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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to pray dot com. I'm Ben Peterson, the CEO
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today's message and use it to engage your destiny.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How's everyone doing all right?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How's everybody doing awesome? How about that Chick fil A?
How about that worship man? We got a cooking in here. Well,
this is really fun, guys. This retreat is going to
be really special. We're gonna be doing a lot of
deeper work to help you become the man and woman
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of God that you've been called to be. And I
believe that relationships are built to share experiences. Amen, when
you do life together, when you do things together. So
what we're doing on Friday nights is awesome, but this
is an opportunity to go deeper into relationship together. How
many of you have felt lonely from time to time
before Campbell? That's Roger, Let's fix that hole. Let's fix
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that all right. So getting into my message, I'm gonna pray,
and this is a word that I know has been
confirmed because the title of it was in the last
song that they picked that I never even communicated to
them what I was talking about. So God's got a
message for you tonight. Amen, It's already been set up. So,
Father God, I just thank you for your love and
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for your wisdom and for your power. God, you know
the hurts and the issues that are brought into this room.
You know the sin and the struggles and the addictions.
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You are aware of it all.
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And with all that we bring, all of our mess,
you still love us and you have a plan for
our lives. And so Father, I pray that this word
would be delivered through this broken vessel. God, that you
would use me to say exactly what is on your
heart for everyone in this room in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Amen. Okay, we're gonna have a little competition. Who likes
to compete.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Goti alphas in the room like to get get their
competition going, all right, So I need you to pull
out your phones and open up your notes. Okay, So
what we're gonna do is I'm going to read the
excerpt from a book that is called the things they carried.
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And it's the story of a man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That was in Vietnam and he's talking about the things
that soldiers had to carry in war.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So here's the competition.
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You are going to write down every single thing that
I say in this reading, and whoever gets the most wins.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay, Now what are you gonna win?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We have brand new minted Engage your Destiny coins, pretty
darn cool. So you will be coined by yours truly,
the CEO and founder of Engage your Destiny.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Okay. So this is.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Engage your Destiny with our feather ar quill, which was
worn by leaders back in the Revolutionary War days. They
would wear a legitimate quill that would signify them of
their leadership. Okay, so we raise up leaders, amen, and
our mission statement on the back, which is a war
or our vision is a world without military suicide.
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Who would love to see that? Amen? All right, and
that's what we're working towards.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So go ahead, And if you want to really do
yourself a favorite number your list. I know you can
do that in notes on Apple. I'm not sure about
that other kind of phone whatever it is, but to
go ahead and number it so that you can just
go nuts.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I don't want anyone to cheat and just count things
and have a number, because I'm gonna verify that you
do heavy list, so you do have to type out
what you are listing.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh that's Roger. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The things they carried were largely determined by necessity. Among
the necessities or near necessities were p thirty eight can openers,
pocket knives, heat tabs, wristwatches, dog tags, mosquito repellent, chewing gum, candy, cigarettes,
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salt tablets, packets of kool Aid, lighters, matches, sewing kits,
military payment certificates, sea rations, and two or three canteens
of water. Together, these items weighed between twelve to eighteen pounds,
depending on a man's habits or rate of metabolism. Henry Dobbins,
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who was a big man, carried extra rations and was
especially fond of canned peaches in heavy syrup over pound cake.
Dave Jensen, who practiced fuel hygiene, carried a toothbrush, dental floss,
and several hotel sized bars of soap he'd stolen on
R and R in Sydney, Australia. Ted Lavender, who was scared,
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carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside
of the village of tan Kay in mid April by
him necessity and because it was sop which means what.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That's a roger.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
They all carried steel helmets that weighed five pounds, including
the liner and camouflage cover. They carried the standard fatigue
jackets and trousers. Very few carried underwear on their feet.
They carried jungle boots two point one pounds, and Dave
Jensen carried three pairs of socks and a can of
doctor Schul's foot powder as a precaution against trench foot
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until he was shot ted. Lavender carried six or seven
ounces of premium dope, which for him was a necessity.
Mitchell Sanders the Rto carried condoms. Norman Bauker carried a diary.
At Kaylie carried comic books. Kiowa, a devout Baptist, carried
a New Testament Bible as a head as a hedge
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against bad times. However, Kiowa also carried his grandmother's distrust
of the white man, his grandfather's old hunting jacket, his
old hunting hatchet.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay.
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Necessity was dictated because the land was mined and booby trapped.
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It was sop, which means what.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That's a roger For each man to carry steel centered
nylon covered flack jackets, which weighed six point seven pounds,
but which on hot days seemed much heavier because you
could die so quickly. Each man carried at least one
large compress bandage, usually in the helmet for easy access.
Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet,
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each carried a green plastic poncho that could be used
as a raincoat or a ground sheet, or a makeshift
tent with its quilted lng. The poncho weighed almost two pounds,
but it was worth every ounce in April for entrance. Instance,
when Ted Lavender was shot, they used his poncho to
wrap him up, then to carry him across the paddy,
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then to lift him into the chopper and took him away.
They were called legs or grunts. To carry something was
to hump it, as when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross humped his
love for Martha up the hills and through the swamps.
In it. In its intrusive form, to hump meant to
walk or to march, but it implied burdens far beyond that,
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y'all good to keep going. What they carried was partly
a function of rank, partly of field specialty. As the
first lieutenant and platoon leader, Jimmy Cross carried a compass, maps,
code books, binoculars, and a forty five caliber pistol that
weighed two point nine pounds fully loaded. He carried a
strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.
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As an rto Mitch Sanders carried a PRC twenty five radio,
a killer twenty six pounds with its battery. As a medic,
rat kylie carried a canvas satchel filled with morphine and
plasma and malaria tablets and surgical tape, and comic books
and all the things a medic must carry, including M
and m's for especially bad wounds, for a total weight
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of nearly eighteen pounds. As a big man, therefore a
machine gunner, Henry Dobbins carried the M sixty, which weighed
twenty three pounds unloaded, but which was almost always loaded.
In addition, Dobbins carried between ten and fifteen pounds of
ammunition draped across his belt and across his chests and shoulders.
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You given up? Have you guys given up? Do we
got people who gave up? You?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Still going?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
All right? As pfc's respect for as.
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Most of them were common grunts and carried the standard
sixteen gas operated assault rifle. The weapon weighed seven point
pounds unloaded eight point two pounds with a full twenty
round magazine. Depending on numerous factors such as topography and psychology,
the rifleman carried anywhere from twelve to twenty magazines, usually
clouthed in bandoliers, adding on another eight point four pounds
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at minimum and fourteen pounds maximum.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All right, who thinks they got it? What you got? Bro?
You got? How many? You gotta count it up? Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Go ahead? How many got? Thirty seven? Forty seven? Can
anyone beat forty seven? We got a boy counting. Do
you think you have more than forty seven?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You do?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Man? Why didn't you number it out like I told you?
Thirty eight that's pretty good, forty that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Thirty you have forty eight? You had forty seven? Ah,
all right?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Waiting on the guy who didn't count put on the numbers.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You have forty eight forty eight? Wow, we're tired at
forty eight.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Good thing I could. Good thing, I got two coins.
He's still counting.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What number are you at right now?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Ah? Come on up, brother. Oh no, wait, you got
a broken leg, don't you? Okay, I'll come to you.
What's your name, dude, Gavin? Hey, congratulations, let's give it
up for Gavin. Let me see your list. Wow, you
even got the grandmother's mistrust. Nice work, dude.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Awesome.
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I have such a passion for the Vietnam War because
of what those men went through. They were drafted into
a war that no one wanted to go to, into
a war that no one understood, and they went and
they fought, and then they came home and they were
shamed by this country. And so my honor for them
is very high. And that's why I love reading books
about them and what they carry. But I think it's
so important tonight that we talk about the things that
we carry, and so I want to start point one
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with what we as soldiers carry. So now let's facilitate
a little bit of a discussion here as you and
your respected fields as eleven Bravos and thirteen Charlie's and
ninety one Yankees, tell me some of the things just
call them out that you carry on a daily basis.
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When you go to work. Yeah, paper perclips, sticky notes.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Okay, we got the addmin people over here, radios for antennas,
broader that what's up?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Bro wire strippers for what? Here's your sign? All right?
Keep coming?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Just shot them out, aid bag Gerber. Come on, y'all,
you carry so much stuff. Let's go what blue book?
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Hey? Yah? LTV? What else?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Rad your Medican book? Canteen left cocko pocket? The blue book?
What were gonna say?
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You carry?
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You carry worries and concerns. Someone just took it deep.
You knew I was going there, didn't you. What are
some of the things that you, as soldiers carry?
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Addiction? What else? Anger?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Hang on, let's slow down. I heard anger, I heard loneliness,
I heard stress, responsibility?
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What else?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Who said that? Fear of failure? Let's pause there. Why
do we have a fear of failure? Why do we
carry that fear of failure?
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Hell? Do a high standard?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
It costs lives. Our mistakes could mean someone dies?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Right?
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What else?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Talk to me?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So let's do hands raised. We don't all go at
the same time. Okay, you carry discipline, comparison with another leader,
another soldier.
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Yeah, what's up, bro? Emotional baggage?
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We carry our families with us, don't we?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We carry all that? What else you got? Some you?
What's up? What do you carry? You carry anxiety? Absolutely,
risk and the weight of risk. Yeah? What about you?
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Bobby? Do you carry happiness? And what does that do
for you? Boom spreads, doesn't it?
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Yeah?
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It's awful? Hate that guy?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Just play it it?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
What's up, dude?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Ideas? What kind of ideas do you have? Yeah?
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Teamwork absolutely? Anybody else? Optimism, motivation, hope.
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Pain physically emotional only spiritually pain? That is a roger?
What's up? Dog? What's that? Determination? Can you be a
soldier without determination?
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No?
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Not a not a good one. Not a good one?
Yea to raise it? Dude?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You just wait, dude, you're brand new, be here for
five more minutes, you get a deployment under your belt?
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What's up? Girl?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Guilt? Who?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Absolutely?
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Man?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I carry guilt? Absolutely? How about shame? Anybody carry shame? Absolutely?
How many of you?
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Yeah, go ahead, Adrian, you carry your testimony.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's a weighty one, isn't it. M hm? How many
of you carry a phone? What's in that phone?
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Problems? Light? What else is in your phone? Distractions? Your compass, calculator,
your bank Siri? What else is in your phone?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
The government? Apple products?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
What else is in your phone? Mistakes? Disappointment? Think of
all you carry in this? Could you consider this to
be one of the heaviest things you carry?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, me too. Let's talk about what leaders carry. How
many of you consider yourself a leader? See that is
the wrong answer, because if you're here tonight, you're a leader.
You've made a decision on a Friday night with Nashville
right down the road to come here, eat Chick fil A,
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sing up in the air to something you can't even see,
and listen to a guy talk.
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I mean, that's what we're doing right now.
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There's a spiritual element to this that brings life and
hope and healing and redemption and all those wonderful things.
But at the end of the day, it takes a
leader to come do this. So we're going to begin
to talk about the things that leaders carry, and you're
going to begin to see yourself as a leader.
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Amen.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Leaders carry the responsibility of others. How many of you
are responsible for yourself?
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Everybody?
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How many of you are responsible for at least one
other person. Absolutely, we all are. Leaders have to make
financial decisions. They have to make financial decisions for their
own lives, but also for organizations that they run. How
many of you are making a financial decision for something
that's bigger than yourself majority of the room. The two
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biggest indicators to a successful marriage sex and finances, Sexual
intimacy and money.
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So money is a big deal, huh.
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And so that many people raising your hands tells me
that the financial burden that we carry. Maybe it's taking
care of a family member, maybe it's running budgets, maybe
it's anything that we're doing. I know that I carry
a multimillion dollar burden to run my organization. That's a
massive burden that I carry. Leaders carry expectations. We carry
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expectations for others. We also carry expectations for ourselves. How
many of you are hard on yourself? Notice my hand
is raised. The biggest critic is in the mirror. We
have an expectation that we're gonna be strong, that we're
gonna be learning, that we're gonna be growing. We go
through expectations in comparison as we see social media and
people doing all these amazing things with their lives and
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thinking about what we could be doing. How many of
you wish you were doing something else in the military
than what you're doing now. Now that's not a bad thing.
It means that you have vision, right, means you have
someone that we need, You want to go, but you're
carrying that expectation over yourself. We carry the expectation that
we're going to continue to grow. How many of you
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have family? Do you carry the expectations of your family?
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Me too? How many of you have children? Do you
carry those burdens?
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Yes, you do. How many of you are in a
relationship do you carry the burden of loving that person,
caring for that person? How many of you are single
and you carry that burden?
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That's a roger. I didn't get married WHI I was
thirty three?
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Y'all are gonna be just fine. That was an awkward
who I'm process allen. We carry the burden of having
good mental health. When you're a leader, you got to
be score away. You got to be someone who's trustworthy.
You've got to be ready to handle hard situations. And
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so with our mental health, you think about our fear,
our anger, our sadness, our shame, our guilt, the decisions
that we've made. How many of you carry I love
that the word guilt was said, How many of you
carry guilt for something you've done this last week?
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Me too?
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Are you, guys beginning to see everything that we carry?
Are you beginning to see that you carry more than
you thought you did? We carry a lot. We haven't
even talked about our faith in what we carry with
our faith. In our faith, we carry hope, we carry joy,
we carry love, We carry peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness,
and self control. In our faith, we carry the burden
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of being godly, of living a good life, of living
a life that isn't just throwing itself into sin. And
then how often when we struggle with sin, we carry
the guilt of that. Yes, absolutely, these are the things
that we carry. And so now we're going to talk
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about what Jesus carried. Number three, What Jesus carried It
says in John nineteen seventeen to eighteen that Jesus carried
his own cross out of the city to the place
that was called the skull, which in Aramaic is Golgatha,
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and there they nailed him to the cross, and he
was crucified along with three other men, along with three
other one on each side in the middle. When they
decided that they were going to kill Jesus and murder him,
they decided to do it by crucifixion. How many of
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you are familiar with the process of crucifixion. Okay, after
they took Jesus, they went and they beat him and
they flogged him. Part of this process was taking whips
that on the end of it had not only chains,
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but like broken pieces of wood and of metal, so
that when the chain would come across and the whip
would come onto Jesus's back, it would latch onto his
skin and then they would rip it back and it
would literally tear the flesh from his skin. And so
it is very easy to assume, based on the way
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that they would crucify men in that time, that when
Jesus put the cross on his shoulders there was no
skin there because they would have flogged him in his back,
exposing his skin in him bleeding. When he put that
cross on his shoulders, he had to carry it the
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length of six point seven football field, that is two
thousand and ten feet, and he had to do so,
having been beaten, spit on, punched, and whipped to the
point of his skin being completely exposed.
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They also took.
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A crown of thorns and they put it on his
head and they beat it into his skull so that
those thorns were going into his skull. And then he
was expected to carry that cross two thousand and ten feet.
Why does this matter, Because Jesus was carrying everything that
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you and I have ever done wrong or will ever
do wrong. And we have this thing like in Christian
culture where we're like, well, Jesus died for my sins,
dah da da, but we don't understand the context of that.
The context of the reason Jesus had to do what
he did is because in the Jewish tradition which Jesus
was born into, once a year they had the day
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of Atonement, say Atonement, and on that day they would
have to come to the temple and bring an innocent,
young lamb, pure and spotless, and they would bring the
lamb before the priest, and they would have the lamb
face the person who was coming to have their sins
be forgiven, be atoned for, and that person would put
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their head on the forehead.
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Of the lamb and look into his eyes.
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And as they and as he was doing that, the
priest would slit the throat of the lamb, and the
man would stand there, and as the innocent lamb bled out,
he would say, this is what I deserve for all
the things I have done? Are you all tracking? So
much of what we do is context.
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Okay.
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When you join the military, you are joining a context
that this is how things work. Okay, So you joined
the military. If you're a man, you get your head
shaved with a girl. You can't, you know, do your
hair how you want to do it. You get a uniform,
You fall into the rules.
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How many know? There's rules in the military. This is
how things work.
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There's rules.
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It's the same thing with faith.
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This is what Jesus had to do to follow the
way that it had been built by God for the
Jewish people to have all of their trash, all of
their sin atoned for. And he, as the pure and
spotless lamb, put himself in that position to be beaten,
to be flogged, and to be crucified, and to bleed out,
so that as we look at him, we can say,
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that is what I deserve for everything I've done y'all tracking.
So I have a forty pound pack and one hundred
and twenty five pounds sand bag over there, weighing it
at one hundred and sixty five pounds, which was the
weight of the cross. And the distance from right here
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to right there at these two chairs down and back
twenty times is the distance Jesus carried the cross.
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Do I have.
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Someone who wants to pack up and experience.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
The weight that Jesus carried? You want to do it?
You want to go? All right, let's go now. Jesus
didn't have any help to pick the stuff up. So
I'm gonna let you put that pack on. Is that
gonna work? That's tight enough?
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And pick up that pack and however you want to
do it one hundred and twenty five pounds and throw
it on your shoulder, get it up there. I had
a boy, a boy, and start walking. Okay, one hundred
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and sixty five pounds. What did you say? I have
done this many many times now, Delgado? Did you get
a good night's sleep last night? You got a good
night's sleep. How many meals have you had today?
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Two? Have you hydrated today? Has uh? Have you been beaten?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It?
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All today.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
No any whips ripping flesh across you, off your body,
that's no.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
So now we're about ten percent of the way there,
are you guys gaining a picture of this? Now he's
got a backpack on right which is formed to his body,
and he's got a sandbag. This is a lot of
than carrying one hundred and sixty five pound wood cross.
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Are you all tracking?
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And he's feeling it? This is what's weighing him down,
the weight, the burden of sin. And you think about
this guy's like, he's carrying this and he has his
own stuff, he has his own burdens, he has the
things that he's dealing with. Now I want you to
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imagine the sin, the burden, the sickness, the gross of
billions of people being laid on him.
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Can you feel it?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Can you imagine the weight of all the sin of
your entire life being put on this man. Not only that,
but all the sin of humanity, the sin of Hitler,
who murdered six million Jews, all that sin.
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Put on him.
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That's just one person. Now, Hitler never repat Hitler never
gave his life to Christ and surrendered. But Jesus paid
for the sin of all humanity. The point is who's
going to receive the gift? Are y' all tracking? So
every person that's ever lived. Jesus carried it, and he
paid for it. The payment has been made, but it's
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up to us to decide are we going to receive it?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
How many reps you got?
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Is it five?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
All right? You didn't keep going?
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All right? So now.
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Look at that.
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De God? Did that help you? Even Jesus needed that?
It says that when Jesus was carrying the cross, he
had to have someone help him. Even Jesus Christ, the
son of the Living God, the most powerful man that's
ever walked the face of this earth, Even Jesus needed help.
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So I got a question for you. Why are you
trying to carry all this by yourself?
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You feel me?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Why are you trying to carry the burden of your
guilt and your shame of your job and the military
of your family?
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Too prideful? And that's why we're here tonight because there's
a great exchange. Guys.
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I can feel the presence of God right now. There
is an exchange that is waiting to happen for you
in this room. There's an exchange. How many of you
have gone to the PX. What's the PX stand for
post exchange? When you go and you give them money,
in exchange, you get what you want, right. That's in exchange,
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And what they call the great exchange is us bringing
the things that we carry to God and in return
we get what He has for our lives. Caleb, you
go up, Matthew eleven. Are you weary in carrying a
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heavy burden?
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Say yes?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Then come to me and I will refresh your life.
For I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine,
learn my ways, and you'll discover that I am gentle, humble,
and easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest
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in me. For all that I require of you will
be pleasant, say those last three words.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
And easy to bear. How many is he yet? He's
at eleven? Now, So here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Our man is gonna finish his race, and then everyone's
gonna do it. I'm just kidding, Caleb. Keep bringing those
lights down. Guys, there's something so powerful when we act
and when we move. Amen, when we move our bodies. Now,
how many of you have made an action that has
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then created guilt in your life? Okay? So let's get
the progression. Okay, we make a decision in our minds first, right,
then next we act with our bodies. Step two, Step
three is we either feel good about it or we
feel guilt about it.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Everyone tracking, That is the progression of decisions.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
In the body. There is what's called somatic work and
in deep inner healing, it's a physical experience where you
are working something out of your body and actually doing
something to get it out.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Are you tracking?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
So we're gonna do what's called a somatic experience because
when you make a decision in your mind and then
you act that decision out and you physically do it,
and then you feel guilt, it gets stuck because you
made an action. You did something to create that guilt.
Are you tracking? Actions either create guilt or joy. I'm
either pleased to what I did or I'm not pleased
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with what I did. And so that's why we need
to have action in a faith setting sometimes so that
we can get that guilt out of us. You tracking,
it's following the same plan, except not with guilt at
the end, but with joy, so we can get free
of the things that we carry. And so I want
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you to take some time and as Teresa here, you
guys get up and we're gonna do singing and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
And I want you, guys to reflect on what you're carrying.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I want you to think about any of the guilt
or the shame or the responsibilities or decisions that you've made,
things that you've done that you want to let go of.
And we're gonna take our time and go through the night.
I'm finishing early here so that we've got time before
eight o'clock, and we're gonna set up the bag and
we're gonna set up the backpack over here, and everyone's
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gonna do this, Lottie, Dottie, everybody. And what I want
you to do is when you're ready to come over
here and pick up something, it doesn't matter what it is.
And I want you to have in your mind what
you are carrying and what you want to lay down
at Jesus's feet because this scripture go back to it.
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It says in Matthew eleven, are you weary? Are you weary?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Are you you carrying a heavy burden? Then come to me.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I will refresh your life. I'm an ote that simply
join your life with mine, and you'll find refreshment, you'll
find ease, but you have to bring the burden too him,
and we continue to carry it because of pride. And
so one by one we're gonna go through this tonight.
I'm gonna do it myself. And as you pick up
the weight, I want you to think about what it
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is that you're caring. It could be your family, it
could be sin, it could be porn, it could be
struggles with alcohol. It could be the burden of command.
It could be anything that you want to lay down
at the foot of Jesus. And I just want you
to carry it with it in your mind and lay
it down right here at the center of the altar.
Walk half the distance and.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Set it down.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
And as you set that weight down, one more baby,
nice job, bro. As you say that weight down, let
go of the burden that you want to give to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Amen. You guys excited.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
And you know what, if you need to carry it
for a minute to really get it into you carry
it for a minute. We got twenty five minutes. We
got time. But we're gonna sing this song to run
to the Father. And so as you're sitting and reflecting, guys,
I just want you to spend time with Jesus, and
then as you're ready, come and pick up a weight.
If you don't want to pick up that big sandbag, dude,
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there's no shame everyone. You do what you need to do.
Shame for you his zone.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
You pick up the weight that works for you. That's
what we got. Two options. Okay, you bring that weight
and you lay it down. Yeah, bro, carry the.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Cross dog nice word. Yah. Yeah. I hope you were
doing some work and listening to me, you know, and
laying down some burdens. Good.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Otherwise them make you do it again.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Are you all tracking with this exercise?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Amen?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Father, God, thank you for what you're doing in this room.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
God.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I believe in the name of Jesus that there is
power in this room. God.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I believe that there is healing from the burdens.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
That we've carried. God. I believe that there is freedom
in this room. I believe God that you are beginning
to move and away in these soldiers' lives. That burdens
that they've carried for their life are gonna be laid
down tonight. Father. I believe that is these bags are
gonna get laid down at the foot of the cross. God.
That there would be just a deliverance, that there would
be a freedom, there'd be a healing God, that you
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would deliver people from porn tonight, deliver them from the
addiction of alcohol to night, deliver them from the anxiety
and the shame and the guilt that they carry. Father,
I'm believing you for miracles in this room and for
breakthrough in this room, for the things that we are carrying.
And Father, I pray that it's Sylvester and I that
we would that every single one of us, we would
engage with this and we would lay something down. We'd
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lay it down before you God as we enter into
pass
Welcome to pray dot com. I'm Ben Peterson, the CEO
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today's message and use it to engage your destiny.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How's everyone doing all right?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How's everybody doing awesome? How about that Chick fil A?
How about that worship man? We got a cooking in here. Well,
this is really fun, guys. This retreat is going to
be really special. We're gonna be doing a lot of
deeper work to help you become the man and woman
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of God that you've been called to be. And I
believe that relationships are built to share experiences. Amen, when
you do life together, when you do things together. So
what we're doing on Friday nights is awesome, but this
is an opportunity to go deeper into relationship together. How
many of you have felt lonely from time to time
before Campbell? That's Roger, Let's fix that hole. Let's fix
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that all right. So getting into my message, I'm gonna pray,
and this is a word that I know has been
confirmed because the title of it was in the last
song that they picked that I never even communicated to
them what I was talking about. So God's got a
message for you tonight. Amen, It's already been set up. So,
Father God, I just thank you for your love and
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for your wisdom and for your power. God, you know
the hurts and the issues that are brought into this room.
You know the sin and the struggles and the addictions.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You are aware of it all.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And with all that we bring, all of our mess,
you still love us and you have a plan for
our lives. And so Father, I pray that this word
would be delivered through this broken vessel. God, that you
would use me to say exactly what is on your
heart for everyone in this room in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Amen. Okay, we're gonna have a little competition. Who likes
to compete.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Goti alphas in the room like to get get their
competition going, all right, So I need you to pull
out your phones and open up your notes. Okay, So
what we're gonna do is I'm going to read the
excerpt from a book that is called the things they carried.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And it's the story of a man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That was in Vietnam and he's talking about the things
that soldiers had to carry in war.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So here's the competition.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
You are going to write down every single thing that
I say in this reading, and whoever gets the most wins.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay, Now what are you gonna win?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We have brand new minted Engage your Destiny coins, pretty
darn cool. So you will be coined by yours truly,
the CEO and founder of Engage your Destiny.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Okay. So this is.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Engage your Destiny with our feather ar quill, which was
worn by leaders back in the Revolutionary War days. They
would wear a legitimate quill that would signify them of
their leadership. Okay, so we raise up leaders, amen, and
our mission statement on the back, which is a war
or our vision is a world without military suicide.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Who would love to see that? Amen? All right, and
that's what we're working towards.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So go ahead, And if you want to really do
yourself a favorite number your list. I know you can
do that in notes on Apple. I'm not sure about
that other kind of phone whatever it is, but to
go ahead and number it so that you can just
go nuts.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I don't want anyone to cheat and just count things
and have a number, because I'm gonna verify that you
do heavy list, so you do have to type out
what you are listing.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh that's Roger. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The things they carried were largely determined by necessity. Among
the necessities or near necessities were p thirty eight can openers,
pocket knives, heat tabs, wristwatches, dog tags, mosquito repellent, chewing gum, candy, cigarettes,
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salt tablets, packets of kool Aid, lighters, matches, sewing kits,
military payment certificates, sea rations, and two or three canteens
of water. Together, these items weighed between twelve to eighteen pounds,
depending on a man's habits or rate of metabolism. Henry Dobbins,
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who was a big man, carried extra rations and was
especially fond of canned peaches in heavy syrup over pound cake.
Dave Jensen, who practiced fuel hygiene, carried a toothbrush, dental floss,
and several hotel sized bars of soap he'd stolen on
R and R in Sydney, Australia. Ted Lavender, who was scared,
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carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside
of the village of tan Kay in mid April by
him necessity and because it was sop which means what.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That's a roger.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
They all carried steel helmets that weighed five pounds, including
the liner and camouflage cover. They carried the standard fatigue
jackets and trousers. Very few carried underwear on their feet.
They carried jungle boots two point one pounds, and Dave
Jensen carried three pairs of socks and a can of
doctor Schul's foot powder as a precaution against trench foot
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until he was shot ted. Lavender carried six or seven
ounces of premium dope, which for him was a necessity.
Mitchell Sanders the Rto carried condoms. Norman Bauker carried a diary.
At Kaylie carried comic books. Kiowa, a devout Baptist, carried
a New Testament Bible as a head as a hedge
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against bad times. However, Kiowa also carried his grandmother's distrust
of the white man, his grandfather's old hunting jacket, his
old hunting hatchet.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Necessity was dictated because the land was mined and booby trapped.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It was sop, which means what.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That's a roger For each man to carry steel centered
nylon covered flack jackets, which weighed six point seven pounds,
but which on hot days seemed much heavier because you
could die so quickly. Each man carried at least one
large compress bandage, usually in the helmet for easy access.
Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet,
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each carried a green plastic poncho that could be used
as a raincoat or a ground sheet, or a makeshift
tent with its quilted lng. The poncho weighed almost two pounds,
but it was worth every ounce in April for entrance. Instance,
when Ted Lavender was shot, they used his poncho to
wrap him up, then to carry him across the paddy,
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then to lift him into the chopper and took him away.
They were called legs or grunts. To carry something was
to hump it, as when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross humped his
love for Martha up the hills and through the swamps.
In it. In its intrusive form, to hump meant to
walk or to march, but it implied burdens far beyond that,
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y'all good to keep going. What they carried was partly
a function of rank, partly of field specialty. As the
first lieutenant and platoon leader, Jimmy Cross carried a compass, maps,
code books, binoculars, and a forty five caliber pistol that
weighed two point nine pounds fully loaded. He carried a
strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.
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As an rto Mitch Sanders carried a PRC twenty five radio,
a killer twenty six pounds with its battery. As a medic,
rat kylie carried a canvas satchel filled with morphine and
plasma and malaria tablets and surgical tape, and comic books
and all the things a medic must carry, including M
and m's for especially bad wounds, for a total weight
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of nearly eighteen pounds. As a big man, therefore a
machine gunner, Henry Dobbins carried the M sixty, which weighed
twenty three pounds unloaded, but which was almost always loaded.
In addition, Dobbins carried between ten and fifteen pounds of
ammunition draped across his belt and across his chests and shoulders.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You given up? Have you guys given up? Do we
got people who gave up? You?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Still going?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
All right? As pfc's respect for as.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Most of them were common grunts and carried the standard
sixteen gas operated assault rifle. The weapon weighed seven point
pounds unloaded eight point two pounds with a full twenty
round magazine. Depending on numerous factors such as topography and psychology,
the rifleman carried anywhere from twelve to twenty magazines, usually
clouthed in bandoliers, adding on another eight point four pounds
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at minimum and fourteen pounds maximum.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All right, who thinks they got it? What you got? Bro?
You got? How many? You gotta count it up? Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Go ahead? How many got? Thirty seven? Forty seven? Can
anyone beat forty seven? We got a boy counting. Do
you think you have more than forty seven?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You do?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Man? Why didn't you number it out like I told you?
Thirty eight that's pretty good, forty that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Thirty you have forty eight? You had forty seven? Ah,
all right?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Waiting on the guy who didn't count put on the numbers.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You have forty eight forty eight? Wow, we're tired at
forty eight.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Good thing I could. Good thing, I got two coins.
He's still counting.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What number are you at right now?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Ah? Come on up, brother. Oh no, wait, you got
a broken leg, don't you? Okay, I'll come to you.
What's your name, dude, Gavin? Hey, congratulations, let's give it
up for Gavin. Let me see your list. Wow, you
even got the grandmother's mistrust. Nice work, dude.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I have such a passion for the Vietnam War because
of what those men went through. They were drafted into
a war that no one wanted to go to, into
a war that no one understood, and they went and
they fought, and then they came home and they were
shamed by this country. And so my honor for them
is very high. And that's why I love reading books
about them and what they carry. But I think it's
so important tonight that we talk about the things that
we carry, and so I want to start point one
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with what we as soldiers carry. So now let's facilitate
a little bit of a discussion here as you and
your respected fields as eleven Bravos and thirteen Charlie's and
ninety one Yankees, tell me some of the things just
call them out that you carry on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
When you go to work. Yeah, paper perclips, sticky notes.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Okay, we got the addmin people over here, radios for antennas,
broader that what's up?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Bro wire strippers for what? Here's your sign? All right?
Keep coming?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Just shot them out, aid bag Gerber. Come on, y'all,
you carry so much stuff. Let's go what blue book?
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Hey? Yah? LTV? What else?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Rad your Medican book? Canteen left cocko pocket? The blue book?
What were gonna say?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You carry?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You carry worries and concerns. Someone just took it deep.
You knew I was going there, didn't you. What are
some of the things that you, as soldiers carry?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Addiction? What else? Anger?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Hang on, let's slow down. I heard anger, I heard loneliness,
I heard stress, responsibility?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
What else?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Who said that? Fear of failure? Let's pause there. Why
do we have a fear of failure? Why do we
carry that fear of failure?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Hell? Do a high standard?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
It costs lives. Our mistakes could mean someone dies?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
What else?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Talk to me?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So let's do hands raised. We don't all go at
the same time. Okay, you carry discipline, comparison with another leader,
another soldier.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, what's up, bro? Emotional baggage?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We carry our families with us, don't we?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We carry all that? What else you got? Some you?
What's up? What do you carry? You carry anxiety? Absolutely,
risk and the weight of risk. Yeah? What about you?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Bobby? Do you carry happiness? And what does that do
for you? Boom spreads, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's awful? Hate that guy?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Just play it it?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
What's up, dude?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Ideas? What kind of ideas do you have? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Teamwork absolutely? Anybody else? Optimism, motivation, hope.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Pain physically emotional only spiritually pain? That is a roger?
What's up? Dog? What's that? Determination? Can you be a
soldier without determination?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Not a not a good one. Not a good one?
Yea to raise it? Dude?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You just wait, dude, you're brand new, be here for
five more minutes, you get a deployment under your belt?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
What's up? Girl?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Guilt? Who?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Man?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I carry guilt? Absolutely? How about shame? Anybody carry shame? Absolutely?
How many of you?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, go ahead, Adrian, you carry your testimony.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's a weighty one, isn't it. M hm? How many
of you carry a phone? What's in that phone?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Problems? Light? What else is in your phone? Distractions? Your compass, calculator,
your bank Siri? What else is in your phone?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
The government? Apple products?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
What else is in your phone? Mistakes? Disappointment? Think of
all you carry in this? Could you consider this to
be one of the heaviest things you carry?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, me too. Let's talk about what leaders carry. How
many of you consider yourself a leader? See that is
the wrong answer, because if you're here tonight, you're a leader.
You've made a decision on a Friday night with Nashville
right down the road to come here, eat Chick fil A,
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sing up in the air to something you can't even see,
and listen to a guy talk.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I mean, that's what we're doing right now.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
There's a spiritual element to this that brings life and
hope and healing and redemption and all those wonderful things.
But at the end of the day, it takes a
leader to come do this. So we're going to begin
to talk about the things that leaders carry, and you're
going to begin to see yourself as a leader.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Leaders carry the responsibility of others. How many of you
are responsible for yourself?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Everybody?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
How many of you are responsible for at least one
other person. Absolutely, we all are. Leaders have to make
financial decisions. They have to make financial decisions for their
own lives, but also for organizations that they run. How
many of you are making a financial decision for something
that's bigger than yourself majority of the room. The two
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biggest indicators to a successful marriage sex and finances, Sexual
intimacy and money.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So money is a big deal, huh.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And so that many people raising your hands tells me
that the financial burden that we carry. Maybe it's taking
care of a family member, maybe it's running budgets, maybe
it's anything that we're doing. I know that I carry
a multimillion dollar burden to run my organization. That's a
massive burden that I carry. Leaders carry expectations. We carry
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expectations for others. We also carry expectations for ourselves. How
many of you are hard on yourself? Notice my hand
is raised. The biggest critic is in the mirror. We
have an expectation that we're gonna be strong, that we're
gonna be learning, that we're gonna be growing. We go
through expectations in comparison as we see social media and
people doing all these amazing things with their lives and
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thinking about what we could be doing. How many of
you wish you were doing something else in the military
than what you're doing now. Now that's not a bad thing.
It means that you have vision, right, means you have
someone that we need, You want to go, but you're
carrying that expectation over yourself. We carry the expectation that
we're going to continue to grow. How many of you
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have family? Do you carry the expectations of your family?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Me too? How many of you have children? Do you
carry those burdens?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yes, you do. How many of you are in a
relationship do you carry the burden of loving that person,
caring for that person? How many of you are single
and you carry that burden?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's a roger. I didn't get married WHI I was
thirty three?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Y'all are gonna be just fine. That was an awkward
who I'm process allen. We carry the burden of having
good mental health. When you're a leader, you got to
be score away. You got to be someone who's trustworthy.
You've got to be ready to handle hard situations. And
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so with our mental health, you think about our fear,
our anger, our sadness, our shame, our guilt, the decisions
that we've made. How many of you carry I love
that the word guilt was said, How many of you
carry guilt for something you've done this last week?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Me too?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Are you, guys beginning to see everything that we carry?
Are you beginning to see that you carry more than
you thought you did? We carry a lot. We haven't
even talked about our faith in what we carry with
our faith. In our faith, we carry hope, we carry joy,
we carry love, We carry peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness,
and self control. In our faith, we carry the burden
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of being godly, of living a good life, of living
a life that isn't just throwing itself into sin. And
then how often when we struggle with sin, we carry
the guilt of that. Yes, absolutely, these are the things
that we carry. And so now we're going to talk
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about what Jesus carried. Number three, What Jesus carried It
says in John nineteen seventeen to eighteen that Jesus carried
his own cross out of the city to the place
that was called the skull, which in Aramaic is Golgatha,
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and there they nailed him to the cross, and he
was crucified along with three other men, along with three
other one on each side in the middle. When they
decided that they were going to kill Jesus and murder him,
they decided to do it by crucifixion. How many of
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you are familiar with the process of crucifixion. Okay, after
they took Jesus, they went and they beat him and
they flogged him. Part of this process was taking whips
that on the end of it had not only chains,
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but like broken pieces of wood and of metal, so
that when the chain would come across and the whip
would come onto Jesus's back, it would latch onto his
skin and then they would rip it back and it
would literally tear the flesh from his skin. And so
it is very easy to assume, based on the way
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that they would crucify men in that time, that when
Jesus put the cross on his shoulders there was no
skin there because they would have flogged him in his back,
exposing his skin in him bleeding. When he put that
cross on his shoulders, he had to carry it the
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length of six point seven football field, that is two
thousand and ten feet, and he had to do so,
having been beaten, spit on, punched, and whipped to the
point of his skin being completely exposed.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
They also took.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
A crown of thorns and they put it on his
head and they beat it into his skull so that
those thorns were going into his skull. And then he
was expected to carry that cross two thousand and ten feet.
Why does this matter, Because Jesus was carrying everything that
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you and I have ever done wrong or will ever
do wrong. And we have this thing like in Christian
culture where we're like, well, Jesus died for my sins,
dah da da, but we don't understand the context of that.
The context of the reason Jesus had to do what
he did is because in the Jewish tradition which Jesus
was born into, once a year they had the day
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of Atonement, say Atonement, and on that day they would
have to come to the temple and bring an innocent,
young lamb, pure and spotless, and they would bring the
lamb before the priest, and they would have the lamb
face the person who was coming to have their sins
be forgiven, be atoned for, and that person would put
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their head on the forehead.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Of the lamb and look into his eyes.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And as they and as he was doing that, the
priest would slit the throat of the lamb, and the
man would stand there, and as the innocent lamb bled out,
he would say, this is what I deserve for all
the things I have done? Are you all tracking? So
much of what we do is context.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
When you join the military, you are joining a context
that this is how things work. Okay, So you joined
the military. If you're a man, you get your head
shaved with a girl. You can't, you know, do your
hair how you want to do it. You get a uniform,
You fall into the rules.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
How many know? There's rules in the military. This is
how things work.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
There's rules.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
It's the same thing with faith.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
This is what Jesus had to do to follow the
way that it had been built by God for the
Jewish people to have all of their trash, all of
their sin atoned for. And he, as the pure and
spotless lamb, put himself in that position to be beaten,
to be flogged, and to be crucified, and to bleed out,
so that as we look at him, we can say,
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that is what I deserve for everything I've done y'all tracking.
So I have a forty pound pack and one hundred
and twenty five pounds sand bag over there, weighing it
at one hundred and sixty five pounds, which was the
weight of the cross. And the distance from right here
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to right there at these two chairs down and back
twenty times is the distance Jesus carried the cross.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Do I have.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Someone who wants to pack up and experience.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
The weight that Jesus carried? You want to do it?
You want to go? All right, let's go now. Jesus
didn't have any help to pick the stuff up. So
I'm gonna let you put that pack on. Is that
gonna work? That's tight enough?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And pick up that pack and however you want to
do it one hundred and twenty five pounds and throw
it on your shoulder, get it up there. I had
a boy, a boy, and start walking. Okay, one hundred
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and sixty five pounds. What did you say? I have
done this many many times now, Delgado? Did you get
a good night's sleep last night? You got a good
night's sleep. How many meals have you had today?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Two? Have you hydrated today? Has uh? Have you been beaten?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
All today.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
No any whips ripping flesh across you, off your body,
that's no.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
So now we're about ten percent of the way there,
are you guys gaining a picture of this? Now he's
got a backpack on right which is formed to his body,
and he's got a sandbag. This is a lot of
than carrying one hundred and sixty five pound wood cross.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Are you all tracking?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And he's feeling it? This is what's weighing him down,
the weight, the burden of sin. And you think about
this guy's like, he's carrying this and he has his
own stuff, he has his own burdens, he has the
things that he's dealing with. Now I want you to
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imagine the sin, the burden, the sickness, the gross of
billions of people being laid on him.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Can you feel it?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Can you imagine the weight of all the sin of
your entire life being put on this man. Not only that,
but all the sin of humanity, the sin of Hitler,
who murdered six million Jews, all that sin.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Put on him.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's just one person. Now, Hitler never repat Hitler never
gave his life to Christ and surrendered. But Jesus paid
for the sin of all humanity. The point is who's
going to receive the gift? Are y' all tracking? So
every person that's ever lived. Jesus carried it, and he
paid for it. The payment has been made, but it's
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up to us to decide are we going to receive it?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
How many reps you got?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Is it five?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
All right? You didn't keep going?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
All right? So now.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
De God? Did that help you? Even Jesus needed that?
It says that when Jesus was carrying the cross, he
had to have someone help him. Even Jesus Christ, the
son of the Living God, the most powerful man that's
ever walked the face of this earth, Even Jesus needed help.
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So I got a question for you. Why are you
trying to carry all this by yourself?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You feel me?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Why are you trying to carry the burden of your
guilt and your shame of your job and the military
of your family?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Too prideful? And that's why we're here tonight because there's
a great exchange. Guys.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I can feel the presence of God right now. There
is an exchange that is waiting to happen for you
in this room. There's an exchange. How many of you
have gone to the PX. What's the PX stand for
post exchange? When you go and you give them money,
in exchange, you get what you want, right. That's in exchange,
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And what they call the great exchange is us bringing
the things that we carry to God and in return
we get what He has for our lives. Caleb, you
go up, Matthew eleven. Are you weary in carrying a
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heavy burden?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Say yes?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Then come to me and I will refresh your life.
For I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine,
learn my ways, and you'll discover that I am gentle, humble,
and easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest
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in me. For all that I require of you will
be pleasant, say those last three words.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
And easy to bear. How many is he yet? He's
at eleven? Now, So here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Our man is gonna finish his race, and then everyone's
gonna do it. I'm just kidding, Caleb. Keep bringing those
lights down. Guys, there's something so powerful when we act
and when we move. Amen, when we move our bodies. Now,
how many of you have made an action that has
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then created guilt in your life? Okay? So let's get
the progression. Okay, we make a decision in our minds first, right,
then next we act with our bodies. Step two, Step
three is we either feel good about it or we
feel guilt about it.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Everyone tracking, That is the progression of decisions.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
In the body. There is what's called somatic work and
in deep inner healing, it's a physical experience where you
are working something out of your body and actually doing
something to get it out.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Are you tracking?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
So we're gonna do what's called a somatic experience because
when you make a decision in your mind and then
you act that decision out and you physically do it,
and then you feel guilt, it gets stuck because you
made an action. You did something to create that guilt.
Are you tracking? Actions either create guilt or joy. I'm
either pleased to what I did or I'm not pleased
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with what I did. And so that's why we need
to have action in a faith setting sometimes so that
we can get that guilt out of us. You tracking,
it's following the same plan, except not with guilt at
the end, but with joy, so we can get free
of the things that we carry. And so I want
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you to take some time and as Teresa here, you
guys get up and we're gonna do singing and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
And I want you, guys to reflect on what you're carrying.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I want you to think about any of the guilt
or the shame or the responsibilities or decisions that you've made,
things that you've done that you want to let go of.
And we're gonna take our time and go through the night.
I'm finishing early here so that we've got time before
eight o'clock, and we're gonna set up the bag and
we're gonna set up the backpack over here, and everyone's
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gonna do this, Lottie, Dottie, everybody. And what I want
you to do is when you're ready to come over
here and pick up something, it doesn't matter what it is.
And I want you to have in your mind what
you are carrying and what you want to lay down
at Jesus's feet because this scripture go back to it.
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It says in Matthew eleven, are you weary? Are you weary?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Are you you carrying a heavy burden? Then come to me.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I will refresh your life. I'm an ote that simply
join your life with mine, and you'll find refreshment, you'll
find ease, but you have to bring the burden too him,
and we continue to carry it because of pride. And
so one by one we're gonna go through this tonight.
I'm gonna do it myself. And as you pick up
the weight, I want you to think about what it
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is that you're caring. It could be your family, it
could be sin, it could be porn, it could be
struggles with alcohol. It could be the burden of command.
It could be anything that you want to lay down
at the foot of Jesus. And I just want you
to carry it with it in your mind and lay
it down right here at the center of the altar.
Walk half the distance and.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Set it down.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
And as you set that weight down, one more baby,
nice job, bro. As you say that weight down, let
go of the burden that you want to give to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Amen. You guys excited.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
And you know what, if you need to carry it
for a minute to really get it into you carry
it for a minute. We got twenty five minutes. We
got time. But we're gonna sing this song to run
to the Father. And so as you're sitting and reflecting, guys,
I just want you to spend time with Jesus, and
then as you're ready, come and pick up a weight.
If you don't want to pick up that big sandbag, dude,
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there's no shame everyone. You do what you need to do.
Shame for you his zone.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
You pick up the weight that works for you. That's
what we got. Two options. Okay, you bring that weight
and you lay it down. Yeah, bro, carry the.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Cross dog nice word. Yah. Yeah. I hope you were
doing some work and listening to me, you know, and
laying down some burdens. Good.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Otherwise them make you do it again.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Are you all tracking with this exercise?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Amen?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Father, God, thank you for what you're doing in this room.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
God.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I believe in the name of Jesus that there is
power in this room. God.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I believe that there is healing from the burdens.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
That we've carried. God. I believe that there is freedom
in this room. I believe God that you are beginning
to move and away in these soldiers' lives. That burdens
that they've carried for their life are gonna be laid
down tonight. Father. I believe that is these bags are
gonna get laid down at the foot of the cross. God.
That there would be just a deliverance, that there would
be a freedom, there'd be a healing God, that you
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would deliver people from porn tonight, deliver them from the
addiction of alcohol to night, deliver them from the anxiety
and the shame and the guilt that they carry. Father,
I'm believing you for miracles in this room and for
breakthrough in this room, for the things that we are carrying.
And Father, I pray that it's Sylvester and I that
we would that every single one of us, we would
engage with this and we would lay something down. We'd
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lay it down before you God as we enter into
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