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And then every morning in quiet time.
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You never know what storrow we're growing Hendrik's.
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But now I shoud add out making good choices.
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It will pass. And that's what Paul is trying to
get you to see.
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About some of the things that you think are so
important in your life.
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It will pass.
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Paul is trying to get us to understand in First Corinthians,
which is a letter to a church that was confused
about priorities and was carnaling their understanding that some of
the things that you're busy toning up and some of
the things that you're busy tightening and some of the
tricks that you're busy perfecting on this earth are just
solving temporary problems that really have no eternal value. And
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although they matter, they are not supreme. It cannot be
the priority. I want to stop prioritizing things that are going.
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To pass away, don't you.
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I want to stop putting things first that are going
to fade in the end. I want to stop giving
all of my attention to things that are not assets
but liabilities.
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Spiritually, so, the.
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Difference between what is permanent and what is passing is
to me the essence of First Corinthians thirteen. If you
came in this morning and said, Pastor Stephen, what is
the essence of.
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First Corinthians thirteen?
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I would say to you with much confidence, the difference
between what is passing and what is permanent. Write those
two words down in your notebook, passing and permanent, passing
and permanent.
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And Paul says that.
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Love never feels, but everything else will pass away.
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It will pass.
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Maybe the Lord is saying that about a storm that
you're going through in your life.
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It will pass.
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I just want to stop and minister this to somebody today.
Maybe it's about the sadness that you feel and the
grief in the season that you're going through.
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It will pass. That's why we've got to get you.
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Somehow to keep going through this valley that you're going
through right now, because it will pass. Tell your neighbor tenderly,
it will pass. Put it in a chat. It will pass.
Whether it's a valley you don't want to go through
or a mountain that you really like standing on top of,
it will pass. That trophy isn't going to last forever.
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It will pass. Even the greatest relationship in your life
humanly speaking, has a time limit.
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To it called death. It will pass.
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And I don't mean to depress you, but I think
it is very prospective giving for me to just realize
that everything I'm worried about, and everything I'm concerned about,
and everything that I'm going through right now.
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That feels like it's never gonna end. The word of
the Lord is it will pass.
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One of the greatest Bible verses you could ever memorize
would be and it came to pass. Take the good times,
hold them, cherish them, hold them up, hot, hold them up.
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Like the lion king.
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Tell them about this is what God gave me, but
just know it will pass.
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It won't always be like that. It will pass. When
our kids were kids were.
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Very small, I was so sick of people telling me
that the days are long.
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But the years are short.
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And I was like, but if they don't stop screaming,
I'm gonna cut their years short.
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Don't give me a little cliche right now, but it's true.
It will pass. It will pass.
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That these carpets are gonna be dirty and you're fussing
about cleaning them up.
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It'll pass.
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One day the carpets will be so clean you might
just track something in just to remember the days when
you had kids to track them.
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And I'm in that season right now.
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This year, I had one boy who turned twenty and
graduated college. I have another boy who's going into high
school senior year this year and he's about to graduate.
And I've got a daughter.
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This is so sad. Y'all who just this last week
shout out doctor.
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Hall, greatest orthodonist in the Charlotte area, just this week
showing the picture guys got.
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Her braces taken off.
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Congratulations, Abby, eat.
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All the popcorn you want. She's just gonna be eating popcorn.
My braces are off. When I was a child, I
talked like a child. Thank you so much for the picture.
I think they got the point.
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I talked like a child, I thought like a child.
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Now follow me.
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Paul is saying there's a difference between what is permanent
and what is passing, and to illustrate that principle, he
gives a picture.
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When I was a child, I talked like a child.
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I thought like a child. I reasoned like a child.
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When I became a man, I put the ways of
childhood behind me. And wouldn't it be wonderful if that
process was as automatic and as simple and as summarized
as Paul makes it sound.
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In First Corinthians thirteen eleven. I don't know what age
it is. Maybe when you turn twenty, maybe when you
turn twenty five, maybe when you turn eighteen.
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But this verse happens when you reach a certain birthday.
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The ways of childhood are behind you. Because I became
a woman, I became a man.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is is it
awesome to think of the process of spiritual transformation that
Paul describes like getting your braces off? Like I went
one day, I had crooked teeth they put.
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Braces on to get my teeth straight. One day, after
monitoring my teeth for.
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Several years, they said, you're ready to have your braces off,
and they took my braces off. I had crooked teeth,
I had braces. I don't have crooked teeth anymore. My
teeth are straight. My teeth are straight, my braces are off.
It all happened one day. Wouldn't it be wonderful if
you could.
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Get your truth straight like you get your teeth straight.
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And then one day you can just announce to everybody
in your life, great news. I'm getting my braces off.
I'm getting my behaviors off from the past. I'm getting
my selfishness off today.
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Yeah, it's me. In about three years, the Lord's been
working with me.
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I joined one of those e groups and I met
some people and it was awesome, and he's saying to
find me.
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So today you might notice my smile is a.
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Little different because I got my selfishness removed today. It
took a while, but I got it straight. Would it
be awesome if the Bible could just take your braces off?
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That's how Paul made it sound.
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He said, when I became a man, I put the
ways of childhood behind me. Like you just went in
and had an appointment with Jesus and you said, it's
time for me to stop complaining. Now, it's time for
me to stop being afraid of what.
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Other people think.
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Right now, it's time for me to stop lusting. Now
I'm married. Now I need to be devoted to one
woman right now. And then Orthodonist Holy Goes says, yeah,
let me just take those lust off.
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Of your teeth. Don't you just take the oh, those
brackets off. Let me take those brackets out.
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Of your brain so that you will only be attracted
to your wife ever again, because you got to put
the ways of childhood behind you. Wouldn't it be awesome
if all of a sudden, one day you just went
to the Orthodonis called the Holy Spirit and said, I
need this thing that happened to me when I was twelve.
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It became trauma in my life.
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But I need you to take the trauma off of
me so I can live in the truth. Oh, no problem,
Let's put you through a program. If we can get
you through an eighteen month program, here, memorize these twenty scriptures.
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These are the top twenty scriptures.
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For trauma, and when you memorize these twenty scriptures, you
will no longer feel the effects of trauma. But the
trauma trace says trapped in the body sometimes even when
the spirit has been set free by the blood of Christ.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was an orthodontist spiritually speaking,
just to sit you down in a chair.
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I wish I could get you in a chair today
and lean you back and numb you up and just
yank stuff off of your life. I mean, just take
it off so you can smile again, so.
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You could say I was depressed for the last year,
but I went to Evolucia elevation churns and that preacher
leave me back.
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And yanked it off.
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And I'm smiling now, I'm singing, now, I'm dancing.
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Now a man, now I'm a woman now.
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Wouldn't it be good if you could graduate from grief?
Wouldn't it be good if you could graduate from greed?
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I used to be stingy, but God did.
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A work in my life, and now all of a sudden,
all I want to do is give money away.
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I won't even let my boss tay me.
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I just give the check back and tell them to use.
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It to fight cancer. Just one day I went in.
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The chair and the preacher, preacher, and the truth came,
and now I got my truth straight. But see, it
is a fight for alignment in your life.
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That takes time to get it straight, to get it straight.
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And this process of I thought like a child, but now.
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I think like a champion isn't as simple as it seems.
And you know that. You know that. If you don't
know that, the people who live with you do.
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Because they are still waiting on you to get your
braces off. Okay, I want to show you an example
from the Scriptures of somebody who paid the price of
thinking like a child, but not to be negative, not
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to be hateful, not to be depressing. Just because this
man in Second Kings chapter five had a great opportunity
for his life to.
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Change, but he thought like a child. And because he
thought like a child, he almost forfeited his change.
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That happens to all of us, you know, all of us.
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Something that is passing becomes something permanent. Here's what I mean.
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We have emotions, whether it's anger, we have emotions and feelings,
whether it's self pity, we have emotions and feelings, and
sometimes even just temptations that seem to come from the
pit of hell, and they are passing emotions. But the
temptation of the enemy is for you to take something
that is passing and turn it into something permanent, so
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that not only do you feel anger passing, but you
lash out in anger and say something to someone that
you love that cannot be undone with the simple apology, what.
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Did you do?
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You took a passing frustration, gave it an external expression,
and did permanent damage. I want you to stop sacrificing
what is permanent on the altar of what is passing.
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I want you to stop sacrificing what is permanent to
satisfy what is passing. If there is a teenager in here,
I want you off of every form of addictive behavior,
whether it's a substance or whether it's a website. I
want you off of every form of addictive substance that
would rob you of your soul, because I know that
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those things help us, whether we're adults or whether we're children.
They help us to get through the moment. But the
moment is passing, and after the anxiety has passed, and
after you have trained your body to be addicted to
stimuli that keep you enslaved.
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Now you have a lasting habit.
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That you embedded in your life to deal with a
passing emotion.
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