"Sanctifying Your Imagination: +bonus Tabletalk w/ Bob Hazlett" S1 Ep7

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Buried securely within the cavity of the human chest is an indescribable muscle

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charged by the tiny electrical impulses that beat 100,000 times a day pumping 1800 gallons of blood.

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Yet the heart of a person is so much more metaphorically. Solomon told us above all

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else to guard it for everything you do flows from it. On this episode we will talk about

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purity of heart, the value of sanctifying your imagination and listen to the end as we have

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a table talk with prophetic minister, author and life coach Bob Hazelit.

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Welcome to Keep It 100 podcast with Shawn and Krista Smith. Join us in this space where we

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take on real issues with real insight under real inspiration. This podcast is for those not looking

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for temporary relief to change circumstance but revelation to forever change lives.

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Welcome to Keep It 100 with Shawn and Krista Smith. We're excited to have you.

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We're so excited to be with y'all. We could not wait to get back into the podcast studio

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and to share this episode with you. We hope that you're going to enjoy this. You know it's funny,

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I was checking out some hashtags lately and it kind of made me laugh and there was this

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hashtag urban greetings. Nice, okay. So they had different kind of greetings and I was

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kind of checking them out. Okay, the classic greetings here are several of them. One is

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what's good everybody? I like that one. It's real friendly, inviting. How you living fam?

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What's going? What's up? Classic. That'll never go out, right? And then there is this super classic

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upward head nod when two urbanites see each other. You do your head nod but it's got to be up.

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That's good. You know, okay, so question as a non-urban person, like what am I allowed to do?

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Here's the question because I don't want to be the lame non-urban that's like trying to be cool

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and everyone's like cringing. They're like, don't do it. Obviously, I think you have this

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relevance about you. I think you could definitely do what's good everybody. Nice. Okay, what's good

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everybody? You could go, how you living fam? How you living fam? Now, if you're going to do the

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upward head nod, you might want to have a little bit of history with the person when you first

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bust that out. I'm actually going to go ahead and remove myself. I've seen you do that and I feel

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like that's a code thing. It's a little bit of a code because when we first started dating, I remember

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we'd be walking just random public places and you'd see another brother and you would like nod

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your head up, do the upward head nod and you guys would have this moment and I was like, oh,

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do you know him? You're like, no, I've never met him. It's an understanding between the two of you.

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I can't enter that understanding. It's like, I get you. I know you're struggling, man, but we made

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it because we're walking the streets right now. Upward head nod, upward head nod. That's right.

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Acknowledgement, celebration. That's it. That's great. One of what we experienced this past week,

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I would hate to be a weatherman meteorologist. This past week in Northern California, it's been

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crazy, y'all. We've had heat wave. Oh, 100, well, no, 108. And we're in the San Francisco Bay area.

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That's not all. We don't get humidity. No, no, no. We don't get heat like that. We don't get heat

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like that. The other night, we had thunder and lightning. Oh, it was crazy. I loved it. Most

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everyone hated it. I was loving it. Now you had the stat. How many thunders and lightning? Well,

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I saw this on Instagram. I have apologized, but someone posted in the Bay area and there was

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2,500 lightning strikes in four hours. I'm like, hello, did Texas move to California? What's up

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with that? I mean, seriously, it was really abnormal for here. So we had heat wave, thunder

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and lightning. We had torrential rains. We have fires. Right now, we're on alert because of the

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smoke. Oh, yeah. And people have now evacuating their homes because of fires not too far from here.

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It's horrific. Like it is insane. Everything about 2020 is like super over the top. I mean,

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it's pretty crazy. And we're about to go into that election time. So it's about to get more

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crazy. Oh, thank you. And it's an election year. I mean, Lord, do we need Jesus or do we need Jesus?

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The one thing that I think this weather has showed us is it's been extremes. We've had this

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extreme thunder and lightning and rain. Then we had this extreme heat, now extreme fire,

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but there have been some other extremities this week, Christa. They talked to us. Okay. Trending

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on Twitter this week and trending across a lot of different social media platforms is Cardi B's

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new song called WAP. W-A-P. I'm not even going to tell you what it means. It's filthy. Thank you.

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It's disgusting. But the point is I'm seeing this trend on the top of the list and across the board.

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And there is such explicitness about this. And you were telling me comments that you were seeing

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on Twitter and different social media platforms about the response to it. Right. Their sisters

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are saying that that is ratchet. Oh, I mean, Cardi B song WAP. I mean, it is so filthy. And I sat

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there and again, I didn't watch it. I don't want to watch it. But the reality is if that's trending

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top on an entertainment level to me, it shows the depravity. And my concern would be for a 12-year-old

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girl. Yeah. And she throws that on. And all of a sudden, that level of defilement comes their way.

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But it's so overtly sexual at a whole other level now, which is different. And it was interesting

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because we saw the contrast of the generations because I ran across this random YouTube video.

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I was telling you about. Oh, this is hilarious. And these two young African American guys,

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they're twins in the new trend and they're on YouTube. They have like half a million followers

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and they record themselves reacting to videos. I love that. And the song they chose was In the Air

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Tonight by Phil Collins. They're reacting to it and they're just enjoying the creativity, the

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innovation. Like he does things different. He doesn't drop the beat until they're very into the song.

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They're just doing things creatively and they're enjoying the innovation. They're enjoying the

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creativity versus what else is trending this week is the Cardi B, which is like the most opposite.

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And I think this totally epitomizes the extremes that we're going to be talking about even on this

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episode. Absolutely. Today, we're going to have a conversation on the extremes of using your

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imagination and your heart. I love that. Because there's been such a defilement with so much art,

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music, song. We really want to be talking about what is real creativity and how does God actually

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want to use your imagination because God gave us an imagination, but it has to be sanctified.

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It's so clever of God to give us an imagination because it's in your imagination where many of

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the miracles are birthed. Is that God uses your imagination. As in our imagination, many of the

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miracles are birthed there. The same is also true that in our imagination, many miracles die there

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because we fail in the way in which God intended for us to use. You know what I love is in scripture

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like where there's always an invitation to come to him as a child, but we dream about projects for

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God, things that we want to do. Like we dream about it. And I think I go back and that was

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integrated and cultivated into me. I even as a young child, there's such an innocence in our

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imagination that I feel like we're never supposed to lose, but so many of us go through life and

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hard things do happen, difficult things happen. And we actually over time lose our imagination

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and we lose our creativity. It's so true. And I think that the enemy so tries to defy our imagination

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because the truth is, is that revelations, whether they're heavenly or demonic, they are both

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received the same way through the imagination. True. So it's interesting. I was reading up on this

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neuroscience, which is a study of how the brain operates, reveals that when our neurons fire

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up to create a thought, they also over time create pathways in the brain and those pathways,

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they become tendencies, they become our autopilot. So neuroscience says when our neurons fire up,

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they create a thought, but over time they create a pathways in our brains. And it demonstrates

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that the way we are now is a product of how we imagine Solomon said in Proverbs 237,

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as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So Solomon was getting neuroscience before neuroscience.

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And you know what's so cool is as a Christian, we have access to create new pathways. So a new

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pathway in your brain is actually created when you allow Jesus to take you through the process of

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healing and restoration. That needs to happen. I just saw a video on American airline, a sister

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or somebody else, they were straight up fighting out in the middle of the highway. Are you serious?

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Oh, we're crazy. And I'm like, somebody needs to have some new neural pathways up in the air.

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Another importance of our imagination is the God focus imagination is a key factor in our ability

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to personally experience God, that it's in that place that God meets us and God sets up his throne

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in that place. Because what we call imagination, the Bible also calls heart. You know, when the

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Bible says in Ephesians 118, made the eyes of your understanding be enlightened, you would know the

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hope of your calling or the eyes of your heart. It literally is the word translated imagination.

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I love that. And lastly, just a real importance of our imagination is the faculty of our revelation.

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You know, your imagination is the faculty of revelation. And that is such an incredible

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concept where we know that we can have a fresh revelation that's available to us when our

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imagination is sanctified and renewed in him. He downloads his truths to us and we don't live in

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a state of just what we're seeing in the natural, but we live in a place of recognizing what God's

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saying in the spirit. Alright, keep your 100 tribe. This right now, it's the scripture that I believe

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changes everything. And the scripture is Matthew 5,8. It says, blessed are the pure in heart,

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for they will see God. And so what Jesus was saying and a sermon on them out, blessed are the pure

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in heart, for they will see God is that God blesses those whose hearts are pure and He blesses them

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with a fresh vision of Him. And I've learned something. God creates a pure heart within us,

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Christa, by defining what is pure and then directing me towards it. Our culture cannot

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define for us what purity is. I know they may come out with a rating on a movie and they may make it

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PG or they may make it R. So the motion picture association, they're rating the movie, but they

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can't define what's pure for me. God alone can define what's pure for me. And then He directs

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me towards that which is pure. That's so good. Also, we live in a time when purity is not something

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people talk about. It's not valued. It doesn't seem to be popular. It's not like people go on and

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talk about purity. It's almost like it's a forgotten understanding, but purity must be valued.

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I'm open about this. I'm coming out with my first book and it's about my journey of singleness. And

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one of the chapters is I talk about purity versus virginity. But you know, I was 39 years old when

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I got married and I was a virgin. And it's definitely mocked in our society because there's even a

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movie called Forty Old Virgin and not because it's a positive, right? And so here I was, you know,

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a woman really making a stand for virginity and for purity. And that is like so unpopular even

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in the church, right? Because people get to this place, especially when you begin to get desperate

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and wanting to be in a relationship and be in a marriage and you find yourself people with

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different standards. And there's a challenge and there's a pressure in our stances for purity.

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And our stances often for virginity or for people that maybe have lost their virginity,

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but now they're walking with the Lord and they're choosing celibacy and they're choosing to honor

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God. And there is that process of transformation that we all have to go through. But taking that

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stand for purity, boy, there's many times there's a cost for it. Is it worth it 110%? But we have

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to understand we live in a society that mocks what is actually right. That's so true because that

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impurity becomes an attack on our relationship with God. I'm going to really open up. I remember

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years ago, right when I gave my life to Christ, I was on a college campus. Oh yeah. And as I gave

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my life to Lord, I had a girlfriend at the time and our relationship wasn't obviously built on the

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foundation of Christ. Our relationship was very moral. And so when I gave my life to Christ,

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I kind of really was going after God. And in the midst of that, it was causing conflict in our

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relationship. And I remember one particular night I was at my apartment and so my girlfriend at the

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time of college, we were kind of like not boyfriend and girlfriend, but we kind of were. She called

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me because she said, Hey, my roommate is gone. She had a gal who's roommate. She says, I'm here

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some sounds around our apartment. I'm scared. Can you come and just check up on me? And so I'm a

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baby Christian. It may not have been the wisest. So I said, Hey, I'm going to come over. I'm going

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to make sure you're okay. I'm going to check around your apartment. I'm checking your apartment.

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I'll hang out a while, but I'm going to go home. You know, I'm not going to stay the night. And so

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I get there and I could tell she's, she's probably trying to make a move, but I'm shutting it down,

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shutting it down, shutting it down. And so I'm in the living room. And so she, she's going to bed.

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And I told her, I said, I'll wait till you go to sleep. So you don't have to worry. And then I'm

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going to let myself out. And again, I'm not saying this is wisdom. I'm not saying this is the thing

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to do. This was a baby Christian with baby Christian logic. And so all of a sudden she calls my name.

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She says, Sean, I come over to her doorway, the threshold of her door. And all of a sudden she

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sits up in bed and drops the sheet and she's totally naked. And in that point in time, she says,

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come here. And it was like the movies where you're at the threshold of a door and you feel like a

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wind tunnel trying to suck you in a room. It's like, I could feel that. It was like the Lord opened

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my eyes and I saw this dark shadowy figure behind her. And he was waving like with a finger to come

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kind of like something out of Charles Dickens' Scrooge, the ghost of Christmas past or something.

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I immediately said, no. And she said to me, if you walk out that door, we're done. And I turned,

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I was walking the door and I said, we've been done ever since I've lived my life to Christ.

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And I walked out. But I knew in that moment my purity was challenged. And so I walked out there.

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But I cried. I got to the car. I cried because it shook me that whole experience. But by God's

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grace made it out with my purity intact. I love that you shared that because I think so many people

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walk that out. And there's such a battle for the purity, especially if you've been living one way.

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You have an encounter with Jesus. And then there is this pull of your old life. But as you don't

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bow to it, as you don't come into agreement with it, as you don't give a place in your life,

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and you really choose God, even in those times of pressure point moments, that when we allow God

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to sanctify and bring purity to our lives, there are such a beautiful witness because so many people

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don't see people live a life of purity. And that's such a contrast in such a sexually aggressive

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culture that we live in. And it's so in your face. I mean, from a child to a married person,

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it doesn't matter every age in between. There is constantly, I mean, if past 10 o'clock every night,

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I'm watching like crime show. I mean, it's totally clean. But there's that 1900 advertisement that

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pops on. I mean, there's no temptation for me. But I always pray when I watch that, that that thing

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just gets blocked from every person that would be tempted by that. Because just sitting there

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watching an innocent show, but from advertisements to everything, you're just bombarded in our society.

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But we can walk in a level of purity and consecration when we allow God to take us through

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that journey. I know in my life, I mean, I even said I was a 39 year old version, but that was

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not without a battle, right? Right. At all for it. And Chris Vallatin talks about that a lot. He's

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like, there's a battle for the marriage bed. There's a battle for your purity and it is a battle.

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And you have to understand there is so much that comes at you that wants your purity.

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And I remember from high school, I didn't date in college. I dated a guy right after college.

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And there was different times where I would casually beginning to know someone and then

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it was like, okay, this is a really great person. I was super upfront about my morals and

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my boundaries. And obviously I wasn't going to have sex and I made it really clear. And there

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was always came a point where I think there's the kind of that belief system. And especially with

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guys, there was like, because I was the virgin, I think that there was a little bit of like a

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mark on me that the guys wanted to conquer me. They wanted to be that person that got my virginity.

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That's right. That's right. And so I felt at times a real pursuit and a pressure. And I remember

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dating this one guy after college. And again, it was very casual. But one night we were just

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hanging out and it was like, he got super like aggressive. And I was like, he had never been

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like that. I'd never seen that side of him. And I got really nervous because I was like,

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oh my gosh, is this going to go into a really bad situation? I just quickly just said,

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hey, I think I need to go home. I think my roommate needs me. I just like did the whole panic,

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made it up an excuse and got the heck out of there. And then I never heard from him again.

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And then come to find out, I heard that he had been sleeping with a girl the whole time. He was

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quote unquote getting to know me anyway. And so that I look back at my life and God so protected

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me. But I also saw a consistent pattern where I laid down the boundary where guys were getting

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to know me. And I was like considering if we were going to get in a relationship or not.

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And I want you to know to anyone listening, they'll keep it 100 tribe. If there is someone that

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cheats on you for your purity, there is a clear sign that is not the person the Lord has for you.

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Because what I love is God brought Sean into my life and he's so honored my purity and he so

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cherished it. And that is so important that we have people that actually advocate and cheer you

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on. If you're in a relationship with someone that's pulling you against that standard,

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that's a clear example of that's not the right person for you, right? And I want to talk to you

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about the five benefits of sanctifying your imagination. I just said one of them a moment ago.

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Number one, when you have a sanctified imagination, it then gives you a sense of clear direction.

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When we're walking in a deluded version of who we're called to be and our imagination has mixture

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in it, it also causes confusion. Mixture causes confusion. And I think that's so important for

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us to understand that when we open up the gates to our imagination, we're allowing often a confusing

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spirit to influence us. When we walk in a place of clarity, that's when we're walking in purity.

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A second benefit of sanctifying your imagination is that you experience God. When our imagination

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is been defiled, what happens is that the place where we experience God becomes fogged up. And so

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we don't have a clear vision of God. We don't have a clear sense of God. And so often people are

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saying, hey, I want guidance. I pray for discernment. I desire the direction. But yet I don't feel

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anything. And I think the truth of the matter is, is God is always revealing himself to us.

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He's ever about the business of guiding us. But the problem lies with our inability to discern

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because if purity enables and enhances spiritual sight, impurity disables or diminishes our spiritual

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sight. The third benefit of sanctifying your imagination is walking in a clear conscience.

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And I just remember in college, there used to be this thing called the walk of shame. I'm sure it

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still exists. It's a, you know, someone hooks up with someone, they go to sleep and they have on

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the exact same clothes and they get up in the morning and they're like going home. And they're,

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you know, they look exactly like they did the night before and everyone knows that they hooked

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up with someone to spend the night with someone. So they call it a walk of shame. And there is,

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that's such a metaphorical picture of when you're living in sin and living in compromise.

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There is such a searing of your conscience that happens. And there's such a blanket of shame

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that surrounds you because sin never edifies. Sin just shames, sin condemns. And when we walk in an

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imagination and our conscience becomes clear, we're then able to walk in a clear conscience. And when

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you walk in a clear conscience, there is such a freedom and such a joy that happens in your life

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because you're not walking around with shame. The fourth point is you will be more untouchable.

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Jesus said in John 14 30, the rule of this world is being cast down, but he has no hold on me.

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That was a powerful posture to be in because Jesus is saying, I'm untouchable. And when you think of

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the phrase, the ruler has no hold on me, maybe the biblical language is stronghold. The enemy

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looks for strongholds. And when we allow impurity in our imagination, we're not untouchable. It's

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just the opposite. The enemy has strongholds in which he can grab us and in a sense, pull us

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towards things that are unhealthy for us, unbiblical or things that remove us from the

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sense of who God is and what he has for us. The fifth benefit of sanctifying your imagination

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is you are free from an emotional roller coaster. Come on, can I get an amen for that? Because

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none of us want to live in an emotional roller coaster. When you have a sanctified imagination,

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you know what your true north is. It's the Lord. It's the word of God. It's his spirit. And that's

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his truth. And when we live from that place, it eliminates that high highs and the low lows.

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Yeah, you might have a tough day, but at the end of the day, you know God's got you. And there's

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that peace and that rest knowing you're not alone and God will never leave you or forsake you.

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And some of you need to be reminded that when we walk in a sanctified place and we've been now

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allowed God to renew our mind and our imagination, we can pull a testimony of how God has come through

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before. You'll be reminded he can do it again. That's absolutely true. The opposite of purity

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is defilement. And what we're describing right now, keeping 100 tribe, you got to understand,

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there is a battle for your purity. Your imagination is under attack. The enemy wants to imprison

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and corrupt your imagination. So instead of it being a place where God projects revelation, vision,

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his voice, his presence, that it becomes something defiled. And so here's what I've noticed that

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darkness wants to use specifically. When darkness wants to defile you, darkness will try to shut

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down your imagination by first of all using past bad experiences. That's so true. The enemy wants

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to bring up trauma and tragically, there may be some that even they've experienced abuse, sexual,

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coming up. And so the enemy wants to bring up past bad experiences. And instead of having the freedom

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in your imagination to receive from God, you're rehearsing that past bad experience. The second

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thing darkness wants to use is unclean images and impurity. And that's the reason why right now,

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I believe the enemy is so coming at a generation with pornography. It's not just a guy thing anymore.

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It's a guy and a gal thing. It's so true. There's a reason why David the Psalmist said,

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I will put no impure thing before my eyes because he understood that he was in a battle against

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darkness and darkness was trying to defile his purity and his imagination. That is so true.

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I'm going to call our eyes a gate, right? I'm going to call our ears a gate. And so we have to

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understand if you have open gates in your life and you have closed gates in your life. So if you've

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ever had to go through a gated community, you have to have an access code, right? Or a gate, a door

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that has a lock on it. You have to get an access code to get in there. And it's like you choose

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what you give an access code to in your imagination, into your mind. And friends, you have to understand

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to our Keep It 100 tribe, whatever you put into your life is always going to come out in some way.

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So don't be foolish. Don't don't get it twisted. You're not going to be able to watch those

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pornographic movies. You know, I don't care what's trending and what's on the top of the charts or

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whatnot. I understand you want to be in the mix. I understand you want to watch the latest and the

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greatest. But you have to understand when you put that stuff into your life, it's going to come out

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in one way, shape or form. And how it's going to come out is through your talk, through your action,

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through your belief systems, your perception of how you think you see things, how you think about

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things. And you have to understand that when we want to be able to walk in a place of discernment,

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there is a clearing of our mixture that has to happen in our lives. That's so true. That

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not only does darkness want to use past bad experiences, unclean images and impurity, but

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third of all, that the enemy wants to use unhealthy fantasy to harass us. It's one thing to play a

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video game, but it's another thing for the video game to play you. And so often you find people,

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they're giving up sleep, they're late night depriving themselves. It's not worth it because

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the enemy wants to use it to harass you, intimidate you and ultimately enslave you.

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It's so true. And the reality is we know that all that does is cause bondage and division between

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you and God. And at the end of the day, you and I can agree that's never going to be worth it,

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because what you gain from being in connection with God is a clear path and a clear conscience.

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Keep your 100th try. We love to give you some action points to close out. And so our call to

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action this week for this episode, sanctifying your imagination, is listen to what God is saying.

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And in order to listen to what God is saying, sometimes you have to turn off distractions.

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The Holy Spirit doesn't want to have to compete for your attention. So it's just this place of saying,

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hey, I'm going to read and memorize scripture. I'm going to wash my imagination with the water of

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God's Word. And so if you listen to what God is saying, it is in fact one of the greatest

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takeaways you could do in terms of sanctifying your imagination. The second thing that we want

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you to walk away with is talking it over with your godly mentors. I'm going to call that accountability.

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Get accountability into your life. Get a second set of eyes, because we all have blind spots in

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our life. When you allow someone to have a viewpoint, some eyes into your life, they're

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going to be able to expose some things that you may not see. You may not even be aware of,

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but those around you are aware of them for you. And God allows accountability to create safeguards,

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because when you walk in a safeguard, it's a beautiful process of Lord takes you into protect

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you and leads you into place of purity and righteousness. Third of all, the third call

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to action is stay away from defiling things. 1 Peter 2.11 tells us to abstain from fleshly lusts,

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which wage war against our soul. And so it's very clear that fleshly lusts wages war, sexual sin,

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clouds your vision. There's no way that as this nation in terms of the early wars, everyone remembers

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the revolutionary war. That was the war for freedom. And then everyone remembers the civil war.

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That's when the North and the South divided and we fought against each other as a nation.

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There's no way that you could win the revolutionary war and the civil war at the same time. You're

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fighting for freedom for others. You're called to be a freedom fighter for your generation,

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but you're not able to fight that revolutionary battle for their freedom. If you're fighting a

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civil war of allowing your own thoughts to be clouded by ungodly impurity and so understand

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to stay away from defiling things is simply to guard your gates. And there's a scripture says in

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Numbers 33.55 it says, but if you fail to drive out the people who live in the land,

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those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will arrest

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you in the land where you live. And so really, how do you make that plane? What it's saying to us,

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splinters in your eyes mean that when you allow defiling things in, it's going to affect your

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vision, which affects your rationale, the way you see things, the way you categorize things and

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thorns in your sides, they force you towards things. It's uncomfortable. You move away from

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thorns. In other words, the enemy can begin to push you into positions you don't want to be in

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all because we allow defiling things. But I believe that God has got a land for you to live. And that's

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what that scripture bears out. It says God has a land for you to live and this land is called

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purity. Keep your 100 tribe. We have a special surprise right now. As promised, here is our

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interview with Bob Hazelit. Hey, what's going on you guys? I got my great friend Bob Hazelit here.

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We're just talking. I'm super excited to have you, Bob. You are amazing, bro. Well, thanks for

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having me. I've been loving your podcast. I'm excited to be on it. Thanks for having me. Awesome.

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I got questions for you. First question I want to ask you, Bob, is what part does heart purity

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play in the prophetic? Oh my goodness. You went deep fast. I thought you would start with something

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like, what's your favorite Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor, but prophetic. Okay. I mean,

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it's pretty much everything. When I think of heart, I think of the soul. So purity,

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you can go so many directions with that, couldn't you? You could think about moral purity. You could

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think about integrity, purity. You could think about purity and the flow of how you present it.

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So I would go all those places. It has to do with the place of your soul, because the place

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that things get corrupted in us, it's not our spirit. It's the way that the prophetic is processed

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to our soul. And I think a lot of us, when we think of the prophetic, we think, well, it's just like,

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it comes from God and I just say it, but no, it goes through my mind. It goes through my emotions.

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It goes through my creative imagination. And so I can't say stuff without it going,

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processing through my soul. My soul's got to be clear and pure. So how do we bring purification

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to the soul? I love it. The Bible says in James that when you receive the implanted word, it sozos

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your soul. The word of God does something that it clears out the debris from my soul. And in the

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time like we live in now where there's so much chatter and clutter in the world, the media

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and social media, there's so many voices and everybody's voices speaking at once. And then

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they're all at maximum volume, right? So easy to impact. So how can we be pure? I remember

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in the Lord called me 20 years ago to prophetic ministry. I didn't even know what that meant.

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I just knew he called me aside. And for nine months, I stepped out of my church and I had caught

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up to three prophetic words that I would travel the world and be a voice for God, you know,

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to the nations and bring revival. But I set aside everything for nine months and I just laid on the

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floor and I just saw his face, you know? It was like a moment of cleansing of my soul. I didn't

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watch TV. I didn't give up coffee. That's what I'm fine with. I wasn't legalism. It was just,

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I was hungry. Like Jesus said, I got food you not not enough. You know, I got drink you know,

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not enough. And I was just so hungry and thirsty for God. And I'm just telling this not to tell

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somebody that they have to follow my process. But I remember after that nine months of spending time

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with God 10, 12 hours a day in prayer, just in his presence, worship and just soaking, seeking his

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face, walking up the mountains and talking to him. I remember when I stepped into a new ministry

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position, I could then now release some of the things God taught me. I remember the first time

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I went into a blockbuster video. Remember blockbuster videos? Oh yeah man. There was a time when you

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had to go to a store and get a DVD and then you had rented, well, they were VHS. Come on,

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midterm. Exactly, right? And then you could just download it. So I remember walking into that

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blockbuster video and there was so much noise, visual noise, atmospheric noise. You know,

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it was like every one of those movies was talking to me at once. I literally had to walk out and I

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said, God, what is that? You know, is there should be demons in there? He's like, no. He's like, you

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have sensitized your soul to me so that this clutter in this chatter, this outside noise seems so

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foreign to you. Wow. Does that make sense to you? Like, so it wasn't that I was in an immoral place.

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It wasn't that I was in an unentengrable place in my soul, in my heart, in my ministry. It was

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just that I needed to quiet the chat, clutter down. And there's sometimes that stuff that you do. In

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that moment, who's really God leading me into that season, but I have times still now where the Lord's

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like, you just need to turn off the news for a while. You go off social media for a while just

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to purify you. So I think it's important. I think it's everything, Sean, but because what is it,

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James, is that you can't have, you know, water can't flow out of that place. We want a pure flow. So

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I just, you know, those that are listening, you know, don't let this be legalism. Let this be love

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that will motivate you to let the Word of God soar your soul and find those places where you find the

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secret place because what God speaks to you is secret. Then, you know, he could shout it for the

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mouse. Man, that does. And it's so powerful because we were just talking earlier about so much of the

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seduction in this age is to move towards the platform before you go through the process.

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And what I love, Bob, is what you're sharing is you're sharing your process that it's getting

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alone. It's becoming still. Yeah. And it's relational. The thing about it was it wasn't like

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I did that process so that I could get somewhere. It was, I mean, I knew where God said he was taking

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me and I knew that there were things in my life that wouldn't make it, you know, and I had to

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change the infrastructure in my life. I had to be strengthened before he could build that house.

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But I think ultimately it was just relationship. I just wanted to be with him. And so like the

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process is about relationship, particularly with prophets, you know, if you're called to prophetic

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ministry, you're called to lead people too. And what does Ephesians one says? It says that pray

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that God will give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you can prophesy good prophecies.

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Know that you would know him. I pray God will give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you

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might know him and then know the hope to which you're called. So we as people that are called to

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bring the wisdom and the revelation of heaven are called to that so that we could know him so that

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we could make others know. Testimony of Jesus is a spirit of prophecy. So every time I release

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revelation, it should reveal something about God. And I can only release something about God if I

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know something about God. If I have experienced myself. So that spirit of wisdom and revelation

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came to me. So I want to know him, you know, so I can know him more. And I still find myself in

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that place. I say it like this, you know, I spent nine months on the carpet and it was musty, nasty,

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nasty, smelly carpet. And I know when I've gotten too far away from that place, when I can't smell

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the musty carpet. And sometimes I'll just get on my floor in the hotel room and then I smell the

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carpet. I just just want to smell the carpet again. Because if I lose that scent of that carpet, I've

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lost a secret place, you know. And I really believe that there's a secret place for all of us. God

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just somehow attached my secret place to a smell, you know what I mean? Yes. Because I'm, but I'm

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still, I tell people, they're still part of me that's on that basement carpet floor. Still just

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saying God, I just, I need more. And I think that's, but our hearts can get skewed. The world we live

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in, it's, it's whacked out, man. And there's stuff out there. I can get caught up in the political

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noise. I can get caught up in the cultural noise. But if I can get back to that car, say God, I just

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want to start it again. Bob, dude, I love you, man. Final question, bro. If Jesus wanted, talks about

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that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened that you would know the hope of

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where you're calling understanding there is kind of eyes of your imagination, eyes of your heart.

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How do you develop the eyes of your heart to see and perceive? I think a lot of people would say,

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hey, I feel like there could be like a seeer thing on me. Sometimes I get pictures,

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but I feel fogged in or, or it's kind of hard or I only have moments of clarity. It kind of ebbs

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more than it flows. So how do you develop the eyes of your heart? That's super good. And I haven't

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done enough like study on that, those keywords other people have that I could really give you an

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exposition of the scripture, but I'll just give you a practical way that it works for me because

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I am a seer, but I tend to see more in the natural plane, not like a, not that she's angels. So I

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look at John 1. Here's, here's a great place to look at you if you want to go and see from my

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perspective. John 1, there's a story verse 43 to the end of the chapter, Jesus and the calling of

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the thin. Right? That story. I saw you sitting under the fig tree. Like you're an Israelite in

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whom there's nothing false. How do you know me? I saw you sitting under the fig tree. Whoa, you're

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the king of Israel. He's like, yeah, but you think that's something you're going to see angels

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sending into sending. So that tells us a couple of things about to see around. It's past, present,

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future, right? It's natural plane, soulless realm of the person. And then spiritual plane,

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all those dimensions, if you will, right? So I can see in the spirit into someone, I could see

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around them and then I can see above them. And then I can see their past through God's perspective

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and reframe their past with the been through. And then I can see into their present and give them

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perspective and then I can see the future and predict and position them to step into it. I tend

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to have a sort of sweet spot around seeing in the natural plane and being able to look panoramically

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past through the future like that. I think the way I developed that is by asking questions. And so

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does naturally I'm a see or I might see someone and say, I might be through that. Have an impression

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they're creative. Then I ask a question, how they get to do creative through fashion. What kind of

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fashion? Oh, vintage clothes, they're going to make those old clothes and make them new. You know,

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what would they do that? They're going to put them on show. Why? Because they're going to prophesy

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to them their identity and future. Where? Well, they're going to do that on a mission strip.

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They go to this summer, Kenny. That exact thing happened to me, right? I spoke that to a 15 year

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old girl in Germany and part of a group of friends came up to me the next day and said,

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how did you know all this? Is this exactly what she does? She gets old clothes, she refashings them,

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and then we're going on a mission strip to Kenya this summer. And I said, well, I think God just

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told me and then one of them said, you're what's going on inside your head when you said this.

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And that's when I realized I'm having a conversation with God all the time. It's just that I sometimes

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make that conversation public. So good. Yeah. And so I think awareness, let me give you three

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things that I've learned about. When you become aware of something, then it becomes available to

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you. When it becomes available to you, then you have the authority to do something with. And so

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right now, all around you are anxious. You can stop right now and like become aware or all around you

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is somebody's potential death. You just have to see it. And when Jesus stopped and it says, and I

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think it's verse 47 there, John 1, when Jesus saw it, that was it right there. That was game over

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because as soon as he saw him, boom, he saw his potential, he saw who he was, his integrity, his

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heart. Then he saw him sitting on the, he saw him. Wow. If we as prophetic people just stop and just

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look at him, look at them the way God sees, then God makes things available to us that he wants to

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do for them. Then we can sweep them and actually create this thing for them that God sees for them.

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It's the best job in the world. I mean, I hope people just stop and become aware. And if you're

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like me, like I say, I'm not the guy that stops and smells the roses. I'm the guy that tramples the

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roses on the shortcut through the garden. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to get somewhere quick,

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but just stop. That's so what you see. Because there's a lot of the fan rules that God's put

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across your path that day. And then they maybe have been just, they've been sitting under a fig tree,

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waiting for a Messiah. And they can't even recognize when his path has passed by because

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their heart has grown sick because of a hope deferred. And that's what happened in the end.

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He sat on the fig tree. The fig tree was the place where Hebrew boys would intercede for the Messiah

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to come. And he had seen so many fake Messiahs come by that he gave up hope. So his friend said,

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hey, the Messiah's here. He's like, no way. Nothing good comes from that. And Jesus understood

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that here's a heart that's grown sick, but I'm going to see him. Wow. And when Jesus saw him,

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boom, shifted everything for that. That guy and a desire for filled a tree of life and all these

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new things became available. Bob, you've written a book. Keep it 100 tribes. You love what you're

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hearing here. He so goes into detail on the prophetic and the voice of God on thinking like

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heaven, aligning ourselves with the mind of Christ. This is a profound book. You need to get it.

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Let us know how we can get that book. Absolutely. Thanks for that plug. Yeah. You can grab it.

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So my website is just my name, Bob, hazelitt, h, a, z, l, e, t, d, dot, org. And you can get the

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book there. Yeah, we do have a passion. Our mission, Sean, is to raise up the next generation of voices

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from every culture to go to every sector of society. Love that. So we do that through our online

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school, Ascend Academy. We have raised up voices that are in media right now today. Wow. Voices

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that are in government and business. And so really, that's just our passion is not just to

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have voices for the church, but that people would discover the voice or define the voice of God,

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define the business that they're called, the standard of culture. So thanks for having me,

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man. It's a blast. Bob, man. Love you. Ooh, that was so good. What Bob said, that was incredible.

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