Slave for God and Prayer Season 4 Episode 7

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I always just go chat it up. It's where we take Biblical and what was it?
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This will make the podcast. I'm sure other people are like this is Biblical. It's fine.
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The only podcast where we make and take Biblical truth and chat it up.
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Welcome back everybody. Thank you for joining us. As you can see Pastor is not here. So Lowell and I are
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I was called your RT guy. Our tech guy totally just butchered the intro. So if you know it, comment below.
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I would love to see how many viewers of ours actually know our own intro as opposed to the host of the show not even knowing.
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Today we have Miss Amos here and then Lowell our guy is behind the computer.
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He will actually be chiming in throughout the podcast. So we're excited to have everybody on.
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So you want to get started with our game? Yes. Okay. So we're going to do would you rather we end up doing it a few
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I don't want like at this point is probably like 10 episodes ago and I had a lot of fun with it.
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So I thought we could try it again. So we went over some of them beforehand, but we'll try to do some different questions.
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Would you be or I'm sorry, let me restart like just butchered it right off the bat.
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Let's play would you be would you rather have the ability to see 10 minutes into the future or 150 years into the future?
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Probably just 10 minutes. I don't really want to see that. Really? Why? I don't know the way things are going right now.
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I don't know. I just I think I'd be more scared to see what that would be like. Yeah, 10 minutes probably would be nice because then
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I could have like a reaction ready. But what if what you're saying in 10 minutes isn't like what's the word
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I'm thinking of like impactful like it's not something that's
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I mean life altering I guess like it's just you going to the bathroom in 10 minutes or like eating your lunch in 10 minutes.
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You don't have like a continuous view 10 minutes in the future or do you just get flashes or what?
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I feel like it would just be well I read it that you would just be able to get like one chance to see.
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Well yeah would you rather well it says the ability to be able to see 10 minutes into the future or 10
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I guess so yeah I guess it could just be whenever you wanted. Yeah whenever you just pause. But then it would be like constantly like but then it would be like constantly 150 years so like what are you really being able to see.
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So you're kind of seeing the same thing. Yeah the 10 minute one is the useful one. Yeah. The 150 is the depressing one.
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Yeah. I don't know honestly I think I would rather do the 150. I mean like just to keep your life simple today so you're not constantly trying to because there's nothing that I'm going to be able to do that it'll affect 150 years from now like you know almost like in 10 minutes
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I'm just like that would always have me not living in the moment I feel like. You could stop a car accident though.
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But if it meant to happen it meant to happen. I don't know what. I'm just saying. But if you get really strategic like you're not constantly looking 10 minutes in the future but you're like okay what's what happens if I do x.
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Yeah. Like you can see your consequences or whatever. Yeah. The other qualifier here like if you see it the can you change what's gonna happen.
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Yeah. Yeah that's a big deal. Because other otherwise you're just living it twice you know. Yeah. That ain't helping nobody.
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Yeah. I don't know. I would probably stick with 150 because I'll be long and dead by that point. Yeah. And so that's not it's like it will defect me because I know that like you know my like great great grandkids or whatever like will be there.
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But yeah. So I think I would do 150 years. Let's see.
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I had a couple picked out. I'm trying to find them. Oh what was the.
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Oh no dang we're not going to do that one. Oh would you rather have everyone you have known be able to read your thoughts so everyone would be able to read your thoughts or would you rather have everyone you know have access to your internet history.
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Mine would probably be internet history because I don't look up a lot of I don't look up any bad things on the internet.
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It's like questions to google. Yeah I'm definitely on team. Like what's that? Yeah internet all the way.
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Or like the stupid things I watch on YouTube like I was pulling up my history today to try to find something for my husband to watch.
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And that's just like the weirdest videos ever. Like I have a like last night we were watching a compilation on like funny kid fails or like funny things that kids do just you know because we have a kid and it's relatable.
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There is this one where this one girl's playing like pretend like restaurant. Like she calls into place like a takeout order.
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Yeah. And the little girl's I don't know probably like four or something and she goes okay so I'm going to order a hangover instead of a hamburger.
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A hangover. Okay okay we'll take one hangover please. Hangover. And so my husband and I we went out last night for dinner and um it's to this restaurant that they have like burgers and like burritos like just like very a lot of variety at this place.
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And so he's like I'm gonna say it. I'm gonna order my burger and I'm gonna ask for a hangover. So he does it.
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Have you guys seen Pink Panther? Yeah. Where he's trying to smuggle the hamburgers? Like sir what is in your pockets?
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Because the uh the sniffer dog is like super interested. So they think he's got you know a bomb or something. He's like I have in my pocket a ham worth sports.
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Sir tell us what is in your pocket. But yeah I would probably do internet history. But why opposed to like reading your thoughts?
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Because I'm be honest I don't really think a lot of nice things. There are certain times especially last night when
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I was watching that movie I did not have a lot of nice things in my head. I overthink a lot um and I really want people to see that side of my brain you know.
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Yeah I'm I'm with you guys. I mean because even even if I'm not ashamed of my thoughts which is not true all the time but it's still personal.
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You don't you don't want someone encroaching on that. Well your thoughts well not everything in your mind needs to be said.
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Yeah. Like not everyone needs to know everything. That's that's why scripture doesn't uh why it talks about what we say so harshly you know.
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Yeah. Rather than just everything we think. If we if we can be angry and do not sin all right.
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Because like I said there are some things in my mind that are not very kind and I'm supposed to be a Christian woman.
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Yeah. And be an example but in my mind a lot of times there are some things that are not very
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Christian like of me or Christ like of me and so yeah I definitely think the internet's like because like you're not gonna find any bad things you're just gonna be like what the heck.
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Like look up don't sew how would I sew xyz. That is very interesting. I'll watch somebody sew this one dress that she's making for her wedding.
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That is really cool. Don't sew. That's what you're gonna find on my internet history.
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Yeah. Um okay next one. Would you rather lose your sight or your memories? Oh no.
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Probably oh dang actually I don't know. I would rather lose my sight. I would rather lose my sight because memories you have those forever.
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Without the memories I'm really not even who I am today. I mean I'm starting fresh basically as someone else.
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Yeah. No deal. Amy you said your sight as well.
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I didn't mean to put it that way you know. I could start out and I'm like um yeah probably just sight because I the main thing is
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I really like art and you can't really do that that well without seeing.
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Yeah. You would have to take up sculpting. Yeah. Yeah but I also like hiking and you know hiking is only really great for the views so.
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That's true. I don't know but like saying that and I know that we have we're like on different um state and different stages of life.
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Like my memories are just so valuable. Yeah. Because like the birth of my son like getting married and you know like all those big life events and it's like I just would not trade any of those for the world.
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Yeah that's the thing is like you know it would be a lot losing sight but I would never want to lose like my memories with my family or anything like that.
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Right but I totally get what you're saying like we went to Gatlinburg this last summer um and we did this hike with this like beautiful waterfall in the mountains and I'm just like how could people just see that and not think that there's like a creator you know and so I love seeing
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God's beauty and so that would be something that would be very difficult but I'm like you know what I'm gonna be able to see in heaven and I'll be able to see stuff that's like more beautiful than that so that's how
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I justify them. One more note on losing memory it's you're not just losing memory of you know things that you're fond of time with family friends and whatever like experience.
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All of a sudden you're not good at anything. You're just a vegetable like a lump on a log.
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That's a good point. Okay um we talked about this one earlier but I think it's one that we should mention.
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Would you rather swim in a pool full of Nutella or a pool of maple syrup? Do you say syrup or syrup?
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Syrup I say the right way. It's syrup because that's how it's supposed to be pronounced. I'm sorry guys.
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I say syrup. I accept that this is the south and everyone calls it syrup and I don't give anyone a hard time about it.
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Would you consider where you're from the south? I would. Yes I grew up in the south however like Chattanooga is a metropolitan area but the biggest influence on my pronunciation though is my parents you know and that whole family which came down from Chicago.
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Oh we'll see. Yeah so that was a whole nother layer of influence there. Okay that makes more sense.
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You know training up a child in a way they should go. So you don't sound like a country hit. All right now syrup is the correct pronunciation and so I have like a
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I don't know touch. Texture. Yeah I don't like it's not bad but I can't like my entire body being in like syrup or Nutella just sounds disgusting.
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I would rather do Nutella. See I'm also allergic to Nutella so.
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Oh I forgot about that. Yeah she's allergic to tree nuts. Yeah. So what's not a tree nut that you can have like because in my mind
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I think that like all tree nuts are peanuts. Yeah you can have peanuts. Peanuts are legumes. Right so not like so you can have a macadamia nut but you can have a peanut.
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Yeah peanut butter would be even less swimmable though. Yes. Unless it's like that organic peanut butter.
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Oh yeah. We bought some for the youth trip and I just bought like a pack from Costco. I think it's their Kirkland brand organic peanut butter and it's like the kind that like you just stir whatever because it has the oil that's like settles at the top.
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That was the runniest peanut butter I've ever seen in my entire life. Like you would just put the knife down in it and the peanut butter would just run off of it.
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Interesting. It's like what the heck. I'm a jiff girl. I don't even think I had any to be quite honest.
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I'm a jiff girl. Like I'm a peanut butter snob. But you stick that in there but they even have like the those types that are like that but anyway.
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So all that to say Nutella's my vote. I wouldn't mind swimming in either to be honest. I'll do both.
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I don't care. Whatever. Like do I get snacks like with it? Like pretzels and fruit? Let me take a pancake floatie.
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I was about to say that. A pancake float. Yeah. That'd be so cool.
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But I do question whether or not being in some pool filled with Nutella is even swimmable.
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Like it's the viscosity is so hard. It's like warmer.
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It would be like being in quicksand or my or something like that. But I told you it was probably going to be like if you've ever been to like a gymnastics gym or like a trampoline park they have those foam pits.
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I guess. And those are so annoying to get out of. Right. Like I guess also not swimming. Yeah. But but it's like that's how
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I would relate to it. Okay. Versus swimming in water. Like that would probably be something like close. Like you couldn't really like get out of it.
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Yeah. Okay. Is this like a survival thing? Because if that's the case like how deep is the pool?
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Because if I'm trying to survive I'd say zero. I would say leisure. You will die in Nutella. Yeah. They're like it's quicksand.
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Either way. Okay. We would all die in Nutella. I would say just like leisure.
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Okay. You know just like for fun season. You can stand with with your chin above the water. But then you think okay but then the aftermath if getting out you know like you get out of a pool you have to shower.
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What would be the most annoying thing to wash off? I would think the Nutella. Oh yeah. Because that's that thick.
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I'm sorry syrup in my hair. But Nutella is like thick and chunky.
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Exactly. The the sugary syrup that's very water soluble. Yeah. The Nutella. You just get a little bit of soap on it.
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Yeah or you have to like. Because the Nutella has a lot of oil. Right. So yeah. You just think you have to like scoop it like scrape it off of your body and yeah that would suck.
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I don't know. Yeah. I feel like I'm undecided on this one. Neither one sounds fun but I'd probably have to go with syrup.
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Definitely love Nutella. You come out like next day it's like you you've had a Nutella spray tan. Yeah. You're looking.
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Probably. Okay um we can do we'll do two more. Would you rather have a personal maid or a personal chef?
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Oh chef all the way. Yeah. All the way. Like I like cooking enough but if someone else is cooking for me.
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They're doing the dishes. And then like has to clean it up. Yeah. I just come home and eat. Well but would that be something the maid would do?
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Clean dishes. I would assume the maid would do your dishes. So the chef would just be there to like grocery shop and like cook for you.
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Like prepare the meals. But I feel like the maid would do all the cleaning. I don't mind cleaning. I'm a little
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OCD. I feel like I already have a personal chef at home. So part of me is like maid. Definitely a maid.
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Then I'd have both. Yeah. But yeah personal chef would probably be good too. I like this one because you can't lose in this one.
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Yes. But having not having to grocery shop would be awesome. That would be pretty awesome. It's very tempting.
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I think I'm leaning towards personal chef. Yeah. Because anyone can clean well enough.
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Not everyone can cook well enough. I'm discovering that I'm probably below average. You are?
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Well you have two roommates. Yeah. And so who does the cooking? You know so we don't actually eat together a lot.
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Oh I was about to say we actually don't eat. We just like just filter feed like no it's a lot of chips you know.
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Yeah. I'm just playing. I'm just playing. But because we're all pretty busy. We're all out a lot.
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You know having a dinner with the church or friends or whatever. So there aren't a lot of meals at home. And rarely do we are we there long enough to take the time to prepare a meal.
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Yeah. That being said I think Ricky has prepared the most meals out of anyone. He's good.
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He knows what he's doing in the kitchen. Hey it's all about taste. But that's the thing. Like there have been some people's cooking
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I'm just not a fan of. And they think it's like the best thing that they've ever had.
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And I'm like that's great. But taste is also subjective. Yeah. Because there we have a food and wine festival here in town.
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I do not pay for these tickets. I get gifted these tickets each year. They're like 250 a pop.
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So like we my husband and I always go in there. I'm like I feel like we are not supposed to be here because we do not look like people.
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But so we go and there is this one food booth that they have like they have chefs from all over the city like just very talented chefs.
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Very privileged and grateful to be able to eat from their booth. And so we're eating. There was this one lady who
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I guess she was like one of the reps or something from the restaurant. She was talking about this tartar that they had this beef tartar.
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And if you don't know what that is it's like essentially raw meat. You can do like tuna tartar like beef whatever.
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So you cube up the meat and then you use like a lime or like some type of citrus fruit.
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And that citrus and like the acidity will essentially like not cook the meat but like take the bacteria out of it.
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So like it's okay to eat raw. And she's like oh my gosh this is the most amazing.
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Like you know just like trying to sell it to me being all fancy. This is just delectable tartar. This is the greatest you ever had in your life.
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It's sitting on top of a pork grind but they use like a chicharrones instead you know like just trying to hype it up.
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And I ate it. I immediately spit it out and I'm just like that's the most disgusting thing
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I've ever put in my mouth. It honestly I was telling my husband it honestly just tastes like I had a spoonful of um if you've never had it like it's very strong sesame oil.
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Like if you use it in Asian dishes like there's one recipe we cooked with it was like calling for a tablespoon of it way too much.
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When my husband and I cook with it we go I think that was too much. Like I think but it was just like a mouthful whatever.
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So taste is just very subjective. My husband cooks very well and he like there's
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I don't think there might have been like one there's might have been like one thing that he cooked that I just didn't prefer the taste of.
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Um but no like I I think for me it would be the maid because I have a baby. Yeah I was about to say you already have a kid.
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Yeah and like there's some things that I cannot get clean in my house. Like for example I was cleaning my bathroom literally from top to bottom yesterday and our grout and our shower is stained.
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Like don't know how to fix that. Like it's like stained from mold and so it just constantly looks like my shower.
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So I'm like if I could hire somebody that would know how to clean that I would be happier because I already have a husband who can cook.
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He's like my personal chef. Yeah. I make the desserts. He makes the meals. You make good desserts. Thank you.
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Every time I make something for him to take my husband and her used to work together and so every time I make something for him to take to work
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I'm like oh Amy's gonna be so happy. I'm like she doesn't work there anymore. I'm like I'm sorry because I made these oh well I made those cookies that one time.
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It was like right before you left and they had um walnuts in it and so you couldn't have it. It was I'm sorry.
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I walked past them and I was like hmm. Yeah I was like make sure you tell Amy that these have nuts in it. It was a very selfish decision because I was selfish selfish selfish decision.
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Might be allergic to shellfish too. Yeah man that would suck but it was a decision that I made that was very selfish because I love nuts in my baked goods.
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So I was just like sorry Amy you just gotta do without. So you made cookies for someone else? No for me that I was willing to share.
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Yeah. I'm missing the selfishness. I wanted the nuts but I knew
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I was going to give some to work. But you were making cookies for you. Yeah but I was gonna give but I was gonna give some to work and I knew that you couldn't have it so I didn't feel bad.
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Someone told me to eat one. So that you know. Who was that? You can just.
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Oh yeah. Okay yeah he's he's a special person. Okay you said chef as well.
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Yeah but admittedly that's a very close one for me. I mean is y 'all's house like really messy?
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Like being three bachelors? If it was just you in the house. It'd be probably. I would probably do chef.
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A little bit better than it is right now and it's it's not bad but you know we've all got our little clutter areas.
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Dude everyone has a little corner or like countertop or something.
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And well and some of us haven't fully moved in including myself. What do you mean?
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I have not unpacked stuff that you know doesn't have a place yet. Well how long have you been there?
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Um let me think about four months. Okay that's not that bad. That's fine. I mean it took me we moved in our house in September of last year and then we had our son right after that.
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I don't think we were fully moved in until like January or something like it was. But I'm like you know what
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I just had a baby. I'm not gonna worry about all that. Okay last one and then we'll move on. Um would you rather be 11 feet tall?
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Amy would have experience. 11 feet tall or nine inches tall? Would you rather be even taller than you currently are or be nine inches tall?
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Probably nine inches. That sounds like fun. Because she's like I've had my experience being tall. I want to know what it's like being short.
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I already get so many tall jokes. Like if I was like just a little bit taller you know.
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How tall are you six? I'm 5 '11". 5 '11". Okay. How tall are you? 5 '10". I'm 5 '4".
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I can't tell with these platforms. Look I'm filling in for pastor today. I'm wearing my platform shoes.
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I'm trying to be like. He's gonna see this. He wore like flip flops the other day and I was just like oh
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I forgot. Oh shoot. We love you pastor. We hope that you're having a lot of fun and doing a lot of the
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Lord's work in the Bahamas. We appreciate everything you do. But you said you would want to be nine inches instead.
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I could see that for you. That'd be fun. Part of me is like I would like to know what it's like to be able to reach the tall things in our cabinets.
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But then I'm like I have to currently have to buy short length pants or like they call it petite length because I'm so short the regular length is too long.
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Like they drag on the floor. But I'm like man it would be I feel like it'd be a lot harder to find pants if you're 11 feet tall versus nine inches.
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Like I can just wear a dress or you know like a little like just a little candy wrapper or something for my dress instead of like you know long yards and yards of fabric.
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Longs are already too short for me. So are they really? Yeah. Do you have to get like long torso items?
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Not really. Like torso isn't that big of an issue. But everything's cropped now anyway so like you know yeah finding a shirt in general is hard.
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All right so this question this question needs to be tuned up in my opinion.
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Okay. I heard you say 11 feet and I go okay I'm taking the short option. Nine inches. Then you said nine inches and I'm like nope because nine inches that I would be the least independent person
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I'd ever met. Can't do anything. There's there's almost no job out there that I could do.
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Being nine inches tall? Yeah. Like I I can barely lift a cell phone at nine inches tall.
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That's you know. Jump on the keys. Yeah. I'm trying to think there's like a oh man
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I don't remember what show it was. Someone got oh I know what it was.
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Episode of Spongebob. Always have to reference Spongebob on the show. An episode of Spongebob where Plankton was trying to play the harmonica and so there's a harmonica laying on the table and he's literally running to like each of the little blocks and like run into the other block to try to like play the song and he's like just dead by the end of it.
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So I'm like yeah that's it. But then if you're 11 feet tall like you're too big to like.
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Yes. Life is very inconvenient. How tall is Shaq? Or like who's that guy who's that basketball player from China?
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You thinking of Yao Ming? Yeah. How tall is he? He's taller than Shaq. Yeah. I don't know that one either but we're we're still talking less than eight feet.
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Yeah. I would like to know what he is. Maybe eight feet three something like that. Here's the thing. Can you imagine? All I'm picturing is like you may not be able to get a job.
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You could always do like online work though. But the keys you'd have to have a special keyboard.
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But here's the thing. Buying land is so different. Like building a house.
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I'm just imagining like living like a pillow is all
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I need. What's a bit like a just saving money. You're talking about being nine inches tall. Yeah.
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Like I'm just seeing so many more pros to that because like you got to buy everything special. Be less expensive. Barbie clothes exist.
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That's good because you can't make money. I just said you could work online.
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You could get the special keyboard if you had to. You could learn how to work otherwise. If you find just the perfect keyboard.
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Yeah. Yeah. I've adapted. I've been short all my life so I feel like I do the nine inches thing.
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Yeah. Because like what size shoe are you gonna have if you're 11 feet tall? Yeah. You can't even find what like the highest that I've seen is like a 14 in men's.
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I think I know someone that may have had a 14 or a 15. That's just I don't remember.
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Are you also going to find a car that works for a nine inch person? Dude like Barbie like Barbie is my answer.
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It take you like 10 years to get there. The battery's gonna die before you get to where you're at. And make sure you don't use any public roads because you're gonna die.
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Yeah the sidewalk. You see how they drive in Memphis? Yeah. You're gonna die. Okay.
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So you said nine inches. Gotta go with 11 feet. I don't see the nine inch thing as really being feasible.
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Like you can't. The more I think about it the more impossible it sounds. Get in the building. Like you gotta duck everywhere.
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You're gonna have some major spine issues. Yeah. That's so much worse than walking up to a door and thinking hey that door handle.
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How can I scale this? That door handle is taller than my house. My little Barbie doll house.
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I will never get inside this building. I mean that's why you just like find someone to open the door for you you know.
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Okay. But if you're nine feet or nine inches tall. Tall people can duck. I've seen it. I have seen that happen.
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I mean yeah but how tall is the ceiling? This is probably eight, ten feet.
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Exactly. Eight at the max. The door. Yep. The door. Like that's just painful.
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So like it's in. You're gonna have to duck everywhere. Very inconvenient in a lot of ways. Yes. Nine inches.
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Almost impossible. The limitations abound. Whatever. All right.
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We're just gonna be divided on this one. Okay. So topics for today are what does it mean to be a slave for Christ and then we'll get into prayer.
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What's it for and what should it look like a little later. So just open question for anyone.
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What does it mean to be a slave for Christ? So one thing that I think is is overlooked.
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I'm starting off with the overlooked stuff. Maybe that's that's better for like the cherry on top. But one thing that's overlooked in being a servant for Christ is that servants don't actually own anything.
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Right? So we we talked a little bit about stewardship a couple episodes ago. Well a servant, everything he owns belongs to his master and that's that's perspective that I think a lot of Christians need to pick up on.
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Nothing you have is yours. If you don't even belong to yourself, nothing that you have that you you know think you own or in some practical sense you do own, none of that belongs to you.
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You have to you have to focus on honoring God with every bit of it. Not and not 10 % like a lot of Christians think.
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Honor God with 100 % of what has been entrusted to you. That's good.
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That's a good word. I listened to a podcast this last week and that's like this one guy like they're a bunch of Christian he's like that's a good word that's a good word like after everything.
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That was a good word Will. Oh thanks. Okay what about you Amy? Um wait okay
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I just want to answer what the question is right there on the board it says what does it mean to be a servant?
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She can't remember. Class is right there. So I'd say you know as a
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Christian we believe that we are born with the nature. So then as a
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Christian like you accept God's call and that means that Jesus died on the cross for your sins so we're indebted to God for everything that he has done for us.
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So I think that that's just living every day not as this is my time how do
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I want to spend it. This is my time God has given me and I am here just to be a vessel for him a tool for him and obviously you're not going to get it right.
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Right. But just trying to live every day using every time every moment that you have for God's glory.
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Okay I can get behind that. I think also um just with our culture the the perspective that a lot of people have about like being a slave for Christ is that it's oppressive.
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Kind of like you said um not like oh I'm not going to be able to do anything like Will mentioned like I don't have anything that belongs to me like you know
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I belong to somebody else like that just sounds horrible. Um but the way that I see it is it's kind of like people's view on having a budget.
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They see budgets as very restrictive and like oh my gosh I'm not going to be able to spend any money and like you're just going to be so controlling and blah blah blah and it's like well that's actually not the case.
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Like you can spend money on a budget but you're going to spend it in such a way that will allow you to do other things later.
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You're having the discipline needed in order to like reap the benefits later and so I feel like that's like a um what's the word uh words very similar in the way um that a lot of people do that.
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You have something to add? Yeah I'm just that's that's a really good point there because in a way the person who budgets is more free than the person who doesn't because they they're not careful with their money.
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They waste. They get themselves into trouble and then they're trying to dig themselves out of having their life is a mess.
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They are slave to the debtor. Yes. And so I mean that that applies directly to you know what you're talking about being being a slave to Christ.
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If we submit ourselves to what God intended really we experience more freedom than the ones that try to do things their own way and end up you know just really really putting themselves in a bad position where they're forced to continue in their mess.
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Yeah and I I've seen both sides of that. I have been on both sides of that like with being a slave for Christ and then with like the whole budget budget thing.
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It is true like you feel more you feel like you have more freedom um when you do have a budget and like when you belong to um
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I don't want to call it a slave owner. That's not the right thing but when you belong to the father um we have a verse that I'm going to read.
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It's Romans 6 um 16 and it says do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves you are of the one you obey.
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So not of everybody else just the slave of the one that you obey. Whether you're slave to sins which leads to death or obedience which leads to righteousness.
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Pastor and I were um we were planning on doing this topic last week but we ended up running out of time and he actually quoted him on the board over here.
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He said you're either a slave to Jesus or to sin but you are not free. Um and so like you're always going to be slave to something like the scripture mentioned um whether you're slaves to sin which leads to death or if you're a slave to obedience which like which one leads to righteousness.
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It's obviously obedience um and so that one and then I'll also read
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Romans 6 22. Um but now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God the benefit you reap leads to holiness and the result is eternal life.
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So it says right there like that is exactly what happens if you are a slave to Christ. You will reap the benefits you will have eternal life.
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I keep looking at low like you know I need to be looking at the camera. Um so it actually looks like I'm looking at you guys instead.
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Um but yeah just now stand by the camera you just stand right behind the camera. Um but being set free from sin and having become slaves of God you the benefit you reap leads to holiness and the result is eternal life.
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And so like I said the culture nowadays you know like there's slavery in the world which is horrible.
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Um you know we can get into that a little later um like on another time.
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Um but the slave like that you are to Christ is not the same.
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Like I said you actually like with the budget thing that Lola mentioned you actually have more freedom um with the budget.
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You have more freedom with Jesus. It's not a book of things telling you like you can't do x, y, and z.
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You know like it's not a book but like you just need to sit still. It's telling you don't do this but do this instead.
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I'm giving you other options and it's for our benefit. I mean it's also just like we know what it's like when you're not with God because there's always going to be a time before you're a
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Christian and you can also just see what it's like living without God. So living with God you may miss out on things that are like fun or whatever like how just today's world you know going out partying drinking all the time like doing drugs and like that whole culture
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I guess of especially like during college like I know in like high school maybe um people are just like oh you're no fun because you're not going to come do that with us and it's like okay your opinion of fun and my opinion are fun are two different things.
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I'd rather be the boring one. That was never my thing anyway like I'd been a Christian I don't know
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I think I was like 12 and that was just never my thing and I'm just like I'm not the one who's hungover throwing up in the toilet the next morning.
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Yeah. I just stayed up too late and a little bit too much sugar. Yeah and then like I see like addicts occasionally you know at work so um
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I'm just me like I was just like what part of that looks like fun because you're like kind of a slave to your addiction then.
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Yeah. Um and I would much rather be um a servant of God than of anything else because it's just so much more at peace.
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Well and two with the addiction aspect is they get that high at some point and then it's like when they're coming down from it is like when they feel like they are a slave to it.
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I mean my mom she smoked from like when she was 16 up until like sometime in her 50s and she's just like I could not do anything without like having a cigarette like when she was it was always when she was driving she's like I just had to have a cigarette in my hand and she's like and if I didn't have one then
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I had to go to the store and like she like planned her whole day around it. She took smoke breaks you know at work and then she would have them like all throughout the day and so when she stopped she's like I have so much more free time.
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She's like I did not realize like how much of a slave I was to to that addiction because it is like with the nicotine but a lot of the times people don't see it as really like when they're trying to chase that high or when they do get that high it's like the relief and so they don't feel like they're being a slave to it but once that high wears down and then they have to search for it then that's when they can kind of feel in that way but yes sir.
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Just going back to build off of the contrast Amy was making you know between our old life before Christ and our new life so in first Corinthians six starting at the end of verse 19 he's talking about how we we are a temple of the
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Holy Spirit and so you are not your own for you were bought with a price so glorify