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Hello and welcome to Simpliadify's

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podcast . Our goal

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is to encourage women as we navigate the

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messiness of life through biblical studies

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, personal stories and practical

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tips that bolster our walk with Jesus

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daily . Thank you for joining us in our episode

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today . Hello

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all , we are starting

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our new series on

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current topics in

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our Christian realm

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. The first one that we're going to address

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is this homestead

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movement that

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is very popular

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in Christian

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circles and even non-Christian

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circles really , and we're going to

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just talk about pros and cons

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biblical , not biblical

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kind of address it from that perspective

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. What about it is biblical

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? What do we think is not biblical ? What

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could be potential issues

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with it ?

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Now , if you are a stay-at-home

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sourdough baking woman

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of Jesus , don't tune us out , because you're

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not attacking you , I promise

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.

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For sure . No , because I just made sourdough

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homemade bagels this morning . Oh

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man , that sounds really good . Oh

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yeah , I've been trying for

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the past month on Saturday mornings

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I'll make sourdough

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bagels and I'm trying to get the perfect

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recipe . Some

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of them are a little too dense and , yeah

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, today's were pretty good anyway .

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Awesome . I was actually thinking

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about trying to make bagels today , but

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gluten-free ones for my daughter . Oh

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yeah , that could be tricky , yeah

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, but I'm going to try it for her . We're

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going to try . Yes , we are

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very much for aspects

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of this whole movement and

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, truthfully , it's more of just

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a return to basics , right .

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Right , right . And

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so let's just dive right into the pros

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. We

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are pro-mama

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taking care of her family . That is

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biblical . We have some verses

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on that . I'll just read a few

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just to kind of let us know

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where this is coming from , right

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? So first , timothy 5.14,

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. I will , therefore , that the young women marry

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, bear children , guide the house , give

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it on occasion to the adversary to speak

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reproachfully . And then Titus

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2.3-5,

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. The Asian women likewise

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. That they be in behaviors , become a holiness

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, not false accusers , not given too much wine

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, teachers of good things . That they may teach the young women

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to be sober , to love their husbands

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, to love their children , to be discreet

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, chase keepers at home , good , obedient

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to their own husbands . That the word of God be not

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blaspheme . So

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, and I have , you know , a list of other ones

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that we were looking at

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in research . And so , yes , obviously

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we know that

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the biblical mandate

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for mothers is

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to care for their home , to care

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for their children , to care for their husbands

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. That is , for

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sure , biblical . And if you are not

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doing that , if you

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are slacking in those

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areas and kind of farming

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your responsibilities

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out , maybe a

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little bit of a heart check is in need . But I think

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most of us mothers want to do

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the right thing and take care of our

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families and our husbands and our house

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right .

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Absolutely , and I think that just because you have

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someone helping you with those things doesn't

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mean that you're necessarily wrong . It's

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not saying you're wrong . Are we choosing the easy

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way out ? That's something that I have to heart

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. Check myself on often is

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am I doing the

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best where I'm at ? And while

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you're talking , I'm going to be looking for a reference that really

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convicted me in this area , but please keep going .

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Yeah , no , I mean when

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everybody goes back to

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the proverb 31 woman as this

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ideal woman which we've talked about and

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we've said , yes , she is

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the ideal woman because she was a

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mother's description of the perfect

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woman for her son , right

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? So was

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she a real person ? Probably

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not , but the description of a virtuous

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woman is found in her right

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. And even in that this woman

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did . She had

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people under her managing aspects

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of her home , right ? So

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it's not that you're doing it all , necessarily

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, but you are the manager of

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it all and

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it is your responsibility to

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make sure that your husband

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, your children are taken care of . Okay

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, so that's .

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I found the verse . It

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was Ephesians 4 , 1

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and 2, . I therefore , the prisoner

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of the Lord , beseech you that you walk worthy

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of the vocation wherewith

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ye are called , with all lowliness

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and meekness , with long suffering for

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bearing one another in love and

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as wives and mothers . That is our

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vocation , that's our job , and

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am I doing it worthy

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with meekness

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and lowliness and long suffering and love

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? And I think that , as we get

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into this , obviously there's different ways that this plays

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out , but that was a huge heart attack

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for me .

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All of us , in different areas of our life

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, will at times fight

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eating the bread of idleness

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right . In different areas

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people struggle . Some people are great

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at being super organized

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and highly efficient , right

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, and some

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people I've heard of those

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people and

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that's wonderful , that's a great strength to

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have . But usually there's an

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opposite side of that personality that

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needs to be worked on right

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, sometimes to the detriment

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of family members who aren't so

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organized , and we get frustrated

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on all of those types of things

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.

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So , yes , and

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I think we need to go back to that definition of

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what we're talking about now . There's

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this huge movement right now

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of going back to almost like that little

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house on the prairie baking

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our own bread and

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Living off the grid , living

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off the grid , homeschooling

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, conspiracy

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theories and raw milk

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and all this stuff and

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honestly , I would love

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to be able to immerse myself that much

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and be that dedicated to just having

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no chemicals in my children's lives and all that

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stuff . So this is not like , this

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is bad , but that's who . This is what we're talking about

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now . If you get onto Instagram , you know exactly

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what we're talking about . Yeah , it is a

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, it is a movement , it is a

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, a shift , a culture shift

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. That's happening . And

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I just recently got called

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little house on the prairie . That

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someone said I had a . What do you say ? I had a little house

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on the prairie vibe . That's what I was told

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Little house on the prairie . I laughed so

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hard . Um

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, I was . For me it was compliment , right

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, it wasn't . It wasn't said as an insult , but

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I , I was a little

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taken back by it and I just started laughing

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.

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Okay .

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Personally I'm not really I know people

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who are so much more just like in

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it , you know , and so right and

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again .

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I just want to be very clear that these

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things are not bad enough themselves . Yeah

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, like we just said , the the Bible says that

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we're to be these to take care of our homes

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, take care of our families and all of these things . However

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, let's go into a little

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bit of the negative side . Okay , so

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our previous pastor would say there's

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a road and both sides of the

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road are ditches and

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, generally speaking , the

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right place to be is on the road . You don't want to be in the

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ditch on one side or the other . So

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let's say that one aspect that could

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lead us into the ditch

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of the home setting movement

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or

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, you know , homemaker movement

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, is a bit of fear . Okay , we want to be very careful

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in any of our decision making that it is not

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based on fear . I'm

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trying out of fear especially

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.

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I mean living in fear is a

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problem , but I have seen parenting

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in fear and what that looks like and what

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the end result can look like , and

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it's just something it seems in the moment . It seems like

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protection and you should absolutely

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protect your children . Sending your kids

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to the hospital it seems like protection

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and you should absolutely

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protect your children . Sending your kids

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to the wolves is an

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opposite side of this , the other side

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of the ditch right .

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Right .

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But then we also cross over into

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having our kids in this bubble where

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nothing can get to them , and it can become

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this hyper fixation . That is unsafe

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too , it's problematic . So

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we can really really

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go too far on one side with that

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or the other . We can also

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be very lax and very lazy

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in our protection of our children , and

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that's something that if you work with children

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, you will see often , because there's no

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safeguards up for many , many children

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. So this movement of

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you know our kids are our responsibility

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and we need to take the best

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care of them that we can has

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its roots in some really true

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and good things , but the danger

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is sliding into that ditch of

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fear .

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Your motive for why is going to come into play

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, especially as your kids get older ? Why

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do we do this stuff ? Why don't we

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join in any sort of sports

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? Why don't we do any sort of you

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know , activities outside

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of our farm , in our home

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? So if you don't have

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those answers and those answers are just

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well , we don't like these other

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people and what they agree with you

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might find a little bit of pushback . I

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mean , that's , it's your

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motive , can't just be because we're

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afraid of what they're going to influence you

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with . I often think of

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the verse that says so as

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arrows are in the hand of a mighty man , so are

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children of the youth . Okay , children

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of the youth are arrows in

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the hand of a mighty man . An arrow

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is not meant to be kept in a quiver . Actually

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, an arrow takes , at that point in

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time in history , an arrow would have taken a lot

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of great care to make

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it a useful arrow . And

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then it is aimed at a target . And

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then later on in that chapter it says

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to speak with the enemy in the gate

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. So if we are

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not effectively

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teaching and training

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and putting our , our biblical

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reasons for why we do

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what we do into our children . They're

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not going to be any sort of an arrow that you can shoot

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at the enemy . If you're just putting

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them in a bubble to be safe .

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Yeah , and if you're not . And then opposite

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of it is , if you are not

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intentionally raising them with

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so much purpose and with

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a plan like both of

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those things can be ineffective

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, Right .

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You're just , if you're just throwing them out into the wolves

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, so to speak . Still

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, you know that's not the goal either

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. So what is your motive ? And

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if that is , if your motive is to raise

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, you know , godly , biblically

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sound children

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, are you doing that ? Are

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you investing the Bible into them ? Like

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heart check , right , either way , you

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, it's the heart check . And

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then also the motive of

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kind of just like

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I would say it's a selfish motive of

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I'm going to take care of me and mine , and

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kind of like let everyone

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else burn , type thing . You

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know what I mean . Like I

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just I want to take care of me and

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mine .

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Yes , we do . I do see a lot of

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. So there's that beautiful

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aesthetic right , you're scrolling through Instagram and you see

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these like sweet mamas and they're aprons

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and they're making their bread and it's beautiful

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. It is beautiful and I think it

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is way closer to the plan

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that God has for us than

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many other things that you're going to see on social

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media . But there

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is like a darker , like we

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are right and you

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are wrong , us against

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them . I'm going to gather my little chicks underneath

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me like a hen and

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protect them from everyone and we don't care

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about other people

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and we're not living out the

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Great Commission and we're not being

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the light in the world that we're supposed to be , because

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we're hiding our light under a bushel . There

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is a danger of that . There truly is , and

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this is all stuff I've had to like face

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personally , like really question myself

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on and do

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a lot of these heart checks , because , you

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know , we went from being a homeschool family to

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me working full time and

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having my kids in school , and

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I had to face that

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. Why am I doing this ? Am I

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? Why was I homeschooling in the first place ? Why am I

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sending my kids ? Am I still ? Am

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I still living out the life that I believe

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God has for you know , for me as a Christian

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and as a Christian mom and

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it's been hard . It's been two years

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of a lot of soul searching and

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still , the reason

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that I was able to go from homeschooling

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to working in a Christian school personally

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, even though I loved homeschooling so much was because

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I realized that I

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had goals for my kids and goals for

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my family and my calling

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wasn't necessarily homeschooling . Now , some people

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, truly , it is like that's their calling and

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I don't doubt that for them . But

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in my life I knew that's not necessarily what God

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had called me to do . God had called me to raise my kids

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set apart from the world differently . I

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know what I want for my children . I know what

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I want their education to look like and I was able

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to go into the school after

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sitting down with the administration

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and stuff , like talking to them , realizing

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that their goals were the same as my goals . So

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I was able to like . I was able to do that in

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good conscience and there's been times

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where it would be much easier to just be home with my

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kids and I've had to sit

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and be like but is that what God

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has for you . Like , are you my

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? All I want is just to have my kids home with

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me and , like you know , have that bubble

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around them , and

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that wouldn't be wrong , except for the fact that that's not where

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God's put me right now , and

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right now , like right now , I'm

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committed to being a light

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in the world . If

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I pulled back this year

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where I've you know , I've committed , I

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feel like that would be me hiding

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my light under a bushel .

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Right .

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Makes sense , right , and

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I think that it's a personal thing of looking

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at yourself and being seeing

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. Am I right , yeah , doing

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what God has called me to do , or am I doing what

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I want to do ?

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Right . That , I think , is the biggest

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heart check in this movement

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that we need to do as believers Okay

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. So if you are a believer and

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your motive for the

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whole homestead thing is to kind of just

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draw away from the wickedness of

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the world , okay

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, like I get it , 100% , I

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get it . I don't want to

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expose my kids to the wickedness

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of the world either .

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No .

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However , that doesn't negate the

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command that we have

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as believers to

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share the gospel and

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to share the

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truth of God's word . The

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world isn't going to get any better if

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the Christians take and remove themselves

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from the world , and

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that's I mean obviously

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. We know , at the end times evil

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men and seducers will wax worse and worse

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. Right , but that nowhere in that passage

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does that say

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because evil men and seducers

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are going to wax worse and worse , you can

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run and hide . You know , as

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a believer , you're going to have

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the commission of be the

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light . So we

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are called to be the salt and the light . And

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Matthew , chapter five , says year

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the salt of the earth . But if the salt has

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lost its savor , wherewith shall

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it be salted ? It is henceforth good

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for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden

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down underfoot . Year the light of the world . A city

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that is set on a hill cannot be hid . Neither

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do men light a candle and put it under a bushel

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, but on a candle stick , and it giveth light

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unto all that are in the house . Let's so

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let your light so shine before men that

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they may see your good works and glorify

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your father , which is in heaven . And

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then I think another

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verse that's kind of relevant to this is

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Matthew 1029 . It says and

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Jesus answered and said Verily , I say unto you , there

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is no man that had left house

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or brethren or sisters , or father or

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mother or wife or children or lands , for

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my sake and the Gospels , but he

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shall receive in a hundred fold , now and this time

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, houses and brethren and sister and mothers and children

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and lands , with persecutions and

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the world to come , eternal life . Okay

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, so that that last

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section , you

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know , we're so afraid of losing . I

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think one of the big motives , like

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we were talking about . If your motive is

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fear , we're afraid of losing

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, afraid of losing our kids were

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afraid of losing our . You put it in

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there . What is your motive ? We're afraid

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of losing . That went

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again . When your motive is fear

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, it doesn't produce good

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fruit .

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Well , there's no fear and love and perfect love

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passed out fear . So you're

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replacing good stuff from God

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. You're on your own agenda

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. When you are living

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in fear and

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man , it's the easiest thing to do . I

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remember when my kids are toddlers

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, babies , toddlers I had to stop watching the news

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completely . It

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was just so much fear and it would just

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consume me . And

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I think you know , as parent , you are there

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. You have to have like a there's

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a God given caution inside of a parent

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Right .

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We're not saying just throw caution to the wind

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and go out and the only

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thing you do is proclaim the gospel

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and , like we're not saying it again

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, the two sides of the ditch , we're just

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saying be careful , be careful of your motivation

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, and if you are so far

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removed from society

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, society that

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you are not being a light , and

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I do not count posting homemade

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bread recipes on Instagram as being a light

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, and I don't think

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Jesus does either .

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No , I think that we that's something

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that I've had to also heart

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check myself on , not so much

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now , but especially when I was like

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staying home with my kids and I wasn't

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out very much like most of my outings

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would be like the grocery store or church

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. I was like is my testimony , is

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my witness , limited

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to what I post on social media ? That's

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problematic if it is , because

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that's not now . There are seasons

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moms of young children , there

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are seasons where you are not going

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to be out door to door witnessing

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when you have

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a baby and toddlers and stuff like that

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. I am not shaming

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anyone who's in that kind of a season

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, but at the same time , just be

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careful . Like , what are you resting

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on ? That ? That's what I had to stop myself

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. Am I just resting on ? Oh , I posted a Bible verse today

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, so I don't need to like be

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sensitive to the Holy Spirit leading me

20:44

to witness or to pray

20:48

with someone or , to you know , share

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the gospel with someone , because I've

20:52

done my duty right by having

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a good image on

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social media . I'm

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so odd because this whole movement

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is so like on

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social media . On social media

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which is like the opposite of what

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you would think , because , you

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know , old fashioned

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. And then there's all the social media stuff

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, yeah

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, and I love it , like it really is beautiful

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. And I had to check myself around Christmas break . I

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was doing a little bit too much scrolling

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and I was like I just want to be home

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with my children and

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there again , there's nothing , nothing , nothing , nothing

21:30

wrong with that . But I don't always make

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the best use of my time . To be honest , when I have

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no time to constraints on me , when I

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have an unlimited schedule , I

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struggle with doing things

21:41

well at home when I have

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all day to do them and when I don't

21:46

have any type of fire underneath of me from

21:48

a schedule . So I really

21:50

think that's one of the reasons that God put

21:52

this work , this out in my life , because I

21:56

have to be so much more intentional about the time that I do

21:58

have at home , because it's less , and

22:02

I have to be more careful

22:04

that I am not just resting

22:06

on you know , my children's

22:08

teachers to be the one sharing teaching

22:11

, because they do have Bible or in a Christian school they're

22:13

learning the Bible . I have to be careful that

22:15

I'm not just like all over learning at a

22:17

school . They don't need me as mom to be , to

22:20

be teaching them , because that's still my responsibility

22:23

and still my duty , and

22:25

just because I work

22:27

which , again , if you are

22:29

working mom , I would just . I

22:31

mean , look at the women

22:33

in the Bible . Many

22:35

, many , many of them had vocations outside

22:38

of the home and

22:40

many of the women who were involved in Christ's ministry , I mean

22:42

they were able to follow him around . They

22:45

were sitting at home baking sourdough . They were following

22:48

Christ . And so there's the

22:52

place of the inside of the four

22:54

walls of your house . Isn't necessarily your calling

22:56

? Following Christ hard

22:59

in whatever you have been called to do

23:01

is your calling Right ?

23:03

I think the balance is found when

23:05

we love God and love

23:07

others , and how

23:11

that plays out in our

23:13

lives is going

23:16

to be different . It's going to look different for

23:18

each person because we're all in a

23:20

different area that God has

23:22

placed us for an intentional

23:24

purpose , and that is the key

23:26

. So you know , the greatest commandment

23:29

isn't to take

23:31

care of your family as

23:34

a mom , it's to love

23:36

God and then love others . Does

23:38

that include your family ? Absolutely it

23:40

does , but it's not limited

23:43

to your family and you

23:45

don't have to be out in a farm

23:48

to seclude

23:50

yourself . I have

23:52

just been convicted lately , like here

23:55

, even on a military base where I'm surrounded

23:57

by people , it can

24:00

be me in my castle

24:02

and , yeah

24:05

, I see my neighbors , but do I interact

24:07

with my neighbors ? Like , yeah

24:09

, there's little kids running all over , but do

24:12

they see my home as a place

24:14

that they can come

24:16

to and find

24:18

the love of Christ ? You know

24:21

, coming through my

24:23

home To love people is

24:25

to be active in their life and

24:27

you cannot remove

24:30

yourself entirely

24:32

in order to put

24:34

a hedge of protection , as some

24:37

would say , like a hedge of protection

24:39

around your family

24:41

and try

24:44

to keep them safe . It ultimately

24:46

comes down to God . The protection

24:48

is from God and it's a matter

24:50

of faith and it's a matter of obedience

24:53

to God and what he has for us

24:55

. Our motive is key in

24:57

all of this . Not

24:59

necessarily that any of it is wrong or

25:02

bad we have gone over this many times . We

25:04

don't believe that . But your motive , what

25:06

is your motive ? And be careful

25:08

in your motive . And also

25:11

, it can just become a subject

25:13

of idolatry Our families

25:15

we can literally put them

25:17

on a pedestal and worship

25:20

our family . And

25:22

the aesthetic and the idea

25:25

of the peaceful , just

25:27

separate living

25:29

like it can literally become

25:32

an idol in our life . And

25:37

this separation I

25:40

have seen where this holiness

25:42

and separation literally

25:45

becomes an idol that you

25:47

worship . That's exactly what happened with the Pharisees

25:49

. They took God's

25:51

law and put it on a higher

25:53

pedestal than God and worshiped

25:56

the law above God

25:58

. And we have to be

26:00

careful . We cannot put

26:02

traditions of man

26:04

, even good ones , above

26:07

the obedience of God

26:09

. And I also

26:11

think of Esther and

26:13

Daniel and

26:15

these young

26:18

people who were

26:20

in wicked heathen

26:22

nation , working in

26:24

the palace and being

26:27

I mean , you can't get any more

26:29

in the middle of the lions then than what Daniel

26:31

was

26:34

, but he was a young man when he

26:36

was taken .

26:38

It's really easy to live out your faith in a bubble

26:40

.

26:41

Right and that's just

26:43

no good . That's not what

26:45

we're here for , that's not what we're called to . It's

26:48

just and it just really ends

26:50

up backfiring . Because you know , I've

26:52

seen this movement in my

26:54

played out in my life and

26:57

I have seen it backfire Multiple

27:01

different families , multiple

27:03

different reasons , multiple different

27:05

ways , but I've seen the overall

27:08

I want to protect

27:10

me and mine backfire

27:12

hardcore . So we have to be careful

27:14

.

27:15

Yeah , the

27:17

word , you know , legalism gets thrown

27:20

around kind of a kind

27:23

of a little bit too loosely , I think . But for

27:26

sure , we definitely can

27:29

. We've definitely seen it play out and that

27:31

that control of what

27:34

you , how you look , how you act , how

27:36

you present yourself the

27:39

heart ends up rotting because

27:42

we're just focusing on the outside and

27:45

the aesthetic that we've talked about now

27:47

.

27:47

Listen , if you have a beautiful aesthetic and your news

27:49

and you're like your Instagram feed is all

27:52

beautiful , I'm

27:54

jealous , I'm not hating

27:58

again , I like take

28:00

the spirit of what we were , what we were

28:02

saying , and not don't like say

28:05

, oh well , she's against what I'm doing , like that's

28:07

not the point we're just gonna come to your

28:09

house for dinner . Right

28:11

, there's nothing wrong for making your

28:13

home beautiful and making you

28:16

know whatever beautiful things

28:18

like . Obviously that's not

28:20

what we're saying . We're just . We're

28:23

just trying to be helpful reminder that

28:25

you you have to take

28:28

the command of God as a believer

28:30

first right

28:34

. Love God , do

28:36

what God calls you , and we

28:38

often forget that God calls us to

28:41

be the light and

28:44

to be the salt and to share the gospel

28:46

, going into all the world and preach the gospel

28:48

. That is our call , like first and foremost

28:51

, and you can be a brand new believer . You

28:53

can be a young mother , you

28:56

can be a grandma

28:58

, you can be a single woman

29:00

, you can be anybody

29:02

as a believer and share the gospel

29:05

. That is our call , that is our purpose

29:07

.

29:08

And if you're not doing that , heart check

29:10

I think everything that

29:12

we can do , we can do for our glory

29:14

or we can do for God's glory , whether

29:18

they're for the eat or drink or make sourdough

29:20

bread , we

29:22

can . We can do it for our glory

29:25

or we can do it for God's , and I think

29:27

that you can , and

29:29

maybe you're one of those people that wishes

29:32

you could be . Maybe

29:35

you look at that and you have this like envy

29:37

of like I don't have land , I live in the city

29:39

, I don't have my kids have

29:41

to go to school because I have to work . You know , like

29:43

there's so many times where we look at that and it's like

29:46

it's not even attainable

29:48

for who we are . Right now , I'm

29:50

telling you , some of the moms , like as a teacher

29:52

, some of the moms have been like the biggest blessing to

29:54

me , work full-time , are so

29:56

busy , but they will drop

29:59

off a coffee in the morning and be like hey , I was

30:01

thinking about you . Or they

30:03

will send me notes

30:05

of encouragement or no , or like send

30:07

me a message saying they're praying for me , and often

30:10

it's the women who are the busiest outside

30:13

of their home , you know . So

30:15

don't fall into the trap of thinking

30:17

that you aren't doing enough

30:19

if your late doesn't look

30:21

like somebody else's highlights

30:25

and

30:28

just know that you can still live a life that is

30:30

very biblical , very

30:32

virtuous woman . You can be a virtuous

30:35

woman even if

30:37

baking isn't your thing

30:39

, even if you just give your

30:41

kids Tylenol when they have a headache

30:43

. You know , and that's

30:46

one herbal concoction which I

30:48

do , a mixture of both , to be honest , like

30:50

I . So , again

30:52

, not knocking any that , just saying like

30:55

you can .

30:58

The aesthetic is not what pleases God right

31:01

and so I

31:04

like that what you said there . You know , we're

31:06

either glorifying God or glorifying ourselves perfect

31:09

way to sum it up and wrap it up

31:11

, and we can just be

31:13

reminded again . We're not hating on nobody

31:15

, mm-hmm , we're just given

31:18

a friendly reminder and we , honestly

31:20

, I've needed it . I've been mulling over

31:22

this concept for a little while and

31:24

I've been praying , and

31:27

maybe you can praise this prayer

31:29

too . God , show me how

31:31

, in my neighborhood , the people

31:34

that I'm surrounded by now

31:36

, if you secluded yourself so far that you don't

31:38

have a neighborhood , maybe

31:40

you , maybe

31:43

you need to go a few miles , but

31:46

that's

31:48

not that hard to do , to be honest like

31:52

my like where is my

31:55

? would Judea , jerusalem and

31:57

the uttermost parts of the earth right go like

31:59

where is your home base and where

32:01

do you need to be that like ? God

32:03

, show me how I can be the light , yeah

32:06

, how I can share the

32:08

gospel with

32:10

my neighbors like legit and that

32:13

might .

32:14

That might look like taking that homemade

32:16

bread to your neighbor , right

32:19

? Use your sourdough yeah

32:23

, I would be super excited if someone

32:25

came up to my house . I've never been

32:27

able to do sourdough right , so I , I

32:30

would be all about that . And and

32:32

if you are that working mom who's

32:35

like man , I can't do all the things that

32:37

these women are doing , that's what I would love to do

32:39

. Look at where you are

32:41

. Are you driving by Starbucks ? Pick

32:45

up a Starbucks or someone ? Right , you

32:48

know what I mean . Get some coffee for somebody

32:50

.

32:50

Yeah , I mean it's , it's creating

32:53

relationships with people so that you can

32:55

intentionally share the gospel , not

32:57

not not seeing the lost

33:00

people around you and not seeing

33:02

them as the enemy .

33:03

That's a big thing and we can't and

33:05

we can't expect

33:07

our children to be servants of God

33:09

and servants of others

33:12

the way that we are called to . If they don't see it

33:14

in our lives right

33:16

, they need to see us

33:18

living with that servant's

33:20

heart . With that

33:22

, I'm going to die to myself and live

33:24

outside of myself instead of I'm going to live

33:27

in my bubble . They need to

33:29

see that played out because that's how

33:31

they learn and that's how they become the

33:34

next generation of followers

33:36

of Christ , which is a servant . They're

33:39

not going to see that if

33:41

we're not purposely living that

33:43

out . No matter what our homes look like , no matter what

33:45

our , our lifestyle is , are

33:47

we living out our faith in

33:50

their bones ? Looking at the heart of it , looking

33:52

at the who ? Are we giving glory to a

33:55

god and loving our neighbors ? Absolutely

33:57

?

33:58

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