he took the glass of lemonade. He drunk
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it all up. He walked back across to the neighbor's house, rung the
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doorbell, and when the parents came, say thank you so much for this,
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Lamonade. I really appreciate what your daughter has done, and he got
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to know the family a bit better. So this family just moved to the
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neighborhood because the neighborhood is near a children's hospital and the kid was having a
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terminal disease and she needed treatment. But you can see it right. She
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was quick to listen. She was slow to speak, slow to anger.
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Can you imagine if someone was rude to me and slammed the door on me,
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I will react. But this girl, because she was quick to listen,
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she could hear the hurt, she could hear the pain in this person's
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life, and because of that, she led this man to Christ. We
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