LEAVE A LEGACY | Erwin Raphael McManus - Mosaic

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Resumen

TLDRThe speaker emphasizes the unpredictable nature of life and the human desire to find significance beyond temporary pursuits. They highlight the importance of responding to God’s call to leave behind comfort, as illustrated through the biblical figure Abram's journey. The essence of pursuing love and leaving a legacy is intertwined with trusting God during transitions in life. The talk advocates for taking risks to live a meaningful life dedicated to blessing others, framing these choices as a pathway to leave a lasting impact and legacy.

Para llevar

  • 🌟 Life is unpredictable, find meaning beyond the temporary.
  • 🚶‍♂️ God's call often starts with 'go'—be ready to leave comfort behind.
  • 📖 Abram's journey represents the significance of faith and trust.
  • ✨ Leaving a legacy is about impacting others' lives positively.
  • 🎯 Your story matters more than you realize; embrace change for greatness.
  • 🤝 Bless others, as that is key to a meaningful legacy.
  • 🔄 Transitions in life teach us the most valuable lessons.
  • ❤️ Pursue love and meaningful relationships as a way to defy death.
  • 🏆 Living a legendary life requires taking risks and trusting God.
  • 🌍 Every person has the potential to create a significant legacy.

Cronología

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    The speaker emphasizes the importance of making the next seven meetings sacred by arriving early and staying late, urging the audience to focus on the significance of their time together.

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    Life's unpredictability is highlighted, as the speaker reflects on why people chase temporary things like wealth and fame, questioning their eternal significance in the context of life's ultimate end.

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    The speaker proposes that human pursuits stem from a desire to defy death, suggesting that love is a way to attain a sense of eternity, urging the audience to find meaning in transitions and loss.

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    Introducing the legacy theme, the speaker reflects on Abram's story in Genesis 12, emphasizing that life can feel insignificant until one encounters God and is called to a greater purpose, which transforms one's narrative.

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    Abram's transition from genealogical obscurity to significance is noted, with the speaker stressing God's command to 'go' as a call to leave the past behind to pursue a promised future.

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    The concept of leaving behind everything familiar is discussed, connecting it to personal growth and fulfilling one's potential, with a caution against settling for less during life's journey.

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    Encouragement is given to trust God in uncertainty, illustrating that God's promise often comes with a demand to leave familiar places without knowing exact new destinations, akin to a spiritual journey.

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    The speaker shares a personal anecdote about unexpectedly losing a lease, relating it to the excitement and liberation of letting go to allow God to lead to new opportunities.

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    Finally, the speaker invokes the idea that God blesses not just for individual benefit but to spread blessings to others, framing personal legacy not in terms of personal accolades but in how one impacts and serves others.

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  • What is the main theme of the talk?

    The main theme is about leaving a legacy and understanding the journey of faith and trust in God.

  • What does the speaker ask the audience to do for the next seven weeks?

    The speaker asks the audience to come early and stay late for their meetings.

  • Who is Abram and why is he significant in the talk?

    Abram is a biblical figure whose journey of faith illustrates how one can leave behind the familiar to pursue God's promises.

  • What does 'go' signify in the context of the talk?

    'Go' signifies God's call to leave everything behind and trust in Him for a greater future.

  • How does the speaker view the concept of legacy?

    The speaker views legacy as the lives you change, emphasizing the importance of blessing others.

  • What encourages the speaker when facing uncertain transitions?

    The speaker feels excitement and exhilaration in trusting God through transitions.

  • What is the significance of understanding one's name according to the speaker?

    Understanding one's name reflects living a legendary life and redefining oneself by the legacy you create.

  • How does the speaker suggest we pursue our legends?

    By risking everything to follow God and focusing on serving others instead of just oneself.

  • What role does faith play in the journey discussed?

    Faith is central, involving trust in God while leaving behind comfort zones for greater promises.

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    So before we dive into the conversation
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    today, I'm going to make a brief
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    commercial announcement if I
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    could. We're going to ask you for the
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    next seven weeks to come early and stay
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    late. And that way we can really make
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    these times together as sacred and
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    meaningful as possible. So if you're
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    here in the room with us, we're glad
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    you're here. Could you stay with us
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    until the very end when you're dismissed
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    so that we don't distract or take away
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    from God is do what God is doing as
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    we're meeting together. So let's come
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    early and stay late. Can you do that
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    with me? All right.
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    Yeah. All right. So here we are in our
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    countdown.
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    seven weeks from knowing where we are to
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    not knowing where we're
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    going. And it's one of those moments
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    that we are reminded that life isn't as
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    predictable as we hope. That things that
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    we consider to be constant are
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    oftentimes simply
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    illusions. It is interesting how in life
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    we
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    pursue certain things as if they have
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    eternal significance.
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    I have friends who do not believe in
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    life after
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    death, but they pursue
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    wealth and fame and power with
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    such
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    intensity that if you didn't believe in
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    life after death, you'd have to ask
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    yourself if there's nothing beyond your
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    last breath, why give yourself to those
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    things?
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    But I also have friends that do believe
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    in life after death and they give
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    themselves to things like wealth and
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    power and
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    fame. And I always wonder to myself, if
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    you believe in life after death, why do
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    you treat these things as if they are so
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    eternal when they're so temporary? It's
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    almost as if we human beings, no matter
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    how we understand reality, whether we
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    think that this is all there is, that
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    there's more after
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    this, there are certain things in life
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    that that
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    that give us a sense of significance and
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    meaning that we'll pursue them at the
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    cost of so many things in our lives and
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    we don't even know why.
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    I think
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    there's a hidden reason why we pursue
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    the things in this life at such a
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    profound and significant level is that
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    we're all trying to find a way to defy
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    death. We're trying to find a way to
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    exist, to live beyond our last breath. I
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    think it's one of the reasons we do
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    pursue
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    love that love is that that intangible
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    experience that feels transcendent and
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    eternal that we can experience in this
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    life. But all of us have a strategy
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    whether we realize it or not. We have a
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    strategy to make the few moments we
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    exist have meaning beyond our existence.
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    That's why these moments right now are
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    so important. Because when you have a
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    transitional moment in life, you become
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    aware of how unstable life is, how
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    uncertain it is, how things that we
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    perceive to have permanence do not have
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    permanence and and why we as human
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    beings experience loss, which is one of
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    the things we were talking about on
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    Friday here in our event called the
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    arena.
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    But the humans experience this feeling
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    of loss because we attribute permanence
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    to temporary
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    things. And so it shakes us up when we
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    thought something was going to be
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    consistent. We thought something was
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    going to be guaranteed. We thought
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    something was going to be certain and
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    then it's
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    not. which is why we can learn more in
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    transitions in those moments of
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    loss than perhaps any other time in
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    life. So, as we face our countdown of
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    seven
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    weeks toward launch
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    day, I want to talk about leaving a
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    legacy. I want to talk about not the end
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    of something, but the beginning of
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    something. In Genesis 12, we have one of
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    these significant moments in the life of
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    a man named
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    Abram. Beginning verse one, it says,
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    'The Lord said to Abram, "Go from your
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    country, your people, and your father's
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    household to the land I will show you. I
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    will make you into a great nation, and I
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    will bless you. I will make your name
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    great, and you will be a blessing. I
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    will bless those who bless you, and
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    whoever curses you, I will
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    curse. and all peoples on earth will be
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    blessed through you.
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    It's fascinating to me when you find the
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    story of someone like Abram and you try
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    to find the story right before the
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    story because we we know the story of
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    different individuals whether it's Abram
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    or Moses or David or Ruth or Esther. And
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    if you're familiar with any of the
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    stories in in biblical history, you know
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    the story from the beginning in a sense
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    to the end.
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    But many times we miss the story before
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    the beginning. Because if you go just
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    one chapter earlier, Abram is just a
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    part of a
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    genealogy. And if you've ever taken any
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    time to read some of the the scriptures,
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    you you find all these genealogies and
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    you see name after name after name after
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    name. But there's no story behind those
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    names. And so one chapter earlier, Abram
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    would have just been a name in between
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    two other names. And he might have lived
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    and died and disappeared in
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    obscurity, living a life of
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    anonymity and maybe even
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    insignificance. But then in chapter 12,
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    Abram's life changes. His life changes
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    the moment he has an encounter with God
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    and God invites him on a
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    journey that would change everything for
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    him. And I am absolutely convinced this
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    is the way God works with us. that our
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    lives can feel insignificant and obscure
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    and we can feel as if we're just a speck
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    of dots in the backdrop of an everex
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    expanding universe and you can wonder if
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    your life will ever have significance or
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    meaning and and what God is trying to do
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    is he's trying to pull you out of the
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    genealogies where you're just trapped in
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    between names to where your story has
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    such significance that it demands to be
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    told over and over and over
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    him. How does that happen? How does
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    God bring us to the place where our
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    story is worth remembering and worth
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    doubting? Begins with God saying to
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    Abram one significant word, go. I I do
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    think it's interesting that God begins
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    the conversation with Abram saying go.
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    Go from your country, from your people,
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    and from your father's household, saying
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    leave everything you know. Which by the
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    way is why having a conversation with
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    God can be so disruptive. We really want
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    God to fix our lives the way they are.
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    God, can you come into my life, use the
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    material of my life, and reorganize it
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    to optimize my personal
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    experience. We really don't want God to
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    say, "No, no, no. All the material you
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    have is the wrong material to build the
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    life that you
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    want. We're going to build the wrong
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    house." This is the story of the three
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    little pigs. We keep telling God what
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    material we need to build a house with,
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    whether it's straw or wood or
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    brick. And when God gets involved in our
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    lives, when we finally in allow God to
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    begin to redesign and reorganize our own
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    lives, most of the time he's letting us
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    know all the material that you have is
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    the wrong material to build the life you
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    want.
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    He says to Abram, "Go from your country,
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    from your people, and from your father's
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    household." In other words, I want you
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    to leave everything behind. Why don't
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    you take your family and
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    go? You leave your country so he had a
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    country. You leave your people so he had
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    a people. You leave your father's
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    household so he had an
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    inheritance. Leave everything and I want
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    you to travel from the land you're in to
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    the land I'm promising you. Now, by the
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    way, there's an interesting little
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    nuance in the story of Abram because his
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    father Terara had taken him on a journey
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    and they were on a journey from the of
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    Caldes and they were going to Canaan to
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    the promised land. So, they're traveling
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    from a land they were in to a land that
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    they were given, but he stopped in
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    Haran. And it tells us that instead of
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    going all the way to Canaan, he just
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    finally chose the subtle. And I think
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    that phrase is really
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    significant because he settled for a
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    land that was not the land promised to
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    him. Maybe he just got
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    tired. Maybe he just became exhausted
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    from the journey. Or maybe he just
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    became satisfied and said, "You know,
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    this is pretty good
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    land. Maybe it's not the worst place in
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    the world. It's it's better than where
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    we left and it might not be as good as
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    where where we're going, but but here we
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    are." And I wonder how many times in our
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    lives we get trapped in the journey in
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    between the Earl of Calaldes and the
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    Canaan that God is promising us because
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    we just get tired or maybe we just
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    become satisfied or we just accept less
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    than the life we were created to
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    live. Says go. If you want to understand
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    what it's like to live in a dynamic
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    relationship with God is that God always
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    begins the conversation with go.
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    There's always a conversation about what
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    you need to leave to be able to pursue
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    what you've been
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    promised. A part of the problem is that
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    he starts with
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    that. I don't know if you have this
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    problem, but I have this problem. When
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    someone talks to me, I usually miss the
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    first or second
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    sentence. I'm not listening yet. About
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    the third sentence, I'm honing in. And
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    the problem, of course, when you've been
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    married for more than 40 years, is that
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    it can become very irritating to your
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    wife when you look at her because I I
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    want to be honest. I want to be
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    authentic. I want to be transparent. So,
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    I'll say to Kim, "Could you repeat what
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    you said?" And then she looks at me as
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    if she wants to burn a hole into my
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    head. She goes, "I I just hate having to
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    repeat myself." Well, then don't say the
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    important thing
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    first, right?
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    start with something meaningless that
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    you don't mind, you know, me missing
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    because the opening sentence is lost.
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    And then sometimes she does that while
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    I'm wearing
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    headsets. I mean, why in the world you
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    would you think that I could hear you
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    when I've got my headphones on and she's
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    talking to me and I don't even realize
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    she's talking to me until I see her lips
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    moving and I realize, oh no, I don't
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    know what she's saying. And I'm I I I
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    have two strategies. One is to
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    pretend. I just I just hope I can guess.
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    Yeah, I'd love to get
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    dinner. I hope that's what the
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    conversation's about. I'm just I'm not
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    I'm just going to move forward with
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    complete ignorance but confidence.
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    And I think a lot of times we actually
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    miss what God is saying because we're so
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    busy
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    talking and we're not spending enough
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    time listening.
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    And this happens constantly. And Kim's
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    like, I just hate repeating
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    myself. So I I I know, honey. Would you
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    rather that I pretend that I know what
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    you're
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    saying? We're still having that
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    conversation. See, I think a lot of us
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    pretend we know what God is saying to
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    us.
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    We're just moving forward as if we're
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    the only part of the conversation that
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    matters between yes and
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    God. But if you're ever going to leave a
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    legacy, you have to hear when God speaks
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    to you and says
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    go. And go always comes with a price.
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    It's leave everything. And and it's
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    interesting that the the imagery here,
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    it's it's so practical and so tangible.
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    God is saying, I'm giving you a land.
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    So, there's a place God wants you to
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    build a life. Say, I actually have a
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    promise for you. I I have this Canaan
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    for you that I want you to experience.
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    This is the place you're going to live
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    the life you're created to live. But I
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    need you
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    to recognize when you've settled for
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    less. I I I wonder how many of us here
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    right now would say, "Oh, no. I'm living
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    the life God created me to live.
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    I I I left the land that I was in, but
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    I've actually arrived in the land that
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    God promised me. Or how many would say,
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    "Nah, somewhere in the middle. I just
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    settled. I settled for
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    less. I settled for less in my
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    relationships. I settled for
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    less in my
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    dreams. I settled for less in my
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    goals. I settled for less in my
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    character. I just finally decided this
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    is as far as I want to
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    travel. I think a lot of us are trapped
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    in land between the
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    lands. And then we wonder why God isn't
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    fulfilling his promises to us. God does
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    not fulfill his ultimate promises to you
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    when you're settled in the wrong land.
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    Go, leave
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    everything. Leave your country, your
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    people, your father's
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    household to the land I will show you.
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    Which, by the way, that applies so much
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    right now. God is so specific about what
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    they should leave and so non-specific
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    about where they should go.
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    go to the
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    land I will show
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    you. So last week I announced that we
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    were leaving this corner on Hollywood
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    Boulevard and Labraa that after 14 years
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    we had lost our lease
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    here and I was very very clear. I don't
  • 00:15:00
    know how to be more clear. I know I'm
  • 00:15:01
    not always very clear. I'm a very
  • 00:15:03
    abstract person. You know I'm not very
  • 00:15:06
    concrete. I'm told constantly by my
  • 00:15:08
    entire family and uh they let me know,
  • 00:15:11
    we have no idea what you said, but we
  • 00:15:13
    were so inspired and moved and
  • 00:15:15
    um so I tried to be so concrete. We've
  • 00:15:19
    been renting this property for 14 years.
  • 00:15:21
    We lost our lease or selling it to
  • 00:15:23
    someone else. We tried to buy it 10
  • 00:15:26
    years ago. It didn't work out for us. So
  • 00:15:28
    now we're leaving. Right after the
  • 00:15:31
    morning gathering, two guys go to the
  • 00:15:34
    bathroom, which sounds like a
  • 00:15:37
    joke, but two guys here, you may be the
  • 00:15:41
    two
  • 00:15:42
    guys, went to the bathroom and started
  • 00:15:44
    having a conversation the moment I was
  • 00:15:46
    finished. Now, I don't think men should
  • 00:15:48
    be talking to each other in between
  • 00:15:50
    stalls, but that's just my personal
  • 00:15:52
    preference. All right? Like when I OP,
  • 00:15:55
    don't talk to me. I I I found that to be
  • 00:15:58
    very awkward. Well, I was really really
  • 00:16:00
    touched by your talk
  • 00:16:04
    today. I'm feeling touched right now
  • 00:16:07
    myself. I just like, you know, it's like
  • 00:16:09
    it's a little weird, a little strange.
  • 00:16:11
    And so, two guys are sitting in the
  • 00:16:14
    stalls having a conversation and one of
  • 00:16:16
    our team members, Austin, walks in. So,
  • 00:16:18
    now you have a third guy in the men's
  • 00:16:19
    room. And he hears the one guy say this.
  • 00:16:24
    They are going to make so much money
  • 00:16:25
    when they sell this building.
  • 00:16:29
    How could you get that from we don't own
  • 00:16:34
    anything and now we've lost what we
  • 00:16:37
    don't even
  • 00:16:39
    have. They're going to make so much of
  • 00:16:41
    you. You know why is because some of you
  • 00:16:42
    have such projections on other people
  • 00:16:44
    that actually comes from your own
  • 00:16:46
    personal value
  • 00:16:49
    systems. There there are people that
  • 00:16:51
    just are convinced the church is just
  • 00:16:53
    ching ching cashing in.
  • 00:16:56
    Believe me, if we wanted to cash in, you
  • 00:16:59
    would not be our target
  • 00:17:07
    group. You are the most educated,
  • 00:17:10
    talented, creative, unemployed people
  • 00:17:13
    I've ever met in my
  • 00:17:15
    [Applause]
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    life. You're thinking way too highly of
  • 00:17:20
    yourself.
  • 00:17:24
    So the guy says, "Man, they're going to
  • 00:17:25
    make so much money when they sell this
  • 00:17:27
    building." And the other guy in the
  • 00:17:28
    other stall, at least he was listening,
  • 00:17:30
    say, "What are you talking about, man?
  • 00:17:31
    They just said they were
  • 00:17:34
    renting." I don't know what happened
  • 00:17:37
    next. Hopefully a lot of flushing. But
  • 00:17:40
    you
  • 00:17:41
    know, one of the things that's so hard
  • 00:17:43
    for us to actually perceive in life is
  • 00:17:46
    that there might be people who are in it
  • 00:17:48
    for what they can
  • 00:17:50
    take or what they can get. And a part of
  • 00:17:54
    leaving a legacy is when you go even
  • 00:17:58
    when you have to leave everything. We
  • 00:18:01
    came here with nothing. We're leaving
  • 00:18:04
    with nothing. But we have everything.
  • 00:18:14
    You have to leave because there's a land
  • 00:18:17
    for you. There is a life God has for you
  • 00:18:20
    that's waiting for
  • 00:18:22
    you. But it has to be created by the
  • 00:18:25
    choices you
  • 00:18:27
    make. There's a future that's waiting
  • 00:18:30
    for you. But you have to hear that voice
  • 00:18:32
    that says go. And you have to be willing
  • 00:18:35
    to let go of everything you have. So
  • 00:18:38
    when when I got the call, we just got
  • 00:18:42
    the FedEx package that said we have to
  • 00:18:43
    vacate in 60 days. I know it sounds
  • 00:18:47
    demented, but I was just filled with
  • 00:18:50
    excitement. I was
  • 00:18:52
    exhilarated. We didn't have much and we
  • 00:18:54
    just lost
  • 00:18:56
    it. Our stability was actually based in
  • 00:18:59
    instability. And I just got so excited
  • 00:19:01
    because I know what happens to the human
  • 00:19:04
    spirit when you have to let go of what
  • 00:19:07
    you trust
  • 00:19:08
    in and then only put your trust in
  • 00:19:11
    God. I'm excited about what it's going
  • 00:19:14
    to do for us and what it's going to do
  • 00:19:16
    for
  • 00:19:21
    you because right after he says leave,
  • 00:19:23
    he tells you to
  • 00:19:26
    trust. He goes on to
  • 00:19:28
    say, "And I want you to go to a land I
  • 00:19:33
    will show
  • 00:19:34
    you." And I I could almost hear Abram
  • 00:19:37
    going, "Okay, would you like to
  • 00:19:40
    elaborate?" We've got several chapters
  • 00:19:42
    available
  • 00:19:43
    here, but he doesn't elaborate. In fact,
  • 00:19:46
    in Genesis 15, God uses a more obscure
  • 00:19:49
    imagery. Verse five, he he takes Abram
  • 00:19:52
    outside and he says, "Look up at the
  • 00:19:57
    sky and count the
  • 00:20:00
    stars." See, God's my kind of
  • 00:20:02
    artist. If indeed you can count
  • 00:20:07
    them, you
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    can't. And then he said to him, "So
  • 00:20:12
    shall your offspring
  • 00:20:14
    be." Abram, look at the sky. Look at all
  • 00:20:19
    the stars. Look at the
  • 00:20:22
    galaxies. That's where I'm taking you.
  • 00:20:26
    That's what the future holds for
  • 00:20:29
    you. And most of us at this point would
  • 00:20:32
    say, I just I just want to know what our
  • 00:20:34
    new address will be. By the way, other
  • 00:20:36
    people slipped out of last Sunday. And I
  • 00:20:39
    I don't know how it could be more clear.
  • 00:20:41
    I know where we're leaving. We're
  • 00:20:44
    leaving
  • 00:20:45
    here. I have no idea where we're going.
  • 00:20:49
    But we heard you guys talk. You should
  • 00:20:51
    wait till you leave the lobby. But we
  • 00:20:53
    hear
  • 00:20:54
    you. I think he slipped and said, "We're
  • 00:20:57
    going to dot dot dot." I did not
  • 00:21:01
    slip. You know how I know I didn't slip?
  • 00:21:04
    Cuz I don't
  • 00:21:06
    know. I'm not hiding things from you
  • 00:21:10
    because I'm a magician. I'm not an
  • 00:21:12
    illusionist saying, "Look, we have
  • 00:21:13
    nowhere to go." B look we have a place
  • 00:21:15
    to go. We have teams going out looking
  • 00:21:19
    for places to go and we're going to find
  • 00:21:21
    several but we have no idea where we're
  • 00:21:23
    going to go. And that's a part of what
  • 00:21:25
    makes it exciting is that we get to
  • 00:21:29
    trust. And then when we look at all the
  • 00:21:32
    people connect to us and there's
  • 00:21:33
    thousands of you by the way. There are
  • 00:21:35
    just thousands and thousands of you that
  • 00:21:36
    we have to help figure out how to move
  • 00:21:39
    into a future together. And and it's so
  • 00:21:43
    exciting to go, we'll never look the
  • 00:21:46
    same again. See, some of you, you only
  • 00:21:48
    know us here. This is the only
  • 00:21:49
    expression of Mosaic, you know, but
  • 00:21:52
    we're so much more pliable than that.
  • 00:21:54
    Someone came up to me this week and
  • 00:21:56
    said, "I've been to over 40 locations of
  • 00:22:02
    Mosaic. You didn't even know we had
  • 00:22:04
    40." Because you've been coming to the
  • 00:22:07
    same place every week. You've missed
  • 00:22:08
    out.
  • 00:22:11
    Because sometimes we settle in a land.
  • 00:22:13
    This is clearly not our final land. This
  • 00:22:15
    is
  • 00:22:16
    just our in between
  • 00:22:19
    place. It's the
  • 00:22:22
    place that looks like our past and our
  • 00:22:25
    present, but not our
  • 00:22:28
    future. Says, Abram, I need you to trust
  • 00:22:30
    me.
  • 00:22:33
    I will take you to a place not only that
  • 00:22:36
    you do not know, but I will not tell you
  • 00:22:38
    yet how you're going to get
  • 00:22:42
    there. And what God actually tells Abram
  • 00:22:46
    is, I'm going to do something really,
  • 00:22:48
    really
  • 00:22:49
    special. It's not the destination, but
  • 00:22:52
    the journey that you'll be remembered
  • 00:22:55
    for. He says, I will make you into a
  • 00:22:58
    great
  • 00:22:59
    nation, and I will bless you.
  • 00:23:03
    I will make your name
  • 00:23:05
    great and you will be a blessing. That
  • 00:23:08
    that statement right there is it's it's
  • 00:23:10
    a little bit unexpected. I will make
  • 00:23:13
    your name
  • 00:23:14
    great. See, I I think a lot of times
  • 00:23:17
    when you're in a in a a spiritual
  • 00:23:19
    conversation, you'll be told, "Oh, no,
  • 00:23:21
    no. You shouldn't want your name to be
  • 00:23:22
    gray. You should only want God's name to
  • 00:23:25
    be great." In fact, I we have songs that
  • 00:23:27
    say that we just want to make your name
  • 00:23:29
    great, God. It's all about your fame.
  • 00:23:31
    But I want you to hear this. This isn't
  • 00:23:33
    this isn't Abram saying to God, "Okay,
  • 00:23:35
    I'll follow you, but will you make me
  • 00:23:38
    famous?" Go, "Okay, God, I I'll give up
  • 00:23:41
    everything, but will you make my name
  • 00:23:43
    great?" This is God
  • 00:23:44
    saying, Abram, trust me, and if you'll
  • 00:23:48
    follow me and trust
  • 00:23:50
    me, and if you'll make my name great,
  • 00:23:53
    I'm going to make your name
  • 00:23:56
    great. I'm going to give you a great
  • 00:23:58
    name. And he does change his name from
  • 00:23:59
    Abram to
  • 00:24:01
    Abraham. But even more than that, what
  • 00:24:04
    he's saying to him is, Abram, your
  • 00:24:06
    legend matters to me. I'm going to turn
  • 00:24:10
    you into a legend. And even in the whole
  • 00:24:14
    journey of the
  • 00:24:16
    Hebrews, of the Israelites, they don't
  • 00:24:19
    begin with Adam. They don't begin with
  • 00:24:22
    Noah. They begin with
  • 00:24:24
    Abram because they're following the God
  • 00:24:28
    of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Imagine if
  • 00:24:32
    you live the kind of life where other
  • 00:24:34
    people said, "We're going to follow your
  • 00:24:37
    God." I do have a friend and I just love
  • 00:24:39
    it. At one time he he got put on the
  • 00:24:42
    spot and this other businessman said,
  • 00:24:44
    "So, do you believe in
  • 00:24:46
    God? Do you have faith?" And my friend
  • 00:24:49
    and I built a relationship for years. He
  • 00:24:52
    said, 'I believe in the God that Irwin
  • 00:24:55
    believes
  • 00:24:56
    in. I believe in the Jesus he believes
  • 00:24:59
    in. And I'm like, I just love that
  • 00:25:03
    because Paul says, "Follow me until you
  • 00:25:05
    follow
  • 00:25:05
    Christ." See, there's a lot of people
  • 00:25:07
    that can't see God, but they can see
  • 00:25:09
    you. And if they see God in you, they
  • 00:25:12
    begin to see God. And so, they're never
  • 00:25:15
    going to believe in God until they
  • 00:25:16
    believe in you. And when they believe in
  • 00:25:17
    you, they're going to start believing in
  • 00:25:19
    God. And God says, "I'm going to give
  • 00:25:21
    you a great I'm going to make your name
  • 00:25:23
    great." God is not worried about you
  • 00:25:25
    stealing his
  • 00:25:27
    thunder. He's not worried about you like
  • 00:25:29
    dimming his shine. He's like, "I can't
  • 00:25:31
    make you great." That's the way a lot of
  • 00:25:33
    us talk. No, I'm nothing. You ever say
  • 00:25:37
    things like that because you think
  • 00:25:38
    that's what God expects from you? It
  • 00:25:40
    wasn't me. It was the Lord. Nah, if it
  • 00:25:43
    was the Lord, it would have been
  • 00:25:45
    better. I just think it's so weird. like
  • 00:25:48
    a lot of like artists. I didn't write
  • 00:25:49
    that
  • 00:25:50
    song. God wrote that song. Then why
  • 00:25:53
    wasn't it a hit? Like you know, you
  • 00:25:55
    know, like God's still working it out.
  • 00:25:57
    Like you know, and and even with my
  • 00:26:00
    books, people will come up to me, they
  • 00:26:02
    go, "Oh, thank you so much for your
  • 00:26:03
    book, but I know you didn't write it."
  • 00:26:05
    They'll literally tell me
  • 00:26:07
    that I don't have a ghost writer. I
  • 00:26:09
    don't have a spirit writer. Like, we
  • 00:26:12
    know you didn't write it. God wrote it.
  • 00:26:14
    And I always push back and it sounds so
  • 00:26:16
    I feel so unspiritual to say this. God
  • 00:26:19
    did not write my
  • 00:26:21
    book. He did write a book. It's just not
  • 00:26:26
    mine. And if God had written my book, a
  • 00:26:29
    it would have been better. Two, it would
  • 00:26:32
    have sold
  • 00:26:35
    better. It's okay to
  • 00:26:37
    say I did that.
  • 00:26:41
    God is not intimidated by your talent.
  • 00:26:45
    He's not
  • 00:26:46
    intimidated by your craft. He's not
  • 00:26:48
    intimidated by your work. God doesn't
  • 00:26:50
    need Picasso to say, "God painted that."
  • 00:26:53
    He didn't need Mosart to say, "No, God
  • 00:26:55
    composed
  • 00:26:56
    that." He doesn't need Hawkins to say,
  • 00:26:58
    "No, God gave me that
  • 00:27:02
    formula." God created you to do
  • 00:27:06
    extraordinary
  • 00:27:08
    things. And that's when people say,
  • 00:27:10
    "Well, you know, the Bible says, you
  • 00:27:11
    know, it's out of my weakness that God
  • 00:27:13
    is strong." I go, "Yeah, but here's what
  • 00:27:16
    you're confused about. Your strength is
  • 00:27:19
    weakness in compared to God." Your
  • 00:27:21
    strength is weakness in comparison to
  • 00:27:23
    God. So, don't think, "Oh, I need to be
  • 00:27:24
    weak so that God can be strong." God
  • 00:27:26
    doesn't need you to try to be less so he
  • 00:27:28
    can be more. Don't jump so high. Don't
  • 00:27:32
    run so fast. Don't be so smart. No one
  • 00:27:34
    here is going to intimidate God by your
  • 00:27:37
    genius, your talents, your
  • 00:27:40
    ability, your
  • 00:27:43
    craft. Actually, what God wants to do,
  • 00:27:45
    he wants to tell a story through your
  • 00:27:49
    life. And God wants to make you a
  • 00:27:52
    legend.
  • 00:27:55
    Imagine if you woke up in the
  • 00:27:57
    morning. Imagine if you woke up in the
  • 00:27:59
    morning going, I live a legendary
  • 00:28:03
    life. I'm going to get coffee like a
  • 00:28:05
    legend gets
  • 00:28:07
    coffee. I'm going to do lunch like
  • 00:28:09
    legends do lunch. I don't do lunch like
  • 00:28:11
    just everyday person because I don't do
  • 00:28:14
    life like the common man. No, I don't do
  • 00:28:18
    life like the common woman. I'm I'm here
  • 00:28:20
    to live a legendary
  • 00:28:23
    life because God is riding a legend
  • 00:28:26
    through my life. And the way God writes
  • 00:28:28
    that legend is when you risk
  • 00:28:29
    everything to follow
  • 00:28:32
    him. I will make you a great
  • 00:28:36
    nation and I will bless
  • 00:28:39
    you. God loves doing good things for us
  • 00:28:45
    and great things in
  • 00:28:47
    us and I will make your name great. that
  • 00:28:52
    that that phrase means so much to me
  • 00:28:54
    with, you know, having had the name
  • 00:28:56
    Irwin all my
  • 00:28:59
    life. Well, not all my life when it
  • 00:29:01
    became my
  • 00:29:03
    alias. And the name I had before was
  • 00:29:06
    even harder and I was always embarrassed
  • 00:29:08
    by I never had a name I wasn't
  • 00:29:10
    embarrassed by all my life. And I
  • 00:29:12
    remember in my 30s I thought, you know,
  • 00:29:14
    I'm going to change that. I'm gonna, you
  • 00:29:17
    know, go with my middle name, Raphael,
  • 00:29:18
    go with my Spanish name, Cardona, and
  • 00:29:21
    just sounds more romantic. I be Raphael
  • 00:29:23
    Cardona. You know, it's like I'll be
  • 00:29:25
    writing fiction. And
  • 00:29:29
    uh but I remember one of my uh friends
  • 00:29:32
    and he became an elder at Mosaic for a
  • 00:29:34
    season and he said, "Erwin, some people
  • 00:29:37
    are given great names, but you're going
  • 00:29:40
    to make your name great."
  • 00:29:42
    I thought,
  • 00:29:43
    "Oh, I like that
  • 00:29:46
    option." So, I'm starting in a
  • 00:29:48
    deficit. And and I have to tell you,
  • 00:29:50
    when when I was growing up and people
  • 00:29:51
    say, "What's your name?" I go,
  • 00:29:53
    "Irwin." And you know how they would
  • 00:29:55
    respond,
  • 00:29:56
    "Irwin." Yeah, Irwin. They go, "Yeah,
  • 00:29:59
    Irwin." And the way I projected my name
  • 00:30:02
    was the response I got.
  • 00:30:05
    It's amazing how when you realize,
  • 00:30:08
    "Oh, my name's different because I'm a
  • 00:30:13
    legend." Then you're
  • 00:30:16
    Irwin. And you redefine your name by
  • 00:30:20
    your story. Some of you have a much more
  • 00:30:23
    difficult
  • 00:30:24
    task. You have the name that a lot of
  • 00:30:26
    people have.
  • 00:30:28
    John, Michael,
  • 00:30:32
    Jessica,
  • 00:30:34
    Abby. There's just so many of you that
  • 00:30:38
    you have to begin to live an uncommon
  • 00:30:39
    life when you have a common
  • 00:30:41
    name. But I want you to know there isn't
  • 00:30:43
    one single ordinary person on this
  • 00:30:45
    planet. And I and I I do get feedback on
  • 00:30:48
    my talks even though I don't want
  • 00:30:51
    them. And one of the feedbacks I got
  • 00:30:54
    even from this conversation was you put
  • 00:30:56
    too much pressure on people.
  • 00:31:00
    you you got to just let people be okay
  • 00:31:02
    with not being great, with being
  • 00:31:06
    average. And I thought about it and my
  • 00:31:09
    answer is so clear. Nah,
  • 00:31:12
    I I don't want you to be okay with being
  • 00:31:14
    average. I do not want you to be okay
  • 00:31:16
    with being a lesser version of you. I do
  • 00:31:18
    not want you to be all right with
  • 00:31:20
    settling.
  • 00:31:24
    I want you to know the moment you were
  • 00:31:26
    born, a legend was born.
  • 00:31:30
    It's just waiting for
  • 00:31:33
    you to trust God enough to take you on a
  • 00:31:38
    journey you cannot experience
  • 00:31:41
    alone. To live a life you could never
  • 00:31:43
    live without him. To leave everything
  • 00:31:46
    and risk
  • 00:31:48
    everything. And some of you, your your
  • 00:31:52
    family right now, they're telling the
  • 00:31:54
    story of you. He's so
  • 00:31:56
    irresponsible. You moved to LA. Some of
  • 00:31:59
    your your family's already telling your
  • 00:32:01
    story. She would not
  • 00:32:03
    listen. She dropped out
  • 00:32:05
    of
  • 00:32:07
    hybrid to go pursue her dream. Some of
  • 00:32:11
    you, your story is already being told,
  • 00:32:13
    but it's not
  • 00:32:16
    finished. Because the great stories make
  • 00:32:20
    sense to no one in the early
  • 00:32:24
    chapters. I still remember being on a
  • 00:32:27
    phone
  • 00:32:29
    call with my mom years ago. When are you
  • 00:32:33
    going to get a real
  • 00:32:39
    job? Maybe in my
  • 00:32:42
    70s. You have to leave. You have to
  • 00:32:45
    trust to leave a legacy.
  • 00:32:48
    Then you have to
  • 00:32:50
    bless and you will be a
  • 00:32:52
    blessing for
  • 00:32:55
    whom? He says, "I will bless those who
  • 00:32:57
    bless you." So God is saying, "Not only
  • 00:33:00
    are you going to be a blessing, but I've
  • 00:33:01
    got your back. I'm going to bless people
  • 00:33:04
    that you bless. I'm going to add value
  • 00:33:06
    to everyone you add value
  • 00:33:08
    to." And then he says, "Whoever curses
  • 00:33:11
    you, I will curse." I'm not going to
  • 00:33:13
    just slip by that.
  • 00:33:16
    What God is actually saying again is
  • 00:33:18
    I've got your
  • 00:33:20
    back. When you're walking with me, when
  • 00:33:23
    you are living out your legend, the
  • 00:33:25
    strangest thing is going to happen.
  • 00:33:27
    People who loved you when you were
  • 00:33:28
    average will hate you when you rise
  • 00:33:31
    above average.
  • 00:33:33
    People who
  • 00:33:35
    absolutely enjoyed hanging with you when
  • 00:33:38
    you accept a
  • 00:33:40
    mediocrity will envy you and despise you
  • 00:33:44
    when you decide to
  • 00:33:46
    live your
  • 00:33:49
    legend. He said, "And I will curse those
  • 00:33:51
    who curse you." What God is saying is
  • 00:33:53
    you don't have to be vindictive and you
  • 00:33:55
    do not have to seek revenge. I got your
  • 00:33:57
    back. Let them do what they're going to
  • 00:33:59
    do. Let them say what they're going to
  • 00:34:00
    say. You follow me. You move into your
  • 00:34:03
    future. Let them be trapped in their
  • 00:34:06
    past. If you want to live a unique and
  • 00:34:10
    extraordinary life, be ready to be
  • 00:34:12
    alone at least for a
  • 00:34:14
    season until you find the people who
  • 00:34:18
    also want to live a unique and
  • 00:34:19
    extraordinary life. And they will
  • 00:34:21
    celebrate you and they will enjoy you
  • 00:34:24
    and they will inspire you and they will
  • 00:34:27
    cheer you on.
  • 00:34:29
    So God says, "I've got you. I will bless
  • 00:34:31
    those who you
  • 00:34:33
    bless. And whoever curses you, I will
  • 00:34:37
    curse. And all, listen to this. And all
  • 00:34:40
    peoples on earth will be blessed through
  • 00:34:44
    you." God is saying this to
  • 00:34:46
    Abram. See, I I think somewhere along
  • 00:34:49
    the way, the story got a little bit
  • 00:34:50
    lost. They thought that God called
  • 00:34:53
    Abram to become Abraham for the people
  • 00:34:55
    of Israel. that he would be the conduit
  • 00:34:59
    of a blessing for one nation. And he was
  • 00:35:03
    a conduit of blessing to one nation,
  • 00:35:06
    Israel. But that wasn't the end of the
  • 00:35:09
    story. God said, "I'm going to bless
  • 00:35:11
    you. I'm going to give you a great
  • 00:35:12
    nation, and I'm going to give you
  • 00:35:14
    children like the stars in the
  • 00:35:17
    skies, but I'm going to do all this so
  • 00:35:19
    that through you all the nations, every
  • 00:35:23
    people will be blessed."
  • 00:35:25
    I think sometimes we think God is
  • 00:35:27
    limited in his generosity. God only has
  • 00:35:30
    enough generosity for some people or
  • 00:35:31
    enough love for certain people or you
  • 00:35:33
    know enough compassion for certain
  • 00:35:34
    people or somehow God is so limited in
  • 00:35:36
    his resources that I I I I can bless you
  • 00:35:39
    but God got to just ignore everybody
  • 00:35:42
    else. No, what God does is he actually
  • 00:35:44
    wants to bless all of humanity.
  • 00:35:47
    Whatever there may be on this planet, 8
  • 00:35:49
    billion, 10 billion people on this
  • 00:35:50
    planet, God has enough for all of us. He
  • 00:35:55
    There is enough love in God for 10
  • 00:35:58
    billion people on this planet. There's
  • 00:36:00
    enough compassion from God for 10
  • 00:36:02
    billion people on this planet. There's
  • 00:36:03
    enough generosity from God for 10
  • 00:36:05
    billion people on this planet. problem
  • 00:36:07
    is that it keeps getting log jammed in
  • 00:36:10
    those of us that God is
  • 00:36:12
    blessing because we think God blesses us
  • 00:36:14
    for us and he's actually blessing us to
  • 00:36:17
    leave a
  • 00:36:18
    legacy because your legacy is not your
  • 00:36:21
    legend. Your legend is the life you live
  • 00:36:25
    but your legacy are the lives you
  • 00:36:29
    change. And when you Oh, come on. We can
  • 00:36:32
    celebrate that together.
  • 00:36:38
    And when you live your
  • 00:36:40
    life as a life of service for others, it
  • 00:36:43
    changes
  • 00:36:44
    everything. That that word bless means
  • 00:36:47
    to grant health, happiness, and
  • 00:36:51
    prosperity to
  • 00:36:53
    others. By the way, if you look at the
  • 00:36:55
    history, the first nation that God
  • 00:36:57
    blessed was not Israel.
  • 00:37:00
    It was
  • 00:37:01
    Egypt through the people of
  • 00:37:05
    Israel. And you know what other nations
  • 00:37:07
    God blessed? He blessed Babylon even
  • 00:37:09
    though they captured the
  • 00:37:11
    Israelites. And he blessed the Persians
  • 00:37:13
    even though they captured the
  • 00:37:15
    Israelites. He blessed them by giving
  • 00:37:17
    them the wisdom and genius of Daniel,
  • 00:37:19
    the wisdom and genius of Joseph.
  • 00:37:23
    God blessed every
  • 00:37:25
    nation that ever came in
  • 00:37:28
    contact with his
  • 00:37:30
    people when they were willing to receive
  • 00:37:32
    that
  • 00:37:34
    blessing. God is always expanding his
  • 00:37:37
    love, his compassion, his
  • 00:37:40
    generosity. And the way we build a
  • 00:37:43
    legacy is not what you do for
  • 00:37:45
    yourself, but what you do for others.
  • 00:37:50
    By the way, we had um a friend come to
  • 00:37:52
    our house named Wayne and he's kind of
  • 00:37:54
    new in our life in the last four or five
  • 00:37:57
    months and I I found him because he's
  • 00:37:59
    like this unique unique individual. He
  • 00:38:01
    does in the business world what I do in
  • 00:38:02
    the business world. So I thought I'm
  • 00:38:03
    going to let him turn that laser focus
  • 00:38:06
    on me and then he came to our house and
  • 00:38:09
    had a conversation with me and Kim and
  • 00:38:11
    it was just so incredible. and he's
  • 00:38:13
    walking through this graph and he looks
  • 00:38:15
    at Kim and said, "By the way, you have
  • 00:38:18
    the highest level of resilience like
  • 00:38:20
    humanly
  • 00:38:21
    possible." And I'm like, "You don't even
  • 00:38:24
    know. You don't even know who this woman
  • 00:38:27
    is." It's like, if you feel stress, it's
  • 00:38:31
    extreme because you just don't feel
  • 00:38:33
    stress. Like, if you feel pressure, it's
  • 00:38:35
    extreme because you are so resilient.
  • 00:38:37
    You will not feel what other people
  • 00:38:39
    feel. When you feel it, everyone's
  • 00:38:41
    already felt it going, "That's who my
  • 00:38:43
    wife is." Because my wife is a legend.
  • 00:38:46
    My my my my wife was abandoned at the
  • 00:38:49
    age of eight, left starving in a
  • 00:38:51
    government project, lived in a foster
  • 00:38:52
    home from 8:18, never heard I loved you
  • 00:38:54
    one time in her
  • 00:38:57
    life, somehow rose above
  • 00:39:00
    that, walked herself to church, found
  • 00:39:04
    her way into
  • 00:39:06
    college, elevated herself to get her
  • 00:39:08
    master's
  • 00:39:10
    degree, and then on top of that, every
  • 00:39:12
    time there's violence or crisis or war
  • 00:39:15
    in the world, world. I lose my wife.
  • 00:39:18
    She's on a plane. She's in Kev when the
  • 00:39:21
    Ukrainian war breaks out with Russia
  • 00:39:23
    because of course that's where she
  • 00:39:25
    should be. She goes to Israel when the
  • 00:39:27
    conflict breaks out in Gaza. She flies
  • 00:39:30
    and builds a center in Bangladesh when
  • 00:39:33
    she discovered young girls are being
  • 00:39:35
    raised up into prostitution by their
  • 00:39:37
    mothers who are prostitutes. She builds
  • 00:39:39
    a school in Malawi where she realized
  • 00:39:41
    that young children don't have the
  • 00:39:42
    opportunity to live the lives that they
  • 00:39:44
    deserve to live and builds a
  • 00:39:45
    million-dollar school. That woman is a
  • 00:39:48
    legend in every
  • 00:39:50
    way
  • 00:39:57
    and but her
  • 00:39:59
    legacy are the people whose lives are
  • 00:40:04
    forever changed.
  • 00:40:06
    If you live forever because someone
  • 00:40:08
    remembers
  • 00:40:09
    you, Kim will
  • 00:40:11
    live as long as there's a human
  • 00:40:15
    race. Because she
  • 00:40:17
    understood that the journey to build
  • 00:40:19
    your legacy, you have to leave what you
  • 00:40:21
    have. Leave it all. You have to trust
  • 00:40:24
    God and follow and risk everything to
  • 00:40:28
    live the life that is your legend. Then
  • 00:40:31
    you have to live your life to bless
  • 00:40:32
    others because that is your
  • 00:40:37
    legacy. And it it is ironic for me. I I
  • 00:40:40
    get the question all the time like, you
  • 00:40:43
    know, how did you get to do what you do?
  • 00:40:44
    And and I've had this incredible gift
  • 00:40:46
    and I'm so grateful to get I've been
  • 00:40:48
    able to travel to maybe 80 hundred
  • 00:40:50
    countries, I don't know, and speak to
  • 00:40:52
    millions of people around the world. And
  • 00:40:54
    and as he's looking at like my
  • 00:40:55
    psychological construct, he's like,
  • 00:40:57
    "You're not really like
  • 00:40:59
    designed to do
  • 00:41:01
    this." Said, "No, you're telling me like
  • 00:41:04
    if you look at my psychologist design,
  • 00:41:06
    you'd say Irwin will never walk on the
  • 00:41:08
    stage. He'll never stand in front of
  • 00:41:10
    people and he will never talk to an
  • 00:41:13
    audience."
  • 00:41:14
    And you know, I know a lot of people do
  • 00:41:16
    weird things on the internet, but my
  • 00:41:17
    addiction was always Trip
  • 00:41:20
    Advisor, especially during, you know,
  • 00:41:23
    the pandemic. I would just go to Trip
  • 00:41:24
    Adviser all day long going, where could
  • 00:41:26
    I escape to and live the rest of my
  • 00:41:28
    life? Because I think if if I had not
  • 00:41:31
    been in an encounter with God and heard
  • 00:41:36
    the voice that said go, I would have
  • 00:41:39
    chosen to be a writer and to live in
  • 00:41:42
    Switzerland and to write under some
  • 00:41:44
    others in them and and
  • 00:41:47
    and to never actually be in a public
  • 00:41:50
    space. But what happened was accidental
  • 00:41:53
    for me. When I met Jesus, I had
  • 00:41:57
    never never thought my life could matter
  • 00:42:00
    so much. When when I came into this
  • 00:42:02
    life-changing experience with Jesus, it
  • 00:42:04
    was like something was awakened inside
  • 00:42:07
    of my soul. And I thought,
  • 00:42:08
    "Wow, this is what it feels like to be
  • 00:42:11
    alive." And whatever it may come,
  • 00:42:13
    whether there's any wealth or power or
  • 00:42:15
    fame, I don't need it because I'm alive.
  • 00:42:20
    and and
  • 00:42:21
    and you asked how do how do you become a
  • 00:42:24
    speaker? It feels like by
  • 00:42:27
    accident because I remember sitting in
  • 00:42:30
    rooms watching people not listen. I
  • 00:42:33
    thought how is it possible people are
  • 00:42:34
    not listening to the most important
  • 00:42:36
    message that could ever be spoken. And I
  • 00:42:40
    just felt like this angst inside of me.
  • 00:42:42
    I go I got to find a way I got to find a
  • 00:42:44
    way to get people to listen.
  • 00:42:48
    I I I I became a speaker not because I
  • 00:42:51
    needed to stand on a
  • 00:42:53
    stage, but because I felt I'd been given
  • 00:42:55
    something that everyone is searching
  • 00:42:59
    for. And and the moment you can flip
  • 00:43:01
    that switch in your soul where you're
  • 00:43:04
    not living your life for yourself, but
  • 00:43:06
    you're living it for others, you will
  • 00:43:07
    discover things about yourself you would
  • 00:43:08
    have never known. And by the way, here's
  • 00:43:11
    the funny thing. I don't have any talent
  • 00:43:13
    that exists outside of people.
  • 00:43:16
    You can't be a really good speaker if
  • 00:43:18
    you have no listeners. Like I'm
  • 00:43:21
    completely dependent on someone choosing
  • 00:43:22
    to listen. I I write books. You can't
  • 00:43:25
    really be a writer if no one reads them.
  • 00:43:27
    I thought I don't have a skill that
  • 00:43:29
    exists outside of
  • 00:43:31
    people. And and I I think this is the
  • 00:43:33
    crazy thing about the way God
  • 00:43:35
    works is that what he really wants us to
  • 00:43:38
    do is ask the question, God, what have
  • 00:43:40
    you put in me that can best serve
  • 00:43:44
    others?
  • 00:43:46
    What gifts or talents or genius or
  • 00:43:51
    uniqueness have you entrusted me
  • 00:43:54
    with so that I can leave a
  • 00:43:57
    legacy by investing in
  • 00:44:00
    others? Isn't that what Jesus
  • 00:44:03
    did 2,000 years ago? Jesus stepped on
  • 00:44:07
    the
  • 00:44:08
    land and he went to Jerusalem where he
  • 00:44:11
    knew he would be killed and he made that
  • 00:44:14
    his
  • 00:44:16
    canaan. Then he gave up his life for us
  • 00:44:20
    and he left the
  • 00:44:23
    legend. The story of Jesus, the story of
  • 00:44:27
    Jesus of
  • 00:44:28
    Nazareth has shifted human history and
  • 00:44:32
    it will never return to what it was
  • 00:44:34
    before.
  • 00:44:36
    But then Jesus left the legacy. The
  • 00:44:40
    legacy was not him walking on water. The
  • 00:44:43
    legacy was not him feeding the
  • 00:44:44
    thousands. The legacy was not him making
  • 00:44:47
    the blind see or the lepers whole. His
  • 00:44:51
    legacy was you and you and you and me.
  • 00:44:57
    Because you have a real
  • 00:45:01
    legacy when your life is given
  • 00:45:05
    away to bring life to
  • 00:45:08
    others. I just want you to bow your
  • 00:45:10
    heads with me just for a
  • 00:45:12
    moment. Just close your eyes for a
  • 00:45:16
    moment. You may be here
  • 00:45:19
    today and God is having a conversation
  • 00:45:22
    with you. He's saying, "Go, leave
  • 00:45:26
    everything and follow
  • 00:45:28
    me." And you've never done
  • 00:45:31
    that. You've never made that defining
  • 00:45:33
    decision to say, "Jesus, I will follow
  • 00:45:35
    you wherever you lead me. No turning
  • 00:45:38
    back. Nothing held back. I'm all yours."
  • 00:45:44
    And if today is the day you are ready to
  • 00:45:46
    cross the line of
  • 00:45:47
    faith and to put your life in the hands
  • 00:45:51
    of Jesus and follow
  • 00:45:53
    him, I want to lead you in a very simple
  • 00:45:55
    prayer where you can give your life to
  • 00:45:58
    him. Just simply whisper these words.
  • 00:46:02
    Jesus, I give you my life. Right now,
  • 00:46:06
    just tell
  • 00:46:07
    him,
  • 00:46:08
    Jesus, I give you my life.
  • 00:46:15
    Jesus, I give you my
  • 00:46:18
    life. If this is your prayer, I want to
  • 00:46:21
    pray for you. I want you right now with
  • 00:46:24
    all the courage you have just to raise
  • 00:46:25
    your hand and say, "This is my moment. I
  • 00:46:28
    just invited Jesus into my life. I just
  • 00:46:30
    crossed the line of faith. Would you
  • 00:46:32
    pray for me?" Beautiful. Anyone else?
  • 00:46:35
    Beautiful. Jesus, I give you my life.
  • 00:46:38
    Beautiful. Wonderful.
  • 00:46:41
    Wonderful. Father, I thank you for each
  • 00:46:43
    person who in this moment has whispered
  • 00:46:47
    that simple prayer, Jesus, I give you my
  • 00:46:49
    life, has meant it from the depth of
  • 00:46:51
    their soul. I pray God that they would
  • 00:46:54
    know that you have heard their
  • 00:46:56
    prayer, that you've come to dwell within
  • 00:47:00
    them, that you are the life they've
  • 00:47:03
    searched for, that you will never leave
  • 00:47:05
    them or abandon them. That they belong
  • 00:47:07
    to you. that they are now your children,
  • 00:47:10
    your sons, your
  • 00:47:12
    daughters and the journey begins
  • 00:47:15
    today of building and leaving a
  • 00:47:19
    legacy. We thank you, Father. We pray in
  • 00:47:23
    Jesus' name. Amen. Can we just thank God
  • 00:47:26
    for all those who
  • 00:47:28
    responded? So
  • 00:47:30
    good. So
  • 00:47:34
    good. Pastor Joe's going to come. I want
  • 00:47:37
    to remind her, please don't leave. until
  • 00:47:39
    he dismisses you. Two, make sure you
  • 00:47:42
    sign up for Mosaic Conference. It's
  • 00:47:43
    going to be an epic celebration. And
  • 00:47:46
    three, don't miss the next seven weeks.
  • 00:47:48
    They're going to be epic. Take care.
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