well hey everybody man I want to welcome you here this weekend we're so glad that you're with us when we're your TV
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watching online wherever you are at one of our in-person locations maybe in Bluefield or Marion over in Bristol or
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here in Abingdon out in country chapel wherever you are today I believe that
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God has brought you here or allowed you to watch from your location for this message now we've been talking about
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purpose and why God has created us and a lot of times I share a message that
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honestly there are times I don't feel qualified to share that message I mean it's a truth out of scripture that I'm
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just like I'm not sure I can really convey that and teach it in a way that people can understand
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but today I feel like this is a message that at least I have a lot of time
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invested that I can share with you I don't know that I'm qualified to teach it but I feel like I can at least share
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with you some of the mistakes I've made in my own life and sort of my journey as I followed Christ over these past 45
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years and that Jesus somehow would connect us together today and help us to
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understand of who he wants us to be so a little review in case you missed the last couple of weeks we sort of kicked
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off this series we didn't title it on baptism Sunday but we kicked it off last
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week as the path of purpose and on baptism Sunday I sort of shared the
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first purpose that God created us for is not to do something for God or even to
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you know be somebody that he desires for us to be but the first primary purpose
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that you were created is just to receive something from God to receive the love that God has for you and that's sort of
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the Bedrock of our life and if you don't get this if you don't understand that all God wants you to do first and
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foremost and he and his creation of you is to receive the love he has for you and I've said many times that if you
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truly understood how much God loves you you would serve him you would love him because it's incredible what how much
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the lord loves us so that's the first purpose and then last week we talked about that second purpose that God also
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has created us to belong to his family the church is his family many of you went online and you went to our website
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and you clicked that little Next Step Tab and you went down and and you looked at how to join and become a part of our
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church family and man that's awesome I'm so glad you did and for those of you who still need to do that I want to encourage you to do it now today and
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these are really building blocks so the first one I'm loved by God second he wants somebody to belong to his family
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that he's created so I can find support and I can have people to help me along this journey in life and then the third
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purpose I want to look at today not not just God wants to love me and not just he wants me to belong to his family but
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here's the third thing that he wants the third purpose in your life is you're called to become like God you're called
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to become like Jesus now when I share that it's often
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intimidating because you think well I'm imperfect and Jesus was perfect and so
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there's no way I'm ever going to fulfill it and you're right there's no way we're ever going to become a God that's not
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what he's asking us to be but he wants us to become more and more as we serve Jesus God wants us to be more and more
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like his son and we find this taught in scripture in Romans chapter 8 verse 28
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and 29 these are very famous passages it says this we know that God calls us
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everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to this purpose for them
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that's all of us who are believers in Jesus for God knew his people in advance and
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he chose them and here's the purpose to become like his son it's the third
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purpose of your life once you get into God's family God wants you to grow up
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and he wants you to become like Jesus Christ so my third calling in life is to
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become like Christ to become like Jesus so let's talk about that what does that mean well um again you're not ever going
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to be like Jesus completely you're not going to be a God and Jesus we know is God God is God we're not we have to
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understand that but uh it's an antidote to stress when we realize that that he's
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the god of the universe and we're part of his plan God wants you to become
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Godly he wants you to begin to inherit and practice the attributes and the life
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that Jesus lived before us in other words he wants you to take on the characteristics of his son and he puts
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us in his family to learn that so uh we've had that old saying like father like son the Bible says that God is
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loving that God is joyful God's peaceful God is patient with us God is kind God
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is self-controlled he is merciful it's a fruit of the spirit we're taught Peter teaches us about these are all pictures
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of the characteristics of the life of Jesus and if you're ever going to come
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like Jesus it means that we're to be filled with love we're to be filled with
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joy that God wants us to be filled with peace in our lives to have patience in our lives self-control all these
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quantities and qualities that Jesus had he wants us to have in our life now in
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the Bible it Compares becoming like Jesus to running a race and again I've been running this race called the
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Christian Life for years and years and years I got saved when I was almost 17 years old and I'm 61. you can do the
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math and it's been a long long time been in Ministry 40 full-time years this year so it is uh a race of life that's how
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the Christian Life is compared in scripture it's not a 50-yard Dash you know that we're running
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it's a marathon and I'm not a marathon runner by any means but it's likened to
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that in the Christian Journey as we grow day by day in our life and all of us are
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running the race the marathon to maturity that God desires for us in our life and our goal
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is to become the man of God that God created me to be or the woman of God that God created you to be that's the
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goal that God has for us now many of you know I just got back from Kenya and where we were at in Kenya was the place
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it's called the city of Champions for runners and every morning when we would get up at Daybreak there would be
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Runners from all over the world that were Olympian Runners and they come to this little city of El doret Kenya and
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that's where they do all their training for the Olympics all around the world and so all the Olympic teams have come
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and they're training there and all the coaches are there the guy lives there that ran the marathon in an hour and 59
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minutes that broke the two hour and the reason they trained there is because uh it's 8 000 the altitude is 8 000 feet so
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I could hardly walk much less run without gasping for breath but if you
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can learn to run in that culture then you can be a champion anywhere in the
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world so the neat thing about when we liken our Christian journey to a racist
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God doesn't want us to stay the same he doesn't want you to be in spiritual diapers your entire life he wants us to
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grow up just like we want our kids to grow up so as we look at Jesus you know that God wants you to become like him so
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how do we do this I mean this is the real question and how do we run our race and become more and more on this
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Marathon to maturity to be like Jesus well I want to give you some steps today and these are just steps that I've
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learned they're pretty simple nothing earth-shattering but I think they can really help you they've helped me here's
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the first one if I'm going to run the race of life that God has for me I have to simplify my life I just have to
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simplify my life I got to simplify other things in my life I got to cut out clean out discard all the junk that's holding
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me back from becoming the person that God wants me to become and if if you're going to be who God wants you to be you
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got to clean out some clutter I mean you gotta clean up your mind uh you probably
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will have to lessen your schedule you got to clean up your relationships get
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rid of the all the unnecessary baggage in your life in other words when you look at these
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marathon runners and these guys over in Kenya they're not running in a parka all right I mean they're they're running and
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uh and and you know a little flimsy pair of shorts and a t-shirt that you can
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sort of see through I mean they don't have nine layers of clothes on them when they're running a marathon they want anything weighing them down they are
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running in the lightest clothes and the lightest shoes they can find so in order
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to run the race to maturity in the Christian Journey you don't want a bunch of extra baggage that you're trying to
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carry through life so really if you're going to come to man or the one that God wants you to be the first thing you got
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to do is probably just get rid of some stuff I mean you're to eliminate the diversions the distractions the detours
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the dead ends the time wasters there's probably some people and some friendships in your life that maybe you
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need to evaluate and think do I want to continue in these relationships and how do you know well are they drawing you
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closer to God are they the ones that are pulling you farther away from God now the place where we see this in
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scriptures Hebrews chapter 12. it's one of my favorite passages in all the Bible and in Hebrews chapter 12 we see this
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metaphor of Life as a race and I want us to look at this in verse one this is
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what it says it says let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us
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back especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet trip us up and let us run with patience
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the particular race that God has set before us so what the scripture teaches is that
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God has a particular Race for Your Life and you're the only one that can run
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your race now this is important because your mom can't run your race for you and
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your boyfriend your girlfriend can't run your race for you somebody else can't run your race and by the way you can't
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run anybody else's race either you have a particular race that God wants you to
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run in life and yeah the problem is everybody else has a race that God wants them to run
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and they often want you to run along with them in their race so uh
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everybody's got their own race to run and you have your race to run and you have to decide am I going to run my race
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am I going to run you know the race that God has called me to or am I going to get caught up and running somebody
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else's race or somebody else's plan for my life that they desire for me I mean you can't run in boats right you have to
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decide so I want to challenge you the particular race that God has designed
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for you is the one you want to run that's the one you want to run and just say God uh here I am I want to
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get closer to you and become more like Jesus so Lord help me strip off everything help me get the junk out of
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my life Lord bring up those things that are holding me back the habits that are
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hurting me the hurts and the Hang-Ups that I've struggled with that are holding me back from being like you God
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I want to let go of those things so I can run the particular race so you have created me to run which means you're
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going to have to let go of some things in your life and you're going to have to let go of some expectations in your life
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because you just can't please everybody I mean you just can't you're not going to be able to please everybody and
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please God I would say please God and then you know everybody else is going to
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have to they're going to be okay with that because you can only run your race now you got to decide that God put me on
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this Earth to you know please all these other people to please my parents and you know I want you to please your
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parents do you want to run your race Felicia girlfriend well you know that's a Temptation please your teachers your
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little click your buddies you know is is that who you're running your race to please or are you going to say God I
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really need to let go of some stuff here I need to evaluate my life simplify it get rid of some things that are keeping
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me from being all that you want me to be and then focus in on that one race that
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God has created you to run and run it with all your heart and man when you
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begin to do that life just gets so much more peaceful and you realize you're
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running your race for an audience of one it is freeing in your life so number one the marathon to maturity simplify your
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life here's number two don't get impatient and don't get in a hurry
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I would say this uh race that we're running uh you don't ever fully complete
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I know in a marathon it's 26 miles or something and you can cross the finish line
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we cross the finish line when we get to heaven and we run this race of air maturity our
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entire life here on Earth so don't get impatient you're not going to finish it in a week or a month or
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even years God's plan is to make you the person he wants you to be and it's a
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lifetime plan it's going to take you your entire life and you just can't run that race quickly I mean it's not some
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50-yard Dash It's a marathon so don't get impatient I remember back in high school and uh I think I've shared this
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before but I'm not a runner I never have been but they they have this thing with
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your physical fitness test you had to run the 600 yard dash well I wasn't always a chunky guy and I could run
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pretty quick actually and so I remember when we go out there and there was this
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big track and you had to run I think there's four laps around the track for your 600 yard dash whatever it was and
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uh I remember the first time that you know coach flew the whistle and and he was a guy I really liked he sort of
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invested in me I wanted to make him proud and I remember when he tells me about 600 he said go with everything you
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got and he blew the whistle do and I went with everything I I mean I ran and
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I'll tell you why I'm ahead of everybody in my class and I only had about 30 kids and some of them were athletes I
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outpaced them all for about the first half the lap and then as I go around that first lap everybody begins to pass
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me second lap I sort of stop and walk a little bit third lap I'm gasping for breath and the girls start passing me by
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I was second to last finishing the 600 yard dash I didn't impress him at all so
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you know I would say you got to pace yourself okay you just don't go out there with everything you got first day
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you got to pace yourself you're going to run out of steam you don't you know if you don't do that you're gonna give up
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and you're never going to finish so when you become a Christian you remember those days I remember when I was almost 17 I got saved at a Christian Camp and
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I was just so excited I was on fire for the Lord I didn't know much about him but man I had a passion he had redeemed
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me and saved me and and I was excited I was forgiven and I I just remember growing so quick in those early days I
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mean I had a heart like never before to read the Bible I wanted all my family and all my friends to know Jesus I was
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witnessing everybody I was so bold and you know I did that for probably a good
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year and then you know a lot of my friends got saved and I had the opportunity to see them come to know Jesus but then I began to think this is
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a pace I can't sustain I it's it's too much I mean I was just all the time
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preaching on the school campus I mean it was crazy and I grew really really fast
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in those early days but then I realized if I'm gonna sustain and not burn out I
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gotta Pace myself because honestly God wants strong stable secure Believers and
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when the rough Winds of Life come against us he wants us to be able to stand like a solid oak tree you know and
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it takes a long time we got big oak trees in our yard and I've had some guys
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over to look at them they say they're well over a couple hundred years old so that's the way that God wants us to run
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the race we got to pace ourselves we can't get impatient maturity takes time
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it just takes time here's the third thing we got to spend some time focusing on Jesus every day every day
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you know I somehow have to build into my schedule and my schedule is like yours
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often busy but I got to spend a little bit of time now I'm not talking about two hours you know I mean if you can
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that's awesome I hope in my next season of life I can just spend a couple hours every morning with Jesus but right now
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the schedule that I keep I'm trying to spend a few minutes sometimes five
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sometimes ten sometimes I'll spend 15. but I want to focus on Jesus at a
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certain point in my life every day and that's really what this next verse talks about in this race for life why do
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I need to spend some time focusing my thoughts and my mind on Jesus every day because whatever you want to become you
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need to think about if I want to become like Jesus I got to think about him because you become
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whoever you spend the most time with I mean that's how our mind works and if you hang out with people have no
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ambition you're not going to have any ambition you hang out with people who are critical all of a sudden you've become critical you hang out with people
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that are you know all time fussing and cussing and doing well that's that's who
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you become you know I shared a message years ago about show me your friends I'll show your future that's so true so
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if you spend time with Jesus every day then you know that time you'll become
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more and more and more like him now we call this a quiet time for those of you that are new to Faith I would say one of
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the most important things you can do in your life is just establish a quiet time I think the best times in the morning
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but I'm sort of a morning person but just get up go find yourself your favorite chair or whatever and sit down
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and spend some time with Jesus you know I sort of read the Bible for five or ten
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minutes and then I talk to God just you know like I'm talking to you and
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I tell the Lord a bunch of stuff I got on my heart and and then I I take a little time and listen to see what he
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wants to say to me and some days I'm stressed and I try to give God that stress and I said Lord I need your help
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today and and then I just I sort of sit there and I just I just let God give me
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his peace and remind me that he's got my future in his hands he's going to take care of me but I just think spend some
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time focusing on Jesus every day and so what the verse says in verse 2 Hebrews 12 he says we do this in other words we
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we're running our race of Life by keeping our eyes on Jesus so he tells us
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to do this focusing on him every day on whom our faith depends from start to
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finish I just say you can't become like Jesus unless you spend some time with him here's the fourth thing when it gets
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hard remember the reward because life's going to get hard from time to time when
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life gets hard you have to remember as a child of God the reward that we have you
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know the goal of God the goal for God to make you the man or the woman he wants you to be is this lifetime process again
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it's not some quick little 50-yard Dash so you're going to go through in this life that God gives you to live a lot of
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problems I mean you're going to encounter pressures and trials and difficulty you're going to have ups and
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downs in your life and God's going to use all those things the good times and
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the bad times to make you more like him so God's number one goal is to make you like Jesus Christ that's what he says he
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wants us to become he wants you to be loved he wants you to belong he wants you to become like his son Jesus and
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that means and I want you to listen real close here that if God's going to make you like Jesus then he's going to allow
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you to go through things that he allowed his son to go through I mean were there
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times that Jesus was lonely yes there was were there times that Jesus got criticized yes were there times that he
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was betrayed absolutely well there are times when Jesus was worn out even
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though he was God that he was fatigued he was tired and he had to escape after he'd been teaching all these times he
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was human but he was God he had to go to the mountain and be restored there were times he was wore out well there are
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times Jesus was misunderstood yes so if God didn't spare his own son from those
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things why do you think he's going to spare you he's not and the next time you start to ask now Lord here I've been
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trying to serve you I've been going to church I've been given a little and all these kind of things and why is this happening to me well you need to realize
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that he's going to use that to build you in your maturity he's building your character he's changing your attitude
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he's helping you become more and more like Christ so instead of asking why
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just you know I always say well what you know what do you want me to learn from
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this situation obviously so I'm in inside of my control so so God there's a lesson here you want me to learn and
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what is it I mean we shouldn't be surprised when problems come into our life problems are part of the process on
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air Marathon to maturity notice here in verse two and three Hebrews 12 says this
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said Jesus did not give up when he was running his race because of the cross
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on the contrary now let's cross a problem yeah I mean it was pain he died on the contrary because of the joy that
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was waiting for him in heaven the reward he thought nothing of the disgrace of
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dying on the cross he knew the reward on the other side and he is now seated at
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the right side of God's Throne so think of what he went through how he put up
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was so much so much hatred from Sinners don't let yourselves become discouraged
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and give up man isn't that great words from the author of Hebrews it's part of the plan problems are part of the plan
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and here's a great promise I love I love reading Peter you know he struggled so much in his Christian Life and often say
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things that you know he didn't think about I mean I feel like I can relate that dude in chapter 5 of First Peter he
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says this after you suffer for a while for a short time God who gives all Grace will make
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everything right isn't that neat he will make you strong he will support you he
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will keep you from falling he calls you to share in his glory in Christ a glory
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that will continue forever so we're gonna have some short-term
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problems here on Earth for some long-term glory in heaven well here's
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the fifth thing I think these guys that are champions one things when I learned in Kenya is that if you're going to be a
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champion Olympic runner you have to gather a team of other Runners to run with you now you may disagree with that
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those of you who are Runners I don't know again I'm not a runner but David uh Pastor David said if you're going to be
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an Olympic champion you're not going to get there on your own he said every coach here in El doret gets a team to
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run with their fastest Runners and I think that's true in the Christian Life you have to gather a team to run with
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you I want a team to run with me it's your race nobody can run your race but
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people can support us in the race we're running and in your life at different stages of the race you're going to need
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different people to run along with you you know nobody's going to run your entire race with you because if you're
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married you know there were several years you weren't married you know that spouse wasn't running that race with you
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different stages of your life you have different people running the race with you helping you encouraging and
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supporting you now in the church we call that a small group and if you're not involved in a small group why again I
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would say you need some Runners to run with you you need a small group and it's important they'll help you when the
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troubles come and the problems come they will sustain you and strengthen you and be with you because if you're out there
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running on your own you're probably going to give up you're going to get discouraged and you're not going to become the man or the woman that God
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wants you to be but you need some other folks in your life to run with you this
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last time I was in Kenya I think that was my 12th or 13th time to Africa and uh God used Africa just to change my
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life one of my trips to Tanzania I remember this proverb I wrote it down
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it's not a scripture but it's a proverb that uh somebody in Africa left and I
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thought man so true this is what it says to run fast run by yourself but to run far run with people I never
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forgot that so you know we don't need a hundred people to run with us every day you know probably don't need 20. but I
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promise you're going to need four or five folks in your life to run with you and we just we just need some folks who
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we can be accountable to and share our hardships with and you're running with them they're running with you you're
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supporting each other and when you feel like giving up they're going to keep you going well that's important uh Hebrews
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chapter 10 says this let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love
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and Good Deeds Burgess means to encourage let us not give up meeting together a summer in the habit of doing
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but let us encourage one another as you see the day approaching so you need people to run with that's the reason I
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encourage you to belong to a local church family because here you're going to find support we looked at this last
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week and I encourage you to be a part of the church well there's one last thing and man this this one gets me every time
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I think about it but if you're going to run your Marathon to mature the sixth thing you need to remember the Bible
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teaches about this race in life is you just realize that what I don't finish
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God will but all complete because I got a lot of Dreams a lot of plans and I
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don't know if God will ever allow me to finish some of the things and dreams he's placed in my heart but whatever I
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don't finish God's going to finish I love that while I don't get finished in my life God will
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I was created to become like Jesus Christ I'm never going to completely become like Jesus until he comes for me
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and takes me to Heaven eliminates sin but if I don't get there and there's some remaining parts left
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God's going to complete the character development in my life and in your life one day he's going to finish it he's
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going to bring us to Perfection completion he says in heaven and think
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about this in Philippians chapter one is what Paul says he's thinking about in that prison cell he's in as he writes his great promise Paul says I'm sure
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that God who begin the good work within you will continue his work remember it's
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not my work it's not your word it's his word until it is finally finished on
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that day when Christ Jesus comes back again friends what a day that's going to
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be what a day when you either go into heaven or you
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know you know he could come for us in the Rapture but either one it's a win what a day it's gonna be because on that
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day when you see Jesus face to face you're going to be transformed the
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scripture says that's when the race is complete that's when we are mature in
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him when we are transformed to become like him all your weakness gone all your
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limps come all your fears and faults gone all your failures and frailties
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gone all your insecurities gone all your blemishes and flaws gone
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and you will be transformed into Perfection one day
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you will reflect the glory of God then you know the older I get the more
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exciting that seems to me that's such good news I'm not who I ought to be
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today you know you're not who you ought to be we're a fraction of what we could be but God says okay I'm taking my time
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I'm cheering you on at every stage you just take every every step with purpose
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because one day I'm gonna finish what you didn't finish and you're going to be
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changed instantly into my likeness if you've put yourself into my care and my hands oh what a day
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that's going to be what I don't finish in my lifetime but you don't finish in your lifetime God is going to finish you
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know in this race of life you may have struggled in your race yeah welcome to the human race right in
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this race you may have stumbled we've all been there in this race you may have been sidelined we've been there
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but your race is not over it's not your heart's still beating your race is still
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going and it's never too late to get back up and get in the race again it's
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awesome it's wonderful and I want to encourage you to run with us in this family called Highlands man let's all
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run together to do great things for God he wants to do great things in and through us and what we don't finish
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he's going to finish as your pastor man I'm committed to help you cross the
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finish line so get in the race and let's run together hey would you pray with me
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let's pray Lord thank you so much that you have called us to this marathon of
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maturity and God we may have to simplify some things to get rid of some baggage to
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maybe change some relationships we're involved in or let go of a friendship that's just dragging us down
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help us not to get impatient I'm impatient I I get impatience so much and
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Lord just remind me how long it takes you to form and build an oak tree you're
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making oak trees in us not little tomato Vines God you're you're you're
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perfecting us and Lord uh I know that sometimes we struggle in
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this race and sometimes we get really discouraged but God put a team around us to run with we need each other we need
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support when we get down we need we need help because there are days that life throws things at us we just want to give
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up and God remind us there is a reward waiting
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when we see you what we don't finish God you will
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there is a day coming where we will become like Jesus wow
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God I'm so far from that today and yet I've been in this race for a long long time
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but I'm learning every day trying to spend a little time with you every day and God you bring up things to me every
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day that I need to deal with and reckon with and get out of my life and ask for
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forgiveness because I'm so imperfect a guy we serve a perfect God who loves
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us and is cheering us on every day and so Lord help us just to understand
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that our third purpose that we were created is to become like Jesus
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and if you're here today and you've never trusted Jesus while you're just missing out on life
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and I would encourage you what what in the world are you waiting on you you really think you're going to find peace in this world it's crazy you need Jesus
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he loves you he wants you to receive his love and all you have to do to do that is
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just open up your heart just invite him in and say Lord I know you send Jesus
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and on the cross for me and he paid my sin dead and today I receive him as Lord
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and savior of my life and got to ask you to forgive me and cleanse me and help me now to demonstrate that you have saved
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me by going public in baptism joining a local church
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getting on this marathon of maturity to race every day until you call me home thank you Jesus for what you're doing in
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my life Lord thank you for loving us and thank you for challenging us every day
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to become like you have your will and Away in Jesus name amen