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Welcome to the Christian Ministry Church podcast Will

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bring that this message equip and empowers you

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to live in the kingdom gut. Now for

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today's message by pastor Paul Ke. Wow.

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I mean, listen church, God is so good

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to us. I mean, that was that was was thick.

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That was got... I mean, that was powerful.

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Woo. Can you imagine what heaven's is gonna

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be like, all these myriad of people, praise in God

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all in 1 accord in unity. You talk about how powerful that's gonna be.

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Or we get a little taste of it. Right here.

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I'm just... I don't know about you, but I'm grateful, God bless our campus with his

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presence. And God has been faithful to do that

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for 51 years. Death, 51 years.

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God is so good. Well, I I want to

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appreciate Josh and Sarah and Hunter and Chloe

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and all of our counselors and our people that

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worked in the kitchen. Thank you guys so

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very much. Thank you. These guys have gotten very little sleep in

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the last 2 weeks, and have had a lot of young people

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come through our camp and and I get

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to be involved I'm very privileged to get

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to be involved in watching what god does. At high point, and you just can't you

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cannot under rate what God does in summer camps.

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Summer camps are so powerful and they're so

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important because for so many young people, God sets the

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course for their life. That summer camp.

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And when I think about all of the... We have a lot of our our counselors

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that have... That are here and

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a lot of them are local and and some of them are not. But,

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you know, what God does in their lives

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to to get little sleep

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to work hard to serve

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to pour out when you don't have anything

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left to pour out to be funny. When you don't wanna be funny anymore to

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be loud when your voice is killing you and you're just exhausted and

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but all to see lives

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changed. And I... I've personally watched.

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This year's our twentieth year. Of doing high point. I've been privileged to

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be involved in every year. And to watch

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what God has done through counselors and through

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the young people that God brings here, literally, their lives have been said on a

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different course. And I just... I wanna reiterate

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what Eric said up here this morning Thank you,

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Church. For making that possible because it takes

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money to do all that. And so you

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being faithful to not be greedy

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and to not be sting and to give and make what we do

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here possible for the next generation. Thank you so much.

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It's just is just a real blessing and

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we appreciate you being in the church.

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Well, I I wanna talk to you this morning about generational curse.

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Generational curse, not necessarily a topic. That it's

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talked about a lot.

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But I do wanna take a moment

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to kinda unpack this for our church. You know, I never wanna take away from

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the moment we encounter Christ.

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And we have a lot of conversations about this.

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It it Well, let me back up a little bit.

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I have a lot going on in my mind. So it's just hard to bring all

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this together. There's a lot of emotion right now. I was sitting in my chair, and I

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was crying. I was just thanking God because I was remembering

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what god saved me from. And if you guys knew what God saved

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me from, you probably wouldn't be listening to me today.

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But if I knew what God saved you from, I probably won't be talking to you today.

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So even. Right? But as Eric was standing up here and

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Eric and I, we're we're good friends. You can tell we wear our a hair like

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and we dress a alike and don't know. He's

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like a brother from another mother, apparently. He's he's my spiritual brother in Christ and

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and we talk a lot about what God

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has done in our life, and I know where Eric has come from.

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I know about his upbringing in mountain pine,

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very poor. Just a lot of dysfunction in his family.

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We've shared our stories and what what Jesus

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saved us from. And you you have to have

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that moment. And Tim and I we're talking about how

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the church is really cheap in that moment. Because you come down the altar and you

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say a little prayer, and, you know, you you you think that

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did it. And it could, if your heart

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was sincere. And con try and broken in that moment.

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See in that moment for me, my life

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was transformed. God took a heart of stone,

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this little this little stubborn rebellious

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lost 20 year old.

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And he broke my heart and he gave me a new heart. He said he took

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a heart of stone and gave me a heart of flesh, and he gave me the

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heart of Jesus. And and that that

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being born again, literally be becoming a different person and being

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born again, was the catalyst that set my life from

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a completely different course. That has to happen

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for everyone here. And if it, you know, and

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you listen. You could have been in church

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for 40 years and that not happen. III mean, I've seen it.

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I've done ministry at a church. There was a woman who literally had played the organ

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in their church for almost 40 years since

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she had never been saved. Never gave her heart to Jesus. He was

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a a religious person, but she never had that encounter.

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Her heart was never truly changed. So

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So that has to happen. And whether you've been coming here for

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a long period of time or this today

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your very first day and welcome. We're so

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glad that you're here. And but that that moment

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is vital in your life. Well, from that moment,

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you know, then then you have to understand

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from from that moment, there is a battle for your mind,

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A literal battle for your mind. Many y'all

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know what I'm talking about? Yeah. I mean, sometimes it's every day.

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Sometimes minute by minute.

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Lies from the enemy.

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Doubts that you have about God and yourself, the

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temptation of the world, just the lure of

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culture, you know, friends and and and people trying

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to get us to go in the in the wrong direction, depression,

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anxiety of victim mentality, just feeling sorry for

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yourself and having pity parties, and and, you

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know, we all have to battle these things.

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These... If we're gonna be real, These are things that we all battle.

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And you have a free will and and and the devil, Satan would love nothing more

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then to corrupt your decisions against God.

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That's his goal. That's what he wants to do. That's his

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plan every day is to corrupt your decisions

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against god every day all day long. So our mind

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is a weapon in our spiritual warfare.

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It's a weapon. The bible says we do not wrestle against

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flesh and blood, but we wrestle against principal

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municipalities and powers and dark forces and heavenly

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places. Amen. Y'all read that scripture. Absolutely.

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So so when we talk about warfare, we're

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talking about mental and spiritual battle.

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Battle for our hearts, battle for our minds. These battles take place,

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daily. Second Corinthians it says for the weapons of

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our warfare are not of the flesh

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So people aren't our problem. Now the devil wants does make us think

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that they are, but they're not. It says it's not for the flesh. But

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have divine power to destroy stronghold.

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Therefore, take every what,

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thought, captive, to obey Christ,

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burst timothy 01:18. Try to get my clicker to work.

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Just died on me. There we go.

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First timothy 01:18 that by them, you may

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wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good what?

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Conscience. So we understand we have a fight and

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it's a battle for our minds,

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So how do we fight the battle in our minds? How how do we do this?

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Well, we renew our minds? I mean, that this is what God has

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called us to do. So what does it mean

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to renew your mind? Well, here's a definition

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of renewing your mind. The removal of evil

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inputs and replacing them with the light of God's

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truth and by doing so

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healing your brain of untrue neural pathways

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that have been built over time through consistent

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reflection and thought. This is how you renew your mind. This

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is what renewing the mine means. Now, renewing

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the mind is a 3 step process. So I wanna walk you through this. So

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first thing you gotta do is you gotta take away

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these these thoughts that you don't need to be thinking. The

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world's input coming into your mind and that...

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In a devil, I mean, you know, he makes sure that there's a regular supply of

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that to us all day long. You know, that's

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the 1 thing we never run out of. Then you have to replace it

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with God's truth, Okay. What does God say

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about you? What does god say about that

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situation? What does god's say about your kid?

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What does God say about your mate? What does God say about you?

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Then you have to continually reinforce that truth

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that God says. It's a it's a daily occurrence where you

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continually reinforce that. So renewing your mind is not a

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destination. It's a journey. Really good. It's something

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we do all day long every day.

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Romans 12 2 do not be conform to

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this world, but be what,

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be transformed by the

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renewing of your mind. So once again, I won't take you back.

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That initial encounter with Jesus I mean, it's everything.

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It has to happen because in that moment,

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your spirit has made alive again

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You're born again, literally. And now you have the mind of Christ,

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you have the heart of Christ

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and now you have the capability to begin to think the thoughts of Christ.

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And that's when your life begins to change

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and take off. Now, all of this is tying into

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generational curse that get passed down in our family line

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from generation to generation

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to generation. Now the bible says don't be

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conform to this world. Now,

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the bible says this. And that's not

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that's not a negative. That's a positive.

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Because if you're not conform to this world, then you can have the God kind of

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life that we're talking about this year that God wants all of us to experience.

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The blessed life, the good life. K? So

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do this exercise with me. If if I

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ask, your friends or your family to describe

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you to me. What would they say about you?

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Now I know what you think about you, but I'm talking about what what your friends

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and family. Would say about you. Does your life look

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more like the world or more like Jesus?

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I get it. You're Kristen, you know, you you come to church, But does your life

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look more like the world?

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Or more like Jesus. Do do you feel

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more of your time with the things of the world

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or the things of God? Do you find yourself thinking like the world?

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Do you think like the crowd? Are you thinking like culture?

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Or are you thinking like the red letters?

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Like we've been talking about in our mid week services as we're going over the red

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letters of Jesus? Do you think of yourself like the enemy

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wants you to? Do you... Or do you see yourself like God sees you beloved,

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redeemed? Adopted,

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anointed. See Satan pro around like a roaring lion

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Help me finish it, looking for who he

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can devour. The devil's goal is to get us thinking

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wrong thoughts about our life. As a christian,

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I hate my life. I hate my life.

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Nothing good ever happens to me. I I'll never see my dreams

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come true. Oh, yeah. Their dreams came true, but you know, that... That's because, you know,

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their their family and what they were born into. And that... But that'll never happen.

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That'll never happen for me. See we think wrong thoughts about ourselves. I

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used to do this. Nobody cares about me. If I died, nobody missed me.

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My life's is not important. My life didn't have any value. I would think those thoughts.

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You know, you may think I'm not good looking enough. I'm not smart enough.

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I'm not I'm not handsome enough. Pretty enough. I'm not this. I'm

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not that. I'm a lost calls. You the devil will get... You try to

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get you thinking wrong thoughts about your marriage,

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about your children, about your future,

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And this is why we must renew

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our minds. The bible makes it clear that

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we are to be trans formed not to

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form. To be transformed.

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So your life will look completely different when you begin to renew your mind.

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So we're not waiting for our circumstances to

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change. I don't... Lot lot of times you can't do anything

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about your circumstances. But you can do everything about how you

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perceive your circumstances, how you look at your circumstances.

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And this is just stuff that that god has taught me over time, but your life's

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gonna look different when you renew your mind. It'll look to other people as if you

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have transformed into a totally different person.

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Right. People don't recognize you. You run into people

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that you hadn't seen for a while after you've been a Christian and they're like,

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whoa. Wow. What what happened?

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Cl 03:10 and having put on the new

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self. Which is being renewed

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by the knowledge after the image of its creator.

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So how do we change by renewing our mind.

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This is what we're doing. We're renewing our

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mind. Don't be conform. Be transformed

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by renewing your

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mind. Now, I wanna talk to you a little bit

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about how your brain works. This this is some interesting

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stuff that they've had come out I mean, your brain

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it... It's an engineering marvel, literally. It really

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is. Your brain is so complex.

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Now we've got some pretty awesome computers. They

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can do some really awesome things, but but

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your brain is composed of over 100000000000

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neurons. K? Now, when when you think about that, that...

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That's how many... That's how many stars that there are in

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the in the Milky way galaxy. This thing is really

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about to make me mad. Submit.

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Now I want you to think about this. Each neuron

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in your brain. And you've got a hundred billion of

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those. Okay? But each neuron in your brain

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has upwards of 10000

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s connections with other neurons.

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I man, that's a hard number to even fathom them. So you do the math. A

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hundred billion times, 10000.

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That means there are more neurological connections in your brain

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then there are stars in the entire universe.

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That's how complex our brains are. Fearful and

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wonderfully made. That's what the bible says.

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So every day, all day,

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you have these neurological

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s connections, firing in your brain in reaction to what's

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happening in your life in your environment.

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The words you say, the actions that you take,

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the thoughts you have, the decisions that you make,

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And as your brain is doing this, what your brain does is it starts to

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notice a pattern of thought.

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And so your brain just because God made it. So incredibly awesome.

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What your brain does is your brain starts

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to build a pathway And your brain makes it easier for you

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to think that thought or do that thing. Like tie your shoe for an example.

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We don't have to get up every morning and think about that. Arch glad.

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Your brain made all those connections for you.

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If... Let let's just say, for example, If you were to walk a pathway in your

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yard. K, every day for a hundred days.

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And you went from point a to point b at the end of that hundred days,

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that pathway would be clear. Because it would be worn down.

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It would be flat, and it would make it easier for you

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to walk that path. It would be noticeably familiar. Right?

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To you because you've gone that way over and over and over again, it would get

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easier over time. Same with our thoughts. When we dwell on

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a thought consecutively for days,

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for weeks, for months, or even years, it becomes a pathway in

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your brain that gets strengthened and made familiar and easier

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for you to think. And if that thought is about yourself,

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after a while, it'll move from being a belief in your

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brain to being in

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a reality in your heart. Now, this is god's way of changing us

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but this is also the devil's way

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of destroying us. And we gotta understand this. This is this

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is good news and it's bad news. If you think a

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lie about yourself long enough,

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you'll start to believe it. You'll start acting on it.

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I've watched people. Nobody wants to be around me.

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Nobody likes me. After a while,

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it changes even how they carry themselves and

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present themselves. They'll look down.

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They'll isolate. They won't get around people. They won't engage

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in conversation that always stand on the outside

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of a crowd when people are talking

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because they see themselves the wrong way.

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But then there's those people who they think

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they're the best thing in the whole world? Why ain't everybody wanna be around me? I

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mean, that's what I think. I'm awesome. Why wouldn't anybody like me? Everybody ought like me.

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That's what Mom said, who couldn't like you. And so you just... You don't think anything

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about it. In the middle of everything and talking to people and do... Or y'all y'all

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all understand what What I'm saying here? See if you use... You're think about god's

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truth over your life long enough,

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you'll start to believe it. And this is renewing the mine. This is

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what it's all about. Proverbs 23 7 as

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a man thinks in his heart help me

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finish it, so is he? The life we live is a reflection of

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the thoughts we have. I'm gonna say that again, the life we

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live is a reflection of the thoughts we have. Your life is

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always going to move in the direction of

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your thoughts. If I think our lead pastor doesn't like

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me, I'm not going to hang around him. But if I think Tim loves me

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then I'm going connect to myself with him.

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Now let's take that to god. That's even more powerful there.

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See zig zig, he said,

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he said, thank you.

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You are who you are and where you are because of what's gone on in your

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mind? What's going into your mind? And you

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can change who you are and where you are by changing

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what goes into your mind. Now understand,

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God saved you. Jesus came into your life.

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He gave you a new heart, but it's your responsibility

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to renew your mind. So your environment,

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it affects how you think It affects how you react. It affects how

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you respond. Let me give you an example. And and

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vice versa, your mind and your thoughts affect your environment.

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So for example, if if your house your

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closet, your room, your car is messy.

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It's because your mind is messy. Your mind is disorganized.

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If if your mind is disorganized,

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then guess what? The rest of your life is going to

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be. So a messy mind,

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makes a messy life, a messy mind makes a stressful life

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No doubt, clean up your mind,

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clean up your environment, clean up your environment,

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clean up your life. That's why I don't hang out with lost

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people anymore. They're... They got messy lives.

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If I hang out with them long enough, my life's gonna be messy.

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Now, why did I quit hanging out with him? Well, first, I got born again, then

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I begin to input the word into my life? The word begin to clean me. I

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don't have that desire anymore. That's just not what I wanna do.

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So you you gotta understand Satan's tactics.

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K? Satan's tactics.

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Yeah, maybe I can just take over... Can y'all take over this Natalie? I love you.

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Because this thing's not working right. So the devil's goal

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is to get you to believe a lie about yourself.

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So he can pull you away from god

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and pull you away from God's people.

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Now depending on the severity, and the importance of the event that happens

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to us will determine how much neurological

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reaction our brain devote to it.

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The more traumatic, the event in your life

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that happens, the more it affects our brain

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k? The more pleasurable an event

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that happens. The more it affects our brain,

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and our... And and it's easier for our

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brain to build pathways in these moments.

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This is why people get addicted to stuff. Because it it it stimulates their pleasure centers.

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In journal and junkie and you get addicted

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to non prescription medication because, you know,

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it stimulates that pleasure whatever it may be.

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It could be anything. Now now, Satan

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knows this So what he will do is is he

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will insert a lie in a moment of trauma.

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He'll take a trauma moment in your life,

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and he's just he's just waiting for that

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opportunity And in that moment, he's gonna assert

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alive because he knows that your brain attaches

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to something in a moment of trauma. I've watched people leave church in a moment

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of trauma. I've watched people turn their back on god in a moment of trauma.

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See your thoughts. Get more attention in trauma, so Satan is

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gonna hit you right at that moment and plan a lie there.

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That's his goal. Because he's a receiver and

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he doesn't play fair. Yeah yesterday

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was, my

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wife and us sons 20 ninth birthday.

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Now we lost Clark when he was 20.

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So we went out to the grave side yesterday,

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and we put flowers on his grave side,

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and Spent time out there just

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reflecting on all of the

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great moments. That I was thinking about just

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tree houses and jumping on the tram

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and my my my boys, I know. They had

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this weird thing. Have you y'all ever liked done in a w to somebody?

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You ever got a wed? They're not pleasant.

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But for some reason, my boys loved it. And I would pretend I was

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in the wrestling arena,

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and I... They they would say dad. Do the atomic wed.

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And I would do the it was like the real bad wed.

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And the 1 on the bed and Was

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I was remembering all of these moments and... But but I remember

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back when we lost him and how traumatic and

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hurtful and difficult and dark

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that that was for us. And and I remember in that first

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week when we lost him,

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there were so many tears just all all

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the time. Every day all day long all the time.

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And I remember being very

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in tune with my emotions

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and my thoughts because I've been a believer for a while.

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And I know the word. And I know my enemy.

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Yes. I knew what he would try to do.

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And I had a conversation with God I said, God,

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I said, I am asking you.

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And I am partnering with you. I'm determined

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that I am not going to allow this moment

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to pull me away from you

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or to cause bitterness are un unnatural questions to rule my life.

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But what I am going to do fathers is I'm gonna allow this

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traumatic event in my life, this moment of

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trauma in my life to draw me deeper

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into my relationship with you. To draw me closer

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to you. And I said, god, I need your help to help me beat that kind

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of husband father leader in my family.

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So that I can lead my family in that direction.

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So here's... That's what the devil does. He

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he This is why people fall away

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This is why people d or dis

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or whatever you wanna call it, they're that there's a moment, and they they they

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get... What the devil does is he wants us to confuse God and life.

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Life unfair, god fair, but we get it

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all mixed up. And so this is how the devil does

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it. So how do how do we combat

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this? How do we combat this.

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So here's everybody's assignment for this week? K?

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I'm gonna give you an assignment. You're out of school, but you're still gonna get a

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homework assignment. So I want you to identify the lies

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that it becomes strongholds in your life

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because you can't defeat what you can't define.

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True? Yeah. I mean, if you don't define

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what it is, it low self esteem, anger.

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I don't I don't know what it may be. Insecurity,

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depression, anxiety, of victim mentality, you gotta identify the lives

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that it become strongholds in your life. So And then you've got to replace that lie

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with a truth from God's word. So I want you to write out

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get in the scripture and write out God's

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promise the from the Lord, make it personal to

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you. K? And I want you to say that daily.

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I want you to speak it over yourself. Literally speak it over yourself.

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This is how transformation occurs. This how transformation occurred In my life this

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how transformation occurred. And Eric's life this how transformation occurred

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in all of our lives. Now,

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let me give you an example. Just so you'll

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kinda understand my point. So here's the lie.

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I'll never be good enough. I will never be good enough.

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Well, the truth is there's no amount of

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work that you can do to earn God's

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love. It is a free gift. Ephesians 2 8 says, here's the promise.

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For by grace you have been saved through faith,

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it is not your own doing. It is

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a gift from God.

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So Jesus is the only person that makes you good enough.

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And you are good enough. If you have Jesus in your heart,

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you're more than good enough. Yours as good as he is.

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Here's another lie. I don't feel valuable

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Nobody cares about me. Well, here's the truth. Psalm 01:39

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verse 13 and 14 says you created me

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in my being, you knit me together in

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my mother's womb, I will praise you because

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I am fearful and wonderfully made.

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Now isn't had a better thing to think. Here's a lie. No 1 will ever love

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me. Nobody will ever love me. Well, the truth

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is God loved you first. God loved me even when I wouldn't even...

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I might be a little bit lovable now. I don't know You have to ask my

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wife. It depends on what day it is. But I wouldn't lovable at all.

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But god picked me first. First John 4 8 In this, the love

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of God was made manifest among us that

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God sent his only son into the world

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so that we might live through him.

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In this is love, not that we have loved God, but he

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he loved us and he sent his son to be a

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prop appropriation for our sins.

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So you gotta understand there will always be

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a truth from God to replace a lie

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from Satan. And that's what you wanna do.

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This is how you renew your mind. This

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is how you break generational curse.

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God, in his truth

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breaks them. K? So

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how? Alright? Well, scientifically

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this can be proven and scientists are learning

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more and more and more. There's been some really amazing breakthroughs and some

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really awesome studies that if that have come

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out lately just in the past 20 years.

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1 of them is called epi genetics. It's a new study,

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A lot of scientists have been pursuing this. I want y'all to watch this video with

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me. I think you're gonna be really, really

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wild by this. What science has now learned and is so

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fascinating is that the choices we make in

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life will alter how our genes are breast.

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This is big. People need to really pay sit out and pay attention to this.

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Because science is now confirming scripture and in that I do I often

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asked the audience, which is more scientifically accurate. The Bible for Charles Darwin. Well, guess what?

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It's the Bible. Darwin hypo

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that it was mutation over millions of years

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that caused his finishes to have different beak. Science has actually now proved. It's epi

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modification. Epi,

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the instruction sitting above the genome telling the

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genes how to express themselves, which changed based on experience.

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What we go through in life, the food that we eat. The choices we make. The

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environment in which we live will actually alter

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the genes in and telling which genes to

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turn on in which genes to turn off. Now the way this happens is little chemical

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groups will actually attach to the Dna or to

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chemicals called his and the Dna ras surround

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the his stones and we'll either lock those d dos genes down or let those genes

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be expressed. And this this epi

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modification will alter than what happens in that

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particular cell. What we know about genetics and

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addiction is that behaviors

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sensations, input into the brain

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will use the Dna to change how the cell response,

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And basically, what happens is that genes are

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turned off or turned on based on what that response is is. While

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the Dna doesn't change the expression does.

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So the ability to be aware of environment,

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the ability to respond is may be genetically

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coded, but when we begin changing it, the term

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we use epi. When we change how that's expressed. We change

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the enzymes that are made, We change the

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response of the cell, and that change,

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becomes a part of the genetic expression. If

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we have kids, we know only give the sequence to our kids, we will pass along

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the chin 2 and 3 generations down, and so

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if we become addicted to stuff, we can

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pass along to our kids gene constellation that

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make them more vulnerable to addictions. Conversely, if we could victories over stuff.

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We can actually pass on advantages, there's good

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animal evidence that that change in expression can be transmitted

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to the offspring. Those enzymes, those mechanisms, those genes that are

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turned off, may also be turned off

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in the next generation. It's definitely possible to

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pass down the vulnerability to addiction

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because all of those defenses, all of those

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generations of changes become woven into our ongoing g expression. They

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just study in mice in which they, genetically bread these mice with a gene defects

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so the mice would actually have memory impairments. They bred them to be stupid. And then

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they took the mice and they took a... And they put them into do groups and

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1 group for 2 weeks during they adolescent

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of a mouse, they they got an enriched environment. With lots of toys and

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things to climb on and so forth like this. Now not surprisingly, those mice who had

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the enriched environment had better memory than the

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clone identical mice it didn't have the rich environment? That's not surprising.

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But how do they get the better memory. They got the better memory because that enriched

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environment with lots of things to explore and and and go through, caused an epi

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modification of this bad gene, cause memory problems

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such that that bad gene got turned off. Now here's where it's really interesting.

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Those mice that had the enriched environment had

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better memory were then allowed to have pups and those pops had the gene defect, but

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had the epidemic modifications such that the gene

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was shut off and they had good memory even though they had bad jeans.

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So we can pass along both positive things

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in our life and or negative depending on

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the choices we make in life. And so the bible is actually more scientifically accurate. Than

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Charles Darwin because we do pass down to

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our children, our grandchildren are our great and grandchildren. The experiences that we go through in

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life. Based on the epi modifications, they will get not only our genes,

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but the instructions on how those genes are expressed. Many adolescents will say things like Hey,

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It's my body. I can do what I want. Only if you're never gonna have kids.

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If you're gonna have kids it's smell only your body, it's your kids, your grandkids and

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your great grandkids body too so be careful what you do with it. Not interesting.

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So so epi is the process by which

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we passed gene expression instructions.

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To our kids, You know, we're gonna have tendencies that we passed down and draw certain

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things because of our jeans. You know, your parents passed their genes

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to you, and a lot of what you

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are is an expression of what your parents, worse.

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So they they can pass on good genes or they can pass on bad genes, but

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those genes get passed on. For example, if if... If alcoholism runs in

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your family, like, it did in mind. K? I'll all through my family. It's because somewhere

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up the line in your family trees, someone

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became an alcoholic wired their brain

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to struggle with that addiction. And then what half was they passed that

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on to their kids and now their kids struggle,

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and that happens through the process of what

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we call. And epi. The bible calls these

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generational curse. That's what the bible defines them as.

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Now, you can change the gene expression in

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yourself through epi genetics, and you can change the instructions that your

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genes get that you will pass on your

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kids, how, by renewing

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your mind, through the word.

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So you you you... What you do is

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is you help repair old broken pathways

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made from habit patterns made from lies in your upbringing. You know,

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for example, you know, I grew up in a very messed up dysfunctional family,

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You know, my dad... My dad... I don't wanna make my dad until, like, a villain

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because my dad did do some good things.

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He was a good father in many ways, but there were a lot of ways my

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dad was very destructive. 1 of the ways my dad was very destructive

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was through the verbal and the physical abuse

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that he did in my life. There And

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so because of that, I I had

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all of these wrong thoughts about myself. Now,

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if I don't. Reverse all of that thinking that can be

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passed on, and we can just watch it in families.

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You see a father who walks in a lot of

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anger. Don't be surprised if the son walk

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or a father that walks in a lot of insecurity. Don't be surprised if the child

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does it. Mean, we we see these expressions

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passed on. So by healing no broken pathways

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made by the lives of devil. Replacing them with new healthier

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pathways, which is the truth of God's word, then

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we can literally reverse this process.

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So for you to walk in all that God has for you, and

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that's obviously what we want. You have to

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renew your mind. And it's a daily process.

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Here's what I wanna encourage you in church, and And I'm wrapping up.

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Don't get stuck behind the door that god's

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opened. Wow.

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Don't get stuck behind the door that God's opened.

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This year, we're exposing the lies. We're talking

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about living in the kingdom. We're talking about

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living the God kind of life the Zoo.

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Kind of life. I I wanna end with this. Training your

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mind is like training your body, It's it's it's not just about what you

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do with it, but it's what you put into it over a long period of time.

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You you you guys have heard us tease, you know, 10,

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when I first came to work here, he had a

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serious honey addiction.

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And with that white glaze. Y'all all heard him talk about it.

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We every day, we would He, hey, Hey. I

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need you to come with me. And we would go down to the gas

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station, and we get a honey bun with that white

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glaze in a mountain dew. Yeah.

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Well, he influenced me. In the wrong direction,

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and I thought, well, Tim getting 1 when I gotta get 1 too,

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now we're both diabetic. That's probably not the only reason.

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But it's... You know what I'm saying is like, what you put in over a long period

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of time. What you dwell on, what you

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think on over a long period of time,

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is gonna have its effect. Now, the left side of your brain thinks reason,

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it thinks logic, it thinks images, it thinks numbers.

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The right side of your brain is emotion. And this is where a lot of the

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renewing has to take place. Because this is this is where we get

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access to our Limbic system, and this is where we have to get God's word

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rooted in our brains. So 1 of the things that you can

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do is make God's promises personal to you.

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K? So you just you just really emphasize

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yourself in that promise. Let me let me

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give you this example. When you pray, you pray the scripture,

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and you put your name or you put

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yourself, in that place. For example, the lord has

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not given me the spirit of affair by say me.

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The not given me the spirit of fear,

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but of power, love and a sound mine.

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Here's another 1. I like Joshua 1 9,

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blessed m I, everybody say, I.

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And this this is in the proverbs. Blessed am I because I walked not in

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the couch of the wicked or standard the way of sinner or sit in the sea

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of golfers, but my delight is in the

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law of Lord in the law of the Lord. And on his law, I

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meditate day and night. Does that make sense? Lord

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I will be strong and courageous.

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The lord is with me wherever I go.

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So you gotta make it personal to

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you. So I wanna close with this verse. C32.

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Set your minds on the things above,

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not on the things thereof of this earth.

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Your focus determines your reality.

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That bottom line. Your focus determines your reality.

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So as we renew our minds, we think thoughts about ourself. We think thoughts

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about God, We think thoughts about our children

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about our mates about our life about our world,

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about our creator. Then everything

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begins to change and life

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begins to take on a completely new meaning. We all stand with

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me this morning. Amen. Let's give God a hand clap.

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Now I I wanna take just a moment if you'll bow your head.

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If you don't know Jesus.

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He wants to know you. Jesus wants to connect with you.

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And And I can... Promise you, it is

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the best decision that you could ever make

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in your whole life. And and you may

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be here today, and maybe you've been in church for a very long time. Promise

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but you've never asked Jesus to come into your heart, really,

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come your heart and be your lord, be

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your master, to be the leader of your life.

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I wanna make a moment for you

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to be able right here right now, there's not a better

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day that you could do it. And right in this moment.

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God loves you. He sent his son to die for you

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to resurrect for you to give you a new life.

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And if that's you, and you're in this room, I just want you. To ask

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Jesus to be the Lord of your life.

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For your life to take on new. Everything, every thought you

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think, every decision that you make everything that

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you do you will do in light of

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him leading your life.

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And what happens is Jesus comes and he

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he tab in you. He lives inside of

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your heart. And he changes your heart. He changes your

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life, Your desires change, your motivations change.

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Your impulses change. Your passions change. Everything changes when Jesus comes

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into your heart. And I just don't want anybody leaving here

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without giving you an opportunity, to ask Jesus to come into your heart.

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And as a result of that, your life, your life can now

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take on a completely new meaning.

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And then you need to get an a bible believer in church man, you need to

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be in the world. You need to surround yourself with people that love Jesus.

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And I promise you you'll you'll never regret

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that decision. It's the best decision of your

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life. The rest of us who have already asked jesus to be the Lord

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of our life. I wanna encourage you. Don't get lazy in your relationship with Jesus.

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And don't get lazy and reading your word and renewing your mind. Keep god's word first

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and foremost in front of you. The bible

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says meditate on it day and night. Because that's the way we influence our genome.

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That's the way we break generational curse. We don't wanna pass

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any of that stuff down to our kids especially you young parents or you you

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couples that are married, You don't have children yet. And this is very important.

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Very important. God, we love you.

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We praise you. We honor you. You're so good to us, Lord.

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God go for us this week. And help our minds be on you. In

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Jesus name, amen. God bless you and your dismissed.

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