SET APART
A podcast that combines Eastern and Western teaching/story from the scriptures to regain our WHY in God. The purpose of this show is to break down the severe disconnect in today's Church vs how God has called for this life to be lived.. We do this through the scriptures and our guest's stories with each episode.
The American Church teaches an extremely one sided evident driven view of the scriptures. In that danger you lose the poetry and art of story telling to where there is only half truths left. No wonder people are walking away from Christianity by the masses.
These eastern authors intended much more for our hearts with their writings that God inspired. Watch as these ancient truths give you a new/refreshing perspective that will change the way you live. Getting back to the Garden.
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Ep.8: The Explosive Tree
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Sideline living is not the design God has for us. There is an explosion in all of us that this dead world needs to be awaken by. From a mustard seed to a massive tree makes zero sense. Maybe that is the point of this upside down Kingdom!
And we're back. Tyler Griffin, Will Pope, set apart podcast. Fun fact of the day. There's a newly discovered, quote unquote, bone collector caterpillar that wears the skeletal remains of its prey as a camouflage. What's up? How's it going? I mean, that caterpillar is that is definitely the most metal thing I've heard all day. That's yeah.
SPEAKER_00How impressive. How impressive. What a boss. Maybe we should know I'm not waiting not get back to that. Uh I wonder if they knew where you're going with that. I wonder if they become butterflies. I wonder if they can cook cocoon.
SPEAKER_01Surely, right?
SPEAKER_00Because it's uh the bones.
SPEAKER_01How do they, if it's a caterpillar, how the heck does it have prey?
SPEAKER_00I mean, do you see what's in the ground now? I mean, we got the pesticides, the Bill Gates decides, uh, in the ground, the uh the radiation sides. We are creating, we are creating monsters. Uh, I have heard that insects are becoming more and more and more tolerant to the treatments.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Uh every time I drive down the road and I see people spraying, I'm like, ugh, maybe not.
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SPEAKER_00Maybe let's just let nature. I do Saturday school, as you know, it's Saturday detention for people who are wondering what Saturday school is. I coach high school basketball. Um, and part of the thing, there's a work list that the school gives me to have the students do. And on the work list at the bottom is pick up acorns and pick up sticks. And the students just look at me like, and I look at them saying, Don't you ever do that, first of all. And they're like, Yeah, because that's stupid, right? I'm like, I mean, yeah, but it ruins the environment. And so uh, I weirdly care about spotty things like that. Uh, not deeply. I mean, so should I stop raking leaves? Uh yeah, we all actually should. Yes, that is a little bit of a thing. Let me tell you this.
SPEAKER_01I've not heard this one.
SPEAKER_00How it started, how it started was elitist shocker. Uh, it's gotta be pretty, right?
SPEAKER_01And isn't like the lawn grass like terrible for of course the world or whatever.
SPEAKER_00What they what they were doing was they were the only ones that could afford to have their leaves taken away. And everyone's like, oh, you know, because you have to aspire to be an elitist. You have to aspire to have a lot of money so that you can have your leaves taken away. And then it just trickled down uh to the Joneses, you know, in the nuclear family setting of the neighborhoods, and so yeah, that is where uh leaf uh stuff came from. Isn't that interesting? That sucks. And so just another thing that we think we need. Don't remove acorns, don't remove sticks, let everything fall where it's supposed to fall. Amen.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but it hurts my feet.
SPEAKER_00Uh uh, you know what? And there's another issue. Shoes in the bottom of our feet. Are you saying that we should all be like hobbits? No, well, they're they're a good example of what we can be and the and the the roughness, short, round, and hairy feet. All right, got it. If you get too hot at night while you sleep, here's another one. Uh lay with one foot out because your your largest receptors of your body are at the bottom of your feet. If you have a headache, warm water, put your feet in warm water for 15 minutes. You be in there for 15 minutes, don't get out. And uh, what's another type of thing? Oh, working out, working out without shoes. Now, this is disgusting in some things, so I recommend like a home gym thing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was I'm not going to the gym.
SPEAKER_00But the the incredibleness that happens when working out without shoes is really awesome. And we've gotten away from all a ton of side of mobility. Actually, I think we're all coming back to that. Everyone's so addicted to movement, and which I love that actually, because watching this, the older generations kind of die off. Oh man, because purely because they sit.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. Well, one of the when I worked on cruise ships, I worked on some like high-end lines, and there was it was all old people. It was all old people, and all I would see is just people who would start from you know a 300 foot hallway because it's a big ship, and then just take 20 minutes to get down it. Right. Because they just can't move. And from that point on, I was like, I'm not allowing this in my life.
SPEAKER_00No, I everyone needs to move. So uh come take it from the make-a-wish kid, uh, cancer patient. Uh you can't say that you never had a wish. I didn't get a wish because I was too old. Uh, and am still too old, not saying the cancer's back. We get a scan May 4th. What day is it? It is April 23rd, everybody. So for the future listeners, this is April 23rd, 2026. Uh, okay. All right. Glad we're here.
SPEAKER_01Where your praise bones is camouflage.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, where yes, where your enemies bones as camouflage. That is the spiritual lesson of today. All right. Hope everyone has a great time. All right. We are anyway, Mark 4. We are in the book of Mark, and we have been journeying through um to keep in line with really the title of the podcast, which is set apart. And there's an incredible verse out of Matthew 5.48, and it says, Jesus is saying, Be perfect for your Lord, God is perfect. And quickly, uh, how we do scripture here is we let the text be the context. And in that context, Jesus is Jewish and he's not Greek. The entire New Testament is translated in the Greek. So that verse is correctly translated from uh the Greek to the English, but the Jewish people, including Jesus, did not have a word of perfect, it wasn't in their vocabulary. Why? Because it's too static, you can't do anything with the word perfect. So what is he and and he's a rabbi, so he's a teacher. And majority of the time, if you have an incredible rabbi, he's never making something up on his own or something up new. He's always quoting the text. In what text? Well, his father's text. Uh in Leviticus, in this, in this one, it's Leviticus 19, too. Be holy for your Lord God is holy. And so that word in the English is uh Kodesh. Sorry, in the Hebrew is Kodesh. And from Kodesh, the Hebrew to English is holy. Uh uh uh and also a phrase to be set apart, to be different. That we can do. That is something you can create stuff out of. That is something that you can live uh uh a Monday through Friday in this crazy empire kind of a thing. Uh that is something we can do. And so with that, we've been coming on here to gain accurate spiritual formation and going through the book of Mark, and we've we're not synchronizing the gospels. The West loves to do that. And why does the West love to secretly do that? Because there's a scared fear factor here that we don't understand this. And so the more that we can synchronize stuff and prove that this is real and true, then the better off that we are. Well, that's not faith. Faith is believing in the unseen, having a divine relationship with the unknown. If you do not, and if you just keep disguising your trying to prove this spirituality in and wrapped up in faith, the unknown is gonna just smack you upside of the head. It's actually probably gonna smack you upside of the head, not like a not like in a violent way, but what if it is in a numbness way? What if it just allows you to slide into spiritual numbness, making you think that you are accurately walking next to Jesus Christ? I think that is happening all over the place today. And so what we do, we don't synchronize stuff, we allow each author to be the author that God has divinely and uh divinely inspired them to be. And so with Mark, it's a Jew writing to Rome, it's a Jew writing to Empire, in this case in 2026, it's a Jew writing to uh America, our empire here. The book of Matthew is a Jew writing to Jews, the book of Luke, a Greek, uh, is a Jew is a Greek writing more of the volume linear sense of the entire story of Christ and what we should be doing. And the book of John is a Jew writing to Gentiles, the grafted in. Uh, and so that is the agendas of everything. Again, if you try to synchronize stuff in an inappropriate way when you're not supposed to, not saying we don't ever do that, but it's just not the priority and it's not about it. And so if you're doing that right away, knowing, and you're not even checking if you should be, where else are you doing that in your life? Where else are you doing that at work in this kind of pious sense? Have you ever thought of it like that? Well, is it that deep? It is that deep. It will always be that deep. This is a deep life. Only a hundred billion people have ever lived. What? In this that that's not that many. It's crazy. And so that that emphasizes the the uh the chances we are on living here, like being alive. So why would you not want it to be that deep? So, with all of this, um, Mark chapter four is again, how to live in the empire. Here's this Christ, how to walk next to him in this, when to stand for truth, or when to just, hey, right now you need to build homes within the community and know how to live here and not really revolt right now. There's gonna be time on when standing for truth is gonna be this very literal revolution. Or is it time to, hey, how to love on people within the society?
SPEAKER_01Okay, that's why I enjoyed. Sorry, that's why I enjoyed uh Mark III, the family teaching. Right so much. The last episode uh because it's understanding how how to live this life the way that we should be doing it, and also not be surprised by the things like having friends that are against you with this, having family that's against you with this. It's it's very helpful to know what's coming.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and and it's what's really helpful about the the Bible is Is that it's helpful? Is that yeah, it doesn't need you you don't have to make up anything new. You you can in the sense of filter-wise, like how to do this. Am I able to? Should am I do I trust myself? Does God trust me? Okay, he doesn't right now. Okay, what does that look like to gain his trust? And then I execute on this life and of my mastership and my humanness. Um, okay, so we've been we are entering into the fourth chapter of Mark. Uh, this is the shortest book of the of the gospel, of the gospels, the four gospels, and guess what? It's the most popular book in America of the Bible. Um, because why? It is the shortest book. And again, we talked about that in earlier episodes. That that's an offensive thing. I would take that offensively. So, okay, we won't get into that part.
SPEAKER_01So we're gonna do Mark 4, 21 through 25. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And again, we don't do the whole chapter here. Sorry. So as Will just said, we are we do chunks of the chapter because we don't really trust, I'll just I'll be honest, I don't really trust people listening to long episodes. When people like I love long episodes, I think that's far and few in between. I I don't think that's I think that's real for a handful of of stuff. So we do parts of the chapter. So don't fret and everybody, if you're like, are we gonna do the whole chapter? If you're new for the tens of tens of listeners, we're not. All right, what part are we in?
SPEAKER_01Mark 4, 21 through 25, this will the chapter mark, the uh section marker is a lamp on a stand. He said to them, Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don't you put it on its stand? For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear. Consider carefully what you hear, he continued. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more. Whoever has will be given more. Whoever does not have, even what they have, will be taken from them.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so with this, uh, it's a very interesting thing. Um, it seems pretty self-explanatory. How I again, how we love to accurately approach the scriptures. If Mark was in the room, um and we, you know, let the text be the context. Who is he talking to? Uh, he's talking to an empire that is controlling the world, that is involved in every world event. And it's not a great empire as an example to follow, like how to live your life. Uh and so Mark is imploring people hey, you you were created with a light inside of you. Do not let where you are living quench that. Do not let the empire, if you don't look like this, if you're not the bigness, if you're not a celebrity, if you're not a uh someone who's getting clicks on something, if you are not something someone who is getting the intention on something, uh, does not mean you don't have something worth showing out. Like the the I love the overused fact, but I hope it always gets used. Jesus never went more than a hundred miles. And then and and we talked about who Jesus called, I think, in recent episodes. And he called the rejects not by not by anybody else, but by the pastors. It wasn't society who rejected the disciples, it was the church group who re rejected the disciples, in the sense of the boys before they became disciples. If you were rejected, you had to go do your father's trade, and so they all came from a rejected background from who? The church, which is a pretty unbelievable thing, and so this is happening today. You you have a lot of people who are actually okay with sitting on the sidelines. You have a lot of people who used to have this really unbelievable fire in them. And they're like, you know what, as long as I can just pay the bills, as long as I can take care of my family, admirable things, must be doing it. But uh, what I do hate is, you know, in family conflict that I've been a part of, um, or have heard of family conflict of with a lot of this of you know, children being disrespectful to their parents and parents being disrespectful to the children, and in a line that's often used of saying, Well, you're my parent, you have to take care of me, or the parent saying, I've done so much for you, uh, of you know, brought you into this world. Well, here's we talked about this with family. The kid did not choose to be there, okay? The kid did not choose to be there. So there, I I am never gonna praise a parent for doing what you one legally have to do, or you will go to jail, you'll just go to jail. I'm not gonna applaud you for that. And and neither is God. God's not gonna applaud you for that. Not only that, he said to do it. Okay, and and so with that, the kid also cannot look at the parent and be like, Well, you have to take care of me because it says that. No, that just takes a pious stance, and that's just gonna make bitterness in your heart that you cannot control.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and it makes you the sinner.
SPEAKER_00That's where we get this main character syndrome. It really comes out of that stuff, and so it comes from, well, at least I'm, you know, my purpose is to be a parent. No, it's not. That's a part of you, you're supposed to have a job in this world. You know what I'm saying? Like, and so when I hear people like, I you know what I hear? I hear people losing their dreams. I hear people losing the fire inside of them to being like, I can, man, I can change stuff. I can be about something, I can stand up for truth. Why, why one of the biggest reasons why we're dealing with the presidents that we've been dealing with and the political uh uh, what would you say? Oh no, political tone, political temperature that we're in, political idioticness of that we're in is because of the generations that gave up their fair their fire. And it was like, oh, I guess I just have to be about politics in order to be really passionate. I guess I just really have to be about music or really be about blah, blah, blah, blah. And so you know what they do? They fold into selling insurance, they fold into selling stuff, they fold into just trying to stack cash off of commission things, selling dirt, selling hospital things, selling whatever, whatever. And they fold to the nine, this this type of nine to five, but disguising it also in dreamful entrepreneurship when it ain't none of it, all of it's crap. God can't use any of it. How is that advancing the human to go do massive things? Like one of the biggest things that I love that motivates me is I missed it as a teenager. I missed it, I missed how much I did have it as a cognitive awareness of my brain and my heart, spiritually and not spiritually, meaning of society and of the kingdom of heaven. And I folded. I folded to uh human approval, I folded to human, not just human approval, human acceptance. And and then you know what I became just like the majority. Doing a sport that I didn't even really love. Going, you know what I'm saying? Like taking classes, signing up for classes in college when I wanted to take out the ones, but all my homies are doing one class. Like so many of that happened since third grade, since I woke up in Mr. Weber's class when I was nine years old. And for some as I just knew I was awake then. And ever since that moment, I I wrestled, and I think I just gave in. And it wasn't until I I would say the third bout of the cancer when I was 30 too. Um I'm 35 right now, and I'm like, I I'm I'm all in on who I am.
SPEAKER_01And and I hate that, man. I freaking hate that. Yeah. It took a long time. So where's the line between discovering yourself, create, and creating yourself? Well, because I'm way more in the camp of creating yourself.
SPEAKER_00Uh uh being true to yourself. So the line is the that that gut feeling, it's not really this gut feeling intuition that you're trusting yourself over God. It's that God created you, God created me, God created all of us, kind of a thing. And he wants that Genesis chapter 2, right? He wants how to be a human. So, so part of the goodness of that is like he looks at you and is like, what do you want to do? But part of that, of what do you want to do from him to you is you gotta be true to yourself and still trust that you being true to you, and even when that's different from your friends, or different from your family, or different, that's okay. And if you're like the only one going to do it, unless it's this isolate, of course. We're not talking about if that's something that's gonna be direct, we're don't be an idiot, right? We all know that, okay? So none of us are talking about that. We're talking about good things here, like under God's alignment kind of a thing. Having your domain, have your we're not talking about that stupid stuff, we're talking about people's minds will go there. It's you know what I'm saying? So, so how not to follow the celebrity status, how not to follow the fear of man is you be true to yourself now, even if you're older, now, now. Right now. Two now's ago. Right now, or right now. It's never too late on that. That's what really hurts me with some of this conviction. Cause I'm like, how much further could I be if I would have trusted at 15, 13 years old into this you're master of your life message? That's always been in the word. And there isn't accountability that we should have known. Not this self-condemnation. Because that's a God complex. So being true to yourself, finding what you love to do on Saturday on Shabbat, that's a good thing. What brings you joy? What could you do for free? Would you be doing your job right now for free? Okay. Even in your seasons, right? Because there's sometimes you got to be doing what you just got to do. You got to take care of the basics right now. Okay. But do you are you a human enough when you can can you see the end of that? Because I think that's a very important thing. And why is God allowing this season? All of this mastery, you having these thoughts, you having these feelings, combining thought and feeling of uh of what do you want to do? What is this life gonna look like? Like no one's coming to save you from who? You. You. It's a crazy thing. It's not the devil. Don't give him that power. So find the answer in a lot of that scattered poetic literalness that I just said. Um, be don't don't hide the lamp scene anymore. Get off of the sideline. Just take a step, as our as our friend who who passed away, Ben, uh just recently. And just take a step. And then what if you just took one more step tomorrow? And then what if you just took one more step the next day? Oh, then guess what? Wait, wait for this next one. What if you just took one more step the next day? Yo, you got you, you got you got some steps on you now. Five hundred little things are not just five hundred little things anymore. That's a one that is one big thing now. Simplify it, y'all. This is what the cancer has taught me. It is this life is way more reachable, tangible, purposeful, doable, executional in in this now of this God, of this Jesus, of the Holy Spirit. It is such a present. This is why he says, Don't look at tomorrow. He's like, You got so much of today. Not production. I told someone recently they're so excited about having a day off soon. Hasn't come for them yet. And they're like trying to figure out what to do on that day. I said, Hey, you I looked at him and said, you need to know there is not a wrong answer on that day. There's not a wrong answer. There's just not. Because if you start thinking that there is, that day's gonna fly by. And then all of a sudden you're gonna be a person that says, man, time's really moving fast. It doesn't have to, everybody. It doesn't have to. It's up to you. It's up to you. Go look up the guy who went into a cave. I think it was for like three weeks or something. They're doing a science study. And go look what happened with time with him. It's really incredible. I'm not gonna tell you about it because somewhat I'm gonna chop up this story because it's a really good story. And two, we're just really used to people telling us what's going on. So out of out of this chapter of Mark right there, of this section of before we move to the mustard seed, take off. Raise up the blinds, be generous. Watch what happens when you're generous. Don't be afraid. Take on the highest responsibility possible. Get on the field. Be in the game. Move on to the next play. Stop worrying about it. Dive into the great perhaps. Okay. Got the weird mustard seed ready? Yep. It's a weird one.
SPEAKER_013034. What do you mean, weird? I've heard this a million times. Again, he said, What shall we say the kingdom of God is like? Or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade. With many similar parables, Jesus spoke the word to them as much as they could understand. He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.
SPEAKER_00Okay, perfect. So some weird things, what are you thinking?
SPEAKER_01Well, that answers a question I had earlier. Which is which was does he explain all of his parables to his disciples?
SPEAKER_00You mean to everybody or just these or the twelve? Just the twelve. Right. He does in some things, right? In some things he doesn't, in some things he's like, hey, you should be getting this. And that's to everybody, by the way. You should be getting this. You have eyes, but you cannot see. And so with the mustard seed, um, you know, remember, what's the point of a parable? I I I remember a ton of people used to recently say, uh, right, which is maybe to make it easy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh, but no, it's to make it more difficult to find out, to find out where your heart is. Which why do you think that that would be the purpose of something? Because it's because anything that's easy to obtain is usually not worth it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I mean you you know, and he's trying to see something.
SPEAKER_01You know, God stepped out of heaven because I do believe there that you know there's it's also a level of commitment on how much you go after something, right? Yeah, it's the level of faith.
SPEAKER_00It is showing that. It's like how you react to that right there is gonna be a lot of things. And in God stepping out of heaven at this time, he's like, you know, I I really wanted to partner with you guys. I really wanted this redemption to happen through you all. And he's also giving doing parables to see, you know, who's walking the walk and talking the talk, but still not still missing it. You're just acting, you're just acting this out, you're just acting this out, and and you know it. I know it. What do you what how much longer? How much longer are you gonna do this? Everybody knows it around you. And so he uses the mustard seed, which is a really we you and I've heard this.
SPEAKER_01Well, also, I understand the mustard seed, uh, which I did not know before, but it is a weed. It is, it is a weed, which means uh in terms of once it's planted, it won't stop growing. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00So everyone uses this, like, wow, if you just have so if you just even have the smallest amount of belief that you'll just be the best and all this stuff. Well, here's the look if you just do a quick Google search about the mustard seed, it's the one of the most invasive toxic plants that would farmers plant this seed? Because I see you're doing a search there, right? Not even close. I come from a farming state in Indiana. Uh never, and once you plant this seed, you can't stop it. Interesting. When you plant this seed, you can't stop it. It's almost like Jesus saying, once you put this in, the kingdom of God, once this happens, and once this starts going, you'll never be able to stop it. And him not going outside of 100 miles in who he called, he's like, This is look at me as an underdog, volunteering as the underdog and still doing my thing. You and I in in in Tennessee on a tens of tens of listeners podcasts, talking about the wonders and the majesty of Jesus Christ and Adonai. Like, what uh an unbelievable thing. And not only that, usually mustard seeds grow into a what? Not it, not what he says. If you Google it, it grows into just a bush. But what does he say it's gonna grow into? Uh this one says the largest of all garden plants. Yeah, in other versions, it says one of the largest oak trees you'll ever see.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And and so that's weird. That's upside down. Okay, amazing. Now we're asking good questions. Yeah. Now we're we just saw that okay, it's it's a toxic weed. Okay, we understand it it's an unstoppable, it's an unstoppable kingdom. The kingdom is unstoppable. Once it starts, it's not gonna stop. And that it's not gonna only grow into a small little bush, it's gonna grow into a huge tree. And and this is a rabbi we just learned, right? Not just learned, but at the beginning of the episode of what holiness is. And if you have a good rabbi, what is he doing? Always quoting the text. Always quoting the text. So what do you what what what do we think he's quoting here? And how do you do this? You take these phrases and you do a Google search is saying, Is there any other text in the Bible that talks about a uh a seed growing into a big tree? And then what do you know? Pulls up Ezekiel 17. Ezekiel 17. Do you have Ezekiel 17 for us?
SPEAKER_01I do. Uh, this is verse 22. Um, it says, This is what the sovereign Lord says, I myself will take a shoot from the very top of a cedar and plant it. I will break off a tender sprig from its topmost shoots and plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant. I will plant it. A lot of planting there. It will produce branches and bear fruit and become splendid cedar. Birds of every kind will nest in it. They will find shelter in the shade of its branches. All the trees of the forest will know that I, the Lord, bring down the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I drop dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish.
SPEAKER_00Perfect. Okay, so and and Will knows this. In the Old Testament, who is who does the tree represent?
SPEAKER_01The tree represents Israel, God's people.
SPEAKER_00God's people, right? And in New Testament wise, Jesus, we are that, right? We are the tree. And so gee God is saying, Jesus is saying, this tree is supposed to grow into this mighty way. And what is landing on the tree?
SPEAKER_01Birds.
SPEAKER_00And who do the birds represent in the Old Testament? All the Gentiles. All the Gentiles and foreigners to find what? Rest. Rest. And shade. And shade and goodness. And then them too become goodness for others. That is what the people of God, that is what Mark is saying that you are supposed to be. Not only are you not supposed to be on the sideline, but you are supposed to be unstoppable in this type of way that people are able to come find refuge in you. Can people find refuge in you? Are you so different, so set apart to where people look at you in your life? You're saying, man, that is someone I can sprint to and fall asleep on. That is someone I can sprint to and pull my eyes out. That is someone I can sprint to and share great news with. And they're not gonna try to one-up me with something after I share the news. That is someone I'm gonna I can come to and they're gonna listen to listen. Or that is someone I can go to and they're gonna listen and give me a solution. They're just gonna, that is someone who I can go to and find fire to warm up by. Man, if that is not, that is what Jesus is calling us to be, especially as Christians, in a very confusing kingdom in today in 2026, in a very non-Christian kingdom, in a very uh uh Baal worshiping, evil worshiping, just doesn't look at babies the same way, doesn't look at humans the same way, doesn't look at leadership the same way, does not look at Jesus at all as a savior of the universe, as a son of God, the son of man, rescuer of death. So may we be this. May this be your identity, may this be your acceptance, your boldness, so that may this allow you to welcome lonely seasons where you're like, hey, you know what? I'm done being identified by my circumstances. I want to be a human, I want to be in the game. I I know the place, I know how this kingdom is supposed to be because I have the living God inside of me. And he's saying, I'm gonna do way greater works than him. May I go out before my feet hit the floor, may my affections be stirred for Christ in such a way that I'm not nothing, I'm not gonna be a movable person by what I see, but I'm gonna have such a great relationship with the unknown, the unseen, that I live out of my unconditional acceptance of Genesis 1, the slave song, that he sets my values a human, nothing else. So it doesn't matter what happens. I am good. I have this. Everybody look at me as a light. Everyone look at me as a massive tree. Come find rest on me, come find courage. Let me tell you how incredible and amazing you are with this whole thing. You we don't need the celebrities, we don't need the TED Talks, we don't need the Tony Robbins or the motivational pump talks. We don't need them. You don't need them. You are it. You're the prize, everybody. You're the prize. Hello. What do you think all the products are for? All the commercials are for, all the clicks are for. They want you, huh? They want you. So why don't you start being true to you? The only way for you to be that, though, is live for something greater than yourself. And who is that?
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SPEAKER_00God be for him and watch what happens to you. I love this. Good? Great. I love it.
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SPEAKER_00No, I love this. I love the caterpillar. Unbelievable. Where are those bones? Come on. Okay. We praise out.
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SPEAKER_01Father God, seat at the highest place in heaven. We thank you. We love for who you are. We love you for all these, uh, all the people that this message is is touching their ears. Um, I pray that they become true to themselves. I pray that they become true to you. Um, I pray that they grow their faith through this um and love you even more. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen.