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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
All right, now, do you.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
All see anything different about my image today?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What's wrong with my time? What of my stomach is
to be? Now?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
What is unusual about that? I know a lot of
y'all see this a lot and wear him this way?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Maybe, But you know what, I'm love ABBT because till
I keep doing this like I got to get it
to go down or something, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I mean, why have I never come out like this before?
I mean, why would you not want to walk into
some clothing like this. Hi, I see I can still
do it now. But if the real technique is, if
you're a man, you get your belt down here like this,
you get your shirt real tight because you want that
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tie to come off the lip there of your stomach. Now,
why would I never wear my I mean, if somebody
has their tie like this and it's a traditional thing
in your family. I know some people from Arkansas myself. Now,
I cannot even stand to be.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Up here like this. So I'm gonna fix this now.
Is image? You know this? Hey, ti Tiger girls right here,
or guys for that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Matter, some of you orse it'll be too short. Men
do this or two or three.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Times a day. They get it. They're tight.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So you do this and you look at it and go,
you know what, let's not Women do this with dresses
and shoes, and men do it with tithes and they
see there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You don't want that to happen right there.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
That's your second demonstration of what does not work.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So we're gonna go back at it. So you go
a little longer down there, double wrap.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
This is the free section of our lunch talk here
tie time, all right, This one's gonna work.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You see, I can feel it. See that not there?
I feel it coming. And here's coming. Here, it's coming. Here,
he's coming. Is that better?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
All right?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now, here's my question. What the heck does the link
to my tie have to do with my image?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Everything? It's these little things now? Is image though? Really everything?
And I've made a lists here and y'all need to help.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Me with this today. I mean, think of the things
you do with Jody. Come up here? Where did Jody go?
Did he? Boy? He bolted today? Didn't he? Is he
even in the room? Get up here? All right? Oh man,
let's let's the image. Boy.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You just shut your image up with a bowl of
beans in your hands, alight, I just stand there. You
can stand on your beans.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
All right.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We have Jody and some dsh shoes, some khakis. Oh now,
look at this turn sideways. And I'm not talking about
the stomach. I'm talking about see that phone. Look at
that phone. I see that's an image thing. Hey, look
at this jacket shirt? No Kia sugar bowl on his shirt?
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There? All right?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Now, would you say this man is concerned about his
image at all?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Maybe? And he has an image? Right? What do you
think Jody's image is come on, rich, well here we go.
Let's go. What are you? What do you think? What
was it?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Conservative? What else? Professional? How are you all tind the
beans in with this thing?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What else? Professional? Sharp? Conservative? What else? Just leave it
at that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Anything else casual? He's saying something here.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Now, if he was trying to get a job as
an investment banker and went in like this, they might
think he's a nice kind of guy, but they wouldn't
hire him. What based on how he looks?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Now, if he went in like this to get a
job running a backo after him, they wouldn't hire him either.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Why he's overdressed.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So image, in a lot of ways in the world
today really is everything. And I almost came in here
and some zip up coveralls in a cap, you know,
and some of your visitor to go, what.
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The heck is this? You know? It's construct? Are you finished?
Are you breathing? Deep? My beating? All right? Go eat
your being? Thank you, Jody.
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So it does matter, right, There are things you think
about wearing the office. Some of you ladies, wake up,
go to get dressed. Something you may wear to church
or to a wedding or funeral, you'd never wear to
the office because you'd walk.
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In and somebody go, well, who does she think she is?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You know, you might think you'd be a little overdressed
or out of place or something, so you tone it down.
Guys the same way. Some guys, you gotta wear a
certain thing all week long. If it's casual summer or
casual Friday, you come in with something completely different. But
we jump through hoops with hair. I mean, why mess
with your hair? I mean, I know some people who
don't very much, and that's kind of the trend today.
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You just kind of go but hair nails, people go manicures, clothes, cars,
I mean, watch a car commercial. It's all image. They
are projecting an image. They're saying to you, if you
drive this car, you're gonna find some hot babe, or
you're gonna find some whatever, and this car's going to
do all that. It's going to create an image for you.
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People do it with jewelry, said some kind of image,
or try to prove something to somebody by what they
wear or what they have.
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The house you live in.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
How many people spend their life trying to get into
a certain kind of house, in a certain kind of
neighborhood with certain kind of neighbors.
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What that gives you an image?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I am a certain kind of person based on where
I live. Now, this one is sure that anybody wants
to admit. Your image A lot of times has to
do with where you sit in your office and how
many people men and women whoever, are clamoring for some
corner office with a window and a view. And if
you can do your job in the corner office with
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the view, you somehow are better at what you do
than the person who's in the interior catacombs.
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Of that building. It's all about image. Now.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I was going to go around the room and like
y'all pick a volunteer from every table and yeah, who said,
yeah you did come up here?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I teach her to speak up at church. There we go,
all right, I can get everybody in the room and
come up here, and you look at them and go, well,
this person's trying to dress down a little bit. Their
ties not flashy. There's you know, the shoes are conservative.
Everybody in here. All of these image things are just that,
they are images that people see. They're outside stuff that
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someone can look at you and size you up, just
like that. Somebody at Bible Study said they went to
this big convention of Christian speakers and they sat about
three rows back places, packed thousand people and all these
women they're gonna speak, And the way she described, I
gotta get.
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A chair because this was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
She said, all these women were sitting up on the
stage like this.
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They had their legs.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Crossed, their hands like this, you know, just like Chanelle suits,
just dressed the nines. Just pretty happy little ladies, you know,
not a problem in the world. And this thing was
gonna be about suffering or something. And she said she
sat there on the third row and watch these women. Thought,
you know, what the heck are they doing up here?
They don't thinking about suffering. They're all a perfect little,
you know, petite, little groomed women.
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Now she sized them up.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
But she said when they got up and spoke, after
they all sat down, she said she realized she didn't
know anything about suffering, sickness, cancer, illness. They may have
looked put together, but when they got up to speak,
you saw something on the inside. Now, let me tell
you the tragedy of this stuff. Guys, we every day
size people up.
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Just like that. One of the things about being a speaker.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I can come in here, dress a different way, do
different things, and.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I've done it. And there's people in the room. If
it's your first time, especially, you go, well, yeah, he
wears his hair all slicked back. Who you think he is?
No flashy tie. Well he's probably this way or that way.
Or do you look at my shoes, or.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You hear me talk or something about me, And you're
sitting out there saying, well, he's this way or that way.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You don't know me. See, you don't know me anymore
than you know that person. I got.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
People live in my neighborhood. I can name particular people
live right up the way here.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
They drive one guy but drives a Ferrari. He's got
another car.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
He's got all this stuff, and you go, well, you know,
and some people put the big watches on all the
stuff and you luck them go, man, they're successful, you
know what. Their life may suck worse than anybody's, by
the way, that is the first part of the word success.
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But we look at.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
These people and say, man, they got it made, or
they're this way or that way, and it's all based
on an image something you see. But let me tell
you something you don't usually see most people. Now, that
girl i'd described, who want to hear all these women speak,
she saw them and saw one thing, but when she
heard them, she saw a whole different person. Now I'm
a in the world today, Guy's Madison Avenue commercials.
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It's all about image.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I mean, even buy cereal based on the way it
looks or what the commercial said.
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Kids are buying. I live in a house my kids
can't read, and we.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Drive down the street and go Taco bweno or something.
You know, I'm like, how do you know that's Taco
bweno or McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Man, they are working those arches.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
They can't read, but they have been hit so hard
with images and with marketing that they see it. They
recognize these logos. Now we live in a world where
that's the way it is. You say, well, I'm not
gonna live in that world. I'm just going to be myself.
You'll never get hired again. You show up in your
shorts and T shirt and say, well, just you know,
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you need to hire me on the merits of my resume,
and it's all crumpled up. I mean, we jump through
hoops about how we look the way. Even our resumes
are laid out, and I think about it, some of
you hire people or getting Microsoft word in that wizard deal, which.
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If you ever figure that out. But you get in
there and lay.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Out a resume, have people look at Why so when
you walk into a job, you lay a piece of
paper down, you look your best, the paper looks at
you want everything to match, so you get hired because
that person is going to make a judgment a lot
of times within.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Five seconds of seeing you. Right, we all do it.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Now is image everything in the world. It probably is
a lot of what goes on, but image is everything
in the spiritual realm as well. And the tragedy in
the world today is that you never get beyond what
you see to who the person really is. And we
have the surface and most of this image stuff. I'm
describing the car around you.
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The clothes on you.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
People do this with the glasses they wear, all this
designer stuff. I mean, it's unbelievable the hoops we've jumped
through to set ourselves apart and be something in a
lot of ways that we're not. Now Here's what I
think is so and my wife's address designer. I mean
I've lived around this by fabric, you know, the buttons,
everything about it plays a part in what you wear
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and how you look. But the tragedy is that a
lot of people are trying to hide who they really
are with some image they project so that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You won't see what's really going on inside of them.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Now, see, unless I get up here and speaking and vulnerable,
or unless you sit down with me one on one somewhere,
you may have an image of who I am and
what I'm like, and what I think and.
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How I feel.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
But unless you really get below the surface, you know,
there's a lot of things that can contribute to what's
really going on. People see who you are, but they
never really know who you are unless they get beyond
the surface and find out what's going on with you specifically. Now,
I want to talk to you today about some of
these things in the scripture because it's in here. And
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by the way, the definition I pulled here of an image,
one of them is a popular conception as of a person, institution,
or nation projected, especially through the mass media.
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The media has a lot to do with this image thing.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But God has something to say about this stuff too,
because in the very beginning Genesis one twenty six. Then
God said he had made everything. He had made the stars,
the earth, every thing. Then he goes to make man.
And he said, let us make man in our image,
according to our likeness.
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Let them have dominion.
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Over the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
So God said, we're going to make a man. We're
going to make a person. And this creature is going
to be unlike anybody else, anything else on the planet. Why,
because it is made in the image of God. There
is nobody, no thing anywhere on the planet that is
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like man. As hard as people want to tell you
that you came from a monkey, if that's what you
want to believe, that's fine with me. I didn't come
from a monkey. And you know, you say, well, that's
just what I believe.
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Guys.
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I believe this. I believe in the beginning God. And
I don't think it was some explosion. I think it's
an act of God. It's creation. And God said I'm
going to make man.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Boom.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He makes man, and he makes them in his image.
Not that we look like God, but there is something
inside of us that is intent to be like God
and reflect God to people.
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Now, Adam and Eid had this, and.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I'm not seeing that part of the reason they were
naked and unashamed. You saw some of who God was
in them. If you met Adam and Eve before they sinned,
you would have seen the image of God somehow in
them a lot more readily. When they sinned. What happens, literally,
God covers them up. And we've been covering up ever since.
We've been hiding behind houses and cars and makeup.
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And I'm not knocking makeup. I think it's a great thing.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't worry it anymore personally, but now I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Don't leave here. I never have worn makeup.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Okay, let me repeat that, I have never worn makeup.
We've continue to hide behind this stuff, trying to what,
trying to lose or cover up the fact that we've
lost this image. We don't know who we are, we
don't know where we're going, we don't know what to
feel of things, so we try to create who we
are by all this image stuff around us. And I'm
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telling you, guys, we jump through more hoops doing this
than anybody.
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We spend a fortune on this.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Now, the world starts on the outside and works in
and by the way, religion does the same thing. Religion
starts on the outside and says, you clean up your life,
you clean up your act, you get all this stuff straight,
and then your heart will change.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You'll be different person. That's not what the book says.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
God changes your heart, restores what he intended for you
to have and be, and from there it works inside out,
and then your life begins to change.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I can look people in the eyes. Try this sometime.
Forget what they have on, forget what they're driving, all that,
just look them in the eyes.
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If you will lock in on people's eyes, you'll tell
more about a person. The Bible says, the eyes or
the windows to the soul. And if you look somebody
in the eyes and you look and listen long enough,
you know what you'll you'll see who they really are.
If you ever had a conversation with somebody and it's
like you're talking to them, like you and are having
a conversation, and I'm talking to you and I'm just
kind of looking around, I kind of looking around a lot,
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and I can't look.
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You in the eyes.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I don't want anybody seeing what's missing. How many people
are kind of flighty and they're just scared to death,
you know, they have their head down. Just don't look
me in the eyes. I try to look people in
the eyes, and if they can't do that, it tells
me something. And when they do or they can, there
is a confidence. There is something that no matter what
they have around them, you can see through all that
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and say, you know, something's going on in here. I
see joy in people's eyes sometimes that you can't manufacture
or build by surrounding yourself with stuff.
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What is going on on the inside.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
That's what's important, all right over in the New Testament,
and I've got a number of these verses. Romans, chapter eight,
verse twenty nine says this for whom he four knew.
He also predestined to be conformed to the image of
his son, that he might be the first born among
many brethren. Now this Jesus thing, and I've only got.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
A second to do this. Just listen close.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The relationship that God intended with man Adam and Eve
had before they sinned. When they sinned, that relationship was broken.
And Jesus, when he came came as the Bible describes
in one Corinthians fifteen, he came as the second atom.
He came as the last atom, the second man. That's
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what it says, the last atom and the second man.
So God said, Adam has set something in motion here
that nobody short of myself can fix. So I'll send
my son and restore what God intended.
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For Adam in Jesus.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
So if anybody the Bible, you will read the Bible.
It always talks about being in Christ, in Christ, in Christ?
What is this in Christ? Think about if any man
be in Christ. One Corinthians five p. Seventeen says, if
any man be in Christ, he is a new creation.
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Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are new.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So if you get in Christ, or you realize you
are in Christ and accept that fact, you receive this
gift of eternal life, then you have this potential of
being restored to what God originally intended for.
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You to be.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Now this is makeing sense. What is it about a Christian?
I'm not talking about someone who says they're a Christian.
I'm talking about someone who is and lives it and
believes it and it's their life.
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What is it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You look at them, you look them in the eyes,
you watch them, you listen to them, you say, there
is something different about this person. It's not them you
see anymore. It's God in them. It's that image of
God that has been restored. And you can't figure it out.
Why does the Bible say to always be ready to
give a reason for the hope that's within you, because
sooner or later somebody's going to see.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It and ask about it. What's up with you?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Somehow, in the midst of it, you still have some
joy and some peace.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
They see your life being transformed on a daily basis,
and they can't figure it out.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
It's a God thing. There is no other explanation.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And God intends for us to reflect His image in
our lives. But you can not do it anymore without
Jesus Christ. You don't have it in you. Sin shuts
it down. Okay, So when you get right related to
God through his son Jesus Christ, that image is restored.
It's brought out and no matter what you put around you,
it's coming through you. Cover up a bright light with
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blankets whatever you want to be guys, Sooner or later,
it's coming through. That light will shine. You can't stop it.
It'll burn holes through whatever you try to hide under.
And frankly, if the image is there, you stop hiding.
You meet somebody who's got peace and joy and a
walk and a life with Christ. They stop propping things
up around them to hide, or they've got nothing to hide,
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and you start seeing that person. And my mentor says
to me, says Richard, the closer to God you get,
the more simple your life will become. The world tries
to buy stuff and goes places and do I'm not
against you buying things and going on trips, guys, but
let me tell you something. The problem with taking a
vacation is when you get there, you're still there. You
took you with you, and you think I'm going to
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take a trip and leave all my problems at home.
And you checked your trip and it went with you.
I mean, you checked all your stuff. You can't get
away from you. The only thing to do is to
have somebody change you, and to change me wherever I go.
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I don't care.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I like being with me because he likes being with me,
and he likes being in me and living through me.
And it's a different life. All right, there's a couple
more verses here. I mean, if you want to write
these down. Seven Corinthian's four to four talks about this.
Colossians one twelve to seventeen talks about it. But let
me talk to you. And this is a number place
in the Bible about dressing for success. You want to
dress for success. Listen to this Colossians three to eight.
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But now you, yourselves, are to put off all these
things anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
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Don't lie to one another.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Since you have put off the old man with his deeds,
and have put on the new man, who is renewed
in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
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There is neither Greek.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Nor Jews, circumcised or uncircumcised, Barbarian Scynthian slaver free.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But Christ is all and in all.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
It's taking off a garment putting another one on. You
put off this old person you were, this old cover
you had, and you put on a new person.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That person is Christ in the Bible. And you put
him on.
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And you know what, when you put him on, people
start seeing you dressed like him. They start seeing him.
I am nothing. I've said this two or three times
this week. I am what the moon is to the Sun.
I am a dead planet. And the only good I
do is when I get positioned where the Sun can
bounce off of me and put some light on you.
But without that sun, I am a dark, dead planet
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out there in the universe, and you'd never even know
I existed. And sometimes our lives eclipse what God's trying
to do. We get in the way, we get behind
the world. Literally, I think about this, The world gets
in the way of the light of Christ reflecting off
of us to somebody else. Get the world out of
get where he can bounce from you to someone else.
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Because when they see his image in you, Guys, they're
not going to worship you. They're going to say, where
is this light coming from? Where's the source of this?
This can't be in them because I don't have it
in me. Where is this coming from? And they start
looking for him because they see his reflection in you
and off of you. Now that's the goal, guys, that
my life would glorify him, that people would see Him
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in me, not me, And I do everything I can
not to be a distraction or to impede in any
way his light coming in me and through me to
touch somebody else. Image is everything in the world, but
in the spiritual world it is too. My question is
what image are you putting out there? And what are
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you hiding? What are you covering up? If you don't
have a relationship with God, then say God, I need
this relationship.
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I need to have whatever he's talking about, whatever he's got,
whatever these people I see, there's some hypocrites out there, granted,
but God, there's something different than these people that talk
about Jesus.
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And I want whatever it is you intended for me
to have with you, I want it personally and I
accept this gift of eternal life. I believe Jesus died
for me, was buried, raised from the dead to restore
this relationship with you.
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And I gotta have it God.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And if you are a Christian, get the world out
of the way, or the light can bounce off of
you again and somebody's life be changed.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Richard will be back in a moment to wrap up
today's talk, but first I want to share a couple
of thoughts with you.
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Let's be honest.
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Father, thank you so much for just a few minutes
to stop. And God, I thank you for what you've
made possible through Jesus and what sins screwed up you
send Jesus to satisfy and to offer real success Lord,
and a real change. And I thank you for these people.
I thank you for what happens in this room. I
thank you for the glimpse that I pray somebody, including me, Lord,
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get that if we would just get out of the
way and stay out of the way, and put the
old stuff off and put the new on and make
a decision in our lives, in our every day to
do everything we can to stay out of the way
and let you reflect in and through us, Lord to
a world who desperately needs to know that the kind
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of image they think is everything is really nothing, and
having that image restored inside is everything and that's what's missing.
Thank you for using his Father and continue to do so.
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All right, now, do you.
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All see anything different about my image today?
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What's wrong with my time? What of my stomach is
to be? Now?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
What is unusual about that? I know a lot of
y'all see this a lot and wear him this way?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Maybe, But you know what, I'm love ABBT because till
I keep doing this like I got to get it
to go down or something, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I mean, why have I never come out like this before?
I mean, why would you not want to walk into
some clothing like this. Hi, I see I can still
do it now. But if the real technique is, if
you're a man, you get your belt down here like this,
you get your shirt real tight because you want that
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tie to come off the lip there of your stomach. Now,
why would I never wear my I mean, if somebody
has their tie like this and it's a traditional thing
in your family. I know some people from Arkansas myself. Now,
I cannot even stand to be.
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Up here like this. So I'm gonna fix this now.
Is image? You know this? Hey, ti Tiger girls right here,
or guys for that.
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Matter, some of you orse it'll be too short. Men
do this or two or three.
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Times a day. They get it. They're tight.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So you do this and you look at it and go,
you know what, let's not Women do this with dresses
and shoes, and men do it with tithes and they
see there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You don't want that to happen right there.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
That's your second demonstration of what does not work.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So we're gonna go back at it. So you go
a little longer down there, double wrap.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
This is the free section of our lunch talk here
tie time, all right, This one's gonna work.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You see, I can feel it. See that not there?
I feel it coming. And here's coming. Here, it's coming. Here,
he's coming. Is that better?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
All right?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now, here's my question. What the heck does the link
to my tie have to do with my image?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Everything? It's these little things now? Is image though? Really everything?
And I've made a lists here and y'all need to help.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Me with this today. I mean, think of the things
you do with Jody. Come up here? Where did Jody go?
Did he? Boy? He bolted today? Didn't he? Is he
even in the room? Get up here? All right? Oh man,
let's let's the image. Boy.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You just shut your image up with a bowl of
beans in your hands, alight, I just stand there. You
can stand on your beans.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
All right.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We have Jody and some dsh shoes, some khakis. Oh now,
look at this turn sideways. And I'm not talking about
the stomach. I'm talking about see that phone. Look at
that phone. I see that's an image thing. Hey, look
at this jacket shirt? No Kia sugar bowl on his shirt?
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There? All right?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Now, would you say this man is concerned about his
image at all?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Maybe? And he has an image? Right? What do you
think Jody's image is come on, rich, well here we go.
Let's go. What are you? What do you think? What
was it?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Conservative? What else? Professional? How are you all tind the
beans in with this thing?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What else? Professional? Sharp? Conservative? What else? Just leave it
at that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Anything else casual? He's saying something here.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Now, if he was trying to get a job as
an investment banker and went in like this, they might
think he's a nice kind of guy, but they wouldn't
hire him. What based on how he looks?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Now, if he went in like this to get a
job running a backo after him, they wouldn't hire him either.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Why he's overdressed.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So image, in a lot of ways in the world
today really is everything. And I almost came in here
and some zip up coveralls in a cap, you know,
and some of your visitor to go, what.
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The heck is this? You know? It's construct? Are you finished?
Are you breathing? Deep? My beating? All right? Go eat
your being? Thank you, Jody.
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So it does matter, right, There are things you think
about wearing the office. Some of you ladies, wake up,
go to get dressed. Something you may wear to church
or to a wedding or funeral, you'd never wear to
the office because you'd walk.
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In and somebody go, well, who does she think she is?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You know, you might think you'd be a little overdressed
or out of place or something, so you tone it down.
Guys the same way. Some guys, you gotta wear a
certain thing all week long. If it's casual summer or
casual Friday, you come in with something completely different. But
we jump through hoops with hair. I mean, why mess
with your hair? I mean, I know some people who
don't very much, and that's kind of the trend today.
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You just kind of go but hair nails, people go manicures, clothes, cars,
I mean, watch a car commercial. It's all image. They
are projecting an image. They're saying to you, if you
drive this car, you're gonna find some hot babe, or
you're gonna find some whatever, and this car's going to
do all that. It's going to create an image for you.
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People do it with jewelry, said some kind of image,
or try to prove something to somebody by what they
wear or what they have.
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The house you live in.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
How many people spend their life trying to get into
a certain kind of house, in a certain kind of
neighborhood with certain kind of neighbors.
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What that gives you an image?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I am a certain kind of person based on where
I live. Now, this one is sure that anybody wants
to admit. Your image A lot of times has to
do with where you sit in your office and how
many people men and women whoever, are clamoring for some
corner office with a window and a view. And if
you can do your job in the corner office with
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the view, you somehow are better at what you do
than the person who's in the interior catacombs.
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Of that building. It's all about image. Now.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I was going to go around the room and like
y'all pick a volunteer from every table and yeah, who said,
yeah you did come up here?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I teach her to speak up at church. There we go,
all right, I can get everybody in the room and
come up here, and you look at them and go, well,
this person's trying to dress down a little bit. Their
ties not flashy. There's you know, the shoes are conservative.
Everybody in here. All of these image things are just that,
they are images that people see. They're outside stuff that
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someone can look at you and size you up, just
like that. Somebody at Bible Study said they went to
this big convention of Christian speakers and they sat about
three rows back places, packed thousand people and all these
women they're gonna speak, And the way she described, I
gotta get.
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A chair because this was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
She said, all these women were sitting up on the
stage like this.
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They had their legs.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Crossed, their hands like this, you know, just like Chanelle suits,
just dressed the nines. Just pretty happy little ladies, you know,
not a problem in the world. And this thing was
gonna be about suffering or something. And she said she
sat there on the third row and watch these women. Thought,
you know, what the heck are they doing up here?
They don't thinking about suffering. They're all a perfect little,
you know, petite, little groomed women.
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Now she sized them up.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
But she said when they got up and spoke, after
they all sat down, she said she realized she didn't
know anything about suffering, sickness, cancer, illness. They may have
looked put together, but when they got up to speak,
you saw something on the inside. Now, let me tell
you the tragedy of this stuff. Guys, we every day
size people up.
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Just like that. One of the things about being a speaker.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I can come in here, dress a different way, do
different things, and.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I've done it. And there's people in the room. If
it's your first time, especially, you go, well, yeah, he
wears his hair all slicked back. Who you think he is?
No flashy tie. Well he's probably this way or that way.
Or do you look at my shoes, or.
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You hear me talk or something about me, And you're
sitting out there saying, well, he's this way or that way.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You don't know me. See, you don't know me anymore
than you know that person. I got.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
People live in my neighborhood. I can name particular people
live right up the way here.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
They drive one guy but drives a Ferrari. He's got
another car.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
He's got all this stuff, and you go, well, you know,
and some people put the big watches on all the
stuff and you luck them go, man, they're successful, you
know what. Their life may suck worse than anybody's, by
the way, that is the first part of the word success.
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But we look at.
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These people and say, man, they got it made, or
they're this way or that way, and it's all based
on an image something you see. But let me tell
you something you don't usually see most people. Now, that
girl i'd described, who want to hear all these women speak,
she saw them and saw one thing, but when she
heard them, she saw a whole different person. Now I'm
a in the world today, Guy's Madison Avenue commercials.
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It's all about image.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I mean, even buy cereal based on the way it
looks or what the commercial said.
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Kids are buying. I live in a house my kids
can't read, and we.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Drive down the street and go Taco bweno or something.
You know, I'm like, how do you know that's Taco
bweno or McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Man, they are working those arches.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
They can't read, but they have been hit so hard
with images and with marketing that they see it. They
recognize these logos. Now we live in a world where
that's the way it is. You say, well, I'm not
gonna live in that world. I'm just going to be myself.
You'll never get hired again. You show up in your
shorts and T shirt and say, well, just you know,
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you need to hire me on the merits of my resume,
and it's all crumpled up. I mean, we jump through
hoops about how we look the way. Even our resumes
are laid out, and I think about it, some of
you hire people or getting Microsoft word in that wizard deal, which.
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If you ever figure that out. But you get in
there and lay.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Out a resume, have people look at Why so when
you walk into a job, you lay a piece of
paper down, you look your best, the paper looks at
you want everything to match, so you get hired because
that person is going to make a judgment a lot
of times within.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Five seconds of seeing you. Right, we all do it.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Now is image everything in the world. It probably is
a lot of what goes on, but image is everything
in the spiritual realm as well. And the tragedy in
the world today is that you never get beyond what
you see to who the person really is. And we
have the surface and most of this image stuff. I'm
describing the car around you.
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The clothes on you.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
People do this with the glasses they wear, all this
designer stuff. I mean, it's unbelievable the hoops we've jumped
through to set ourselves apart and be something in a
lot of ways that we're not. Now Here's what I
think is so and my wife's address designer. I mean
I've lived around this by fabric, you know, the buttons,
everything about it plays a part in what you wear
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and how you look. But the tragedy is that a
lot of people are trying to hide who they really
are with some image they project so that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You won't see what's really going on inside of them.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Now, see, unless I get up here and speaking and vulnerable,
or unless you sit down with me one on one somewhere,
you may have an image of who I am and
what I'm like, and what I think and.
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How I feel.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
But unless you really get below the surface, you know,
there's a lot of things that can contribute to what's
really going on. People see who you are, but they
never really know who you are unless they get beyond
the surface and find out what's going on with you specifically. Now,
I want to talk to you today about some of
these things in the scripture because it's in here. And
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by the way, the definition I pulled here of an image,
one of them is a popular conception as of a person, institution,
or nation projected, especially through the mass media.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
The media has a lot to do with this image thing.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But God has something to say about this stuff too,
because in the very beginning Genesis one twenty six. Then
God said he had made everything. He had made the stars,
the earth, every thing. Then he goes to make man.
And he said, let us make man in our image,
according to our likeness.
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Let them have dominion.
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Over the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
So God said, we're going to make a man. We're
going to make a person. And this creature is going
to be unlike anybody else, anything else on the planet. Why,
because it is made in the image of God. There
is nobody, no thing anywhere on the planet that is
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like man. As hard as people want to tell you
that you came from a monkey, if that's what you
want to believe, that's fine with me. I didn't come
from a monkey. And you know, you say, well, that's
just what I believe.
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Guys.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I believe this. I believe in the beginning God. And
I don't think it was some explosion. I think it's
an act of God. It's creation. And God said I'm
going to make man.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Boom.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He makes man, and he makes them in his image.
Not that we look like God, but there is something
inside of us that is intent to be like God
and reflect God to people.
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Now, Adam and Eid had this, and.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I'm not seeing that part of the reason they were
naked and unashamed. You saw some of who God was
in them. If you met Adam and Eve before they sinned,
you would have seen the image of God somehow in
them a lot more readily. When they sinned. What happens, literally,
God covers them up. And we've been covering up ever since.
We've been hiding behind houses and cars and makeup.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
And I'm not knocking makeup. I think it's a great thing.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't worry it anymore personally, but now I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Don't leave here. I never have worn makeup.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Okay, let me repeat that, I have never worn makeup.
We've continue to hide behind this stuff, trying to what,
trying to lose or cover up the fact that we've
lost this image. We don't know who we are, we
don't know where we're going, we don't know what to
feel of things, so we try to create who we
are by all this image stuff around us. And I'm
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telling you, guys, we jump through more hoops doing this
than anybody.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
We spend a fortune on this.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Now, the world starts on the outside and works in
and by the way, religion does the same thing. Religion
starts on the outside and says, you clean up your life,
you clean up your act, you get all this stuff straight,
and then your heart will change.
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You'll be different person. That's not what the book says.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
God changes your heart, restores what he intended for you
to have and be, and from there it works inside out,
and then your life begins to change.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I can look people in the eyes. Try this sometime.
Forget what they have on, forget what they're driving, all that,
just look them in the eyes.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
If you will lock in on people's eyes, you'll tell
more about a person. The Bible says, the eyes or
the windows to the soul. And if you look somebody
in the eyes and you look and listen long enough,
you know what you'll you'll see who they really are.
If you ever had a conversation with somebody and it's
like you're talking to them, like you and are having
a conversation, and I'm talking to you and I'm just
kind of looking around, I kind of looking around a lot,
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and I can't look.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You in the eyes.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I don't want anybody seeing what's missing. How many people
are kind of flighty and they're just scared to death,
you know, they have their head down. Just don't look
me in the eyes. I try to look people in
the eyes, and if they can't do that, it tells
me something. And when they do or they can, there
is a confidence. There is something that no matter what
they have around them, you can see through all that
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and say, you know, something's going on in here. I
see joy in people's eyes sometimes that you can't manufacture
or build by surrounding yourself with stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What is going on on the inside.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
That's what's important, all right over in the New Testament,
and I've got a number of these verses. Romans, chapter eight,
verse twenty nine says this for whom he four knew.
He also predestined to be conformed to the image of
his son, that he might be the first born among
many brethren. Now this Jesus thing, and I've only got.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
A second to do this. Just listen close.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The relationship that God intended with man Adam and Eve
had before they sinned. When they sinned, that relationship was broken.
And Jesus, when he came came as the Bible describes
in one Corinthians fifteen, he came as the second atom.
He came as the last atom, the second man. That's
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what it says, the last atom and the second man.
So God said, Adam has set something in motion here
that nobody short of myself can fix. So I'll send
my son and restore what God intended.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
For Adam in Jesus.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
So if anybody the Bible, you will read the Bible.
It always talks about being in Christ, in Christ, in Christ?
What is this in Christ? Think about if any man
be in Christ. One Corinthians five p. Seventeen says, if
any man be in Christ, he is a new creation.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are new.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So if you get in Christ, or you realize you
are in Christ and accept that fact, you receive this
gift of eternal life, then you have this potential of
being restored to what God originally intended for.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You to be.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Now this is makeing sense. What is it about a Christian?
I'm not talking about someone who says they're a Christian.
I'm talking about someone who is and lives it and
believes it and it's their life.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
What is it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You look at them, you look them in the eyes,
you watch them, you listen to them, you say, there
is something different about this person. It's not them you
see anymore. It's God in them. It's that image of
God that has been restored. And you can't figure it out.
Why does the Bible say to always be ready to
give a reason for the hope that's within you, because
sooner or later somebody's going to see.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It and ask about it. What's up with you?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Somehow, in the midst of it, you still have some
joy and some peace.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
They see your life being transformed on a daily basis,
and they can't figure it out.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
It's a God thing. There is no other explanation.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And God intends for us to reflect His image in
our lives. But you can not do it anymore without
Jesus Christ. You don't have it in you. Sin shuts
it down. Okay, So when you get right related to
God through his son Jesus Christ, that image is restored.
It's brought out and no matter what you put around you,
it's coming through you. Cover up a bright light with
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blankets whatever you want to be guys, Sooner or later,
it's coming through. That light will shine. You can't stop it.
It'll burn holes through whatever you try to hide under.
And frankly, if the image is there, you stop hiding.
You meet somebody who's got peace and joy and a
walk and a life with Christ. They stop propping things
up around them to hide, or they've got nothing to hide,
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and you start seeing that person. And my mentor says
to me, says Richard, the closer to God you get,
the more simple your life will become. The world tries
to buy stuff and goes places and do I'm not
against you buying things and going on trips, guys, but
let me tell you something. The problem with taking a
vacation is when you get there, you're still there. You
took you with you, and you think I'm going to
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take a trip and leave all my problems at home.
And you checked your trip and it went with you.
I mean, you checked all your stuff. You can't get
away from you. The only thing to do is to
have somebody change you, and to change me wherever I go.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I like being with me because he likes being with me,
and he likes being in me and living through me.
And it's a different life. All right, there's a couple
more verses here. I mean, if you want to write
these down. Seven Corinthian's four to four talks about this.
Colossians one twelve to seventeen talks about it. But let
me talk to you. And this is a number place
in the Bible about dressing for success. You want to
dress for success. Listen to this Colossians three to eight.
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But now you, yourselves, are to put off all these
things anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Don't lie to one another.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Since you have put off the old man with his deeds,
and have put on the new man, who is renewed
in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There is neither Greek.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Nor Jews, circumcised or uncircumcised, Barbarian Scynthian slaver free.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But Christ is all and in all.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
It's taking off a garment putting another one on. You
put off this old person you were, this old cover
you had, and you put on a new person.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That person is Christ in the Bible. And you put
him on.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And you know what, when you put him on, people
start seeing you dressed like him. They start seeing him.
I am nothing. I've said this two or three times
this week. I am what the moon is to the Sun.
I am a dead planet. And the only good I
do is when I get positioned where the Sun can
bounce off of me and put some light on you.
But without that sun, I am a dark, dead planet
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out there in the universe, and you'd never even know
I existed. And sometimes our lives eclipse what God's trying
to do. We get in the way, we get behind
the world. Literally, I think about this, The world gets
in the way of the light of Christ reflecting off
of us to somebody else. Get the world out of
get where he can bounce from you to someone else.
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Because when they see his image in you, Guys, they're
not going to worship you. They're going to say, where
is this light coming from? Where's the source of this?
This can't be in them because I don't have it
in me. Where is this coming from? And they start
looking for him because they see his reflection in you
and off of you. Now that's the goal, guys, that
my life would glorify him, that people would see Him
(22:26):
in me, not me, And I do everything I can
not to be a distraction or to impede in any
way his light coming in me and through me to
touch somebody else. Image is everything in the world, but
in the spiritual world it is too. My question is
what image are you putting out there? And what are
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you hiding? What are you covering up? If you don't
have a relationship with God, then say God, I need
this relationship.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I need to have whatever he's talking about, whatever he's got,
whatever these people I see, there's some hypocrites out there, granted,
but God, there's something different than these people that talk
about Jesus.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
And I want whatever it is you intended for me
to have with you, I want it personally and I
accept this gift of eternal life. I believe Jesus died
for me, was buried, raised from the dead to restore
this relationship with you.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And I gotta have it God.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And if you are a Christian, get the world out
of the way, or the light can bounce off of
you again and somebody's life be changed.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Richard will be back in a moment to wrap up
today's talk, but first I want to share a couple
of thoughts with you.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Real life isn't about living some highlight reel for.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Others to see.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Most people have deep hurts, questions and struggles. Well, we
get it, and we want to help you in any
way we can. So let's keep this conversation going. You
can give us a call anytime at eight five five
six Richard, or connect with us at our website, Richard
ellis talks dot com. You can even put in your
prayer request right there on the prayer wall. Call us
(23:54):
at eight five five six Richard or online at Richard
Ellistalks dot com. And now let's get back to Richard
with a final word on today's show.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
All right, let's praying.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Father, thank you so much for just a few minutes
to stop. And God, I thank you for what you've
made possible through Jesus and what sins screwed up you
send Jesus to satisfy and to offer real success Lord,
and a real change. And I thank you for these people.
I thank you for what happens in this room. I
thank you for the glimpse that I pray somebody, including me, Lord,
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get that if we would just get out of the
way and stay out of the way, and put the
old stuff off and put the new on and make
a decision in our lives, in our every day to
do everything we can to stay out of the way
and let you reflect in and through us, Lord to
a world who desperately needs to know that the kind
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of image they think is everything is really nothing, and
having that image restored inside is everything and that's what's missing.
Thank you for using his Father and continue to do so.
We praying Jesus name Nay.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Thanks for tuning in today to Richard Ellis Talks. With
the busy schedule everyone has these days, it means the
world to us that you would take this time to listen.
Let us know how it has touched your heart by
calling us at eight five five six Richard. You can
also connect with us at our website Richard Ellistalks dot com.
One last thing, Richard Ellis Talks is a daily program
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but also has daily costs and being a listener supported
program means we rely on the financial partnership of our listeners,
which means you maybe you've given to this ministry before
or have waited for the right time. Well, we believe
that these talks with Richard are making a difference in
your life. So this is how you can make a
difference to ours. You can contribute by giving us a
call at eight five fives six Richard or at our
(25:46):
website Richard ellistalks dot com. Thank you for your very
generous gifts. It truly means so much to us. God
bless and thanks for listening to Richard Ellis Talks.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
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