November 24, 2025 • 38 mins
In this episode of The Impossible Life Podcast, Garrett Unclebach and Nick Surface dismantle one of the most powerful lies in modern culture — that you are the main character of your own story.
Drawing from Scripture, history, and real-world examples, they explore how society’s obsession with self — from slogans like “Have it your way” and “Because you’re worth it” — has shaped a generation that’s prideful, impatient, and spiritually empty.
Garrett and Nick explain that true fulfillment doesn’t come from self-expression but from submission. The difference between salvation and wisdom is learning to play your part in the story God is already writing.
Through biblical truth and practical wisdom, they show how humility, endurance, and responsibility unlock the kind of heroic, meaningful life every man was created for. 💡 In This Episode You’ll Learn:
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Drawing from Scripture, history, and real-world examples, they explore how society’s obsession with self — from slogans like “Have it your way” and “Because you’re worth it” — has shaped a generation that’s prideful, impatient, and spiritually empty.
Garrett and Nick explain that true fulfillment doesn’t come from self-expression but from submission. The difference between salvation and wisdom is learning to play your part in the story God is already writing.
Through biblical truth and practical wisdom, they show how humility, endurance, and responsibility unlock the kind of heroic, meaningful life every man was created for. 💡 In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- Why the world’s version of fulfillment always ends in emptiness
- The difference between salvation and maturity — and why most men stop at salvation
- How pride blinds you to purpose, and why rebellion always leads to ruin
- The power of submission — what it means to let God be the author of your story
- The three daily disciplines of a mature believer:
- Humility – Recognize your spiritual poverty (Philippians 2:6–8)
- Responsibility – Build character and consistency (2 Peter 1:5–8)
- Endurance – Persevere in purpose (Hebrews 12:1–2)
- Why true fulfillment only comes when you stop chasing control and start following calling
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Get the Purpose Playbook by clicking here
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
So if you'll understand that God is a blueprint for
your life and you're willing to follow that, that's the
responsibility part. God's sovereign, man's responsible. If all walk out
that blueprint, it's the most fulfilling thing you could ever
experience in your life.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
That's impossible. Let me tell you what I believe. What's
your weakness, it's not your technique. Don't think you know.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The Impossible Life podcast and you're sitting on a winning
lottery tic an idea that is fully formed, fully understood.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That sticks.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick and I
are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
that nothing is impossible. So instead of using impossible as
an excuse to not try, we'll use the pursuit of
impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
done before, that just means it's on a board. If
(01:01):
they tell you it's too hard, it's just waiting to
be simplified. Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous
people unwilling to take a risk.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The real truth is this.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
The solution to any impossible task starts with this question,
if I had to what would it take?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
What would it take? Welcome to another episode of the
Impossible Life Podcast. I'm your co host, Nick Surface, and
I'm looking across as a man who doesn't think in
minutes or months. He thinks admissions. That's right, friends, for
Garrett Akaback, a man who doesn't plan vacation, he strategizes
(01:41):
for eternity. What part was the other? Yeah, it's just
another in the I've shifted these things to being factual
series of introductions just because I felt like the comedy
side was, you know, I just needed to refresh it
up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
All right, Gee, I'm just focused, dude. We got to
get locked in all the time vacation other than what
we're supposed to be doing. That's what I'm all about.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's that easy. It's that easy. So let's make the
mission relaxation and then you can have a vacation. Anyways, Okay,
so do today, man, how to.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Hack Garrett's france. Yeah, your mission, should you choose to accept,
is to relax.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Did you Yeah? That would that would be yeah, that
would be in sharp contrast. Anyways, it would be like
this is you have to rest in order to do
the next mission. That's how you would actually hack your
brain for that. Anyways. So today's episode on Ultimate Fulfillment
the most heroic Life you can live. Man, what a
doozy of a title. G We are not setting ourselves
up for the easy road, but we don't ever do that, man.
(02:43):
So we're gonna today We're going to really dive in because, like,
everybody wants to have the most fulfilling life possible, and
I mean who doesn't want to. Like, there's so many
things decided about hero's journey and all that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
People set up different you know, ideas and dreams and
outcomes for themselves. But I don't think there's any because
there's all different types of folks out there, but there's
not really anybody that's like, you know, I'm just really
chasing after emptiness, you know. I just want to. I
just want to. I want my life to have been meaningless.
I hope nothing happens to me. I hope I do nothing.
(03:15):
I hope I am nothing. People don't say.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That, Yeah, that's it. It is interesting because you don't, like,
there's no such thing as homeostasis for like, hey, how
are you doing? Everything is exactly average? Oh you know
what I mean. It's It's like even the people who
are the most like blase about things and maybe don't
care about stuff enough, emptiness comes around and has a
way of like getting you in the end. It was
interesting because while we were preparing for this, I was
thinking about some of the stuff that I've seen in society,
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and like, in twenty seventeen, some people out there may
have heard it, there was a book released by Donald
Miller called Building a Story. Brand Really blew Up. It
sold over a million copies that spent over a year
on the New York Times Bestsellers list, and this was
something that like a lot of brands grasped onto because
the premise for the book for those that haven't read it,
is that you need to basically tell story that the
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brain works in, story that people understand and thinking story.
And if you want to be effective in marketing your
company and reaching your customers, you need to think in
the terms of story with your company. And one of
the main takeaway points from this like I read this book,
it was phenomenal and he uses all these movies and
shows how they all basically run through the same story arc,
which was really kind of, you know, upsetting. If you
(04:20):
like Star Wars and you know, Lord of the Rings
and all the big ones because he breaks all of
them down. But one of the biggest takeaways for businesses
and get this, ge, this is a shocker in your story.
You the company are not the hero. Your customer is.
I mean, wow, that doesn't it's not as bad about you. Yeah, which, like,
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which doesn't seem like like when we're sitting here on
the podcast's like, yeah, oh of course. But man, the
amount of times I'm speaking as a marketer when somebody
will pitch an idea or they have some big brand
thing that they want to do, and I'm like, no
one besides like I'll just quote you, no one besides
your mom is going to want to get behind this
because it's really like, hey, look at me, I'm so great.
And that's like the diffulty.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's also the castle building concept. Yeah, we've talked about before.
No one wants to help you build your castle.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Right, but people don't think of it that way. And
so I mean, you know, we just came off that
we did timeframe orientation revisit, which I really enjoyed doing,
and one of the things we talked about in that
was we gave from Titus one whenever Paul introduces himself
and talks about how he sees himself as this character
in this eternal play that God's written and what his
part is and how he realizes the weight of that.
(05:32):
And I would just challenge everybody out there, if you're
listening to that, Like what I said about that story
brand is who's the main character in your story? And
what I mean by that is the main character is
the person around the story, around who the story centers.
And so I mean that's a challenge to all of
us because I think by default, and if you're not
there now, praise the Lord. If you are, you know,
don't beat yourself up, just pay extra special attention. But
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like for all of us, we've been the main character
in our story at some point in time, and for
many of us, we may still be the main character
in our story. And I hope that if you are
the main character in your story, you at least realize
that you're thinking that way, because the worst thing to
be would be to think you're the main character but
be telling everybody that you're not, because that's called delusion.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And that main character energy is really where entitlement comes from.
When you start thinking everything's about you. You start looking
at the world as everything should be this way. And
I don't know if you've experienced this before, that's that's
a sarcastic statement. By the way, everyone has experienced this.
That when you start saying in life like, well, it
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should be this way and should be that way, it's
not You're You're not God, you're not the governor, you're
not the one who created it. All the world has
a way of operating, and by when you experience that
in life, it should humble you to a place where
you say, maybe I should enroll in the process instead
of getting mad at the software that I didn't write
(06:53):
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
When we were planning this, I add I asked Garrett,
So Garrett, Garrett talk about how like this was really
it's like our own rebellion. And I said to Garrison,
where does rebellion come from? And you said it was pride.
And I sat there and I thought about it for
a little while, and I was like, Okay, but like,
is there anything more than that? Because what if? What
if sin? Like we talked about last week on our
(07:15):
previous episode about how sometimes you sin because you're thinking
very short term and like we would call that ignorance,
and you said that it doesn't, like sin causes ignorance.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I thought that sin is Sin is what causes the blindness. Right,
if you look at our legal framework. Now there's been
a lot of terrible insertions that are happening in America's
legal framework in the last few years. But if you
go if you look at our legal framework, it is
based on morality. Much of it is based upon the Bible.
If you look through sin in the Bible, right, ignorance
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does not there's no excuse for your sin because you
didn't know. Law is so important that you have to
be instructed that you didn't accidentally break the law. And
even today, right when you stand in the court of law,
you our ignorance is not an excuse for the law.
Sin is what causes blindness. Bible talks about that sin
like it blinds you, it scales over your eyes. And truly,
(08:09):
what pride is, it's satan. In the very beginning, Lucifer said, well,
why can't I be God? He wanted it to be
his way, and that's what we have the You know,
we look at ourselves as so much better than Satan.
But we asked the same questions that he asked, Why
can't it be my way? Why can't we do what
I want to do? I think it should be this way.
I think God should step aside. We have these same thoughts,
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we think these same things that lead down this same
it's rebellion. Rebellion is the opposite of play your part.
Rebellion is we're not playing that, we're not doing God's plan,
We're doing my plan right now.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And so when you said that to me, I'll be honest,
I like, I knew it was the right answer, but
it didn't satisfy my question. And the reason for it
was because I had to sort of zoom out on
where we're at in life, because every single person listening
to this was born into a fallen, sinful world and
into a fallen, sinful society. And this is where the
real deception, I think comes in. Because I was asking
that question about if ignorance is kind of like could
(09:06):
be at the root of this, and you said, no,
sin causes ignorance. Well, since we live in a sinful world,
I think that what actually happens where we get this
thought process that were the main characters that from the
time you were born let.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Me give you a good example.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay, go back.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
This is lost people trying to draw a map of
something they've never seen. These are These are astrologists and
physicists in older history thinking that Earth was the center
of the universe. Right, Why would they think that, right?
That nothing lended to that. And the more they discovered science,
(09:43):
the more they realized, oh, that's not the case. But
they just naturally thought everything must revolve around us. Science
actually showed them differently. So it's so easy for us
to fall into this trap because you're lost, and so
as you orient yourself, you're orienting everything to you until
you see the whole picture. And until you see God,
(10:06):
you're just gonna think everything's about you, right until you
get exposed to the truth. Once, once astrologists, once physicists
saw the truth, they go, oh, we were dumb, we
didn't know, right. But when you first begin to orient
in life, and this is all of us, it's being
born into a sinful world, making the analogy to we're
not born with the knowledge of the universe. We had
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to get out there and discover the truth of how
things are actually made. Until you get out there and
discover the truth of who God is. You're going to
think everything's about you and you'll misorient everything in life.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, which is so crazy because a little hint for yourself,
as you begin to unravel your own selfishness, your natural
reaction is going to be to do what people did
to Galileo. Let's persecute them, let's tell me he's wrong,
let's punish him. And it's like you have this nature
that's fighting against it. And so it's a really good
example that you use there of naturally thinking where the
center of the universe Because we're now born into a
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world where, like especially in America, where it's the convenience
comfort culture, the whole society is telling you it's about
you from the time you're born, Like, think about it
with kids. As kids, you know, you're told that you're this.
For a lot of parents, they make their kids the
center of the universe, like we can't do anything and
disrupt Johnny's nap time because like you know, he determines everything.
And you grow up with this thought process that like
(11:22):
you should get everything you want and here's a snack,
and here's your water, and never be uncomfortable. And it
starts and.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
As you grow as you grow. It's just like our
actual understanding of the universe is that Earth is not
even the center of our solar system. Our solar system
is not the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and
the Milky Way galaxy is not the center of the universe. Right,
You're actually so far from the center. You're a tiny
piece of a tiny piece of a tiny piece. But
you know what, Earth is actually really special inside all
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of the universe even though it's not the center. And
so it says it's the exact same way with us,
Like you are both special and created by God. God
wan say relationship with you. You're just not the sinner.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, And that's like that probably doesn't sound revolutionary to you,
but I just I want to warn people our society.
I'm just speaking as a marketer, and I hate saying
this because I don't like this about marketing, but so
much of marketing appeals to your pride to the point
that you don't even recognize it as pride. I mean,
I think even in Christian culture, there's a lot of
people that are like, I just can't wait to see
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how God makes this work for me. And it's like
that is a thought I'm being serious that that is
a potential perception.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Of that's absolutely true. Well, that's that's the beginning of
most people's Christianity, is sure, using God as a tool
or an application of like, right, let me go look
through the scripture, I mean through the Bible for scriptures
that are gonna, you know, help me do what I
want to do. Not who is God?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
What does he have to say? Right? It's just like, oh,
I know that this is going to work how I want.
It's like no, not no, that's not like there's a
lot of people who went to their death and it
wasn't what they wanted. But but just to like, so
just understand you have things all the time that are
appealing to your pride to the point that you don't
recognize it, particularly in marketing. I was going through this
with Garrett because this is my world and there's just
a few taglines just off the top of my head
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to say Garrett was Burger King's tagline, and Garrett say,
you can have it your way, don't get crazy. Garrett's addition,
I didn't know what he was referencing, but I thought
it was funny. So you got Burger King have it
your way. The army, which is literally where you go
to like give your life for. In two thousand and
one and two thousand and six, their slogan was Army
of one. Is that not the most backwards? Hey, come
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join this fighting force. But it's all about you. That's
a dangerous game to play, Loriel Paris, because you're worth it.
Like I know that this is a man's podcast, way,
we have a lot of women that listen to it too,
And we've all seen those commercials over and over and
over again. You have things in society that are appealing
to it, like, well, you should have it this way.
You know you're you're worth it, like and it puts
you on the throne to the point that you don't
even recognize as pride anymore. You just kind of go like, well, yeah,
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I expect to have some convenience, and like, you know,
I paid for this, so I'm entitled to it. And
you would never I don't know that you would necessarily
say it that way. But over and over and over again,
we're reinforcing pride to the point that you don't even realize.
You're getting just fed stuff that's telling you you're the
main character. You're the main character. You're the main character. Well, fortunately, gee,
you have this saying that that you've said many times
in this podcast that we're gonna unpack and we're gonna
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show you how to do this aka how to really
live the most heroic life. You've said this, You said
God is sovereign and this man is responsible.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And then it's my entire theology. God is sovereign, man
is responsible. And it's the other way I say that,
and I would say in a secular way, or in
a way that's more understandable to be even people who
don't see God or have a relationship with God, is
if you want to live a great life, make it
all about other people. If you want to be miserable,
make it all about you.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, well, because there's this, but there's this thought process
when you hear like God is sovereign, man is responsible.
There's like this like kind of shudder that goes inside.
You're like, oh, man, what if God tells me to
sell everything I have here in America and like go
be a missionary in Africa? You know what I mean.
You're like instantly you're like, dude, this is a dangerous game,
and you kind of go, I don't know, if I
could do that, and like you're already question it.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We're going to jump into this and we're going to
go through this, but I'm going to say it at
the beginning. We'll talk about it, and we'll close on it.
Here's what I want people to understand about that is
if God actually told, if God told you, like I
want you to go sell everything you own and move
to you know, Turkmenistan and or to Jikistan, and you
know you're going to minister to these like nomadic people,
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and it's so far from the life that you thought
you wanted. If that was actually God's plan for you,
it would actually be the most fulfilling thing that you
could ever ever want or do. And you could go
do something else in life that, by the world's measure,
would be a great accomplishment, would be considered successful, and
it would continually be emptiness for you. And so it
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is kind of this dichotomy. It's like it's a paradox
of thinking, well, I don't want to do that, it's
what God wants. But if you'll do what God wants
you to do. This is Psalm thirty seven, verse four.
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you
the desires of your heart. That doesn't mean like if
I just love God is going to give me whatever,
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whatever I want. What he's saying is, if you'll love me,
I'll reveal to you who you really are. If you
love me, if you'll delight yourself in me, who you
are will come out and you'll want what I wanted
for you. Because here's what you have to understand. This
is God is sovereign. Man is responsible. God created you,
gives a blueprint for your life, which is crazy to
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think about that, the creator of the universe, who made
this vast universe and solar system. I'm out here in
the Panhandle of Texas right now, and last night I
went outside and just stood and looked up at the stars,
like I could see it's so black out here, I
could see the entire Milky Way galaxy. Whenever I'm in
places like this, I take the moment and look at that,
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just to remind myself how small and tiny I am.
Like Earth is tiny in the midst of the universe,
and I'm just a tiny thing on Earth and a
blip of time on Earth. But in the midst of
all of that, God, God had the the care to
make me with a purpose, to make me with a blueprint.
And so if you'll understand that God is a blueprint
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for your life and you're willing to follow that, that's
the responsibility part. God's sovereign, man's responsible. If all walk
out that blueprint, it's the most fulfilling thing you could
ever experience in your life. It's like if you joined
a business and the business says, well, we have this problem.
There's something we hired you to solve this gap in
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the business, and it's like, we'd like you to write
some software to fix this problem, and you, as the employee, said,
I don't want to do that. I'm going to write
this other software. And you go write some other software
and it's great. But here's here's the thing. You're not
going to help the business. You're going to get fired.
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You didn't. You didn't. You didn't do what we asked
you to do. Man, you did something that you thought
was great. It's actually maybe it would have been great,
but that's not what we asked for. So you're going
to feel upset and frustrated, and also the responsibility that
you had you neglected it. But when you'll play your part,
when you realize where God's put you and know that
he has a great plan, which, by the way the
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Bible describes, is beyond what you could ask, think or imagine.
It's more than what you might want for yourself. That
when you'll enroll in this process, you'll humble, humble yourself
submit to it. It's the greatest thing. It's the most
fulfilling thing that you could ever do.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, man, I love that. Well, all right you let's
let's let's dive into this, man, because I think it's like,
it's okay. I think I hope people listening are realizing
you're not the main character. God has a plan and
like you need to play your part. But the real
question is, like, so how do I do that?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Like what are the practicals of actually walking.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
On a thing on that? Like Here's the way I
like to explain it to people is you're not the hero,
but you can play your part heroically, right, right, Like
you like you can do something great, you can and
do something special. Look, it's like it's like in football.
Let's use football as an example. If for those of
you aren't sports people, just I know you probably understand football.
(19:08):
If you're an American so just hang out for a
second American football for the UK. Yeah, it's like you're
never you can't be the quarterback. God's the quarterback. But
there's so many other positions that you need to play
really well that help the quarterback. And like you you're
a special member of the team, just you're not going
to be that position. But there's so many other important
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positions that need to be played.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Right, exactly right, all right, So gee, we see, like
you've seen this in like mature. The fact, I feel
like like for most people, they have Jesus on the throne,
and then like right at the footstool of the throne
is the apostle Paul, because like he's the guy who
almost like ran his race to the max that we saw.
And there's this great scripture in Acts twenty twenty four
that you pulled out whenever we were prepping and says, however,
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I consider my life worth nothing to me. My only
aim is to finish the race and complete the task.
The Lord Jesus is given the task of testifying to
the good news of God's grace. Like that, to me
is the clearest scripture saying, like, hey, this is what
it is to play your part heroically is that you
get to that point where you're just like, look, all
I care about is just doing what God, what God's
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given me to do. And I mean it's a huge
It seems like a million miles away from everything that
we've talked about, where we've been, what we're pumped full
of in society and what's so natural because we have
this sinful nature that constantly wants to relate things back
to you, like, well, what will happen to me? How
does this benefit me?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Like?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Oh, are they looking at me? Are they talking about me?
What will people think? Like all these thoughts that go
through our head that come from all sorts of places
of fear and security, pride, but it's all me centered, right,
And so how do we how do we actually get
Like we have three step process here we want to
walk people through of like this is how you play
your part heroically, This is how you live the most
fulfilling life possible. And step number one is submit to
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the mission and plan.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Correct, you've got to humble yourself. And again it's that
Scripture Acts twenty verse twenty four. Consider my life worth
nothing to me. My only aim is to finish the race.
And complete the task. The Lord Jesus has given me
the task of testifying to the good news of God's grace.
God is a great plan for you. You've got to humble
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yourself and realize it's not about me what I want,
what God wants. Humbling yourself isn't saying like I'm nothing.
It's saying that it's not about me. There's two different things.
A lot of people think humility is small. Humility is
not small. Humility is understanding it's not about me. You
can do big things that aren't about you. That's what
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I want for the people who listen to this podcast,
and it's been it's been some of the fire and passion.
I've had to help people grow and be great because
I think there's so many great things that people aren't
doing because they've misunderstood humility. But you've got to get
both of these things. You've got to understand God is
a great plan, but also it's not my plan. It's
His plan. And humility is what's going to help me
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say like, okay, quarterback, what what past do you want
to throw? Not here's what I want you to do,
it's saying what past do you want to throw? I'll
catch the past that you're going to throw. You figured
it all out. You're the one who's got the plan.
You're the one who can see the field. Where do
I need to be that I can be a part
of your process and that's the greatest process that you're
ever going to be a part of. But it takes
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humbling yourself. And humbling yourself is h you know, We've
talked about this many times on the podcast Nick. But
you can either choose to be humble or you can
get humbled in life. And you get humbled in life
when you won't humble yourself. You can either choose it
or it'll be dictated to you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Let me ask you a question, gee, because you know
you have a lot of a camp Like I've watched
you in environments where you're by far and away the
most skilled, and like you have the track record as
a Navy seal to be like you could be total arrogant,
Like you know, you could be a jerk about weapons
and about your abilities and all the stuff you've done.
And I've literally never seen you, not even first second,
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show what I would consider even the remotest sense of pride.
I've talked about before I've talked to people who are
hunters where the deer don't shoot back, and they're cockier
about their ability to shoot a deer from a blind
than you are from being able to walk into a
room where people have machine guns and execute the task.
So do you feel like humility comes from seeing the
greatness that's so much bigger than yourself or seeing how
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depraved you are? Or is it a combination of both.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm actually actually I would say it's it's the pride
and ignorance going together. Right. The further you go in life,
the more you realize you don't know. Like, I've been
around people who make my accomplishments look really dumb, and
those people most of the time, those people are really
really humble. The more the more you've seen, the more
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you've accomplished, it actually like humbles you even more. You
know who's you know, who's like not afraid of God?
Somebody who's never been in a thunderstorm. I went out
for a run earlier today and I was getting my
miles in for you know, our giant killers running miles
every day till the end of the year and praying
for each other. And there was a massive thunderstorm rolling
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in like lightning all around me, and I was running
really fast because I was trying to get struck by lighting.
And when you experience things like that, you're like, wow,
I'm I'm nothing, Like I'm praying, like, God, please don't
let me get struck by lightning right now. But I
probably should not have been running when I was running.
But when you experience massive things like that in life,
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it actually exposes to you really how small you are.
Then you realize, like, that's like when you've been when
you really have that humility, that level of fear of
the Lord. Then you're like, you know what, God, I
don't want to offend you. I would like to do
exactly what you would like to do. Pride and ignorance
go hand in hand if you've never been if you've
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never been in those types of situations, I'm just using
a thunderstorm as an analogy. If you've never been in
those types of situations, you get a false sense of confidence,
you get an arrogance where you think, like, man, I'm
so capable right Like you're using the hunters as an analogy,
it's because they've never been shot back at once. You've
been shot back at you said, you know what, I
almost could have died there, right, doesn't matter what it's
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the thing about firearms. A fourteen year old boy with
no experience can can kill, you know, a dude that's
been trained to the highest level. Bullets work for whoever.
And so you realize, like, there's a small margin between
my life and my death, and so maybe I shouldn't just,
you know, start talking about how great I am. Why
don't I just focus on how great God is and
be thankful that He's allowed me to play this part
(25:39):
and stay humble so that God doesn't strike me with lightning.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That's interesting. I just I wanted to ask you that.
Just I hope that's helpful for people out there, because
we're all susceptible to it, right, And that's you two,
Like you're like, I'm kind of it seems weird that
I would loadge you and like, you know, honor you
for your ability, because that could, by definition almost be
the fault of humility, But like we all, it's in
all of us.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Man, Well, and that's this is the humility is the
God is right. We're going through a three step process here, right,
How do I do this? How do I live the
greatest life, ever, how do I live the most fulfilling
life ever? Again? This is much of the paradigm of
a kingdom mindset. It flips a lot of things on
its head. The beginning of the greatest life you could
ever live is to truly humble yourself. It's to understand
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that God is sovereign. And Philippians chapter two, verse six,
who being talking about Jesus, who, being in very nature God,
did not consider a quality with God something to be
used to his own advantage. Rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant, being made
in human likeness, and being found in appearance as a man.
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He humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death
on a cross. Right. This is the life that Jesus lived.
This is the model of the life that we should live.
And the Bible talks about him. I'm forgetting the reference
bable talks about that Jesus name will be the name
above every other name. So who actually got the most?
If you want to talk about honor, That's the way
a lot of people will talk about honor. The rewards,
(27:10):
the acknowledge, acknowledgments, the accolades like Jesus won't doing it
for accolades. But if you're talking about accolades given away
in the Bible says that Jesus's name will be the
name lifted above every other name. But this is to
the one who humbled himself to obedience to death.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And that's I think that's really it. When we're saying
step one is submit to the mission and plan, and
we're talking about here how you have to humble yourself,
I think the biggest sign of humbling yourself is obedience.
You see it over and over again when Jesus first
got baptized by John. He's not done miracles at this point.
And what does what happens? They hear a voice from
the heavens that says, this is my son and whom
I'm well pleased. Well, what did he do to please God?
(27:49):
Up until that point? The only record we have is
earlier on when it says that he was twelve and
he was at the temple, and it said after that
he went home and he was obedient to his parents.
So for thirty years, the guy who was literally God
was obedient to these two human parents. And that's what
pleased his father.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Now and knew he was God for about you know,
eighteen of those thirty years.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, if not more. Yeah, I mean it's hard, Yeah,
because I mean at twelve, he clearly knew something was up.
Think about that's.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Really think about knowing your God, knowing that you are
God on the earth, and your mom is like, hey,
I need you to take out the trash, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, Or she's asking you to do something and you're like,
this is not the best way to do it. Yeah, okay,
I'll do it anyways. No, but I think about that.
I mean, I'm feeling challenged by this just in my
own life. I'm like, man, I need to be so
much more obedient to the people that God's put over me,
not because I believe in what they're doing, but because
God's put them over me, and that that that's a
hard place of humility.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So that's familiar. So take us to point number two, Nick.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, point number two is to take responsibility. And this
is where you always say, man is responsible. I think
that this scripture tewod Peter one five through eight to
me is such a fascinating like it's a it seems
like flies in the face of the paradigm of Christianity
because a lot of people's Christianity is like Jesus, I
just Jesus take the wheel right, like it's the country song,
(29:08):
like Jesus take the will you do everything? I'm the
hop in the back seat because I basically I'm just worthless.
And Peter literally talks about how they've been given everything
they need for life and godliness. We know that scripture,
and we're like yes, And then he goes in and says,
for this very reason, Okay, so because you've been given
everything you need for life and godliness, make every effort
to add to your faith goodness and to goodness, knowledge
(29:29):
and to knowledge, self control and to self control, perseverance
and to perseverance godliness and to Godliness, mutual affection and
totual affection love who sounds like a lot of work, Peter,
because and this is what he says in verse eight,
for if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they'll
keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You know, for a God who's for a God who's sovereign,
who made it all and controls it all. Sure kind
of seems like there's some stuff he's asking us to
take care of.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
My for real, man, Like so much like what we
like to believe in magical change, and like I think
we forget even when we read in the Bible, like
we read about Matthew the tax collector who was one
of the one of the twelve disciples Zakias who was
also a tax collector. He came down and he gave
you know, he pledged to give four times back to
the poor. We don't know what happened? Is a kias well?
What about saw de Paul showed up on the spot
(30:20):
and instantly it happened. Oh wait, we'll go read Galatians
and find out about the number of years that actually transpire,
Like we read in the Book of Acts, how it's
like and then they lowered them down from the wall
because people were out to kill him. And we were like, oh,
that must have been like three days later. And then
you go read Galatians and he's talking about how he
went up for eleven years into all these places. And
so I'm just telling you, like, if you're looking for
(30:41):
the magical genie change, you are not taking that is
basically just realize you're trying to opt out of your responsibility,
like we have like God is a God of process,
you know, it's so much of sanctification. We looked up
the definition of sanctification when we were going through this
g and it talks about how it's the process of
to make holy, it's purifying or consecrating, and it talks
(31:02):
about how it's like in the New Testament term. I
thought this was fascinating. It covers all of salvation history
from divine election to final glorification. Aka, like God, we
have this thought process that like Jesus is going to
come back, and like, you know, we think, I don't
know what we think, but I think we feel like
we can almost just get to that finish line and
(31:23):
that's all you gotta do. And I just think there's
so like we see so often in God, in God's
plans that's it's already but not yet. And so like
I look at this and I'm like, all the things
that we go through on a day to day basis,
we realize there for our sanctification and that that's actually
part of our responsibility and part of our responsibilities to
do what Peter's saying here. It puts a whole different
spin on like when things go wrong in your life.
(31:44):
It's not just about like, oh man, this is tough.
Lord help me, Like I want to get through this.
It's like, Lord, what should I learn? What are you
developing in me? Because now you understand like you have
a process that's going to go literally through eternity, like
you're being prepped for eternity.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It's just it's a wild So it's so important to
understand both of these things, both the sovereignty of God
and the responsibility of man. It is. It is one
of the we've we've done a whole podcast on this.
Nix getting some homework. He's going to get to tag
it in the show notes where we've talked about the
power of both right and this is it's who God is,
(32:19):
that he's both love and law. It's one of the
one of the things that I think it's one of
the stupidest. Is just my personal opinion, and some of
you who listen may not agree with me, and that's okay.
It's not that these aren't the topics that we cover.
I think it's one of the silliest arguments in Christianity
is the argument between Calvinism and Armenianism. Calvinism is that
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you know, it's predestination. God has willed it all, God's
controlled at all. There's nothing you can't deny. You know,
God's salvation for your life. And then Armenianism, which is
basically the opposite of like fore you know complete free
will and salvation, you can do whatever you want. Maybe
you know there's no you weren't chosen or not chosen
to be saved. It's so silly to try and understand
(33:00):
and or think that you could understand what the God
of the Universe's planned. The guy like, we can't even
see all of the known universe, but we think that
we could understand what the God of the Universe's plan
was for everyone. It's such a silly and I would
say unhumble thought. Actually, I think the truth is much
closer to its both and you'd say, that's how well,
(33:21):
how could you be both? Go listen to our both
episode where we talked about this, right, some of the
divinity of both. There's the divinity of love and law,
and here we're talking today about the divinity of God's
sovereignty and man's responsibility. If you miss one, you've missed
all of it. You must have both. Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
By the way, that was episode two thirty eight called
both versus balance. Now I don't have to look it up.
You guys can just go to yourself, all right. So
ge number one was to submit ourselves to the mission
and plan, which was a lot of humility and obedience.
Number two is take responsibility, which understands we're in a process.
It's like, make every effort. Guess what like the work
that you feel like, oh that's hard, That's exactly the
(33:59):
way supposed to be. Like God set it up that way.
So next time something hard happens, realize you're right where
you're meant to be. Number three is a great word
that everybody loves.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Endurance but favorite everybobody's favorite.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Who doesn't like it for a long.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Run because this so this is the this is the
great part. This is the great part. Right if you'll
catch this, that that God is sovereign, that man is responsible.
The way that you're going to live the most heroic
life possible is that you keep going right because script
scripture says that God's plan is greater than our plan.
Scripture says that it's more than we could ask, thank
or imagine. Scripture says that for those who love God,
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everything works out for the good of those who love God.
That's Romans right, So so many things that so many
lines in scripture talking about the greatness of God's plan
for our life. But what it comes down to, and
truly the test is are you going to walk it
all the way out? You see this test, because this
is the test, This is the maturity test, this is
(34:57):
the greatness test. You see this test and every Why
did God give us the New Testament where he like
really speaks to us and the people that He works
through right to us. But then there's the Old Testament
that's like history and tells stories because the stories show
you so much about the character of God and what
matters to God. New Testament speaks directly to us, gives
us instruction Like the Old Testament is so many lessons
(35:19):
and many of the lessons of the Old Testament and
revealing of the character of God is that God, out
of the sovereignty of God, he gives a plan, He
ordains a future, and then he and then he lets
a man choose to walk it out, and he lets
that man do it over time where God, you know
again with its one. I think it's a great example
that at the very beginning, God's not working with any
(35:39):
conflict or anything. Just tells Abraham he's gonna make him
the father of many nations. He could have said, and
your wife's pregnant with you know, octuplets right now, and
you're gonna have you know, eight children, and then it's
gonna that's gonna happen again, and you're gonna have seven
sets of eight children over the next like you know,
seven years, and like now you have fifty six children.
Like God could have done something crazy like that, and
(36:01):
instead he said, but you didn't say this, But is
what happened twenty years Abraham waits for Isaac. This is
the test of endurance. God lets us grow because what
God wants most is our maturity, which comes from us
seeing it like walking it out with him in time
through the trust of his sovereignty and us playing the
part in our responsibility. Is how you live the greatest
(36:23):
life possible. Let me tell you something. If you're going
to live the greatest life possible, you're going to become
really great. You're not the hero. It's not about you.
But in walking out this process, who you are will
be so much greater at like who you are in
twenty years will be so much greater than who you
are now if you will live this way and you
will continue to endure down the path. And that's Hebrew
(36:45):
chapter twelve, verse one and two. Therefore, since we are
surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us
throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so
easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance or endurance
the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus,
(37:05):
the pioneer and perfector of our faith. You've got to
know that God is a great plan. You've got to
get focused on the ultimate end. Have endurance. Right. Connect
this episode with what we did on the last episode
of the time frame Orientation. Revisited orient all the way
to the end. Submit to God's plan, be humble, and
then take responsibility for I mean, it talks about you
taking responsibility for your salvation, right, and that's such a
(37:28):
huge thing, which truly salvation is a gift of God.
Yet it says to us take responsibility for it. For
one of the things that it truly says is just
a straight gift from God. Yep, man has to take
responsibility for that. Don't you think that you should have
to take responsibility for everything else in your life after that?
And then just keep doing it, Keep doing it, stay
faithful in the path, continue to endure to the end,
(37:50):
and that's where greatness is going to develop in you
and you live the greatest life that you could possibly
have ever lived.
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See you again soon.
So if you'll understand that God is a blueprint for
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responsibility part. God's sovereign, man's responsible. If all walk out
that blueprint, it's the most fulfilling thing you could ever
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I'm looking across as a man who doesn't think in
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Garrett Akaback, a man who doesn't plan vacation, he strategizes
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for eternity. What part was the other? Yeah, it's just
another in the I've shifted these things to being factual
series of introductions just because I felt like the comedy
side was, you know, I just needed to refresh it
up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
All right, Gee, I'm just focused, dude. We got to
get locked in all the time vacation other than what
we're supposed to be doing. That's what I'm all about.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's that easy. It's that easy. So let's make the
mission relaxation and then you can have a vacation. Anyways, Okay,
so do today, man, how to.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Hack Garrett's france. Yeah, your mission, should you choose to accept,
is to relax.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Did you Yeah? That would that would be yeah, that
would be in sharp contrast. Anyways, it would be like
this is you have to rest in order to do
the next mission. That's how you would actually hack your
brain for that. Anyways. So today's episode on Ultimate Fulfillment
the most heroic Life you can live. Man, what a
doozy of a title. G We are not setting ourselves
up for the easy road, but we don't ever do that, man.
(02:43):
So we're gonna today We're going to really dive in because, like,
everybody wants to have the most fulfilling life possible, and
I mean who doesn't want to. Like, there's so many
things decided about hero's journey and all that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
People set up different you know, ideas and dreams and
outcomes for themselves. But I don't think there's any because
there's all different types of folks out there, but there's
not really anybody that's like, you know, I'm just really
chasing after emptiness, you know. I just want to. I
just want to. I want my life to have been meaningless.
I hope nothing happens to me. I hope I do nothing.
(03:15):
I hope I am nothing. People don't say.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That, Yeah, that's it. It is interesting because you don't, like,
there's no such thing as homeostasis for like, hey, how
are you doing? Everything is exactly average? Oh you know
what I mean. It's It's like even the people who
are the most like blase about things and maybe don't
care about stuff enough, emptiness comes around and has a
way of like getting you in the end. It was
interesting because while we were preparing for this, I was
thinking about some of the stuff that I've seen in society,
(03:40):
and like, in twenty seventeen, some people out there may
have heard it, there was a book released by Donald
Miller called Building a Story. Brand Really blew Up. It
sold over a million copies that spent over a year
on the New York Times Bestsellers list, and this was
something that like a lot of brands grasped onto because
the premise for the book for those that haven't read it,
is that you need to basically tell story that the
(04:00):
brain works in, story that people understand and thinking story.
And if you want to be effective in marketing your
company and reaching your customers, you need to think in
the terms of story with your company. And one of
the main takeaway points from this like I read this book,
it was phenomenal and he uses all these movies and
shows how they all basically run through the same story arc,
which was really kind of, you know, upsetting. If you
(04:20):
like Star Wars and you know, Lord of the Rings
and all the big ones because he breaks all of
them down. But one of the biggest takeaways for businesses
and get this, ge, this is a shocker in your story.
You the company are not the hero. Your customer is.
I mean, wow, that doesn't it's not as bad about you. Yeah, which, like,
(04:41):
which doesn't seem like like when we're sitting here on
the podcast's like, yeah, oh of course. But man, the
amount of times I'm speaking as a marketer when somebody
will pitch an idea or they have some big brand
thing that they want to do, and I'm like, no
one besides like I'll just quote you, no one besides
your mom is going to want to get behind this
because it's really like, hey, look at me, I'm so great.
And that's like the diffulty.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's also the castle building concept. Yeah, we've talked about before.
No one wants to help you build your castle.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Right, but people don't think of it that way. And
so I mean, you know, we just came off that
we did timeframe orientation revisit, which I really enjoyed doing,
and one of the things we talked about in that
was we gave from Titus one whenever Paul introduces himself
and talks about how he sees himself as this character
in this eternal play that God's written and what his
part is and how he realizes the weight of that.
(05:32):
And I would just challenge everybody out there, if you're
listening to that, Like what I said about that story
brand is who's the main character in your story? And
what I mean by that is the main character is
the person around the story, around who the story centers.
And so I mean that's a challenge to all of
us because I think by default, and if you're not
there now, praise the Lord. If you are, you know,
don't beat yourself up, just pay extra special attention. But
(05:53):
like for all of us, we've been the main character
in our story at some point in time, and for
many of us, we may still be the main character
in our story. And I hope that if you are
the main character in your story, you at least realize
that you're thinking that way, because the worst thing to
be would be to think you're the main character but
be telling everybody that you're not, because that's called delusion.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And that main character energy is really where entitlement comes from.
When you start thinking everything's about you. You start looking
at the world as everything should be this way. And
I don't know if you've experienced this before, that's that's
a sarcastic statement. By the way, everyone has experienced this.
That when you start saying in life like, well, it
(06:33):
should be this way and should be that way, it's
not You're You're not God, you're not the governor, you're
not the one who created it. All the world has
a way of operating, and by when you experience that
in life, it should humble you to a place where
you say, maybe I should enroll in the process instead
of getting mad at the software that I didn't write
(06:53):
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
When we were planning this, I add I asked Garrett,
So Garrett, Garrett talk about how like this was really
it's like our own rebellion. And I said to Garrison,
where does rebellion come from? And you said it was pride.
And I sat there and I thought about it for
a little while, and I was like, Okay, but like,
is there anything more than that? Because what if? What
if sin? Like we talked about last week on our
(07:15):
previous episode about how sometimes you sin because you're thinking
very short term and like we would call that ignorance,
and you said that it doesn't, like sin causes ignorance.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I thought that sin is Sin is what causes the blindness. Right,
if you look at our legal framework. Now there's been
a lot of terrible insertions that are happening in America's
legal framework in the last few years. But if you
go if you look at our legal framework, it is
based on morality. Much of it is based upon the Bible.
If you look through sin in the Bible, right, ignorance
(07:47):
does not there's no excuse for your sin because you
didn't know. Law is so important that you have to
be instructed that you didn't accidentally break the law. And
even today, right when you stand in the court of law,
you our ignorance is not an excuse for the law.
Sin is what causes blindness. Bible talks about that sin
like it blinds you, it scales over your eyes. And truly,
(08:09):
what pride is, it's satan. In the very beginning, Lucifer said, well,
why can't I be God? He wanted it to be
his way, and that's what we have the You know,
we look at ourselves as so much better than Satan.
But we asked the same questions that he asked, Why
can't it be my way? Why can't we do what
I want to do? I think it should be this way.
I think God should step aside. We have these same thoughts,
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we think these same things that lead down this same
it's rebellion. Rebellion is the opposite of play your part.
Rebellion is we're not playing that, we're not doing God's plan,
We're doing my plan right now.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And so when you said that to me, I'll be honest,
I like, I knew it was the right answer, but
it didn't satisfy my question. And the reason for it
was because I had to sort of zoom out on
where we're at in life, because every single person listening
to this was born into a fallen, sinful world and
into a fallen, sinful society. And this is where the
real deception, I think comes in. Because I was asking
that question about if ignorance is kind of like could
(09:06):
be at the root of this, and you said, no,
sin causes ignorance. Well, since we live in a sinful world,
I think that what actually happens where we get this
thought process that were the main characters that from the
time you were born let.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Me give you a good example.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay, go back.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
This is lost people trying to draw a map of
something they've never seen. These are These are astrologists and
physicists in older history thinking that Earth was the center
of the universe. Right, Why would they think that, right?
That nothing lended to that. And the more they discovered science,
(09:43):
the more they realized, oh, that's not the case. But
they just naturally thought everything must revolve around us. Science
actually showed them differently. So it's so easy for us
to fall into this trap because you're lost, and so
as you orient yourself, you're orienting everything to you until
you see the whole picture. And until you see God,
(10:06):
you're just gonna think everything's about you, right until you
get exposed to the truth. Once, once astrologists, once physicists
saw the truth, they go, oh, we were dumb, we
didn't know, right. But when you first begin to orient
in life, and this is all of us, it's being
born into a sinful world, making the analogy to we're
not born with the knowledge of the universe. We had
(10:27):
to get out there and discover the truth of how
things are actually made. Until you get out there and
discover the truth of who God is. You're going to
think everything's about you and you'll misorient everything in life.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, which is so crazy because a little hint for yourself,
as you begin to unravel your own selfishness, your natural
reaction is going to be to do what people did
to Galileo. Let's persecute them, let's tell me he's wrong,
let's punish him. And it's like you have this nature
that's fighting against it. And so it's a really good
example that you use there of naturally thinking where the
center of the universe Because we're now born into a
(11:01):
world where, like especially in America, where it's the convenience
comfort culture, the whole society is telling you it's about
you from the time you're born, Like, think about it
with kids. As kids, you know, you're told that you're this.
For a lot of parents, they make their kids the
center of the universe, like we can't do anything and
disrupt Johnny's nap time because like you know, he determines everything.
And you grow up with this thought process that like
(11:22):
you should get everything you want and here's a snack,
and here's your water, and never be uncomfortable. And it
starts and.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
As you grow as you grow. It's just like our
actual understanding of the universe is that Earth is not
even the center of our solar system. Our solar system
is not the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and
the Milky Way galaxy is not the center of the universe. Right,
You're actually so far from the center. You're a tiny
piece of a tiny piece of a tiny piece. But
you know what, Earth is actually really special inside all
(11:50):
of the universe even though it's not the center. And
so it says it's the exact same way with us,
Like you are both special and created by God. God
wan say relationship with you. You're just not the sinner.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, And that's like that probably doesn't sound revolutionary to you,
but I just I want to warn people our society.
I'm just speaking as a marketer, and I hate saying
this because I don't like this about marketing, but so
much of marketing appeals to your pride to the point
that you don't even recognize it as pride. I mean,
I think even in Christian culture, there's a lot of
people that are like, I just can't wait to see
(12:24):
how God makes this work for me. And it's like
that is a thought I'm being serious that that is
a potential perception.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Of that's absolutely true. Well, that's that's the beginning of
most people's Christianity, is sure, using God as a tool
or an application of like, right, let me go look
through the scripture, I mean through the Bible for scriptures
that are gonna, you know, help me do what I
want to do. Not who is God?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
What does he have to say? Right? It's just like, oh,
I know that this is going to work how I want.
It's like no, not no, that's not like there's a
lot of people who went to their death and it
wasn't what they wanted. But but just to like, so
just understand you have things all the time that are
appealing to your pride to the point that you don't
recognize it, particularly in marketing. I was going through this
with Garrett because this is my world and there's just
a few taglines just off the top of my head
(13:07):
to say Garrett was Burger King's tagline, and Garrett say,
you can have it your way, don't get crazy. Garrett's addition,
I didn't know what he was referencing, but I thought
it was funny. So you got Burger King have it
your way. The army, which is literally where you go
to like give your life for. In two thousand and
one and two thousand and six, their slogan was Army
of one. Is that not the most backwards? Hey, come
(13:29):
join this fighting force. But it's all about you. That's
a dangerous game to play, Loriel Paris, because you're worth it.
Like I know that this is a man's podcast, way,
we have a lot of women that listen to it too,
And we've all seen those commercials over and over and
over again. You have things in society that are appealing
to it, like, well, you should have it this way.
You know you're you're worth it, like and it puts
you on the throne to the point that you don't
even recognize as pride anymore. You just kind of go like, well, yeah,
(13:51):
I expect to have some convenience, and like, you know,
I paid for this, so I'm entitled to it. And
you would never I don't know that you would necessarily
say it that way. But over and over and over again,
we're reinforcing pride to the point that you don't even realize.
You're getting just fed stuff that's telling you you're the
main character. You're the main character. You're the main character. Well, fortunately, gee,
you have this saying that that you've said many times
in this podcast that we're gonna unpack and we're gonna
(14:12):
show you how to do this aka how to really
live the most heroic life. You've said this, You said
God is sovereign and this man is responsible.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And then it's my entire theology. God is sovereign, man
is responsible. And it's the other way I say that,
and I would say in a secular way, or in
a way that's more understandable to be even people who
don't see God or have a relationship with God, is
if you want to live a great life, make it
all about other people. If you want to be miserable,
make it all about you.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, well, because there's this, but there's this thought process
when you hear like God is sovereign, man is responsible.
There's like this like kind of shudder that goes inside.
You're like, oh, man, what if God tells me to
sell everything I have here in America and like go
be a missionary in Africa? You know what I mean.
You're like instantly you're like, dude, this is a dangerous game,
and you kind of go, I don't know, if I
could do that, and like you're already question it.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We're going to jump into this and we're going to
go through this, but I'm going to say it at
the beginning. We'll talk about it, and we'll close on it.
Here's what I want people to understand about that is
if God actually told, if God told you, like I
want you to go sell everything you own and move
to you know, Turkmenistan and or to Jikistan, and you
know you're going to minister to these like nomadic people,
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and it's so far from the life that you thought
you wanted. If that was actually God's plan for you,
it would actually be the most fulfilling thing that you
could ever ever want or do. And you could go
do something else in life that, by the world's measure,
would be a great accomplishment, would be considered successful, and
it would continually be emptiness for you. And so it
(15:46):
is kind of this dichotomy. It's like it's a paradox
of thinking, well, I don't want to do that, it's
what God wants. But if you'll do what God wants
you to do. This is Psalm thirty seven, verse four.
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you
the desires of your heart. That doesn't mean like if
I just love God is going to give me whatever,
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whatever I want. What he's saying is, if you'll love me,
I'll reveal to you who you really are. If you
love me, if you'll delight yourself in me, who you
are will come out and you'll want what I wanted
for you. Because here's what you have to understand. This
is God is sovereign. Man is responsible. God created you,
gives a blueprint for your life, which is crazy to
(16:28):
think about that, the creator of the universe, who made
this vast universe and solar system. I'm out here in
the Panhandle of Texas right now, and last night I
went outside and just stood and looked up at the stars,
like I could see it's so black out here, I
could see the entire Milky Way galaxy. Whenever I'm in
places like this, I take the moment and look at that,
(16:48):
just to remind myself how small and tiny I am.
Like Earth is tiny in the midst of the universe,
and I'm just a tiny thing on Earth and a
blip of time on Earth. But in the midst of
all of that, God, God had the the care to
make me with a purpose, to make me with a blueprint.
And so if you'll understand that God is a blueprint
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for your life and you're willing to follow that, that's
the responsibility part. God's sovereign, man's responsible. If all walk
out that blueprint, it's the most fulfilling thing you could
ever experience in your life. It's like if you joined
a business and the business says, well, we have this problem.
There's something we hired you to solve this gap in
(17:29):
the business, and it's like, we'd like you to write
some software to fix this problem, and you, as the employee, said,
I don't want to do that. I'm going to write
this other software. And you go write some other software
and it's great. But here's here's the thing. You're not
going to help the business. You're going to get fired.
(17:50):
You didn't. You didn't. You didn't do what we asked
you to do. Man, you did something that you thought
was great. It's actually maybe it would have been great,
but that's not what we asked for. So you're going
to feel upset and frustrated, and also the responsibility that
you had you neglected it. But when you'll play your part,
when you realize where God's put you and know that
he has a great plan, which, by the way the
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Bible describes, is beyond what you could ask, think or imagine.
It's more than what you might want for yourself. That
when you'll enroll in this process, you'll humble, humble yourself
submit to it. It's the greatest thing. It's the most
fulfilling thing that you could ever do.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, man, I love that. Well, all right you let's
let's let's dive into this, man, because I think it's like,
it's okay. I think I hope people listening are realizing
you're not the main character. God has a plan and
like you need to play your part. But the real
question is, like, so how do I do that?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Like what are the practicals of actually walking.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
On a thing on that? Like Here's the way I
like to explain it to people is you're not the hero,
but you can play your part heroically, right, right, Like
you like you can do something great, you can and
do something special. Look, it's like it's like in football.
Let's use football as an example. If for those of
you aren't sports people, just I know you probably understand football.
(19:08):
If you're an American so just hang out for a
second American football for the UK. Yeah, it's like you're
never you can't be the quarterback. God's the quarterback. But
there's so many other positions that you need to play
really well that help the quarterback. And like you you're
a special member of the team, just you're not going
to be that position. But there's so many other important
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positions that need to be played.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Right, exactly right, all right, So gee, we see, like
you've seen this in like mature. The fact, I feel
like like for most people, they have Jesus on the throne,
and then like right at the footstool of the throne
is the apostle Paul, because like he's the guy who
almost like ran his race to the max that we saw.
And there's this great scripture in Acts twenty twenty four
that you pulled out whenever we were prepping and says, however,
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I consider my life worth nothing to me. My only
aim is to finish the race and complete the task.
The Lord Jesus is given the task of testifying to
the good news of God's grace. Like that, to me
is the clearest scripture saying, like, hey, this is what
it is to play your part heroically is that you
get to that point where you're just like, look, all
I care about is just doing what God, what God's
(20:15):
given me to do. And I mean it's a huge
It seems like a million miles away from everything that
we've talked about, where we've been, what we're pumped full
of in society and what's so natural because we have
this sinful nature that constantly wants to relate things back
to you, like, well, what will happen to me? How
does this benefit me?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Like?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Oh, are they looking at me? Are they talking about me?
What will people think? Like all these thoughts that go
through our head that come from all sorts of places
of fear and security, pride, but it's all me centered, right,
And so how do we how do we actually get
Like we have three step process here we want to
walk people through of like this is how you play
your part heroically, This is how you live the most
fulfilling life possible. And step number one is submit to
(20:53):
the mission and plan.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Correct, you've got to humble yourself. And again it's that
Scripture Acts twenty verse twenty four. Consider my life worth
nothing to me. My only aim is to finish the race.
And complete the task. The Lord Jesus has given me
the task of testifying to the good news of God's grace.
God is a great plan for you. You've got to humble
(21:15):
yourself and realize it's not about me what I want,
what God wants. Humbling yourself isn't saying like I'm nothing.
It's saying that it's not about me. There's two different things.
A lot of people think humility is small. Humility is
not small. Humility is understanding it's not about me. You
can do big things that aren't about you. That's what
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I want for the people who listen to this podcast,
and it's been it's been some of the fire and passion.
I've had to help people grow and be great because
I think there's so many great things that people aren't
doing because they've misunderstood humility. But you've got to get
both of these things. You've got to understand God is
a great plan, but also it's not my plan. It's
His plan. And humility is what's going to help me
(21:58):
say like, okay, quarterback, what what past do you want
to throw? Not here's what I want you to do,
it's saying what past do you want to throw? I'll
catch the past that you're going to throw. You figured
it all out. You're the one who's got the plan.
You're the one who can see the field. Where do
I need to be that I can be a part
of your process and that's the greatest process that you're
ever going to be a part of. But it takes
(22:19):
humbling yourself. And humbling yourself is h you know, We've
talked about this many times on the podcast Nick. But
you can either choose to be humble or you can
get humbled in life. And you get humbled in life
when you won't humble yourself. You can either choose it
or it'll be dictated to you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Let me ask you a question, gee, because you know
you have a lot of a camp Like I've watched
you in environments where you're by far and away the
most skilled, and like you have the track record as
a Navy seal to be like you could be total arrogant,
Like you know, you could be a jerk about weapons
and about your abilities and all the stuff you've done.
And I've literally never seen you, not even first second,
(23:00):
show what I would consider even the remotest sense of pride.
I've talked about before I've talked to people who are
hunters where the deer don't shoot back, and they're cockier
about their ability to shoot a deer from a blind
than you are from being able to walk into a
room where people have machine guns and execute the task.
So do you feel like humility comes from seeing the
greatness that's so much bigger than yourself or seeing how
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depraved you are? Or is it a combination of both.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm actually actually I would say it's it's the pride
and ignorance going together. Right. The further you go in life,
the more you realize you don't know. Like, I've been
around people who make my accomplishments look really dumb, and
those people most of the time, those people are really
really humble. The more the more you've seen, the more
(23:47):
you've accomplished, it actually like humbles you even more. You
know who's you know, who's like not afraid of God?
Somebody who's never been in a thunderstorm. I went out
for a run earlier today and I was getting my
miles in for you know, our giant killers running miles
every day till the end of the year and praying
for each other. And there was a massive thunderstorm rolling
(24:10):
in like lightning all around me, and I was running
really fast because I was trying to get struck by lighting.
And when you experience things like that, you're like, wow,
I'm I'm nothing, Like I'm praying, like, God, please don't
let me get struck by lightning right now. But I
probably should not have been running when I was running.
But when you experience massive things like that in life,
(24:32):
it actually exposes to you really how small you are.
Then you realize, like, that's like when you've been when
you really have that humility, that level of fear of
the Lord. Then you're like, you know what, God, I
don't want to offend you. I would like to do
exactly what you would like to do. Pride and ignorance
go hand in hand if you've never been if you've
(24:53):
never been in those types of situations, I'm just using
a thunderstorm as an analogy. If you've never been in
those types of situations, you get a false sense of confidence,
you get an arrogance where you think, like, man, I'm
so capable right Like you're using the hunters as an analogy,
it's because they've never been shot back at once. You've
been shot back at you said, you know what, I
almost could have died there, right, doesn't matter what it's
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the thing about firearms. A fourteen year old boy with
no experience can can kill, you know, a dude that's
been trained to the highest level. Bullets work for whoever.
And so you realize, like, there's a small margin between
my life and my death, and so maybe I shouldn't just,
you know, start talking about how great I am. Why
don't I just focus on how great God is and
be thankful that He's allowed me to play this part
(25:39):
and stay humble so that God doesn't strike me with lightning.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That's interesting. I just I wanted to ask you that.
Just I hope that's helpful for people out there, because
we're all susceptible to it, right, And that's you two,
Like you're like, I'm kind of it seems weird that
I would loadge you and like, you know, honor you
for your ability, because that could, by definition almost be
the fault of humility, But like we all, it's in
all of us.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Man, Well, and that's this is the humility is the
God is right. We're going through a three step process here, right,
How do I do this? How do I live the
greatest life, ever, how do I live the most fulfilling
life ever? Again? This is much of the paradigm of
a kingdom mindset. It flips a lot of things on
its head. The beginning of the greatest life you could
ever live is to truly humble yourself. It's to understand
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that God is sovereign. And Philippians chapter two, verse six,
who being talking about Jesus, who, being in very nature God,
did not consider a quality with God something to be
used to his own advantage. Rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant, being made
in human likeness, and being found in appearance as a man.
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He humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death
on a cross. Right. This is the life that Jesus lived.
This is the model of the life that we should live.
And the Bible talks about him. I'm forgetting the reference
bable talks about that Jesus name will be the name
above every other name. So who actually got the most?
If you want to talk about honor, That's the way
a lot of people will talk about honor. The rewards,
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the acknowledge, acknowledgments, the accolades like Jesus won't doing it
for accolades. But if you're talking about accolades given away
in the Bible says that Jesus's name will be the
name lifted above every other name. But this is to
the one who humbled himself to obedience to death.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And that's I think that's really it. When we're saying
step one is submit to the mission and plan, and
we're talking about here how you have to humble yourself,
I think the biggest sign of humbling yourself is obedience.
You see it over and over again when Jesus first
got baptized by John. He's not done miracles at this point.
And what does what happens? They hear a voice from
the heavens that says, this is my son and whom
I'm well pleased. Well, what did he do to please God?
(27:49):
Up until that point? The only record we have is
earlier on when it says that he was twelve and
he was at the temple, and it said after that
he went home and he was obedient to his parents.
So for thirty years, the guy who was literally God
was obedient to these two human parents. And that's what
pleased his father.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Now and knew he was God for about you know,
eighteen of those thirty years.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, if not more. Yeah, I mean it's hard, Yeah,
because I mean at twelve, he clearly knew something was up.
Think about that's.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Really think about knowing your God, knowing that you are
God on the earth, and your mom is like, hey,
I need you to take out the trash, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, Or she's asking you to do something and you're like,
this is not the best way to do it. Yeah, okay,
I'll do it anyways. No, but I think about that.
I mean, I'm feeling challenged by this just in my
own life. I'm like, man, I need to be so
much more obedient to the people that God's put over me,
not because I believe in what they're doing, but because
God's put them over me, and that that that's a
hard place of humility.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So that's familiar. So take us to point number two, Nick.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, point number two is to take responsibility. And this
is where you always say, man is responsible. I think
that this scripture tewod Peter one five through eight to
me is such a fascinating like it's a it seems
like flies in the face of the paradigm of Christianity
because a lot of people's Christianity is like Jesus, I
just Jesus take the wheel right, like it's the country song,
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like Jesus take the will you do everything? I'm the
hop in the back seat because I basically I'm just worthless.
And Peter literally talks about how they've been given everything
they need for life and godliness. We know that scripture,
and we're like yes, And then he goes in and says,
for this very reason, Okay, so because you've been given
everything you need for life and godliness, make every effort
to add to your faith goodness and to goodness, knowledge
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and to knowledge, self control and to self control, perseverance
and to perseverance godliness and to Godliness, mutual affection and
totual affection love who sounds like a lot of work, Peter,
because and this is what he says in verse eight,
for if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they'll
keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You know, for a God who's for a God who's sovereign,
who made it all and controls it all. Sure kind
of seems like there's some stuff he's asking us to
take care of.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
My for real, man, Like so much like what we
like to believe in magical change, and like I think
we forget even when we read in the Bible, like
we read about Matthew the tax collector who was one
of the one of the twelve disciples Zakias who was
also a tax collector. He came down and he gave
you know, he pledged to give four times back to
the poor. We don't know what happened? Is a kias well?
What about saw de Paul showed up on the spot
(30:20):
and instantly it happened. Oh wait, we'll go read Galatians
and find out about the number of years that actually transpire,
Like we read in the Book of Acts, how it's
like and then they lowered them down from the wall
because people were out to kill him. And we were like, oh,
that must have been like three days later. And then
you go read Galatians and he's talking about how he
went up for eleven years into all these places. And
so I'm just telling you, like, if you're looking for
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the magical genie change, you are not taking that is
basically just realize you're trying to opt out of your responsibility,
like we have like God is a God of process,
you know, it's so much of sanctification. We looked up
the definition of sanctification when we were going through this
g and it talks about how it's the process of
to make holy, it's purifying or consecrating, and it talks
(31:02):
about how it's like in the New Testament term. I
thought this was fascinating. It covers all of salvation history
from divine election to final glorification. Aka, like God, we
have this thought process that like Jesus is going to
come back, and like, you know, we think, I don't
know what we think, but I think we feel like
we can almost just get to that finish line and
(31:23):
that's all you gotta do. And I just think there's
so like we see so often in God, in God's
plans that's it's already but not yet. And so like
I look at this and I'm like, all the things
that we go through on a day to day basis,
we realize there for our sanctification and that that's actually
part of our responsibility and part of our responsibilities to
do what Peter's saying here. It puts a whole different
spin on like when things go wrong in your life.
(31:44):
It's not just about like, oh man, this is tough.
Lord help me, Like I want to get through this.
It's like, Lord, what should I learn? What are you
developing in me? Because now you understand like you have
a process that's going to go literally through eternity, like
you're being prepped for eternity.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It's just it's a wild So it's so important to
understand both of these things, both the sovereignty of God
and the responsibility of man. It is. It is one
of the we've we've done a whole podcast on this.
Nix getting some homework. He's going to get to tag
it in the show notes where we've talked about the
power of both right and this is it's who God is,
(32:19):
that he's both love and law. It's one of the
one of the things that I think it's one of
the stupidest. Is just my personal opinion, and some of
you who listen may not agree with me, and that's okay.
It's not that these aren't the topics that we cover.
I think it's one of the silliest arguments in Christianity
is the argument between Calvinism and Armenianism. Calvinism is that
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you know, it's predestination. God has willed it all, God's
controlled at all. There's nothing you can't deny. You know,
God's salvation for your life. And then Armenianism, which is
basically the opposite of like fore you know complete free
will and salvation, you can do whatever you want. Maybe
you know there's no you weren't chosen or not chosen
to be saved. It's so silly to try and understand
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and or think that you could understand what the God
of the Universe's planned. The guy like, we can't even
see all of the known universe, but we think that
we could understand what the God of the Universe's plan
was for everyone. It's such a silly and I would
say unhumble thought. Actually, I think the truth is much
closer to its both and you'd say, that's how well,
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how could you be both? Go listen to our both
episode where we talked about this, right, some of the
divinity of both. There's the divinity of love and law,
and here we're talking today about the divinity of God's
sovereignty and man's responsibility. If you miss one, you've missed
all of it. You must have both. Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
By the way, that was episode two thirty eight called
both versus balance. Now I don't have to look it up.
You guys can just go to yourself, all right. So
ge number one was to submit ourselves to the mission
and plan, which was a lot of humility and obedience.
Number two is take responsibility, which understands we're in a process.
It's like, make every effort. Guess what like the work
that you feel like, oh that's hard, That's exactly the
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way supposed to be. Like God set it up that way.
So next time something hard happens, realize you're right where
you're meant to be. Number three is a great word
that everybody loves.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Endurance but favorite everybobody's favorite.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Who doesn't like it for a long.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Run because this so this is the this is the
great part. This is the great part. Right if you'll
catch this, that that God is sovereign, that man is responsible.
The way that you're going to live the most heroic
life possible is that you keep going right because script
scripture says that God's plan is greater than our plan.
Scripture says that it's more than we could ask, thank
or imagine. Scripture says that for those who love God,
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everything works out for the good of those who love God.
That's Romans right, So so many things that so many
lines in scripture talking about the greatness of God's plan
for our life. But what it comes down to, and
truly the test is are you going to walk it
all the way out? You see this test, because this
is the test, This is the maturity test, this is
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the greatness test. You see this test and every Why
did God give us the New Testament where he like
really speaks to us and the people that He works
through right to us. But then there's the Old Testament
that's like history and tells stories because the stories show
you so much about the character of God and what
matters to God. New Testament speaks directly to us, gives
us instruction Like the Old Testament is so many lessons
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and many of the lessons of the Old Testament and
revealing of the character of God is that God, out
of the sovereignty of God, he gives a plan, He
ordains a future, and then he and then he lets
a man choose to walk it out, and he lets
that man do it over time where God, you know
again with its one. I think it's a great example
that at the very beginning, God's not working with any
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conflict or anything. Just tells Abraham he's gonna make him
the father of many nations. He could have said, and
your wife's pregnant with you know, octuplets right now, and
you're gonna have you know, eight children, and then it's
gonna that's gonna happen again, and you're gonna have seven
sets of eight children over the next like you know,
seven years, and like now you have fifty six children.
Like God could have done something crazy like that, and
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instead he said, but you didn't say this, But is
what happened twenty years Abraham waits for Isaac. This is
the test of endurance. God lets us grow because what
God wants most is our maturity, which comes from us
seeing it like walking it out with him in time
through the trust of his sovereignty and us playing the
part in our responsibility. Is how you live the greatest
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life possible. Let me tell you something. If you're going
to live the greatest life possible, you're going to become
really great. You're not the hero. It's not about you.
But in walking out this process, who you are will
be so much greater at like who you are in
twenty years will be so much greater than who you
are now if you will live this way and you
will continue to endure down the path. And that's Hebrew
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chapter twelve, verse one and two. Therefore, since we are
surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us
throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so
easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance or endurance
the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus,
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the pioneer and perfector of our faith. You've got to
know that God is a great plan. You've got to
get focused on the ultimate end. Have endurance. Right. Connect
this episode with what we did on the last episode
of the time frame Orientation. Revisited orient all the way
to the end. Submit to God's plan, be humble, and
then take responsibility for I mean, it talks about you
taking responsibility for your salvation, right, and that's such a
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huge thing, which truly salvation is a gift of God.
Yet it says to us take responsibility for it. For
one of the things that it truly says is just
a straight gift from God. Yep, man has to take
responsibility for that. Don't you think that you should have
to take responsibility for everything else in your life after that?
And then just keep doing it, Keep doing it, stay
faithful in the path, continue to endure to the end,
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and that's where greatness is going to develop in you
and you live the greatest life that you could possibly
have ever lived.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
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