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Welcome to Ten Minute Bible Talks! Where

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we can act The Bible to your life. In the

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time it takes to get to work, And ten the Obamas.

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Have. You ever heard of compound interest? My.

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Finance friends think it's pretty cool and it's actually

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one of those things at once. You see get

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you can't really and see it. Now.

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I'm not a numbers person, but it means

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that you put in money and that money

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makes money And that money makes more money.

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So. For the sake of those who

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of us are non numbers people, I'm going

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to talk for one second about the rule

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a seventy two seat and understand how this

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works. So. Take seventy two

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divided by your interest rate. So.

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If you are in seven point

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two percent interest, your money doubles

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every ten years. Or ten

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thousand becomes twenty. That. Twenty

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it becomes forty. That. Forty

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becomes a the. That. Eighty

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becomes One sixty. So.

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If you invested ten thousand when

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you were twenty. When. You

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hit sixty. That one

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investment. Is. Worth one hundred

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and sixty thousand dollars. Pretty.

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Cool or how. Albert Einstein

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said compound and dress is the

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most powerful force in the universe.

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But. The way I see it. Compound.

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Interest doesn't change your life very

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much when you first are investing.

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Ten. Years later though, you'll see a statement.

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You'll. Be fairly impressed with what it can do.

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Twenty. Years later you'll see a statement

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and think that was a really good

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decision. Thirty. Years later,

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you'll either be shocked at how much money

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you have or stoked about doing something with

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it. And if you don't then

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forty years later, From. When you

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first started. You'll. Either be really rich

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or dead. But. The

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point is getting great advice.

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To. Start earning compound interest. Isn't.

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Going to change your life very much today. Or.

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The month or next year. It

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takes time. Said. Council.

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Plant. Seeds of wisdom. Discernment.

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And. Bigger picture thinking ns. And.

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Has the ability to slightly ulcer

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are day but dramatically. Change

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or less. Now.

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Unwise council. Plant seeds

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of deceit. And. Doubts.

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And. This order desires and. And.

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Has the ability to affect what we

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do today. And

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possibly fuel a slave. we

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never saw we with slight later.

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We can be shocked when we hear about

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people doing things that we didn't expect them

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to do. A the

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having an affair or and embezzlement. Or.

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A family crushing and Dixon. Be.

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Can be shocked when we see ourselves

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doing things we didn't next. And.

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Most of the things don't happen overnight. At

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a small daily step toward something that

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looks like it's good that it really

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isn't. Now in Israel's

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history. Where. In the middle of the

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cycle of corrupt king. And.

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This Didn't happen Overnight. It

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was a small step. Is.

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Started with Solomon when he married in

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Egyptian woman even though God warned against

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it. Because it had

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given Israel laws so they could live safely

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and full certainly in the land that he

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had given them. Over

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time know. The people move

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the line further. And further away

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from what God said. And

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closer and closer to the nations around

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them that we're we're shipping idols. And

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making sacrifices. That God said

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we're not just an ethical that.

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Absolutely wrong. The.

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Moral line that people were operating

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from slowly shifted away from what

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God said. And toward popular

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desire. Decisions. Were

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made about what was right and wrong based

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on what was happening in the world around

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them. Society. And

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Modern culture and popular wisdom. Became

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their council. Or

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in particular. There. Was a king

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named or his idea? Who became the

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King of Israel at a very young age. Because.

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His father a have died of

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intestinal disease. Now.

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Has I was twenty two when he became king.

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He only rained for one year. And

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is interesting what Second Chronicles twenty

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Two tells us about why his

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reign was so short and unsuccessful.

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Basically. It's because he followed

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and wise counsel. It

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says he followed the ways of the house is

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a happy. Because. His mother encouraged

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him to act wickedly. And

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then the rider emphasizes the point and

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expands more and says he did evil

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in the eyes of the Lord as

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the house of A have had done

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for after his father's death. They.

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Became his advisers to his

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undoing. Now. The writer

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of Chronicles want us to understand.

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That. Has I? His downfall

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in one way was completely

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his responsibility for following unwise

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council. And on the

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other hand, it also came from God

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because he was falling on wise counsel.

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Both of these are hard pill to swallow.

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Yet. We experience it all around us.

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We. See the way moral lines assessed

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and what was once except it

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is universally wrong. Is now

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accepted as good. To

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see how things that we saw in our

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own lives were have things they should stay

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away from. Or. Not parts are

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not engage him. Kind. Of

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creep towards becoming okay are acceptable

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and then and have become part

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of our allies before we realize

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what's happening. This

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is extreme. But considered

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Nazi Germany and what had to

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the happens. Before.

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Certain people were willing to put

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other people and gas chambers. And

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then take a look around. Where

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we used to treat other humans in

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our society with respect and dignity. We

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the same And this human eyes. then.

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We call them names. We call out

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against them when there's things that we

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don't like. It seems

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like verbal attacks and out raids have

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become the norm. I. Think

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we should think about this question.

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Where. Do we get our council?

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Bosses look at a few examples. We

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can look at Instagram. It's. Lovely!

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It's a great. I. Love

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getting on there. There's all kinds of

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things I learned about recipes. And

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there's also the things I know that are

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happening. For example, There's. A certain

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way as female said look in her

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clothes. As pig methods I

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get when I look at Instagram. What?

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About acts. As a certain

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way, you argue with people who disagree with

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you. Amazon. There's a

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certain way he should expect things

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to arrives. Immediately. Podcast.

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Bugs. There's a certain way

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you should follow your dreams. There's.

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A certain way you should know that the

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truth isn't ideal. Society.

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There's a certain way you said except

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everything and hold your ground on nothing.

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Anything has the potential to be your North

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Star, doesn't it? But. When

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Jesus was with his disciples, There.

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Was a religious group called the Ferriss.

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They were kind of always hanging around. Era

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we the cats jesus say something

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naked use against him. And

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one day after teaching the crowd which

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included the fair sees. Jesus

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called and said threats. He

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said they honor me with their laps

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but their hearts. Are far from me.

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He said it's what some that of their mouths. That

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the files and. Now. The

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disciples are concerned about Jesus making

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the Ferriss angry. They.

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Came to Jesus and said. Do.

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You know that the Sarah sees S and

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when they heard this. That

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Jesus responded. Leaves. And.

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They are blind guides. It's.

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A blind lead the blind. Birth.

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Will fall into. A. Pit. I

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wonder if we real is. Where. We

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are sometimes following the blind. Know.

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Some of the things we think are so

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hard wired in our brains. Are

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thoughts just automatically go there? We.

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ourselves. Can. Be blind

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to our own thoughts. Psychologist.

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Talk About. This. They. Say we

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have neural pathways that are like freeways

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and our brain. For. I thought

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skill eighty miles an hour from a

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stimulus to a site for an action.

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Without. Even realizing it. But.

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Psychologists also talk about how we

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have the ability to form new

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pathways to take a fat captive.

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To. Consider it. To. Do something

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different. For. Example.

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I hear someone say something I disagree

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with. The. Thought I needed

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a captive is. This. Person

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is wrong. The

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action I need to take activists. Say

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something right this second to point

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out that they are wrong. But.

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I want to do. Is to tree a

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new past Three. Weeks.

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And New Sin. Don't

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speak. Linux this is

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still on my my later. They may

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need to engage this person in a conversation.

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Is. Not I can probably move on. Paul.

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Wrote about this exercise and second frenzy

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and Sector Ten. He called

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it a say with the sluice. He

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said for although we live in the face. We.

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Do Not wage War according to the source.

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Said so Weapons of her warfare or not

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have the sense. That. Are

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powerful through God. For. The

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demolition of strongholds. We.

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Demolish arguments and every proud thing that

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has raised up against the knowledge of.

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And we take every site kept his

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to obey Christ. Where.

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Is your counsel? Taking you. Where

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is it taking nuisance? Kind

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of investments. Are you making

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and who you want to become? I

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don't know how much time they have here

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on this earth. But. I hope

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my returns are growing more in line

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with Jesus. So I

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can look back on my life and say. I.

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Use the struggle with it. And.

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Now I struggle with it a little less.

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And I use to respond like. And.

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Now I don't do that. assistant. And

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I used to think I need it. And.

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Now. I don't really want it anymore.

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At. Is what I how us? They

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we take our counsel from. That

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we store in our hearts. And

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we grow more. Like Jesus.