This sermon is part of the series 'The Lord's Favor' and focuses on 'A Relational Reset.' Marcel Hall preaches on emphasizing the importance of both our relationship with God and our relationships with others. Drawing from Luke 4:18 and Matthew 22:36, the sermon explores the interconnectedness of loving God and loving people. Marcel stresses the need for a reset in how we view and treat people, emphasizing that all humans are made in God's image and deserve dignity and value. He encourages listeners to reflect on their relationships within the church and to embody sincere love, devotion, and mutual respect, following Jesus' example. Practical action steps for the week include praying for a godly perspective on others and choosing a go-to Bible verse to shape one's view of people.

00:00 Introduction to The Lord's Favor

01:32 The Relational Nature of Christianity

04:06 Seeing People as God Sees Them

06:52 The Image of God in Everyone

14:56 Jesus' Radical View of Family

22:48 Practical Steps for a Relational Reset

29:18 Conclusion and Action Steps

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We're gonna continue in the sermon series called The Lord's Favor,

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and we have a theme scripture that's

guiding in the basis for our series.

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It's Luke chapter four, in

Jesus, he unroll the scrolls.

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He's in the synagogue.

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He's in his worship service, and he

reveals that he is the Messiah, that he

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is the one who's bringing God's favor.

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And it says in Luke four, verse

18, he quotes a verse in Isaiah.

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And it says, the spirit of the Lord

is on me because he has anointed me

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to proclaim good news to the poor.

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He has sent me to proclaim freedom for

the prisoners and recovery of sight for

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the blind, to set the oppressed free to

proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.

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And again, Jesus embodies

and brings this to the world.

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And, and last week, uh, Daniel

did a great job of preaching and

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reminding us we need to first have a

reset in our relationship with God.

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Today we're gonna be talking about a

relational reset as we need to have

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a re a reset with people as well.

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Let's go to God in prayer.

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Father, thank you so much for your word.

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I'm excited about what your

word has been teaching me.

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I'm excited about the season

that we are in and all the

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opportunities we had to grow closer

to you, but to join you in your.

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Good work.

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God, we pray right now that your word

speaks clearly that you articulate your

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message that you have for us collectively,

but also we can receive the message

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that you have for us individually.

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We pray in Jesus name, amen.

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First thing we need to remember

is that God is relational.

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Our God is a relational God.

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That means Christianity is relational.

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Because Christianity is about

a relationship with God and

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a relationship with others.

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And we get reminded of this in

Matthew 22, in verse 36, where

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Jesus is asked a question and

they're asking him a question.

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What is the greatest

commandment in the law?

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What's the number one thing that God

Almighty wants from his creation?

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And let's read it here

in Matthew 22, verse 36.

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Church, are you still with me here?

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Alright, don't get quiet on me.

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Teacher, which is the greatest

commandment in the law.

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Jesus replied, love the Lord your

God with all your heart and with all

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your soul and with all your mind.

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This is the first and

greatest commandment.

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And the second is like it.

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Love your neighbor as yourself.

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All the law and the prophets,

hang on these two commandments.

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Jesus says, Hey, this whole

thing is about relationships.

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A relationship with the father and a

relationship with those around you.

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And love implies relationship.

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And he says it's interesting because

they just ask him for number one, but he

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says, I'm gonna drop some more knowledge

on you so that you don't get it twisted.

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Yes, you are called to love God,

but you're also called to love human

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beings because some of us wanna be

like, I can do the God thing, I just

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don't wanna do the people thing.

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I love God, but I can't stand people.

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And Jesus said, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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This thing is connected.

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It's not separate.

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You can't separate the two.

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It's kind of like my glasses here.

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And so these glasses, loving God is the

lens and loving people is the F frame.

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They go together.

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If I'm missing one, then it's

incomplete and my sight is off and

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I can't tell who's in front of me.

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And so we need to love

God and love people.

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They are together.

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They're not separate.

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It's a relationship with the

father in heaven, and it's a

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relationship with those around us.

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And so after a reset with God,

as we talked about last week, we

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must have a reset with people.

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We must have a reset in

our relationships again.

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'cause God wants our relationships

with people to be aligned

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to his will and his design.

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And so a relational reset.

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Means seeing people as God sees them and

then loving them as God calls us to, if

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we're gonna have a reset, a relational

reset, it means we need to start seeing

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people the way God sees them, and then

start loving them the way God calls us to.

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And a reset, a relational

reset starts with perspective.

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I appreciate Kenny.

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Earlier he talked about what

his perspective about himself.

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When his perspective is off,

it leads down a bad path.

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But when God enters his hearts

and his faith, it changes his what

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His perspective, which changes his

feelings, which changes his behavior.

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And I appreciate my wife because

many years we were just talking

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and she says, you know, it's all

about perspective, and it's so true.

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Our perspective about people is vital.

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So let me ask you this question,

take a second and answer

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this question for yourself.

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How do you view people?

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How do you view people?

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Some of you're like, it depends which

people, how do you view people or people?

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Something that you have to deal with.

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Gotta deal with people or.

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I get a chance to engage with, are

people an object that serve you or is

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it an opportunity for mutual blessing?

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Are people for here for your enjoyments or

are they here so you can enjoy life with?

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How do you view people?

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See, this is so important because

here's the thing, your view of people

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determines your treatment of people.

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Your view of people determines

your treatment of people.

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Think about this.

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If you view somebody as special, how

do you treat that person special?

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If you view somebody as, Hmm,

I can't stand that person.

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What are you tempted to do?

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Do something that you

shouldn't be doing, right?

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So your view of people

determines how you treat people.

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So we have to ask ourselves if I'm gonna

love God and I'm gonna love people, I

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gotta understand how do I view people?

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'cause I can't love people if I

don't have the right view of people.

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Brother and sisters, are you with me here?

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And so we need to see people and here's

the opportunity that God, God is so cool,

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but God shows us how he views us, and

then he calls us to have the same view.

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So let's go real old school.

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Okay, we're gonna go

to Genesis chapter one.

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We're gonna go to where it

all started here real quickly.

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And I usually like to look at one

passage and go through it, but we're

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gonna look at several passages here,

so make sure you have your notes out

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so you can take uh, uh, notes here.

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But in Genesis chapter one,

we are reminded that every

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creation is an image bearer.

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Every creation, every person, every

human being is an image bearer of God.

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What do we mean?

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Genesis chapter one, verse 27.

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This is the creation story.

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It says, so God created mankind in

his own image, in the image of God.

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He created them, male and female.

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He created them.

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God created us in his image.

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The Apostle James, who, uh, was

a a was the brother of Jesus.

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He's actually talking about in

his letter to the churches, he

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starts talking about this idea.

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We gotta watch our language, but

he says something really cool that

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ties in and reminds all of us of how

we should treat people, because we

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have to have the right view of them.

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And he says this in James chapter

three, verse nine, with the tongue,

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we praise our Lord and Father.

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And with it, we curse human beings.

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Who have been made in God's likeness.

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How in the world can we praise

God, but yet curse human beings

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when they're made in God's image?

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So there's a reminder here for you

and for me, that we are made in the

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image of God, and to be made in God's

image means we are reflections of God.

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So every human being is a

reflection of God Almighty.

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And so I have here, uh,

where, where do they go?

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Here?

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I'm old school for

today, but I got a coin.

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You remember these things.

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Remember we used to actually use this.

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Sometimes you could actually

buy something back in the day.

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I used to get some candy with a

quarter, you know what I'm saying?

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A quarter.

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They looking at me like,

where's the other dollar?

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I'm like, man, this Wrigley's gum.

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What happened?

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You know?

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So anyhow, sorry.

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All right, so here's a coin.

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It's uh, George Washington.

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I got a 25 cents.

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It's a coin on there.

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Whose image on there?

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It is George Washington.

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We know who it belongs to.

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Now here's the thing, in the same

way, just like this coin, people

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have God's image stamped on them.

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Meaning that we all belong to God.

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We all are image bearers.

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Every person bears God's image,

which means that every person is

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worthy of dignity and of value.

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Every person is of value and of

dignity to God Almighty because they

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have God's image stamped on them.

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They are reflection of God.

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So whether it's the nice guy.

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Or the mean woman, or the nice woman

and the mean guy, the the right winger

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or the left winger, the black, white,

Hispanic, Asian, everything in between

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are all made in the image of God.

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And so every one of us has

dignity and self-worth because

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we're worthy and valuable to God.

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But do we view each other like this?

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Now, many of us we know this, we know.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Ms.

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Bear, I maybe don't use that phrase

that often, but we know this.

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But here's the thing.

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Many times we need what a reset

in our view and say, here's

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what's really cool in Christ.

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'cause again, in Christ, we have every

day, every opportunity to have a spiritual

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reset in our life and in our faith.

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And so we take it up as Second

Corinthians chapter five.

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I wanna read a verse here real quickly.

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And he starts off by saying, we

don't have a chance to read it all.

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But he starts off by saying, Hey, you

know, Christ's love his, his death,

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his sacrifice, his resurrection, you

know, that compels us to give our

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lives completely and holy to God.

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We don't live for ourselves anymore.

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We live for God.

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And right after he makes that statement,

he says this to the Church of Corinth.

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So from now on, we regard no one

from a worldly point of view.

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Though we once regarded Christ

in this way, we do so no longer.

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Therefore, if anyone is in

Christ, the new creation has come.

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The old is gone and the new is here.

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And so he reveals that a relationship with

God leads to a reset in how we see people.

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Before I knew God, I could view people

in a very worldly way, but once I

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enter into a relationship with God,

he now resets my view, not only of

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him, not only of myself, but of his

creation, and I'll look at them as

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objects for my self.

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Fulfillment, but they're images of

God, image bearers of the all mighty.

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You see, God can and wants to lead

us to see people not as enemies, not

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as rivals, not as annoyances, not as

objects for our use, but as image bearers

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and potential brothers and sisters.

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God doesn't want us to see people

as objects for our enjoyment,

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but image bearers who can

mutually bless one another, this

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isn't what you can do for me.

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This is, man, we get the opportunity

to be a blessing to each other.

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Image bearers.

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Imagine if our whole world had

this view of people, our society.

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California, orange County, the world.

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If everybody in the world, all 8 billion

of us, if we all viewed people as image

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bearers of God, what would that be like?

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She always said, heaven on earth,

it'd be slightly different than

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what we got going on right now.

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Right?

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The news would be a whole lot different.

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It probably would be boring.

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You'd be like, man, there ain't

much to watch anymore except for

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this good deed or this good deed.

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You're like, all right, man.

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Here we go.

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Isn't that what our world needs right now?

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Don't we need a reset in our

view, how we view each other?

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Because again, how we view each other

determines how we treat each other.

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You guys with me, brothers and sisters?

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Now let's talk about this view here.

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Let's stay in this lane.

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Let's talk about how we view

each other in this room.

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How do we view the church?

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Let me ask you this.

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How do you view people?

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How do you view those

in the rows right now?

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How do you view those that are sitting

next to you, those down the road from you?

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How do you view those in your

ministry, your small group?

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Oh, that's good one said awesome.

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Give her an hour and she

might say something else.

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How do you view your brothers and sisters?

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Let me ask you this.

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Are they church friends?

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Are they people from my church?

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Are they strangers?

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Stranger Danger.

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That's why we have some

empty seats in between.

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I don't, can't sit next to you.

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Oh, maybe y'all took it negative.

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That's okay.

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Or do we view each other as family?

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How do you view the church?

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I know most of you know the right answer.

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We know the right answer.

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Is the answer congruent with our

hearts, our faith, and our lives?

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You see, here's the great thing again,

Jesus, he gives us an opportunity

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to reset our view, not only of the

masses, not only of God's complete

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creation, but of God's people.

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We're gonna look here at a quick

verse from Jesus, and he's, uh,

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he's running in his ministry.

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He's, he's teaching, he's preaching,

he's doing these great things,

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and his family comes to visit him.

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They wanna talk to him.

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They wanna bring him outside

and they want to talk to him.

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And we learned something

really interesting here.

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Matthew 1246 Church, are

you still with me here?

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Well, Jesus was still

talking to the crowd.

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His mother and brother stood

outside wanting to speak to him.

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Someone told him, your mother

and brothers are standing outside

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wanting to speak with you.

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He replied to him, who is my

mother and who are my brothers?

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Pointing to his disciples.

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He said, here are my

mother and my brothers.

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For whoever does the will

of my father in heaven is my

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brother and sister and mother.

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Jesus doesn't say, here

are my church friends.

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Here are my fellow church goers.

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Here's my congregation.

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He says, here are my brothers and sisters.

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That was radical.

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They're like, what?

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Your mama's outside.

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I'm not your mama.

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He's like, yes, you are.

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If you do God's will.

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He says, this is my family.

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And that was radical because at that

time your family nuclear unit was huge.

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And it wasn't just brothers and sisters

as cousins and, and so that was a

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radical statement for him to make.

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Who with people who really weren't

technically related to him.

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And it's still a radical statement

today that spiritually you

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or my brother and my sister.

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Jesus' view was family and

not friends from church.

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He was reframing for them, and he's

reframing for us now how we are to

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see each other not as strangers, not

even just as friends, but as brothers

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and sisters and Gods households.

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That's how we are to view each other.

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Jesus.

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This is interesting because you

can just see this and think,

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oh, okay, uh, that's his people.

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But again, he's talking to a crowd here.

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So this wasn't just his

disciples and Jesus didn't wait

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until they earned this title.

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Jesus didn't wait until they

all felt so close to each other.

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He called 'em family immediately.

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Think about that for a second.

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If you begin to do the will of the father,

you are my brother and sister immediately.

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I don't even have to know your last name.

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We're family.

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This is the view that

God has of his people.

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Now, if this is the view that Jesus

had, what should his followers have?

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Should be the same view, shouldn't it?

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We should have the same

view that Jesus has.

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And so let me ask you this, and

this again is a good question.

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Write this question down for yourself.

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Do I have the same view that

Jesus has toward the church?

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And

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maybe for some of us, the question

is, do I still have the same view?

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We maybe had it at one time,

but maybe we've lost it.

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It's easy to lose.

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Let's keep it 100 up in here.

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Okay.

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It's easy to lose.

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I remember when I first became a

Christian, I got baptized in Washington,

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DC and, and, and, and I was like, wow.

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Everybody is, this is my family.

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This is cool.

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And that was my first year.

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And then I, I went to New York.

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I was part of New York Church for

several months, for the summer.

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Then I went to LA and I was like, man,

all these new faces, this is new family.

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It was great.

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And then after about year two,

I'm like, yeah, this is my family.

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Year three.

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Yeah.

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What's up homie?

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Alright, you.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Some of the all left and that's natural.

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That's not evil, that's not bad.

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I didn't have a bad heart.

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But what I needed is a reset

because we could lose our

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appreciation for the fellowship.

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We can lose our all of what

God is doing in the church.

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And sometimes, and me and Karina

were talking about this yesterday,

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sometimes we can just have fatigue.

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Man, I've seen you about, man, 25 years.

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Every Wednesday and Sunday,

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brother.

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I'll catch it later.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Right.

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Are we, are we being honest

or we're not being honest?

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That can happen.

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Right?

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And so what do we need when that happens?

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We need a resets.

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If we view our siblings, our kids,

our parents, our spouses like that,

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we're on the road of destruction.

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And so we need to have a reset.

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I need to view you as

an image bearer of God.

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You reflect God Almighty,

and you know what?

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You are my brother.

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You are my sister.

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We riding together.

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We gonna be an eternity together.

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So these last 30 years, there's nothing.

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And for some of us, maybe this

reset, as Daniel mentioned,

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maybe it's a simple reboot.

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Or maybe for some of us it's

a factory reset and we need

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have a complete change of mind.

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And maybe it starts with, you know

what, I'm just gonna be present.

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I'm gonna show up.

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We have a meeting of the body.

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I'm gonna show up, I'm gonna be there.

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I'm just gonna start there.

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'cause I'll be honest with you, I

lead like, uh, a hundred percent

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of our midweeks and I can tell

you that percentage of desiring

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and being so excited to be

there is not a hundred percent.

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There are many drives on my way where

I'm like, Lord, give me the strength.

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I do not feel like going.

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And then I get there and I'm struggling.

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Then the first person walks in

and they see me and I'm working.

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I'm like, yeah, I need to smile.

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Okay.

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Alright.

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Second person comes in and it starts

to change, and by the end of the

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night, I'm usually praying on my way,

thanking, God, thank you that I came.

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Thank you for my brothers and sisters.

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I'm like, please forgive me.

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I'm so sorry I had a bad attitude

earlier, but I'm grateful.

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So maybe for some of us,

I'm just gonna decide.

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I'm gonna be presents, I'm gonna be there.

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I'm gonna show up.

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Maybe for some of us it's

perhaps resetting our priorities.

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Man, you know, time is gone and we have

a lot of things going on and man, in

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Orange County and, and life in general,

there's a lot you can do, isn't there?

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And we have priorities that man, now I

have, you know, baby girl, my oldest, uh,

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she, she's in, she's a high school and

so now she's doing high school sports.

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So she was doing, you know, youth sports.

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Now she's doing high school sports.

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Number one, I didn't know they were gonna

charge me for these high school sports.

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I am so upset.

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Corina's, like it's gonna

cost a couple hundred.

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I said, couple hundred dollars for what?

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I thought we ended that.

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Sorry, I'm again, I

gotta get this stuff out.

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Okay, I gotta get this stuff.

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But now she's got all these things

and she's got sports and Dominique

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just started football again and

desire Ray has this, and I'm

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like, man, this is getting crazy.

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I said, we gotta figure something out.

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I said, we can't do all this.

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We're gonna have to cut back.

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We're gonna have to limit this because we

gotta prioritize what's most important.

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We're having to make some decisions

to prioritize, and I believe for some

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of us, we need to sit down and think,

maybe I need to reset my priorities.

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Maybe I need to sit down.

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Maybe I need to slow down so that I

can focus in on what's truly valuable,

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what's eternal, and according to

God, it's a relationship with him

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and a relationship with people.

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Especially those who believe.

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Let me ask you this, what are

the possibilities if a group

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of true Christians viewed each

other the way Jesus views us?

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What are the opportunities?

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What are the possibilities if a

group of true Christians viewed

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each other the way Jesus views us?

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There would be acceptance, there would

be supports, there would be belonging,

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there would be sacrifice, there would

be joy, there would be needs being met.

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There would be love.

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But isn't that what all of us crave?

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Don't we all crave that?

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Don't we all wanna be in a

place of where we belong?

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What's that old cheer song, right?

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All my old school heads know that.

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Remember Norm, right?

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Go where people go.

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You wanna go where everybody knows?

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There you go.

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All the young people are like,

what is this old man talking about?

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We all wanna belong.

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We all wanna be accepted for who

we are and not putting up a front.

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We all want supports.

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We all wanna be loved, but guess what?

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We all want that for

everybody else as well.

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That's what you want, not only for you,

but that's what you want for your family.

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That's what you want for your

neighbors, for your coworkers.

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This is what we all want.

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And we have the opportunity when we

have a reset and our view of people.

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'cause again, when we view each other.

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It's going to change the

way we treat one another.

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Man, time is going.

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I've gotta, I gotta blaze

through this last part here.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So, sorry Chad, I know you

don't like it when I talk fast.

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I'm gonna talk fast here real quickly.

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Okay.

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Alright.

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So here's the response here.

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So if we, if we have a different view,

then we have to go ahead and have love.

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We have to love people.

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And again, it's not have to,

it's we get the opportunity to.

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The apostle Paul wrote to the church

that met in the city of Rome, and he

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says this, we're gonna read it real

quickly here, and it talks about this

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love and love we have to understand

isn't a feeling primarily it's a feeling

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that leads to action and this word love.

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Many times in the, in the Bible, it's

written in Greek, and so the word is

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agape and it's agape includes feeling,

but it's really about doing what's

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in the best interest of the other.

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So when Jesus says, love your enemy,

he's not talking about have warm,

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fuzzy feelings for your enemy.

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He's talking about do

what's best for your enemy.

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It's a verb.

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It's something that we do, not something

necessarily that we just possess.

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You guys with me here?

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So let's read an understanding

that the love must be sincere.

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Verse nine, hate what is evil.

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Clinging to what is good.

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Be devoted to one another in love.

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Honor one another above yourselves.

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Never be lacking in ze.

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But keep your spiritual

fervor serving the Lord.

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Be joyful and hope patient and

affliction faithful in prayer.

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Share with the Lord's

people who are in need.

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Practice hospitality.

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Bless those who persecute you.

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Bless and do not curse.

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Rejoice with those who rejoice,

mourn with those who mourn.

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Live in harmony with one another.

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Do not be proud, but be willing to

associate with people of low position.

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Do not be conceited.

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Do not repay anyone evil for evil.

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Be careful to do what is

right in the eyes of everyone.

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If it is possible, as far as it depends

on you, live at peace with everyone.

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Verse 19, do not take revenge, my

dear friends, but leave room for

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God's wrath where it is written.

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It is mine to avenge.

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I will repay, says the Lord.

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On the contrary, if your

enemy is hungry, feed him.

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If he is thirsty, give

him something to drink.

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In doing this, you will heat

burning coals on his head.

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Do not be overcome by evil,

but overcome evil with good.

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Let's stop right there.

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Here's God's vision for our

relationships and our character.

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It's God's vision that this

is what describe our and, uh,

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uh, uh, it would describe our

relationships and our character.

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See when there's a reset, it

begins with our view, but it

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leads to what we just read.

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It leads to sincere love and action.

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There's devotion, there's

honor to one another.

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There's sharing, there's generosity,

ity, hospitality, for those you know

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and those you don't know, supportive

in the good and the tough times.

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Living at peace instead of

hostility and animosity.

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Showing mercy and even,

and even blessing enemies.

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You see, this is who we are.

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This is what we do and this is the

type of relationships we are to have.

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This right here is love and action.

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We have a reset.

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It leads to action where there's

true love being exemp, uh, exhibited.

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We have the Lord's favor

and we get a chance to bring

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the Lord's favor to people.

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You get a chance to bring it to you.

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You get a chance to bring

it to somebody else.

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'cause we receive it, we

experience it, and then we join

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God in bringing that to others.

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We join God in blessing our

communities and blessing each

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other and making situations better.

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When the Christians come into the

building, the situation should get better.

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It shouldn't go from good to bad.

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We come in, it should go from

bad to good, from good to

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better, and from better to best.

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You guys with me here because we're

bringing the Lord's favor into the table.

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This is who we are.

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This is what we do, and these are

the relationships that we have.

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But again, this is what we all desire

and this is what we all want to do.

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And it starts with the reset with God

That leads to a reset with people.

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Let's get real, uh, uh, practical here.

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So here's some action steps

just for the week here.

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Alright?

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Now you can continue this going forward,

but I wanna, I wanna encourage you

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and ask you and challenge you to do

this for the next seven days here.

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Okay?

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So here's number one.

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Pray each day this week, this type of

prayer, God help me see and treat people

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as you do every day before you get on

the car, you get on the five or the

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4 0 5 and 91 before you go to class.

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And you have to take face that,

that, that professor before you

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go to school, whatever it is.

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Pray every day this week.

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God help me see and

treat people as you do.

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And then second, choose a go-to verse

that shapes how you view others.

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Find if you don't have one, have

a go-to verse that helps you

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to reframe your view of people.

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'cause sometimes I get some calls and I'm

like, they are made in the image of you.

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They are my brother and sister.

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Okay, let's do this with me here.

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So from now on we regard no one

from a worldly point of view.

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Though we once regarded Christ

in this way, we do so no longer.

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Therefore, if anyone is in

Christ, that's you and me.

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The new creation has come.

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The old is gone.

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The new is here.

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May God lead us to a reset in

our relationships and may we

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experience more of God's favor.

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Amen.