WEBVTT 00:00:00.579 --> 00:00:30.179 We've been, we've started our series on overcoming me and we made this really big claim that we said I really believe that somebody, maybe it's not yours, but maybe, you know, it could be yours, somebody's life is going to be changed through the series of these lessons and through our embracing our struggle with sin and leaning into it instead of just trying to avoid it and then coming out the other side a changed man or woman. 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:38.600 You know, we looked at these, this scripture and this is kind of our main text. 00:00:38.780 --> 00:01:05.140 It's Romans, this is Romans 7 and it says, we know the law is spiritual, I'm unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin, I don't understand what I do, what I do not want to do or what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do, and if I do what I do not want to do, I agree the law is good as it is, it's no longer I myself who do it, it's sin living in me. 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:17.480 And we see this struggle, it says, I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do, this I keep on doing. 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:32.799 And we said that the Bible is talking, Paul is talking, the greatest Christian, perhaps the greatest Christian who worked with me here, at least planted the most powerful churches, wrote the majority of the books or maybe not majority, he wrote a lot of the books of the New Testament. 00:01:33.980 --> 00:01:43.420 This guy said, there's sin that I've got in my life that I just can't say no to, I really want to, in the depth of my heart, I want to and yet I just can't. 00:01:44.099 --> 00:01:47.200 And it's this struggle that we all feel. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:02:01.540 And there's this tension that Alec was talking about because Jesus says that anyone who sins is a slave to sin, but if the son sets you free, then you're free indeed. 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:15.300 And so we've got these two competing things and we've got Paul saying post Jesus's resurrection, being a saved Christian, and he's saying, I don't do the good things that I want to do, but the bad things I keep on doing them. 00:02:15.340 --> 00:02:18.800 And there's this struggle and I hate it and I'm fighting against my flesh. 00:02:19.460 --> 00:02:23.580 And then Jesus says, if the son sets you free, you are free indeed. 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:27.900 And we are trying to make sense of this tension. 00:02:28.060 --> 00:02:32.900 We're trying to come out the other side as people who understand how to better fight this tension. 00:02:32.900 --> 00:02:36.000 Last week was talking all about that. 00:02:36.219 --> 00:02:37.219 Hey, we gotta be honest. 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:38.120 There is this tension. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.879 There is this reality that we're living in this week. 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:44.120 We are going to, uh, this is a series of five lessons. 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:51.039 And so we're going to make our way, uh, begin to making our way through the other side that we know we're messed up people. 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:52.819 We, we're not going to hide it. 00:02:53.259 --> 00:02:56.840 Let's, let's figure out then how to overcome or work to overcome. 00:02:56.900 --> 00:02:57.139 Amen. 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:10.319 The most encouraging thing that we left with, at least in my view, is that God has no problem declaring us free from sin before we learn to live free from sin. 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:18.680 That should provide us with some sort of encouragement that should, that should give us some pep in our step in our day to day living. 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:24.379 Uh, what I will say before we even get any further, we talked about this on Wednesday as well. 00:03:24.419 --> 00:03:25.860 We had a church service on Wednesday. 00:03:25.939 --> 00:03:27.759 This is again, a refresher. 00:03:27.979 --> 00:03:32.340 Uh, you could, I mean, you know how you skip the intro for, uh, you know, shows or whatever. 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:33.520 Maybe you already skipped the intro. 00:03:33.860 --> 00:03:35.879 We're going to get to the real part of the lesson in a moment. 00:03:36.020 --> 00:03:36.159 Okay. 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.919 So you can skip through, uh, and then we'll, we'll get, we'll get to it. 00:03:38.939 --> 00:03:52.120 But we also said, we also said that anything that we talk about on a Sunday or a Wednesday or anything that you read about that is, uh, trying to, uh, that, that tries to be spiritual says, I, this is a spiritual thing. 00:03:52.300 --> 00:03:59.319 Listen to me, but that is leaving you further from Jesus or is trying to minimize Jesus and his majesty. 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:01.360 Uh, that that's not spiritual. 00:04:01.460 --> 00:04:02.539 You can throw that one out the window. 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:08.879 And so none of what we talk about, I hope this, this morning leaves you feeling like, well, okay, I can just go do my, do my day to day. 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:10.979 I don't have to worry about living for Jesus. 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:15.699 No, it on the contrary, what we're going to look at should give us a greater appreciation for Jesus. 00:04:15.860 --> 00:04:21.540 And it should motivate us even further to lean into and walk with our Lord and savior. 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:21.899 Amen. 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:28.100 So we're, we're looking at the process of overcoming sin. 00:04:28.139 --> 00:04:31.079 Uh, this, this morning it's in Romans eight. 00:04:31.180 --> 00:04:55.980 Now it says, therefore, uh, there's no, there's now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus, the law of the spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death for what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh. 00:04:56.180 --> 00:05:01.360 God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. 00:05:02.139 --> 00:05:12.779 And so he condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us who do not live according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:22.639 Uh, there's, there's some things that are talked about the first that it says, Hey, if we are following this, there's no condemnation. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:24.660 It says, there's no condemnation. 00:05:24.740 --> 00:05:33.079 Then the believer, uh, the believer in, in mind and spirit and entire and practice, there's no condemnation in Christ. 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:39.560 That should give us, again, I hope you feel encouraged that there's no condemnation now because there's no condemnation. 00:05:39.620 --> 00:05:40.540 Let's go do our own thing. 00:05:40.620 --> 00:05:41.439 No, no, no, no, no. 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.240 Uh, we, we worked so hard for our salvation, right? 00:05:45.100 --> 00:05:45.819 No, right. 00:05:45.899 --> 00:05:46.079 Yeah. 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:46.259 Yeah. 00:05:46.259 --> 00:05:50.720 You guys are with me that, that the reality is that the believer brings nothing to this equation. 00:05:50.779 --> 00:05:54.819 The, the follower of Christ brings nothing into the, to this equation. 00:05:54.819 --> 00:05:57.839 Have you, uh, have you ever tried to, well, you probably did. 00:05:57.860 --> 00:06:13.620 Have you ever tried like there's somebody, maybe you had a secret Santa, or there's something in your family that you're like, you do something and you organize it in such a way that you, uh, that you pick a name and, and there's some names who you're like, this person's going to be grateful for anything I give them. 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.439 And they need a lot of things. 00:06:15.860 --> 00:06:19.360 Uh, like they, they, you know, whatever, they need a new microwave, whatever. 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:25.220 I know that I can, if I get this person's name in the hat, and this would happen to us as a, as a family, we would do this. 00:06:25.220 --> 00:06:29.300 And we had a big family, uh, in, in, you know, my mom's side, uh, in green Bay. 00:06:29.339 --> 00:06:30.339 And so we would always pick names. 00:06:30.339 --> 00:06:33.000 And there was a few names where we're like, we're excited to get these people like that. 00:06:33.019 --> 00:06:36.339 And also, you know, like we always know we can buy them a nice pair of socks. 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:37.259 We get them a nice tie. 00:06:37.339 --> 00:06:39.480 We get them a nice shirt and they, they need all that stuff. 00:06:39.579 --> 00:06:40.620 And so there'll be excited. 00:06:40.699 --> 00:06:49.680 And then there were some other people who, when we would pull their names, we were like, Oh man, this guy, like my, my uncle was one of those guys and I'd pull his name. 00:06:49.899 --> 00:06:54.120 And the frustrating part is whatever he needed, he would just buy, right? 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:59.980 Like there was nothing that we could, uh, take and give to him that he would, uh, perhaps he'd be grateful. 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:00.560 Hey, thank you. 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:02.759 That's what's really kind, but there's nothing that we can give to him. 00:07:02.779 --> 00:07:03.759 Like he really wanted it. 00:07:03.779 --> 00:07:05.120 He would just, he would just buy it. 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.779 Um, do you have anybody like that in your life? 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:09.120 Okay. 00:07:09.220 --> 00:07:09.699 I don't know. 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:10.199 Maybe not. 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:11.220 Maybe you are that person. 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:23.939 Um, I, I think as I was, I was trying to connect it a little bit, I think in, in terms of what we can give to God, I think he's, he's, he doesn't need anything from us. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.160 Like he, he, he has everything he needs. 00:07:26.220 --> 00:07:27.819 He, he organizes it perfectly. 00:07:27.819 --> 00:07:28.800 He has it all. 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:33.540 And so we, we're not going to live a good life and give to him. 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.399 Like we're not going to earn or bring anything into this equation. 00:07:36.980 --> 00:07:40.480 It's, it's just, there's no condemnation because of what Jesus has done. 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:54.220 The, the one thing don't, don't jump, uh, don't jump to a different spot because this series is not intended for us to feel like, Oh, we, we, we, uh, this is how to live free from sin. 00:07:54.220 --> 00:07:55.939 Like this is how to get saved. 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:57.519 This is how to get in God's good grace. 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:58.939 No, this is a series. 00:07:59.019 --> 00:08:04.500 There's some in this room who are in a right relationship with God who are like, uh, have gone from loss to saved. 00:08:04.579 --> 00:08:06.079 And this is a series for you. 00:08:06.100 --> 00:08:09.819 And there, there are others who are in the process of that they're on their journey. 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:10.660 They're not there yet. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:16.160 And I think this is a series for you, but perhaps it's more of a series for you to listen in and be like, wow, I really want this. 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:16.660 Okay. 00:08:16.660 --> 00:08:18.379 Let's talk about how that, how that comes along. 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:24.759 But this is not a series that is going to remove your struggles so that God will accept you. 00:08:24.860 --> 00:08:26.759 God has already accepted you understand that. 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:37.200 Um, something else that that's, that's talked about, they, they use this, uh, this phrasing of, uh, they, they use the word law a lot. 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:55.480 Um, this law of sin or this law of righteousness, a, a helpful way to view that, or maybe a redefinition would be to view it in the content instead of law to call it, uh, these powers, these impulses and these principles. 00:08:55.659 --> 00:09:11.799 And so when it says we're learning to live, uh, by, by the law of the spirit, what it's talking about is that we're learning to live by these powers, by these principles and by these impulses of what the spirit gives us, like the spirit has it, we're learning to live in it then. 00:09:13.139 --> 00:09:18.840 And we're, uh, we're running away from the law of sin and death. 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:27.519 Uh, these powers, we're learning to live away from these powers, these principles, and these impulses of sin and death. 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:33.779 Uh, these two things are in direct contradiction to one another, aren't they? 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:50.940 These, these, these two that we can't, we can't mix the two part of our, it's can't say, well, there's something, there's nothing in our lives that we're going to do that fits both the law of sin and death and also the law of the spirit. 00:09:51.059 --> 00:09:59.740 Like there's nothing that you're going to be able to go in between this impulse to sin and this impulse to live in the spirit. 00:10:00.059 --> 00:10:16.240 Uh, our, our goal as we grow to be more like Christ is that we are able, and we're, we're learning to on a day-to-day basis, but we are dying every day to these impulses and these principles that we learned to live in of sin and death for so many years. 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:17.620 We're dying to those. 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:29.879 And soon that there's going to be a day, uh, when, when these impulses of, of salvation and of Jesus Christ, and these, these principles of the spirit are going to overtake us. 00:10:30.299 --> 00:10:31.879 That's, that's going to be heaven. 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:38.159 Uh, but, but there's this hope that we're fighting for, and we're working towards, uh, to get there. 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:55.279 I, I, even the word, uh, impulse, like the idea of the spirit, there being an impulse we, it, you know, prior to becoming a follower of Christ, I bet, I bet the word impulse was not one you used for some of the, what the spirit tells us to do. 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:58.200 Like I felt the impulse to say no to sin. 00:10:58.279 --> 00:10:58.840 No, you didn't feel it. 00:10:58.919 --> 00:10:59.980 You felt the impulse to sin. 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:01.440 And then you like fought not to. 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:05.659 Uh, and so I, even in the phrasing, I feel, uh, I feel again, encouragement. 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:10.399 I feel hope that there's going to be a time when these powers and these principles, they just overtake us. 00:11:10.419 --> 00:11:13.179 They, these powers to not sin, just overtake us. 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.539 And we're excited for that day. 00:11:15.779 --> 00:11:28.240 Um, and so again, work with me here, then like our responsibility to God, uh, our responsibility in viewing God's perfect mercy is to offer our bodies. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:33.120 And a part of offering our bodies is to, to deny ourselves and to turn away from sin. 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:41.080 And there's this transformation that's going to occur that we can't, we're not, we're not making it to be, to be, uh, without sin prior to heaven. 00:11:41.340 --> 00:11:43.840 Uh, but what can we do then? 00:11:43.860 --> 00:11:45.259 Or what's this process look like? 00:11:45.299 --> 00:11:56.179 Well, instead of this, uh, these impulses of the law of sin and death, we're trying to remove these out and we're trying to add in as much of the spirit as we possibly can. 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:00.980 Um, you know, there is this, this helpful, uh, graphic that I'll explain in a moment. 00:12:00.980 --> 00:12:02.580 I'm going to show you that I'll explain it in a moment. 00:12:04.139 --> 00:12:14.500 And so this, this, uh, this graphic, this, the first guy, this first all black silhouette is how anybody is, how anybody's walking. 00:12:14.580 --> 00:12:15.659 They're living in darkness. 00:12:15.659 --> 00:12:18.100 There's no, uh, there's no hope. 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:24.120 This is a hard line inside of us that, that we can't say no to sin. 00:12:24.139 --> 00:12:26.279 Like we're just living in sin. 00:12:26.299 --> 00:12:27.720 It's not a broken man. 00:12:27.820 --> 00:12:29.759 It's a man by himself. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:30.580 We are bound. 00:12:30.740 --> 00:12:33.399 There's no opportunity to turn away from sin. 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.399 Any, any good that, that we do. 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:42.220 And perhaps some of us were living awesome lives or on the surface, awesome lives prior to coming to Christ. 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:43.860 Some of us certainly were not. 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:49.840 If you were living an awesome life coming to Christ and you've really come to Christ and you'd say, well, I was, I was just self-righteous. 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:54.460 You know, I was trying to do a bunch of good things, but I was doing it to feel good for myself. 00:12:54.580 --> 00:12:59.940 I was trying to be this moral person as opposed to being somebody who's broken by Jesus. 00:13:01.379 --> 00:13:04.419 And then we have, uh, the, the second guy there. 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:13.740 And that's, that's what happens to anybody who, when, when they, when they go from lost to saved and their body, this body is broken. 00:13:13.740 --> 00:13:23.159 And you see some things that are like, like spewing out a little bit and there's, there's opportunity then for the spirit to come in and for the spirit to infiltrate our being. 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:40.159 Uh, the, the third person is, uh, is who somebody, somebody then this, this, this color, these colors of the spirit, this beauty is, is entering into the man to be somebody who is, is full of God's law and God's principles. 00:13:40.539 --> 00:13:48.519 And then, uh, we, we want to, and the struggle, like we look to the guy on the far right and we say, well, let's, let's get there. 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:49.899 Then let's, let's do it. 00:13:49.940 --> 00:13:53.620 And the reality is the only time we're making it to this, the fourth guy is in heaven. 00:13:54.039 --> 00:14:09.220 And so until, uh, uh, you know, we're going to spend our whole lives in the first three and may, if you've, if you've made a decision to go from dark to light, uh, then, then you're spending your time in the middle to them. 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:17.720 Uh, and you're, you're fighting and there's going to be times when you are, are magnifying the spirit working in your life. 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:25.019 And then there's going to be times when you backslide and the spirit, you're like, man, I, I, the spirit, I don't feel the spirit's impulse. 00:14:25.019 --> 00:14:38.580 Like I used to, uh, we are going to spend as, as much, as much time in our lives in these first two, the challenge is to continue to lift up the spirit and allow the spirit room to work. 00:14:42.129 --> 00:14:48.710 We're, we're learning to live subject to a different set of powers, a different set of impulses and a different set of principles. 00:14:50.769 --> 00:14:52.909 So how do we, how do we go about doing that? 00:14:52.950 --> 00:14:55.950 I want to talk about the, the, the spirit this morning. 00:14:56.490 --> 00:15:07.289 Um, Galatians five, right after Paul talks about this, this sin, uh, the, these deep, obvious sins, he says the law of the flesh, it's obvious. 00:15:07.289 --> 00:15:14.830 And he brings it up and then he, he brings up this, uh, this law as well as this fruit rather of the spirit. 00:15:14.830 --> 00:15:29.169 He says the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. 00:15:29.370 --> 00:15:33.450 He says against such things, there is no law. 00:15:36.649 --> 00:15:38.889 These are, these are the gifts that we're talking about. 00:15:38.909 --> 00:15:47.309 How do we, how do we add more of, how do we, how do we remove the, this, this ugly law and add in some of the beautiful, colorful, vibrant law? 00:15:47.370 --> 00:15:48.750 How do we do that? 00:15:49.929 --> 00:15:54.389 We have to grow in our, in our, uh, in our fruits of the spirit. 00:15:54.590 --> 00:15:57.990 And that's, that's, this is, uh, this is what we're going to talk about. 00:15:58.049 --> 00:16:02.370 These are supernatural things that, that are given by the Holy spirit. 00:16:02.950 --> 00:16:06.389 Uh, you know, you can, you can do these things that you can certainly love. 00:16:06.409 --> 00:16:09.990 You can certainly have joy before, before coming to Christ. 00:16:10.070 --> 00:16:13.370 That's not, I'm not, I'm not the guy that's saying, no, there's no way there was no love before. 00:16:13.529 --> 00:16:23.440 No, you can, you can do, you can do perhaps all of these things prior to coming to Christ, but it just magnifies it. 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:29.980 There's, there's a higher level when, when you come to Christ, like the restrictor plate of your love is totally removed. 00:16:30.179 --> 00:16:40.580 When you come to Christ, uh, the peace that you live with is, is one that transcends understanding when you come to Christ. 00:16:40.700 --> 00:16:40.860 Amen. 00:16:41.740 --> 00:16:41.840 No. 00:16:41.980 --> 00:16:44.500 And so, and so we, we had, you can find these things. 00:16:44.580 --> 00:16:50.559 The other, the other thing I want to make note of is that these things in the same way, the law, the acts of the flesh are obvious. 00:16:51.019 --> 00:16:53.559 These things, when you see them, they're pretty obvious as well. 00:16:53.580 --> 00:16:59.820 Aren't they like, you, you know, somebody in your life who is full of peace. 00:17:00.179 --> 00:17:03.078 And if, and if you, and if you don't, then, then, you know, amen. 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.640 But there's people in your life, perhaps that you're like, this person is full of peace. 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:09.460 Like you've seen the spirit working and it's not everybody. 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:13.640 Uh, you've seen somebody who is so gentle. 00:17:13.740 --> 00:17:18.980 You know, when I think of, uh, when I think of, uh, you know, I, I'm not just saying this because they're, they're gone right now. 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.539 When I think of the Stannett's or when I think of Lorene, like, I just think of goodness. 00:17:22.539 --> 00:17:29.059 Like that's from the bottom of my heart, Lorene Stannett, like, I just think, man, there's, she's a very good person. 00:17:29.099 --> 00:17:31.539 And there's people who it's easy for me to identify. 00:17:31.539 --> 00:17:33.940 Like, they're just better people than I am. 00:17:34.220 --> 00:17:35.440 Like they're like, yeah. 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:35.980 Oh, everyone. 00:17:36.099 --> 00:17:36.799 God said, yeah, yeah. 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:37.000 Great. 00:17:37.220 --> 00:17:40.559 But that person's, they're just, they're just a little bit better than I am. 00:17:40.900 --> 00:17:44.759 Um, and I, and Lorene is one of those people in her heart. 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.740 It's like, man, she really, she, she's full of goodness. 00:17:52.750 --> 00:17:54.190 There's people again in your life. 00:17:54.250 --> 00:18:01.049 I bet you, if you looked at, and you really prayed about who are the people of love in your life, who are the people of joy in your life? 00:18:01.089 --> 00:18:03.130 When you see it, it is obvious. 00:18:05.029 --> 00:18:08.470 This is, this is the supernatural working of the Holy spirit. 00:18:11.670 --> 00:18:14.849 And so we'll go back to this image for a moment. 00:18:14.930 --> 00:18:18.789 Then I, I want to, I want to address something. 00:18:18.809 --> 00:18:21.130 Cause we look at, like we said, we sin all the time. 00:18:21.309 --> 00:18:25.029 Uh, and there's sins that there's, there's maybe you've got a lot of them. 00:18:25.150 --> 00:18:26.089 I've got a lot of them. 00:18:26.369 --> 00:18:36.589 There's a few that, that I bet you're like, you know, these are the boulders where if I removed these boulders, I'm sure there's other stuff, but I'd feel pretty free if I just removed this greed in my life. 00:18:36.650 --> 00:18:40.150 If I removed my ego, I would feel pretty free. 00:18:40.269 --> 00:18:50.470 If I removed, uh, my, my, my coarse language, if I removed this anxiety and this lack of trust in God, if I removed these things, I'd feel pretty great. 00:18:50.829 --> 00:18:52.309 Um, do you guys feel that or not? 00:18:52.349 --> 00:18:52.549 Really? 00:18:53.049 --> 00:19:03.869 I, I, I remember feeling in, uh, in, in college as I was going through it, I remember just feeling like, I know, and I remember telling people, I know I've got a lot of sin in my life. 00:19:04.269 --> 00:19:17.369 I also know that, that if I could, if I gave up, uh, like if I, if I fought through and could, if I can be drunkenness and impurity, I, I know there's other sin in my life. 00:19:17.430 --> 00:19:19.710 I just can't see past these two things. 00:19:19.710 --> 00:19:22.809 Like, these are the two that are just holding me back. 00:19:22.849 --> 00:19:23.829 And I know there's more. 00:19:23.869 --> 00:19:26.130 I even, again, I, this was a conversation. 00:19:26.230 --> 00:19:27.369 This is a prayers to God. 00:19:27.369 --> 00:19:30.490 This was, uh, talking with people that I know there's more. 00:19:31.049 --> 00:19:41.009 I'm not, I'm not even close, but I can't see, like, these are the boulders that are in my life that I just, I there's, there's pebbles, there's other rocks, there's stuff, there's a whole, there's a lot of stuff. 00:19:41.089 --> 00:19:46.809 There's some saying that I'm like, I, I don't know when I'm going to get to that, but there's going to be like, but these boulders are right here. 00:19:46.829 --> 00:19:48.769 Like if I, I cannot remove these. 00:19:48.789 --> 00:19:51.470 And when these get removed, then there's some other stuff to deal with. 00:19:51.490 --> 00:19:58.509 Perhaps in your life, uh, this morning, you've got, you've got the boulders where you're like, man, I, I really want to get rid of this stuff. 00:19:58.589 --> 00:20:04.490 These are the, these are the two, or these are the three that if you just remove them, I'm not perfect, but I'm on the way. 00:20:04.589 --> 00:20:05.289 You know what I'm saying? 00:20:05.309 --> 00:20:10.529 Like I, I I'm, I'm being filled with, uh, this, this color right here. 00:20:12.190 --> 00:20:17.710 And so this overcoming of sin, like the battle is not to just not sin. 00:20:17.970 --> 00:20:19.269 Uh, this wasn't me. 00:20:19.269 --> 00:20:20.609 This was one of my friends. 00:20:21.210 --> 00:20:24.289 Um, and he, uh, he had some great convictions. 00:20:24.490 --> 00:20:27.509 He was not, he was not awesome at conveying these great convictions. 00:20:28.109 --> 00:20:40.369 And the person he was, he sat in on a, uh, on there, there was a purity group meeting then that, um, that he sat in on and somebody, you know, the, the goal of it, you know, it's, it's young men. 00:20:40.470 --> 00:20:41.130 We're getting together. 00:20:41.130 --> 00:20:43.130 We're sharing what's going on in our lives. 00:20:43.190 --> 00:20:44.690 Uh, we're praying for one another. 00:20:44.690 --> 00:20:46.009 We're holding each other accountable. 00:20:46.210 --> 00:20:46.829 We're talking through it. 00:20:46.869 --> 00:20:49.670 Like we're doing, uh, what we hope is helpful things. 00:20:49.690 --> 00:20:50.569 We're looking to the Bible. 00:20:50.670 --> 00:20:52.049 Like we're trying to fight. 00:20:52.109 --> 00:20:54.549 And part of what we're going to talk about is promoting the spirit. 00:20:55.029 --> 00:21:03.230 Um, and he, uh, as somebody shared, like it was his first time coming and he didn't connect that, like, you know, you just shouldn't, uh, say some of these things. 00:21:03.329 --> 00:21:05.289 He said, Hey, so if you don't want to send, just don't sit. 00:21:05.349 --> 00:21:08.490 Like if you, if you don't want to look at that girl, just turn, look, look, don't do that. 00:21:08.490 --> 00:21:09.970 Like, it's not, it's not hard of you. 00:21:10.069 --> 00:21:11.730 Why are you on your phone at all, dude? 00:21:11.769 --> 00:21:17.170 And he just, he said it in such a way that I'm like, man, one I'm fired up. 00:21:17.250 --> 00:21:19.210 Like he doesn't have the same struggle that we have. 00:21:19.250 --> 00:21:19.950 Like that's encouraging. 00:21:20.410 --> 00:21:23.150 Um, on another note, uh, buddy, that's not helpful. 00:21:23.150 --> 00:21:27.750 You know, like, like I'm fighting, we're fighting, like we're trying to fight against our sin. 00:21:27.970 --> 00:21:30.710 And so the solution is not don't sin. 00:21:30.789 --> 00:21:34.109 Like if I could not sin, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be here right now. 00:21:34.130 --> 00:21:34.309 Right. 00:21:38.980 --> 00:21:49.839 So, so in, in our, in our struggles though, like you think about your struggle, uh, you struggle, your struggle with gossip or your struggle, like it, it, yeah, sure. 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.000 Like stop, stop talking bad about people. 00:21:53.019 --> 00:21:53.400 Great. 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:58.599 But you've got to grow in your kindness, uh, your kindness, this fruit of the spirit of kindness. 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:00.700 Like you have to grow, you have to grow in that. 00:22:01.380 --> 00:22:06.220 Um, you think about your, your pride or, uh, your greed. 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:10.980 If you're struggling with, with greed, you have to grow in your peace and joy. 00:22:11.220 --> 00:22:12.900 Like you, like you're greedy. 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:13.960 You're worried about money. 00:22:13.980 --> 00:22:16.200 You don't have, you don't have joy in your heart. 00:22:16.259 --> 00:22:17.000 There's no peace. 00:22:17.019 --> 00:22:19.119 You're worried about the next step and the next step and the next step. 00:22:19.460 --> 00:22:20.940 There's no, there's no peace there. 00:22:23.380 --> 00:22:23.740 Right. 00:22:23.740 --> 00:22:27.480 If you're, if you're, if you're angry, man, I'm mad. 00:22:27.500 --> 00:22:30.140 It's not just because somebody did something or somebody said something. 00:22:30.259 --> 00:22:32.519 You're, you're acting out of your anger. 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:33.279 You're yelling. 00:22:33.859 --> 00:22:36.240 It's, it's, you need to, you need to grow in your gentleness. 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:38.019 Like you need to be a more gentle person. 00:22:38.619 --> 00:22:40.859 Um, you need to promote the spirit in that way. 00:22:40.859 --> 00:22:47.259 And this, these are areas, uh, you look at your sin and there's a redefinition that I want to challenge us. 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:51.000 It's certainly, these are things that we do that we, we've, yeah, fight it. 00:22:51.019 --> 00:22:51.680 We've got to stop. 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:52.359 We've got to work. 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:53.500 We got to work for it. 00:22:53.779 --> 00:22:59.140 Not because, uh, to get saved, but because, because we're living a life of saved, uh, saved Christians. 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:03.470 Um, but I want to reframe it. 00:23:03.509 --> 00:23:05.769 Maybe you view, uh, your sin right now. 00:23:05.769 --> 00:23:07.710 Like this is stuff I got to stop doing. 00:23:07.890 --> 00:23:08.990 I want to change that. 00:23:09.009 --> 00:23:16.069 And I, I think the Bible wants to as well to say, okay, this is an area where the spirit's fruit has not taken root in your life. 00:23:16.750 --> 00:23:22.970 Um, and so you can pursue something instead of just trying to remove something, you know, removing stuff's a bit more difficult. 00:23:23.109 --> 00:23:28.809 If you, if you're pursuing kindness, you're going to find that you, you say better things about people. 00:23:28.890 --> 00:23:31.269 You think less evil thoughts about people. 00:23:31.809 --> 00:23:34.930 Uh, if you're just worried about, Oh, I can't, I can't say that thing. 00:23:35.490 --> 00:23:37.549 Uh, then you're going to struggle with it. 00:23:37.569 --> 00:23:40.490 Or, or you think about anxiety might be a great example. 00:23:40.589 --> 00:23:41.410 I don't be anxious. 00:23:41.470 --> 00:23:41.930 Don't be anxious. 00:23:41.990 --> 00:23:42.390 Don't be anxious. 00:23:42.650 --> 00:23:43.549 That's not going to work. 00:23:43.589 --> 00:23:44.170 You know what I'm saying? 00:23:44.190 --> 00:23:46.369 Like, like, uh, no, no. 00:23:46.650 --> 00:23:50.769 We're saying, let's let me, God, please let me feel this peace. 00:23:51.069 --> 00:23:55.829 I want to feel the peace that transcends understanding that you promise to your Christians. 00:23:56.150 --> 00:23:58.829 I want to feel that God, I don't feel that yet. 00:23:59.069 --> 00:24:01.450 How can I promote peace then in my life? 00:24:01.589 --> 00:24:01.829 Yeah. 00:24:03.690 --> 00:24:07.230 Can't frame sin like these do's and do nots. 00:24:07.309 --> 00:24:12.150 Uh, we're lacking what the spirit is trying to do. 00:24:12.190 --> 00:24:20.029 And so my question this morning is what areas has the spirit not yet made the impact that he needs to make in your life? 00:24:21.869 --> 00:24:26.710 What areas has the Holy spirit not yet made the impact that he needs to make in your life? 00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:40.819 And so we, we ask them like, what, what is our role in the spirit working? 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.980 Like the spirit, we it's, this is a tough, another tough question. 00:24:45.019 --> 00:24:45.779 Like what's our role. 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:47.900 We looked at, this is the problem with sin. 00:24:48.019 --> 00:24:52.039 This is like, we're trying to remove stuff, but also we're trying to add. 00:24:52.140 --> 00:24:54.519 Then if we add enough, it's going to throw off the bad stuff. 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:56.059 And then we're like, so what, what do we do then? 00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:57.140 How I want to promote the spirit. 00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:58.279 How do I do that? 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:00.559 Uh, well, it's a, it's a good question. 00:25:01.099 --> 00:25:09.259 Um, this is the continual striving that we're going to be on though from now until Jesus comes back. 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:11.819 It says for by one sacrifice, listen to this phrasing. 00:25:11.819 --> 00:25:13.539 He has made perfect forever. 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:22.779 Those who are being made Holy, this is going to be a striving, uh, for the rest of our lives. 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:26.500 We want to get to the spot where we're number four, where we, man, I don't got any struggles anymore. 00:25:26.500 --> 00:25:27.720 Like I overcame at all. 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:28.640 I'm there. 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:31.539 And we're in the Bible says, we're, we're not going to be there. 00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:31.779 Why? 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:33.299 The phrasing is incredible. 00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:36.660 It says, uh, by one sacrifice, this is Jesus dying on the cross. 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:39.960 He has made perfect forever. 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:42.500 So this is the absolute, this is not changing. 00:25:42.619 --> 00:25:43.539 He's made perfect forever. 00:25:44.700 --> 00:25:46.079 Those who are perfect. 00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:51.539 No, it says those who are being made Holy that's you and I. 00:25:51.619 --> 00:25:56.720 And so we are in the process then of being made Holy. 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:03.460 Think about sit with that for a moment and think that God declares us perfect. 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:08.480 But on this earth, we are in the process of being made Holy. 00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:12.619 This, this is something that we shouldn't run away from. 00:26:12.779 --> 00:26:15.380 This is something we just have to embrace and live in. 00:26:15.619 --> 00:26:17.599 And like, how do we promote the spirit? 00:26:17.740 --> 00:26:18.779 Then is the question. 00:26:18.819 --> 00:26:21.220 This is going to be something we're going to look at this. 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:24.640 And then there's going to be one, uh, one, one final charge and then we'll, we'll close up. 00:26:26.619 --> 00:26:31.640 These are some ways that I think we can allow the spirits fruit to grow in our lives. 00:26:31.700 --> 00:26:34.759 Some of these are, you can view them as spiritual disciplines. 00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:41.940 Maybe these are things that you're already doing in your life, but I'll talk about them just for talking about each of them just for a moment. 00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:42.980 And the first is rest. 00:26:43.019 --> 00:26:49.660 If you look at your schedule and there's no white space or there's no empty space, um, you need to create rest. 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:50.539 You're doing too much. 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:56.119 Um, there's, uh, there, you know, I feel there's always more to do. 00:26:56.180 --> 00:27:01.420 I was talking to Richard and I was like, man, I was so excited. 00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:02.680 Uh, Richard and David too. 00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:11.140 I think I was like, man, I'm so, I was so excited to get done with school because then there was going to be a time when I could be done with, with work. 00:27:11.140 --> 00:27:16.000 Like I can, you know, like I'm, I'm, I'm done then, you know, like I, in school there's always more to do. 00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:22.519 There's always, I was hoping that I would get a job where I'm like, I clock in, I clock out and I'm, I'm good to go. 00:27:22.980 --> 00:27:28.180 And, uh, and I just said, ministries ministry is like school, but it's with people's salvation. 00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:31.420 Um, it's like even, it's even more than that. 00:27:31.500 --> 00:27:33.700 Like there's, there's always more to do. 00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:41.980 Uh, and, and it's even difficult because there's, uh, there's sometimes it's, it's pretty like at least school they're like, do this, uh, study for this. 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:43.359 This is what the test is going to be on. 00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:47.700 I don't know what the test is going to be on sometimes with, with, with ministry stuff. 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:49.900 Like, I don't know what call I'm going to get tomorrow. 00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:51.000 I don't know if I'm going to get a call. 00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:52.660 I don't know what's going to happen. 00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:56.319 Uh, I gotta create this rest. 00:27:56.420 --> 00:27:59.619 Like I'm, I'm, uh, I just, I, you have to do the same though. 00:28:00.539 --> 00:28:03.539 There has to be a time in our life of, of confession. 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:14.019 This is, this is in, uh, you know, first John, it talks about if you, uh, if you claim to be without sin, um, you're a liar that says the spirit's not in you. 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:16.839 Uh, the God of love is not in you. 00:28:16.940 --> 00:28:19.380 If you confess your sins, he's faithful to you. 00:28:19.500 --> 00:28:25.160 This has to be a normal part of, of your day is this daily confession. 00:28:25.299 --> 00:28:39.660 And this is, uh, since I heard this lesson, it's been something that I've incorporated even way more than probably in all of probably in all of 2024 or maybe, maybe after I heard the lesson, but the beginning part of 2024, I, I didn't just, I didn't incorporate it. 00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:40.500 Like what is confession? 00:28:40.579 --> 00:28:43.519 What's it's prayer, but it's talking about, this is my sin. 00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:44.380 God, this is what I see. 00:28:44.460 --> 00:28:45.240 This is what I did today. 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:46.400 This was the specific thing. 00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:48.920 Not just forgive me of my sin of pride. 00:28:48.980 --> 00:28:51.400 No, no, this is, this is where I was prideful. 00:28:51.619 --> 00:28:58.579 Like, God, I just spoke up and I, I felt like a dope when I, when I, when I said that, God, just please forgive me. 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:00.480 It's that confession. 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:01.559 It's confession to one another. 00:29:01.579 --> 00:29:05.559 Like there should be people in our lives who know what's going on in our lives. 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.859 This council is like, are you seeking input from other people? 00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:20.180 This is how we promote the, the spirit's ability to move in our lives that we, you know, a man's way seems right to him. 00:29:20.940 --> 00:29:27.660 Until someone comes and cross-examines or until someone comes and is able to tell us what the, what the spirit is actually saying. 00:29:28.099 --> 00:29:30.119 We are too close to the situation. 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:36.160 It said, the Bible says the heart's deceitful above all things and beyond cure, who can understand it. 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:39.099 I really believe I should do this. 00:29:39.180 --> 00:29:39.599 Well, I don't know. 00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:43.630 Have you sought any counsel about that service? 00:29:44.630 --> 00:29:47.809 Like this is, this is all, you know, this is giving to the poor. 00:29:47.910 --> 00:29:49.029 This is serving the needy. 00:29:49.769 --> 00:29:56.769 This is, this doesn't have to be something that we're like, Hey, as a church, we have, we don't have, we should, we should really organize something as a church. 00:29:56.829 --> 00:29:57.390 Okay, good. 00:29:57.430 --> 00:30:03.069 But you should, you can organize it or you can just do it and tell us, and Hey, I'm going here. 00:30:03.170 --> 00:30:04.170 You guys want to come as well? 00:30:04.569 --> 00:30:11.769 Like, of course, perhaps the church should, and I think the church should organize stuff, but, but don't wait for the church to organize stuff. 00:30:11.970 --> 00:30:15.710 If it's something that's really on your heart, like don't, man, I really believe we should do this. 00:30:15.809 --> 00:30:15.990 Okay. 00:30:16.049 --> 00:30:18.490 Maybe you do it first and then let's, let's do it together. 00:30:18.490 --> 00:30:34.789 Then after that meeting together, like we can't, I can't overstate the impact of us meeting together and being a part of something that is bigger than ourselves, giving, giving sacrificially, listening. 00:30:34.990 --> 00:30:37.170 Like we need to read the Bible. 00:30:37.390 --> 00:30:38.950 You need to listen to the Bible read. 00:30:39.170 --> 00:30:40.730 If you're, I'm not, I'm not good at reading. 00:30:40.769 --> 00:30:43.130 I lose focus, throw it on, throw it on. 00:30:43.230 --> 00:30:47.150 You can listen to a number of podcasts, but you can, you can just listen to the Bible then. 00:30:47.269 --> 00:30:48.970 Oh man, I didn't catch something the first time. 00:30:49.049 --> 00:30:51.289 Put it on 0.75 speed, listen to it three times. 00:30:51.569 --> 00:30:53.990 You're going to, you're going to know the phrases pretty quickly there. 00:30:54.710 --> 00:31:02.289 This is stuff I know in my life right now, where I just feel like my, my capacity to like understand things is not super high. 00:31:02.410 --> 00:31:06.210 And you know, I don't know if it's the kid or if it's like just life, I'm not sure. 00:31:06.710 --> 00:31:12.730 But me listening is like, let me, I'm throwing on the Bible and I'm listening to a red and I'll follow it along. 00:31:12.829 --> 00:31:15.529 But sometimes I lose focus, but I know I'm listening to it three times. 00:31:15.609 --> 00:31:17.230 Then I'll, I'll get it by the third. 00:31:17.309 --> 00:31:19.869 I hope we got to worship. 00:31:20.130 --> 00:31:30.069 This is, this is a life of worship, but this is, this is, you know, listen to worship music, like putting as much of God's stuff as you can in your day to day life. 00:31:30.730 --> 00:31:32.309 And then prayer as well. 00:31:32.730 --> 00:31:35.369 This corporate prayer for sure. 00:31:35.509 --> 00:31:42.910 And then, and then your time with God, like, are you spending good time connecting with the father and the son, the spirit through prayer? 00:31:44.329 --> 00:31:48.910 These are our ways to allow the spirit then to project and to grow. 00:31:49.349 --> 00:31:52.470 And we were going to be doing this until we die. 00:31:52.509 --> 00:31:54.349 Like we'd love to go again, guys. 00:31:54.430 --> 00:31:56.089 I, I, I wish, right. 00:31:56.109 --> 00:32:05.930 I wish we could, uh, when we went into the waters of baptism, we were the ugly, gross, fully like the, the, the silhouette in all black. 00:32:05.930 --> 00:32:12.789 And then when we came out of the water, we were just this majestic being like, like we just floated. 00:32:12.869 --> 00:32:13.769 I would love that. 00:32:13.829 --> 00:32:14.650 You would love that. 00:32:14.670 --> 00:32:18.009 Like, I hope you weren't promised that, uh, you promised the wrong thing. 00:32:18.029 --> 00:32:27.990 If you were in, in our, in our lives though, we're going to be, we're going to be, we're going to be going in the entire, the entirety of our lives is from the second guy. 00:32:27.990 --> 00:32:35.849 Who's like broken and the spirit can move in now to the third guy who the spirit's like infiltrating. 00:32:35.990 --> 00:32:39.109 We're never going to get to the fourth until we get to heaven. 00:32:39.250 --> 00:32:46.829 Uh, there's this, uh, I hope you feel encouragement that you're not alone because there's no retirement in God's kingdom. 00:32:46.869 --> 00:32:53.589 The amazing thing about, uh, about Jesus and the Holy spirit is that we can change. 00:32:53.650 --> 00:32:55.369 It gives us the ability to change it. 00:32:55.509 --> 00:32:58.130 The Romans, uh, Romans eight later on, we won't look at it. 00:32:58.210 --> 00:32:59.150 Romans eight later on. 00:32:59.369 --> 00:33:08.569 It says like you, if you, if you don't, if you're not in Christ, like you can't change, like you can, you can change your character a little bit, but, but it's not lasting change. 00:33:08.589 --> 00:33:10.829 It's not, it's not going to work for us. 00:33:10.890 --> 00:33:12.069 We have the ability to change. 00:33:12.109 --> 00:33:12.809 It's a known thing. 00:33:12.809 --> 00:33:18.349 And like the coaching community, you take players and you're like, I just know he's just, he just kind of does the same thing. 00:33:18.349 --> 00:33:20.230 Like he's just, he's just who he is. 00:33:20.289 --> 00:33:21.750 And there's, there's a lack of dynamism. 00:33:21.750 --> 00:33:23.589 Like you're not moving and changing. 00:33:23.710 --> 00:33:29.309 Let it not be said of us that we, we are the same person at 30 that we are at 40. 00:33:29.390 --> 00:33:29.750 Right. 00:33:30.009 --> 00:33:31.650 Let it not be said that we're the same. 00:33:31.930 --> 00:33:35.250 We, when we walked through, got through the waters, we're the same person. 00:33:35.329 --> 00:33:37.930 Like we struggle with the exact same stuff in the exact same way. 00:33:37.990 --> 00:33:39.210 Let it not be said of us. 00:33:39.269 --> 00:33:41.630 There's no retirement in God's kingdom. 00:33:42.250 --> 00:33:48.130 Uh, I don't know where you're at in your, uh, in your, in your, uh, in your journey. 00:33:48.230 --> 00:33:49.890 If you're on the back nine, maybe you're in the back. 00:33:49.950 --> 00:33:51.069 Maybe you got three holes left. 00:33:51.109 --> 00:33:51.670 I don't know. 00:33:52.849 --> 00:33:53.930 There's, there's no retirement. 00:33:54.069 --> 00:33:58.930 Like you can, you can be done with, uh, you can be done with work, but there's no retirement in God's kingdom. 00:33:59.009 --> 00:34:04.549 You're going to continue to work on yourself to, uh, for the spirit to infiltrate your life. 00:34:04.569 --> 00:34:04.789 Amen. 00:34:06.250 --> 00:34:07.750 Why don't we, uh, we'll pray. 00:34:08.170 --> 00:34:15.550 And, um, next week we're going to look at, uh, we're gonna look at like the, the mind's work that in overcoming, uh, the struggle against sin. 00:34:15.590 --> 00:34:15.989 Let's pray. 00:34:18.940 --> 00:34:25.480 Dear God, Lord, I, uh, God, we come, come to you and I thank you for your word. 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:27.199 I thank you for your clarity. 00:34:27.579 --> 00:34:32.599 I pray that we will, uh, we'll lean into your Holy spirit moving in our lives. 00:34:32.659 --> 00:34:37.739 Lord, I pray that this week you, you give us opportunities to rest. 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:45.940 You give us opportunities to pray, to confess Lord, you give us opportunities to meet and to, uh, seek counsel and to serve Lord. 00:34:46.019 --> 00:34:50.280 I pray that you will open up many opportunities for us. 00:34:50.380 --> 00:34:51.900 I pray that we'll see them when you do that. 00:34:51.900 --> 00:34:55.900 Lord, I, I, God, we, we want to be, we want to be more like your son. 00:34:56.380 --> 00:34:58.099 Um, Jesus, we want to be more like you. 00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.559 We want to, we, we're, we're grateful for you, Lord. 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:03.059 It's a daunting task by ourselves. 00:35:03.179 --> 00:35:04.980 We know that it's impossible by ourselves. 00:35:05.019 --> 00:35:08.000 We know that it's just behavior change by ourselves. 00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:16.719 Lord, we want our minds to be totally transformed, uh, into who you are, into, uh, into your death and then also into your resurrection. 00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:20.800 Lord, please, uh, please continue to move in our life. 00:35:20.980 --> 00:35:24.860 Lord, please, uh, promote your spirit and promote the spirit's work in our life. 00:35:25.300 --> 00:35:26.920 Uh, this is in your name that we pray. 00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:27.260 Amen. 00:35:27.940 --> 00:35:28.340 Awesome. 00:35:28.659 --> 00:35:29.400 You guys are dismissed. 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:30.199 Please pick up your children.