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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:13 I want to also, take a time to welcome all locations, everybody who's watching online, pray dot com. We love you. North Idlib, will you please help me welcome the online church? Amen.0:25 Amen. Amen. Well, for those who don't know, if you don't know, now you know, I, have an eye eye update for you. A0:37 couple months ago, I I stand on this pulpit here, and I preach. I taught on unshakable faith. Little did I know that a month later, my faith was gonna be tested. And0:48 I, on September, the third week of September, I underwent on a, eye surgery, in Worcester, and it shook my faith a little bit,1:01 or tested my faith a little bit, I would say. And, I had to lay flat for, like, 7 days after surgery. It was a retinal detachment, and that was rough. A lot of you don't even know I was leading1:13 worship the week here before, and I forgot what it's the joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength. And I'm, like, singing, and my right eye was totally blacked out. I couldn't see anything, but he was still1:25 the joy. And so that was very rough. But by the way, I just gotta stop right there and say, church, thank you so much for coming to my house and coming to my1:37 rescue. Some of you, like, literally pulled up. Like, some of you literally, like, drove to my house, packed me up with food, made me gain, like, 15 pounds.1:49 I'm still struggling to lose them. Man, y'all cook some good food, some broccoli and stuff, make trying to make me eat healthy and and all this stuff, but it was good. Some of you pulled
2:01 up, and and that is what community is about. That's what we do church. Right? To be here for 1 another. And y'all showed love so much for me and my family. We're so grateful for that. Some of you had to turn you around
2:13 like, no more food, please. But thank you so much. So on November, when I went back for a night checkup, my doctor gave me some more bad news, and he said, your
2:24 left eye is also detached. So your retina is also detached. So I'm like, man, again? I gotta leave 7 days again? And that was very rough. It was very rough for me.
2:37 But we made it. And I actually went on Wednesday and 4 4 4 to 6 hour appointments. Those were tiring, and my wife, and
2:49 I haven't been able to drive in 5 months. So she she was like, when pastor Tim asked me to preach, and I told her, I'm I'm sitting in the kitchen, and she goes she's cooking. She's
3:01 like, why you gonna peek at what are you gonna speak about this time? Because you speak about uncheckable faith and you almost lost your sight. And I said, this time I'm preaching that the Lord's gonna use somebody to
3:11 buy me a used Tesla at least a used 1, you know. I said, they're only I said, they're only 15 grand. Like, I said, because I need auto driving because I can't do it now. So
3:23 my right eye is it's I I have a bubble that when I go like this, you guys just turn into this fish eye. But guess what? God is not done with me yet. Whoo. My god.
3:34 Guess what? Guess what? Because the work that he started, he's gonna finish it. And I'm here to tell you that there's
3:45 no power in hell that can take me out. Because God if God is for me, who can be against me? Whoo. My God. I came to preach this morning. I tell you that. So
3:57 we gotta get into it. We gotta get into it. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I I do apologize. But I will tell you this. My my faith was yet a little bit
4:09 shaking. I 1 day I woke up. I hadn't tell anybody this. I, woke up and I'm in my bed and I'm like with the iPads and I'm like, God, why? Where are you? I can't hear you, man. Like, where you
4:20 at? Has anybody ever asked that before? Like God, where you at? And parents by the way, we're not perfect. My family's my family is crazy like locals.
4:33 And we try to do Bible study with our girls every night. You know? We try to force them to love Jesus. Parents, take notes. You force your kids. Hello? They're kids. So
4:45 sometimes I go to my daughter and be like, read this. And she's reading the word. But sometimes we'd have bible studies and so 1 day, I woke up and I was questioning my, God, where are
4:57 you? And my youngest, she's 9, Hannah goes, I'm doing the bible study today. And I'm like, dear God, my the preacher in me, like, you can't just read the word out of
5:09 context. And she goes, opens the bible, here. And I'm like, gosh, what are you doing? She started reading the word, and the
5:21 word was, when has God ever ceased to forget you? Hey. When has God ever ceased to stop his grace on you? And I
5:32 went, Guys, I got a confession to make. I said, I felt like he abandoned me, man. I said, but Hannah, he he used you. Because it's normal when church folk you
5:44 know, that's normal folk. I'll pray for you. You know you know, God will do this for you, but it's different when your kid tells you. When God uses a little tiny thing that me and her, we bump heads all the
5:56 time. And she goes, mommy, I'm just like him. I'm just like him. And my wife's like, that's why you all arguing all the time. But that's just where we at. So church, keep me in your prayers. God is still
6:08 healing. And whether he's using natural or he's using science, he's still God. Amen. Now who's ready and excited for the word of God this morning?
6:23 I'm a person who is easily distracted. Actually, I'm talking about distraction. Let me pray because I forgot to pray. Dear God, Lord, I pray
6:35 that you will speak to us today. Pray that your heart will teach us. That the words that I speak today, Lord, it will be directly from your throne, God. I
6:48 pray that you will put a guard over my mouth, but I will not say anything that is not from you, God. Speak to us today, Lord. Let hearts receive the gospel today.
7:00 Show up and show off. In Jesus' name we pray. The church says Amen. I'm a do this because I did last service. Slap your neighbor high 5 and tell them I'm glad you're in church. I'm you're in church. Thank you, Kevin.
7:11 Appreciate it, man. Yo. The last service, I was like, slap your neighbor, and they were like
7:25 I'm a person who's easily distracted. You could tell. I mean, I kinda missed my cue. You know? But I'm a person who, like, anybody could be right now be like, squirrels. And I'm like, where?
7:38 Like, where? You know when, like, you see it kinda like an accident on 95? Like, I'm that person that goes like like, I just get distracted instead of kinda like looking forward. And and I'm a person who when I was
7:50 young, I got that nose with HDHD, d e d d d d I h d, all those d's. Yeah. I got that nose with that. And I'm a person that loses focus so easily.
8:03 And especially when my wife's like, throw that trash away, and I'm like, oh, I forgot. Like, you know, and I'm I'm just a distracted person. And when I'm at work, people come and talk to me. Like,
8:15 sometimes I'm doing sound and people go, let me. And I'm like, alright. Like and Mike is probably here singing like, yo, let me. You know? And I'm always a distracted person. As a matter of fact, somebody snapped a
8:27 picture of me the other day while I was at work studying for the sermon, and it looks sound like this. And I was like, please don't talk to me. I have to write a sermon. I have
8:39 no self control, and I will talk to you for 2 hours and get no work done. That is me. Is anybody else like that? Come on. Stop lying to I see some heads like me.
8:51 You know? And so it's so funny that distractions are are just are just there. And but what about you? Are you someone whose focus level is at an
9:03 100? Or are you somebody whose focus level is kinda like me? Like, are you someone who is so focused on maybe success and earthly things and
9:15 things that matter or maybe things that don't matter? Or maybe you're focused in distractions. Like, are you focused in trying to maybe live life in general? Are you someone
9:27 who is trying to impress a guy or a girl, and you're so focused that you're actually looks and focused of what dating is and stuff like that? How about on a third person view?
9:39 How about if someone was to look at your life today and they were to see your life in a focused lens, what would they see? Would they see someone
9:51 who is focused on Jesus, putting Jesus in the center? Could it be that maybe or they will see that your priorities are not aligned?
10:03 Could they see that maybe you're focused on things that don't matter, or could it be that you're someone who only focuses on Jesus in times of need? The people that only praise Jesus for the benefit. You know?
10:15 Or are you someone who's focused in saying, Jesus, you are are at the center of my life. In reality, Waters Church, we live in a world that is full of distractions.
10:28 We live on a world that people just want to pull your attention, and people just want to pull your attention from things that really matter. And people I've noticed
10:39 that people are either pulling you from something or pulling you towards something. And the reality is, I don't know how you walked in into church this
10:51 morning. I don't know if you are in the mountaintop or if you're in the valley. I don't know if you got it all together, or I don't know if you don't. I don't know if you're killing
11:03 it alive or if life's killing you. I don't know where your focus is this morning, but I want to I want to make sure and or shift your focus
11:15 not in me, not in what I'm wearing, not in what I look like, but shift your focus into Jesus. Church, this morning, I want to speak to you
11:27 under the title of fix your focus. Fix your focus. I preach to teens, so let me do it together. Let's we're gonna do it in
11:38 3, 2, 1. Fix your focus. Make it personal and say fix my focus. 3, 2, 1. Fix my focus. I want us to focus on 1 bible verse, but before
11:50 we even get there, I want to give you context on where we're gonna be, which is Colossians 3. And this is the context of where we're gonna be reading from. And as a preacher, I always ask the who, the
12:02 what, the why, the what was going on, and what is going on. And so it was a letter that Paul everybody say Paul. Paul. Paul was writing
12:14 to the church in Colossae. The reason why he was writing this letter is because there was a guy named Epaphras that he went to possibly visit
12:26 him in prison in Rome. By the way, I've been there. I've walked the streets of Oman. I've seen where he was in prison. That was very cool because now it gives me a little little different aspect as a preacher. So he was
12:37 in prison in Rome. The first thing that came out to me as a preacher is that he had all reason to be complaining. He had all reason to be
12:49 doing something else, but it shows me that Paul had to be so focused in the mission of God that it did not move him away. It did not stop him from what he
13:01 had to do. So Paul writes this reminder to the church in Colossae and to us today, which is with a simple thing, that
13:13 Christ is supreme and Christ is sufficient. That Christ is supreme, and Christ is sufficient. And he's telling us today that and he told us
13:24 them that they don't need no extra rules, that they don't need no secret knowledges, that they don't need no extra spiritual things, that Jesus was
13:36 enough. You lost a moment to say amen. But Jesus wasn't not only enough, Jesus is enough, and he will always be enough. That is what
13:47 I wanna speak to you about. And so I don't know about you, but Paul's warnings to the Colossians kind of align with us today. And so I was reading this, and it
13:59 kept pop to me that there was some distractions that derailed the focus of the church in Colossae. And if you and I are not careful, guess what? We can also lose focus
14:11 of the mission. If we're not careful, we can lose focus of the mission. And the first thing on your notes is that he was he was shifting their focus to some false
14:23 philosophies and human traditions that were there. People were mixing Greek mythology at the time. People were mixing these things and with philosophies and human reasonings with
14:35 Christianity and and pretty much leading believers away from the true gospel. And so I call that new truths. Philosophies false false
14:46 philosophies are new truths. And just as the Colossians were actually influenced at the time by human wisdom, I felt that many people today follow
14:58 this self help ideology or progressive spirituality or relativism where people believe that your truth or my truth
15:10 is just as valid as God's truth. And I'm here to tell you this morning that that is a straight life from the pit of hell. You wanna know why? Because I know that there's
15:21 only 1 truth. And I came to tell you this morning that that truth is found in John 14 6 where it says, I am the truth, the way, and the life and nobody gets to the father except through me.
15:33 That is the only truth that I believe. And you know what? Also, believe I believe the truth that my life is not good. I'm gonna tell you like the teens. I tell you that my life sucked. But guess what?
15:44 There's a God that came to die for me. There's a God that came to rescue me. There's a God that came and brought me to repentance. There's a God that said, you know what? Let me, you need something differently. And you
15:56 can look anywhere else. You can look on drugs. You can look on sex. You can look on alcohol outside of me, and you're never gonna find it because you're always gonna be thirsty. But I'm here to tell you that there's a
16:05 water that if you ever drink it, you're never going to thirst again. I'm here to tell you today that if there's a bread there's a bread that you can eat that you're never ever gonna be hungry again. And he's the bread of
16:16 life. His name is Jesus Christ. Whoo. Whoo. That monster's kicking in, man. The thing about today is that we have a ton of
16:28 voices. We have a ton of people talking around us. Believe this. Believe that. Believe your truth. And these voices, if we're not careful, they get louder than
16:39 God. And and and we're distracted by Facebook. How many times a day do you scroll? But how many times do you open up the word?
16:52 It's so easy to do it. Have you noticed that? Have you caught yourself in in the restaurant? You go out for a family dinner? We have a rule in our family. We don't use phones on the table. We don't do we don't do no
17:04 phones. Like, this is this is our time. This is the time that we connect through food. We're breaking bread. And my 14 year old daughter goes, but why?
17:16 Why do I have to put my phone away? Parents, cut the Wi Fi. Shoot. We gotta bring it back, man. So many so many distractions, social media, and
17:28 you got now you have influencers. Everybody's an influencer. Everybody wants to teach you in your life. Everybody wants to go like, this is how you do your life. And they wanna influence you,
17:40 but yet their life is a mess. They wanna influence other people's homes when their homes are a wreck. You should be influencing yourself at waters church dot org slash help.
17:53 We got we're so distracted by self proclaimed influencers, and we get distracted by the secular world. And these distractions, they lead you these distractions lead you to redefine
18:05 your own truth and morality. And you end up creating and believing this false identity of someone you're not, And you end up
18:17 creating a purpose apart from God because you lose focus because you're listening to everybody else instead of listening to the word of God. Preaching to teens for the last 2
18:29 and a half years, almost 3, giving me headaches and giving me white hairs. I I deal with it all the time. I don't I don't fit
18:40 anywhere. I don't I I I just I don't have no identity. Well, do you realize that you're not putting your identity in Christ? Do you realize that you're so worried about putting your identity
18:52 in a man, in a woman, in a job, in a social status, in everything else but Christ? Why are we so focused, or why are we losing distractions and we're focused on the things that
19:04 don't matter? And so people don't know their identities. So Paul writes scriptures. Colossians 2 8. It says, cease to it that no 1 takes you captive
19:16 by philosophy and empty the seat according to human traditions, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. Second thing that I pulled from
19:28 this text was legalism and religious rules. Legalism of religious rules. Some at the time were teaching that faith in Jesus was not enough. They were teaching
19:41 that they needed to follow the Jewish laws and traditions and that Jesus wasn't enough that you needed to follow the stuff to truly be saved, and I call it today, performance
19:52 based Christianity. And so some churches, and I say some, I'm so glad that Waters Church is such a church that we preach the true gospel of Christ.
20:04 We don't preach feelings. I don't preach what I feel like. I'm I'm teaching the word, and if the word is offending you, well, guess what? I got more to offend you with. But it's not me. It's the word.
20:16 So some churches are preaching rules of a relationship with Jesus and making people feel that they must earn God's love in order to be saved, in order
20:28 to go to heaven or traditions or rituals, or then you have the totally opposite part of that spectrum, which people are preaching that you can live a life
20:40 however you want. You can go clubbing, do whatever you want without repentance. Like, are you kidding me? So either some are preaching, guess what? You have to
20:52 do worse in order to get set, and some are preaching the totally opposite, which is you can live the life with that with the way that you want because guess what? It's your truth. And both thinkings are wrong. I believe
21:03 that you shouldn't be focusing outward. You're you're you're you're you're you're putting too much emphasis on outward behavior instead of heart transformation. Yeah. Yeah. God cares about your heart. And so it's not
21:15 about how much money you got. It's not about how much money you tithe. It's not about how many people you fed. It's not about how many people you have evangelized to. It's not about how many people are getting saved
21:27 because you're preaching the gospel. Because it is not about a legalistic way. Some of you might do all that, but guess what? If you don't shift your focus, you might get to heaven and he says, depart from me. I never
21:38 knew you. And those are some words that I don't wanna hear. So I wanna shift your focus. God cares about your heart more than he cares about your works. God
21:50 cares more about your heart than he cares about your works to get saved. And so brings me to number 3,
22:02 mysticism and angel worship. Mysticism and angel worship. That's something I got from that text. Other belief that they needed to have this secret knowledges or worship
22:14 angels in order to have a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. And I call it mysticism and emotional based faith. Have you noticed that
22:25 people just want something, and they're always seeking? They go to, like, what is the palm thing, the palm reading thing? And they're always looking for something. They they they wanna
22:37 know what the future who am I gonna marry now? And they probably go, what am I eating for lunch today? And they're looking for something.
22:50 People are always looking for something else. They're looking for this spiritual deepness. When the reality, they should be looking for God. You don't need no
23:02 sign. You can learn how to walk by faith and not by sight. Why don't you be in my shoes? I'm literally doing that. I'm walking. My wife is like, just a step there. I'm like, okay. I got it.
23:15 You know, people are looking for signs, and people are looking for for for for spiritual movements that prioritize feelings over truth. Feelings over truth. And let me break it down for you today.
23:28 It's not about your feelings because feelings come and go. You know what stays the same? You know what my word tells tells me? Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
23:39 today, and forevermore. You know what doesn't change? The truth. You know what doesn't say? Because he's the truth away in the life. He never changes. And let me be honest with you.
23:51 I am sick of I'm a Gemini, and I'm a Virgo, and I'm a Capricorn, and I'm a Chinese lion, and
24:03 I'm a tiger. I'm tired. Somebody went raw in the front. And I'm like, how about we stop with this
24:15 nonsense? And when things get rough, you know what you're saying? How about I'm a child of God? How about we go back to the basics? Yeah. Let's stop prioritizing our
24:26 feelings. Your feelings are feelings. They come and go. Some people think that they need a personal revelation beyond scripture to
24:38 truly be spiritual. You know, you don't need that. You need Christ. And so scripture says Colossians 2 18 19, it says, let no 1 disqualify you by insisting on
24:49 asceticism and worship of angels, doing on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by
25:01 senses mind. Worldly desires, number 4, and sinful living. Worldly desire and sinful living. Some Christians are
25:13 influenced still by their old sinful life, and they needed to be reminded to live a holy life.
25:26 So the scripture says, Colossians 2 16 17 says, therefore, let no 1 pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a
25:38 festival or a new moon or Sabbath. There are no there, these are a shadow, sorry, of these things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. And
25:49 I actually call that com crump compromised Christianity. That's what I call that. Because just as some Colossians and Colossians struggle with their old sinful
26:01 ways, I believe that some Christians are still holding on to their past lives. Why are you hoarding your sins? Why are you still living on the past?
26:14 If he truly set you free, then you gotta start living like it. Because the word says, who in the son sets free is free indeed. It doesn't mean who the son sets free is still not free.
26:26 That's not what it says. And so you and I are out of focus when we don't realize or we realize that we're prioritizing materialism, that we're
26:37 prioritizing friends, that we're we are prioritizing things above God. Let me just tell you how it goes. It goes God first and then your family. I
26:50 didn't think about this. I should have said this on the other service, but some of you put God first and then your minute and then the ministry and then your family. That's not the way it's intended. That's not the way
27:01 it should be. Should be God first, family. That's how it goes. And so you're out of focus when you start shifting your focus to entertainment, to what
27:13 people say, to pursuing successful relationships. How many of us are tried in our own, and we're still struggling? How many of us have just shifted our focus
27:24 to the wrong things? How many of us need to wake up and surrender to Christ? Don't freak out. That was my introduction,
27:36 but I got 3 points, and we'll get out here. Please stand for the reading of the word of God.
27:49 Scripture in Colossians 3 2 says like this, set your mind on things that are above, not on
28:00 things that are on earth. You may take a seat. Amen.
28:13 What is church? What occupies your mind? What thoughts are you thinking? What goes through your mind? Where are you putting your attention? Are they thoughts
28:24 that defeat you, or are they thoughts that glorify God? Where is your focus? I have a list that I wanna read to you. But are you worrying instead of
28:36 worshiping? Are you praying instead of complaining? Are you trusting instead of doubting? Are you rejoicing instead of resenting? Are you seeking guidance instead of going astray? Are you loving others instead of holding
28:47 grudges? Are you building faith instead of spreading fear? Are you serving others instead of serving yourself? Are you forgiving instead of fuming? Are you finding peace instead of creating chaos? Are you sharing
28:58 blessings instead of hoarding resources? Are you listening to God instead of ignoring your voice? Where is your focus? Where is your focus?
29:10 Where do you need to shift this morning? Church, I'm here to remind you that we are in a battle. I'm here to remind you that this battle some of you cannot see because you're not seeking God
29:22 for spiritual wisdom. You're seeking other things, and I wanna remind you that you may not see it because of the distractions, but we don't wrestle against flesh and blood. We're actually in a battle where
29:34 we are we are we are going against powers of darkness and principalities of other worlds, against the devil. And so I want to shift your focus into some
29:46 struggles that you and I are going through today that Paul saw and I saw in the church of Colossians. I was reading this, and I wanna bring it to you through the lens through the
29:58 lens of how you see it, of how you see your fight, but how God sees it. But how you see it and how God sees
30:10 it. First point, I struggle with worldly desires. I struggle with worldly desires.
30:22 Our struggles with worldly desires may look different. You are struggling with things that I'm not struggling. I'm struggling with things that you're not struggling. But while some are
30:34 struggling with cheating, with lying, with cussing, with sexual immorality, some are struggling with impurity, with greed, with lust,
30:46 with pride, with anxiousness, with envy, with wrath, with gluttony, idolatry, and the list just goes on and on and on.
30:58 We all fall short of God's glory. You're not perfect. I'm not perfect. But if we don't shift our focus into Christ, we're gonna
31:09 fall in this category, so we're not gonna be able to get out. But I'm here to tell you that when we shift our focus to God, he then puts us on
31:21 his identity, and we can win over these struggles. But it's not by my might. It is by him. It is
31:33 by his power. Because all of us know that if we put our trust in ourselves, we're just gonna make it worse. But he makes it better.
31:45 The bible is so powerful that even if you're not a Christian in here today, if you were to go home and not accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, guess what? If you were to apply some principles, your life would
31:54 immediately change. This book is so powerful, but I want to shift your focus to his identity over your struggles. And you may be asking, yeah, Lameen,
32:06 but how do I apply this? Which is this is God's way. I win by putting a new identity in Christ. That's your second point. That's God's way. I
32:18 win by putting on a new identity, which is Jesus Christ. I didn't write this in your notes. I thought about this, yesterday as I was writing this, but second Corinthians 5 17, if anybody wants to. Second Corinthians 5
32:30 17 if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, and the new is here. Which means that you've been buried with Christ. Your old self, you've been bay
32:41 new, and you don't carry your past anymore. Stop living in your past. Stop leaving your past. Stop hoarding your past. The things that you used to do, you no longer do. The people
32:53 who used to hang out with you no longer hang out. But at the same time, you should hang out with them and allow them to see who what God has done. Come on now. Allow them to see you. You don't get transformed.
33:05 You know, I always used to say as a preacher, and Jesus used to hang out with the sinners. You know what I noticed? The sinners used to hang out with him because they wanted to see what he carried. There
33:18 should be people that should be flooding your house because they're saying, yo, you got something that I don't have. I'm struggling through this, and I see you struggling with the same thing, but guess what? But you're
33:27 not freaked out. Well, guess what? Because I have a god who's in control. Because when my world is falling apart, I know who was the 1 who put the world together. Because I know Jesus
33:39 Christ. That's Jesus Christ calling answer. You're not called to blend in. You're called
33:51 to stick out. People at your job should know that you're a Christian. Not because you're you're you're wearing Jesus Church or WWJD. What would Jesus do? But because of your
34:03 actions. But because of the way you treat people. Because when somebody comes and talk to you, you'll be like, yo, let me tell you about something. Instead of you lending a ear, you say, They're not here to defend
34:12 themselves, so I'm just gonna walk away instead of joining in the gossiping on the break room. You need to shift your focus. Point number 2, I
34:24 struggle with anger and division. I struggle. By the way, wives, look at your husbands to see make sure that they're writing this point. If they're not, chuck them a
34:36 little bit. Let me know. I'll throw them with my shoe. And nobody gonna about about to laugh in the nobody about to lie in the house of God. As I was writing, I
34:48 was like, what about if somebody doesn't I know y'all struggle with anger and division. This is a huge 1. Colossians 3 8 9 says, but now you must put them all away.
34:59 Anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to 1 another seeing that you have put up your whole self with this practice.
35:11 When I read this, I saw myself in those categories. Am I the only 1 that's alright? Well, I like to be honest
35:23 with people. Because if I if I'm up here, I got I gotta be honest. Don't you think? And so few months ago, last year, my beautiful wife and I, we
35:35 were having a little argument. Church, don't don't judge me. It was so little that she looked like the green Hulk, and I looked like the red Hulk.
35:46 And we were just having such a little argument that we were going to each other's throats. She's sitting right there. Right? Is that you, babe? I got my glasses. Yeah. I got on my glasses. Sorry. You
35:58 know, kinda like none of you do because you guys don't fight like that. Right? You guys don't argue like that. I know I'm the only 1. Don't worry about it. So we were going down each other's throats, and to be honest
36:09 with you, I don't even remember what we were arguing about. The reason why I don't remember is because something changed.
36:22 And couples, side note for you, the devil came to kill, steal, and destroy. And if he can get between you and your wife, you and your kids, you and your household
36:34 households, guess what? He's already shifted your focus, and he's winning. And you can't see that you're actually meant to be together. Me
36:46 and her, we're a team, and we can't see that if we're arguing. And so the reason why I said I can't even remember what happened
36:57 was because she looked at me with this big Brazilian beautiful eyes, And she said, would you pray for us? We were in
37:09 bed after we she was like the green Hulk. She was like, and I was like, I'm Puerto Rican. I I get loud. But she's
37:20 Brazilian. She's louder. Some of you Brazilians, y'all crazy. If I ever show up with a purple eye, you know why.
37:32 I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. Babe, I love you. You cook an amazing rice, babe. I love you. I broke down, and my heart just
37:44 broke and be like, really? You're asking me to pray for you right now? And I just did, and it changed the whole thing because God ways change. God works.
37:57 Letting you know he works marvelous. And so God's way is like this. I win by living with kingdom values. I win by living kingdom
38:08 values. Colossians 3 12. It says, put on them as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate heart, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bring
38:20 with 1 another. And if 1 has a complaint against another, forgiving. This is so powerful. Because when you live kingdom values, guess what? You can't just pick 1 and be like, today, I'm gonna be humble,
38:32 but I'm not gonna practice the other 1. It doesn't work like that. When you put on the new identity of Christ, you have to live the kingdom values, which is everything. And doing it God's way, it means that you're holy.
38:42 It means that you're set apart. It means that you need to play your part and be kind and humble. And so having patience, this 1 hurts. How about
38:55 not learning just to forgive, but to also forget? Somebody say, hey, man. I know you're having issues with your wife right now. I'm just I'm getting it. I get it. I get it. I'm playing. I'm playing. I'm playing.
39:06 Tory, that was a bad joke. But he probably went, amen. Looked at his wife like, forget me. But you might say to me, Lemmy, you don't understand.
39:18 They did this to me. They talked to me this way. They disrespected me. Well, guess what? So what? Girl, grow up,Show more
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