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 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast.

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 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons.

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 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear

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 the latest message.

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 Thanks for listening.

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 Well, good morning.

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 Glad that you guys are all here with us today, and thank you all your families for having

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 your kids in here with us.

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 They'll keep us moving, they'll keep us on our toes, and we're excited.

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 If they cry, if they make a noise, I'm going to say that's the Lord speaking through them

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 saying amen, and it's just going to encourage me even more, all right?

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 So we're glad to have so many of you guys here today in worshiping with us.

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 If you've got your Bible, go ahead and open it up to Deuteronomy chapter 6 is where we're

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 going to be this morning as we conclude our series on discipleship.

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 Also, as you're turning there, we will take Lord's Supper at the very end of the service

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 together after the band comes up and leads us in one more song of worship.

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 So if you did not get your elements, they are located back here at the exit sign at the

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 back of the auditorium.

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 And right now, you can just head on back there and grab you some if you did not get any while

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 you were coming in.

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 And then last and definitely not least, if it's a first-time guest that's here, I'd love to

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 meet you.

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 And so after the service is over, I'll be standing back here at the Connections table

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 as well.

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 Would love to have the opportunity to connect, learn your name, and thank you so much for

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 worshiping with us today.

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 Well, I can report we have our family mission trip that is going on this weekend in Black

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 Mountain, North Carolina, Black Mountain's Children's Home.

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 And I can report it is going extremely well.

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 I had the opportunity to head up Friday and to spend Friday night and most of the day with

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 all of the families, my family's up there right now as well, serving together, fellowshipping

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 together, spending time together.

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 And so everything's going wonderful.

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 When I get done preaching today, I'll head back up there so that we can be a part of family

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 worship together tonight at Black Mountain, and then we'll all be heading back tomorrow.

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 So if you're asking me, by the end of tomorrow, do I know every detail of I-26?

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 The answer to that is yes, all right?

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 I can put cruise control, autopilot, and just go and do that.

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 And so, but it's just been a wonderful, wonderful time that we can spend together.

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 As I said, mentioned, we're wrapping up our family discipleship series this week.

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 Next week, we're going to begin a 12-week series in James.

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 And so really excited about that.

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 I know a lot of our small groups are going to be journeying through that with us on Sunday

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 mornings.

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 We're going to be using the right now media material to kind of work through that.

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 And so maybe you're looking for something for your family.

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 Maybe you're looking for something to join as a family or as an individual in a small

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 group.

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 And there's lots of opportunities to be able to walk through that and journey through the

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 book of James.

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 And then I realized this this morning, and like, this is crazy because I know it's hot

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 outside still.

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 But when we get done with James, we'll start our Christmas series, right?

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 So it's just right around the corner.

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 Hope you're saving up and getting all your shopping stuff done early, right?

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 So what we got to do, but we're going to look at Deuteronomy 6, starting in verse 1 this

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 morning.

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 So let's all begin there.

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 We're going to read verses 1 through 9.

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 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the rules that the Lord your God commanded

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 me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you were going over to possess

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 it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping

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 all his statutes and commandments, which I commanded you all the days of your life, and

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 that your days may be long.

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 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and

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 that you may multiply greatly as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you in

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 a land flowing with milk and honey.

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 Verse 4.

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 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one.

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 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all

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 your might, and these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

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 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit at your

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 house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

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 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

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 Verse 9.

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 You shall write them on the doorpost of your house and on your gates.

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 So we're concluding this discipleship series.

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 We've moved through different aspects of discipleship as we think through, as we lose this mindset

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 that discipleship is encompassed by, is isolated to a singular event that we go to, whether

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 it be a conference, whether it be a Bible study, whether it be a Sunday school class, whether

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 it be a worship service, and instead look at that God has called us to be disciples, that

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 God's called us to make disciples.

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 And what we find in the context of discipleship is that it happens when we're doing it the

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 way that God's designed it to, that it happens in both the formal and the informal settings

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 of our life.

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 So is my small group a part of discipleship for me?

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 Absolutely yes, it absolutely is.

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 But also, is discipleship the part of what happens when my daughter and I go sit down at Starbucks

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 to have a conversation, just one and another?

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 Absolutely.

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 Is discipleship what happens when we sit down and have lunch with our friends and engage them

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 in that?

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 Absolutely.

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 Is discipleship what it means when I open my Bible to have my quiet time, I put in a podcast

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 to listen to that teaches me God's Word?

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 Yes, that discipleship is all of those in that.

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 And today we're going to look at this passage of Scripture that I come back to quite often

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 because what I believe that it does in talking about discipleship in the family is God, through

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 speaking through Moses, does a beautiful job of saying to the nation or saying to the congregation,

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 this is what it looks like to raise up a generation for the Lord.

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 This is what it looks like for the community of believers, the community of the followers of

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 God, to say we're going to raise up the next generation and the next generation and the next

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 generation to serve the Lord while giving ownership to the family.

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 Really quickly, an illustration that I'll use to kind of see this in a very tangible way that

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 I'm living in the benefit of that, right, is this evening we'll have family worship together,

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 all right?

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 And so what's going to happen is Grayson, my son, who a couple years ago started learning

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 the guitar, working through learning how to sing and lead worship and do those different

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 things that he feels like the Lord may have for them is going to lead worship for us tonight.

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 And then I'm going to get up and kind of do this message again for everybody that's up

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 there.

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 And that didn't happen because Grayson sat down with me and said, Dad, I want to lead

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 worship.

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 And I sit with him as a guy who doesn't know how to play the guitar.

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 Believe me, a guy who can't sing and like say, this is what this means then, right?

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 But it's a responsibility of mine to help grow him and nurture him as God's son, as a child

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 of God, but then also to be able to say, like, who else can step into his life to pour in

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 in different ways and help grow him in what God's calling him to do, right?

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 And even today I was sitting there and there's two guys up on the stage this morning that

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 have done such a great job in different ways of pouring and investing into him to see that

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 happen.

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 And so it's not just on the family, but it's on the congregation.

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 And that's what we're going to get to at the end.

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 So the first thing I want us to look at is I want to look at and begin to understand the

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 setting of this in God's covenant, God's covenant.

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 Let's reread the first three verses.

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 Now, this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the Lord, your God commanded

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 me to teach you that you may do them in the land to which you were going over to possess

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 it, that you may fear the Lord, your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping

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 all his statutes and commandments, which I commanded you all the days of your life, that your days

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 may be long.

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 Hear, therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, that

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 you may multiply greatly as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you in a land

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 flowing with milk and honey.

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 So we've talked about this a lot, that our God is the God, the only God, but our God is

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 a God who makes covenants with his people.

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 And God, in making covenants with his people, God fulfills what he says he is going to do.

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 And what we see from this is a continuation in the covenant that God has made with Israel

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 that we refer to as the Mosaic covenant.

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 And you can see this at Mount Sinai, it's what happens in Exodus 19 through 24.

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 We're not going to go through and read all that, but in Exodus 19, 5, what God does is

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 God reminds his people who are his people of their obligation in being his people to obey

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 him and to obey his law.

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 And then in Exodus 19, 8, they agree to do so.

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 And so in this, what we begin to see is in this covenant, what God says to them is, Israel,

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 if you will obey me, God's people, my people, if you will obey me, that God will bless them.

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 But if you disobey, then God's going to punish.

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 And it's this dialogue that we see and you can go through and that you can read and you can see

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 as God's people begin to stray and God disciplines them with a purpose and a passion

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 to draw them away from what they're pursuing and back to themselves.

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 And so it's this cycle that we see over and over and over again in the Old Testament.

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 And it's a whole nother different message for a different season and a different time, right?

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 But there's so much of that that we can identify within ourselves of what God does as he disciplines

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 us and draws us back in relationship with him when we wander.

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 But what we see here in Deuteronomy chapter 6 is Moses is teaching the people about God's

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 expectation for them, or maybe a better word than teaching is Moses is reminding God's people

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 of God's expectation for them and specifically when they will enter into the promised land.

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 And it boils down to this concept of obey, obey, obey.

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 I'm a dad.

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 I love it when my kids obey.

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 And what we see and what my parents wanted to beat into my stubborn, hard-headed self then

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 and maybe even still today, right, is that in the obedience to our Father, in the obedience

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 to that is where the sweetness of life is found.

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 And so what Moses reminds them of is as he's calling them to this, he said there's going to

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 be some things that happen when we obey the Lord.

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 Whether you're 2 or 92, there's some things that begin to happen and begin to take place

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 in you and in your life of what happens when you say, I'm going to obey God and what God

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 has for me.

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 He says that what's going to create out of this in these first several verses is a fear

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 of the Lord.

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 A fear of the Lord, and it's a good thing, is going to be birthed within you and is going

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 to grow in you.

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 And when we hear that, it's a hard word for us to comprehend because when we think of things

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 we're afraid of, they're not necessarily things we want to be close to.

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 But this word fear is not where we get our word afraid.

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 And it actually has a double meaning that we see in Scripture that joins itself.

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 And the first thing that when you fear the Lord is that you stand in awe or in reverence

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 of him.

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 That to fear the Lord is to acknowledge how big and powerful he is and how little and weak

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 we are.

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 And then when we understand that our God is for us, it produces in us a sense of awe and

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 reverence.

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 And then the other part, what comes from that, is a devout relationship to him.

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 So when I stand and I realize the awesome power of God, and then I understand that he wants

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 a relationship with me, what this produces.

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 And so Moses reminds the people, when you obey the Lord, what is created within you is the

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 fear of the Lord.

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 And it deepens your relationship with him.

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 But then in several phrases also that Moses uses, another thing that comes from this, another

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 aspect of this, is what I'm going to call just a blessed life.

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 The fruit of the relationship with the Lord.

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 There's several different things that we see within here, that your days may be long, that

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 you will multiply greatly, that you will be in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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 So Moses says, when you obey the Lord, there's this picture of long life.

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 There's this picture of many descendants.

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 There's this picture of inheriting a land, taking ownership of a land that flows with milk

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 and honey.

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 And what Moses is communicating to them, what we're being communicated to today, is that this

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 is a picture of a blessed life, the fruit of the relationship with the Lord.

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 Now, it must be noted, it's not the promise of an easy life, it's not the promise of a life

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 that doesn't have its own specific challenges, but it is a life that is still filled with the

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 milk and the honey that comes from a relationship with the Lord.

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 And so here's what this looks like, that when we go through the battles, when we go through

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 the difficulties, what we're not left with is the bitterness within us, but that even when

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 we go through the difficulties that this world will throw at us, what produces within us as

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 the Spirit of God works and moves is the milk and the honey, the sweetness, and the sweetness

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 of the relationship with the Lord.

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 And so Moses begins by reminding people in our call to obey, this is what he has, and then

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 he gives God's command.

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 Look at verse 4 and 5.

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 So he reminds them, he gives them the great command, and he begins by saying it's right

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 a great acknowledgement of who God is.

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 Like, when we take a step back, just a picture that God reminded me of this weekend is that

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 everything that God gives us points us to him.

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 Everything.

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 Yesterday, we worked in the morning, and then we had lunch, and then we worked after lunch,

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 and then we had times where families could get together, individuals could get together,

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 or an individual family may decide during this mission trip that they're just going to go

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 spend some time just as an individual family.

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 And my family, it's been chaotic lately in the Bradbury household.

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 It feels like all four of us are going different ways.

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 Very few nights are all four of us there for dinner together.

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 And so I just said, hey guys, on Saturday, like, let's just take this couple of hours and

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 let's just spend some time together.

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 And so we're there at Black Mountain, kind of walking through.

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 If you've been there before or seen the pictures, it's beautiful at the West Campus where we

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 stayed.

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 But as we're walking through, I remember looking at the mountains and thinking, man, God did

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 this.

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 I'm walking through these trails in the woods, and I'm having conversations with my family.

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 And it was the reminder of God gave me this.

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 On the drive home last night, went through some rain, went through some crazy road construction,

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 went with some crazy drivers on 26, right?

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 And I got home, and it was the reminder that God kept me safe.

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 And everything in this world is a reminder and a picture of who God is and what God is doing

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 for us, right?

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 And so Moses reminds in the command of God that there is only one, that there is no other.

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 And that's going to be a struggle for God's people then, right?

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 And that's still a struggle for God's people today.

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 One God, one God and who he is, right?

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 And so he reminds us, God's command reminds us that in this, right, there's no room for the

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 other gods that we'll attempt to make.

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 That they made their golden calves, and so do we.

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 And that in that, there's only one true God.

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 And that what we're to give, what we're to bring, that we should love, it's described as all of our

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 heart, all of our soul, all of our might.

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 And what we see in this is the intellect, the emotion, and the physical being of the person.

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 And what God desires, and what God wants, and what God commands, in awe and in reverence of

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 who he is, and in devout relationship to him, is the totality of us.

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 God doesn't want the parts of me.

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 God wants all of me.

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 God doesn't want the polished, God doesn't want the refined, God doesn't want the gifted,

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 God doesn't want the confident, God wants all of me.

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 And God wants all of you.

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 And so then what Moses does is he gives us, and this is what we're going to look at mostly

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 this morning, what we'll wrap up with, is he gives God's plan.

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 He gives God's plan.

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 He says you're to remember and to know who God is.

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 You're to obey his commandments.

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 You're to stand in awe and in reverence of him.

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 And then here's what this is going to look like in your life.

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 Look at verses six through nine.

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 And these words that I commanded you today shall be on your heart.

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 You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house

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 and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

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 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

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 You shall write them on the doorpost of your house and on your gates.

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 As we look at discipleship, we can look at discipleship and we can look at and evaluate ourself.

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 And we as individuals, if we're not careful, we can become the end all of discipleship.

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 This is how I'm growing.

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 This is what the Lord is doing in me.

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 But at the heart of the discipleship, right, from the Great Commission, our call while in ourselves is discipleship.

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 And last week we looked at that in personal responsibility.

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 But it is our call to go and make disciples.

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 And so that's what we're doing.

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 And so in here, God even sees and notices and reminds his people that, yes, you're going to focus on your individual relationship.

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 It shall be on your heart who you are, an authentic relationship with him.

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 I heard somebody say one time, you can't give away what you don't have.

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 And it's got to begin with you, but also for all of us.

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 Not just pastors, not just church staff, not just elders, not just small group leaders, not just youth ministry workers, not just kids ministry workers,

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 but for all of us that we press into each other.

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 And Moses says this to the nation as he makes the picture of what he's doing, the family.

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 Here's what I would encourage you.

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 Every person, if you are a follower of Jesus Christ,

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 has a calling and a responsibility

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 and the unique giftedness and the abilities that God has used in your life

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 to ensure the discipleship

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 of the younger generations

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 that God has blessed us with.

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 And we continue it on.

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 The words that God uses in Deuteronomy 6

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 is that you'll share it with your sons

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 and your sons' sons.

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 It's a continuational, what we see

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 not only in a family,

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 but in a people group

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 of a lineage

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 of a generations

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 of faith

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 passed on

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 and taught

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 about the right relationship

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 with the Lord.

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 And then he gives them a plan.

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 And the plan is

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 it's so simple.

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 And the plan

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 encompasses

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 so much

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 in fact

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 all of our life.

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 In verses 6 through 9

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 what Moses says

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 when this happens

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 he gives us two words, right?

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 We're to teach

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 and we're to talk.

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 We're to teach

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 and we're to talk.

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 Right?

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 Some of us like to teach.

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 Some of us like to talk.

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 God gives us all the ability

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 to do both

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 in the context

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 that he lays out before us.

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 He says teach these

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 to your children

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 and talk about them

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 as well.

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 Right?

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 I get up here

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 every Sunday

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 almost every Sunday

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 and I teach

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 I preach

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 it's what God's

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 called me to do.

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 Right?

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 But can I tell you

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 what I've never done

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 at my house?

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 Actually that's not true.

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 Twice over COVID

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 I preached in my house.

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 Right?

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 I don't think

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 my family dug it.

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 You know?

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 But we talk.

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 We talk.

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 We talk.

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 And I'll be honest

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 with you

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 what a great injustice

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 to my kids

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 and to my wife

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 if the only time

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 I talk about

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 the things of the Lord

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 is when I'm teaching it

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 to them.

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 And more time

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 talking with them

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 about it.

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 And so

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 God says

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 you should teach these

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 diligently

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 to your children

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 and you shall

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 talk of them

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 when you sit

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 at your house

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 when you walk

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 by the way

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 when you lie down

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 and when you

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 rise up.

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 I love this.

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 When do we talk

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 about things

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 of the Lord?

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 Always.

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 Always.

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 Always.

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 So plan number one

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 is we teach

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 and we talk.

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 We teach

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 and we talk.

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 Right?

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 The blessing

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 of what God's given me

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 so many times

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 in doing this

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 is the beauty

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 of what is called

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 Carline.

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 We talk.

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 He gives us

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 the beauty

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 of the dinner table.

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 He gives us

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 the beauty

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 of the doctor's office.

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 He gives us

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 the beauty

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 of lunches together.

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 That God's done

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 so many times

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 where we don't

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 have to

00:26:01.380 --> 00:26:02.340
 pull out

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 our Bibles

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 and walk through

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 word by word

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 what this is

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 but instead

00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:09.000
 we have our time

00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:10.200
 where we talk

00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:11.680
 about the things

00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:12.200
 of the Lord

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 but then also

00:26:14.140 --> 00:26:14.700
 that we

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 give reminders.

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 He lists a bunch

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 of different ones

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 there in verse 8.

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 You shall bind them

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 as a sign on your hand

00:26:22.180 --> 00:26:22.880
 and they shall be

00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:23.960
 frontlets between your eyes.

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 You shall write them

00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:25.640
 on the doorpost

00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:26.360
 of your house

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 and on your gates.

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 And so there's so

00:26:28.180 --> 00:26:29.140
 many things

00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:30.080
 that are pictured

00:26:30.080 --> 00:26:30.560
 in here

00:26:30.560 --> 00:26:31.940
 of what God says

00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:33.020
 that what I'm gonna do

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 of what you're gonna

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 set before yourself

00:26:34.620 --> 00:26:35.760
 is the reminders

00:26:35.760 --> 00:26:36.600
 and the goodness

00:26:36.600 --> 00:26:37.920
 of the faithfulness

00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:38.620
 of God

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 and it's a reminder.

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 Today I'll swear

00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:43.340
 the greatest disciple maker

00:26:43.340 --> 00:26:43.980
 in my life

00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:44.680
 was my grandmother.

00:26:45.560 --> 00:26:46.240
 My grandmother

00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:47.280
 greatest disciple maker

00:26:47.280 --> 00:26:47.740
 that God

00:26:47.740 --> 00:26:48.800
 has ever given me

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 and if you were to ask me

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 what was this

00:26:51.140 --> 00:26:51.740
 in her life

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 I would tell you

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 it was her Bible.

00:26:54.660 --> 00:26:55.640
 It was her Bible.

00:26:56.280 --> 00:26:57.200
 The reminder

00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:58.160
 of her relationship

00:26:58.160 --> 00:26:58.640
 with the Lord.

00:26:58.880 --> 00:26:59.600
 Here's what was

00:26:59.600 --> 00:27:00.440
 unique

00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:01.400
 and beautiful

00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:02.380
 about my grandmother

00:27:02.380 --> 00:27:03.000
 as I remember

00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:03.400
 in her life.

00:27:03.660 --> 00:27:04.880
 So at my grandmother's

00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:05.300
 house

00:27:05.300 --> 00:27:05.940
 my granddad

00:27:05.940 --> 00:27:06.540
 had his chair

00:27:06.540 --> 00:27:07.300
 my grandmother

00:27:07.300 --> 00:27:07.960
 had her chair

00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:08.600
 and they both

00:27:08.600 --> 00:27:09.180
 had tables

00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:09.840
 beside them

00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:10.940
 and my grandmother's

00:27:10.940 --> 00:27:12.140
 Bible sat

00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:13.420
 beside her chair

00:27:13.420 --> 00:27:16.800
 and it was always

00:27:16.800 --> 00:27:17.760
 sitting beside

00:27:17.760 --> 00:27:19.000
 her chair

00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:20.660
 or sitting

00:27:20.660 --> 00:27:21.420
 in her lap

00:27:21.420 --> 00:27:23.140
 and the beauty

00:27:23.140 --> 00:27:24.060
 of my grandmother's

00:27:24.060 --> 00:27:24.940
 Bible was this

00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:25.940
 the pages

00:27:25.940 --> 00:27:27.380
 were worn out

00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:28.140
 and there was

00:27:28.140 --> 00:27:28.780
 never dust

00:27:28.780 --> 00:27:29.300
 on the cover

00:27:29.300 --> 00:27:32.100
 and it's the reminder

00:27:32.100 --> 00:27:34.300
 of who God is

00:27:34.300 --> 00:27:36.000
 in his faithfulness

00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:37.300
 right

00:27:37.300 --> 00:27:38.760
 parents

00:27:38.760 --> 00:27:39.720
 church

00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.020
 make sure

00:27:42.020 --> 00:27:43.220
 that the relationship

00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:44.180
 that you have

00:27:44.180 --> 00:27:44.880
 with the Lord

00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:46.560
 is not an event

00:27:46.560 --> 00:27:47.540
 that you go to

00:27:47.540 --> 00:27:49.220
 but that your

00:27:49.220 --> 00:27:49.920
 relationship

00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:50.800
 with the Lord

00:27:50.800 --> 00:27:52.260
 is intermingled

00:27:52.260 --> 00:27:53.800
 between all aspects

00:27:53.800 --> 00:27:54.700
 of your life

00:27:54.700 --> 00:27:55.920
 and you're sharing

00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:56.320
 this

00:27:56.320 --> 00:27:58.320
 make your home

00:27:58.320 --> 00:28:00.580
 the main source

00:28:00.580 --> 00:28:01.680
 of discipleship

00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:05.160
 not just parents

00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:05.680
 but church

00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:06.380
 let's hear this

00:28:06.380 --> 00:28:09.900
 when our kids

00:28:09.900 --> 00:28:12.040
 stand before

00:28:12.040 --> 00:28:13.180
 God

00:28:13.180 --> 00:28:15.820
 it will not be

00:28:15.820 --> 00:28:16.680
 their GPA

00:28:16.680 --> 00:28:19.400
 their batting average

00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:21.280
 or their bank account

00:28:21.280 --> 00:28:21.860
 that gets them

00:28:21.860 --> 00:28:22.280
 into heaven

00:28:22.280 --> 00:28:27.220
 it will not be

00:28:27.220 --> 00:28:27.740
 the things

00:28:27.740 --> 00:28:28.520
 of this world

00:28:28.520 --> 00:28:30.580
 that we so

00:28:30.580 --> 00:28:31.700
 often make

00:28:31.700 --> 00:28:33.460
 the God

00:28:33.460 --> 00:28:34.160
 that we chase

00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:36.860
 I'm not saying

00:28:36.860 --> 00:28:38.560
 let's pull

00:28:38.560 --> 00:28:38.860
 our kids

00:28:38.860 --> 00:28:39.400
 out of school

00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:41.680
 I'm not saying

00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:42.980
 let's pull

00:28:42.980 --> 00:28:43.400
 your kids

00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:44.280
 out of athletics

00:28:44.280 --> 00:28:46.140
 I'm not saying

00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:46.820
 let's don't set

00:28:46.820 --> 00:28:48.040
 goals for our kids

00:28:48.040 --> 00:28:49.500
 all three

00:28:49.500 --> 00:28:50.340
 of those things

00:28:50.340 --> 00:28:51.380
 in my house

00:28:51.380 --> 00:28:51.920
 are things

00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:52.760
 we talk about

00:28:52.760 --> 00:28:53.800
 and we work toward

00:28:53.800 --> 00:28:55.640
 but we look

00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:56.140
 at them

00:28:56.140 --> 00:28:57.460
 and view them

00:28:57.460 --> 00:28:58.700
 as the opportunity

00:28:58.700 --> 00:28:59.840
 of what God

00:28:59.840 --> 00:29:00.220
 has

00:29:00.220 --> 00:29:01.040
 and they are

00:29:01.040 --> 00:29:01.740
 not ultimate

00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:02.540
 in the moment

00:29:02.540 --> 00:29:03.180
 they become

00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:03.800
 God's

00:29:03.800 --> 00:29:04.680
 or the moment

00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:06.900
 or the moment

00:29:06.900 --> 00:29:07.840
 that we need

00:29:07.840 --> 00:29:08.420
 to fall

00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:09.380
 in repentance

00:29:09.380 --> 00:29:10.340
 for him

00:29:10.340 --> 00:29:12.360
 and this is

00:29:12.360 --> 00:29:13.140
 the hope

00:29:13.140 --> 00:29:14.480
 that we have

00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:15.200
 of our home

00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:16.640
 of our life

00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:17.860
 and our church

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 the command

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 that God

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 gives us

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 hear O Israel

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 the Lord

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 our God

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 is one

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 you shall love

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 the Lord your God

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 with all your heart

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 with all your soul

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 and with all your might

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 and that's for all of us

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 that we don't look

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 and just say

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 who do I isolate to

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 but that we look

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 and we say

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 who do I pour

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 into

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 would you pray

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 with me

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 God I thank you

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 so much

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 for this moment

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 and these times

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 that we could

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 be in here together

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 Lord I thank you

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 for these families

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 that have come here

00:29:59.820 --> 00:30:00.440
 this morning

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 Lord I thank you

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 for their desire

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 for their children

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 to be

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 raised up

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 Lord I pray

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 for us

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 as a church

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 family

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 that we will

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 partner

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 with them

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 join hands

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 and hands

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 with them

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 so that we raise

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 up this generation

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 and the next generation

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 and the next generation

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 to live on

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 mission

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 for you

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 to be found

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 in relationship

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 with you

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 and to

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 live in every

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 aspect of their

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 life

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 that is Christ

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 and Christ

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 alone

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 Lord look

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 have us

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 through the power

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 of your spirit

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 examine our lives

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 and where has

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 our faith

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 turned into

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 this sinful

00:30:58.700 --> 00:31:00.080
 selfishness

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 where it's just

00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:02.680
 all about me

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 maybe Lord

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 that's

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 in our relationship

00:31:09.320 --> 00:31:10.120
 with our neighbor

00:31:10.120 --> 00:31:12.540
 that we need

00:31:12.540 --> 00:31:13.060
 to share

00:31:13.060 --> 00:31:14.000
 our faith story

00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:14.400
 with

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 maybe that's

00:31:17.840 --> 00:31:18.620
 in our relationship

00:31:18.620 --> 00:31:19.160
 with our

00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:20.060
 child

00:31:20.060 --> 00:31:22.400
 who we feel

00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:22.600
 like

00:31:22.600 --> 00:31:22.800
 you know

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 what

00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:23.280
 they just

00:31:23.280 --> 00:31:23.900
 they teach

00:31:23.900 --> 00:31:24.140
 him that

00:31:24.140 --> 00:31:24.680
 at church

00:31:24.680 --> 00:31:25.580
 but that's

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 not where

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:26.580
 I am

00:31:26.580 --> 00:31:30.080
 maybe that's

00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:30.620
 at the stage

00:31:30.620 --> 00:31:31.120
 of life

00:31:31.120 --> 00:31:31.640
 where we feel

00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:32.140
 like we've

00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:32.800
 done that

00:31:32.800 --> 00:31:33.560
 we've moved

00:31:33.560 --> 00:31:34.280
 past that

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 and now

00:31:34.760 --> 00:31:35.140
 it's up to

00:31:35.140 --> 00:31:35.740
 someone else

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 to now

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 do it

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 Lord have us

00:31:39.700 --> 00:31:40.040
 see

00:31:40.040 --> 00:31:41.600
 the selfishness

00:31:41.600 --> 00:31:42.420
 of our lives

00:31:42.420 --> 00:31:45.460
 to lay it

00:31:45.460 --> 00:31:45.800
 down

00:31:45.800 --> 00:31:47.820
 before you

00:31:47.820 --> 00:31:51.760
 Lord grow us

00:31:51.760 --> 00:31:52.520
 in our fear

00:31:52.520 --> 00:31:53.020
 of you

00:31:53.020 --> 00:31:58.340
 Lord grow us

00:31:58.340 --> 00:31:59.140
 in our obedience

00:31:59.140 --> 00:32:00.360
 to you

00:32:00.360 --> 00:32:02.920
 may we live

00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:05.160
 in the sweet

00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:06.540
 blessings of joy

00:32:06.540 --> 00:32:08.980
 that rise above

00:32:08.980 --> 00:32:10.120
 our circumstances

00:32:10.120 --> 00:32:12.080
 and that are

00:32:12.080 --> 00:32:13.200
 found in you

00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:14.780
 and in you

00:32:14.780 --> 00:32:15.100
 alone

00:32:15.100 --> 00:32:17.620
 it's in Jesus

00:32:17.620 --> 00:32:18.180
 that we pray

00:32:18.180 --> 00:32:34.180
 thanks again for

00:32:34.180 --> 00:32:34.860
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00:32:37.620 --> 00:32:38.460
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