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Real life presents the Jack Kib's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Be so secure in your spiritual skin that when the Bible says physical

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exercise profits, profits you some, that's great, you should do it, but spiritual

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exercise, that's eternal.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibs.com

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Kib's.

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So the Apostle Paul tells Timothy that bodily exercise profits a little bit, but

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a godly discipline or godly exercise profits us much or actually eternally, right?

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So we're to do that now, but how about this as a word of wisdom, I pray, that if you

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were to go to a health club and you see guys that are exercising, women who are

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exercising and you want to get into shape, so you're, so you hire a trainer, right?

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This happens all the time.

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So you hire a trainer and I've learned something as I've gotten older.

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When I was younger, I would have the ideas and the energy and the zeal to do all these

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things.

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So if I were going to train somebody, I would put them through all of these routines and

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all of this diet and all of this exercise and I would do it as long as possible, as often

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as possible and as hard as possible because we're going to be disciplined and we're going

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to build up our bodies.

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That's okay, I get it, I get it.

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But if you've ever attempted that, you become frustrated because nothing seems to be happening

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where you go from an experience really sore and noticing that you're doing feeling better

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than what you were without exercising, but you're not reaching the goals that you were

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hoping to because what's happening is you are actually living out the passions of your

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trainer instead of what's right for you.

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You see, Jack, we're in the world of you going with this, exactly here.

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And we are many times young or very zealous or and or biblically ignorant.

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We get some information and we get so pumped up about it that we run with it and we get

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into what we would call Christian disciplines.

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And we need to have our life disciplined and Paul said, I beat my body into subjection.

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Paul didn't actually beat himself up, okay?

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He knew himself and he knew who Jesus was and he found out what Jesus wanted for him.

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So what you want to be careful about in Christian disciplines is that you're not living out

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what some other person's passions have for you, okay?

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If this person, in fact yesterday you guys, I went up to a woman, she had a t-shirt on

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and she said, I'm a prayer warrior as spiritual sniper.

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And I said, that's an awesome t-shirt, I appreciate your t-shirt.

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And she goes, yeah, thanks a lot for saying so.

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Is there anything I can pray for you about?

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Now listen to this.

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This is awesome because this lady, we're at a place here in Southern California called

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Nutsbury Farm.

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There was only about 10,000 people there and she didn't care.

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She's a spiritual warrior, she's a spiritual sniper.

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She prays.

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But what have been really weird is how come you don't have your shirt on?

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Where's your spiritual sniper shirt?

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If you want to pray, you need to get on your knees now with me and pray right now.

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And it's like this is kind of weird, right?

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Well she didn't do that and kudos to her.

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You could tell she was a seasoned saint.

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She was really old like me, probably older than me.

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She was a woman you could tell of wisdom, but she had zeal, but it was metered.

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It was not silly.

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So you want to be careful about people who will establish for you rules and regulations

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that are theoretical rather than practical.

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Don't get me wrong.

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I'm all for a thousand commitment for Jesus.

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I live my life that way.

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If you know me, that's how it is.

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But for me to turn around and say to somebody, man, you need to live for Jesus at 180 miles

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an hour.

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You need to live for Jesus a thousand percent.

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You need to get on your knees now.

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You need to be quiet.

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That doesn't work.

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What we need to do is when we talk about Christian disciplines, the greatest Christian discipline

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you can experience.

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Number one is where most people fail.

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Get on a constant diet of the Bible.

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I don't care if it's three verses or three chapters a day, just do it.

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Number two, when we stack up things to do and we don't do the main thing first, like

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read the Bible and talk to God.

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I mean, talk to God.

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Not talking to your friends like this and you're speaking to your wife and your kids or

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your husband and your wife.

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And then you go to be a disciplined believer and you say, old mighty God, thou who inhabits

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the eternity, the creator of the universe.

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What are you doing?

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He already knows all that stuff.

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But you want to say to him, you don't change your voice.

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You don't get some vibrato, oh mighty God, you who, no, no, talk to him and say to him

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like you would to any other person.

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Lord, thank you for this day.

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Thank you for this morning.

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Thank you for the peace and the solitude of this place.

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Lord, I just ask you that you would do, that you would do what is physically experiential

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right now.

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Would you do this in my heart, Lord, in my life?

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I can hear the transition this morning of the crickets and at the same time, now the

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birds are starting to sing.

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Behind me, I can hear a woodpecker someplace not too far away.

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But can you, Lord, touch my heart in such a way that you do in me what you want to have

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done in me?

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You know, Paul told the saints, I believe at Colossi.

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He said, those who compare themselves among themselves, they're not wise.

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That a great word, because you know, there's a tendency for us in our insecurities to be

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like somebody else.

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Because we don't like who we are, or we're not sure who we are, even in Jesus, we haven't

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figured that out yet.

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So when we see a saintly person, we'll have a tendency to go by the clothes they wear,

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or walk like they walk, or get their kind of shoes, or where do they go.

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And then we might have a more passionate type of thought where I'm going to go up to

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them and ask them if they'll mentor me.

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That's cool.

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But if that person is who you really think they are and who they should be, they're going

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to tell you, I tell you what, buddy, I want you to read the Book of Philippians.

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You read that.

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Now, meet you back here next week.

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You know, we'll get together an hour before church service, or half an hour before

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church service.

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And we'll talk about Philippians.

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Are you going to do that?

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Will you do it?

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You see, why talk about disciplines when the motive is wrong?

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Look what I'm doing.

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I work out this much a day, an hour for Jesus.

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I pray this long.

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I read these many chapters.

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I do all these things, and I'm doing exercise.

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But there's no muscle.

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It's being done wrong.

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Your diet is off.

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You're not getting the nutrients spiritually to match your activity.

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There's a lot of zeal, little knowledge.

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God is a person.

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Listen, the reason why you are a person is because

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God's a person.

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He made you in his image, moral likeness.

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That means God is a personality.

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I love what C.S. Lewis says.

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C.S. Lewis says that God is more of a mind than anything else.

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That's a serious thought.

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You got to think about that for a minute.

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That God is a mind.

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Listen, be careful.

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God is a mind, M-I-M-I-N-D, a mind.

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And then you think a brain?

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You mean eight pounds of grain matter sitting on the stainless steel table?

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No, that's not a mind.

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That's a brain.

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The brain and the mind have nothing to do with each other.

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The brain's the brain if it's living or dead.

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It's a brain.

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It's an apparatus.

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It's a tool, physical.

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But the mind inhabits the brain, the emotions, the feelings, the thoughts, everything of us.

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How about this?

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The mind uses the brain as a tool, and then your brain uses your body as a tool.

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So God, the Bible says, is spirit.

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That's why C.S. Lewis says that God is more of a mind.

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So when we think about Jesus, what are we thinking about?

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We're thinking about the mind of God, which we could also say the will of God.

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Think about it.

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The thoughts of God, the mind of God, the will of God, the personality of God.

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How do we know Jesus?

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When he walked, look at it this way, when he walked, you were watching, they were watching

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the will of God walking.

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Don't you love that?

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When he walked along the shores of Galilee, you were watching the mind of God walk.

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The word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory.

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The glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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God's will became flesh, and you could touch him, you could talk to him, you could experience

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him.

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Did Jesus ever once say, do ten push-ups and come and follow me?

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Did he ever say, if you can do a hundred pull-ups, you can be on my team?

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All he said was come and follow me.

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And that's what I want you to go with today is the thought.

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Are you enjoying your walk with Jesus Christ?

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Or are you living your life for the approval of others?

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Are you saying by your actions, I hope those people approve of me, I hope that religious

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group approves of me, I hope that gathering of really holy people think I'm something because

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I've got the same shirts they do, same shoes, I drink the same coffee they do, I use the

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same words they do, don't do that, don't do that, listen, 46 years I've been a Christian.

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Early on in my Christian life, like most Christians you're insecure, you don't know, you

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know that God is real and He loves you and He died for you, but you're not exactly

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sure who you are.

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And I remember thinking that if I, maybe if I shaved my head and got a big, big rotunda

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kind of belly and wore a turtleneck sweater, like Chuck Smith my pastor, maybe then I'd

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be spiritual.

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Maybe if I talked slower and I paused more often and moved my hand a certain way that I

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would be more spiritual like Pastor Chuck.

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It doesn't work, God made Him to be Him, God made you to be you.

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Be so secure in your spiritual skin that when the Bible says physical exercise, prophets

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you some, that's great, you should do it.

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It's spiritual exercise, that's eternal.

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So friends, don't get caught up in rules and regulations and pressure.

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I'm telling you, I already did all that and disciplines are never yokes of bondage.

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Disciplines are never legalistic.

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Disciplines are things that I'm going to do this because I love it and it draws me closer

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to Jesus, Him and I.

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And this is a good thing, I'm going to set my alarm earlier.

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I know my body, my body is going to scream at four o'clock when the alarm goes off at

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four a.m.

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My body is going to say, what are we doing?

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Turn that thing off.

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But I look forward to the whole battle tomorrow morning when that alarm goes off, I'm going

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to be confronted with this amazing exercise.

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Now I take my body and say, get out of bed, get some coffee or get on the treadmill or

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go outside because we're going to read the Bible.

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Man, that's it, that is awesome and God will take care of the rest.

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And listen, you'll build spiritual muscle and it's the best way.

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You don't want to try to accomplish in the flesh the things of the Spirit.

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So don't walk in the flesh, but walk in the Spirit and so fulfill the law of God's love

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in Christ Jesus.

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