We can talk ourselves into anything. Our internal narratives justify our beliefs as well as our actions. But when those narratives aren’t true; how do we replace them?
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | How Not To Be Your Own Worst Enemy Part 2 | June 19, 2022
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- Andy Stanley: Well, hey, everybody, welcome to "Your
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- Move," where we help you make better decisions and live with
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- fewer regrets.
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- I'm Andy Stanley and I'll be your guide, and today we're
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- talking about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves,
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- our narrative.
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- Remember your high school narrative?
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- "My parents are such idiots, school is such a waste of time,"
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- and then you grew up and you realized, "My parents aren't
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- idiots, and school was definitely not a waste of time."
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- But as adults, we tell ourselves similar things, "They don't
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- care, it doesn't matter, it won't make any difference," or
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- how about this one, "I don't do exercise," right?
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- The problem with these narratives is that they become
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- excuses and they set us up to become our own worst enemies.
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- So let's stop with all the false narratives, and today I'll tell
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- you how, right here on "Your Move."
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- ♪♪♪
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- Andy Stanley: Isn't it strange-- I don't know you ever think
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- about this, but because I have to talk all the time, I have to
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- think of things people aren't thinking about, so I can make
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- you think about it, so I'll have something to talk about.
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- That's kinda my life, basically.
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- But isn't it strange how we talk to ourselves, because we all do
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- this, right?
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- We have conversations with ourselves just like there's two
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- of us in there, sometimes three.
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- If you have four, I don't really want to meet you, but anyway.
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- These conversations that we have with ourselves, eventually, we
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- get down to this really, really big question that we all wrestle
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- with, and the question-- this question is why?
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- And here's what we do: something happens and we think, why did
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- that happen?
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- Then we go to work trying to figure out why it happened and
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- why did this happen, why did that happen, why did this happen
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- rather than that, and this is what I thought would happen,
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- but this happened, and you can't help it.
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- This is such-- so human nature.
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- We have this extraordinary habit, this inclination to
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- impose a reason on randomness.
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- We impose a reason on-- something happens that doesn't
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- make sense and our minds just go to work trying to make sense out
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- of randomness.
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- And what we do is we create a narrative, we create our own
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- narrative to, basically, to make sense of things, right?
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- We create a narrative to make sense of things.
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- In fact, the worse the incident and the more personal the
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- incident, the harder you work and the harder I work to make
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- sense out of that, because what's undeniable regardless of
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- your worldview, what's undeniable is that we create and
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- often abide by our self-imposed narratives, whether they are
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- accurate or not, whether they reflect reality or not, and this
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- can be a problem, this can be a problem.
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- In fact, this can lead you, as you have already experienced in
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- your life.
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- This isn't gonna be new, I'm just gonna put words around
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- something you've already experienced.
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- This can lead you to become your own worst enemy.
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- So today, we are in part two of our series.
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- If you were here last time, you already know this: "How Not to
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- be Your Own Worst Enemy."
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- Now, we've all been our own worst enemy, and in many cases,
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- we can laugh about that season or that time in our life where
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- we were our own worst enemy, but it's not always funny, right?
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- In fact, you've seen people, you've had friends or family
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- members, who kinda did it up big, like, they were their own
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- worst enemy in their marriage and blew up a marriage,
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- blew up a career, blew up their health,
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- blew up their financial stability.
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- And here's what we think, here's what I think--
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- I know this is what you think.
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- You think, "I would never do that."
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- I mean, watching it happen, you think,
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- "I would never let that happen to me."
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- But you have the potential to do whatever you've watched anybody
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- else do, and we said this last week, because-- the reason we
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- know you have the potential is because you have participated in
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- all of your bad decisions.
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- One hundred percent of your bad decisions, you were there for
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- all of them, in fact, you masterminded most of them,
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- you're the mastermind behind most of them.
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- And as we said last time, a single bad decision, right?
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- A single bad decision is always the first step toward becoming
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- your own worst enemy.
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- A single bad decision is always the first step toward becoming
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- your own worst enemy.
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- Every habit begins with the first time.
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- Every pattern begins with a first line.
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- Every journey begins with a first step.
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- So in this series, I'm going to give you-- I'm giving you three
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- preemptive habits, three things we can all begin doing every day
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- or every week to preempt or to keep ourselves from becoming our
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- own worst enemy, to ensure that you don't become your own
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- worst enemy.
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- So last week, I gave you habit number one.
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- Habit number one was "pay attention to the tension," pay
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- attention to the tension.
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- Whenever you're considering an option or a choice or an
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- invitation or a date or a business deal or whatever it
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- might be, if there's something on the inside of you that's
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- kinda like, "Hmmm," pay attention.
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- If something dings your conscience, pay attention.
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- Ask the question: is there a tension that deserves
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- my attention?
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- This week, we're gonna talk about preemptive habit number
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- two, and preemptive habit number two is simply this: "pay
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- attention to your narratives," pay attention to
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- your narratives.
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- Now, I just wanna make sure we're all on the same page when
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- it comes to narratives, so I need to take you back in time,
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- most of you.
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- Some of you are there now.
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- I want you to think back to high school, and I want you to think
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- about your narrative, your internal narrative, as it
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- related to your parents.
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- Remember how dumb they were, remember how uncool they were,
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- remember how they just didn't get it?
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- And then in your 30s you look back and thought, "Huh,
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- they were smarter than I thought they were."
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- In fact, you didn't even wait till you were in your 30s, you
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- got to your 20s, they were-- suddenly they got smarter and
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- suddenly it didn't matter that they weren't so uncool.
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- Well, what happened?
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- Well, you had a narrative, and in high school, you lived by
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- that narrative, and that narrative got you into
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- trouble, right?
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- Remember your high school narrative about school?
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- For many of you, "Such a waste of time, it's such a waste of
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- time, such a waste of time," you know?
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- So maybe you're young enough to where it was such a waste
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- of time that you got your mobile device, your
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- multi-hundred-dollar mobile device that your loser parents
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- bought for you, that never occurred to you, did it, right?
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- And you start texting your friends on this
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- multi-hundred-dollar, you know, mobile device to your friends,
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- "School is such a waste of time, school is such a waste of time,"
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- on a device created by people who went to school, all right?
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- But that never occurred to you, right?
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- Because you had this internal narrative and you believed it
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- and you lived it out, and we still have those,
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- we still have those.
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- Here are some of the things that drift through our mind that
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- shape our decisions.
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- I'm just gonna go through a bunch of them real quick, just
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- trying to, you know, make sure we're all moving in the same
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- direction today.
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- I deserve better. I'm entitled to.
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- I should be further along. I'm not happy.
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- You know he should be. If she loved me.
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- They don't care, they don't care.
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- It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter how hard I try,
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- doesn't matter if I have an idea,
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- I'm not gonna tell him, it doesn't matter.
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- It won't make any difference, I won't make any difference.
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- I don't do exercise, I don't--
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- "You should exercise," but I don't do that.
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- "I know, but you need to," but I don't do that.
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- "What does that even mean?"
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- It means I don't do that.
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- "You mean, you can't do it?"
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- No, I don't do it.
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- "Like, you can but you don't know--"
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- no, no, no, I don't do it.
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- "That doesn't make sense," I know, it's my story,
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- I'm sticking with it, right?
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- I can't, I'm better than that, I'm better than them, they're
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- losers, they're just losers.
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- The whole category of who-- they're just losers, right?
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- I don't have to consider them.
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- They don't deserve, I don't deserve that.
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- If they would just try harder, you know what their problem is?
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- They don't try hard enough, they don't work hard enough, that's
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- their problem, they just don't work hard enough,
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- they just don't try hard enough.
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- I can't resist, I know I just can't resist--
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- "Why?"
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- I just can't resist--
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- "Why do you do this?" I can't resist.
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- "Why do you--"
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- I just can't resist.
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- Something's wrong with me, gosh, something's wrong with me--
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- that actually may be true, but anyway,
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- something's wrong with me.
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- I can't live without.
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- Republicans are all.
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- Democrats are just.
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- Men!
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- Women are all.
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- Baptists, the Catholics.
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- If my dad had only, if my mom hadn't.
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- Southerners, ignorant, redneck, you know, guns, ugh,
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- what's up with those Southerners, you know?
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- Northerners, just go back to the north, then, okay, if you don't
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- like it down here, right?
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- Bunch of Northerners, right?
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- Isn't it amazing?
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- And again, when you look at it, none of this is rational, none
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- of this makes sense, but I'm telling you, this kinda stuff,
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- and I could go on and on and on, it informs our narrative, it
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- informs how we view and interpret the world.
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- When it comes down to, "I wonder why, I wonder why,"
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- it goes to stuff like that.
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- Narratives create excuses.
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- Narratives create justifications.
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- They empower us to avoid things we should not avoid, and they
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- empower us to embrace things we should stay away from.
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- Narratives, our internal narrative, it fuels our pride,
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- it fuels our racism, it fuels our prejudice, it fuels our
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- fear, and maybe worst of all, it blinds us to our interdependency
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- on others.
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- False narratives are difficult to overcome, they're very, very,
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- very difficult to overcome, and here's why: because our
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- narratives are shaped by things that we have no control over.
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- Our narratives are shaped by where we are in the world, also
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- by the way we experience the world, because you experienced
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- the world different than the person sitting behind you, by
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- the way.
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- And in some cases, the person that you see at work every day
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- and the person that you pass on the highway, you're in the same
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- world, you're in the same city, but you experience the world
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- differently, and this shapes the narrative that we think about
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- that we live our lives in the context of.
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- And obviously, the way that we were raised, the way we were
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- raised, influences our narrative.
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- So, success, failure, family, upbringing,
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- the way we've been treated, the way we've been mistreated,
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- where we live in the world, where we live in the city,
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- what part of the city, our education--
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- all of these things impact the things that we tell ourself,
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- our internal narrative.
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- Now, a whole lot has been written on this topic, but
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- here's what you already know, and we're gonna illustrate it at
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- the end again.
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- Here's what you should know, that your internal narrative,
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- the thing that you just confirm and affirm and tell yourself
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- over and over, it shapes your decisions and it has the
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- potential, as you've already seen when you think back to some
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- of your decisions you made in childhood or high school or
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- college, it has the potential to cause you to become your own
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- worst enemy.
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- Now, here's a really interesting, kinda cool thing.
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- The apostle Paul, who, as you know, if you are new to church
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- or new to Bible studies, you know, the apostle Paul steps
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- into the pages of history as somebody hates Christians,
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- hates Christians.
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- If you hate Christians, he's your guy, except then he became
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- a Jesus follower.
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- But part of his challenge is he's going into these pagan
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- cultures around the Mediterranean Rim, these major
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- port cities, and he's trying to explain to them that God has
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- done something in the world, which means that they are to
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- embrace a completely different value system, the value system
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- introduced by Jesus.
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- And in this-- he writes a letter, one of his letters is
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- written to Christians, Gentile Christians, you know, non-Jewish
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- Christians living in Corinth, this major, very, very secular
- 00:11:06.406 --> 00:11:10.276
- port city, very wealthy city.
- 00:11:10.276 --> 00:11:12.212
- And in this letter where he's trying to get them to rethink
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- their narratives, he employs, we're gonna see, military
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- terminology, which is interesting because he only does
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- this a couple of the times.
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- And I-- and at first, if, you know, if you're kind of
- 00:11:21.988 --> 00:11:23.890
- anti-military or anti-violence or you're thinking, "Oh no,
- 00:11:23.890 --> 00:11:26.960
- where is this going?"
- 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:28.328
- This is actually so appropriate because getting rid of or
- 00:11:28.328 --> 00:11:32.999
- tearing down the narratives that we grow up with and live with,
- 00:11:32.999 --> 00:11:36.035
- it is not a casual endeavor, it is a difficult thing.
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- So Paul uses extreme language to say, "Look, if you're gonna get
- 00:11:38.972 --> 00:11:43.576
- this right, if you're gonna get rid of these narratives you tell
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- yourself and excuses you give yourself, and if you're gonna
- 00:11:46.913 --> 00:11:48.982
- move forward in life, this is gonna take some work.
- 00:11:48.982 --> 00:11:51.317
- You're gonna have to attack this."
- 00:11:51.317 --> 00:11:53.386
- So he challenges his readers in 1st century, and he challenges
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- us as well, to attack the walls that protect our ignorance,
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- our false assumptions, our false narratives,
- 00:12:02.862 --> 00:12:06.099
- our flawed worldview, our flawed "selfview,"
- 00:12:06.099 --> 00:12:10.003
- our flawed view of others, and then once we tear it down,
- 00:12:10.003 --> 00:12:13.673
- to rebuild a citadel around the value system
- 00:12:13.673 --> 00:12:18.278
- and the worldview that Jesus introduced to the world,
- 00:12:18.278 --> 00:12:22.649
- because Jesus introduced the kingdom of God to
- 00:12:22.649 --> 00:12:26.119
- the world and he said, "Everyone has been invited to participate
- 00:12:26.119 --> 00:12:29.255
- in it, but if you're gonna participate in it, you've got to
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- embrace it.
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- And to embrace it, you gotta get rid of some things you have
- 00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:36.396
- thought and believed perhaps your entire life, things you
- 00:12:36.396 --> 00:12:39.199
- never chose to believe, but because of where you live, where
- 00:12:39.199 --> 00:12:42.669
- you were born, how you were treated, you've just grown
- 00:12:42.669 --> 00:12:45.338
- up believing."
- 00:12:45.338 --> 00:12:47.407
- But he's writing to a group of people who grew up with a
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- narrative that looks like this: that people are property, that
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- was just assumed.
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- Anybody in the 1st or 2nd century at any time could become
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- somebody's property.
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- This had nothing to do with race, this had everything to do
- 00:13:00.119 --> 00:13:02.488
- with economics, this had everything to do with where
- 00:13:02.488 --> 00:13:04.457
- you live.
- 00:13:04.457 --> 00:13:05.792
- You can be the wealthiest person in your town, and you could be
- 00:13:05.792 --> 00:13:07.594
- somebody's property.
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- That's the world they lived in, they just assumed that's just
- 00:13:08.962 --> 00:13:10.430
- the way the world is, right?
- 00:13:10.430 --> 00:13:11.764
- The assumption was might makes right: whoever's got the most
- 00:13:11.764 --> 00:13:14.367
- weapons and the biggest army, they discern--
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- they determine what's right.
- 00:13:16.436 --> 00:13:18.605
- There's no morality that everybody subscribes to, there's
- 00:13:18.605 --> 00:13:21.307
- no morality that sits on top of the, you know, the population or
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- the populations.
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- Whoever has the might makes the rules and, you know, that
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- becomes right.
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- "Right" can change overnight.
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- And number three: the gods determine the fate of
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- the individuals.
- 00:13:34.754 --> 00:13:36.089
- Something happens to a child, well, that was just the
- 00:13:36.089 --> 00:13:37.557
- child's fate.
- 00:13:37.557 --> 00:13:38.925
- Something happens to a village, you know, that's just fate.
- 00:13:38.925 --> 00:13:42.428
- The gods, you know, you can't trust them, you've gotta worship
- 00:13:42.428 --> 00:13:44.797
- them and try to keep them happy.
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- So this worldview-- we can't even imagine, he had his work
- 00:13:46.165 --> 00:13:49.335
- cut out for him.
- 00:13:49.335 --> 00:13:50.670
- So here's what he says to Christians living in Corinth,
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- here's what he says to us, "For though we live in the world,
- 00:13:53.172 --> 00:13:58.845
- we do not wage war as the world does."
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- Sounds kind of violent.
- 00:14:01.748 --> 00:14:03.116
- He goes on, "We," talking about these new Christians, talking
- 00:14:03.116 --> 00:14:05.385
- about Christians in the 21st century, "we are
- 00:14:05.385 --> 00:14:08.288
- demolishing arguments."
- 00:14:08.288 --> 00:14:10.890
- We're not trying to overcome a physical army.
- 00:14:10.890 --> 00:14:13.860
- We are in the process of using all of our skill and all of our
- 00:14:13.860 --> 00:14:17.063
- might to demolish arguments.
- 00:14:17.063 --> 00:14:19.499
- Specifically, to tease this out, we, we are to wage war on flawed
- 00:14:19.499 --> 00:14:24.237
- conclusions based on false assumptions, that we have to go
- 00:14:24.237 --> 00:14:27.974
- to war with our flawed conclusions that drive our
- 00:14:27.974 --> 00:14:30.944
- decisions based on false assumptions.
- 00:14:30.944 --> 00:14:34.314
- He says this, we-- what we're demolishing,
- 00:14:34.314 --> 00:14:36.382
- "We demolish arguments," and then he uses
- 00:14:36.382 --> 00:14:38.384
- a really interesting word, "and every pretension."
- 00:14:38.384 --> 00:14:41.754
- In fact, different English translations of the Bible here
- 00:14:41.754 --> 00:14:44.891
- kinda go in different directions, because it's kinda
- 00:14:44.891 --> 00:14:46.826
- hard to nail down what the apostle Paul is saying, but
- 00:14:46.826 --> 00:14:48.895
- everybody agrees on this: he's talking about high things,
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- tall things.
- 00:14:52.131 --> 00:14:53.466
- He says we're coming against every high thing, every arrogant
- 00:14:53.466 --> 00:14:58.538
- attitude, everything that puffs us up beyond what's true
- 00:14:58.538 --> 00:15:01.741
- and what's real, our towering conceit,
- 00:15:01.741 --> 00:15:05.178
- our presumptuous notions, "that set itself up--"
- 00:15:05.178 --> 00:15:08.748
- Now he's getting to the point of this.
- 00:15:08.748 --> 00:15:10.416
- "That set itself up against the knowledge of God."
- 00:15:10.416 --> 00:15:14.654
- In other words, we as Jesus followers, or if you ever decide
- 00:15:14.654 --> 00:15:17.790
- to become a Jesus follower, this is part of the process, that we
- 00:15:17.790 --> 00:15:21.461
- are to assault, head-on, intentionally, every single day,
- 00:15:21.461 --> 00:15:26.032
- we are to assault any narrative about ourselves, about the
- 00:15:26.032 --> 00:15:31.571
- people around us, about the people like us, about the people
- 00:15:31.571 --> 00:15:35.108
- who don't like us, about the people who are different
- 00:15:35.108 --> 00:15:37.643
- from us.
- 00:15:37.643 --> 00:15:39.012
- We are to assault any narrative that stands in contrast to what
- 00:15:39.012 --> 00:15:44.017
- God has revealed, as we're gonna see, in Christ.
- 00:15:44.017 --> 00:15:48.221
- "And we take captive every thought to make it obedient, to
- 00:15:48.221 --> 00:15:53.226
- make it obedient to Christ."
- 00:15:53.226 --> 00:15:55.294
- He says, here's what you have to do, you Corinthians, who see the
- 00:15:55.294 --> 00:15:58.331
- world in such a different way.
- 00:15:58.331 --> 00:16:00.066
- You've got to take every single thought and bend it into
- 00:16:00.066 --> 00:16:03.803
- conformity to what Christ taught.
- 00:16:03.803 --> 00:16:05.938
- You gotta take every attitude and edit it and bend it and
- 00:16:05.938 --> 00:16:09.475
- inform it and train it so that it's in sync with what Jesus
- 00:16:09.475 --> 00:16:14.347
- taught and the values that Jesus introduced to the world, that
- 00:16:14.347 --> 00:16:16.749
- you are to line it up with the value system, the vision, of
- 00:16:16.749 --> 00:16:21.821
- Jesus for the world.
- 00:16:21.821 --> 00:16:23.423
- And this is why, and I say this all the time, but I can't say it
- 00:16:23.423 --> 00:16:25.792
- enough-- this is why reading the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
- 00:16:25.792 --> 00:16:29.328
- and John, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, this is why the
- 00:16:29.328 --> 00:16:31.264
- Gospels are so extraordinarily important, because in the
- 00:16:31.264 --> 00:16:34.901
- Gospels, we get a glimpse of what the kingdom of God would
- 00:16:34.901 --> 00:16:39.105
- look like if Jesus followers would fully embrace it.
- 00:16:39.105 --> 00:16:42.775
- In fact, there's this interesting little piece of
- 00:16:42.775 --> 00:16:44.243
- narrative at the end of Jesus's life, he's kind of getting the--
- 00:16:44.243 --> 00:16:47.113
- he's got the guys together, he's going to be arrested very
- 00:16:47.113 --> 00:16:49.649
- quickly, then things start moving really quick and he'd be
- 00:16:49.649 --> 00:16:52.018
- crucified, and so he's kind of summarizing things
- 00:16:52.018 --> 00:16:55.421
- and condensing things and getting his--
- 00:16:55.421 --> 00:16:57.323
- the apostles, you know, ready for this moment.
- 00:16:57.323 --> 00:16:59.192
- He said, "I gotta-- I'm gonna leave,"
- 00:16:59.192 --> 00:17:00.626
- and they're like, "Where are you going?"
- 00:17:00.626 --> 00:17:02.061
- "Well, I can't tell you, you can't come with me,"
- 00:17:02.061 --> 00:17:03.596
- and Peter's like, "Why can't I go?"
- 00:17:03.596 --> 00:17:05.164
- There's lots of confusion and lots of information and finally,
- 00:17:05.164 --> 00:17:07.233
- Philip says, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hey, wait.
- 00:17:07.233 --> 00:17:09.335
- Jesus, I'm sure all this is important, but look.
- 00:17:09.335 --> 00:17:14.540
- Just show us the Father.
- 00:17:14.540 --> 00:17:17.844
- And that will be enough for us.
- 00:17:17.844 --> 00:17:19.545
- If you'll just--
- 00:17:19.545 --> 00:17:21.514
- what is God like, what does God say?
- 00:17:21.514 --> 00:17:23.783
- Just, Jesus, come on, just show us the Father," and Philip was
- 00:17:23.783 --> 00:17:27.687
- exactly right.
- 00:17:27.687 --> 00:17:29.322
- If we could see as God sees, we would be more inclined to do as
- 00:17:29.322 --> 00:17:34.227
- God says.
- 00:17:34.227 --> 00:17:35.595
- If you can see the people around you the way that God sees the
- 00:17:35.595 --> 00:17:37.730
- people around, if you can see the people around you the way
- 00:17:37.730 --> 00:17:39.732
- that God sees his people, you will be more inclined to treat
- 00:17:39.732 --> 00:17:42.335
- them in such a way that honors God, so Philip's right, it's
- 00:17:42.335 --> 00:17:45.204
- like, just show us, if you could just show us what God is like,
- 00:17:45.204 --> 00:17:48.808
- that would actually change everything.
- 00:17:48.808 --> 00:17:51.344
- That would inform our narrative.
- 00:17:51.344 --> 00:17:53.012
- And do you remember what happens in this next moment?
- 00:17:53.012 --> 00:17:54.747
- It's so powerful, it's one of those moments they should have
- 00:17:54.747 --> 00:17:57.116
- all gotten up and left the room.
- 00:17:57.116 --> 00:17:59.118
- But it's too late, they've seen Jesus do so many things, they've
- 00:17:59.118 --> 00:18:01.354
- heard him say so many crazy things, I mean, they've seen
- 00:18:01.354 --> 00:18:03.823
- this over and over and over.
- 00:18:03.823 --> 00:18:05.825
- And so Philip says, "Just show us the Father," and Jesus
- 00:18:05.825 --> 00:18:08.528
- smiles, and he looks at Philip.
- 00:18:08.528 --> 00:18:12.698
- I think he looks at us.
- 00:18:12.698 --> 00:18:14.700
- And he says, "Don't you know me, Philip?"
- 00:18:14.700 --> 00:18:18.237
- Philip's like, "I didn't ask to know you,
- 00:18:18.237 --> 00:18:19.805
- I want to show me what--
- 00:18:19.805 --> 00:18:21.474
- show me God, show me the Father."
- 00:18:21.474 --> 00:18:23.442
- "Don't you know me, Phillip?"
- 00:18:23.442 --> 00:18:25.244
- I mean, this is so blasphemous, they should have all gotten up
- 00:18:25.244 --> 00:18:27.480
- and left the room.
- 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:29.015
- "Don't you know me, Phillip, even after I've been among you
- 00:18:29.015 --> 00:18:31.584
- for such a long time?"
- 00:18:31.584 --> 00:18:33.853
- Then he just says the most amazing thing, and I'm telling
- 00:18:33.853 --> 00:18:36.589
- you, this is the invitation of a lifetime in a world, the world
- 00:18:36.589 --> 00:18:41.661
- we live in, where we have access to this literature 24/7.
- 00:18:41.661 --> 00:18:46.098
- He says, "Anyone who has seen me," remember this?
- 00:18:46.098 --> 00:18:50.836
- "Has seen the Father."
- 00:18:50.836 --> 00:18:53.206
- Don't miss this.
- 00:18:53.206 --> 00:18:54.574
- In other words, Jesus said,
- 00:18:54.574 --> 00:18:55.775
- "Do you want to know what God is like?
- 00:18:55.775 --> 00:18:57.510
- Watch me.
- 00:18:57.510 --> 00:18:59.011
- Do you want to know what God is like?
- 00:18:59.011 --> 00:19:01.013
- Listen to me.
- 00:19:01.013 --> 00:19:02.515
- Do you want to know what God is like?
- 00:19:02.515 --> 00:19:04.750
- Follow me."
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- Do you want to live with a liberating, life-giving
- 00:19:06.085 --> 00:19:11.224
- narrative, one that will correctly inform your
- 00:19:11.224 --> 00:19:14.961
- conscience, that will correct your false assumptions, that
- 00:19:14.961 --> 00:19:19.265
- will inform your behavior, and ultimately change your attitude
- 00:19:19.265 --> 00:19:23.469
- even toward the people you have nothing in common with, the
- 00:19:23.469 --> 00:19:26.505
- people who are nothing like you, the people you have such a
- 00:19:26.505 --> 00:19:29.141
- difficult time liking?
- 00:19:29.141 --> 00:19:32.378
- Then follow me, because I have come to introduce the kingdom of
- 00:19:32.378 --> 00:19:38.184
- God to earth and everyone is invited to participate in it,
- 00:19:38.184 --> 00:19:42.688
- but you're never gonna fully participate unless you go hard
- 00:19:42.688 --> 00:19:46.792
- after the walls that support all your incorrect assumptions and
- 00:19:46.792 --> 00:19:50.663
- your prejudice and your wrong ways of viewing yourself and the
- 00:19:50.663 --> 00:19:53.766
- people around you and the way that the world works.
- 00:19:53.766 --> 00:19:56.769
- Follow me, and you'll begin to change the way you think.
- 00:19:56.769 --> 00:20:01.040
- Follow me, you'll have a brand-new narrative.
- 00:20:01.040 --> 00:20:04.343
- Follow me, and you'll see the world as it is, that the world
- 00:20:04.343 --> 00:20:06.612
- is broken but that my Father redeems broken things.
- 00:20:06.612 --> 00:20:11.484
- Follow me, and you'll begin to understand that you as
- 00:20:11.484 --> 00:20:14.153
- an individual, you really do matter to God.
- 00:20:14.153 --> 00:20:18.157
- And follow me, and you'll discover that the "you" beside
- 00:20:18.157 --> 00:20:21.360
- you also matters to God, which means the "you"
- 00:20:21.360 --> 00:20:24.630
- beside you should matter to you,
- 00:20:24.630 --> 00:20:27.133
- because the "you" beside you matters to God,
- 00:20:27.133 --> 00:20:30.436
- regardless of their political persuasion,
- 00:20:30.436 --> 00:20:32.838
- regardless of where they live, how they live,
- 00:20:32.838 --> 00:20:36.142
- and how they treat you.
- 00:20:36.142 --> 00:20:38.444
- "Being full of yourself," he says, "will leave you empty.
- 00:20:38.444 --> 00:20:42.048
- Follow me and you'll discover that emptying yourself will
- 00:20:42.048 --> 00:20:46.319
- leave you full."
- 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:48.721
- Jesus could say things like this.
- 00:20:48.721 --> 00:20:50.056
- "Everyone, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts
- 00:20:50.056 --> 00:20:52.958
- them into practice," doesn't just hear them and go,
- 00:20:52.958 --> 00:20:54.960
- "That's good, never heard that before."
- 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:56.562
- Every single person that hears these words of mine and changes
- 00:20:56.562 --> 00:20:59.665
- their internal narrative so they can begin to act on the words of
- 00:20:59.665 --> 00:21:02.868
- Jesus is like a wise man who builds his whole life on a
- 00:21:02.868 --> 00:21:06.706
- firm foundation.
- 00:21:06.706 --> 00:21:09.442
- And then Jesus would warn, he'd say, like we said last time,
- 00:21:09.442 --> 00:21:11.677
- "But if you don't, you have the potential of becoming your own
- 00:21:11.677 --> 00:21:17.450
- worst enemy."
- 00:21:17.450 --> 00:21:21.887
- And then Paul closes the same passage with these words that
- 00:21:21.887 --> 00:21:25.424
- can be so easily misunderstood,
- 00:21:25.424 --> 00:21:27.360
- but he's making such a powerful point.
- 00:21:27.360 --> 00:21:29.695
- He says this, and--
- 00:21:29.695 --> 00:21:31.630
- this is back to 1 Corinthians and--
- 00:21:31.630 --> 00:21:33.366
- 2 Corinthians, excuse me,
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- "And we will be ready," in other words,
- 00:21:35.201 --> 00:21:37.169
- this is military terminology again, we will be at attention,
- 00:21:37.169 --> 00:21:40.072
- we will be on guard, we will be ready.
- 00:21:40.072 --> 00:21:42.842
- "We will be ready to punish," and the idea here is to bring
- 00:21:42.842 --> 00:21:46.846
- justice to, to respond appropriately to.
- 00:21:46.846 --> 00:21:49.849
- "And we will be ready, we'll be ready to punish every act of
- 00:21:49.849 --> 00:21:54.487
- disobedience, once your obedience is complete."
- 00:21:54.487 --> 00:21:58.224
- His idea, the idea here is this, that we as individuals should be
- 00:21:58.224 --> 00:22:02.795
- ready to react swiftly when our old narratives start cropping
- 00:22:02.795 --> 00:22:07.933
- back up.
- 00:22:07.933 --> 00:22:09.301
- We should be willing to respond quickly when we begin to-- when
- 00:22:09.301 --> 00:22:12.605
- we refuse or forget to bend our attitudes and bend our thoughts
- 00:22:12.605 --> 00:22:16.609
- and bend our presuppositions and our assumptions
- 00:22:16.609 --> 00:22:18.911
- toward the words and the-- towards obedience to Christ.
- 00:22:18.911 --> 00:22:22.982
- That we should respond quickly when we find ourselves
- 00:22:22.982 --> 00:22:25.484
- rebuilding old walls, walls that keep people out,
- 00:22:25.484 --> 00:22:29.522
- walls that shut us in with people who are only like us.
- 00:22:29.522 --> 00:22:34.760
- We are always at war, potentially, with the narratives
- 00:22:34.760 --> 00:22:37.563
- that want to creep up and misinterpret the world
- 00:22:37.563 --> 00:22:41.534
- around us.
- 00:22:41.534 --> 00:22:42.902
- So, to get you started, and to kind of meddle in your business
- 00:22:42.902 --> 00:22:47.306
- just a little bit, I'm going to ask you a list of questions.
- 00:22:47.306 --> 00:22:50.876
- And most of these questions won't have anything to do with
- 00:22:50.876 --> 00:22:53.879
- you, and you will be so happy they don't, but a couple of
- 00:22:53.879 --> 00:22:57.950
- these questions may just hit you right between the eyes.
- 00:22:57.950 --> 00:23:01.153
- And here's the reason I'm asking you these questions:
- 00:23:01.153 --> 00:23:04.290
- I want you to listen to the narrative that pops
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- into your mind when I ask you these questions.
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- I'm not saying your narrative is right or wrong, I'm just saying
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- I want you to be aware of it, and then maybe later today
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- when I get to a question that intersects with your
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- actual life, you'll find yourself going, "That's true,
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- why do I think that, why do I assume that,
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- why do I respond that way?"
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- So here's some questions for you, ready?
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- Why don't you call your brother?
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- Why won't you call your sister?
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- Why won't you call your dad?
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- Why won't you call your mom?
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- Maybe for some of you it's, why won't you call your oldest son?
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- Why do you drink so much?
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- Why do you respond the way you respond when people point out
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- that maybe you drink too much?
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- 'Cause you have a narrative for all of those questions, you have
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- a narrative, right?
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- Why did you move in with him, why did you move in with her?
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- Why did you file for divorce?
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- What do you tell yourself, what do you tell yourself about why
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- you aren't more generous with your money?
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- What do you tell yourself about why you won't pay your taxes?
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- What do you tell yourself about why you just despise
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- Republicans, or Democrats, or rich people, or poor people,
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- or white people, or Black people, or brown people,
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- or immigrants?
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- What do you tell yourself?
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- Well, what do you tell yourself about why you gave up on God and
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- why you gave up on church?
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- Have you listened to that narrative lately?
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- My friends, this is-- I just-- it's a big deal, we could spend
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- weeks on this.
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- Pay attention to your narratives.
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- All you have to do is think back to a season in your life when
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- you were your own worst enemy, and I guarantee you, you had a
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- supporting narrative for those decisions you now regret.
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- When you think back to that season, that decision, that
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- relationship, whatever it was where you were looking back,
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- it's like, I can barely laugh about it, I can barely tell the
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- story, I was my own worst enemy, I did it to myself-- you had a
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- supporting narrative to support those decisions you now regret.
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- So I got an idea, it's not my idea,
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- it's an idea, I stole it from Paul.
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- Let's "demolish arguments and every pretension that sets
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- itself up against the knowledge of God."
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- Let's "take every thought captive to make it obedient
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- to Christ."
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- So here's the commitment I would like for you to make.
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- Last week, I asked you to make a commitment as it related to "pay
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- attention to the tension."
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- Here's the commitment I would like you to consider this week.
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- Would you be willing to commit-- just try this for a week: "I
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- will demolish every narrative that conflicts with the value
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- system introduced by Jesus.
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- I will demolish," and I used Paul's word, I know it's a big
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- word, it's a powerful word, it's a violent word,
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- but this is a big deal, there's a lot at stake.
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- I will demolish, I will come against, I will tear down
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- every narrative.
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- As I listen to those things run through my mind, I think,
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- wait a minute, that's not what Jesus would do.
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- Wait a minute, that's not the way somebody who really believes
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- there's a personal God would think.
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- "I will demolish every narrative that conflicts with the value
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- system introduced by Jesus."
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- Because here's the thing, you hear us talk about "follow
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- Jesus, follow Jesus, follow Jesus," this is what it looks
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- like to follow Jesus.
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- "Follow Jesus" isn't just believing he did something, and
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- "follow Jesus" isn't just believing that something's true.
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- Following Jesus is this: it's tearing down everything on the
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- inside that gets in the way of us living it out in the real
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- world to embrace his view, his values, and his vision for the
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- world, to repeal and to replace the views, values, and visions
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- that we've grown up with and the ones that we are so incredibly
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- comfortable with.
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- Because in the end, it's true what I say all the time: in the
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- end, following Jesus really will make your life better.
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- And when we follow Jesus, we make the world a better place.
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- And when you follow Jesus, when you follow Jesus, odds are you
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- will never become your own worst enemy, so pay attention,
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- pay attention, pay attention to your narratives.
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- Andy: Well, thanks so much for watching
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- this episode of "Your Move."
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- Everything we do, everything we do is designed to help people
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- make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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- If you want to learn more about what we do, why we do it,
- 00:27:57.583 --> 00:27:59.885
- and how you can play a part, head on over to our website
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- at yourmove.is/join.
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- There you'll find free resources to help you grow
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- personally and spiritually.
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- As always, thanks so much for watching,
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- and we will see you right back here next time on "Your Move."
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- ♪♪♪
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