WEBVTT 00:00.543 --> 00:01.163 [SPEAKER_00]: Who are you? 00:01.983 --> 00:03.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know your identity? 00:03.944 --> 00:08.305 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of confusion out there, a lot of people that are lost, and don't know who they are. 00:09.025 --> 00:12.526 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't know their purpose, why they're living, why God created them. 00:13.686 --> 00:17.127 [SPEAKER_00]: And today we decided to do a lesson on identity. 00:17.147 --> 00:17.887 [SPEAKER_00]: Who you are? 00:18.307 --> 00:21.008 [SPEAKER_00]: What your identity in Christ means? 00:21.468 --> 00:22.208 [SPEAKER_00]: Pastor Elwood? 00:23.608 --> 00:25.369 [SPEAKER_00]: He's ready to do a lesson on identity. 00:27.387 --> 00:47.261 [SPEAKER_01]: Never have it, we will, though, and as I think about the identity, my mom will go back to Paul, you know, at that one time, he was threatening out, threatening us and slawters for the Christians, and he was somebody that just wanted to do a wife with Christianity. 00:48.081 --> 00:49.723 [SPEAKER_01]: But after he met Jesus, 00:50.663 --> 00:57.790 [SPEAKER_01]: After he met Jesus, his whole life turned around, and that's the same way with the Christian people. 00:58.150 --> 01:08.881 [SPEAKER_01]: When they meet Christ, whether they had a found mouth like Peter, or whatever may be the case, when they meet Christ, their whole identity changes, it changes. 01:09.381 --> 01:10.582 [SPEAKER_01]: They go from bad 01:11.323 --> 01:38.866 [SPEAKER_01]: to good and from good to better and so just like Paul did and his identity changed because now they were before they were afraid of him but once he got Jesus Christ in his heart once he met him everything changed in his life and then he knew he knew he was he knew that he was a chosen vessel just as Jesus told an a nice he was a chosen vessel to suffer many things 01:41.287 --> 01:43.088 [SPEAKER_01]: Paul didn't back up. 01:43.128 --> 01:47.771 [SPEAKER_01]: He knew who he was, and therefore he was going to do it no matter what. 01:48.411 --> 01:50.372 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the same thing with Christian people. 01:50.932 --> 01:54.394 [SPEAKER_01]: Once they accept Christ in their life, they have a new identity. 01:54.454 --> 02:00.897 [SPEAKER_01]: They may have been a sinner at back up one time, but now it's Paul said, all things is passed away, all things has become new. 02:01.377 --> 02:04.779 [SPEAKER_01]: And so now they've got a new life, they've got a new identity. 02:05.239 --> 02:07.180 [SPEAKER_01]: And people will recognize 02:10.141 --> 02:15.643 [SPEAKER_01]: way they talk, way they dress, where they go, what they do, whatever may be the case. 02:16.064 --> 02:22.086 [SPEAKER_01]: And so they kind of knew I didn't about them and they need to just recognize that and embrace it. 02:22.747 --> 02:25.488 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm afraid that's a whole lot of 02:26.288 --> 02:28.130 [SPEAKER_01]: the problem in our Christian world today. 02:28.170 --> 02:32.314 [SPEAKER_01]: People is not embracing what Christ has done for them. 02:32.654 --> 02:34.976 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's still got their own ways about them. 02:35.557 --> 02:38.800 [SPEAKER_01]: But my Bible said, those things has passed away. 02:39.080 --> 02:40.481 [SPEAKER_01]: You have become a new creature. 02:41.022 --> 02:46.928 [SPEAKER_01]: And so this identity we need to recognize who we are in Jesus Christ. 02:47.548 --> 02:56.619 [SPEAKER_01]: No matter if they have a cow in Texas, just recognize who you are and be what God called you to be, you know. 02:56.839 --> 02:58.040 [SPEAKER_01]: And go forward. 02:58.241 --> 02:58.781 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 02:59.042 --> 02:59.642 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 02:59.782 --> 03:01.845 [SPEAKER_00]: I bet a lot of people missed hearing that from you. 03:01.925 --> 03:02.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Hairlips, ever. 03:03.006 --> 03:03.967 [SPEAKER_00]: Cow in Texas. 03:05.329 --> 03:12.274 [SPEAKER_00]: a little while since we've done a discipleship series so welcome back to discipleship series we are super excited to get into identity. 03:12.694 --> 03:13.995 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to be a great one. 03:14.155 --> 03:19.559 [SPEAKER_00]: It was already on fire here and it's exactly what God brought to our minds. 03:19.599 --> 03:19.860 [SPEAKER_00]: You know 03:20.580 --> 03:27.784 [SPEAKER_00]: God showed us that we needed to do this lesson because there are so many people out here that don't know their identity in Christ And they're just lost. 03:27.804 --> 03:36.468 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't know what their purpose is or what God called them for and just like it would just explain with Paul You know Paul was certain of who he was in Christ. 03:36.728 --> 03:42.812 [SPEAKER_00]: He was certain of the job that he was on and he knew what he was called to do and therefore He walked in that confidence. 03:43.172 --> 03:47.134 [SPEAKER_00]: You know confidence is a big thing that is lacking in the Christian world 03:47.554 --> 03:52.817 [SPEAKER_00]: and people walking in that power and authority in that confidence in Christ, it's just a lost concept. 03:53.178 --> 03:56.099 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think a lot of it stems from identity. 03:56.460 --> 03:59.221 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you don't know who you are in Christ, then you're lost. 03:59.422 --> 04:01.983 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't really know what God's directed you to do. 04:02.283 --> 04:05.145 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not really sure of what you're out here supposed to be doing. 04:05.585 --> 04:08.607 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's just, you know, it's a void that needs to be filled. 04:08.948 --> 04:11.429 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, Jesus has already given you everything you need. 04:11.789 --> 04:14.491 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, He's already given you and fulfilled you with everything that you need. 04:16.332 --> 04:42.941 [SPEAKER_00]: Protects you leads you and you know when it comes to your identity though It's it's understanding who you are that you are chosen that God doesn't make mistakes You know when he created you he created you with a purpose Payto Jeremiah I formed you in the womb and he formed him in the womb with the purpose and he did the same with you So don't be out here lost not knowing who you are in Christ and if you are well then I really pray that this episode will help you 04:43.581 --> 04:44.182 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 04:44.882 --> 04:51.227 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you can go all the way back, take when children are vegetable, God delivered them from Egypt. 04:51.247 --> 04:52.949 [SPEAKER_01]: They was known as slaves at then. 04:53.449 --> 05:00.235 [SPEAKER_01]: But now, after they came through the Red Sea, they seen the one the captives destroyed. 05:00.675 --> 05:07.120 [SPEAKER_01]: They danced upon a sea shore over there and shouted, now they had become the children of Israel. 05:07.601 --> 05:10.103 [SPEAKER_01]: So they took on a whole new identity in their life. 05:10.783 --> 05:13.204 [SPEAKER_01]: And we can see this down to the Bible. 05:13.224 --> 05:17.846 [SPEAKER_01]: You go to where David was going to build God a temple. 05:18.646 --> 05:22.888 [SPEAKER_01]: And God said, David, you can't do it because you're a man of war. 05:22.928 --> 05:24.248 [SPEAKER_01]: You've got blood up on your hands. 05:24.688 --> 05:29.190 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we know how that David's son built the temple Solomon. 05:29.770 --> 05:35.793 [SPEAKER_01]: And so therefore as David, as David would go to war, you know he would collect the spores. 05:36.453 --> 05:38.535 [SPEAKER_01]: the gold and silver and the brass and all that. 05:39.015 --> 05:52.486 [SPEAKER_01]: But when he done that and they started building the temple and the desert of Jerry Jordan, I think it is, they would put all of this gold and stuff in a furnace and milled it down. 05:53.227 --> 05:58.949 [SPEAKER_01]: They took the identity of it away, who there it was, a golden God for them to worship or whatsoever. 05:59.309 --> 06:03.910 [SPEAKER_01]: They melted it down, and then therefore they put it in the temple. 06:04.310 --> 06:06.191 [SPEAKER_01]: So it took on a whole new identity. 06:06.531 --> 06:08.192 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the same way that God does us. 06:08.292 --> 06:09.232 [SPEAKER_01]: He melts us down. 06:09.272 --> 06:09.812 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on. 06:09.932 --> 06:13.913 [SPEAKER_01]: He melts us down, and to take on a brand new identity. 06:14.233 --> 06:16.334 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is what we see in the Bible. 06:16.374 --> 06:17.855 [SPEAKER_01]: We see what he did to Peter. 06:18.395 --> 06:19.095 [SPEAKER_01]: Peter with us. 06:19.235 --> 06:21.176 [SPEAKER_01]: found my fish right. 06:21.196 --> 06:31.621 [SPEAKER_01]: But boy, I'm telling you what, even once he opened up that bag of tater chips, you know, on their pinnacles, he led it, and three thousand souls was added to the church daily. 06:32.461 --> 06:34.542 [SPEAKER_01]: He took on a whole new identity. 06:34.862 --> 06:39.825 [SPEAKER_01]: He was no longer afraid for his life anymore. 06:40.185 --> 06:42.126 [SPEAKER_01]: No longer is not Jesus Christ. 06:42.546 --> 06:46.488 [SPEAKER_01]: But when he took on that new identity, he become bold. 06:47.108 --> 06:49.070 [SPEAKER_01]: through the Holy Spirit and Christ Jesus. 06:49.511 --> 06:51.493 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the same way with us. 06:51.973 --> 06:55.457 [SPEAKER_01]: We've got to take on that new identity and figure out who we are. 06:55.797 --> 07:07.729 [SPEAKER_01]: We know that we've been born again, we've been saved, we've been set ablaze, and so therefore a men live up to the building that God has called us to be and God has called us 07:08.950 --> 07:19.319 [SPEAKER_01]: in different departments of ministry or whatever you want to say whatever some's pastures, some's preachers, some's evangelists, some's teachers or whatever maybe the case. 07:19.879 --> 07:29.727 [SPEAKER_01]: But when we find where God has placed us and what we need to be doing, then our identity will show forth as bright as a new day's sun. 07:30.247 --> 07:35.872 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm telling you what, this is it's amazing what God can do to an individual's life. 07:36.352 --> 07:37.552 [SPEAKER_01]: if they will only let him. 07:37.613 --> 07:43.054 [SPEAKER_01]: He can turn their whole life from darkness into light if they will let him. 07:43.374 --> 07:43.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 07:44.595 --> 07:44.935 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 07:44.955 --> 07:50.817 [SPEAKER_00]: You know we're in an identity crisis like our world right now if in an actual identity crisis. 07:51.197 --> 07:53.738 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean there are people that they truly don't know who they are. 07:54.258 --> 08:00.504 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's dark, you know, if someone doesn't know who they are, then a lot of times those thoughts, they become really dark. 08:00.884 --> 08:02.666 [SPEAKER_00]: It turns into, I don't know why I'm here. 08:02.946 --> 08:08.191 [SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what Satan wants, is that he wants you in distress, you know, come to steal Kill and Destroy. 08:08.591 --> 08:12.915 [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you don't know your identity, then it's quite literally being stolen from you. 08:13.335 --> 08:14.837 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you don't know who you are in Christ. 08:15.017 --> 08:19.461 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, I think one of the biggest things that I can say on this topic is that you got to know Christ. 08:20.141 --> 08:24.865 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if you don't know who Jesus Christ is, then how are you going to know who you are in Christ? 08:25.245 --> 08:30.069 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you have to understand who Jesus is and you understand that number one by reading your word. 08:30.430 --> 08:34.653 [SPEAKER_00]: As you read the Bible, you really see the character of who Jesus is. 08:34.673 --> 08:35.454 [SPEAKER_00]: You see his heart. 08:35.934 --> 08:38.719 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, David, he was a man after God's own heart. 08:39.199 --> 08:44.788 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you know the heart of God unless you have searched for it, unless you have tried to please him and seek him. 08:45.269 --> 08:50.797 [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's so important to know who Jesus is and to be seeking him to find your own identity. 08:51.178 --> 08:56.459 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, God, the Creator, like I said in the beginning of this, he did not create you for a mistake. 08:56.479 --> 08:58.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Like he, it wasn't a mistake that you were made. 08:58.660 --> 09:00.040 [SPEAKER_00]: You were made for a purpose. 09:00.080 --> 09:00.841 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible says it. 09:01.201 --> 09:06.262 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know your identity and you don't know your purpose, then start searching with Jesus. 09:06.562 --> 09:08.783 [SPEAKER_00]: When you find him, then you find you. 09:09.503 --> 09:17.654 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think that's one of the biggest things, you know, we're going to talk quite a bit about identity, but one of the biggest things that you can do for yourself is to search for the Lord. 09:18.095 --> 09:22.161 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you search for the Lord and you find Him, you find Your identity in Christ. 09:22.681 --> 09:25.325 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you become who you were created to be. 09:26.326 --> 09:36.333 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, the Bible said in John's chapter 1 verse 12, He said, as many as receive Him, they become the sons of a daughter of Christ of God. 09:36.814 --> 09:39.316 [SPEAKER_01]: And so therefore, their identity changes. 09:39.796 --> 09:43.299 [SPEAKER_01]: And we need to see that in people's life. 09:43.479 --> 09:45.280 [SPEAKER_01]: But our identity increased. 09:46.561 --> 09:50.985 [SPEAKER_01]: It ought to make us bold because we have become the sons and daughters of God. 09:51.645 --> 09:56.810 [SPEAKER_01]: And it ought to stir up a bonus in our heart and in our life that we ought to be proud. 09:56.850 --> 09:59.452 [SPEAKER_01]: And we ought to be able to straighten our back like a T-rail. 10:00.032 --> 10:00.533 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 10:00.893 --> 10:04.316 [SPEAKER_01]: And be what God wants us to be, to witness our faith. 10:04.957 --> 10:07.679 [SPEAKER_01]: And when people ask you, are you a Christian? 10:08.079 --> 10:24.377 [SPEAKER_01]: My goodness, I'll tell you what you'll be able to smile like a possum and let it rip, you know, tell him, how God has saved you, what God has done in your life, how God has changed you and brought you out of the darkness out there that Satan had you bound them with because we was once slaves. 10:25.738 --> 10:39.126 [SPEAKER_01]: to the power of darkness, that we have been set free, and so through Jesus Christ, our identity has completely changed, and some people may remember us of our old life. 10:39.146 --> 10:41.307 [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people will bring that old life up. 10:41.587 --> 10:46.330 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I remember when you was like Yesher, when you was like Him, but I'm no longer like that. 10:46.770 --> 10:53.320 [SPEAKER_01]: because they've been born again and so I'm taking on a whole different role in my life. 10:53.680 --> 10:56.905 [SPEAKER_01]: I no longer serve the king of darkness in any longer. 10:57.265 --> 10:58.407 [SPEAKER_01]: I serve the king of light. 10:58.807 --> 11:02.292 [SPEAKER_00]: You know when you know your identity, can't nobody tell you who you are. 11:02.953 --> 11:03.914 [SPEAKER_00]: You know who you are. 11:04.235 --> 11:05.356 [SPEAKER_00]: The world don't define you. 11:05.717 --> 11:06.858 [SPEAKER_00]: People don't define you. 11:07.098 --> 11:08.620 [SPEAKER_00]: Their words don't define you. 11:09.101 --> 11:11.144 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything around you doesn't define you. 11:11.444 --> 11:12.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus does. 11:12.726 --> 11:19.194 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ is the one that has changed your life and has come into your heart and quite literally made you a new creation. 11:19.654 --> 11:24.197 [SPEAKER_00]: And therefore, people around you, they can't tell you who you are, if you know who you are. 11:24.617 --> 11:30.460 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, being unshakable in your identity is so important because, you know, the world will try to change you. 11:30.800 --> 11:38.524 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's so much darkness around, there's, you know, evil in people that try to work through people, there's evil all in the world, there's so much sand out there. 11:38.945 --> 11:43.347 [SPEAKER_00]: And you just have so many things trying to get you off the path that you were owned. 11:43.947 --> 11:58.431 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you were once part of that world, before you became a Christ follower, there was a lot of darkness, there was a lot of things that you were probably into, and the enemy knows that, you know, familiar things, patterns, whatever it may be to try to pull you back into it, he'll try to use those. 11:58.791 --> 12:05.233 [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you know your identity now, then who you were, that's in the rearview mirror, that's not a part of who you are anymore. 12:05.533 --> 12:06.893 [SPEAKER_00]: that is literally left behind. 12:07.014 --> 12:11.815 [SPEAKER_00]: And so your identity, you no longer identify with that person who you were. 12:12.115 --> 12:12.895 [SPEAKER_00]: You take Paul. 12:13.035 --> 12:21.198 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul's one of the greatest examples in the Bible for this because Paul was off, like Paul did some things that were absolutely horrendous. 12:21.238 --> 12:23.579 [SPEAKER_00]: He did far worse than you and I could have ever imagined. 12:23.619 --> 12:25.440 [SPEAKER_00]: He persecuted Christians and martyred them. 12:25.900 --> 12:27.620 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, drug people out of their houses. 12:27.660 --> 12:29.561 [SPEAKER_00]: Like Paul was a bad dude. 12:30.081 --> 12:35.803 [SPEAKER_00]: and yet he had one encounter with Jesus Christ and that one encounter with Jesus transformed to He is. 12:36.164 --> 12:41.766 [SPEAKER_00]: And so no longer is He this vicious man trying to persecute Jesus because that's what Jesus says. 12:41.806 --> 12:43.507 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, oh, why are you persecuting me? 12:43.987 --> 12:46.568 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, Paul's like, oh, I mean, that woke him up. 12:46.588 --> 12:49.349 [SPEAKER_00]: That was enough to shake him and say, wow, like who are you? 12:50.069 --> 13:00.095 [SPEAKER_00]: And so when he met Jesus and understood who Jesus is, he quit persecuting him, he quit persecuting the Christians, and he changed, you know, he transformed into a new creation. 13:00.576 --> 13:04.518 [SPEAKER_00]: And you have to, if you were a Christian and you were watching this, and if... 13:04.858 --> 13:09.622 [SPEAKER_00]: Or if you ain't yet and you want to become one, you can completely transform in Jesus Christ's name. 13:09.662 --> 13:13.125 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter who you were before, your identity rest in Christ. 13:13.445 --> 13:17.588 [SPEAKER_00]: And so after Paul changed, let me tell you, he was you so mildly. 13:17.908 --> 13:22.592 [SPEAKER_00]: Like instead of being this angry man that was really harming the world and harming people, 13:23.052 --> 13:31.435 [SPEAKER_00]: He became a man of God in such a way like he served Jesus throughout his entire life with joy and gladness even in the hard times. 13:31.535 --> 13:36.157 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he says, I delight in my weakness is my persecutions, my hardships for when I weak I'm strong. 13:36.537 --> 13:43.659 [SPEAKER_00]: He is explaining that even when he's weak in the weakest moments of his life, he's glad, he's happy because he has Christ Jesus in him. 13:44.299 --> 13:49.081 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he knew his identity and Christ, he knew who Jesus created him to be. 13:49.541 --> 13:51.902 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you know that, you are unshakable. 13:52.442 --> 13:53.022 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 13:53.662 --> 13:54.403 [SPEAKER_01]: He's talking about Paul. 13:54.423 --> 13:56.744 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we can go wrap back to the lady at the wheel. 13:57.444 --> 13:58.904 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, she did not. 13:59.564 --> 14:00.705 [SPEAKER_01]: She did not. 14:00.965 --> 14:03.086 [SPEAKER_01]: After Christ, she met Christ at the wheel. 14:03.586 --> 14:10.108 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, even though she'd come in a noon day son at the hottest time before, and I can imagine all the people talking about her and everything. 14:10.168 --> 14:16.910 [SPEAKER_01]: And Christ just simply read her email to her, said she'd been married five times and a dude she's living with now was not her husband. 14:17.391 --> 14:21.472 [SPEAKER_01]: But when she got that living water, her whole identity changed. 14:21.932 --> 14:28.015 [SPEAKER_01]: And the vibe will say that she left her part up on the wheel and I guess what you might say I think I want to add to this. 14:28.315 --> 14:36.499 [SPEAKER_01]: She just picked up the wheel and took it back in Samaria and she was telling those man back there and they some of them believed 14:37.139 --> 14:51.839 [SPEAKER_01]: by her witnessing of what had taken place with Jesus out there, but then when they came out and her Jesus talk, while many of them, and you know the story of Samaritan didn't like the Jews, and Jews didn't like the Samaritan, and 14:52.219 --> 14:57.981 [SPEAKER_01]: But Jesus, Amen, broke down that wall, and went and stayed in St. Mary up two more days. 14:58.422 --> 15:06.425 [SPEAKER_01]: And I can only imagine how many people gathered around him and listened to what he had to say, and accepted Christ as a Lord and Savior. 15:06.865 --> 15:13.768 [SPEAKER_01]: But that little lady, she did not let the world dictate to her once as she accepted Christ. 15:13.808 --> 15:16.849 [SPEAKER_01]: She got a new identity, and she was bold. 15:17.349 --> 15:18.249 [SPEAKER_01]: in her face. 15:18.329 --> 15:26.911 [SPEAKER_01]: She was bold in what she went back there and told those folks in Samaria and I'm gonna tell you what that's the same way that we need to be. 15:26.951 --> 15:28.651 [SPEAKER_01]: We need a boldness in her life. 15:29.151 --> 15:33.052 [SPEAKER_01]: A boldness for Christ that our identity has been changed. 15:33.412 --> 15:37.553 [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't want to go back to my past for nothing because there's nothing back there. 15:37.613 --> 15:42.134 [SPEAKER_01]: Just pain and agony and problems and but this is a best life you can live. 15:42.434 --> 15:47.215 [SPEAKER_00]: I go back to my past because I had no idea that God created me to do what I'm doing. 15:47.355 --> 15:53.396 [SPEAKER_00]: I would have never in a million years ever thought that this is what I would do with my life. 15:53.436 --> 15:54.757 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I didn't like the cold water. 15:54.777 --> 16:00.618 [SPEAKER_00]: I had quite literally would have never just like went waiting out in the water and started baptizing people. 16:00.678 --> 16:09.780 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you think of the things that you're going to do in your life and it's from a fleshly standpoint of, oh, you have your goals and you have your dreams and all these things. 16:10.500 --> 16:28.474 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you have this encounter with Jesus, and he gives you your purpose, and it's like, you know what, that's nothing like I thought I would do, but yes, Lord, if that's what you need me to do, then yes, Lord, something that I practice every single day is that I wake up in the morning, and during my prayer time, I say, what would you have me to do today, Lord? 16:28.674 --> 16:31.697 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, how can I serve you today, Jesus? 16:32.317 --> 16:36.278 [SPEAKER_00]: My life changed after I quite literally died, you know. 16:36.298 --> 16:46.100 [SPEAKER_00]: I was going through so many help things and when I died to my flesh and died to the things of the world and what I wanted to be, then I became who Christ made me to be. 16:46.620 --> 16:51.841 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, your purpose has always been there, who God created you to be, has always been there. 16:52.321 --> 16:54.782 [SPEAKER_00]: But finding that can sometimes be a journey. 16:54.802 --> 16:58.502 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's times in your life where you, like I said, think that you should have been on a 17:02.483 --> 17:09.470 [SPEAKER_00]: But then you meet Jesus, and it's like, wait a minute, was I doing these things for so like how can I serve the Lord and not myself? 17:10.110 --> 17:18.578 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, every bit of this comes back to identity, if you know who you are, then you know your purpose, you know what you're creative for, and you go forth and do it. 17:18.818 --> 17:19.298 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. 17:19.798 --> 17:25.301 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, our identity and Christ, it affects every area of our life. 17:25.401 --> 17:25.701 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 17:26.582 --> 17:32.624 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're more focused on how we can glorify Him than ourselves. 17:33.065 --> 17:37.607 [SPEAKER_01]: We have become, I think, the second Corinthians of ambassadors. 17:38.187 --> 17:38.808 [SPEAKER_01]: for Christ. 17:39.508 --> 17:55.060 [SPEAKER_01]: And just like you said, when we finally get our identity and we get our focused up on our identity, then therefore we become salt of the earth, we become the light of the world, and we shine like the noon day sun out there. 17:55.561 --> 18:01.806 [SPEAKER_01]: And so therefore the things that in their life sometimes it's hard for people to get self-alvel way. 18:02.386 --> 18:09.614 [SPEAKER_01]: But when Christ comes in, then self-hastively, because you can serve two masters. 18:09.795 --> 18:11.396 [SPEAKER_01]: You can serve yourself and serve Christ. 18:11.917 --> 18:15.581 [SPEAKER_01]: So we serve Christ to glorify Him more than us. 18:15.641 --> 18:18.805 [SPEAKER_01]: So we've got to be taken plumb out of the picture ourselves. 18:19.485 --> 18:37.018 [SPEAKER_01]: So to speak and just like Romans 12 and two said be transformed by the renewing of your mind And so therefore when we get that and we get this new identity that Christ has blessed us with You won't want run around like a muelting wizard brush you'll be happy 18:37.658 --> 18:44.522 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll be happy, you'll be joyful, and then we can do just exactly what he said in Matthew 28. 18:44.602 --> 18:54.367 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's 28 and 19 and all that's, and go use that for into all the world, teach and preach and baptize the name of the Father of the Son and the Holy Spirit. 18:54.987 --> 18:57.048 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's exactly what we're doing. 18:57.068 --> 18:57.949 [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly what we're doing. 18:57.969 --> 18:59.469 [SPEAKER_01]: That's exactly what we're doing. 19:00.110 --> 19:02.271 [SPEAKER_01]: And we know where our identity. 19:02.871 --> 19:08.635 [SPEAKER_01]: We know what God has sent us to do, does it stop from having little hiccups along the way? 19:08.675 --> 19:09.275 [SPEAKER_01]: It does not. 19:09.895 --> 19:22.443 [SPEAKER_01]: But we know who we are in Christ, and when you know who you are in Christ, then therefore, honey, amen, you can look at the storms and rebuke them in a message, name it Jesus Christ. 19:23.063 --> 19:24.805 [SPEAKER_01]: because you know who you are. 19:25.345 --> 19:28.688 [SPEAKER_01]: And just like the disciples said, what man or man is this? 19:29.008 --> 19:32.911 [SPEAKER_01]: They can speak to the storms, the waves, and the winds, and they just cease. 19:33.111 --> 19:36.794 [SPEAKER_01]: When you know who you are, then you know that you know that you know. 19:37.475 --> 19:38.936 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'mma tell you what. 19:40.297 --> 19:41.658 [SPEAKER_01]: We can speak to these mountains. 19:41.678 --> 19:43.700 [SPEAKER_01]: Be thou removed and be thou cast in a sea. 19:44.200 --> 19:45.201 [SPEAKER_01]: And it shall be done. 19:45.401 --> 19:46.122 [SPEAKER_01]: That is right. 19:46.542 --> 19:47.262 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 19:47.303 --> 19:48.963 [SPEAKER_00]: That all comes down to identity, y'all. 19:49.183 --> 19:53.125 [SPEAKER_00]: It really does the power and authority that you walk in in Jesus Christ's name. 19:53.566 --> 19:54.806 [SPEAKER_00]: It comes down to your identity. 19:54.986 --> 19:56.367 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know who you are in Christ? 19:56.807 --> 20:01.409 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's so important to know that because there are a lot of people out here that are power hungry. 20:01.469 --> 20:01.790 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 20:01.830 --> 20:03.490 [SPEAKER_00]: They want to be able to move mountains. 20:03.530 --> 20:05.071 [SPEAKER_00]: They want to be able to do this in that. 20:05.131 --> 20:12.675 [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, it comes through Jesus Christ, the ultimate power and authority comes through Jesus Christ and, you know, to be a vessel for him. 20:13.015 --> 20:14.397 [SPEAKER_00]: you've got to know your identity. 20:14.597 --> 20:24.511 [SPEAKER_00]: To be a vessel, a living vessel, walking in authority, you've got to know who you are, and I want to talk about something that's really tough in this world right now. 20:24.551 --> 20:29.317 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a very touchy subject, but it's a real one, and it needs to be talked about. 20:30.218 --> 20:45.331 [SPEAKER_00]: We have literal kids now that are going to schools and they're dressing like animals like they and they truly believe us their identity Like it's it's not funny like they truly think that their cats and dogs and like I've heard of and this is real like it's At first I thought it was a joke. 20:45.371 --> 20:53.017 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was really like not but it's real that they were putting like litter boxes in schools and and things like that to try to 20:54.538 --> 20:58.822 [SPEAKER_00]: condone, people's identity, whenever they thought they were a certain way. 20:59.302 --> 21:13.353 [SPEAKER_00]: And so these schools and adults are passing bills and literally trying to condone, hey, you can be whoever you want to be, whether that's an animal or a person or a different gender. 21:13.833 --> 21:21.600 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and that's truly how the world has become, is that it's been so appeasing and acceptable to whoever you think you are. 21:22.260 --> 21:28.384 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, that's, it's so sad because there's so many people who, who, they want to be who the world tells them they are. 21:28.504 --> 21:33.166 [SPEAKER_00]: They want to be who, quite literally, the demons in, in people's minds try to tell them they are. 21:33.487 --> 21:35.228 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, I notes controversial. 21:35.548 --> 21:38.009 [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's going rough with feathers, but it's true. 21:38.129 --> 21:49.356 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if someone is out here and they are thinking as a human being, as a person, if they think that they are an animal, if they think that they are different, then their bodies are created. 21:50.096 --> 21:52.457 [SPEAKER_00]: It is an issue of identity. 21:53.017 --> 21:54.618 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not knowing who you are. 21:55.298 --> 21:59.079 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't know who you are, then of course there's confusion with that. 21:59.099 --> 22:00.460 [SPEAKER_00]: And who's the author of confusion? 22:01.000 --> 22:03.501 [SPEAKER_00]: Satan, not God, God didn't confuse you. 22:03.801 --> 22:04.461 [SPEAKER_00]: That is Satan. 22:05.041 --> 22:06.522 [SPEAKER_00]: And I truly believe that. 22:06.642 --> 22:11.904 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is a touchy subject because, like I said, there are people like who are really struggling with this. 22:12.344 --> 22:14.685 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not to be mocked or made fun of. 22:14.805 --> 22:14.925 [SPEAKER_00]: It's 22:15.585 --> 22:16.686 [SPEAKER_00]: to be prayerful of. 22:16.866 --> 22:18.348 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where they're going to find their identity. 22:18.808 --> 22:23.653 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where it's going to come back full circle is to their creator, who their creator made them to be. 22:23.993 --> 22:28.197 [SPEAKER_00]: Not who the world said they were, not who their friends said they were. 22:28.858 --> 22:30.780 [SPEAKER_00]: It is who Jesus created them to be. 22:31.757 --> 22:34.418 [SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, this is a hard touchy subject. 22:34.538 --> 22:37.740 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know a lot of people don't even want to talk about it because they don't want to hate from it. 22:37.760 --> 22:42.242 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't want people coming at them and saying, well, you don't understand these kind of things. 22:42.302 --> 22:46.184 [SPEAKER_00]: But the Bible and everything in there is so true. 22:46.344 --> 22:48.505 [SPEAKER_00]: The words on those pages are so real. 22:49.085 --> 22:56.710 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you read it and you learn, you've come knowledgeable in Christ, and you learn who Jesus is, then you truly see the deception of the world. 22:56.830 --> 22:59.632 [SPEAKER_00]: You truly start to see lies from the truth. 22:59.913 --> 23:05.556 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's a lot of people out here that are just law souls, and it's because they don't know their identity. 23:06.177 --> 23:07.578 [SPEAKER_00]: It's real, it's a problem. 23:07.718 --> 23:10.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Identity crisis is huge right now in the world. 23:11.180 --> 23:15.983 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, even going to the stores, you just see people who are so lost, 23:18.645 --> 23:19.446 [SPEAKER_00]: of their identity. 23:19.966 --> 23:21.027 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't know who they are. 23:21.627 --> 23:28.992 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't know who you are in Christ, then that confusion and that loneliness and that darkness is there. 23:29.872 --> 23:32.254 [SPEAKER_00]: And the only way to get rid of it is through Jesus. 23:32.754 --> 23:33.294 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 23:33.695 --> 23:41.360 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, as at the first church in Walmart, I call it the first church of Walmart because if you can't find your people in church on Sundays, go to Walmart. 23:41.460 --> 23:42.420 [SPEAKER_01]: They'll find you'll find them. 23:42.880 --> 23:44.642 [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, as at the... 23:45.022 --> 23:46.343 [SPEAKER_00]: I always wondered why you said that. 23:47.730 --> 23:58.794 [SPEAKER_01]: first church of Walmart and I was going down there and I was coming to an end of it and all of a sudden this big cat on two legs was walking across the front of the aisle there. 23:59.095 --> 24:00.395 [SPEAKER_01]: It had a tail and everything. 24:00.475 --> 24:02.596 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I said, what? 24:03.864 --> 24:10.748 [SPEAKER_01]: I said, you have got to be kidding me, it's kind of comical, it really here and I had to go take a second look. 24:11.068 --> 24:11.168 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 24:11.188 --> 24:13.890 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I wouldn't so sure my eyes wouldn't deceive at me. 24:13.910 --> 24:15.211 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to go to the doctor right now. 24:15.371 --> 24:15.951 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 24:16.552 --> 24:28.459 [SPEAKER_01]: Something's going on here and so I just walked around around the corner and this lady was, she was dressed up like a cat with a tail and the whiskers and all that stuff, I mean, 24:33.002 --> 24:59.852 [SPEAKER_01]: it's a real thing and and I told my goodness what in the world is going on in people's lives this day and time that would that would do something like it would they want attention or whatever may be the case I don't know but those those folks need prayer for they need prayer for Jesus absolutely absolutely and that's the first time I've ever seen anything like that and it's sad when 25:02.153 --> 25:10.659 [SPEAKER_01]: and seem like our society is accepting just anything in the world this day and time. 25:11.399 --> 25:16.843 [SPEAKER_01]: But we need to pray for these folks and they'll see the light. 25:17.203 --> 25:20.926 [SPEAKER_01]: But before it's too late because this is not, this is not a God. 25:20.966 --> 25:23.287 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I know people, some people dress up. 25:23.307 --> 25:27.790 [SPEAKER_01]: They do it Halloween and we know how evil that's thing is and everything. 25:27.850 --> 25:32.773 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's just, it's just evil that is raining in the world. 25:32.813 --> 25:37.797 [SPEAKER_01]: And, but I was shocked with a never in my life. 25:38.918 --> 25:48.886 [SPEAKER_01]: I dreamed that I would ever see anything like that, but there it was, and black and white, you know, it was there, and so I feel sorry for those folks. 25:49.346 --> 25:49.867 [SPEAKER_01]: I really do. 25:50.207 --> 25:52.109 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's happened. 25:52.649 --> 25:57.753 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they haven't been brought up in the homes or whatever about Christ or whatever it may be the case. 25:58.774 --> 26:04.499 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, but, you know, bless their hearts, you know. 26:04.919 --> 26:05.900 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a tough subject. 26:06.080 --> 26:11.203 [SPEAKER_00]: So much darkness in this world and I really believe a lot of it stems from identity crisis. 26:11.563 --> 26:25.552 [SPEAKER_00]: I really believe that when people don't know who they are and they're out here lost and they're confused and they're hurt and you know that's where it comes in play for Christians and that's where we come and play for our works and what we're supposed to be doing for the kingdom of God. 26:26.052 --> 26:37.856 [SPEAKER_00]: is that, you know, it's great to pray for them and it's great to, you know, be, like, Lord, please touch them, but don't be fearful of talking about it, go out there and don't condone it and, you know, go out there and make a difference with it, go pray. 26:38.096 --> 26:44.058 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's, you know, it's one of those things that if I see somebody out there struggling, I don't care what they look like, act like, I'm gonna pray with them. 26:44.298 --> 26:51.740 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, most of the time they're receptive, it would have been with me a lot out in the in the world out here and I'll just, I'll go and pray for anybody. 26:51.820 --> 26:55.181 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, as soon as I see somebody struggling and the Lord puts it on my heart, 26:55.641 --> 27:12.630 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll go pray for them and I think that boldness is so important to be able to go and go forth and make a change in a difference in people's lives because they're hurting and a lot of times they try to find happiness in this world but this world can't make you happy. 27:13.190 --> 27:17.012 [SPEAKER_00]: And it might be for temporary time, but not for a permanent time. 27:17.432 --> 27:23.494 [SPEAKER_00]: And so when you see things of the world, you know, a lot of times people are searching for things to fulfill them. 27:23.874 --> 27:34.558 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like a soul-searching process where they're out here searching for the things of the world and people and satisfaction of others and self-praise and just all those kind of things and attention. 27:34.638 --> 27:39.440 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, they're searching for all these things because they don't know their identity. 27:40.140 --> 27:41.901 [SPEAKER_00]: and it's it's just so huge. 27:42.402 --> 28:01.014 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I just I really encourage you that you know if you're out here in your Christian and you're a disciple of Jesus Christ to really be a disciple, to be out here being the hands and feet of Jesus and to be quite literally laying your hands and praying on people and trying to help change this world because that's what's going to make the difference. 28:01.034 --> 28:03.936 [SPEAKER_00]: You know Jesus says that he is waiting for people to repent. 28:04.556 --> 28:08.260 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, when he comes back, it's going to be too late for those who don't. 28:08.720 --> 28:12.064 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we're out here trying to reap a harvest for him. 28:12.084 --> 28:13.846 [SPEAKER_00]: We're out here trying to sow seeds. 28:13.906 --> 28:16.168 [SPEAKER_00]: We're out here trying to make a difference in this world. 28:16.588 --> 28:18.931 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what a disciple of Christ is supposed to be doing. 28:19.371 --> 28:19.731 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 28:19.972 --> 28:22.794 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, every person at Christ coming contact with. 28:23.735 --> 28:30.617 [SPEAKER_01]: Except the Pharisees and Sadducees, when they was held in their own self, every one of them, they got a new identity in life. 28:30.817 --> 28:37.619 [SPEAKER_01]: The ones that he touched, the lady that had been been over for 18 years, the man in the tomb, crying and cutting himself. 28:37.659 --> 28:42.900 [SPEAKER_01]: Now he was clothed in his right mind, wanted to follow Christ, and he had a new identity. 28:43.480 --> 28:46.601 [SPEAKER_01]: And when Christ comes into 28:49.542 --> 28:50.503 [SPEAKER_01]: He gives us joy. 28:50.583 --> 28:51.684 [SPEAKER_01]: He gives us victory. 28:52.304 --> 28:57.527 [SPEAKER_01]: And He gives us a new identity that we're supposed to reach out to the lost and undone. 28:57.587 --> 29:00.789 [SPEAKER_01]: No matter who they are, black, white, polka doted, striped as a zebra. 29:00.809 --> 29:02.290 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't make any difference. 29:02.310 --> 29:07.894 [SPEAKER_01]: And then because Christ wants every person, like God said, it's not. 29:07.934 --> 29:10.376 [SPEAKER_01]: He's wielded any man, should perish, you know. 29:10.996 --> 29:17.260 [SPEAKER_01]: And so every individual he wants to give them a new identity to get them to come out from the world. 29:18.741 --> 29:27.368 [SPEAKER_01]: And except him as a Lord and Savior, Christ changes every person he comes in contact with and he'll do it. 29:27.828 --> 29:28.749 [SPEAKER_01]: He's still doing it. 29:28.789 --> 29:30.250 [SPEAKER_01]: He's done it back in biblical times. 29:30.270 --> 29:31.351 [SPEAKER_01]: He's still doing it today. 29:32.152 --> 29:34.273 [SPEAKER_01]: And just like he gave Paul and I didn't. 29:34.293 --> 29:35.734 [SPEAKER_01]: He gave Peter and I didn't. 29:35.794 --> 29:36.975 [SPEAKER_01]: Matthew and I didn't. 29:37.976 --> 29:39.637 [SPEAKER_01]: All the rest of them boys bartholomew. 29:40.038 --> 29:42.540 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he can do it still today as well. 29:42.600 --> 29:42.880 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. 29:43.789 --> 29:47.130 [SPEAKER_00]: You know your identity is actually not wrapped up in yourself. 29:48.050 --> 29:49.750 [SPEAKER_00]: That is, that's not where you're going to find it. 29:49.770 --> 29:52.691 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to find who you are by searching yourself. 29:53.371 --> 30:02.352 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to explain why, because there's a lot of people out here that will start searching themselves and it will be self-seeking things that they will find. 30:02.372 --> 30:04.593 [SPEAKER_00]: It will be things that are pleasurable to the flesh. 30:05.033 --> 30:08.533 [SPEAKER_00]: It will be things that you want for yourself, hearts, desires. 30:09.153 --> 30:12.934 [SPEAKER_00]: And those are the things that you'll end up following and going for going after. 30:13.614 --> 30:17.097 [SPEAKER_00]: And so your identity is not in the self-seeking process. 30:17.157 --> 30:19.539 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not in going out here and trying to find you. 30:19.859 --> 30:26.825 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the self-care and the self-love and the self-self, you know, this is not where you find who you are. 30:26.965 --> 30:33.390 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is so ironic too, because that's where you would think you would find your identity is wrapped in self, but that's truly not the case. 30:33.870 --> 30:42.654 [SPEAKER_00]: How you find your identity is that your identity is in Christ, that it is firmly rooted in who Jesus has created you to be. 30:43.094 --> 30:48.477 [SPEAKER_00]: That is where your identity comes from, and therefore you seek through Christ when you seek Christ. 30:49.017 --> 30:50.538 [SPEAKER_00]: then you find your identity. 30:50.878 --> 30:54.019 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, like I said in the beginning of this, God has created you with the purpose. 30:54.419 --> 30:57.221 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, that purpose is always there. 30:57.601 --> 31:04.504 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's searching God to find that purpose is searching him to see his attributes, his character. 31:04.824 --> 31:06.165 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, you take that home. 31:06.265 --> 31:09.026 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you take on the fruit of the Spirit. 31:09.586 --> 31:27.878 [SPEAKER_00]: self-control, and gentleness, and kindness, and patience, and love, and all these things, they are in Christ, they are in God, and so when you, and your identity has changed in Christ, when you become a new creation in Christ, your identity has changed, then those things should reflect of you, and let me tell you something. 31:28.298 --> 31:30.959 [SPEAKER_00]: What is inside will always come out, always. 31:31.099 --> 31:33.280 [SPEAKER_00]: You will always be like a mirror to yourself. 31:33.660 --> 31:38.803 [SPEAKER_00]: And there is, you know, a lot of times, people try to hide things within and it'll always come out. 31:38.843 --> 31:47.647 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have anger and bitterness and jealousy and just anything in there that is not of Christ, then it'll show like that's what a character is. 31:47.687 --> 31:49.468 [SPEAKER_00]: Your character will be revealed. 31:49.948 --> 31:52.469 [SPEAKER_00]: And so whatever it is that you have in there, 31:53.249 --> 32:03.058 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, don't take to Christ, don't lay at the feet of Jesus, don't change through Christ and have a new identity through those things are a part of your former self. 32:03.398 --> 32:04.719 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not who you are anymore. 32:04.759 --> 32:07.842 [SPEAKER_00]: When you become of Christ, then you change. 32:08.162 --> 32:16.229 [SPEAKER_00]: You become somebody that the Bible explains, like you become exactly like Paul, like Peter, like all the ones in the Bible before you, 32:17.009 --> 32:22.552 [SPEAKER_00]: Did, is that Jesus had an encounter with them, they changed, and they became new creations. 32:22.832 --> 32:38.341 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't stay on the former self, and if you have any of that stuff in your heart, if you have any of that bitterness, if you have any jealousy, and greed, and envy, and shrif, and hatred, or just whatever those things are, that's going to come from you needing to have deliverance and uproot those things. 32:38.701 --> 32:39.762 [SPEAKER_00]: in Jesus Christ's name. 32:40.383 --> 32:46.589 [SPEAKER_00]: Those things are not of God and we should always strive to be more like Christ, to be Christ like. 32:46.769 --> 33:00.723 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I just really encourage you that if you are trying to find your identity, don't try to find it in yourself, try to find it in Jesus, seek him, seek who he is, and then you will find your identity. 33:01.103 --> 33:01.644 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 33:02.004 --> 33:05.288 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I was listening to a minister the other day. 33:06.029 --> 33:08.492 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said they had some missionaries. 33:09.113 --> 33:15.681 [SPEAKER_01]: And so those missionaries, they had came and so they wanted to take them off the golf course and play golf, you know. 33:16.402 --> 33:19.483 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he said, you know, said the missionaries was over here. 33:20.023 --> 33:21.983 [SPEAKER_01]: I was going to hit the golf ball down this away. 33:22.623 --> 33:26.124 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said that golf ball did something absolutely crazy. 33:26.664 --> 33:31.925 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, when I hit that golf ball, he said instead of going down that away, it went that away. 33:32.485 --> 33:35.145 [SPEAKER_01]: And hit one of those missionaries right in the chest. 33:35.165 --> 33:35.625 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no. 33:35.965 --> 33:42.927 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, all of a sudden, hey, that missionaries started to cuss in him and calling him everything away. 33:43.207 --> 33:45.107 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, now let me tell you something. 33:45.607 --> 33:47.448 [SPEAKER_01]: that golf ball didn't put that there. 33:47.849 --> 33:50.371 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it was already there. 33:51.351 --> 33:56.495 [SPEAKER_01]: And I, you know, it was a great story. 33:56.515 --> 34:01.078 [SPEAKER_01]: That is what ever is inside is going to come out. 34:01.138 --> 34:01.379 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 34:01.639 --> 34:03.700 [SPEAKER_01]: If you've got love in there, it's going to come out. 34:03.760 --> 34:03.921 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 34:03.941 --> 34:05.982 [SPEAKER_01]: You've got hatred in there, it's going to come out. 34:06.022 --> 34:06.422 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks. 34:08.487 --> 34:09.628 [SPEAKER_01]: How am I trying to say this? 34:10.209 --> 34:12.592 [SPEAKER_01]: Light and darkness cannot stay together. 34:13.453 --> 34:15.696 [SPEAKER_01]: One of them is going to overrule the other one. 34:16.196 --> 34:19.300 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the one that you put your trust in the most. 34:19.740 --> 34:24.907 [SPEAKER_01]: And if Jesus Christ is a light of your life, that darkness has to come out. 34:25.567 --> 34:29.171 [SPEAKER_01]: and it came out of that missionary at the wrong time. 34:29.732 --> 34:34.096 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Bible said there's nothing covered that shall not be revealed. 34:34.817 --> 34:37.420 [SPEAKER_01]: And so therefore it came out. 34:37.440 --> 34:40.082 [SPEAKER_01]: And I hope that I apologize, it's repeated. 34:40.703 --> 34:47.710 [SPEAKER_01]: And everything, but anyway, when we got Christ in our life, we have a whole different aspect. 34:47.810 --> 34:58.241 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you, our identity change, our talk change, our walk change, our thoughts change, everything about us changes for the good, not the bad, the good. 34:58.801 --> 35:05.022 [SPEAKER_01]: Because you see love for people every word, no matter who they are, and I'll tell you what. 35:06.262 --> 35:25.046 [SPEAKER_01]: We need more people, more Christians with an identity changed in their life, that they can be more Christ-like, and when our church is filled up with people that is more Christ-like, with love and compassion, no jealousy, envy or strife in there, then I'll tell you what, 35:27.666 --> 35:38.753 [SPEAKER_01]: But until then until then this whole bitterness and you got this one little group and this little group and this little group here And they're a bickering about once another or whatever may be the case. 35:39.153 --> 35:39.853 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not good. 35:40.134 --> 35:40.714 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not good. 35:40.774 --> 35:44.416 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not a God and But identity. 35:44.856 --> 35:47.418 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm I'm glad I know my identity. 35:47.478 --> 35:53.161 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad I found my identity and Through Jesus Christ and I know what I'm supposed to be doing. 35:53.502 --> 35:55.583 [SPEAKER_01]: I know without a shadow of a doubt in my life 35:56.083 --> 36:01.605 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, as you said one time, Caleb, God is coalesced to baptize, and that's what we're going to do. 36:02.205 --> 36:03.606 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, that's what we're going to do. 36:03.686 --> 36:04.246 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 36:04.766 --> 36:05.206 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 36:05.907 --> 36:09.908 [SPEAKER_00]: I said that when Pastor Elwood was for reason, like a pop sickle up there. 36:10.508 --> 36:11.749 [SPEAKER_00]: He was standing on the shore. 36:11.829 --> 36:14.049 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, at that time, I never came out of the water. 36:14.069 --> 36:16.330 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I was used to just stay in the water all day. 36:16.850 --> 36:19.931 [SPEAKER_00]: And he was standing up there and bless his heart. 36:19.972 --> 36:21.532 [SPEAKER_00]: It was his first time and everything. 36:21.572 --> 36:22.873 [SPEAKER_00]: And I sure didn't take it easy. 36:22.913 --> 36:23.613 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so sorry. 36:24.574 --> 36:26.337 [SPEAKER_00]: But he'll never forget it, you know. 36:26.738 --> 36:30.545 [SPEAKER_00]: I went up to him and I'm like, what God has called us to back time. 36:30.605 --> 36:30.986 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 36:31.066 --> 36:32.289 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we're going to. 36:33.170 --> 36:34.413 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's get back in the water. 36:35.919 --> 36:40.163 [SPEAKER_00]: And we did, and we back to us, we're going to be full of goodness. 36:40.503 --> 36:45.788 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the world is going to try to get you to define yourself, to figure out who you are. 36:46.448 --> 36:50.632 [SPEAKER_00]: Christ said, deny yourself, deny yourself. 36:51.012 --> 36:58.078 [SPEAKER_00]: That means to dot your flesh, to deny the fleshly things of this world, to deny what your flesh. 36:58.879 --> 36:59.239 [SPEAKER_00]: won't. 36:59.740 --> 37:01.201 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the heart can be evil. 37:01.241 --> 37:05.104 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of desires and fleshly things that are not of God. 37:05.765 --> 37:09.268 [SPEAKER_00]: And Christ said that you have to deny yourself and pick up your cross daily. 37:09.668 --> 37:13.872 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it takes an every day life of service to the Lord. 37:13.932 --> 37:15.934 [SPEAKER_00]: It takes an every day man renewal. 37:16.234 --> 37:21.439 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's so many Christians out there that truly don't know how to live their daily lives as a Christian. 37:22.099 --> 37:36.922 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that that's something that, you know, maybe we can do another discipleship on this, there would that be a great topic to be able to help people with some of the things that we do as Christ followers that shakes the mold that just helps us to be able to walk with him every single day. 37:37.342 --> 37:39.542 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, being a Christian is not just a title. 37:39.662 --> 37:41.443 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just a Bible verse in your Bible. 37:41.703 --> 37:42.823 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a cross necklace. 37:42.943 --> 37:46.344 [SPEAKER_00]: Being a Christian is a Christ follower. 37:46.484 --> 37:47.904 [SPEAKER_00]: It means that you were following 37:49.104 --> 37:54.488 [SPEAKER_00]: That you are literally doing the things of the Bible that he is commanded you to do if you love me You will keep my commands. 37:54.808 --> 37:55.929 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what he said to us. 37:56.429 --> 38:09.779 [SPEAKER_00]: And so being a Christ follower is doing those things and You know, there's there's a lot of things in our daily lives that we do to try to you know Do to self number one and try to deny yourself one thing. 38:09.839 --> 38:10.920 [SPEAKER_00]: I would tell on you 38:11.803 --> 38:13.185 [SPEAKER_00]: has to deny his donuts. 38:13.685 --> 38:16.448 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's something that he struggled with. 38:16.528 --> 38:25.878 [SPEAKER_00]: It's real, everybody has temptations in different ways and you're so blessed that yours is a donut, you know, but anyways, everybody has something that they struggle with in life. 38:25.978 --> 38:29.802 [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, Elwood, like he had diabetes, he had sugar problems, he had all these things. 38:29.842 --> 38:31.003 [SPEAKER_00]: So what did the enemy do? 38:31.384 --> 38:33.326 [SPEAKER_00]: Give him a craving for glaze donuts. 38:33.846 --> 38:47.139 [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, that temptation would be so real for him that he would go like a vulture in circle the doughnut section at the grocery store and it was real like that was a temptation for you and it was one of those things where it was it was from the enemy. 38:47.339 --> 38:50.022 [SPEAKER_00]: God's not trying to make you have a glaze doughnut, get your sugar up. 38:50.522 --> 39:05.815 [SPEAKER_00]: You know and so it's one of those things though like it's funny as that example is it's it's not funny When it's your own life and your own temptations that you have to deny you have to deny your flesh and your identity is in Christ You have to remember those things. 39:05.896 --> 39:16.645 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not together like you you are the creation God made you be But you have to deny your flesh every single day to be able to walk in that purpose 39:17.065 --> 39:21.448 [SPEAKER_00]: to be able to walk in your divine purpose and power in authority in Jesus Christ's name. 39:21.849 --> 39:23.110 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to deny the flesh. 39:23.990 --> 39:24.571 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 39:24.991 --> 39:27.032 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like you said, I've got a craving for Donut. 39:27.673 --> 39:28.814 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's hard to deny it. 39:29.414 --> 39:31.095 [SPEAKER_01]: But I had to go rich for another day. 39:31.796 --> 39:36.579 [SPEAKER_01]: And I passed by those days and I passed by going to Richmond. 39:37.180 --> 39:39.502 [SPEAKER_01]: And on the way back home, I went there. 39:40.783 --> 39:47.394 [SPEAKER_01]: I did I'm telling you I did did you get it I walked in there and man I'm telling you what those ladies don't let's lay in in there. 39:47.975 --> 39:53.984 [SPEAKER_01]: I could go swim in in them thing but I walked up that count and I said give me a bacon and biscuit. 39:54.044 --> 39:54.365 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on 39:58.439 --> 40:01.700 [SPEAKER_01]: I looked at those donuts and I said, not the date, not the date. 40:02.180 --> 40:09.182 [SPEAKER_01]: I told those sons, folks there, I said, how do you all work in here without eating those things? 40:09.762 --> 40:13.583 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, you just get tired of looking at them. 40:13.603 --> 40:16.504 [SPEAKER_00]: That's just what you got to do, go work at Dota, he's for a little while. 40:16.904 --> 40:25.490 [SPEAKER_01]: But I know that if anybody had my 360 and was watching me, they knew I was at No Daddy's and uh, but I walked out there with a bacon and biscuit. 40:25.971 --> 40:27.272 [SPEAKER_00]: That's so proud of you guys. 40:27.292 --> 40:31.555 [SPEAKER_01]: I denied myself that donut, I'm telling you, you did not, you're flesh. 40:32.095 --> 40:32.696 [SPEAKER_01]: Was it easy? 40:32.976 --> 40:36.219 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely not, because man, I'll tell you what, I'll admit that don't it? 40:36.720 --> 40:39.923 [SPEAKER_01]: My eye will roll back my head like a dying cow, probably, you know? 40:39.943 --> 40:50.433 [SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 40:50.773 --> 40:56.295 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's a, it's a good thing you didn't relapse on the sugar He did so good though. 40:56.375 --> 41:19.323 [SPEAKER_00]: Elwood is actually cured of sugar diabetes, and that's a big thing is to be able to walk that out That takes denying the flesh You know if you go back to the lifestyle that the enemy wants you to yeah, and you start eating all those junk things and all that, you know Go back to shots and you don't want to give yourself shots every day again So it's a it's just a blessing, but that is a really good example You know God God ways nothing and 41:19.343 --> 41:31.428 [SPEAKER_00]: And as even though we're sitting here joking, that's gonna help somebody, because there's somebody out there that's struggling with denying their flesh, but they know that God has given them power and authority over whatever this temptation is. 41:31.968 --> 41:39.311 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know your identity, Elwood, you know that you are called to preach, and I know that you don't like when I say it, but preach to the world. 41:39.991 --> 41:57.861 [SPEAKER_00]: He's so humble that it's hard for him to grasp what God's using him for right now, but that's what God created you to do and therefore like if you don't deny your flesh and you cave into this flesh and you start having all this sugar problems again and you start having these health and pharmacies, it's going to be hard for you to get out there and preach. 41:58.461 --> 42:16.847 [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's such an example for all of us is to learn, to deny your flesh, because God has a plan on a purpose for you, and he's not going to lead you wrong, he's not going to lead you astray, he knows who you are, he knows who he for me to be in the womb, and therefore you've got to know too. 42:17.407 --> 42:46.610 [SPEAKER_00]: So, if you don't know your identity in Christ, get in that word, search the Word of God, search the scriptures, search who Jesus is, go out there and have prayers and I'm pointing outside because the porch is, you know, my pace and grounds, but find somewhere that you pray, that you're whether it's a prayer closet or a porch that you pace and pray, or the woods, if you like to have the hunter fish, or golf tournaments, or I don't know what you like to do, but whatever it is to where you have quiet time to where you can search. 42:46.910 --> 42:47.470 [SPEAKER_00]: for the Lord. 42:47.870 --> 42:51.252 [SPEAKER_00]: Not search for yourself but search for the Lord. 42:51.472 --> 42:51.712 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 42:51.932 --> 42:52.933 [SPEAKER_00]: And you will find him. 42:52.973 --> 42:58.535 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible says seek and ye shall find search for the Lord and you'll find him. 42:59.075 --> 43:00.816 [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll find your identity while you're at it. 43:01.476 --> 43:02.196 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 43:02.617 --> 43:06.478 [SPEAKER_01]: When you find your identity, then you'll pick up your cross and follow Christ daily. 43:07.038 --> 43:15.042 [SPEAKER_01]: When you find that point and your life that you know what you're supposed to be doing in Christ, then there is nothing can turn you back away. 43:15.862 --> 43:17.904 [SPEAKER_01]: And but find in that. 43:18.084 --> 43:22.328 [SPEAKER_01]: I know I've talked to people and they say I don't know what my purpose is. 43:22.368 --> 43:24.450 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what God wants me to do. 43:25.230 --> 43:27.512 [SPEAKER_01]: And you just keep searching. 43:27.853 --> 43:28.753 [SPEAKER_01]: Find your identity. 43:28.853 --> 43:29.274 [SPEAKER_01]: Search it. 43:29.574 --> 43:30.094 [SPEAKER_01]: Search for it. 43:30.375 --> 43:30.875 [SPEAKER_01]: Look for it. 43:31.055 --> 43:31.616 [SPEAKER_01]: Pray for it. 43:32.076 --> 43:33.738 [SPEAKER_01]: That God will reveal it to you. 43:34.198 --> 43:38.622 [SPEAKER_01]: And when you get a hope of it, you hang on to it with pit bulls and nasty. 43:39.262 --> 43:39.883 [SPEAKER_01]: And you 43:43.687 --> 43:49.342 [SPEAKER_00]: You know when Jesus was baptized, that God spoke to him and said, this is my son whom with our own will please. 43:49.382 --> 43:49.502 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 43:50.642 --> 43:54.725 [SPEAKER_00]: And what happened after that, you know, his baptism was absolutely beautiful. 43:54.945 --> 43:57.166 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Holy Spirit descended upon him like a dove. 43:57.587 --> 44:00.408 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is something that we see in our baptisms that we do. 44:00.448 --> 44:03.350 [SPEAKER_00]: We actually visibly see the Holy Spirit descended upon people. 44:03.370 --> 44:06.972 [SPEAKER_00]: We see them be filled with the Holy Spirit and it's so beautiful. 44:07.172 --> 44:15.958 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is another important reason why we do these discipleships is to keep people continued in learning and knowledge of what's going on in your life. 44:17.158 --> 44:23.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, after his baptism, what happened to Jesus is that he was taken into the wilderness and it says the Spirit led him there. 44:24.283 --> 44:30.787 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the Spirit led him into the wilderness for that temptation because it was necessary to test. 44:31.167 --> 44:44.655 [SPEAKER_00]: It was necessary to show us, too, as an example of what happens and you know that here Jesus is stepping into his ministry on earth, he's stepping into what he's got to do here in the mission. 44:45.455 --> 44:49.757 [SPEAKER_00]: and the enemy tempts him, and what does he say if you are the son of God? 44:50.037 --> 44:50.197 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 44:50.277 --> 45:03.082 [SPEAKER_00]: And so God just told him that like he knows without a doubt what he's here for and God spoke to him and said, you are my son whom with I am well, please, he heard that. 45:03.782 --> 45:11.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet the enemy says, if you are, and this is so important because in your own life, it's the same way how the enemy whispers those lies. 45:11.844 --> 45:13.105 [SPEAKER_00]: That was a lie from Satan. 45:13.405 --> 45:14.645 [SPEAKER_00]: If you are the Son of God. 45:14.845 --> 45:15.225 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. 45:15.245 --> 45:16.185 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he knows he is. 45:16.445 --> 45:22.387 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew who Jesus was, but it was the doubt in that moment that he was trying to get Jesus to come in agreement with. 45:22.967 --> 45:43.331 [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta understand that because in your spiritual journey and your journey with Jesus Christ It's the same way the enemy can come at you with the things of the past He can come at you with what God has told you and try to whisper those lies You know who God told you you were you may have one day had a big revelation of like oh God's called me to preach. 45:43.351 --> 45:43.551 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 45:43.851 --> 45:49.692 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh God's called me for this And I'm gonna use preaching as example right now because it's a good one, but if God was to call you to preach 45:50.252 --> 45:54.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you go home and you may be about a sleep in the enemy whispers. 45:54.656 --> 45:54.796 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 45:55.036 --> 45:55.757 [SPEAKER_00]: You ain't a preacher. 45:56.538 --> 45:57.619 [SPEAKER_00]: God didn't call you to preach. 45:57.939 --> 45:59.280 [SPEAKER_00]: You might be second-guessing that. 45:59.760 --> 46:01.722 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you really heard God. 46:02.343 --> 46:08.928 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're sitting there with all those thoughts in your mind that the enemy is put in there and pounding you with, and you accept those thoughts. 46:09.909 --> 46:14.251 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, then you're not going to preach, you're going to accept the lies over the truth. 46:14.471 --> 46:23.376 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why it's so important to understand the truth of God, to understand the Word of God, and the truth of God is because when He speaks things to you, it's not going to be contradicted. 46:23.536 --> 46:26.298 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to come back and say, you know what, maybe I didn't call you to preach. 46:26.898 --> 46:27.378 [SPEAKER_00]: No, he did. 46:27.958 --> 46:33.920 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's so important to know your identity in those moments because that temptation that comes, those lies from the enemy. 46:34.240 --> 46:39.801 [SPEAKER_00]: And you can use this example with many things in your life that God may have called you to do, or that you're trying to give up. 46:40.082 --> 46:43.702 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's a lot of people that repent and they're baptized and they give up stuff. 46:43.963 --> 46:45.103 [SPEAKER_00]: And they know they're free of it. 46:45.363 --> 46:46.303 [SPEAKER_00]: And then they get home. 46:46.563 --> 46:49.144 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like the enemy will be like, oh, I think you're still sick. 46:50.250 --> 46:50.690 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 46:50.971 --> 47:01.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I think that you probably want to go and do the smoke that cigarette or do those drugs or whatever it may be You know, the enemy will whisper those things, but you know better. 47:01.218 --> 47:14.868 [SPEAKER_00]: You know better as a new creation in Christ God's giving you discernment and when those things come it's so important for you to stand on business and to understand your identity and say no That's not true because God told me this 47:15.488 --> 47:19.891 [SPEAKER_00]: And what God says is the truth, and God says I'm chosen. 47:20.371 --> 47:23.233 [SPEAKER_00]: God says that I was made for such a time as this. 47:23.713 --> 47:34.119 [SPEAKER_00]: God said, and that's why it's so important again to know the word and study those scriptures of your identity and who God created you to be, because he didn't make a mistake in it. 47:34.320 --> 47:35.780 [SPEAKER_00]: He created you to be this way. 47:35.840 --> 47:39.503 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not going against it, and you have to understand the truth from the lies. 47:39.903 --> 47:43.305 [SPEAKER_00]: That is going to help you tremendously in your walk of faith. 47:43.556 --> 48:00.354 [SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely, you know, when I was called preach, and I knew it, and then I went to the old preacher in Melbourne, Kentucky, Walker Johnson, and I told him, and he jumped about that high floor, you know, he said, I knew it. 48:01.075 --> 48:02.295 [SPEAKER_01]: But I said, Walker, I can't. 48:03.296 --> 48:03.776 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't. 48:03.996 --> 48:05.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Can't, never could, never will. 48:05.796 --> 48:06.817 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not educated. 48:07.397 --> 48:09.777 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have a college degree or nothing like that. 48:09.897 --> 48:11.198 [SPEAKER_01]: Barely got out of high school. 48:11.718 --> 48:12.198 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't. 48:12.398 --> 48:13.679 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I'm going back to Moses. 48:14.519 --> 48:15.479 [SPEAKER_00]: I made your tongue. 48:15.779 --> 48:17.160 [SPEAKER_01]: And Walker in his wisdom. 48:17.500 --> 48:18.160 [SPEAKER_01]: He looked at me. 48:19.200 --> 48:35.170 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, I believe that God has, but he said, if you don't try, after you're telling me that God is called you into the ministry, if you don't try, you go through your whole life. 48:35.967 --> 48:38.988 [SPEAKER_01]: wondering whether you could or whether you couldn't. 48:39.128 --> 48:46.331 [SPEAKER_01]: But he said, I would say, if you do try and you figure out that you can't do it, he said you've lost nothing. 48:46.671 --> 48:46.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 48:47.651 --> 48:50.472 [SPEAKER_01]: And that has stuck with me all these years. 48:51.013 --> 48:53.794 [SPEAKER_01]: And he was exactly right as I get looking back on my life. 48:54.274 --> 48:57.475 [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't try, you'll go through your whole life. 48:57.935 --> 49:07.804 [SPEAKER_01]: Trying to figure out whether you could or whether you couldn't, but when you come to the point that where you know an absolute that you can't You have lost nothing. 49:07.884 --> 49:08.184 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow. 49:08.445 --> 49:10.306 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is so encouraging. 49:10.466 --> 49:11.327 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 49:11.367 --> 49:15.631 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever God has called you to do do it Go forth. 49:16.211 --> 49:16.432 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes 49:17.441 --> 49:20.863 [SPEAKER_00]: It was such a joy to be back for a discipleship episode. 49:20.963 --> 49:21.964 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that y'all missed it. 49:22.184 --> 49:24.085 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I was baptized in the water the other day. 49:24.365 --> 49:26.686 [SPEAKER_00]: And this lady said, I've just cut one complaint. 49:27.287 --> 49:28.487 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, oh, no, what? 49:29.008 --> 49:31.749 [SPEAKER_00]: And she was just like, where have you been on YouTube? 49:32.290 --> 49:36.472 [SPEAKER_00]: She says, my discipleship lessons are not on their no more. 49:36.832 --> 49:39.974 [SPEAKER_00]: And she said, all I've watched is the same one's over and over. 49:40.034 --> 49:41.735 [SPEAKER_00]: And she said, that's my church. 49:42.135 --> 49:43.016 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where I learn. 49:43.596 --> 49:47.680 [SPEAKER_00]: And it just pierce my heart and I said, ma'am, I'm going to get you a discipleship. 49:47.780 --> 49:53.305 [SPEAKER_00]: And so here we are and I'm just I'm excited to be back with it too because I know this is something God's called us to do. 49:53.866 --> 50:01.233 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we're going to be obedient in making sure that we get these discipleship lessons for you and just sit down and find time to record them. 50:01.313 --> 50:01.513 [SPEAKER_00]: So, 50:01.853 --> 50:02.994 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope that you've enjoyed this. 50:03.074 --> 50:04.995 [SPEAKER_00]: I really pray that it has helped you today. 50:05.155 --> 50:15.841 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray that there's something that we said that really spoke to your spirit and that it helps you to truly seek the Lord and find who you are and your identity in Jesus Christ name. 50:16.302 --> 50:16.782 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.