1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,120 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,040 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,040 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,280 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,040 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,200 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,720 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,840 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,840 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,400 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,420 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:34,700 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:34,860 --> 00:00:38,140 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:41,660 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:43,180 Hello, good people. 16 00:00:43,180 --> 00:00:47,900 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:51,940 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:57,980 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:00:57,980 --> 00:01:00,220 pastor Ross Stackhouse. 20 00:01:00,220 --> 00:01:04,900 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:13,940 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 22 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:19,860 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 23 00:01:19,860 --> 00:01:24,580 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:36,760 and on the website, which is heavenarthchurch.org Here is heaven 25 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,760 Earth Church Pastor Ross Stackhouse with the message the Holy 26 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:45,200 Spirit in each person from the Message series on fire. 27 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:56,860 Lord, help us to receive the life that you so eagerly want to 28 00:01:56,860 --> 00:02:04,340 give us in Jesus name, Amen. 29 00:02:06,340 --> 00:02:10,020 So yesterday, Saturdays are my Sabbath day. 30 00:02:11,380 --> 00:02:16,980 So I try to carve it out as a day of rest where I try not to have 31 00:02:17,060 --> 00:02:20,870 productivity, accept productivity of a certain kind that 32 00:02:20,870 --> 00:02:21,630 is allowed. 33 00:02:22,590 --> 00:02:26,190 And I'm wondering if my kids are starting to tap into what that 34 00:02:26,190 --> 00:02:29,350 means, because sometimes my kids are. 35 00:02:29,350 --> 00:02:32,030 IVA specifically is asking to have a yes day. 36 00:02:32,430 --> 00:02:33,870 Do you know what a yes day is? 37 00:02:35,550 --> 00:02:36,110 Okay. 38 00:02:37,630 --> 00:02:38,190 Yes. 39 00:02:38,270 --> 00:02:39,030 Yes, sir. 40 00:02:39,030 --> 00:02:40,110 On October 30th. 41 00:02:40,110 --> 00:02:40,590 Yep. 42 00:02:43,310 --> 00:02:50,910 Well, so they said, daddy, can you build us a lemonade stand so 43 00:02:50,910 --> 00:02:52,870 we can have that today? 44 00:02:54,870 --> 00:03:02,030 And parents, can you can you relate how I thought, I don't have 45 00:03:02,030 --> 00:03:07,830 time for that, but I said yes. 46 00:03:09,030 --> 00:03:15,280 And Josh Harris, do not look at the integrity of this table, okay, 47 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:15,600 bro? 48 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,720 Josh Harris is professional woodworker. 49 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:31,720 So I can't go into all the details of this, but recently I have 50 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:37,360 really felt God nudging me to be still and to listen to the ways 51 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,470 of all the subtle ways that I'm resisting the life that God wants 52 00:03:42,470 --> 00:03:43,150 to give me. 53 00:03:45,310 --> 00:03:48,430 And so because of that, recently, when my kids said, hey, 54 00:03:48,430 --> 00:03:49,470 can we do this today? 55 00:03:49,790 --> 00:03:50,670 I didn't even think. 56 00:03:50,670 --> 00:03:51,630 And I said yes. 57 00:03:52,830 --> 00:03:55,070 And I gave a chunk of my day to This. 58 00:03:56,750 --> 00:04:02,470 I just found whatever scraps of wood I had lying around and started 59 00:04:02,470 --> 00:04:04,150 getting to work on doing this thing. 60 00:04:04,150 --> 00:04:06,470 They didn't want any existing table in the house. 61 00:04:06,470 --> 00:04:09,440 Okay, not good enough. 62 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,960 We need to build a lemonade stand. 63 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,840 So we did it. 64 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:26,320 And it was just so joyful, you guys, to just go around the house 65 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,440 looking for the extra scraps out in the shed and like, hey, that'll 66 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:31,760 work. 67 00:04:32,970 --> 00:04:33,770 Old fence. 68 00:04:34,010 --> 00:04:34,970 Old fencing. 69 00:04:35,770 --> 00:04:37,930 The sides of the tables are old. 70 00:04:37,930 --> 00:04:38,730 Just fences. 71 00:04:38,810 --> 00:04:39,290 Fence. 72 00:04:39,370 --> 00:04:39,930 Kind of. 73 00:04:40,330 --> 00:04:41,210 What's the word? 74 00:04:42,170 --> 00:04:45,490 Not posts, but the things themselves, like slats. 75 00:04:45,490 --> 00:04:45,850 Yeah. 76 00:04:45,850 --> 00:04:46,250 Thank you. 77 00:04:46,250 --> 00:04:46,810 Thank you. 78 00:04:47,210 --> 00:04:50,130 And then there was this plywood tabletop that I had. 79 00:04:50,130 --> 00:04:51,050 My dad gave. 80 00:04:51,050 --> 00:04:53,930 Gifted me from that he had laying in his house. 81 00:04:54,250 --> 00:04:55,690 Because men just keep wood. 82 00:04:56,330 --> 00:04:57,930 You'll never know when I need it. 83 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:01,240 Yeah. 84 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,520 Well, guess what I won today, that day. 85 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,800 Because this piece, big piece of plywood that's just been sitting 86 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,880 in the shed, I finally needed it, chopped it up, made this thing, 87 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:20,920 and we all went in to do this and we had such a blast. 88 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:23,900 And we. 89 00:05:24,050 --> 00:05:24,290 We. 90 00:05:24,450 --> 00:05:26,450 We also taught a little business, sedject. 91 00:05:26,450 --> 00:05:29,170 We had to move it to get it closer to the construction site. 92 00:05:30,050 --> 00:05:31,810 Then the business started rolling in. 93 00:05:34,850 --> 00:05:42,050 So I have an overly simple yet very important point that I hope 94 00:05:42,050 --> 00:05:43,170 that you will wrestle with. 95 00:05:43,170 --> 00:05:45,010 No, actually, that you'll just receive today. 96 00:05:45,170 --> 00:05:46,770 I don't know if it's up there yet. 97 00:05:47,490 --> 00:05:49,330 We were having a little trouble getting it. 98 00:05:52,060 --> 00:05:52,700 This is it. 99 00:05:56,860 --> 00:05:58,620 This life wants to grow in us. 100 00:06:03,020 --> 00:06:05,740 And I'll spoil. 101 00:06:05,980 --> 00:06:08,940 I'll give you the practical takeaway. 102 00:06:10,060 --> 00:06:10,860 So let it. 103 00:06:16,950 --> 00:06:19,910 Once we were finishing up the day, I went over to my fire pit. 104 00:06:20,950 --> 00:06:23,750 And we haven't had a fire in there for some time. 105 00:06:23,750 --> 00:06:28,030 And I look in there and amongst the ashes, wildflowers are 106 00:06:28,030 --> 00:06:32,150 growing up, a maple tree is growing up, and some weeds. 107 00:06:34,710 --> 00:06:36,390 This life wants to grow in us. 108 00:06:37,990 --> 00:06:39,030 It just wants to. 109 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:47,120 By this life, you probably already know what I mean, but it's 110 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,120 the life that Jesus embodied. 111 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:56,679 Every minute of every hour of every day that he was on earth, he 112 00:06:56,679 --> 00:06:57,760 came to give it to us. 113 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,320 He said things like, I have said these things to you. 114 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,680 So my joy will be in you, and your joy will be complete. 115 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:10,360 Abide in me. 116 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:13,400 I'll abide in you. 117 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,160 Those who abide in me. 118 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:16,040 The Father. 119 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,520 Prunes, so that they bear fruit. 120 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:23,560 In other words, let it grow. 121 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:26,640 You can't force it to grow. 122 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,840 You let it grow by abiding in me. 123 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:32,520 By saying yes, not just once. 124 00:07:35,170 --> 00:07:40,850 We celebrated some amazing baptisms in a pretty murky pond last 125 00:07:40,850 --> 00:07:41,890 week, didn't we, Dina? 126 00:07:45,090 --> 00:07:46,210 But it was wonderful. 127 00:07:48,850 --> 00:07:52,130 And we talked about how baptism is a beginning, not an end. 128 00:07:53,250 --> 00:07:56,050 We talked about how, you know, when you go to Indianapolis Airport 129 00:07:56,850 --> 00:08:00,580 and there's a point where you can choose the arrival lanes or the 130 00:08:00,580 --> 00:08:01,500 departure lanes. 131 00:08:02,140 --> 00:08:04,700 Well, sometimes in Christianity, we've taught that baptism 132 00:08:04,700 --> 00:08:06,620 is driving into the arrival lanes. 133 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:09,020 It is not. 134 00:08:09,340 --> 00:08:11,260 It's driving into the departure lanes. 135 00:08:12,780 --> 00:08:13,940 We're beginning something. 136 00:08:13,940 --> 00:08:21,420 We're saying one yes, followed by a series of A bunch of small yeses, 137 00:08:21,420 --> 00:08:24,340 like saying yes to being present with your kids and building 138 00:08:24,340 --> 00:08:25,980 a lemonade stand from scraps. 139 00:08:29,650 --> 00:08:34,610 So here's what I want to ask of you to start today. 140 00:08:36,290 --> 00:08:38,370 What does your resistance look like? 141 00:08:41,650 --> 00:08:43,010 Step back to a minute. 142 00:08:43,090 --> 00:08:43,810 For a minute. 143 00:08:46,610 --> 00:08:48,410 If this life wants to grow in us. 144 00:08:48,410 --> 00:08:51,490 If Jesus is just saying, I just want to give this life to you. 145 00:08:51,490 --> 00:08:52,130 I want to. 146 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:54,960 I want to teach you this. 147 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,800 I want to cultivate this in you. 148 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,920 I want to give you the very spirit that raised me from the dead. 149 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,160 I just want to help you grow up in this life. 150 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,480 What does your resistance to that look like? 151 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:15,960 I'll hang up and listen. 152 00:09:24,450 --> 00:09:25,170 Too busy. 153 00:09:28,290 --> 00:09:28,650 Great. 154 00:09:28,650 --> 00:09:29,250 Thank you. 155 00:09:29,250 --> 00:09:33,570 I plan to, Josh, to say that to start today, because next week 156 00:09:33,969 --> 00:09:38,290 we're going to start a series of conversations inspired by a book 157 00:09:38,290 --> 00:09:46,060 called the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry Exhaustion. 158 00:09:47,580 --> 00:09:48,060 Yeah. 159 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:53,420 Not finding or getting the rest that we need. 160 00:09:54,060 --> 00:09:54,620 Yeah. 161 00:09:58,460 --> 00:10:02,140 How do you resist this life that wants to grow in you, that Jesus 162 00:10:02,140 --> 00:10:03,020 wants to give you? 163 00:10:06,380 --> 00:10:08,460 It's not always the easiest choice. 164 00:10:10,550 --> 00:10:12,230 It's maybe hard or difficult. 165 00:10:15,910 --> 00:10:17,590 There's always an excuse. 166 00:10:22,550 --> 00:10:24,310 There's always a distraction. 167 00:10:26,630 --> 00:10:27,670 What was that, Kevin? 168 00:10:28,310 --> 00:10:29,270 Procrastination. 169 00:10:31,110 --> 00:10:32,510 I can come back to this later. 170 00:10:32,510 --> 00:10:34,390 Right now I gotta tend to some other things. 171 00:10:36,140 --> 00:10:36,540 Yeah. 172 00:10:38,060 --> 00:10:38,580 What else? 173 00:10:38,580 --> 00:10:40,300 What's your resistance look like, Natalie? 174 00:10:41,740 --> 00:10:43,500 Anxiety and what ifs. 175 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:46,060 Yes. 176 00:10:49,260 --> 00:10:49,980 What was that? 177 00:10:50,859 --> 00:10:51,260 Control. 178 00:10:51,820 --> 00:10:52,540 Oh, man. 179 00:10:55,900 --> 00:10:56,380 Yes. 180 00:10:56,380 --> 00:11:08,230 Control as a form of resistance, defiance, commitment 181 00:11:08,230 --> 00:11:10,590 to things that are no longer fulfilling. 182 00:11:10,590 --> 00:11:11,870 If I could add to that. 183 00:11:11,870 --> 00:11:16,070 PT we're just doing what's worked. 184 00:11:18,630 --> 00:11:20,550 It may not be working anymore. 185 00:11:21,110 --> 00:11:25,230 We kind of know that deep down, but it's still comfortable. 186 00:11:25,230 --> 00:11:26,390 And so it's comfortable. 187 00:11:26,830 --> 00:11:27,390 It works. 188 00:11:31,150 --> 00:11:32,910 What's your resistance look like? 189 00:11:35,150 --> 00:11:36,350 Being uncomfortable. 190 00:11:36,590 --> 00:11:37,150 Yeah. 191 00:11:44,030 --> 00:11:44,590 Fear. 192 00:11:46,590 --> 00:11:47,470 Fear of change. 193 00:11:49,390 --> 00:11:50,590 Fear of the unknown. 194 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:55,480 Yeah. 195 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,520 Here's what has been what I've noticed. 196 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:09,000 I told you last time, I felt that God has been challenging me 197 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:14,280 to practice a lot of stillness and silence all the time. 198 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,800 Now, don't go away today and say, the pastor told us to not read 199 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:21,800 the Bible anymore. 200 00:12:23,410 --> 00:12:24,930 That's not what I'm about to say. 201 00:12:27,570 --> 00:12:32,290 But even recently, I felt in My alone time with God. 202 00:12:33,570 --> 00:12:34,890 Recently, this happened to me. 203 00:12:34,890 --> 00:12:35,690 Was it my mind? 204 00:12:35,690 --> 00:12:36,530 Was it God? 205 00:12:36,770 --> 00:12:37,570 I don't know. 206 00:12:37,570 --> 00:12:41,250 But I start to reach for my Bible app, what I do every morning 207 00:12:41,250 --> 00:12:43,770 to wrestle with the scriptures, to find God's heart through 208 00:12:43,770 --> 00:12:44,050 them. 209 00:12:44,130 --> 00:12:45,570 And God said, whoa, whoa. 210 00:12:46,930 --> 00:12:47,970 I said, be still. 211 00:12:49,810 --> 00:12:50,690 Know that I'm God. 212 00:12:51,410 --> 00:12:55,530 When I try to speak recently in prayer, I feel like I'm being 213 00:12:55,530 --> 00:12:58,610 muted, like Zachariah in the story of Luke, chapter one. 214 00:12:58,610 --> 00:12:59,970 Like, hey, no talking. 215 00:13:01,330 --> 00:13:02,690 Enough talking, Ross. 216 00:13:02,930 --> 00:13:04,290 Enough doing. 217 00:13:08,450 --> 00:13:09,970 It's been really frustrating. 218 00:13:12,370 --> 00:13:13,570 I'm not allowed to talk. 219 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:15,400 I'm not allowed to read the Bible. 220 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:20,320 I'm just supposed to sit still and be still and listen and feel 221 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,320 like you're not hearing anything and struggle with the distractions. 222 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:26,840 And it's working. 223 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,680 I'm seeing all the resistance in me. 224 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,080 I'm noticing I said it out loud to God. 225 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:40,040 I was allowed to say this. 226 00:13:41,150 --> 00:13:42,910 The ego is still driving. 227 00:13:47,070 --> 00:13:47,550 Wow. 228 00:13:48,430 --> 00:13:49,870 It's still driving a lot. 229 00:13:51,470 --> 00:13:54,750 Fear and insecurity still grip me terribly. 230 00:13:58,350 --> 00:14:02,630 And this ruthless ambition, this need to be productive, this 231 00:14:02,630 --> 00:14:07,230 need to get results and then be admired for my results is still 232 00:14:07,230 --> 00:14:08,350 driving so much. 233 00:14:10,990 --> 00:14:12,430 That is my resistance. 234 00:14:13,870 --> 00:14:16,110 And God is trying to teach me right now. 235 00:14:18,350 --> 00:14:20,190 Just let this life come to you. 236 00:14:22,590 --> 00:14:25,630 All these things are resistance. 237 00:14:26,670 --> 00:14:28,430 All these things are resistance. 238 00:14:31,710 --> 00:14:35,930 I told Emily, for me, by ego, I define it as this. 239 00:14:35,930 --> 00:14:39,930 In me, ego, it sounds like a bad, dirty word kind of, right? 240 00:14:39,930 --> 00:14:41,210 Like it means you're arrogant. 241 00:14:41,210 --> 00:14:43,290 That guy's an egomaniac. 242 00:14:44,330 --> 00:14:47,730 More generally, I mean, more perhaps in a psychological sense. 243 00:14:47,730 --> 00:14:51,210 The ego is what we build to survive or make it through hard times. 244 00:14:53,770 --> 00:14:55,610 As human beings, we've talked about this. 245 00:14:55,610 --> 00:14:57,930 We are wonderfully wired to survive. 246 00:14:59,370 --> 00:15:01,130 We are incredibly resilient. 247 00:15:02,830 --> 00:15:06,910 So after we have passed through trauma, terrible trauma, 248 00:15:07,070 --> 00:15:13,310 adverse childhood experiences, failing loss, we will figure out 249 00:15:13,310 --> 00:15:14,190 how to survive. 250 00:15:14,190 --> 00:15:17,270 And sometimes, coming out of childhood or adolescence, the way 251 00:15:17,270 --> 00:15:20,470 that we learned to survive was to build this false self, call it 252 00:15:20,470 --> 00:15:22,190 the ego, to make it through. 253 00:15:25,630 --> 00:15:32,200 And that ego is great until it isn't anymore. 254 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:39,080 The ego is what we use to resist the pain that precedes thriving. 255 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:41,880 I'll say that again. 256 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:49,320 The ego is what we lean on to resist the pain that precedes thriving. 257 00:15:53,010 --> 00:15:56,010 So we know deep down somewhere, we know it deep, deep, 258 00:15:56,010 --> 00:16:01,370 deep, deep down, there is something else besides the routine 259 00:16:01,370 --> 00:16:02,050 we've been in. 260 00:16:03,090 --> 00:16:06,210 There's a voice that cries down, cries out from deep within 261 00:16:06,210 --> 00:16:07,730 us, saying, there is more. 262 00:16:08,850 --> 00:16:09,890 There is more. 263 00:16:11,010 --> 00:16:12,050 There is life. 264 00:16:14,290 --> 00:16:15,410 There is fruit. 265 00:16:16,530 --> 00:16:20,050 And we know that that voice is calling us somewhere else. 266 00:16:20,380 --> 00:16:21,530 But, or maybe Right. 267 00:16:21,530 --> 00:16:22,850 Exactly where we are. 268 00:16:23,250 --> 00:16:24,770 But to just be different. 269 00:16:25,250 --> 00:16:26,690 Exactly where we are. 270 00:16:27,170 --> 00:16:29,010 But what comes between us. 271 00:16:29,170 --> 00:16:33,370 That surviving here and thriving over there is some pain 272 00:16:33,370 --> 00:16:35,890 and discomfort along the way. 273 00:16:36,690 --> 00:16:40,370 So the ego is what we lean on to resist the pain that precedes 274 00:16:40,370 --> 00:16:41,010 the thriving. 275 00:16:44,130 --> 00:16:50,580 For me, I become ruthlessly ambitious so I can produce and get 276 00:16:50,580 --> 00:16:54,940 results that get me admiration that I think I need to be validated. 277 00:16:56,140 --> 00:16:57,660 Anybody else with me on that? 278 00:16:59,580 --> 00:17:01,500 You're in any achievers in the room? 279 00:17:05,980 --> 00:17:10,060 Sometimes the inverse of that is shame. 280 00:17:12,949 --> 00:17:16,469 We don't even try to achieve anything because we think we're completely 281 00:17:16,469 --> 00:17:17,589 worthless deep down. 282 00:17:21,029 --> 00:17:23,349 So I say again, what does your resistance look like? 283 00:17:23,349 --> 00:17:24,869 This life wants to grow in us. 284 00:17:27,109 --> 00:17:29,349 Here's what I want to say to you really quickly. 285 00:17:30,869 --> 00:17:34,549 Two things on today's church and then something on the ancient 286 00:17:34,549 --> 00:17:34,869 church. 287 00:17:34,869 --> 00:17:36,349 And then we're going to end back with a. 288 00:17:36,349 --> 00:17:36,789 So what? 289 00:17:36,789 --> 00:17:37,669 Are you still with me? 290 00:17:38,340 --> 00:17:38,980 You still good? 291 00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:42,660 I'm trying. 292 00:17:42,660 --> 00:17:43,420 Even right now. 293 00:17:43,420 --> 00:17:45,300 I'm gonna say an honest thought to you right now because 294 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:46,820 God's teaching me right now. 295 00:17:46,820 --> 00:17:49,220 My resistance is needing to be admired. 296 00:17:50,020 --> 00:17:53,100 So right now I'm even trying to share this message without you 297 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:54,100 needing to like it. 298 00:17:55,940 --> 00:17:57,380 Good God help me. 299 00:17:59,940 --> 00:18:02,340 How was Jesus able to teach in riddles? 300 00:18:03,060 --> 00:18:04,020 No resistance. 301 00:18:05,270 --> 00:18:06,790 He didn't need people to like it. 302 00:18:09,910 --> 00:18:11,750 He did not need people to like it. 303 00:18:12,630 --> 00:18:16,150 And I said before, he sure as heck wasn't Midwest nice. 304 00:18:18,230 --> 00:18:20,230 He didn't need people to like what he was doing. 305 00:18:21,190 --> 00:18:23,830 He already felt as liked as he needed to be. 306 00:18:26,470 --> 00:18:28,950 So I'm trying to say this today and not need you to like it. 307 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,320 That's what I want to tell you, is that the church. 308 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:36,080 I have thought the church is the resistance. 309 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:37,680 Today I'm seeing it differently. 310 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,440 I'm thinking that church sometimes has been part of the resistance 311 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:42,400 in a bad way. 312 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,080 Sometimes church is teaching us. 313 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,200 It's actually fanning kind of the flame of the resistance stuff 314 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:50,640 in us. 315 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,680 So maybe we go to a church that's got a big fat ego. 316 00:18:58,890 --> 00:18:59,690 It's shiny. 317 00:18:59,690 --> 00:19:01,610 There's a lot of performance in it. 318 00:19:01,770 --> 00:19:02,890 It looks great. 319 00:19:02,890 --> 00:19:04,250 It feels great. 320 00:19:06,650 --> 00:19:07,210 What's that? 321 00:19:07,210 --> 00:19:08,090 Fog machines. 322 00:19:09,690 --> 00:19:10,090 Right? 323 00:19:12,009 --> 00:19:15,250 That's a way that the modern church can be a part of the resistance. 324 00:19:15,250 --> 00:19:16,170 That's not good. 325 00:19:16,970 --> 00:19:18,810 It makes us feel good. 326 00:19:18,810 --> 00:19:23,460 We walk away with a good feeling and we're resisting the pain 327 00:19:23,540 --> 00:19:25,220 that precedes thriving. 328 00:19:27,940 --> 00:19:32,340 Or maybe the modern church is just yoking up with some political 329 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:40,700 party and it's hijacking the good life of Jesus and yoking it 330 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:43,780 to some political agenda that's killing People. 331 00:19:44,580 --> 00:19:46,820 It happens on the left and the right, folks. 332 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:53,480 When churches align with certain harmful political agendas, 333 00:19:54,040 --> 00:20:01,400 that keeps us asleep and sleepwalking for some of us. 334 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,520 Our scriptures are the words of our political party with which 335 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:06,680 we affiliate ourselves. 336 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,440 To hell with that. 337 00:20:16,770 --> 00:20:18,370 This life wants to grow in us. 338 00:20:22,290 --> 00:20:23,490 He won't force you. 339 00:20:25,010 --> 00:20:26,370 He doesn't work that way. 340 00:20:26,370 --> 00:20:27,010 I'm learning. 341 00:20:28,529 --> 00:20:29,490 He invites you. 342 00:20:30,690 --> 00:20:32,290 He talks to you in riddles. 343 00:20:35,090 --> 00:20:38,450 So you have to really show up and listen and think about it. 344 00:20:39,580 --> 00:20:41,100 He doesn't spoon feed you. 345 00:20:41,980 --> 00:20:44,540 And even if he did, we wouldn't do it anyways. 346 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:47,980 I love it when folks are like, if he just give me a list, I'm like, 347 00:20:47,980 --> 00:20:48,300 he did. 348 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:49,500 It's called the Ten Commandments. 349 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:50,220 How you doing? 350 00:20:53,660 --> 00:20:56,300 If he gave us a list, we wouldn't do well with it anyways. 351 00:20:56,300 --> 00:21:01,180 So he becomes friends with us, has conversation with us, invites 352 00:21:01,180 --> 00:21:04,340 us to a daily companionship where sometimes it comes to us in 353 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:08,240 riddles, but sometimes you gather way more from a riddle that 354 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,680 confuses you than something that's spoon fed and clear and simple. 355 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,200 He's not so interested in whether you like it. 356 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,000 He's interested in whether you realize how loved you are. 357 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,760 And sometimes to do that, he's got to say something that unsettles 358 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:33,080 you or do something that pierces the fog or pierces the hard 359 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,310 shell that's part of your resistance. 360 00:21:36,110 --> 00:21:41,150 When I look at the ancient church again, I used to think of 361 00:21:41,150 --> 00:21:42,590 that as the resistance. 362 00:21:43,630 --> 00:21:45,230 I'm seeing it differently now. 363 00:21:46,590 --> 00:21:49,870 I'm seeing it as the people who just allowed this life to grow 364 00:21:49,870 --> 00:21:54,070 in them go. 365 00:21:54,070 --> 00:21:56,110 We talked about Paul's story last week. 366 00:21:56,110 --> 00:21:57,630 Can we go back to it real quick? 367 00:21:58,670 --> 00:21:59,790 Are you still with me? 368 00:22:00,380 --> 00:22:00,540 No. 369 00:22:00,540 --> 00:22:00,820 Wait. 370 00:22:00,820 --> 00:22:02,700 I'm not concerned whether you like it or not. 371 00:22:03,580 --> 00:22:04,740 Of course I am. 372 00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:06,300 That's not gonna die in me. 373 00:22:12,940 --> 00:22:13,820 Remember Paul? 374 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:15,420 His name was Saul. 375 00:22:18,060 --> 00:22:20,540 He was resisting this so hard. 376 00:22:22,220 --> 00:22:23,660 There was this new way. 377 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:25,660 It was literally called the way. 378 00:22:26,130 --> 00:22:28,610 The Greek word for it means the road, or the way. 379 00:22:29,250 --> 00:22:31,250 That was what the first movement was called. 380 00:22:31,810 --> 00:22:35,410 Paul was resisting this, Saul, with everything in his body and his 381 00:22:35,410 --> 00:22:35,810 soul. 382 00:22:38,770 --> 00:22:39,290 He was. 383 00:22:39,290 --> 00:22:40,530 He was religious. 384 00:22:41,330 --> 00:22:45,010 Remember when I said the church can be a part of the bad resistance? 385 00:22:45,090 --> 00:22:45,650 Hello? 386 00:22:47,090 --> 00:22:47,970 This guy was. 387 00:22:47,970 --> 00:22:50,650 Was trying to throw people in prison and murder people who are 388 00:22:50,650 --> 00:22:54,970 part of this way because they were doing such threatening stuff. 389 00:22:54,970 --> 00:22:57,090 They were getting together and eating supper. 390 00:22:59,090 --> 00:23:00,450 They got to be killed. 391 00:23:03,810 --> 00:23:08,330 But when your ego is running the show, weird things look threatening 392 00:23:08,330 --> 00:23:08,770 to you. 393 00:23:11,570 --> 00:23:15,010 Honest, loving feedback from your friends, that's a threat. 394 00:23:16,290 --> 00:23:17,570 They're gaslighting me. 395 00:23:19,430 --> 00:23:22,070 When your Friend comes to you and gives you honest, constructive 396 00:23:22,070 --> 00:23:22,470 feedback. 397 00:23:22,470 --> 00:23:25,030 When the ego's running the show, you won't receive it well. 398 00:23:25,590 --> 00:23:26,710 You'll resist it. 399 00:23:26,870 --> 00:23:27,990 The life won't grow. 400 00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:32,550 He's resisting. 401 00:23:32,550 --> 00:23:33,709 Paul is in a bad way. 402 00:23:33,709 --> 00:23:33,990 Why? 403 00:23:33,990 --> 00:23:36,230 Because he's tip top in the religious world. 404 00:23:36,790 --> 00:23:40,350 He's got status, he's got education, he's got power. 405 00:23:40,350 --> 00:23:41,270 He's got wealth. 406 00:23:41,270 --> 00:23:42,710 He's got it all, man. 407 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:49,680 And then we talked about this last week. 408 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,640 The risen Lord shows up, as he does. 409 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,120 Sometimes we don't see it because why? 410 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,120 We're so busy. 411 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:01,040 We're in a hurry to get our list done. 412 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:07,600 To be productive, to achieve God never shows up in my life. 413 00:24:10,250 --> 00:24:13,610 Oh, well, how have you been watching and listening for it? 414 00:24:14,410 --> 00:24:15,210 Tell me that. 415 00:24:17,850 --> 00:24:19,770 Well, I mean, I haven't had a lot of time. 416 00:24:19,770 --> 00:24:23,530 I mean, my work schedule and everything's been so hard, and I'm. 417 00:24:24,810 --> 00:24:27,050 Oh, so you're certain God hasn't been showing up? 418 00:24:28,890 --> 00:24:31,290 Well, in this case, Jesus really shows up. 419 00:24:31,290 --> 00:24:33,770 He says, hey, why are you harassing me? 420 00:24:33,770 --> 00:24:34,850 We talked about last week. 421 00:24:34,850 --> 00:24:35,000 Jesus. 422 00:24:35,150 --> 00:24:36,990 Jesus says, when you've done it to one of the least of these, 423 00:24:36,990 --> 00:24:37,830 you've done it to me. 424 00:24:37,830 --> 00:24:40,030 In this case, Paul's arresting people. 425 00:24:40,030 --> 00:24:41,550 And so he's doing it to Jesus. 426 00:24:42,270 --> 00:24:45,310 Jesus says, hey, wake up. 427 00:24:48,110 --> 00:24:50,510 And he invites Saul on a mission. 428 00:24:54,590 --> 00:24:57,870 Jesus says to this guy by the name of Ananias. 429 00:24:57,870 --> 00:25:00,070 So Saul becomes blinded by this vision. 430 00:25:00,070 --> 00:25:02,270 He doesn't eat, he doesn't drink for three days. 431 00:25:02,270 --> 00:25:03,390 This is from last week. 432 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,600 And he goes to this guy named Ananias, and he says, go. 433 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,040 You need to go relieve this guy. 434 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:11,040 Help this guy. 435 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,640 And Ananias is like, isn't he the murderer guy? 436 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:16,440 Isn't he the bad guy? 437 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:19,360 But what. 438 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:20,600 What does Ananias do? 439 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:21,640 No resistance. 440 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,800 He says, okay, I'll let this life grow in me. 441 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,120 I'll go where you send me. 442 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:29,320 Let's go. 443 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:37,280 And so Ananias shows up and says, look at this. 444 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,720 This is what happens when you let this life grow in you. 445 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,600 The enemy becomes your brother. 446 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:48,640 Say it with me, Brother Saul. 447 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,480 On the count of three. 448 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:50,320 One, two, three. 449 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,200 Can you imagine that some of your enemies could be your brothers 450 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:55,920 and sisters? 451 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:00,700 Yuck. 452 00:26:02,620 --> 00:26:03,460 He helps him out. 453 00:26:03,460 --> 00:26:04,700 He sends him on his way. 454 00:26:05,980 --> 00:26:07,820 Paul stops the resistance. 455 00:26:09,260 --> 00:26:10,220 He stops. 456 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:12,220 He surrenders. 457 00:26:13,180 --> 00:26:13,860 He eats. 458 00:26:13,860 --> 00:26:15,260 He regains his strength. 459 00:26:16,780 --> 00:26:18,780 And, buddy, he goes on the mission. 460 00:26:20,140 --> 00:26:21,100 And look at this. 461 00:26:21,180 --> 00:26:24,780 What I'm seeing is, I'm noticing how actually this is this 462 00:26:24,780 --> 00:26:25,500 first movement. 463 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,180 And us, we're not the resistance. 464 00:26:27,180 --> 00:26:32,460 We're the people who just let this life grow in us by being present 465 00:26:32,460 --> 00:26:37,340 with Jesus daily, by being still and being aware. 466 00:26:38,140 --> 00:26:40,300 How is the ego still driving me? 467 00:26:40,460 --> 00:26:43,180 How is fear and insecurity still ruling my life? 468 00:26:43,660 --> 00:26:48,580 How is my need to be admired, my idol, my God, or whatever your 469 00:26:48,580 --> 00:26:49,340 resistance is? 470 00:26:49,340 --> 00:26:52,180 You won't know your resistance if you're not still and noticing 471 00:26:52,180 --> 00:26:52,460 it. 472 00:26:56,620 --> 00:26:59,220 If we're going to let go of the resistance, we first must be 473 00:26:59,220 --> 00:26:59,980 aware of it. 474 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:06,780 So then we can turn and say, yes, let this life grow in me, Lord. 475 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:09,580 Yes. 476 00:27:10,540 --> 00:27:13,100 My kids are always wanting to have a yes day. 477 00:27:15,340 --> 00:27:18,940 God is teaching me, Ross, make every day with me a yes day. 478 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,680 Make every day with me, Ross, a yes day. 479 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:30,960 Say yes to stillness and presence and companionship and following 480 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:32,480 and trusting. 481 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,480 And together we will kick your fears in the teeth. 482 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,720 We will put your ego in its right place. 483 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,800 All that ruthless ambition will be seen for what it is. 484 00:27:46,530 --> 00:27:50,090 And you'll realize and you'll live from this rest, from this fullness 485 00:27:50,090 --> 00:27:55,250 of love and this desire to love people out of that center. 486 00:27:56,050 --> 00:27:59,890 You're not going to love people, Ross, as a transaction. 487 00:28:02,370 --> 00:28:06,610 So you love them and they give you admiration in return so you feel 488 00:28:06,610 --> 00:28:07,410 fulfilled. 489 00:28:09,570 --> 00:28:12,590 There's another fancy word for that, codependency. 490 00:28:13,950 --> 00:28:16,030 Any codependent folks in the room. 491 00:28:20,190 --> 00:28:23,150 You get your sense of worth from being fused with other people 492 00:28:23,150 --> 00:28:24,390 and helping and serving them. 493 00:28:24,390 --> 00:28:25,790 Even that is resistance. 494 00:28:25,790 --> 00:28:26,590 Isn't that weird? 495 00:28:28,030 --> 00:28:29,790 You're running around furiously. 496 00:28:30,110 --> 00:28:30,830 Are you okay? 497 00:28:30,830 --> 00:28:32,510 Do you feel better about how I've helped you? 498 00:28:32,590 --> 00:28:33,710 Did it make you feel good? 499 00:28:33,710 --> 00:28:34,470 Did you like it? 500 00:28:34,470 --> 00:28:35,310 Did you like it? 501 00:28:36,510 --> 00:28:37,470 That's resistance. 502 00:28:37,470 --> 00:28:41,260 Weirdly, that's not letting the life of Jesus grow in you. 503 00:28:43,820 --> 00:28:47,980 That's ego still driving insecurity, fear. 504 00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:55,660 The Lord is yet teaching me how to love others because I'm already 505 00:28:56,380 --> 00:28:56,940 loved. 506 00:28:58,380 --> 00:29:00,700 First John 4 says it, we love. 507 00:29:01,180 --> 00:29:01,580 Why? 508 00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:03,100 So we can get trophies. 509 00:29:06,070 --> 00:29:08,470 We love so we can get awards. 510 00:29:09,670 --> 00:29:11,870 We love so we can be influencers. 511 00:29:11,870 --> 00:29:16,710 On Instagram, it says, we love because he. 512 00:29:19,190 --> 00:29:20,710 If you don't know it, it's okay. 513 00:29:20,790 --> 00:29:22,870 I need to relearn it as if I've never heard it. 514 00:29:22,870 --> 00:29:26,470 The line goes, because he first loved us. 515 00:29:27,750 --> 00:29:32,240 We love because we love. 516 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:44,920 Because Jesus is inviting us to let that truth grow, to let the 517 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:45,280 ego. 518 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,280 You can thank your ego for how to help you survive. 519 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,480 Sometimes if you hear me talking out loud and you think it's 520 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,920 because I'm a weirdo, I literally might be having an out 521 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,770 loud conversation with my ego sitting, saying, hey, thanks for 522 00:29:59,770 --> 00:30:01,890 everything you did for me, but I'm going to go ahead and drive Today, 523 00:30:07,010 --> 00:30:08,850 Let this grow in you, my friends. 524 00:30:09,570 --> 00:30:10,250 Look at this. 525 00:30:10,250 --> 00:30:12,210 I'll just show you one more thing from the scriptures. 526 00:30:12,210 --> 00:30:13,570 All these people were just. 527 00:30:13,890 --> 00:30:16,770 When you look at it through the lens of, they were not resisting 528 00:30:16,770 --> 00:30:17,330 anymore. 529 00:30:18,210 --> 00:30:18,930 Look at this. 530 00:30:20,450 --> 00:30:21,810 Paul goes to Jerusalem. 531 00:30:21,810 --> 00:30:22,810 Saul goes to Jerusalem. 532 00:30:22,810 --> 00:30:24,770 He's just letting this thing happen now. 533 00:30:26,870 --> 00:30:27,670 And he's leveraging. 534 00:30:27,670 --> 00:30:29,350 All these people are like, this guy. 535 00:30:30,230 --> 00:30:30,950 It's him. 536 00:30:31,510 --> 00:30:32,550 He's doing it. 537 00:30:34,550 --> 00:30:37,750 And he grows stronger and stronger in the good stuff. 538 00:30:38,550 --> 00:30:40,470 And he's confusing everybody. 539 00:30:41,590 --> 00:30:44,510 Cause now he's leveraging all of his skills that he was using to 540 00:30:44,510 --> 00:30:46,190 build his portfolio and resume. 541 00:30:46,190 --> 00:30:48,590 He was using all those skills, saying, I got skills. 542 00:30:48,590 --> 00:30:49,110 Look at me. 543 00:30:49,830 --> 00:30:52,590 And now he's leveraging those skills to be like, I need to tell 544 00:30:52,590 --> 00:30:53,600 you something that. 545 00:30:53,670 --> 00:30:56,550 That is weird to feel coming out of my mouth. 546 00:30:56,550 --> 00:30:57,750 Jesus is the Christ. 547 00:31:00,230 --> 00:31:04,110 He's leveraging all of his skills for that now because he's 548 00:31:04,110 --> 00:31:04,950 letting it flow. 549 00:31:08,070 --> 00:31:09,470 And then there are people who are. 550 00:31:09,470 --> 00:31:10,590 Now they're still resisting. 551 00:31:10,590 --> 00:31:13,990 Now he's on the other side of it now we got to kill him. 552 00:31:14,310 --> 00:31:16,950 He was killing these people, but now we got to kill him. 553 00:31:18,070 --> 00:31:19,990 Gosh, our egos are so weird. 554 00:31:21,030 --> 00:31:25,190 They liked Saul, who was literally violating one of the Ten 555 00:31:25,190 --> 00:31:27,030 Commandments by getting people killed. 556 00:31:28,230 --> 00:31:31,990 But now they're like, we got to kill him, man. 557 00:31:32,150 --> 00:31:32,950 We're odd. 558 00:31:34,230 --> 00:31:35,990 So he finds out about their scheme. 559 00:31:36,230 --> 00:31:37,350 He sneaks out. 560 00:31:39,430 --> 00:31:41,190 They take him to Jerusalem. 561 00:31:43,030 --> 00:31:44,590 The disciples are afraid of him. 562 00:31:44,590 --> 00:31:45,270 And look at this. 563 00:31:45,270 --> 00:31:48,590 I want you to notice how, like the heroes that are in between, the 564 00:31:48,590 --> 00:31:52,140 people that we don't notice, in the history of Christianity, sometime 565 00:31:52,450 --> 00:31:54,210 not resisting looks like this, too. 566 00:31:56,610 --> 00:31:59,850 All these people are afraid of Saul because why are they afraid 567 00:31:59,850 --> 00:32:00,210 of him? 568 00:32:00,210 --> 00:32:02,610 He's just been getting people stoned to death. 569 00:32:05,810 --> 00:32:09,690 But then this guy Barnabas, I want you to remember Barnabas. 570 00:32:09,690 --> 00:32:13,330 Say, Barnabas, I hope you think about him this week and go, 571 00:32:13,330 --> 00:32:14,650 who the heck was Barnabas? 572 00:32:14,650 --> 00:32:15,450 Why did we say his name? 573 00:32:15,450 --> 00:32:16,690 And then maybe you look it up. 574 00:32:17,940 --> 00:32:22,900 Barnabas doesn't get a whole lot of fanfare, but he steps up because 575 00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:23,940 he's not resisting. 576 00:32:24,980 --> 00:32:27,620 He's not afraid about needing approval of people. 577 00:32:27,620 --> 00:32:29,940 Everybody's like, I don't know about this Saul guy. 578 00:32:30,260 --> 00:32:31,700 Barnabas is centered. 579 00:32:32,420 --> 00:32:33,860 He's full of the spirit. 580 00:32:34,660 --> 00:32:37,860 He's got the love of God so richly dwelling in him. 581 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:39,860 Jesus, he is abiding in him. 582 00:32:39,860 --> 00:32:42,020 Jesus is abiding in Barnabas. 583 00:32:42,420 --> 00:32:43,860 And so what does he do? 584 00:32:46,910 --> 00:32:50,990 He brings Saul to the apostles and vouches for him. 585 00:32:55,630 --> 00:32:57,070 He bears witness to him. 586 00:32:57,070 --> 00:32:58,630 He stands up for Saul. 587 00:32:58,630 --> 00:32:59,470 The murderer. 588 00:33:01,470 --> 00:33:03,150 And so Barnabas is behind. 589 00:33:04,270 --> 00:33:06,430 Is Barnabas doing this to get a trophy? 590 00:33:08,990 --> 00:33:09,390 No. 591 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:15,260 Is he doing it so he can get a promotion in the Jesus movement? 592 00:33:16,380 --> 00:33:18,380 If anything, he's going to lose his space. 593 00:33:19,820 --> 00:33:22,380 He says, hey, this guy, he's the real deal. 594 00:33:22,540 --> 00:33:23,820 We need to get behind him. 595 00:33:25,340 --> 00:33:26,700 And so they get behind him. 596 00:33:27,660 --> 00:33:31,940 And like I said last week, Paul plants churches all around the 597 00:33:31,940 --> 00:33:34,220 Mediterranean Sea and we exist in their legacy. 598 00:33:36,390 --> 00:33:40,230 So I am finished. 599 00:33:41,190 --> 00:33:42,950 Say yes to the lemonade stand. 600 00:33:46,630 --> 00:33:47,350 Say yes. 601 00:33:55,030 --> 00:33:56,390 What's this stirring in you? 602 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,680 This is making you think, feel, Andrea. 603 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:16,879 Yeah. 604 00:34:16,879 --> 00:34:19,760 You're thinking of spoon fed. 605 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,800 Like things may go down easily, but maybe that's not what 606 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:24,240 you need. 607 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:25,680 Yeah. 608 00:34:27,530 --> 00:34:27,850 What else? 609 00:34:27,850 --> 00:34:48,890 What's this making you think, feel, wonder, hope for, desire, the 610 00:34:48,890 --> 00:34:49,450 yes day. 611 00:34:51,940 --> 00:34:53,140 What's this making you think? 612 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:07,540 When I know it's coming from God. 613 00:35:08,740 --> 00:35:12,780 Now PT didn't say this part, which can be hard, but when I know 614 00:35:12,780 --> 00:35:16,540 it's coming from God, I need to be like a kid and convince the 615 00:35:16,540 --> 00:35:17,060 adults. 616 00:35:22,030 --> 00:35:23,230 I was just talking to a friend. 617 00:35:23,550 --> 00:35:25,950 Watch how kids have very little resistance. 618 00:35:31,550 --> 00:35:37,550 Kids have like when they come in here in a minute, watch them very 619 00:35:37,550 --> 00:35:39,070 little resistance in their way. 620 00:35:40,990 --> 00:35:45,800 We learn resistance, we learn ego, we learn fear. 621 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,720 We're kind of on a path towards unlearning and releasing 622 00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:51,080 it. 623 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,160 Let's pray we'll be still and silent again. 624 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,360 Listen for your resistance. 625 00:36:31,970 --> 00:36:38,580 Lord, help us to receive the life that you so eagerly want to 626 00:36:38,580 --> 00:36:39,100 give us. 627 00:36:42,140 --> 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