August 10, 2024 • 32 mins
In a world where our minds can become our greatest battlefield, the thoughts we choose to dwell on can either lift us up or tear us down. Today, we're diving into what it truly means to put on Christ. How embracing His character empowers us to rise above every challenge, to walk in strength, and to live with purpose.
We'll explore the importance of making no provision for the flesh, understanding how even the smallest allowance for negative thoughts can spiral into deeper despair. And we're going to tackle the destructive power of rumination, that endless cycle of negative thoughts that can hold us captive, dragging us into a self-made prison of pain and fear.
Together, we'll discover how the truth of God's Word can renew our minds, giving us the power to take every thought captive and align our lives with the peace, strength, and freedom that only Christ can provide. We'll cover practical steps to break free from the chains of rumination and step boldly into the light of Christ.
Join us as we navigate through personal struggles, the highs and lows of life, and find hope in the promise of Jesus. If you're ready to break free from the thoughts that hold you down and embrace a life filled with purpose, peace, and unstoppable power, this episode is for you.
We'll also discuss the challenges of connecting with others, the importance of community, and the power of vulnerability. Through raw and honest reflection, you'll see that you are not alone in your struggles. Christ is with you, and by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, you can face any battle with confidence and hope.
So, if you're ready to experience the transformative power of Christ in your life, let's go on this journey together. Remember, there is always light at the end of the tunnel when you walk with Him.
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Lord Jesus, I need you. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
In a world where our minds can become our greatest battlefield,
the thoughts we choose to dwell on can either lift us up or tear us down.
Today, we're diving into what it truly means to put on Christ.
How embracing His character empowers us to rise above every challenge,
to walk in strength, and to live with purpose.
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We'll explore the importance of making no provision for the flesh,
understanding how even the smallest allowance for negative thoughts can spiral into deeper despair.
And we're going to tackle the destructive power of rumination,
that endless cycle of negative thoughts that can hold us captive,
dragging us into a self-made prison of pain and fear.
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Together, we'll discover how the truth of God's Word can renew our minds,
giving us the power to take every thought captive and align our lives with the
peace, strength, and freedom that only Christ can provide.
We'll cover practical steps to break free from the chains of rumination and
step boldly into the light of Christ.
So if you're ready to break free from the thoughts that hold you down and embrace
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a life filled with purpose, peace, and unstoppable power, are you ready? Let's go!
Music.
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The energy coming. You know, that is something I, that is something I can control.
There are things in this life that I cannot control. I am like a product of it.
I am impacted and influenced by outside things that are going on.
I don't, and I do not know if you all experienced the same thing as well,
but I feel like I'm just being drugged down in a lot of ways,
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you know, a lot of things just happening.
And I know this is not what you all stepped in for, but however you got here,
if you landed here and you're actually listening to this, I really appreciate it.
But But man, this is probably not going to be one of my normal morning coffees in the Bible.
This is like, there's a lot of things that are just happening.
And it's just, and if you've actually, I think it's led up to this last two
weeks, things are just kind of going a little nuts in my life and in my mental state.
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I don't know what it is. I don't know how it's like that. And I don't,
I didn't like even bring in that up.
And something I've learned about just doing stuff on YouTube,
the wonderful thing about YouTube is that everyone sees it. But then also the
wonderful thing about YouTube is no one sees it, you know, and that's the thing.
Sometimes it can be a blessing and a curse, whether everyone sees it,
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or it can be a blessing and a curse, whether no one sees it,
you know? And I think that is something I can almost relate to.
And that's something I can get on board with.
This is just going to be a wild, wild west style. Today is going to be wild, wild west.
I mean, and I don't, I don't know if I'm going to go five minutes or if I'm
going to go five hours, but I might rant today.
I feel like I am, I am going to get on my soapbox and rant, but going through
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what I feel like I'm going through.
And honestly, if I were to get like real raw and dirty and share with you all
what I've been through right now is doesn't even touch at all what I have been through.
So I do not know why right now it's just like, I'm being so heavily weighed
down by the things going on in my life.
But I mean, do you all struggle with things as well?
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I mean, are you right now in your life? Are you is everything going hunky-dory
or is everything are you are you in a valley because right now man if I was
gonna be Real and I'm gonna be real. I am in a valley.
I am in a valley of my mind and.
And I think it's very, it's very tough, you know, it's, it's tough.
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And I don't want to bore you to death with just things that you probably wouldn't care to hear.
It's just messy right now. It's really, really messy.
And it's so weird. Like, I love doing this.
I love putting this out there. I love like creating these things and doing this,
but man, it is, it's just been very different lately.
And maybe this is almost that real version of you are seeing almost like an
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outside version of the glimpse that is in my mind.
I don't know what you all have going in your life. I do not know because inside
that little space, that six inches from one ear to the other,
you all are experiencing something.
Because we all have this ongoing daily dialogue conversation that is happening in our mind.
And I don't know what it's like for you all because I know that in the past,
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all I used to do is I would project the way that I see the world,
the way that I am experiencing things,
I would say everyone out there is experiencing it the same way.
Everyone out there thinks the same way that I do.
Everyone out there just sees the same things that I do and is going through
the same things that I do.
If I feel it this way, how does that person feel anything different?
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How do they see the world differently?
And I would just project onto people.
Scrupulosity that is the word i have scruples i
scruple about things but this has been something that i have
definitely battled with scrupulosity every little thing
it just consumes my mind and i and i
struggle with that and like i've made said in previous videos how
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i had to get all get on natural like kind of supplements and
all these things so i i think like i i don't take as many pills as
i used to but i used to take a whole i used to take a ton
and i still take a bunch of each day but they're not
like right like full-blown medication i've been
on medication and i very thankful i'm not on it at
this time but it did get me through a time in
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a period of my life that i was going through i kind of
got i got out of that because i just i i wanted out of
that i needed out of that because it just like it messed me up i almost like
taking the medication almost did more harm than good if you've ever heard it
masks the problem medication but it can it is useful so you can't just say it's
like can't just throw it out and say it's not useful at all because there is
a time you need medication in one form or fashion.
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It masks the problem. It doesn't actually heal the problem underneath like probably
more natural things will.
That's what maybe that there's that balance. You get that natural to kind of
like start just like almost like fixing the chemicals that are happening in you.
Probably most of y'all, anyone that listened to this, most of y'all are going
to be like, what the heck is this guy talking about? It is not making any sense whatsoever.
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And that's cool. That's cool. You know, maybe there'll be videos where I make sense right now.
It's just, I am just fueled off emotion, fueled off a feeling,
fueled off of just things in my head that I'm just struggling with.
And I think I've come out of it even just this past week.
I mean, basically I have demons that haunt me, you know, whether they're just
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fictional or created in my mind or not, I don't know.
But things that come and they just plague the hell out of me and just want to
just destroy me or it feels like that. I don't even know how to explain it.
Sometimes if you open up that door, you open up that window and you let it in
because you allow it to you.
I mean, it has like, I don't know what it is and what I'm even trying to say,
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but like it comes to you and it wants to that access to you.
And it's like, if you allow it to stay there and you allow it to come in,
it will, you know? And like, for me, that's what I've said in different videos.
I'm like, I almost life is just so freaking hard.
And I, and I'm sure for most people out there, it are like just the people you
encounter counter each day.
It just seems like everything's just fine and dandy, hunky-dory, all that, you know?
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But maybe it's not. Maybe other people out there are going through similar struggles.
I don't know. And even talking about this, I'm probably boring anyone to death.
This is probably just like maybe a patient 13 moment.
I don't know if this might be a patient 13 moment. It's just like when you want
to hide away, put away, and never see the light of day, you know?
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But I think I think what even led me to this, I had different topics that came
to my mind this week and things I wanted to talk about.
And a lot of them, they range from the outlandish to the insane.
And a lot of them...
It's probably good that I did not even select on that. So, I mean,
I think I went the safer route as in put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And like even falling into this topic for me, it's been about,
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I'm going through some crap, you know?
And I thought in my own head, in my own mind, and it's like,
how am I going to get out of that? How am I going to get out of that mindset?
And, and for me, it was put on the Lord Jesus Christ, put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's like almost the phrase that had to come to me and had to remind me of,
I mean, cause we can always just talk about Christ.
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We can always talk about Jesus, but we forget that he is a real person and he really is there.
It's not something, this figment in our imagination that we are wanting beyond
hope to believe that he's there. Oh, he's there. He's there.
No, he's literally there.
I know he's there. I'm convinced of that. So I'm not on that,
but it's being reminded that he's there and that I have access to him.
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And that's what is so tough.
It's just like, this came about in my mind, I do not want to go through and
rehash like everything that the things that it would probably bore you to death.
If not, none of this, if any of this has already, who knows,
but talking about any of the stuff that the, the sick twisted things that the,
of the things that I've gone through in my life and the messed up things in
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my mind and the battles that I've won, it probably would,
it would be almost like TMI, you know?
And I, I know I struggle with TMI because I almost like, I'm just like,
I let everything hang out there and let everything just like everybody sees
stuff, But you got to have some filter, you know, you got to have some things
that you don't, you know, let the world to see.
Because I mean, one thing they probably don't want to see it.
Most people don't want to see don't want it. And that's and that's the power of checking out.
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That's the power of just bouncing out. That's the power of YouTube and of any
of this, the social media and window to people's lives and lives.
Even almost their soul in some instances, because you, when people are real
and genuine people, you see what is behind the veil.
You see behind this facade, this things that we put out there for everybody
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to see that people see the outside, but it's like when you start talking and you start getting real.
And I found for me personally, it's easiest to get real, to talk to thousands
of people through this way, as opposed to one person in real life.
And I don't know if that's at all All you and some people, because I've always struggled with that.
Like, it's all about, you know, in Christianity, you want to share life together
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and be with other people of the similar faith, you know, but it's like,
when you're actually there and when I'm in that context, in that kind of environment.
It's not, it doesn't happen.
And I don't know, and you say it like, you feel like, well, they're not reaching out to me.
They're not like coming to me and they're not wanting to talk to me and kind
of come into my life and be, and like have any, they don't have any desire to
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listen to me or even hear what I'm going through. Like, honestly.
And it's like, or it feels like that. Cause I, that's that projection.
I project that onto people, but then I'm probably, I am, I find myself like,
I'm like these people, uh, brothers and sisters of that share the same faith
in me that we are all Christians and we are brothers in Christ.
And I'm like, why, why do they do not reach out to me? Why do they not want
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to like have anything to do with me?
But then I'm the same way towards them. I don't have any, like where I,
I, I fail miserably in reaching out to people and to talking to people and,
and sharing life with them and like, and actually coming alongside with them and,
and doing it and actually an action and getting my hands dirty and getting it
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into the trenches and like, and actually sharing life together with them.
I, I, I fail at that, but then I am like, I don't know what it is,
but I don't know know if you all out there have experienced this as
well or if you all whenever you are in a
kind of a context of of being with people of
of similar faith you know and and you
are are there and you're with them and right by them
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are you able to share life are you able to open up i guess is that the word
open up and be vulnerable i i mean i that's the difference i'm almost able to
be vulnerable on a screen and just in in this kind of venue or whatever whatever
you call youtube or creating creating stuff, as opposed to in person,
in real life, face-to-face, seeing the other person, because I don't see you all out there.
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I don't see you out there, whoever would ever listen to this.
I'm all over the place and probably doing a terrible job of witnessing,
but it's like, I'm almost like, it's just like, it's, you're seeing the ugly version.
You're seeing like, you know, the battle that I'm going through and I'm trying
to communicate and explain it as much as possible.
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But all this to say is what this came about and all this that I'm going through
and that I feel like I'm going through and there's this struggle,
this constant struggle of things, you know?
I mean, I could definitely open up and just open up the gates and let the flood
come out so everybody just sees everything.
And I think I have been open to doing that. And I really don't care because
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I don't care what people know about me.
I would prefer everybody know everything about me.
Have a window to everything and people can see if they want.
Because I know at the end of the day, when we stand before Christ,
everything's going to be open.
Nothing's going to be hidden. And at that time, so I was like,
I have that, that understanding.
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I have that realization that that is going to be there.
So what's the point of trying to kind of cover anything right now, hold anything back?
Like, but in doing it in front of like with an actual person,
you know, and I think it's because when you're with people, when you see their
face, you see how much they don't care. You, and that's the difference.
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That's the difference. You see how much they don't care. And it's right before
your eyes as opposed to doing a, creating a video and, and making content and
making a podcast and like putting stuff out there. So people can listen to and watch.
I don't see what you all see. I don't know what you are going through and I
don't see how much you don't care, you know, and maybe some of you do care.
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And I, I, I'm thankful if you do, I'm extremely thankful if you do,
but it's when somebody's right in front of you in their faces, right in front of you.
And it's because we're all going through this. We're all going through this,
and we think we're the center of the universe, and that's me projecting.
It's because I think almost that I'm the center of the universe,
that everybody's listening to me. Everyone cares about me.
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But then it's like when you actually see that really no one gives a darn,
they don't really care whatsoever one way or the other, that it hurts, and it's painful.
And you realize I am nothing, but it's being reminded that it's tough,
and it's extremely tough.
So this is a twisted, messed up episode. You know, that's why I was going to
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do... One of the themes I was going to do is life...
Life is fed up and twisted or something. I was going to do something like that,
but it's like, this is supposed to be a good show.
This is supposed to be something that's uplifting and, you know,
and encouraging and all that, you know, and it's, and this is maybe one of my darker days.
I'm sure there will be more darker days that I put out there and everybody sees
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because I'm, you know, I'm an open book.
Let me, you see what you see and I would share with you as much as I could.
You know, it's, it's the difference between, like I said, when you're physically
in front of someone, you know, that's where it gets tough because it,
but it's not that I don't want to have that closeness with people,
but it's like, you, you, you see how much they don't care.
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Are you that I, maybe that's that projection.
I project how much they don't care, but it's like putting this stuff out here.
It's just, for me, it's so much easier to kind of do this and make these things.
I'm completely different.
I feel like, as opposed to when I'm with, and I guess not, not really when I'm
a personal and with individuals,
but when I get in a group setting, I feel like I'm completely different,
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and I think it's that introvert-extrovert kind of mentality that I struggle with.
I am a bona fide crema da crop introvert.
I am an introvert, but I'm also an extrovert. I feel like I'm an extrovert,
and I feel like this has given me an opportunity and a way to kind of.
Show and how that i am extroverted how
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that i have that within me that i i get energy
when i'm doing these types of things i get energy when i'm talking and i want
to talk but it's like when i'm when i'm physically with people and i know this
is boring y'all to death and i'm sorry about that if anyone has hung on is still
there anyone that's known me like especially from my past things that i i had Like I always,
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it sounds so stupid and weird that I've, I always like felt like everyone I encountered,
everyone that I kind of shared life with everyone that like saw me for me, they didn't like me.
And I'm not a likable person. I'm not a likable person.
And I, and I think I, I struggle with that. You know, I feel like,
I feel like people in general have a distaste for me.
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And I, like, I, I, I, maybe that's just that complexity that I have,
or maybe it's just a complex.
I don't know that. I project on them. Everyone I encounter, I just see them
as like, man, they don't like you. I just don't like you.
I love that quote from The Office. It's one of my favorite quotes of all time.
It's one of the fun... Every time I think of it, it makes me laugh.
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And it's Ryan saying to Dwight, man, they did not like me.
And Dwight's like, no, they did not. But they didn't have to say it to your face.
And every time I think of that, I mean, because I am always thinking about myself in that way, like.
Everyone I kind of run, rub elbows with, you know, man, they did not like me
and I'm glad they don't say it to my face. I'm glad they don't say that to my face.
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You know, I appreciate that. But it's, but it's like when you're in this kind
of thing that when you're putting stuff on X, putting stuff on Facebook,
putting stuff on Instagram and tech talk and YouTube, man, when people are behind the screen,
it's like, is that the realer version of them or not?
Because it's like, because you get bold there and people can say some nasty, hurtful stuff.
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On youtube and everything i mean like they
say and i've probably said some stupid stuff
stupid stuff that i regret and i just would like to
forget about and not remember that how could i have been that bad
you know why would i have said something so stupid you know why would i done
that and but it's like when people are behind the screen when people are just
typing stuff you're not seeing them physically in front of you is you i guess
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the you know everything gets tossed to the and you just say i guess what's in
your real in your real heart of hearts but it's also almost most,
it shows the sinful, evil hearts that we have.
This is probably a depressing one. This is a depressing one.
Anyone that's actually out there and listening and tuned in,
maybe it can, because sometimes you do see when people, other people are going
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through stuff, it kind of make, oh man, my life ain't too bad.
Compared to that, my life ain't too bad. You know, what he's going through,
maybe that'll uplift you.
Maybe that will spark something in you as in, don't be like this.
You know, you see the bottom of the barrel, you see the, just the beat up individual
that I am and that my soul is. It's just beat up, you know, for all to see.
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Maybe in some way it could bring value to you. Maybe, maybe some way or angle,
I could make something that is useful for you in this. You could take away something.
I, this is, I, like I said, this is a rant and I know I got on here. I didn't know what I did.
I knew I was going to probably rant and just go on and just, but maybe I can,
maybe hopefully I can bring this into some hope and light for you and kind of
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just change the trajectory of this whole conversation,
this whole dialogue that we were having because
it is a dialogue it is a conversation because i
am right there in your presence i am with you
if you are listening to this i am like alongside with you you
are hearing me and in that in that vein in that form of like in that form of
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community that we have in this digital world you know and things are as the
digital world progresses and gets even more out of control and crazy with you
it'll probably be called something different you know went all of a sudden done,
but the metaverse and all that, you know, that is coming down the pike,
you know, and, and it's probably going to be something different.
We're probably just seeing something, a little glimpse of it like now.
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And, but it's probably going to be something even more crazy that we are going to have that community,
that camaraderie with people across on the other side of the world,
on the other side of the country that we are almost alongside them because of
this technology that we have, we have it. It's right here.
Like I can talk and say these things and instantly be with you.
It's going to get even more real.
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This digital world that it just seems like it's digital and it's just all,
because your phone itself is like a digital version of you.
That is you encapsulated in a digital technology.
And things like that, like this, the way that things are going and the way things
are rolling out, that's why I want to be a part of this. I want to do things like this.
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I want to create things and be there right there with you. And then so we can
share life together in that way.
Let me just try to kind of bring this in and make this,
cause I, I don't want to waste an episode,
waste a time of especially talking about and bringing up, put on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and then just go off on a nonsensical rant and not, and not bring you
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anything valuable because you're, you're seeing the dark side,
but I want to like show you that dark side so that I can bring you the light
so that I can bring you the light. And when I'm bringing you the light,
I'm bringing you the scriptures.
I'm bringing you the Bible. I'm bringing you the Lord Jesus Christ and seeing,
see, we got, I got a lot of twisted, messed up things going on over here,
but Christ is come and he's making, he's renovating.
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He's recreating and making me new.
And even he's taking this marred, messed up version that is me,
and he's going to make it something glorious.
At the end of the day, Christians, we are going to be glorified.
We will be with Christ forever, glorified bodies, glorified existence,
spiritual bodies, you know?
And that's not—and to say not physical, it's just we are going to be so in tune
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and in step with the Holy Spirit.
Sin won't even be, it will be a non-factor. It will not be a possibility.
It will not be on our mind, but we will be in so in tune with obeying our Lord
and Savior and with surrendering to him and living life with him.
I mean, can you imagine what it would be like to not, for sin to be fully eradicated?
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I mean, you think of the best version of your life, picture this,
you know, you're with your family or you're with people you love and you're
in the best environment, the best place imaginable. You're on vacation.
You're going to do, you know, and you're with them and it's so wonderful.
And no matter how awesome it is to be with them, we all still carry around this
bag of sin, this body full of sin that is, it doesn't take long before we start
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arguing and just biting others' heads off and all that, you know?
And it's because we have sin and we are carrying around this sin,
you know, and it's like, I long for the day for it all to be gone,
you know, and one day it will be.
One day it will be gone, and I will, we will be with Christ. We will be glorified.
Christians, we will be glorified, and we will be with Christ.
He is right now, He is the first fruits, and He is at the right hand of God, and He is the guarantee.
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He is the promise. He is our hope, our living hope that is seated at the right
hand of God, and that it is as sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow.
It is a done deal.
So I just got to realign my focus and my mindset that he is there and I have hope.
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And no matter what kind of crap I'm going through right now,
whatever valley I'm struggling through and battling through,
the valley of the shadow of death, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
As Christians, when we trust in Christ and being his, there is light at the
end of the tunnel. He is the light at the end of the tunnel.
Jesus is the light, but it's maybe just tying this in, but with maybe just tying
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this in that he's the light at the end of the tunnel.
But right now, even now we can put on the Lord Jesus Christ. We can reach ahead.
We can reach out into that future reality that is ours.
That we are going to be with him, and we can take Jesus right now,
and we can clothe ourselves with Jesus.
Because that is, it's not, it's just me, something I'm making up.
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It's something that the Bible says, the Apostle Paul wrote it,
and he was telling the Christians in Rome, put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is, that's how we are going to get through this struggle.
It says, we will go through many tribulations to enter the kingdom of God.
That's what it says in the Bible.
And to do that, to get through those struggles, to get through those tribulations,
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we need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, put on that mindset,
that character that is Jesus, and live with that and understand that we are that.
We are Christ is Christ, but we are Christians. We are little Christ.
That's what it means. The word Christian started off as a derogatory word to
make fun of these people.
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Oh, these little Christs out there, they're Christians, this Christianos.
That's what we are. It's a glorious thing. As Christians, we have hope in Christ,
and he is with us, and he will lead us through and carry us through.
So it's putting on Jesus right now and going through our day like,
but how do I actually do that?
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What do I have to do to do that? Well, let's actually go through it.
Let's go through it. So I want to read, and I want to read, this is from Romans.
I'm going to give you the text.
This is Romans Romans 13, verses 14.
This is Paul. He's given the church in Rome, these believers,
the amazing grace that they have in Christ.
They have this amazing grace, and he's telling them, based on this amazing grace
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that we have in Christ, this forgiveness that we've experienced,
he tells them how to live, how to live out their Christian life,
and he gives them a lot of things to live by. And then he goes into kind of...
Just general knowledge about the world that they're living in and obeying authorities.
Obeying the government, paying
taxes, just normal things that the people have to go through and do.
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And he ends this long list of things to live by, and he ends it with this phrase,
and he tells this to the Church of Rome.
He says, But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh
to fulfill its lusts. I remember that was that, and if you're familiar with
church history, that was a huge verse in church history in the sense that St.
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Augustine, it was a huge verse that changed and transformed his life,
and he was the person that for the first thousand years, a lot of church history
and thought and Christian thought was based around.
He was a huge theological mind and really steered the direction that the church
went for almost the first thousand or more years.
And he's almost even still today, Augustinian thought and the way that he interprets
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and read the scriptures and understood the scriptures is so impactful for us today.
And that verse right there was the verse, if you read his confessions,
if you read his story and how he became a Christian, that was the kind of the
hinge that turned him and that transformed his life when he trusted in Christ.
And you should read about that story. I may be talking about that in another video.
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So, how do we do that? So, the reason this verse is so huge for me in this context
of this, you all have seen today, you know, what you've all seen,
why this was so huge for me is, how am I going to get through this battle and this struggle?
It's by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, make no provision for the flesh.
It's not just as in sinful lusts, you know, whatever it is, you know,
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lusts that we have for power, money, sexual lusts, or whatever,
you know, But the lust, I would say the flesh,
the struggle that I have is this just beating down of myself and this rumination
over all the terrible things I've done in my life, all the terrible things that
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I just wish were swept away and were gone.
And honestly, they really are swept away and gone. They are all forgiven and
they were left at the cross.
They are buried, cast into the depths of the sea.
But even though they are there and I know they're there, the devil always wants
to still bring them back at you.
He wants to throw stuff that you do today in your face, as well as stuff that
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you've done in the past, at least for me.
And he just wants to just beat me over the head with and remind me and cause
me to ruminate and cause me to just remember and just live in negativity and
these thoughts that just consume my mind and just eat me alive.
They just gnaw away at me and just eat me alive.
And I had to be reminded of this verse, put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I put it on so that to just to give me that shield to say, Satan,
you have no power against me.
He Satan wants to come, uh, come to you like this big, huge bully that he,
that he is, but really he's just this little baby.
He's less than a baby. He has no power whatsoever.
He has no power. And he wants to make you think that he has all this power and
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he doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't have the power that, that he wants to for you, Christian.
He doesn't have that over you, but he wants to just beat you over the head and
make you think that he does.
So I had to make no provision for the flesh as in not allow myself to ruminate
and just just spiral down in these thoughts and these twisted things that just
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make me paralyzed and nonproductive whatsoever for the kingdom of God.
It makes me a detriment to myself, to my family, to those around me,
and for the kingdom of God, and expanding the kingdom of God.
It makes me paralyzed so that I'm not able to make as much of an impact that
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I know that I I could make for the kingdom of God. That's what's happening.
And I know that I have to just cast that aside, put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
not just every day, but every moment of the day.
Remind myself, even when things are just chaos and everything's hit the fan,
everything's going crazy, everything's nuts, put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Put that mindset on, put that character on, live in his strength.
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I know I've went a lot of places today. I know I've kind of just went in directions
that you probably weren't expecting.
And I knew it was not going to be a normal week, a normal day, you know?
And it caught me at a time that is kind of crazy, but hopefully in some form
or fashion, it is useful and beneficial to you.
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Hopefully this, you can take what I'm saying and be reminded of that there is hope in Christ.
No matter your darkest day, or your best day, your brightest day. There is hope in Christ.
Whatever you're going through, He's there with you. And it's that reminder of
put on the Lord Jesus Christ, no matter what you're going through every day. Keep doing it.
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Fighting through, keep battling through. I know I got to get better at this
as in bring, developing relationships with other believers, other Christians
and getting close to them, as opposed to not doing that, you know?
And I think I fall short in that aspect of my life so much. And I think I need
to improve on that dramatically, dramatically.
I got, I got things to work out. As you can see, if anyone has watched,
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watched this through, you can see that, but maybe in some way that is, it's relatable to you.
You can see that if you do struggle with things similar to me that, that you're not alone.
We're all like, even when you become a Christian, everything doesn't get all
rainbows and unicorns. It's still tough.
It's still tough. And it's the daily grind and it's the daily struggle that we have to get through.
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I hope this has been beneficial to you. I hope you can take something from this
that you can apply in your life and have encouragement.
Don't get down. You know, I hope me getting down and just sharing all this with
you can just be uplifting to you in some way, that you can take it and it can
be uplifting and encouraging for you in your life, that Christ is with you.
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ every day and whatever you're going through and
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have encouragement in that and know that He's with you. So you're not alone.
You're not battling alone.
He is with you. So I hope you all have a wonderful day and I will see you in the next one.
Music.
After all the ups and downs, this is our time. Enjoy the ride.
Lord Jesus, I need you. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
In a world where our minds can become our greatest battlefield,
the thoughts we choose to dwell on can either lift us up or tear us down.
Today, we're diving into what it truly means to put on Christ.
How embracing His character empowers us to rise above every challenge,
to walk in strength, and to live with purpose.
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We'll explore the importance of making no provision for the flesh,
understanding how even the smallest allowance for negative thoughts can spiral into deeper despair.
And we're going to tackle the destructive power of rumination,
that endless cycle of negative thoughts that can hold us captive,
dragging us into a self-made prison of pain and fear.
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Together, we'll discover how the truth of God's Word can renew our minds,
giving us the power to take every thought captive and align our lives with the
peace, strength, and freedom that only Christ can provide.
We'll cover practical steps to break free from the chains of rumination and
step boldly into the light of Christ.
So if you're ready to break free from the thoughts that hold you down and embrace
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a life filled with purpose, peace, and unstoppable power, are you ready? Let's go!
Music.
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The energy coming. You know, that is something I, that is something I can control.
There are things in this life that I cannot control. I am like a product of it.
I am impacted and influenced by outside things that are going on.
I don't, and I do not know if you all experienced the same thing as well,
but I feel like I'm just being drugged down in a lot of ways,
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you know, a lot of things just happening.
And I know this is not what you all stepped in for, but however you got here,
if you landed here and you're actually listening to this, I really appreciate it.
But But man, this is probably not going to be one of my normal morning coffees in the Bible.
This is like, there's a lot of things that are just happening.
And it's just, and if you've actually, I think it's led up to this last two
weeks, things are just kind of going a little nuts in my life and in my mental state.
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I don't know what it is. I don't know how it's like that. And I don't,
I didn't like even bring in that up.
And something I've learned about just doing stuff on YouTube,
the wonderful thing about YouTube is that everyone sees it. But then also the
wonderful thing about YouTube is no one sees it, you know, and that's the thing.
Sometimes it can be a blessing and a curse, whether everyone sees it,
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or it can be a blessing and a curse, whether no one sees it,
you know? And I think that is something I can almost relate to.
And that's something I can get on board with.
This is just going to be a wild, wild west style. Today is going to be wild, wild west.
I mean, and I don't, I don't know if I'm going to go five minutes or if I'm
going to go five hours, but I might rant today.
I feel like I am, I am going to get on my soapbox and rant, but going through
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what I feel like I'm going through.
And honestly, if I were to get like real raw and dirty and share with you all
what I've been through right now is doesn't even touch at all what I have been through.
So I do not know why right now it's just like, I'm being so heavily weighed
down by the things going on in my life.
But I mean, do you all struggle with things as well?
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I mean, are you right now in your life? Are you is everything going hunky-dory
or is everything are you are you in a valley because right now man if I was
gonna be Real and I'm gonna be real. I am in a valley.
I am in a valley of my mind and.
And I think it's very, it's very tough, you know, it's, it's tough.
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And I don't want to bore you to death with just things that you probably wouldn't care to hear.
It's just messy right now. It's really, really messy.
And it's so weird. Like, I love doing this.
I love putting this out there. I love like creating these things and doing this,
but man, it is, it's just been very different lately.
And maybe this is almost that real version of you are seeing almost like an
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outside version of the glimpse that is in my mind.
I don't know what you all have going in your life. I do not know because inside
that little space, that six inches from one ear to the other,
you all are experiencing something.
Because we all have this ongoing daily dialogue conversation that is happening in our mind.
And I don't know what it's like for you all because I know that in the past,
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all I used to do is I would project the way that I see the world,
the way that I am experiencing things,
I would say everyone out there is experiencing it the same way.
Everyone out there thinks the same way that I do.
Everyone out there just sees the same things that I do and is going through
the same things that I do.
If I feel it this way, how does that person feel anything different?
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How do they see the world differently?
And I would just project onto people.
Scrupulosity that is the word i have scruples i
scruple about things but this has been something that i have
definitely battled with scrupulosity every little thing
it just consumes my mind and i and i
struggle with that and like i've made said in previous videos how
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i had to get all get on natural like kind of supplements and
all these things so i i think like i i don't take as many pills as
i used to but i used to take a whole i used to take a ton
and i still take a bunch of each day but they're not
like right like full-blown medication i've been
on medication and i very thankful i'm not on it at
this time but it did get me through a time in
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a period of my life that i was going through i kind of
got i got out of that because i just i i wanted out of
that i needed out of that because it just like it messed me up i almost like
taking the medication almost did more harm than good if you've ever heard it
masks the problem medication but it can it is useful so you can't just say it's
like can't just throw it out and say it's not useful at all because there is
a time you need medication in one form or fashion.
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It masks the problem. It doesn't actually heal the problem underneath like probably
more natural things will.
That's what maybe that there's that balance. You get that natural to kind of
like start just like almost like fixing the chemicals that are happening in you.
Probably most of y'all, anyone that listened to this, most of y'all are going
to be like, what the heck is this guy talking about? It is not making any sense whatsoever.
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And that's cool. That's cool. You know, maybe there'll be videos where I make sense right now.
It's just, I am just fueled off emotion, fueled off a feeling,
fueled off of just things in my head that I'm just struggling with.
And I think I've come out of it even just this past week.
I mean, basically I have demons that haunt me, you know, whether they're just
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fictional or created in my mind or not, I don't know.
But things that come and they just plague the hell out of me and just want to
just destroy me or it feels like that. I don't even know how to explain it.
Sometimes if you open up that door, you open up that window and you let it in
because you allow it to you.
I mean, it has like, I don't know what it is and what I'm even trying to say,
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but like it comes to you and it wants to that access to you.
And it's like, if you allow it to stay there and you allow it to come in,
it will, you know? And like, for me, that's what I've said in different videos.
I'm like, I almost life is just so freaking hard.
And I, and I'm sure for most people out there, it are like just the people you
encounter counter each day.
It just seems like everything's just fine and dandy, hunky-dory, all that, you know?
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But maybe it's not. Maybe other people out there are going through similar struggles.
I don't know. And even talking about this, I'm probably boring anyone to death.
This is probably just like maybe a patient 13 moment.
I don't know if this might be a patient 13 moment. It's just like when you want
to hide away, put away, and never see the light of day, you know?
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But I think I think what even led me to this, I had different topics that came
to my mind this week and things I wanted to talk about.
And a lot of them, they range from the outlandish to the insane.
And a lot of them...
It's probably good that I did not even select on that. So, I mean,
I think I went the safer route as in put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And like even falling into this topic for me, it's been about,
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I'm going through some crap, you know?
And I thought in my own head, in my own mind, and it's like,
how am I going to get out of that? How am I going to get out of that mindset?
And, and for me, it was put on the Lord Jesus Christ, put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's like almost the phrase that had to come to me and had to remind me of,
I mean, cause we can always just talk about Christ.
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We can always talk about Jesus, but we forget that he is a real person and he really is there.
It's not something, this figment in our imagination that we are wanting beyond
hope to believe that he's there. Oh, he's there. He's there.
No, he's literally there.
I know he's there. I'm convinced of that. So I'm not on that,
but it's being reminded that he's there and that I have access to him.
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And that's what is so tough.
It's just like, this came about in my mind, I do not want to go through and
rehash like everything that the things that it would probably bore you to death.
If not, none of this, if any of this has already, who knows,
but talking about any of the stuff that the, the sick twisted things that the,
of the things that I've gone through in my life and the messed up things in
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my mind and the battles that I've won, it probably would,
it would be almost like TMI, you know?
And I, I know I struggle with TMI because I almost like, I'm just like,
I let everything hang out there and let everything just like everybody sees
stuff, But you got to have some filter, you know, you got to have some things
that you don't, you know, let the world to see.
Because I mean, one thing they probably don't want to see it.
Most people don't want to see don't want it. And that's and that's the power of checking out.
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That's the power of just bouncing out. That's the power of YouTube and of any
of this, the social media and window to people's lives and lives.
Even almost their soul in some instances, because you, when people are real
and genuine people, you see what is behind the veil.
You see behind this facade, this things that we put out there for everybody
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to see that people see the outside, but it's like when you start talking and you start getting real.
And I found for me personally, it's easiest to get real, to talk to thousands
of people through this way, as opposed to one person in real life.
And I don't know if that's at all All you and some people, because I've always struggled with that.
Like, it's all about, you know, in Christianity, you want to share life together
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and be with other people of the similar faith, you know, but it's like,
when you're actually there and when I'm in that context, in that kind of environment.
It's not, it doesn't happen.
And I don't know, and you say it like, you feel like, well, they're not reaching out to me.
They're not like coming to me and they're not wanting to talk to me and kind
of come into my life and be, and like have any, they don't have any desire to
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listen to me or even hear what I'm going through. Like, honestly.
And it's like, or it feels like that. Cause I, that's that projection.
I project that onto people, but then I'm probably, I am, I find myself like,
I'm like these people, uh, brothers and sisters of that share the same faith
in me that we are all Christians and we are brothers in Christ.
And I'm like, why, why do they do not reach out to me? Why do they not want
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to like have anything to do with me?
But then I'm the same way towards them. I don't have any, like where I,
I, I fail miserably in reaching out to people and to talking to people and,
and sharing life with them and like, and actually coming alongside with them and,
and doing it and actually an action and getting my hands dirty and getting it
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into the trenches and like, and actually sharing life together with them.
I, I, I fail at that, but then I am like, I don't know what it is,
but I don't know know if you all out there have experienced this as
well or if you all whenever you are in a
kind of a context of of being with people of
of similar faith you know and and you
are are there and you're with them and right by them
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are you able to share life are you able to open up i guess is that the word
open up and be vulnerable i i mean i that's the difference i'm almost able to
be vulnerable on a screen and just in in this kind of venue or whatever whatever
you call youtube or creating creating stuff, as opposed to in person,
in real life, face-to-face, seeing the other person, because I don't see you all out there.
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I don't see you out there, whoever would ever listen to this.
I'm all over the place and probably doing a terrible job of witnessing,
but it's like, I'm almost like, it's just like, it's, you're seeing the ugly version.
You're seeing like, you know, the battle that I'm going through and I'm trying
to communicate and explain it as much as possible.
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But all this to say is what this came about and all this that I'm going through
and that I feel like I'm going through and there's this struggle,
this constant struggle of things, you know?
I mean, I could definitely open up and just open up the gates and let the flood
come out so everybody just sees everything.
And I think I have been open to doing that. And I really don't care because
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I don't care what people know about me.
I would prefer everybody know everything about me.
Have a window to everything and people can see if they want.
Because I know at the end of the day, when we stand before Christ,
everything's going to be open.
Nothing's going to be hidden. And at that time, so I was like,
I have that, that understanding.
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I have that realization that that is going to be there.
So what's the point of trying to kind of cover anything right now, hold anything back?
Like, but in doing it in front of like with an actual person,
you know, and I think it's because when you're with people, when you see their
face, you see how much they don't care. You, and that's the difference.
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That's the difference. You see how much they don't care. And it's right before
your eyes as opposed to doing a, creating a video and, and making content and
making a podcast and like putting stuff out there. So people can listen to and watch.
I don't see what you all see. I don't know what you are going through and I
don't see how much you don't care, you know, and maybe some of you do care.
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And I, I, I'm thankful if you do, I'm extremely thankful if you do,
but it's when somebody's right in front of you in their faces, right in front of you.
And it's because we're all going through this. We're all going through this,
and we think we're the center of the universe, and that's me projecting.
It's because I think almost that I'm the center of the universe,
that everybody's listening to me. Everyone cares about me.
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But then it's like when you actually see that really no one gives a darn,
they don't really care whatsoever one way or the other, that it hurts, and it's painful.
And you realize I am nothing, but it's being reminded that it's tough,
and it's extremely tough.
So this is a twisted, messed up episode. You know, that's why I was going to
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do... One of the themes I was going to do is life...
Life is fed up and twisted or something. I was going to do something like that,
but it's like, this is supposed to be a good show.
This is supposed to be something that's uplifting and, you know,
and encouraging and all that, you know, and it's, and this is maybe one of my darker days.
I'm sure there will be more darker days that I put out there and everybody sees
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because I'm, you know, I'm an open book.
Let me, you see what you see and I would share with you as much as I could.
You know, it's, it's the difference between, like I said, when you're physically
in front of someone, you know, that's where it gets tough because it,
but it's not that I don't want to have that closeness with people,
but it's like, you, you, you see how much they don't care.
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Are you that I, maybe that's that projection.
I project how much they don't care, but it's like putting this stuff out here.
It's just, for me, it's so much easier to kind of do this and make these things.
I'm completely different.
I feel like, as opposed to when I'm with, and I guess not, not really when I'm
a personal and with individuals,
but when I get in a group setting, I feel like I'm completely different,
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and I think it's that introvert-extrovert kind of mentality that I struggle with.
I am a bona fide crema da crop introvert.
I am an introvert, but I'm also an extrovert. I feel like I'm an extrovert,
and I feel like this has given me an opportunity and a way to kind of.
Show and how that i am extroverted how
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that i have that within me that i i get energy
when i'm doing these types of things i get energy when i'm talking and i want
to talk but it's like when i'm when i'm physically with people and i know this
is boring y'all to death and i'm sorry about that if anyone has hung on is still
there anyone that's known me like especially from my past things that i i had Like I always,
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it sounds so stupid and weird that I've, I always like felt like everyone I encountered,
everyone that I kind of shared life with everyone that like saw me for me, they didn't like me.
And I'm not a likable person. I'm not a likable person.
And I, and I think I, I struggle with that. You know, I feel like,
I feel like people in general have a distaste for me.
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And I, like, I, I, I, maybe that's just that complexity that I have,
or maybe it's just a complex.
I don't know that. I project on them. Everyone I encounter, I just see them
as like, man, they don't like you. I just don't like you.
I love that quote from The Office. It's one of my favorite quotes of all time.
It's one of the fun... Every time I think of it, it makes me laugh.
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And it's Ryan saying to Dwight, man, they did not like me.
And Dwight's like, no, they did not. But they didn't have to say it to your face.
And every time I think of that, I mean, because I am always thinking about myself in that way, like.
Everyone I kind of run, rub elbows with, you know, man, they did not like me
and I'm glad they don't say it to my face. I'm glad they don't say that to my face.
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You know, I appreciate that. But it's, but it's like when you're in this kind
of thing that when you're putting stuff on X, putting stuff on Facebook,
putting stuff on Instagram and tech talk and YouTube, man, when people are behind the screen,
it's like, is that the realer version of them or not?
Because it's like, because you get bold there and people can say some nasty, hurtful stuff.
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On youtube and everything i mean like they
say and i've probably said some stupid stuff
stupid stuff that i regret and i just would like to
forget about and not remember that how could i have been that bad
you know why would i have said something so stupid you know why would i done
that and but it's like when people are behind the screen when people are just
typing stuff you're not seeing them physically in front of you is you i guess
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the you know everything gets tossed to the and you just say i guess what's in
your real in your real heart of hearts but it's also almost most,
it shows the sinful, evil hearts that we have.
This is probably a depressing one. This is a depressing one.
Anyone that's actually out there and listening and tuned in,
maybe it can, because sometimes you do see when people, other people are going
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through stuff, it kind of make, oh man, my life ain't too bad.
Compared to that, my life ain't too bad. You know, what he's going through,
maybe that'll uplift you.
Maybe that will spark something in you as in, don't be like this.
You know, you see the bottom of the barrel, you see the, just the beat up individual
that I am and that my soul is. It's just beat up, you know, for all to see.
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Maybe in some way it could bring value to you. Maybe, maybe some way or angle,
I could make something that is useful for you in this. You could take away something.
I, this is, I, like I said, this is a rant and I know I got on here. I didn't know what I did.
I knew I was going to probably rant and just go on and just, but maybe I can,
maybe hopefully I can bring this into some hope and light for you and kind of
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just change the trajectory of this whole conversation,
this whole dialogue that we were having because
it is a dialogue it is a conversation because i
am right there in your presence i am with you
if you are listening to this i am like alongside with you you
are hearing me and in that in that vein in that form of like in that form of
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community that we have in this digital world you know and things are as the
digital world progresses and gets even more out of control and crazy with you
it'll probably be called something different you know went all of a sudden done,
but the metaverse and all that, you know, that is coming down the pike,
you know, and, and it's probably going to be something different.
We're probably just seeing something, a little glimpse of it like now.
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And, but it's probably going to be something even more crazy that we are going to have that community,
that camaraderie with people across on the other side of the world,
on the other side of the country that we are almost alongside them because of
this technology that we have, we have it. It's right here.
Like I can talk and say these things and instantly be with you.
It's going to get even more real.
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This digital world that it just seems like it's digital and it's just all,
because your phone itself is like a digital version of you.
That is you encapsulated in a digital technology.
And things like that, like this, the way that things are going and the way things
are rolling out, that's why I want to be a part of this. I want to do things like this.
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I want to create things and be there right there with you. And then so we can
share life together in that way.
Let me just try to kind of bring this in and make this,
cause I, I don't want to waste an episode,
waste a time of especially talking about and bringing up, put on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and then just go off on a nonsensical rant and not, and not bring you
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anything valuable because you're, you're seeing the dark side,
but I want to like show you that dark side so that I can bring you the light
so that I can bring you the light. And when I'm bringing you the light,
I'm bringing you the scriptures.
I'm bringing you the Bible. I'm bringing you the Lord Jesus Christ and seeing,
see, we got, I got a lot of twisted, messed up things going on over here,
but Christ is come and he's making, he's renovating.
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He's recreating and making me new.
And even he's taking this marred, messed up version that is me,
and he's going to make it something glorious.
At the end of the day, Christians, we are going to be glorified.
We will be with Christ forever, glorified bodies, glorified existence,
spiritual bodies, you know?
And that's not—and to say not physical, it's just we are going to be so in tune
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and in step with the Holy Spirit.
Sin won't even be, it will be a non-factor. It will not be a possibility.
It will not be on our mind, but we will be in so in tune with obeying our Lord
and Savior and with surrendering to him and living life with him.
I mean, can you imagine what it would be like to not, for sin to be fully eradicated?
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I mean, you think of the best version of your life, picture this,
you know, you're with your family or you're with people you love and you're
in the best environment, the best place imaginable. You're on vacation.
You're going to do, you know, and you're with them and it's so wonderful.
And no matter how awesome it is to be with them, we all still carry around this
bag of sin, this body full of sin that is, it doesn't take long before we start
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arguing and just biting others' heads off and all that, you know?
And it's because we have sin and we are carrying around this sin,
you know, and it's like, I long for the day for it all to be gone,
you know, and one day it will be.
One day it will be gone, and I will, we will be with Christ. We will be glorified.
Christians, we will be glorified, and we will be with Christ.
He is right now, He is the first fruits, and He is at the right hand of God, and He is the guarantee.
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He is the promise. He is our hope, our living hope that is seated at the right
hand of God, and that it is as sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow.
It is a done deal.
So I just got to realign my focus and my mindset that he is there and I have hope.
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And no matter what kind of crap I'm going through right now,
whatever valley I'm struggling through and battling through,
the valley of the shadow of death, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
As Christians, when we trust in Christ and being his, there is light at the
end of the tunnel. He is the light at the end of the tunnel.
Jesus is the light, but it's maybe just tying this in, but with maybe just tying
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this in that he's the light at the end of the tunnel.
But right now, even now we can put on the Lord Jesus Christ. We can reach ahead.
We can reach out into that future reality that is ours.
That we are going to be with him, and we can take Jesus right now,
and we can clothe ourselves with Jesus.
Because that is, it's not, it's just me, something I'm making up.
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It's something that the Bible says, the Apostle Paul wrote it,
and he was telling the Christians in Rome, put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is, that's how we are going to get through this struggle.
It says, we will go through many tribulations to enter the kingdom of God.
That's what it says in the Bible.
And to do that, to get through those struggles, to get through those tribulations,
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we need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, put on that mindset,
that character that is Jesus, and live with that and understand that we are that.
We are Christ is Christ, but we are Christians. We are little Christ.
That's what it means. The word Christian started off as a derogatory word to
make fun of these people.
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Oh, these little Christs out there, they're Christians, this Christianos.
That's what we are. It's a glorious thing. As Christians, we have hope in Christ,
and he is with us, and he will lead us through and carry us through.
So it's putting on Jesus right now and going through our day like,
but how do I actually do that?
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What do I have to do to do that? Well, let's actually go through it.
Let's go through it. So I want to read, and I want to read, this is from Romans.
I'm going to give you the text.
This is Romans Romans 13, verses 14.
This is Paul. He's given the church in Rome, these believers,
the amazing grace that they have in Christ.
They have this amazing grace, and he's telling them, based on this amazing grace
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that we have in Christ, this forgiveness that we've experienced,
he tells them how to live, how to live out their Christian life,
and he gives them a lot of things to live by. And then he goes into kind of...
Just general knowledge about the world that they're living in and obeying authorities.
Obeying the government, paying
taxes, just normal things that the people have to go through and do.
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And he ends this long list of things to live by, and he ends it with this phrase,
and he tells this to the Church of Rome.
He says, But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh
to fulfill its lusts. I remember that was that, and if you're familiar with
church history, that was a huge verse in church history in the sense that St.
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Augustine, it was a huge verse that changed and transformed his life,
and he was the person that for the first thousand years, a lot of church history
and thought and Christian thought was based around.
He was a huge theological mind and really steered the direction that the church
went for almost the first thousand or more years.
And he's almost even still today, Augustinian thought and the way that he interprets
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and read the scriptures and understood the scriptures is so impactful for us today.
And that verse right there was the verse, if you read his confessions,
if you read his story and how he became a Christian, that was the kind of the
hinge that turned him and that transformed his life when he trusted in Christ.
And you should read about that story. I may be talking about that in another video.
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So, how do we do that? So, the reason this verse is so huge for me in this context
of this, you all have seen today, you know, what you've all seen,
why this was so huge for me is, how am I going to get through this battle and this struggle?
It's by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, make no provision for the flesh.
It's not just as in sinful lusts, you know, whatever it is, you know,
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lusts that we have for power, money, sexual lusts, or whatever,
you know, But the lust, I would say the flesh,
the struggle that I have is this just beating down of myself and this rumination
over all the terrible things I've done in my life, all the terrible things that
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I just wish were swept away and were gone.
And honestly, they really are swept away and gone. They are all forgiven and
they were left at the cross.
They are buried, cast into the depths of the sea.
But even though they are there and I know they're there, the devil always wants
to still bring them back at you.
He wants to throw stuff that you do today in your face, as well as stuff that
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you've done in the past, at least for me.
And he just wants to just beat me over the head with and remind me and cause
me to ruminate and cause me to just remember and just live in negativity and
these thoughts that just consume my mind and just eat me alive.
They just gnaw away at me and just eat me alive.
And I had to be reminded of this verse, put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I put it on so that to just to give me that shield to say, Satan,
you have no power against me.
He Satan wants to come, uh, come to you like this big, huge bully that he,
that he is, but really he's just this little baby.
He's less than a baby. He has no power whatsoever.
He has no power. And he wants to make you think that he has all this power and
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he doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't have the power that, that he wants to for you, Christian.
He doesn't have that over you, but he wants to just beat you over the head and
make you think that he does.
So I had to make no provision for the flesh as in not allow myself to ruminate
and just just spiral down in these thoughts and these twisted things that just
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make me paralyzed and nonproductive whatsoever for the kingdom of God.
It makes me a detriment to myself, to my family, to those around me,
and for the kingdom of God, and expanding the kingdom of God.
It makes me paralyzed so that I'm not able to make as much of an impact that
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I know that I I could make for the kingdom of God. That's what's happening.
And I know that I have to just cast that aside, put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
not just every day, but every moment of the day.
Remind myself, even when things are just chaos and everything's hit the fan,
everything's going crazy, everything's nuts, put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Put that mindset on, put that character on, live in his strength.
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I know I've went a lot of places today. I know I've kind of just went in directions
that you probably weren't expecting.
And I knew it was not going to be a normal week, a normal day, you know?
And it caught me at a time that is kind of crazy, but hopefully in some form
or fashion, it is useful and beneficial to you.
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Hopefully this, you can take what I'm saying and be reminded of that there is hope in Christ.
No matter your darkest day, or your best day, your brightest day. There is hope in Christ.
Whatever you're going through, He's there with you. And it's that reminder of
put on the Lord Jesus Christ, no matter what you're going through every day. Keep doing it.
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Fighting through, keep battling through. I know I got to get better at this
as in bring, developing relationships with other believers, other Christians
and getting close to them, as opposed to not doing that, you know?
And I think I fall short in that aspect of my life so much. And I think I need
to improve on that dramatically, dramatically.
I got, I got things to work out. As you can see, if anyone has watched,
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watched this through, you can see that, but maybe in some way that is, it's relatable to you.
You can see that if you do struggle with things similar to me that, that you're not alone.
We're all like, even when you become a Christian, everything doesn't get all
rainbows and unicorns. It's still tough.
It's still tough. And it's the daily grind and it's the daily struggle that we have to get through.
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I hope this has been beneficial to you. I hope you can take something from this
that you can apply in your life and have encouragement.
Don't get down. You know, I hope me getting down and just sharing all this with
you can just be uplifting to you in some way, that you can take it and it can
be uplifting and encouraging for you in your life, that Christ is with you.
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ every day and whatever you're going through and
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have encouragement in that and know that He's with you. So you're not alone.
You're not battling alone.
He is with you. So I hope you all have a wonderful day and I will see you in the next one.
Music.
After all the ups and downs, this is our time. Enjoy the ride.
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