Feb. 7, 2024
"I Failed The Accountability Test... Oops!"

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Join Jimmy and Annette as they engage the Mind Wars that continually assault us all. Is there hope? There's always great hope!
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We are the best.
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This is Jimmy and Annette and we are so happy to be with you.
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We are living up in a down world.
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This is show number 52.
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How many weeks are there in a year?
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52 weeks.
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Wow.
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This is a milestone.
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This is a milestone.
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Even though we've skipped a few weeks, it's still our 52nd show, so it's a year we've
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been doing this.
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That is remarkable.
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A year's worth of shows.
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I know.
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Remarkable.
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I don't know what the great stats are, but I was looking at rss.com and we've
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had about 40,000 downloads over this last year.
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That is unbelievable.
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40,000 downloads.
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40,000 downloads.
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That's probably pennies compared to some of these.
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Just to listen to us ramble on.
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Ramble?
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Are you rambling?
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Well, maybe sometimes.
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You are ravishing.
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I will say that.
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You look gorgeous.
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You dressed for success today.
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I don't have a professional outfit on because I'm-
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Now why?
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Well, I knew we were going to go to the bank to do some business and I just felt like I
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needed to look like a banker.
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Cranked it up.
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I could be a banker.
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And Natasha at the bank complimented you.
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She said you look stunning.
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I know.
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Maybe I need to wear this again tomorrow.
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She's from the Ukraine and has the coolest accent I've ever heard.
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She's super sweet.
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And she was an attorney in the Ukraine.
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I know.
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Not the Ukraine.
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In Ukraine.
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I got to say that right.
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She has to just be a clerk here.
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I know.
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Until she goes back, which she is.
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And her sister's like a dentist, a doctor.
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Yes.
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But she's an assistant here.
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And she's doing a dental assistant here in the States.
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It's very sad.
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They're going back and rebuilding their lives at some point.
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But anyway, she complimented you and that was awesome.
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It was sweet.
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Made your day, didn't it?
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It did.
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Or made your morning anyway.
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And then you laid a big one on me in the church.
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Wait, what?
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What do you mean, laid a big one?
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You grabbed me and kissed me.
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Oh, well, hey.
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You never do that.
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Girl, you look great.
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What can I say?
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I was like, okay, I'm going to wear this tomorrow and the next day, and the next day.
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We have cameras all over our church.
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I'm sure it was caught on video somewhere.
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I don't know that we do inside that part, do we?
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, are you kidding me?
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Okay.
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Well, someone's going to see you grab me and kiss me the way you do.
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PDA.
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You've never done that.
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Are you okay?
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No.
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Well, you sort of puckered when you were walking towards me.
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I thought you wanted a kiss.
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Oh, really?
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You even said kiss me.
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I did not.
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And you had lipstick on and I did.
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I did not say that.
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You just grabbed me.
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Well, maybe I misunderstood.
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Wow.
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Maybe the Lord was telling you to kiss me.
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Maybe I needed to kiss you.
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I don't know.
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Maybe you needed to.
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I don't know.
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I'll say there was a song by Foreigner called Feels Like the First Time.
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Yes.
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Now, I know that song.
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That's what it was.
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It was like, wow.
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And you don't have a clip of it or anything.
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A clip?
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Oh, that song.
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No, I should build in some classic rock clips.
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I know you should because that is our background.
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Since I live in that world.
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Yeah, that was my world.
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I mean, what was the first CD I ever bought you?
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Def Leppard.
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Exactly.
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That was the first album we bought for our Sentinel.
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Was it?
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For Christmas.
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Oh, that's right.
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That's true.
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It's a little nostalgic thing.
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We bought him a record player, which was hopefully better than the one they had.
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And we bought him an album because he loves classic rock.
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I think it was Hysteria.
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Def Leppard Hysteria.
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Hysteria?
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Yeah, I think it was Hysteria.
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Anyway, it was amazing.
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A long time ago.
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Right to my heart.
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Straight to my heart.
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I know.
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And we're classic rock kids.
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It wasn't classic when we were there.
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It was just rock and roll.
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Oh, it was just rock and roll.
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Now it's classic.
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Oh.
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I used to listen to FMX and Lubbock.
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That was like a huge radio station for rock music.
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And they were doing classic rock back before.
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Which we enjoyed then too.
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I know.
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It's crazy.
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It's really classic rock now.
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I know.
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I mean, I hear it on music in grocery stores now.
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Is music still in business?
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It's a thing.
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Yeah, there's things.
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It's weird.
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I know.
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I know.
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It's weird.
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But it's been a long day, hasn't it?
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Yes.
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How many meetings have we had?
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We had this plan to come in at 10.30 in the morning.
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I know.
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I had it on my schedule.
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And it is five o'clock in the afternoon.
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And we're just now getting started.
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We're on fire.
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Everybody's gone from the office.
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It's quiet around here.
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And we're here working.
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This isn't work.
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This is play.
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Right.
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Hey, if you love what you're doing, it's not work.
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Well, it is.
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But it's still work.
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I need a drink of my coffee.
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We have had a day, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, challenge, challenge, challenge,
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challenge.
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Your day started with a challenge.
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The last two days have been rough for me.
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Just because I'll make some strides in something and then I have to go back and start all over.
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This is all on the administrative side of what you do, which is the people side of church.
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Then there's the business side, the administrative side.
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People don't get it.
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Most people have no clue.
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They just think we come in.
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We drink coffee.
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Yeah, hit the air conditioners on and church.
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On an event, a massive event, massive event.
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And now we're doing it three times.
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Three times a week.
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On Sundays.
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And our church is growing.
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We had the largest crowd we've ever had, largest attendance on a Sunday that wasn't a special
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Sunday like Christmas or Easter.
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I know.
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It was unbelievable.
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Unbelievable.
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I'm still kind of buzzing from it.
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We're going to have to hire more staff.
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I know.
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It's crazy.
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I'm literally going, looking, going administratively.
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We're going to need some part-time help.
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I know.
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It's wild.
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Are these not the best problems a church can have?
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These are great problems because they're not really problems.
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They're just challenges and opportunities.
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But they are challenges for sure.
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They are.
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Yeah.
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But we're living up in a down world.
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We need a bigger building.
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That's what Lonnie Frisbee in the movie, The Jesus Revolution, leaned over to Pastor Chuck
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Smith and he said, you're going to need a bigger building.
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Yeah.
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It feels like...
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For real.
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For real.
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The thought of that scares me.
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Our why is bigger than our why not.
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So we've got to move forward.
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Whatever God tells us to do, period.
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This isn't about us.
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This isn't about even Bridge Church.
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It's about what does God want.
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There it is.
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So we've got to start praying.
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Yeah.
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Where's Mr. Chevy today?
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I know.
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I know.
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I know.
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We feel terrible.
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We can't bring him.
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It's just too... I would be interrupted too much to have to take him out.
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I'd worry about him doing on the carpet.
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I know.
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I'm just like, I want him here, but I don't want him here.
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I know.
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Life has picked up its pace.
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I know.
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It has.
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So he's just off the show.
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I know.
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For now.
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I know.
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He just had his eighth birthday too.
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I know.
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And he's so fluffy right now.
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He looks like a wash mitt.
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Tina said, I like him better like this because he's so fluffy.
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He's fluffy and cute.
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He does look cute.
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He does.
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He's a good boy.
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But I miss him.
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I miss him.
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I text the groomer and said, when can you get Chevy in?
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But she never wrote me back.
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So maybe it's not a number you can text.
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No, I think we need to call.
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Yeah.
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And so we'll get that.
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But I don't know if I want to get him groomed.
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I don't want to get him groomed much because it's still... It's actually winter here
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in Texas.
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You just need to get that.
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Even though right now outside it's 66 degrees.
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Technically, it's winter.
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It's crazy.
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But it's been nice.
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But it's coming.
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It's beautiful weather.
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Do you think we got another blast coming?
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I know we do.
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We do.
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We might.
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We do.
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We hope everybody's doing good out in podcast world.
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How's everybody doing?
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Hey, we love getting notes and messages from you and boostograms are always fun.
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We love hearing from you.
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So if you ever thought, hey, I should write them, and then you go, no, I don't want to
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bother them.
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You're not bothering us.
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We love hearing from you.
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We love encouraging you.
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That's something that we live for.
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We live to build up people.
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We live up in a down world, but we want everybody to live up in a down world.
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And so feel free to write us.
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We do have some emails, notes I'll read in just a bit.
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And but just want to find out how you're doing today because I know I know life can get tough
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out there with the election year.
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People are spun up.
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I know we went to dinner with Adam and Tina the other night and he wow.
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All he talked about was how people are getting spun up.
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He feels like his job is to spin people down.
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Yeah, just to try to get people to talk them off the ledge.
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Quit losing your mind.
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You can't when you get spun up, you don't think well.
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You just you kind of go you go primal.
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You go to your basic human experience.
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We lose our mind.
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Yeah, you default to your base of mind.
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Speaking of mind, you talked about the carnal mind on a day.
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I did.
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I had to do something on Sunday.
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So for the y'all who don't know, I'm a pastor of a church in the hill country of Texas.
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And we have a growing church.
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It's exciting.
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There's a lot of people were having a good time with it.
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But I'm talking some hard stuff and I'm doing a series called mind wars.
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This was the second week.
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It's called the carnal mind.
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So I told everybody said, I need y'all to do something like what I say, say this out
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loud.
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We love Pastor Jimmy.
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So everybody yells it back.
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We love I said, I'm going to need that later.
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After this message, I have to tell you what happened today.
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What happened?
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Which because I haven't seen you all day.
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I'll tell you before I broadcast it, but I'm going to broadcast on the podcast.
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I'm not sure what to think about this.
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Our administrator said that she got a phone call from a woman was her first time in church.
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She wanted to talk to you and she likes to just find out if they really need to talk
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to you or if it's something she can handle.
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She knew you were in meetings and she's the woman said, I just want to know what Pastor
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Jimmy meant.
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Every time he asked the church to say, I love Pastor Jimmy.
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I don't understand that.
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Why wouldn't he say I love Jesus?
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Why is he trying to get love from the church?
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She had to say, he was joking and she goes, he was a new person.
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Wow.
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Well, yeah, that's true.
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They don't know me.
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I'm going to freak them out.
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She said he was going to say some hard things that's hard for people to hear.
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That was his way of breaking it up a little bit and just having fun.
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That's what he was doing.
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She goes, oh, I would never have thought that someone would question that.
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We were laughing the whole time.
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The whole church was laughing.
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It was funny.
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The whole church was laughing.
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Then I said, because I'm about to deliver something.
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I'm going to need to hear this again.
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We just laughed about it.
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Our church knows me too.
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They know my weird, corky sense of humor.
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If you're new, which we had a lot of new people.
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A lot of new people.
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They think you're just nuts.
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They think it's all about Jimmy and not Jesus.
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That is not true.
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Oh my gosh.
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We're all about Jesus.
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Wow.
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The whole point of your message is about Jesus.
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We're talking about the carnal mind.
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The carnal mind is the fleshly mind.
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What carnal means by definition is it's when you default back to your basic, primitive
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human experience.
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It's what happens to you when you lose your mind.
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Driving a car may cut you off.
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You and what you were before Jesus came into your life because literally we're supposed
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to be different people when Jesus comes in.
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We're not supposed to act like everybody else, which makes us question some people's Christianity.
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The thing is, we're supposed to be different from the world.
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That doesn't mean the world doesn't come out of us every now and then because if it's been
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in you, it's going to come out of you some way, some time.
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There's residue of the sin nature in us.
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Exactly.
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Yes, we receive the gift of salvation from Jesus Christ.
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He died for us on the cross and we say, yes, I want that.
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Thank you.
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Then we identify with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection through baptism.
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Now we're in the family, but that doesn't mean all your habits and all the things, the
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residue of your past life just goes away.
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It doesn't.
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There are no accidental saints.
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You don't just suddenly become a saint.
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It takes years and it takes walking with God and walking with Christ, Jesus, and getting
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to know him.
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And crucifying our flesh.
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And killing the old man, so to speak.
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You are a new person in Christ when you become a Christian.
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When you get saved and you're a disciple of Jesus, you're a new creation.
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But sometimes your mind doesn't want to believe that and so you'll default back to who you
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were before.
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And that's where we have to really change the way we think.
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That's it.
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That's what the whole idea of mind wars is because we know there's the war of being a
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Christian, we know there's a real devil, real enemy and all that.
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But the war is not some hand-to-hand combat kind of thing.
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It's not shotguns or guns or bows and arrows or anything like that.
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The real war happens between your ears.
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It's the war in your mind.
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Boy, does it ever.
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Man, does it ever.
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I mean, you can wake up in the middle of the night and have a war going on.
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Exactly.
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Or have these dark, malevolent thoughts that come to you out of nowhere.
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We're having a great day and then boom, out of the blue, this thought comes in your mind
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and it triggers something in you.
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And then you have to ask the question, where did that come from?
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Yes.
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Because a lot of times it's not from you.
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Right.
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It's not.
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Well, there's a real enemy out there.
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He loves to insert.
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He loves to infiltrate.
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He loves to bring these what I call intrusive thoughts.
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He intrudes.
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So these intrusive thoughts will come to you out of nowhere.
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You're having a good day, like you were saying.
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No big deal.
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Tuesday afternoon, hey, I get off work in a couple of hours.
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It's great.
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And then something happens and you get triggered.
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The enemy is an opportunist.
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Oh man.
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He's very cunning and crafty.
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He's smart.
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He is scary smart and he loves to trigger us leveraging past mistakes or past things
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that were done to us, past traumas.
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He will leverage those things to just get in your head.
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Which we have the authority, the Bible says submit to God and then resist the devil.
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So we resist the devil by ignoring what he's saying, but also by speaking that we don't
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believe what he's saying.
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And then he will leave, but he always still comes back.
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It's not like you resist him, he's gone and it's never going to happen again.
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No.
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He looks for other opportunities.
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The actual construct of that sentence out of the book of James is the scripture you're
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referencing means to resist and keep resisting.
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It's not just a one-time thing.
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We live our lives resisting the enemy.
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We don't live our lives with the enemy in mind.
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We have Jesus in mind.
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He's number one, period.
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But we're always wise too and smart of knowing there's a real enemy out there.
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The smartest thing that the enemy can do to any human being.
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And if you're listening today and you're like, oh, they're talking about the devil.
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We're talking about the dude with the pitchfork and horns.
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A lot of people don't believe.
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They don't believe that the devil's real, that Satan's a real being.
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He's a created being according to the Bible.
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God did create him, but he spun out.
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He chose using his own free will to go another way and rebelled against God and took a bunch
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of angels with him.
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And so obviously he was cast down.
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But what he loves to do, one of his best tactics is to convince us that he's not real.
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That's true.
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Man, if you are living your life and you think that spiritual warfare is not real and that
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the devil's not real, you've already lost.
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You're already on the ropes, so to speak.
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He's winning around three and around four.
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He really is.
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So we have to resist him and continue to.
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We do that in our mind.
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We do it with our words, but we do it in our mind, in our head.
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The Bible says in the book of Romans, it says, be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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Be changed.
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Don't be conformed to the world.
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Be transformed.
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Be changed by changing the way you think or the renewing of your mind.
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I love what you said on Sunday.
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We need to think about what we're thinking about.
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That's a Steve Berger quote.
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Pastor Steve Berger was our pastor in Tennessee.
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You've been saying it long enough.
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You can take it now.
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I can own it now.
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I'm going to own it now.
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But it really is.
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It's true.
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It's really true.
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Say it again.
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It's important.
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You've got to think about what we're thinking about.
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There you go.
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Wow.
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And I think so many times we just allow any thought to come into our mind or stay in our
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mind and then we say things, but we're not really thinking about it.
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The Bible talks a lot about fools and what comes out of their mouths and how it's better
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to not talk than to say things and sound like a fool.
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And so, boy, you were right on Sunday.
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It was very strong.
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Very...
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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No, go ahead.
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I didn't mean to cut you off at all.
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No, it's okay.
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I had a thought and I opened my mouth.
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I know.
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Oh, sorry.
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I was talking about thinking.
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I had a thought.
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Okay.
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So what was your thought?
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Out of the abundance of the heart, mouth speaks, right?
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So anyway, Joyce Meyer wrote a book back in 1995 called The Battlefield of the Mind, great
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book and it was renewed in 2011, updated.
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And in that book she says this, Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can
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defeat us in our experience.
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Oh, that is so true.
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And that really follows the biblical precedent.
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Verse 23, 7 says this, for as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
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That is so spot on.
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As someone thinks in their heart about themselves, that's how they become.
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As the head goes, so goes the body.
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In shepherding terms and sheep, as the shepherd go, so go the sheep.
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So whatever is the head, the mind for us, the thought, everything will follow the thought
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life.
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That's true.
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So be transformed, be changed, change your form by the renewing of your mind.
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Our minds have to be...
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Or changing the way you think.
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Changing the way you think.
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New Living Translation, beautiful.
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So true.
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So here's the definition of the carnal mind because we talked about that.
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The carnal mind is the default mode of the human experience.
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Isn't that so on?
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The default mode is what we go to when we're angry.
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Yep, that's true.
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What happens, our anger, we default to the basic human experience and we bypass everything
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we've learned, everything we've trained, the things that are the boundaries that are in
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our mind that we've learned and trained and it goes all out the window in a moment.
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It certainly can, can't it?
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It sure can.
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Yeah.
531
00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:08,120
You ever lost your mind?
532
00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:09,920
Oh yeah, I think I did last night.
533
00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:10,920
And this morning?
534
00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,700
And you did too because I was upset.
535
00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:15,700
You were.
536
00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:16,700
Me, you were upset.
537
00:19:16,700 --> 00:19:17,700
No, I was upset at the situation.
538
00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:18,700
Yeah, the situation.
539
00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:22,640
And it wasn't another person, it was an organizational thing.
540
00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,560
It was a banking thing.
541
00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:25,560
Yeah, banking thing.
542
00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,920
There was an error in our banking and...
543
00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:28,920
You're trying to get it resolved.
544
00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,560
Just our processing of credit cards information.
545
00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:36,840
And finally, you got to the point where you just to use the... you defaulted, you went
546
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,840
into your default mode of your human experience.
547
00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:40,840
Default of my human experience.
548
00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:41,840
And I was so...
549
00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:42,840
You went primal.
550
00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:43,840
I was spun up.
551
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:44,840
You were spun up.
552
00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,200
I know, I was afraid to try to talk you off the ledge.
553
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,400
Because every time I tried to do something that they wanted, it wasn't good enough.
554
00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,680
They needed some other kind of documentation.
555
00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,120
I'm like, oh my gosh.
556
00:19:55,120 --> 00:20:06,280
I can't imagine people, and I think about this, who have lost their identity through
557
00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,160
banking or people scammed them or something, and the things they have to go through.
558
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:15,440
And ours is just changing from one bank account to another, and the things I had to go through.
559
00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:21,560
But can you imagine if your identity is stolen and what you have to do?
560
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,560
I was spun up over something small compared to what a lot of people go through.
561
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,580
Here's a pro tip for men.
562
00:20:27,580 --> 00:20:32,400
If your wife is spun up and she's losing her mind, that's not the time to say, hey, calm
563
00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:33,400
down.
564
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,200
Hey, you need to chill out.
565
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:36,200
That is...
566
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:37,640
Or don't throw a Bible verse out.
567
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:38,640
Worst thing ever.
568
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:39,640
Worst thing.
569
00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:40,640
I didn't do that.
570
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:41,640
No, you didn't.
571
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,080
But I can tell you were...
572
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:44,080
I was...
573
00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,080
You were upset too.
574
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,360
You were spun up and it started to spin me up.
575
00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:48,360
Well, you know what?
576
00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:49,360
Guess what?
577
00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:50,360
We're human.
578
00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:51,360
What?
579
00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:52,360
I know.
580
00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:53,360
But...
581
00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:54,360
We defaulted.
582
00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:55,360
It could have been worse.
583
00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:56,360
Oh, it could have been way worse.
584
00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:57,360
It could have been.
585
00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:58,360
We actually were fine.
586
00:20:58,360 --> 00:20:59,360
We went to bed good, and then we...
587
00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:00,360
Because we're never mad at each other.
588
00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:03,160
At 11 o'clock, I'm looking at my email, did the bank get this figured out?
589
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,600
And I wake up this morning, still not the right documentation.
590
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,680
I'm like, oh my gosh.
591
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:09,680
Here I go again.
592
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,960
I still don't know the end game of it.
593
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:12,960
I still don't.
594
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,400
And it still isn't resolved, which I know that's hard on you.
595
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,200
That is hard to not have closure.
596
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,520
I'm an executor.
597
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:19,520
You are.
598
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,280
And that sounds bad, but I'm...
599
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:23,280
Executor in the...
600
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:24,280
No, you're executioner.
601
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:25,280
That would sound bad.
602
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:26,280
Executor's good.
603
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,760
But I don't know if a lot of people can distinguish that.
604
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,640
But anyway, I mean, I get things done.
605
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,760
I'm not a procrastinator.
606
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:35,920
I get things done.
607
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,960
I mean, I do the laundry two or three times a week.
608
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:41,920
You're amazing, superpowers.
609
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:47,120
I mean, my daughter, my oldest daughter, lets hers pile up.
610
00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:50,920
She's probably not listening to this, so it won't matter what I say.
611
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,880
But lets her laundry pile up because she hates it so much.
612
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,680
And if she would just do it every few days, it wouldn't be overwhelming.
613
00:21:58,680 --> 00:21:59,680
I know, honey.
614
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:00,680
You're so right.
615
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,680
I've got that down pat.
616
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:06,520
I actually enjoy doing it because I like my laundry basket to be empty.
617
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,080
I love that about you.
618
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,080
And you help me.
619
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,080
I do.
620
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,080
I do.
621
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,080
You do help me.
622
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:13,080
I try to pitch in.
623
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,080
You don't ever want me messing with the washer dryer.
624
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:15,080
That's for sure.
625
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,080
No, and I don't care.
626
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:17,080
That's easy.
627
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,080
It wouldn't be good for either of us, but I don't mind helping with the other part.
628
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:19,920
But I am a get it done kind of person.
629
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:20,920
Yes, you are.
630
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,040
Oh my gosh.
631
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:23,240
And I love that about you.
632
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,320
And when I have people around me that aren't...
633
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:27,880
Like your husband?
634
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:28,880
Yes.
635
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,600
That's when I get spun up.
636
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,880
Yeah, you're a little bit more of a procrastinator than I am.
637
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,880
No, I'm just paced.
638
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:36,880
I move at the pace of grace.
639
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:37,880
Yeah, you're more deliberate and patient.
640
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:38,880
I am very intentional.
641
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,920
I'm more impatient and I want to get it done.
642
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,960
But I do try to get it done, right?
643
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:44,960
I'm not one that will...
644
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:45,960
No, you do.
645
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:46,960
You're excellent.
646
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:47,960
That is for sure.
647
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:48,960
I am.
648
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:49,960
I try to be.
649
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:50,960
For sure.
650
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:51,960
I try to be.
651
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:52,960
I know.
652
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,080
So what do we do about these intrusive thoughts?
653
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:55,480
What's a way that...
654
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,200
Like when things come to your mind, you get bombarded with something.
655
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,200
Your mind gets assaulted with these thoughts.
656
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,200
You're not good enough.
657
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:02,200
You're not pretty enough.
658
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,200
Blah, blah, blah.
659
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,200
What do you do?
660
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,200
Well, you can't rehearse those thoughts.
661
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:06,200
Oh, there you go.
662
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,680
That's the worst thing you can do.
663
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,680
What happens when you rehearse them?
664
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:10,680
You nurse it.
665
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:11,680
You rehearse it.
666
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:12,680
Yeah.
667
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,440
And that is very dangerous.
668
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:22,240
There are times, especially in my past, that I would do that just because I don't know
669
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:23,240
why.
670
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:29,640
I remember being a child in junior high and upset that my boyfriend left me when I was
671
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,640
young.
672
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,360
I mean, young, young.
673
00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:33,920
And what do you do?
674
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:39,640
You play the songs that you used to listen to together, and you keep playing those, and
675
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:40,640
you just keep rehearsing.
676
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:41,640
Right.
677
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:42,640
You know what I'm saying?
678
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:43,640
Right.
679
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:44,640
Yes.
680
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,640
I remember, and I'm like, I look back at that and go, why do we do that?
681
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:48,640
I know.
682
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:49,640
Torture.
683
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:50,880
It was torture.
684
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,680
And that's the opposite of what we need to do.
685
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,000
We need to do the opposite.
686
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,800
We need to bring in new things.
687
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:57,800
Right.
688
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:58,800
New...
689
00:23:58,800 --> 00:23:59,800
New things.
690
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,360
And we need to replace with something good rather than something that's going to continue
691
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:05,720
to nurse that.
692
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,520
One way to say that is to reveal and then replace.
693
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:09,520
Yeah, that's good.
694
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,360
To reveal means you identify what's going on in there.
695
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:13,360
Yes.
696
00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:17,160
You have to identify when an intrusive thought hits you, you have to identify, is this the
697
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,240
truth or is this a lie?
698
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,240
There you go.
699
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,960
And then if it's a lie, then you've revealed it.
700
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,440
Now you need to replace it.
701
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,720
But too many of us believe that lie.
702
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,400
So we think it's truth, and that's where it's dangerous.
703
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,240
That's where the war happens, right?
704
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,240
It is.
705
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,840
So how do you distinguish truth when things come to you?
706
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,600
Well, as a Christian, you've got to know what the Bible says about whatever that is.
707
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:41,600
Ding, ding, ding, you win.
708
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,600
Yes.
709
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:43,600
But people don't know where to go.
710
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,600
This is why I think this about you.
711
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:45,600
Oh my gosh.
712
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,800
When you get spiritual, girl, it's just...
713
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:49,800
Wow.
714
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,760
But you have to know where to go.
715
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,400
To me, you can Google, what does the Bible say about this?
716
00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,720
You can chat GPT, which I wouldn't say that to Adam Curry because he would be upset about
717
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:01,720
that.
718
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:02,720
No, he has chat GPT.
719
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:03,720
He uses it all the time.
720
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:04,720
Oh, it's Tina.
721
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:05,720
I'm sorry, it's Tina.
722
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:14,760
But you can literally chat GPT on your computer and say, what does the Bible say about this?
723
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,520
And it'll just pull up everything.
724
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:17,640
It'll give you 10 scriptures.
725
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:18,640
It's great.
726
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:19,640
It's actually...
727
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:20,640
For Bible study, it's actually helpful.
728
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,640
It's not always a good thing.
729
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,640
But you know what?
730
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,960
The internet is not all good either, but there are some good assets.
731
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:27,960
Well, here's the thing.
732
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,840
You use tools, you don't let tools use you.
733
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:30,840
Exactly.
734
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:31,840
So that's what we do.
735
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:32,840
Exactly.
736
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:33,840
So you're the gatekeeper.
737
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:34,840
So think about it in these terms.
738
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,320
And I've been beating this drum and I'm going to continue to.
739
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,320
You are.
740
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,840
We are the gatekeepers of our mind.
741
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,360
Nobody else can.
742
00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:48,880
Your friend, your spouse, your pastor, whatever, your boss, nobody can be the gatekeeper of
743
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:49,880
your mind.
744
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:50,880
Only you.
745
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:51,880
Only you.
746
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,520
You can't be accountable to someone because it's your mind.
747
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:56,520
So...
748
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,000
Well, speaking of...
749
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000
What?
750
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,520
You confessed today.
751
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:02,520
Which time?
752
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:03,520
What did I do this time?
753
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,520
You said you're going to stop having heavy cream.
754
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:06,520
Oh, no.
755
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,120
You're going to go there.
756
00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:09,120
Yes.
757
00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:10,760
It's because it's the end of the day.
758
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:11,760
I'm tired.
759
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,160
I literally forgot.
760
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,880
Well, you were like, I want you to keep me accountable, which I know I can't.
761
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:17,880
I even tried.
762
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,640
See, I proved my point.
763
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:25,720
You said I need help because I need to quit putting so much cream in my coffee.
764
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:31,440
Well, we're carnivore and cream is okay a little bit, but I think I'm having too much
765
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:32,440
with my coffee.
766
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:33,440
You think you are?
767
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:34,440
I can't even see the coffee.
768
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:35,440
I'm being nice to myself.
769
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,080
It looks like all heavy cream.
770
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,560
I like cream in my coffee.
771
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,560
What can I say?
772
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:40,840
I like a little coffee with my cream.
773
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:41,840
You do.
774
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:42,840
So it's heavy cream.
775
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,960
So anyway, it can stall your results in carnivore because it can be too much.
776
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:46,960
It doesn't do it for everybody.
777
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,880
It may not even be doing it for me because I'm actually still doing it.
778
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,400
But it can add some inflammation.
779
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,960
So I'm going to start starting tomorrow.
780
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,320
You walk into our office tonight after a meeting.
781
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:58,320
I can't believe you're tattling on me.
782
00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:59,320
I know.
783
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:00,320
You are a tattletale.
784
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,240
Do we have any heavy cream in our refrigerator because we have a little refrigerator?
785
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:04,240
I totally forgot.
786
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,240
I said-
787
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:06,240
I lost my mind.
788
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,240
I thought you were going to-
789
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,240
I defaulted to my basic human existence.
790
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,520
So what's the point of accountability?
791
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,160
The point of accountability is it doesn't work.
792
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,360
Well, tell us what you really think.
793
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:15,360
It doesn't work.
794
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:16,360
Daymanette.
795
00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:18,520
You talked about it on Sunday.
796
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:19,520
It really doesn't work.
797
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,520
So I'll prove my point.
798
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:21,520
There you go.
799
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:22,520
The hard way.
800
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:23,520
There you go.
801
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:24,520
Oh man.
802
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:25,520
Busted.
803
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,680
But I put it out on the podcast so that you would-
804
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,280
Oh, I see what you're doing.
805
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:32,280
I know.
806
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,760
If I get thousands of people to hear this, maybe 100,000, whoever-
807
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,240
Maybe he will go off heavy cream.
808
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,360
Maybe 10, whoever listens.
809
00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:39,520
I went off heavy cream.
810
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:40,520
Yeah, you did.
811
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:41,520
Yeah.
812
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:42,520
Man, look how it's working for you.
813
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:43,520
I know.
814
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:44,520
It is.
815
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:45,520
Okay.
816
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:50,160
I mean, I do have a little bit of inflammation every now and then, but not like I did.
817
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,960
So I think it's just-
818
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,680
So while we're telling on ourselves, really what we're trying to do is help you.
819
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,760
And first of all, we're total humans.
820
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,120
We've never denied it, never will.
821
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:01,520
We are not perfect people.
822
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,320
I'm a pastor and so what?
823
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,320
I'm still a dude.
824
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:05,320
I'm a guy.
825
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:10,320
And so we have to deal with the things of life just like you do.
826
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,840
I mean, we get up on the same side of the bed as you do, sometimes the good side and
827
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,320
sometimes the bad.
828
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,560
It's just the human experience and that's who we are.
829
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:25,040
The beauty of it is, is that we know Christ, we love Him, and here's the thing, here's
830
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,080
the kicker, we know He loves us.
831
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,840
Even in our worst day, in our worst moments.
832
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,640
It boils down to we have a relationship with Christ.
833
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:33,640
There it is.
834
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:39,280
Cross is in the middle of everything we do and does it make us perfect?
835
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,760
No, but He's the perfect one and everything we do revolves around Him.
836
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:53,400
I cannot imagine, Daymonette, I cannot imagine not doing this life without Him.
837
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,080
Can you even wrap your mind around it?
838
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,160
No, and that's one of the things I'm always grateful for when I'm praying.
839
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:04,040
I'm like, Lord, I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you and I don't want to do anything else
840
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,800
but serve you the rest of my life.
841
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,280
I wish you'd tell me that, but anyway, I'm kidding.
842
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,320
I'm just looking at you in the eyes and you're saying that I'm melting over here.
843
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,920
You're so hilarious.
844
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,960
I know, I'm melting.
845
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,520
I always do.
846
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:19,520
But it's true.
847
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,760
I'm sorry, I kind of joked on a really good point you were making.
848
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:23,760
No, it's okay.
849
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,240
No, but it's true.
850
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:32,160
No, but it's out of our relationship and when you love God, you can love people well, you
851
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,240
can make better decisions.
852
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:39,040
You just have to be cognizant of what's in your mind and what you allow your mind to
853
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:40,280
rehearse and nurse.
854
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,120
We need to be rehearsing and nursing the Word of God.
855
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,880
And what God says about us.
856
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:51,760
We have a women's luncheon coming up in March and one of the ladies said, you know, I'd
857
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:57,800
love there to be a card on the table that all the women can take that has a prayer and
858
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,360
a scripture.
859
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:00,520
And so I came up with it.
860
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,640
I decided I don't want to do a card, but a bookmark.
861
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,920
And so I came up with this bookmark.
862
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:12,600
I'm really excited about it because I had faith make this bookmark.
863
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,760
And it has wildflowers on it because our theme has to do with wildflowers because it's a
864
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,680
spring luncheon.
865
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:27,160
But I really want to talk to the women about what God says about us and how we need to
866
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:28,760
believe what God says.
867
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:33,400
So I wrote a prayer and then on the other side I talked about a scripture.
868
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:34,720
Do you have it where you can read it?
869
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:35,720
Yeah.
870
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:36,720
That would be cool.
871
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:37,720
I love the scripture.
872
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,720
Let me see if I can pull it up real quick.
873
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:48,120
This really, you know, I've read this scripture so many times, but when I read it this time,
874
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,240
I love it when the Bible does that.
875
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:56,240
It was like, just blow something up that you've read a dozen times.
876
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:57,240
Here it is.
877
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,840
Here's the scripture.
878
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,960
And this is out of Psalm 139, 13 through 19.
879
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,880
For you created my inmost being.
880
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,680
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
881
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:14,720
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
882
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,920
Your works are wonderful.
883
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,440
I know that full well.
884
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:26,520
Now I've read that dozens of times, but what really got me was the last sentence.
885
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,800
I know that full well.
886
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,080
Think about it.
887
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,800
We as women, I'm speaking for our gender.
888
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,020
I can't speak for men.
889
00:31:37,020 --> 00:31:39,560
We don't know that full well.
890
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,960
We don't realize that we're wonderfully and fearfully made.
891
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:43,960
We're so caught.
892
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:49,720
Or the moment you start to have a good thought like that, this intrusive thought comes in
893
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,040
and says, oh, really?
894
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,400
Let me show you your flaws.
895
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,640
And boy, don't our eyes go to our flaws?
896
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,320
The first thing you look at in a photograph of a group of people that you're in, what
897
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:01,320
do you look at?
898
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,320
Yeah, we look at our...
899
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:03,320
Go to your flaw.
900
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:04,320
Yeah, we go to our picture.
901
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:05,320
Is my flaw showing?
902
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,080
The part I don't like about myself, is that what's showing?
903
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,880
Which is why I don't like it when you put any of my pictures on, because I go right
904
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,880
to that.
905
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,480
Oh my gosh, I spun you up on that one, didn't I?
906
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,880
This scripture, I know that full well.
907
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:24,280
I'm going to speak at the Women's Luncheon about that one sentence, because I don't believe,
908
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:31,120
because if I don't, and I'm a pastor, I'm seasoned, and I have a hard time with that,
909
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,680
I can't imagine all of these women that come in.
910
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:34,680
It's brutal.
911
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,880
It's a brutal assault on their mind and their soul.
912
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,880
Yes, it is.
913
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,880
Yeah.
914
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,360
But I want to know that fully well.
915
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,480
I want to know that.
916
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:49,600
And I think that God just sent me to that scripture, just because he's got to do it
917
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,840
with me first before I can even speak to anybody else.
918
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,520
When you read that to me, it immediately renewed my mind.
919
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,480
It was like an instantaneous yes.
920
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,440
And that's something that happens in the Bible.
921
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,680
You'll have these moments where you're inside.
922
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,680
You may not say it out loud, but you may not even think it, but there's something in you
923
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:09,680
screams yes.
924
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:10,680
Yes.
925
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:11,680
That's true.
926
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:12,920
And it's true of me.
927
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,920
When you read that, I just went all over me.
928
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:15,920
Yeah.
929
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:16,920
It's because you're so anointed.
930
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:17,920
It's powerful.
931
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:18,920
You're so sweet.
932
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:24,640
Well, no, I just think that, and I love it because I wrote out a prayer, and we're going
933
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,560
to give this out as a bookmark, and that way women, anybody can have it, and they'll be
934
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,560
able to keep it in their journal, their Bible.
935
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:37,160
And hopefully look at this, read that prayer and that scripture, and let it really take
936
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:38,800
root in their heart.
937
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,880
Because I feel like God's saying, Annette, take root.
938
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:47,200
Let this take root in your heart because you need to know this as much as anybody else,
939
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,000
if not more.
940
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,640
And yeah, if you're going to speak about it, you better own it.
941
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,520
And so it's like preaching a message.
942
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,400
It's got to get to you before it can get to them.
943
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:06,240
And it was that, I don't think I've ever really noticed that last sentence because I can say
944
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,240
it all I want.
945
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,080
Oh yeah, Lord, I know you knit me in my mother's womb.
946
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,480
I'm fearfully and wonderfully made.
947
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,840
But do I really know that full well?
948
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,440
So that's something to ponder.
949
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:19,440
Powerful.
950
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:20,440
Yeah.
951
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,040
Thank you for sharing that.
952
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:27,240
That's the vulnerable side, particularly females that struggle so much with body dysmorphia.
953
00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:28,240
Yes, for sure.
954
00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:30,920
It's a real, the struggle is real, as they say.
955
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:31,920
The struggle is real.
956
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:32,920
It really is.
957
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:33,920
It is.
958
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:34,920
But also is the victory.
959
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:35,920
The victory is imminent.
960
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:36,920
And it's all in our mind.
961
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:37,920
It's the mind of war.
962
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:38,920
Yeah.
963
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:39,920
Oh man, I love you so much.
964
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,000
But I love the series.
965
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,560
And I know you're not going to be preaching this Sunday because you've got Brian preaching
966
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:46,560
so that we can do it.
967
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,600
I'm playing guitar, playing lead guitar on the worship team.
968
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,160
And I'm doing a membership class.
969
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,360
But he's going to continue in the same vein of thought.
970
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:54,920
And it's going to be wonderful.
971
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,840
And we're going to get more out of it.
972
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:01,000
We're not going to get just as much listening to him and you and the other people.
973
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,880
The title of his message is Decisive Victory.
974
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:04,880
I know.
975
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:05,880
Dude, I want to hear that.
976
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:06,880
I know.
977
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:07,880
We'll be there first and third.
978
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:08,880
We'll be there for the first and third.
979
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:09,880
So that's awesome.
980
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:10,880
But I'm excited.
981
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:11,880
I'm really excited about it.
982
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:12,880
I love it, baby.
983
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:13,880
You just, wow.
984
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,160
It's a good series.
985
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,180
And I think the timing is perfect.
986
00:35:18,180 --> 00:35:22,240
It's already helping people, the feedback that we're getting of people saying, that
987
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:25,560
thing about I need to start thinking about what I'm thinking about.
988
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,600
I'm starting to think about what I'm thinking about.
989
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,520
And I don't always like what I'm thinking about.
990
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:30,520
They're seeing things.
991
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,280
But we got to do something about it.
992
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:37,040
So yeah, for you that are listening, man, right in that same vein, start thinking about
993
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:38,400
what you're thinking about.
994
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:44,960
And then if it's not of God, which it's not that deep, you'll know, then eject it.
995
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:45,960
Reject it.
996
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:46,960
Resist it.
997
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,720
Don't, you're the guardian of your mind and you don't have to hold the thoughts that come.
998
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:53,720
You can't always control the thoughts that come.
999
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:54,720
They'll show up.
1000
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:55,720
They'll come.
1001
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:57,760
There's no guilt enough thought hitting you.
1002
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,440
It's just now what are you going to do with it?
1003
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,400
Don't plant it in the soil of your heart.
1004
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:02,400
Exactly.
1005
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,400
Should we thank some people?
1006
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:04,400
Yes, let's thank some people.
1007
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:05,400
Well, first of all, a couple of things.
1008
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:06,400
This is from Renee Sechrist.
1009
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,640
And I don't think I wrote, read this the other day.
1010
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,120
I think this was from the last show, maybe.
1011
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:12,680
But listen to what she says.
1012
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:13,680
This is so cool.
1013
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,440
I just finished episode 50.
1014
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,120
Congratulations to you guys on the big five-oh.
1015
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:24,280
Though I do agree with you that 52 marks the year and that is also a big celebration.
1016
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:25,280
You did read that.
1017
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:26,280
I did.
1018
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,280
I'm sorry.
1019
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:28,280
That's okay.
1020
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:29,280
I'll do it anyway.
1021
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,760
But 52 does mark the celebration.
1022
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,680
She said she watched your story on YouTube.
1023
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,960
And although you shared your story with me the first year you came to Oak Hills, yes,
1024
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,120
I cried for your little girl too.
1025
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,560
I'm feeling moved to tell you because you did share in the past that you have body image
1026
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,520
issues that you need to know.
1027
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,520
You are beautiful.
1028
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:48,520
Simply beautiful.
1029
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:53,200
I have to agree with that.
1030
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,960
Or in Jimmy-isms, brutiful.
1031
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,800
Many more out there agree with Jimmy on this subject.
1032
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,800
Your beauty permeates from the inside and then out.
1033
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,800
I've not read this because this is going all over me right now.
1034
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:05,800
Maybe not.
1035
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:06,800
Maybe you just read it to me.
1036
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:07,800
This is beautiful.
1037
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:13,560
She came to me on Sunday and sat down before church and said, I watched the video.
1038
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,400
And she said, Annette, even though I had heard your story before a couple of times, you had
1039
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:23,160
shared and then you had shared with the congregation or women's ministry, whatever I did.
1040
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:33,640
She said, when I saw it, it was like I saw you as a child and I started bawling because
1041
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,320
I could feel what you were going through as a child.
1042
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:38,320
Same thing happened to me.
1043
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:39,320
Love it.
1044
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:40,320
Wow.
1045
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:41,320
Yeah.
1046
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,320
That was moving.
1047
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:43,320
Listen to how she ends this.
1048
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:47,900
She says, I'm so very happy for you that God has given you Jimmy so that you could experience
1049
00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:50,440
the full bounding of a Christian marriage.
1050
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,480
Yes, God is good and always keeps his promises.
1051
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:54,480
Always.
1052
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,920
Renee, we love you so much.
1053
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,520
You and Dan, just two of our favorite people.
1054
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,920
Thank you for listening to the show, but thank you for letting us know what's percolating
1055
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:02,920
in your heart.
1056
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:03,920
It helps.
1057
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,560
Here's another note from a dear friend, Peggy Layden.
1058
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:07,840
We love Peggy.
1059
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:08,840
We get to see her this week.
1060
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:09,840
I know.
1061
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,960
We're going to see her on Friday night and Saturday.
1062
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,520
She wrote an email and I have not responded.
1063
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:16,920
I haven't had a moment.
1064
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:17,920
I responded.
1065
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:18,920
Oh, good.
1066
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:19,920
I'm glad.
1067
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:20,920
I love your emails.
1068
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:21,920
Peggy, I love you.
1069
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:27,440
I'm just not good at responding to emails because I'm so busy executing everything else
1070
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,440
and Jimmy is fly by night.
1071
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,440
Oh, I'll respond to everything.
1072
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,440
No, it's good.
1073
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:33,440
Don't drag me into this.
1074
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:34,440
Well, you did respond.
1075
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:35,440
I did.
1076
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:36,440
All right, from Peggy.
1077
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,680
She says, I see your growth at church.
1078
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,760
She sees it, obviously.
1079
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,520
I am not surprised at all.
1080
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:44,520
It is so exciting.
1081
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,700
God told me that that was going to happen when I felt prompted to reach out and offer
1082
00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:49,700
some teaming options.
1083
00:38:49,700 --> 00:38:52,600
She took us through Strength Finders 2.0.
1084
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,360
We had such a blast with that.
1085
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:55,360
With her, she was a jewel.
1086
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:56,360
She was fun.
1087
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:57,360
Love you both.
1088
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:58,360
I'm so proud of you, Annette.
1089
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:04,080
You are helping many women by leaning into all your truths and what God has done in and
1090
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:05,680
through you.
1091
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,040
God bless your week and can't wait to see you.
1092
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:10,040
KYBO.
1093
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:20,200
Keep your bucket till it's flowing.
1094
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,640
That leaky bucket.
1095
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:25,640
It's so funny.
1096
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:26,640
Thank you, TJ the Wrathful.
1097
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:31,320
Well, she says, KYBO, and I don't have the jingle for KTLD because it's really an Adam
1098
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:32,320
and Tina jingle.
1099
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,320
But you've got to get it from them.
1100
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:35,320
KTLD stands for...
1101
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,520
We've been keeping the lid down long before we met Adam and Tina.
1102
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,680
Long before it was a thing with Adam.
1103
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,160
We've always kept the lid down.
1104
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,160
I never understood people that keep it up.
1105
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:46,160
But we digress.
1106
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,000
She says, I'm doing both.
1107
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,160
Good for you, Peggy.
1108
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,160
Good for you.
1109
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,840
Keep your buckets overflowing.
1110
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,200
Got this from Patrick Cobble.
1111
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:56,200
This is really cool.
1112
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:01,440
PJ and Adam, he wrote me an Adam, said, I'm on the journey since Veterans Day.
1113
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,680
Brother, bless you, man.
1114
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:04,680
Bless you, Patrick.
1115
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:05,680
That's awesome.
1116
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,720
And thank you both for your ministries, for bringing me back in.
1117
00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:10,720
Welcome home, brother.
1118
00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:11,720
Oh, gosh.
1119
00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:12,720
Welcome back in.
1120
00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:13,720
I love that.
1121
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,960
He says, today was my first communion in 10 years.
1122
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:16,960
Oh, my goodness.
1123
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,280
Patrick, Duke of the South.
1124
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:20,280
That's his handle.
1125
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,000
Man, we're so proud of you.
1126
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,240
We're for you.
1127
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:26,260
Any way we can encourage you and help you, that's our heart.
1128
00:40:26,260 --> 00:40:27,260
Stay on the journey.
1129
00:40:27,260 --> 00:40:28,260
Stay the course.
1130
00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:30,640
And definitely keep your buckets overflowing.
1131
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,640
Oh, I'm not going to do it.
1132
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:33,640
I'm going to hit it again.
1133
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,480
But anyway, brother, we're proud of you.
1134
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,760
From Ashley Slater and Ben.
1135
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,720
Oh, man, I got to give these guys a big shout out.
1136
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:44,120
So Ashley and Ben Slater visited Fredericksburg.
1137
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:45,120
I know.
1138
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:46,120
They live in Minnesota.
1139
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:51,640
And I didn't really get to visit with them because it was so crazy on Church Sunday.
1140
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,880
But I got to hug their necks and say hi to them and catch up with them a little bit.
1141
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,680
And she blessed us.
1142
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,400
So Ashley has a business called Ashen Fire.
1143
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:01,400
Oh, my gosh.
1144
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,360
And she makes these journals.
1145
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:04,360
Beautiful journals.
1146
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:05,560
Beautiful leather journals.
1147
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:06,560
Each one's unique.
1148
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:07,560
They're hand done.
1149
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,480
And I just want to give a huge shout out to Ashley and Ben.
1150
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,080
It was so cool to meet you guys.
1151
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,880
And next time you're in town, we are definitely going out for steaks.
1152
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:18,880
We got to do some meat.
1153
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:19,880
Yes.
1154
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:24,200
She said, I think I heard your birthday is coming up soon on Curry and the Keeper.
1155
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,200
Mine too.
1156
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,960
I'm a Groundhog Day baby turning the big 4.0.
1157
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,040
Congratulations for leveling up, Ashley.
1158
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,040
In fact, now's the time that I am coming to Fred.
1159
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,220
My husband and I will be attending the early service with Tina Adam on Sunday.
1160
00:41:37,220 --> 00:41:38,220
They did that.
1161
00:41:38,220 --> 00:41:39,920
And we got to meet them and hug their neck.
1162
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:46,000
And just super stoked to get to meet them, first of all, but really also thankful for
1163
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,000
the journals.
1164
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,000
So cool.
1165
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,000
So sweet.
1166
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,000
Awesome.
1167
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Awesome.
1168
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Beautiful journal.
1169
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,000
We were fighting over who's going to take which one.
1170
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,000
I know, because I liked them both.
1171
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,000
She told me we were going to fight over those.
1172
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,000
That's true.
1173
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,000
We did.
1174
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Yeah.
1175
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,000
And you won, of course.
1176
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,000
So, Boostergrams.
1177
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,000
We've got some Boostergrams.
1178
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,920
We've got a 2.0 platform, which is value for value accessible.
1179
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:09,000
That means if you value what we're doing and you like what we're doing, you can show value
1180
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,080
times, talents, treasure, whatever.
1181
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,040
I mean, you can boost us with sats.
1182
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,400
You can send us a note, whatever.
1183
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,160
It's an encouragement to us.
1184
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,800
And by the way, go to our website, livingupinadownworld.com.
1185
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:21,800
Sign up for our newsletter.
1186
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:22,880
Sign up for our newsletter.
1187
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:23,880
We do it.
1188
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:24,880
In fact, I'm way behind.
1189
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,240
I got to get it done tonight, but we're airing this tomorrow.
1190
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:28,740
So it all works out.
1191
00:42:28,740 --> 00:42:29,920
But do sign up for our newsletter.
1192
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:31,800
And that way, you'll have a bump from us.
1193
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,960
We don't overrun you or anything.
1194
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:34,960
It's just a reminder.
1195
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:35,960
Hey, we've got a show coming.
1196
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,000
Be sure and be ready for that and be looking for it.
1197
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,000
So, livingupinadownworld.com.
1198
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:45,000
Bob the Shed with 100 Sats says, man, love to hear you love God.
1199
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,000
I do too.
1200
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,800
Now I do believe.
1201
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:48,800
And he goes on and on.
1202
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:49,800
He just builds up.
1203
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:54,480
He's just being thankful that he boosted us with some sats.
1204
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:55,960
So thanks, Bob the Shed.
1205
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,800
We appreciate the note.
1206
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,800
And Kevin Hallisey with 1,776.
1207
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,600
Hmm, you think that means anything?
1208
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,400
1,776 Sats.
1209
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,600
Boosting from San Luis Potosi.
1210
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,040
I did not know where that was.
1211
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:10,040
Mexico.
1212
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,040
It's in Mexico.
1213
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,240
Dude, that is so awesome.
1214
00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:14,880
There is a Potosi, Texas right out south of Abilene.
1215
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:15,880
So you kind of thought.
1216
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:16,880
Not the same place.
1217
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:17,880
Yeah, you thought.
1218
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:18,880
This is San Luis Potosi.
1219
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:24,580
He says, as I've added international jet flight courier work to my usual endless drive deliveries.
1220
00:43:24,580 --> 00:43:26,840
So he does a lot of driving in Mexico.
1221
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,120
So he listens to us.
1222
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,440
He says, listening always connects me to the living up community.
1223
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:32,440
Bro, you are connected.
1224
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,720
And I thank you for living up in a down world.
1225
00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:36,720
Down in Mexico.
1226
00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:37,720
So awesome.
1227
00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:38,720
I love it.
1228
00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:39,800
Thanks for writing, Kevin.
1229
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:40,800
We appreciate you.
1230
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,520
And the last one we have is a Striper donation.
1231
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:50,840
From Mr. Adam, the pond father, Curry, who I have to brag on in just a minute before
1232
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:51,840
we go.
1233
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,600
We've got to talk about our night out with him.
1234
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,960
Roswell is where the alien, he's directing this to you to correct.
1235
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,360
Because last week you thought Area 51 was in Roswell, New Mexico.
1236
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,360
I was thinking it was Roswell, but it's Vegas.
1237
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:04,360
I know.
1238
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:05,360
I got it.
1239
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:06,360
You even took a stand on that.
1240
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:07,360
I did.
1241
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:08,360
You're like, standing your ground.
1242
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,360
Yes.
1243
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:10,360
I felt sorry for you.
1244
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:15,400
But anyway, Roswell is where the aliens crashed and Area 51 is where they filmed the moon landing.
1245
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:16,400
Oh.
1246
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:17,400
Oh.
1247
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:18,400
This is from Adam.
1248
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:19,400
Of course.
1249
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,400
The conspiracy therapist.
1250
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:21,400
Therapist.
1251
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:22,400
Just clearing that up.
1252
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,920
Area 51 is where they filmed the moon landing.
1253
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:26,920
Love you guys.
1254
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:27,920
Now, weekly.
1255
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:28,920
He's excited about us doing it every week.
1256
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:29,920
That's funny.
1257
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:30,920
So that's it for the day.
1258
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:32,440
So, just, we got to, we went out.
1259
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,280
They took me out for my birthday because I need to talk about my birthday again.
1260
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:36,760
And they gave you an amazing gift.
1261
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:37,760
Oh my gosh.
1262
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:44,040
A Shun, S-H-U-N, 12 inch classic brisket knife.
1263
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,280
This knife is a Japanese made piece of art.
1264
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,240
I'm so excited for you, honey.
1265
00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:52,200
It feels like a samurai sword.
1266
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:58,120
So, we need to get that brisket out of the freezer so you can tear it up.
1267
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,120
Tear it up.
1268
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:00,120
Well, I cut my steak with it last night.
1269
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:01,120
You did?
1270
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:02,120
I went off Sean Baker on it.
1271
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:03,120
Oh, I didn't have steak with you.
1272
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,080
Dr. Sean Baker, the big guy, you know, 260 pounds of muscle.
1273
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:07,080
I couldn't eat dinner.
1274
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:08,080
I had too big of a lunch.
1275
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,240
He uses a huge brisket knife to cut his steak.
1276
00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:11,240
Really?
1277
00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:12,240
Yeah.
1278
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:13,240
Oh, that's right.
1279
00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:14,240
You're right.
1280
00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:15,240
Eat off a cutting board.
1281
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:16,240
It's what a carnivore does.
1282
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:17,240
Well, it was a great dinner we had with them.
1283
00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:19,760
We had a, and we went to this cool place here in town that I, we've been here eight years.
1284
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:20,760
Frieden Helms.
1285
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:21,760
Frieden Helms.
1286
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:22,760
I can't believe you remember that.
1287
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:23,760
It's very well done.
1288
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:24,760
I've been talking about it all day.
1289
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:25,760
Oh.
1290
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:26,760
So, we went to this place.
1291
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,240
It's old school German and it's this huge.
1292
00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:31,280
I never knew it was there.
1293
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:32,280
Yeah, I didn't either.
1294
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:33,280
And man, I found it.
1295
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,560
I thought it was like a big hotel or something.
1296
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:37,800
We had such a good time.
1297
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:38,800
Destiny waited on us.
1298
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:39,800
She's hilarious.
1299
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:46,800
And we just, every time we go out with Adam and Tina, it's verbiage mayhem.
1300
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,880
It's a verbal assault of the best kind.
1301
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,920
We talk about God, the world, and other things.
1302
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,660
That's our topic.
1303
00:45:53,660 --> 00:45:57,920
And what's funny is we'll talk all together for a little bit and then we pair off.
1304
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:58,920
Have you ever noticed?
1305
00:45:58,920 --> 00:45:59,920
Yes.
1306
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:00,920
Adam and I are one wavelength.
1307
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,840
You two, you and Tina are over there.
1308
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,880
And it's like nonstop verbal assault.
1309
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,720
It's so fun.
1310
00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:09,800
And we always have such a good time with them.
1311
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:14,920
We've been just walking with them and celebrating their growth in Christ because they are just
1312
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,280
continuing to grow.
1313
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,040
And she's bringing people to church that are getting saved and baptized.
1314
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,360
Oh, Brandi, that was so cool.
1315
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:23,360
We're baptized.
1316
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:24,360
Awesome.
1317
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:25,680
Did we even talk about our baptism service?
1318
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:26,680
Yeah.
1319
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:27,920
No, because it happened that night.
1320
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,240
No, we did this last Thursday, remember?
1321
00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:31,240
We did?
1322
00:46:31,240 --> 00:46:32,240
Yes.
1323
00:46:32,240 --> 00:46:33,240
Oh, okay.
1324
00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:34,240
My bad.
1325
00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:35,240
Yeah, I think so.
1326
00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:36,240
Baptized 11 people.
1327
00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:37,240
I think we did.
1328
00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:38,240
Are you sure?
1329
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:39,680
No, we did it on time.
1330
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,000
I'm certain we did.
1331
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,520
We recorded last Tuesday.
1332
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:44,520
Tuesday?
1333
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:45,520
Was it Tuesday?
1334
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:46,520
Okay.
1335
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,880
So, we had a big special service on Wednesday night.
1336
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:54,680
We had like 200 people show up on a Wednesday night, which is the most we ever had for this.
1337
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,120
We did a worship service, but we also baptized 11 people.
1338
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,880
And it was...there were a lot of tears.
1339
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:02,880
There was a lot of laughter.
1340
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,360
There was a lot of joy and celebration.
1341
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,520
And man, just saw some cool things happen.
1342
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:08,520
So yeah, I see that.
1343
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,800
I see the time you're showing me your eyes on there.
1344
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,960
Well, I want to keep it shorter so people will want to listen.
1345
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:18,320
Okay, I just want to say a big shout out to Adam and Tina just for blessing me with that
1346
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:22,320
super cool knife that I'm still nerding out over.
1347
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:26,280
Did you wash it so you could use it tonight?
1348
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:27,280
Of course I washed it.
1349
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:28,280
Okay, well, let's go home and have steak.
1350
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:29,280
Very carefully.
1351
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,280
Well, it's 5.43 p.m. here in the Texas Hill Country.
1352
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:32,280
Oh my gosh.
1353
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:33,280
We have not eaten since 9 o'clock this morning.
1354
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,160
And I am ready to go all carnivore and Sean Baker on a steak.
1355
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:37,640
So, let's go home and cook a steak.
1356
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:38,640
All right.
1357
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:39,640
Hey guys, we love you guys.
1358
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,840
Hey, thanks for hanging out with us, living up in a down world.
1359
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,940
Hey, don't be a stranger, ride us.
1360
00:47:45,940 --> 00:47:46,940
Livingupinadownworld.com.
1361
00:47:46,940 --> 00:47:48,220
We want to hear from you this week.
1362
00:47:48,220 --> 00:47:49,400
Give us a shout out.
1363
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:50,760
We'll give you a shout out back.
1364
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:51,760
God bless you.
1365
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:52,760
Have a great week.
1366
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,600
that it comesfristily
1367
00:47:53,660 --> 00:47:59,860
Effing Others All you need