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In our second part of our series, we dive into the area of adding goodness to our faith.
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, Marcel: we're going to continue
a sermon series that we
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:started last week, Become More.
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:There you go.
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:I like that for sure.
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:All right.
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:And so it's called Become More in 24.
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:That's the slogan of the year.
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:So you can hashtag that
because we want to become more.
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:We want to be transformed.
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:We want to grow.
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:We want to be the spiritual,
mature men and women of Christ
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:that God has designed for us.
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:And so we're studying now 2 Peter chapter
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:transformation or the ladder of growth.
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:We're going to be studying
out the attributes listed in
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:2 Peter 1 verses 5 through 7.
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:And so there actually is a.
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:series, uh, handout and guide.
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:I know they gave out some hard copies last
week, but on our church app, if you just
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:go to the inbox, uh, you'll see a series,
a guide there that can help you understand
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:a little bit more of the context for this
letter written by the apostle Peter, who
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:was one of Jesus's top friends, top, uh,
protegees, and was one of the main leaders
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:in the church in the first century.
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:And so one of the things to
recap, we know we have some
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:people here that weren't with us.
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:In fact, I heard that we have some
brothers and sisters from Taiwan and
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:Canada that are in here in the house.
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:Okay, is that y'all over here?
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:Can you go ahead and stand on up?
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:Let's go.
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:And we have Vancouver as well.
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:Come on.
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:If you didn't know, we are
an international fellowship.
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:So we have churches and brothers
and sisters all across the globe.
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:Welcome.
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:I wish I knew.
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:Uh, how to say hello in those particular
languages, but hello, uh, so there you go.
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:All right.
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:There you go.
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:All right.
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:So we learned last week here is that,
that God desires for you and me to not
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:only be converted in Christ, but to
become more like Christ so that in our
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:nature and our character, our desires,
the way we think to be more aligned.
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:With God our creator and God has
given us everything we need But
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:Peter tells us we need to make
every effort To add to our faith.
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:And so although God has provided all
he has given us the tools or resources
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:Everything but now we have to actually
utilize those things so that our
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:faith Our lives can be transformed
and we can become more like God.
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:And so we talked about this and we'll
share this real quickly again, is that at
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:the intersection of God's empowerment and
human effort, transformation takes place.
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:But if you remove either of
these, it's like lemonade.
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:If you remove the lemon or the water,
you're not going to get lemonade.
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:And so when we remove one of these, we
won't see the transformation take place.
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:But when we have those and they
intersect, we begin and we continue on
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:this transformation journey and process.
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:And so today, we're going
to be looking at goodness.
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:Let's go ahead and let's pray.
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:Father, thank you so much for the
chance already to worship you.
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:I know, uh, just holding back from,
from singing from my voice, just
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:hearing the voices was so encouraging.
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:To me, and it made me just think, wow,
God, how pleased you are when you hear
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:your children singing out to you and God,
I pray right now for my voice to make it
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:through, but I pray God that your word
is communicated by the every soul will
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:be, uh, inclined and inspired to, to
make every effort to add to our faith.
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:We pray in Jesus name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:All right.
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:So let's go ahead.
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:Let's go to second Peter chapter one.
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:Uh, again, you can look at the series
handout to get more of an overview
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:of the context of the letter, but
he says here in verse three, his
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:divine power has given us everything
we need for a godly life through our
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:knowledge of him who called us by his
own glory and goodness through these.
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:He has given us very great
and precious promises.
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:So that through them, check it out again,
this, this helps us understand everything.
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:You may participate in the divine nature.
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:Again, becoming more like God.
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:Having escaped the corruption in
the world caused by evil desires.
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:For this very reason, make every
effort to add to your faith, goodness.
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:We'll stop right there.
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:One thing I want to mention as we
talk about this adding to our faith,
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:it's not necessarily like stages.
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:Like first I got to get to the
goodness stage and once I complete
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:that stage then I can move on
forward to the knowledge stage.
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:It's more like ingredients.
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:If you're baking something,
or you're making something,
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:you put the ingredients in.
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:So you need all those ingredients in order
for the transformation to take place.
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:So it's not, Oh, let me focus on this
area, and once I get to that area or
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:arrive, then I can go on to another.
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:No, we're all these, we can actually
make every effort in our lives here.
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:But we want to go ahead and
look at this word, goodness.
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:And now the Bible, this letter
was written originally in Greek.
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:And so this word in Greek is Arate.
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:There you go.
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:So that's my international
language for the day.
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:And this word really means moral
excellence or moral goodness or virtue.
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:So it's not goodness as in, uh, being
really good or talented at something.
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:It's not saying add talent to your faith.
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:It's saying add goodness, moral
excellence, moral goodness, moral
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:purity, virtue to our faith.
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:And here's what's really cool is that
this same Greek word that's used in
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:verse 5 is the same word in verse 3.
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:When he says, by his
own glory and goodness.
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:Did you catch that?
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:He has this goodness.
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:That's who he is.
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:So now we're being called to add to
our faith what he is so that what?
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:We will eventually become more like him.
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:This is just so cool.
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:It's like, God, we've already got
a picture and a glimpse of this.
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:And so you need to add what
he's liking to your life.
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:And so I started asking the
question, okay, well, what
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:does goodness look like then?
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:What does this arete look like?
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:Well, it means to do what's good.
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:To do what's right morally.
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:Being moral and righteous in our
conduct, in our interactions,
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:and in our dealings with others.
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:A good or righteous life in response
to God's mercy in our lives and
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:therefore also doing good to others.
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:You guys get what I'm saying.
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:So my conduct is good because
of the grace and mercy of God.
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:And because of that grace and mercy
in God, because of the character
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:of God, I also want to do good
to those I come in contact with.
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:So living a morally excellent life.
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:Now think about this for a second.
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:Does anyone come into mind in all
of history who lived an exemplary
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:exemplary life of moral excellence?
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:Jesus, right?
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:Of course it's Jesus.
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:Again, this is so cool because if
you think about this, again, Jesus
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:models and exemplifies what this is.
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:He's the epitome of this.
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:So when we think, well, what
does goodness look like?
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:All we need to think about and look to is.
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:Jesus.
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:His lifestyle, his
character, his ambition.
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:And, you know, Peter saw
the goodness of Jesus.
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:Again, he was one of his top followers,
one of his top protégés, one of the
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:leaders in the first century church.
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:And so he saw this up close and personal.
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:And now he challenges us and
encourages and directs us, hey,
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:become more like our Lord and Savior.
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:And it's really cool in 2 Peter if we go
down in the letter He says this for we
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:did not follow cleverly devised stories
when we told you about the coming of our
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:Lord Jesus Christ in power But we were
eyewitnesses of his majesty He says we
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:were eyewitnesses and he talks about it
later on the transfiguration that Jesus
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:has to talk about the splendor and the
awe and the Miracles, but he also saw his
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:majesty in his life and in his character
and in his teachings And so it makes
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:me think, okay, all right, we know what
it means to add to goodness, but how
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:then can we add goodness to our faith?
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:And so here are a couple ways,
and really how we add goodness is
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:going to be how we add any of the
things that are listed in 2 Peter.
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:So they're really applicable to
everything that we'll study out.
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:But how do we add goodness to
our faith and to our lives?
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:Well, number one.
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:We're going to always accomplish growth
by praying to God, praying for these
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:things, but we're not talking about just
a simple, quick, Hey God, can you help
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:me be good today, prayer, and that's it.
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:Many years ago, my friend and
former mentor, uh, Reese Nealon,
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:we were, uh, having, uh, what we
call a discipling time together.
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:It's short in our church.
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:We call it a D time.
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:And praise God for discipleship
partners and, and discipleship times.
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:I, I, I just would not be here
if it wasn't for God using people
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:and those times in my life.
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:You know what I'm saying?
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:And so we're sitting there, Reese, and,
and, and he gave me this challenge.
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:He said, hey, why don't you go
find out, uh, from your friends.
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:Uh, like ask him, what are like three
of your strengths and one weakness?
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:So I went to all my close friends at the
time and I asked and they gave me some
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:feedback and almost to a tee, everybody
said, well, the weakness, uh, is pride.
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:I was like, man, these guys are so wrong.
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:No, I didn't, but I'm sure
in my heart I did, you know?
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:And so I said, okay, you know, so I, so
I came back and said, Reese, here you go.
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:He goes, Hey, well, you know what?
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:If you really want to grow after this,
if you want to go after this and you
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:want to see this change your life,
you're going to have to focus in on this.
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:It has to be something you
really, truly focus in on.
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:And when you pray about it, it
can't just be a simple prayer.
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:Hey, God, just help me with this.
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:It's gonna be more.
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:And so then I started to pray
more about it and I learned,
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:I was like, it's so true.
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:This praying about it isn't just,
hey, real quickly, before I eat.
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:Hey, God, also, hey, can you
just help me be good today?
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:No, it, it, desire, there had
to be a desire, a commitment.
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:And an earnest plea to God, God,
help me to become this, not just
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:to want this, but to become this,
not to just deny myself, but to be
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:this, you guys get what I'm saying.
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:And so for a long time, and
I'll share about it in a minute,
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:I started to pray about this.
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:And you know what I realized, too, as
well, is that when we pray about things,
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:God helps our desire for those things.
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:What I mean is this.
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:Look at this verse that many
of us are familiar with.
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:Take delight in the Lord, and He will
give you the desires of your heart.
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:Now, I think you can read this,
and it's okay to interpret this and
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:go, Okay, hey, I delight in God.
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:He's going to give me what I want.
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:Now, we know that's a general truth, not
an absolute truth, because some things I
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:want, guys, like that's not good for you.
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:But I think it's also, you can still,
and I think it's safe, to interpret
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:this as, you know what, he's not just
going to give me the things that I want,
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:no, he's going to give me new desires.
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:You guys get what I'm saying?
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:It's that now God's going to give
you the desires of your hearts.
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:I used to desire this, but now
that I take delight in God,
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:He's given me desires from Him.
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:And I have to pray about these things.
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:In order for this transformation
process to continue church.
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:Are you getting what I'm saying here
second not only prayer We have to develop
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:a conviction This is where it becomes the
desire, but the standard for our lives.
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:I have a conviction, as you can see.
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:Uh, I need to get some water, but I
have a strong conviction about USC.
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:Some will say, Marcel, you know
what, on the, uh, the rankings,
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:it's like number 25 or 26.
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:Somehow, some way, some UCLA paid
people off and they surpassed
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:USC in the last couple years.
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:But we'll get that fixed.
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:I have a strong conviction.
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:I say, you know what, it might say 26.
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:But in my heart, it's number one,
and then Cal State Fullerton and
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:Chapman, you guys get what I'm saying.
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:But it's number one, I have a conviction.
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:You can't tell me a thing about this.
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:I'm convinced of this.
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:And so if we want to add to
something, we need to pray about it.
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:But it must become our
conviction for our lives.
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:Something that's unshakable.
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:It's the standard now by which we live.
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:And the way we can do
this is through scripture.
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:Scripture plays a huge role in
developing a conviction about something.
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:If I tell you, do you have a
conviction about sharing your faith?
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:You will probably say, yes,
because of this verse right here.
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:Do you have a conviction
about how you should live?
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:Yes, and I think of this verse right here.
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:So if we're going to add to our faith
any of these attributes, especially
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:goodness, we need to have a conviction
that is inspired from Scripture.
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:Going back to this time with Reese.
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:And he said, hey, you know, you're
going to have to really go after it.
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:So I made this decision.
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:I can't remember if he encouraged
me or not, but I made a decision.
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:I'm going to study out humility and
pride throughout the whole Bible.
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:I thought, okay, this would be quick.
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:I ended up going on a three year
journey studying out from Genesis
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:to Revelation every instance I
could find pride or humility.
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:And this developed a rock
solid conviction to be humble.
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:I wish I could say I'm like Moses,
the most humble man on the earth.
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:I'm not.
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:But when challenged and confronted,
I can quickly go, you know what?
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:I see that now because there's a
conviction about being this, and so
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:I'm quicker to respond when pride is.
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:Exposed in my life.
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:You guys get what I'm saying?
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:And so we have to develop a
conviction if we're going to add.
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:And then thirdly, we have to have
intentional decisions and actions.
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:I'm going to be good to this
person at work tomorrow.
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:I'm going to be honest
to my mom or my dad.
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:I'm going to be respectful
to my classmates.
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:I'm going to do.
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:I might not want to do it,
but I'm going to do it.
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:You guys get what I'm saying?
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:Because if we just pray, God, help
me and I got a scripture, but then
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:I don't have anything intentional,
then the growth isn't going to
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:take place the way it could.
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:So we have to be very intentional
in our decisions and in our actions.
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:Asking ourselves, the famous WWJD,
what would Jesus Another good question
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:that God has helped me to see.
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:Is to ask, is this holy?
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:Not is this a sin, but is this holy?
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:Because then God starts to reveal
the heart and the essence of what
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:it is that I'm thinking about.
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:And what it is that I truly desire.
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:Is it to be right, please and
honor God and be like God?
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:Or is it to have whatever
it is that I'm thinking of?
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:And so we need to then
put it into practice.
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:I ask these questions that God
starts to reveal or I get input.
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:And then I make sure to follow.
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:So let's really, let's quickly talk about
what subtracts goodness from our faith.
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:We know how, some ways how, but what
are some things that are challenging?
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:Maybe our natural tendency and takes
away from goodness in our faith.
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:Well, number one is the flesh or
what some scholars translate as
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:the flesh being our sinful nature.
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:You know, many times we, we, we are
attracted and desire what's not good.
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:Right?
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:I know I'm attracted to things that
maybe aren't good for my soul or
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:they're not in the right context or
they're outside of my boundaries.
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:And so therefore, they're not
good for me at that moment.
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:And many times in our flesh
and in our sinful nature, we
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:desire really what's evil.
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:And the problem is then we give in so
easily or too quickly to our impulses,
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:our feelings and emotions and our desires.
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:And we make poor choices and
then that stunts our growth.
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:And then we don't become good.
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:The other thing that I want to
hit on and talk a good amount
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:about is some stinking thinking.
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:Also from my friend
Reece Nealon right there.
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:Some stinking thinking.
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:And what, what do I mean by this is
that really, the world's philosophy,
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:the world's rules and ideas and, and,
and, and, and worldview influence us
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:more than God's Word and God's Spirit.
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:And we start to adopt, whether consciously
or subconsciously, the, Society's views
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:about life and that takes away from the
goodness that we desire and that God has
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:implanted in our hearts and in our faith.
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:And so some of the rationale and thinking
that's become pretty popular of late.
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:Things like, you know, it's a
couple of years old now, but
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:YOLO, you only live once, right?
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:So I better, it's YOLO, right?
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:That was a big thing.
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:Drake, right?
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:YOLO.
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:You know what I'm saying?
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:Some of you are like,
who is he talking about?
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:Just ask your kids.
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:All right.
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:Another one, do you, or I'm going
to just do me this thinking.
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:Just do you do me another one.
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:Live your best life.
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:Well, I'm just trying
to live my best life.
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:There's another phrase.
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:That's who I am.
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:Well, that's just who I am.
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:And last but not least here.
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:Well, that's my truth.
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:You know, in a very limited, very limited
way, these things can be right, accurate
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:and helpful in a very limited way.
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:But overall, this is the
antithesis of Jesus and being good.
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:Because all of these things are about
me, I, and what I feel, and what I think.
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:Not the Bible, not God, not goodness.
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:And here's the problem,
if we're gonna be honest.
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:I don't want to be a politician,
I want to be a prophet.
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:Amen?
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:Some of this thinking has influenced
several of us here in the congregation.
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:It's infiltrated the church and we don't
go out and consciously say, yeah, I'm
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:just all about that YOLO life or I'm
just going to do me, forget Christ.
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:We don't say that consciously,
but subconsciously, that's
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:the way we're living.
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:And we make decisions
based on this thinking.
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:And so being good and being holy,
it's not appealing, nor is it honored.
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:So we say, you know what,
I'm a talk and cuss.
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:The way I want to.
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:Speak however I want to.
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:I'm going to dress however
I want to and feel.
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:I'm going to hold a grudge
and I'm going to get even.
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:I'm going to seek to get from this
relationship as opposed to seeking
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:to give in this relationship because
that's what I think and feel.
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:Again, it might not be consciously.
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:We might not say that out loud, but
in our hearts, that's what's going on.
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:Brethren and sisters, this is ungodly.
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:This subtracts, it removes the
goodness of Christ in our lives.
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:It is the opposite of goodness.
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:Therefore, it is the opposite of Jesus.
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:And what happens again when we have
this mentality, when challenged or
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:confronted about this, we get upset.
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:We get offended.
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:We get defensive.
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:How dare you?
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:Who are you?
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:And we push away and we cancel
these people in our lives with
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:humanistic arguments and logic.
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:Not with scripture.
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:You don't know what you're talking about.
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:That's just your opinion.
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:What, what, what?
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:Oh, this is what I feel.
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:This is what I think.
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:This is my truth.
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:Jesus didn't talk about
truth being subjective.
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:He says He is the truth.
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:He is the life and He is the way.
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:And so brothers and sisters, if we're
going to add to our faith goodness,
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:then we need to recognize what's
taking away the goodness from our life.
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:And once we acknowledge it, and just
accept, you know what, this has been me,
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:or it has been me in some degree, or I
had this subconsciously, this thinking,
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:acknowledge it, because if you acknowledge
it, then you can repent from it.
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:So we have to acknowledge it.
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:And say, you know what, yes.
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:But deep down, I want to be godly.
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:Because of the mercy and the grace
that God has lavished on my life.
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:And so therefore, I'm going to address it.
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:And I'm going to get help
from my brothers and sisters.
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:Because I have blind spots, or I
don't know how, or I can't see it.
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:So that they can help me, so
that I can become godly and
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:participate in the divine nature.
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:Church, are you with me here?
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:And I believe every single one of us,
deep down, all of us want to be good.
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:We want to be like Jesus,
but we must recognize what's
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:preventing us and address it.
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:So made me think, okay, well,
what are some of the benefits of
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:adding goodness to our life here?
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:And so some of the benefits, these are
just some that, that, that came to mind
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:for me is that when we add goodness,
it helps us to actually be truly human.
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:You know, in our family group last
week, uh, again, it was mentioned
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:where our family groups and so these
are geographic, uh, uh, groups that we
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:get together, call them family groups
because we want to be a spiritual family.
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:And in our family group, Charles Lennox,
uh, we were talking, he said, you know
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:what, uh, Jesus, man, he was truly human.
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:I guess he's God in the
flesh, but he was truly human.
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:He's a definition of what
it means to be human.
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:And when we become like Jesus,
we therefore start to really
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:live out our true intention
by God, by truly being human.
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:I thought, man, that's really good.
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:That's a good Thought and insight right
there because Jesus was truly human.
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:So when we become like him we become
more of what God Intended so adding
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:goodness will lead us to experience
more and more of God our Creators
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:design another benefit real quickly
here is assurance of God's pleasure.
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:We know when we do what's right
We know God is pleased with that.
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:We also know that we feel good
about ourselves What happened
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:when you do something, you know
was good You feel good, right?
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:You're like, yeah, you know, let
me get myself a pat on the back.
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:Now, if you go and broadcast it,
then, then you lose your reward.
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:But, you know, we feel good about that.
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:And I don't think that's bad.
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:I think that's a good thing because
we're acknowledging, wow, something.
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:I think this is what God designs.
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:We know it feels good.
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:And therefore we rejoice because
that's what God wanted us to live.
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:And that's how he wanted us to be.
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:And we also see our relationships improve.
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:Well, we're good to others.
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:The relationships.
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:And one more thing here is that we're
treated, therefore, with goodness.
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when you treat them with goodness.
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Christ, they can respond to this.
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an absolute truth that everybody you
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we live a Christ life, it will
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would I not want to add goodness?
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doesn't sound appealing?
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of these in my life.
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we're seeing here in the scriptures?
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it was last week, as it probably really
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on here, on stage there.
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uh, uh, uh, being recognized.
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on Wednesday, and Ramon, uh,
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like legit wrestling.
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wrestling, you know what I'm saying?
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are like, Yeah, that's that
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world and he actually even got invited
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idea of making every effort.
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wrestling, I made every effort.
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was eating, my sleep schedule,
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look like spiritually then?
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effort, not little efforts.
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:Not half stepping, but we need to make
a full effort in adding to our phase.
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:And so let's get real practical here
for the week here action steps this
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:week number one similar last week Let's
pray for the church Let's pray for all
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:of us to grow in the things listed in
second Peter 1 every day this week God
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:help us as a church to grow in goodness
and knowledge self control all these
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:different things God Lead us to this help
us not to just choose this help it to
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:us to become Let's pray for one another.
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something good each day this week.
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to take out the trash.
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hitting me over the head.
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going to take out the trash today.
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something simple, whatever it is.
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and we can see the benefit of it.
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make intentional decisions, we'll see
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communion and Jesus is the example
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Luke 23 as Luke a doctor.
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to Jesus life and he's recounting
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loud voice father into your hands I
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:commit my spirit when he has said this
he breathed his last the centurion
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and said Surely this was a righteous.
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:Let's pray Father, we thank
you so much for Jesus.
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attribute in the scriptures, Father,
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Jesus, even on the cross, his
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:righteousness was displayed.
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because therefore he could be the
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:sacrificial lamb for our salvation.
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:Thank you that we have an example
of what it means to be human.
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:What it means to be good.
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:I ought to take.
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Jesus life, death, and resurrection.
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:As we take the emblems that represent his
body and his blood that was sacrificed.
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:Father, may we be inspired to give you
our very, Father, may we make every
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:effort to add to our faith so that we
can participate in your divine nature.
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:We thank you for Jesus perseverance on
the cross and for our salvation that comes
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:In Jesus name, Amen.
