"Inciting Incidents:The Fuel of Reformers" S1 Ep2

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The role was on point when he said that the massive men live lives of quiet desperation.

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But what of what was hindering you could become unhinged in you?

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What if God wanted to detonate in you what is lying dormant in you?

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In this episode we want to reveal what is the secret sauce for explosive exploits.

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And stay tuned to the end for some Keep Your 100 takeaways that will shatter the litter

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of limitation over your life.

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Hey Christa, how you doing?

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Hey, I'm excited to be here.

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I am really excited about the topic we're going to be talking about today.

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I am too.

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I feel like this being our second episode, I feel like hopefully that we're getting

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better at this.

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I'm hoping.

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We always are aiming to get better.

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But what I love is we're talking about things we're passionate about.

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And I feel like that's really going to come across today because our heart is to really

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help people go deeper in their walk with God.

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And where we're taking them today, I feel like it's going to really do that.

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I'm super excited about it.

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So hey, you ready?

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Let's jump in.

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Let's do it.

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Now, things were already unstable, unsettled, and uneasy in terms of what we're seeing

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in our world today.

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We've seen our entire nation become unhinged.

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And then after the eight minute, 46 second video of George Floyd, it seemed like the

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bottom fell out.

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I mean, we have seen, at least I can say in my lifetime, I've never seen our nation the

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way it is.

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I was talking to my parents because obviously my parents are in their 75.

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And they were there, they got married the year of the sexual revolution, 1967, the year

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of summer of love.

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They were obviously JFK when he got killed, Martin Luther King Jr. when he got killed,

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when Malcolm X got killed, Bobby Kennedy got killed.

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And they said, this feels similar to those days, but still different, of course.

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But in my lifetime, I've just never seen our country unhinged and divided the way it's

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divided as we're seeing today.

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I totally agree with you, and obviously from our first episode podcast to our second, we've

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seen episodes of civil unrest, situations where even in Seattle, there was like a overtaking

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of the Capitol, police precinct as well.

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And that video.

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On Capitol Hill.

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In Seattle, yes, absolutely.

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They claimed it was their own country.

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I mean, this is true lawlessness.

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So we are really in unprecedented times.

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It is.

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One of the things that often happens in unprecedented times is that God gives us special catalysts,

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special events that are meant to prompt us towards action.

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So true.

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And the George Floyd video was an inciting incident.

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Absolutely.

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An incited protest.

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It's incited a movement.

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It's incited a revolution that I believe will change the way we see our nation.

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And hopefully this will be a turning point year.

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I so agree with that.

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When you had shared that, that the Lord spoke to you that 2020 will be a turning point year.

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And then all of this stuff has began to unfold as much as the unhinging.

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And we've seen a lot of like negative stuff.

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We've seen a lot of positive.

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And the positive, as I feel like people are actually speaking up against racism, the positive

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people are caring.

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They are seeing the evil of racism.

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And there actually, there is this beautiful unified voice of people going, no, we're not

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okay with this.

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That gets me excited because people have been incited for kingdom justice.

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And of course, not all of it has played out kingdom, of course, because not everyone is

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serving the kingdom.

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And even some people that are serving the kingdom aren't necessarily operating kingdom.

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However, I am so excited that there has been an awakening, right?

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Like you said, the people that have been woke are still getting awakened to the things of

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God.

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And I love this because we are talking about inciting incidents today.

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And I love that we are seeing this play out in current culture today.

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Yes.

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Let's take a minute, Christa, for all our listeners to define what an inciting incident is.

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It's funny in the cinematic world, an inciting incident is the event that thrusts the protagonist,

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whoever that person may be, into the lane of being a hero.

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It is a special turning point that jolts you out of the status quo.

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I love that.

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And I was thinking about some practical expressions of that.

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One of it was in the great movie Black Panther.

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Come on now.

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When the superhero T'Challa saw his father T'Chaka assassinated by Winter Soldier.

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It's from that point that we see the evolution of T'Challa becoming the Black Panther and

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becoming the hero.

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I love that.

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Another example is David in 1 Samuel 17, when David is standing on a sideline bringing food

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to his brothers and he sees Goliath taunt the armies of the living God.

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They retreat that day and David stands there holding the lunch.

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And of course he turns around and says, what's going to be given to the guy that takes his

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giant out and is there not a cause?

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I love that because I love that you brought up David especially because I mean, I love

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the Black Panther.

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Come on.

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That's so awesome.

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I mean, I think almost me and everyone else stood up in the theater.

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We're like, yes.

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You know, when his mom's like, tell him who you are.

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We're like, yes.

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It was like that inciting moment where he had to step into who he's called to be and

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this ownership of actually what was in him.

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And David the same thing.

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Like all of a sudden you just step into this place of you, you see an injustice, you see

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something wrong and then something in you rises up and it's that whole revelation of

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hold on.

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It's like I was created to defeat what's coming against my people, myself or the situation

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at hand.

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That's true.

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And you make a great point.

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Insighting incident, it reveals divine intention.

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It begins to launch you into who you were meant to be.

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That God gives us that as a gift for us to freshly discover our purpose and to have the

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fuel to carry out the exploits he's called us to do.

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I love that.

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Why don't you tell us about your inciting incident?

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You know what, mine is, it was cool when we started talking about this, you know, you

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have to reflect on your life.

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You know, like what is my inciting incident?

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And when I went back and I kind of pulled everything apart and I looked at my life and

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I thought, you know, mine was my freshman year.

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I was at a university in Seattle actually.

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I'm from the Northwest and I had gone to a public junior high, public high school and

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I'd love God my whole life.

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I could serve God.

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I had just followed after God.

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I wasn't a party girl.

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I just went for the things of God.

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I had a deep conviction for the things of God and I got tired of being what felt like,

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not necessarily was this true, but in my sphere of friends and the people I hung out with,

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it felt like I was kind of the only one serving God.

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And I found myself feeling really alone in my pursuit and my relationship with God is

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in junior high and high school, whatnot.

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I decided to go to a Christian university, Seattle Pacific University, and I was so excited.

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I mean, I was like, okay, cool, like I'm going to be around all these people that love God,

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pursuing God.

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This is going to be awesome.

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I mean, it's like going to be summer camp.

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It's going to be like, and because I went to a Christian summer camp every year.

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So my only, you know, experience and reference for being around a lot of the Christians was

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summer camp, which was like amazing.

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It was like full of encounters and everyone going after God.

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So I thought, you know, college is going to be summer camp.

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It's going to be, we're going to be on our faces for God.

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We're going to be prophesying.

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This is going to be awesome and encounters for God.

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And then I go there and my roommate, who's awesome?

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I mean, she's a, she was a great girl.

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We got along well, but our convictions and our lifestyles were polar opposite.

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And I found out really quickly being there that a lot of people would go over to UW because

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UW was like 10 minutes away, University of Washington for those that don't know that.

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And there's Greek row, which is all the fraternities and sororities and everyone was partying over

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there because there's no drinking or partying allowed on the, on our campus.

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And everyone was just partying and coming back to the campus, wasted, high, whatever,

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living crazy, sleeping with each other.

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It literally was high school all over again.

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And I found myself at 18 years old going, hold on, I'm at a Christian university.

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I thought everyone was going to be Christian and I'm in the exact same situation I was

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in in high school and junior high.

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And it was this inciting moment, baby, where I just began to look around and go, hold on,

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I can't wait for anyone else to go after God with me.

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I have to pursue God and I can't allow my atmosphere to dictate my pursuit.

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And so I realized right then and there, there was a resolve that I was going to serve God

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and I was going to look and live different than those around me.

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And there was such a poll on me during my college years of who was I going to serve?

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There were, I didn't go to the parties.

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I didn't, you know, I just didn't participate in the drinking or the sleeping around or whatever.

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And there was opportunities to participate in all that.

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And at times, even within me, I was like, man, you know, but I kept going back to that

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inciting moment of no, God's called me to live for him and I gave him all of who I was.

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So there had to come this point in my life where everything was God and nothing was off

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limits.

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And when I hit that place, obviously, which was the recognition of other people's standards

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cannot be my standards.

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And when I came to this place, I realized when we were talking about what is my inciting

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moment, it was my freshman year college because from that point on, either was a distinction

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that God put in me to live fully surrendered to him like everything in my life he had access

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to and it was surrendered.

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It was like your inciting incident, Christa, was God showing you the contrast.

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Yeah.

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And in that contrast, it caused you to in that moment, be awakened to the fact that you needed

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to live the difference.

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You needed to be different.

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It kind of comes as our inciting incidents due to shake you out of complacency.

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Right.

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Totally.

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So would you say this?

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Would you say that your inciting incident was something that was more by recognition

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or by revelation?

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It's a great question.

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I think it was by recognition because I think some people have these incredible, powerful

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God moments.

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I mean, I know you've had so many of those.

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It's interesting.

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I think that my life and some of the most significant God moments are really quiet.

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There are these really simple everyday moments where I'm actually having a powerful encounter

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and transformation in God that aren't loud or boisterous or even catch the attention

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of anyone else and actually might slip by my acknowledgement for the moment.

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And then I look back and I'm like, whoa, that was the moment where everything changed.

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And it was just me acknowledging the contrast that God was putting a distinction, He was

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putting His mark on me and it wasn't this big, powerful revelation.

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It was merely me coming into agreement and acknowledging who God called me to be.

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That's so profound, boo.

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And I just want to say to our Keep It 100 tribe, that even as you're listening right

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now, people can have their lives changed in what seems at the time to be the most innocuous

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of encounters.

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I love that.

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I underestimate that when God gets in a moment, that moment becomes a divine moment in which

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your life can be transformed from that point on.

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I love that.

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You know, it's interesting.

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And I just want to share this because I think it really ties into like current events and

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what's happening and what we're talking about.

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When I looked at, again, this George Floyd and just this racism, which again, isn't new.

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It's just being filmed.

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Let's call that for what it is.

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It's just being caught.

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And because we're on a global pause, people aren't busy.

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They aren't distracted.

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There's this like awareness like never before.

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Everyone's looking at the same thing at the same time globally.

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I mean, there was mass protests around the world after the George Floyd incident.

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This wasn't just an American thing.

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It was a worldwide global impact about racism.

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And what's interesting is when I began to see all these protests and I saw all these

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people begin to gather and I saw the inciting moment and I saw the draw to respond.

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There was a compelling in the generation.

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I'm not just talking young people.

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I'm talking anyone that has breath in their body.

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Current generation today was looking and going, what can I do?

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Something must be done.

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There was a draw to get outside, to hold a sign, to come to a protest, to gather.

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And I looked at that and the Lord spoke to me when I saw all these pictures going across

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my phone, a protest and whatnot.

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And I heard the Lord say, Chris, this is a Moses generation.

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And I said, Lord, what does that mean?

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And he reminded me, and of course, many of us, even the listeners today, we know this

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story, but it's like Moses was born with justice within him.

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God created him to be the deliverer of the children of Israel.

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They're enslaved.

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They're in captivity.

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And he's saved in the midst of a genocide.

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He's spared because God knew he was ultimately going to be the deliverer.

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Here's this Hebrew kid that's raised in the Egyptian culture and he sees the people whose

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blood is in his veins being bullied, being enslaved.

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I mean, there's so much injustice happening.

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And one day, he doesn't even recognize fully what's in him because he's still in self-discovery

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and he's a bit of a paradox.

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He's Hebrew, but he's living Egyptian culture and the luxury of his family, which is royal.

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So it's so different than his Hebrew brother and sisters because he was raised in such

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a different way.

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And he sees an Egyptian guard bullying a Hebrew slave and he's compelled.

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Once again, the same word compelled is like he has to respond.

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He can't help but intervene with the bullying and this interaction that's happening between

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this and in that verbal argument turns into a physical altercation and he kills the person.

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And then fast forward, he runs and he flees for his life.

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He creates a whole other life.

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He forgets about it, but we have to stop and pause and look at why he responded to the Egyptian

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guard and why he ended up killing him.

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He ended up intervening and sticking up for the Hebrew slave because literally deliverance

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was in his DNA.

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It was woven in him in the womb.

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That's good.

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Say that again.

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So he had the DNA to be a deliver.

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God literally created him in his mother's womb with the destiny that he was going to be the

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deliver.

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It was literally engrafted into who he was.

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So here he is intervening.

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He's compelled.

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He doesn't even know why he has to, he just has to because it's who he was created to

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be fast forward.

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So again, he has this cry for justice, right?

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He literally has justice in him, but it's immature.

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It's not fully formed.

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He runs and creates his whole other life because he acted, he acted era, you know, irrationally

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and he ended up making a mess because he killed someone.

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God wasn't asking him to kill someone.

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I got it.

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He didn't want him to deliver someone, but that moment of revelation hadn't come yet.

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He just still was carrying the justice.

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He didn't understand it, but he makes a mess.

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It's in an immature form.

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This is what God's downloading as I'm watching these protests.

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And then the Lord's like, Chris, remember he goes to the desert and then there's a burning

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bush moment and that's where I prophesy over Moses and I begin to tell him who he is.

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And it's after the burning bush, most moment that Moses shifts from being someone that

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just carries a cry for justice and that's when he becomes the deliverer.

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So I felt like the Lord baby was showing me as I'm watching these protests and inciting

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incident for America and the nations.

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And I'm seeing all these people gather and I hear God saying an inciting incident just

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like Moses, they carry a cry for justice, but I didn't just call them or create them

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to be ones that carry just a cry for justice, although that's important, but I've actually

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called them to be delivers.

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And the deliverer comes when you've had an encounter with God and what's immature now

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becomes mature because it's encountered God.

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It's encountered the Creator.

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It's encountered who created you to be who you're called to be and it gets surrendered.

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It gets refined, right?

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And it comes this place of encounter a collision with the presence of God.

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And that's what had to happen with Moses and that's what's going to happen now.

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And I'll end with this because I know I've been talking for a moment, but...

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You're doing great.

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God is going to raise up people because I feel like predominantly this Moses generation

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is the younger Gen Z millennial, but Gen Z, this Gen Z is a Moses generation.

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He's going to raise people up to disciple the Moses generation.

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And I feel like this is an inciting moment, but we have to help them.

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Steer them to the burning bush moment because we have a bunch of Moseses that need to become

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deliverers, but in the deliverance, they've got to have the burning bush.

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You know, I think about in the hands of a doctor, a scalpel can save someone's life,

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but you put that same scalpel in a predatory guy that wants to jump someone and all of

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a sudden they can use that as an instrument to kill someone.

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And so an inciting incident, you awaken to your scalpel.

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Your life is a weapon, but what you're saying is it's so important to embrace the disposition

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of the Father in your wake up inciting incident a moment so that you can carry out what God's

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intended for you to do to have the intended God outcome.

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Yes.

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You said it so well.

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Exactly.

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Cause we want the God outcome.

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We carry things within us that he created and put within us, but it's often in the immature,

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unformed state.

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We encounter God, boom, he releases it and that's where we come to deliver.

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But I love that.

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You just said what gets awakened in us.

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You have a powerful inciting moment and I would love for our listeners to hear what

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shifted you and what, when you look back in your life, baby, is an inciting moment.

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You know, I think the thing that I think about Christa in that is that one of the definitions

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for inciting incident or one of the things that it brings about is it the worst possible

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thing gets catalyzed and it becomes the best possible thing.

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My inciting incident is right after I'd given my life to Christ.

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There was a girl that had gone through freshman orientation with me.

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Her name was Susie.

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She was from central California.

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I'm from inner city Oakland.

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She's blonde here, blue eyed.

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I'm inner city Oakland.

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She was recruited by the fraternities to become a little sister.

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And so when she was recruited, we had become close because we went through orientation

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together.

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We were in the dorm.

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She was in my dorm hallway, which she made me chocolate chip cookies.

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Anybody that makes me chocolate chip cookies gets on my automatic good side.

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So when she was being courted by the fraternities, they would make signs for Susie and they would

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have other girls' names on it.

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We appreciate you.

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We think you're the best.

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You're the most awesome.

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They would serenade the girls underneath the dorm room, which we were trying to tell them

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to shut up and keep that stuff down.

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We're trying to sleep.

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They would send them flowers, but I began to suspect some things.

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So I talked to Susie and, you know, I'd give my life to the Lord.

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And it's so funny because I always say that, hey, once I gave my life to the Lord and my

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eyes were open, I began to see things that, and she didn't know the Lord.

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And so I said, Susie, these guys are giving you flowers.

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They're singing to you.

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They're making signs for you.

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But I've learned something.

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Guys don't do that for nothing.

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I don't think they just want you to be a cheerleader for their frat.

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I think those guys are onto something.

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She goes, oh, Sean, you're just too worried.

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And I'd always tell her, I say, you know, you're from that central California girl.

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Let me help you now.

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I'm trying to bring some street smarts.

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And she would tease me like, oh man, you've been on the streets so long.

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You're suspect, suspective of everyone.

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She goes to their party one night that is the inauguration of the little sisters.

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They put at that time, this is before the date rate drug.

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So the date rate drug of my college years was Everclear.

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And Everclear was 100% alcohol.

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You put it in the punch and it was 100% proof.

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You couldn't smell it.

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You couldn't taste it.

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You didn't know it until it was too late.

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And so they kept giving her this spike punch.

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So she's at the party that night.

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I don't know what I was doing.

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It was a weekend night.

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I went to bed in about two something in the morning.

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I hear someone whimpering down the hall and I knew it was God because, as you know, I'm

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a heavy sleeper.

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Nothing wakes me up.

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And then I opened up my dorm room in the hall and it's funny because no one else did.

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And so I could look at that and go, was that accidental?

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Was that coincidental?

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Maybe that was providential.

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The providence of God is simply, it's the hand of God in the glove of history.

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That inciting incidences, what you may think is accidental, what you may think is coincidental

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is really providential.

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So there was a reason why I was the only one that heard Susie whimpering in the hallway.

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Open up the door.

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I looked down the hallway and I go, Susie, what's happened?

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And I immediately see this white dress she had is filled with red stains and they weren't

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all punch stains.

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She looked disheveled and she explained to me basically these guys gang raped her up

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in the top room at this fraternity and fraternity circle.

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I am a baby believer and I still got a lot of Oakland on me.

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You know what I mean by that.

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And so I put on my clothes and I'm fully going to go out.

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This is my inciting incident, but in my inciting incident, I still needed to get some air sanctified.

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And so what I did is I put on my clothes and I was going to go fight the guys.

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I was going to find the guys responsible at the frat house and I was going to fight them.

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So I'm going out and this is a frat house.

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I don't know, probably a 60 dudes.

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So I'm thinking I'm probably going to get hit.

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I'm going to get punched, but you don't do that to a girl.

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My grandma taught me better than that.

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You don't do that.

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Take advantage of this girl.

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So I'm going to, I figure I'm going to get pain, but I'm going to do it out some pain

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too.

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And so I get to the steps of this fraternity house and I'm going to barge in the middle

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of the night and just start trying to go up to the top room.

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That's where she said it happened.

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And I heard the Lord speak to me and he spoke to me.

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I didn't even know this scripture until God spoke to me and he says, the anger of men

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does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

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And in that moment, I don't know if you ever been so upset.

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I just collapsed on your stairs and I start crying because I had all this anger and I

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couldn't release it.

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And the Lord says, if you're fully surrendered to me, I'll show you how to be an answer to

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this injustice on your campus.

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And that is probably what God used to cause me to join and become not just a part of campus

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ministry, but to be trained to become a campus pastor is when I saw that inciting incident.

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And so when I think about that, if you look at what my story is about my inciting incident,

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it begins as an extrinsic dynamic, but it's got to move to an intrinsic dynamic.

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Like the inciting incident is an event, but it can't just be an event.

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It must translate into a lifestyle.

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Right.

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And you know what I love is because obviously I know your story.

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You led 25 people to the Lord the first month you were saved.

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It was like you led a revival on your campus.

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You ended up being such a witness.

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So many people came and you always say this, you're like, it wasn't that I was that good

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at, you know, witnessing.

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It was that they were shocked that I was saved.

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That inciting incident, you became one of the greatest evangelists and catalyst for

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the move of God on that campus because you allowed an inciting incident to propel you

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into who God called you to be.

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And so many lives got saved and so many people got impacted and encountered God because you

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got incited and you saw God encounter your campus where there was so much, there was

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demonic activity, there was evil activity, but it's like you just kept punching the enemy

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in the face every time you led someone to God.

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I love that.

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So true.

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And you know, for our listeners, when I talked about the inciting incident begins as an extrinsic

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dynamic, that's the inciting incident, but the intrinsic dynamic, there's a word.

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And this word, Christa, is one of the hundred rarest words at one point in the English vocabulary

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is the word conation.

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God gives us an inciting incident so that we would reach conation.

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And the best way I could describe conation is anyone that has seen the movie taken.

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And you remember Liam Nilsons character.

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Oh yeah.

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He's just a security guard.

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We know he has some sort of past because he gets together with some guys he did a tour

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with.

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But when they kidnap his daughter, that classic line where he gets the cell phone, he says,

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I don't know who you are.

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I don't know what you want.

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If you are looking for a ransom, I could tell you I don't have money.

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But what I do have is a very particular skill set.

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Skills I've acquired over a long career skills that will make me a nightmare for people like

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you.

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What that was is here's a guy that's a security guard, but he conates.

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And what conation means, it's the power whereby an intent becomes inaction.

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It's the mental faculty of purpose and desire that triggers exploits.

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So really what conation is Christa is once you've had the inciting incident, it's that

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part in you that translates that event to a life change force that you begin to bring

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the reformation that God has done in you that you begin to bring around.

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You're of course taking his fictitious and he's not necessarily doing kingdom of God

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work.

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He definitely not.

476
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But I think of the burning bush as you spoke of as Moses, that was conation.

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Because when Moses saw that burning bush, he saw a picture of himself and a guy who

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was hesitating, a guy that was in confident, a guy that stuttered, would stand in Pharaoh's

479
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:08,040
court and he knew he had a mission of saying, you got to let God's people go.

480
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So the burning bush was an exciting incident, but he had to conate as a response.

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It's like an exciting incident knocks on your door, but you have to open the door and respond.

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It's the first domino that falls, but now it must set off a chain reaction of inward

483
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transformation.

484
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Ooh, I love that, that is so good, so good.

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Now with that, I think that a lot of our listeners would maybe agree with me on this.

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I have found that maybe even during this period that's been very unusual for us, that many

487
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of us have struggled to find at times inspiration or another way of saying it how to defeat

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the demotivators.

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Because I believe when God is in you, it's God who causes you to will and act according

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to his good purpose, the Bible says.

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So I believe that when God is fully, God our attention and we're in that presence of God,

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we're motivated to act and we're motivated to do what God's called us to do.

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But I believe that there are things that are demotivators.

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And so I want to talk real quickly about how to defeat the demotivators.

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One of the demotivators comes that there is the demotivator that comes by a lack of challenge,

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that some people are not motivated because they simply haven't found a big enough cause.

497
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David said, is there not a cause?

498
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Some people, there's a lack of challenge.

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We're finding out a lot of people in this generation that they would rather be paid

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less in a job that they're more challenged by than to make more money in a job they're

501
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,360
not challenged by.

502
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Has that been your experience as well?

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Sure.

504
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Yeah.

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You know my story.

506
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I worked in the fashion industry and I was getting promoted and making really good money.

507
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And I just got to this place where I really love clothes.

508
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I love fashion, but I just knew for me personally it wasn't going to be the fulfillment for

509
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me.

510
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And I went into ministry and ministry isn't always the best pain.

511
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And you know, especially entry level, you're not getting paid a lot.

512
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But my motivation was, hey, this is what I was created to do because when I began to

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preach and when I preached for the first time, I literally felt like I was doing what

514
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I was created to do and it wasn't about money.

515
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Amen.

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And so one of the ways to defeat the demotivator by a lack of challenge is to step into the

517
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God challenge for your life.

518
00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:21,120
Right.

519
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That's right.

520
00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:25,600
Another demotivator occurs by overwhelming crisis.

521
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When a person is exposed to overwhelming crisis trauma, fear comes in and they're demotivated

522
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because fear is a constricting spirit.

523
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And we have seen this.

524
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:41,560
We've witnessed this in the time that we live in that there are people under such fear.

525
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,240
And there are rational fears and they're irrational fears and I get the rational ones, but we've

526
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:52,520
seen it now kind of exceed the rational fears and move into a place of irrational fears.

527
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,880
And we hear stories about that all along.

528
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:59,760
And then the final demotivator is not knowing what to do next.

529
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And I really feel like a lot of listeners in our world for that matter, Christ is at

530
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,640
the point of what do we do next?

531
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,200
Like is this COVID-19 going to continue?

532
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,200
Is it going to be something that will be revisited?

533
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,400
Is this the first in this series of many viruses is going to hit us?

534
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How will this impact?

535
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:21,840
And then of course we'll hit this topic of racism on a later podcast, but even right

536
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:28,160
now the civil unrest and what does change look like that could bring about the equality?

537
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I feel like right now we are living in so many inciting moments.

538
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I mean, you're looking across the board and there is an awakening that is happening with

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00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,160
people and for our listeners, they might personally be going through one.

540
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,960
I feel like I've gone through some.

541
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I mean, I think all of us have been hit and triggered, God triggered in a great way where

542
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,640
we've been awakened to some things that are within us that God's like, I created you for

543
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:51,640
this moment.

544
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:52,640
I created you to speak to that.

545
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:57,680
I created you to stand up for truth and righteousness, to stand up to be a deliverer in this area.

546
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:05,120
And what I love is we are seeing kind of a collective inciting incident in a global pause,

547
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a moment in the world, but specifically in our nation.

548
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And so, you know, we've been prompt, we've promised as in the take, you know, keep it

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100 podcasts, we want some people to go away with some takeaways.

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And so as promised, we want to just hit as we're kind of closing this episode out, what

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are just some takeaways for this area of an inciting moment for you to step into who you're

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called to be.

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We really believe that as you, you apply these takeaways, something's going to shift in you

554
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:38,880
because yes, we're talking, but we also want to, you know, really disciple, but also give

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00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:44,240
some really practical things because we believe if you're listening to this, it's not by accident.

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God has you listening to this episode because you're about to encounter him in a new way,

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because there's something in you that's about to get awakened.

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Okay, first takeaway that we want you is to recognize, and I'm speaking to you as a listener,

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believe that you are a person of destiny, believe that you're a person of destiny.

560
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,680
That could sound generic, it's anything but generic.

561
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,400
You know, I was talking to Sean about this before we jumped on this and I was saying,

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isn't it interesting that one of the highest grossing movies today are superhero movies?

563
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:17,760
And I don't have the stat as to how many, I just know so many more superhero movies are

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00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,880
being made today than ever before.

565
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,760
And I really attribute that to all of us want to be a hero.

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All of us want to have that question answered within us of, man, was I created for more

567
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,920
than just the everyday mundane?

568
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And the answer when God is Jesus Christ, Lord of your life, he's savior of your life.

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The answer to that is an astounding yes, you are not only created for more, you actually

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have a God destiny on you.

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And I think we're attracted to the superhero concept because every one of us actually has

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00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,000
a hero in us and the hero is Jesus.

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And I know people are like, Chris, that is so cheesy.

574
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,320
No, it's not.

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Jesus is the answer to racism.

576
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,520
Jesus is the answer to the division.

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00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,320
Jesus is what incites you and actually what who created you to be who you're called to

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00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,320
be.

579
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:03,320
It's anything but cheesy.

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00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:09,640
Everything about who you're about to encounter, how Moses became from justice to deliver was

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God.

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And so I believe that we're in a superhero moment, so to speak, because God is awakening

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00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:22,440
within us the need to be more than who we are in this moment, to not settle for that

584
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:27,560
status quo, but to actually be greater than even we think we are because we've tapped

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00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,920
into one that's greater than us and it's who dwells within us.

586
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,840
And they've proven that people who have the belief that they're destined for something,

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00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,720
they discipline themselves differently.

588
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:37,720
So true.

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00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,860
That the belief that you are destined, and I was thinking, Christa, about for a rocket

590
00:32:41,860 --> 00:32:48,800
ship to break the geographic pool surrounding our planet, it requires that that rocket ship

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00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:54,200
reach 17,000 miles per hour in order to break the gravitational force of the earth.

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00:32:54,200 --> 00:33:00,360
I believe it takes the belief that you are destined to break the gravitational force

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that causes a person just to be ordinary because God can give an inciting incident and put

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passion on an ordinary person and then they become extraordinary.

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And I'm convinced that those that are listening right now, you're reaching that point of this

596
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,720
17,000 miles per hour and you're going to break a gravitational force to become this

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00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:21,840
person of destiny.

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You'll walk different, you talk different, you carry yourselves different, you'll have

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conviction which leads me to number two.

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The number two, hashtag keeping 100 takeaways is you should never try to dumb down yourself

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00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,640
through mindless conformity.

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And one of the things I was thinking about that is just the odds of you being born.

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00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:45,320
Recently a person did a TED talk and they said the odds of you being born is one in

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400 trillion.

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00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:51,840
Think about the odds of your parents meeting, the odds of your parents then getting married

606
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,640
and then believing they want to start a family and then the right TED poll connecting to

607
00:33:55,640 --> 00:34:02,280
the right egg and when you put all that together, you have to understand how wrong it is to try

608
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:08,120
to become a Xerox copy of someone else when God has gone through this miracle of creation

609
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,440
to make you so unique.

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00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:15,360
No one has the same fingerprints and that God purposely, He gives us an inciting incident

611
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:21,200
to highlight and launch our distinctives so that we don't attempt to blend in but we

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00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,640
recognize that our gift is to stand out.

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00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:25,640
It's so true.

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00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:30,920
It's an old phrase I used to hear growing up but it was like if you believe in everything,

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00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,000
you know, you'll stand for nothing.

616
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:38,280
And the reality is we have to know who we are and recognize that we were always called

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00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,760
to live in a contrast state.

618
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:46,640
And if we want to just blend in and be a chameleon, that's not actually authentic to who God created

619
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:47,640
to be.

620
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,440
He literally called us to be a contrast and to stand out.

621
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,000
And what I love is what you're saying that mindless conformity in a world where there's

622
00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:01,040
so much peer pressure, we have to have and be a people that step out from the crowd.

623
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:05,960
And I tell you what, when we see someone break the status quo, step out from the crowd, do

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00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,200
it different.

625
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,440
We can all agree it encourages us and I would even go as far.

626
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,800
It feels like it gives us permission that we can step out from the crowd.

627
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,360
And I think in the moment where we're at right now, because there's so much division, there's

628
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:19,520
so much opinion.

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00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:26,680
There is so much rhetoric on politics right now and the social issues and the things that

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00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,120
are happening in this moment.

631
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:32,720
And you just have to recognize what is God saying to you in this moment and who are you

632
00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:34,160
in Christ?

633
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,040
And that's your safe place.

634
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,320
That's where you stand in.

635
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,480
And you might be alone in that.

636
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,320
But I tell you what, as you take that step forward, other people will join you.

637
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,840
I promise you, you'll not always be alone, but sometimes you have to take that initial

638
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,360
first step and be the lone soldier standing out there.

639
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,120
But people will come alongside you.

640
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,040
They just need that person to take that step.

641
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,040
So good.

642
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,040
I love that.

643
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,360
All right, last one.

644
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,920
Can't just say what's in your head.

645
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:02,240
You have to say what's in his word.

646
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:05,080
Ooh, I'm going to say that again for the people in the back.

647
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,560
You can't just say what's in your head.

648
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,840
You have to say what's in his word.

649
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:17,640
Friends, we live in a time where there is so much expectancy and pressure that you may

650
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,560
quote unquote, your truth, your feelings.

651
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,160
God did make us emotional people.

652
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:23,280
He created emotions.

653
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,240
I am an emotional person.

654
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:28,560
But yet my emotions have to be surrendered to Christ.

655
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,480
And I tell you what, just because you feel it, just because you think it doesn't mean

656
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,960
it's your truth and it doesn't mean you speak it.

657
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,960
We have to come to this place where we walk in a greater place of maturity, a greater

658
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:44,800
place of surrender and discernment, that we are peacemakers in polarizing times.

659
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,560
That's when we recognize just because we think it doesn't mean it's truth.

660
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:57,040
And I think there is this very self-focused gospel, self-focused living that we have given

661
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,600
way to that isn't kingdom.

662
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,600
And it doesn't mean that we are important, but it simply means we have to be surrendered

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00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:05,720
and encountered.

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00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:09,920
And there's the difference because I think if we don't have those burning bush moments

665
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:14,560
going back to that place, what we believe, we think in all our thoughts and feelings

666
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:19,320
and emotions which are fleeting and change constantly, that becomes our foundation.

667
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:24,000
Friends, that is fluid and that will not give you a place of stability and that is not

668
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,520
building your house on the rock.

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00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,120
That is what we call building your house on the sand.

670
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,480
You have to get into the Word of God and make the Word of God your opinion.

671
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:37,200
There's this word veritas which really means truth, but the bottom line is truth isn't

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00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,160
found in our feelings.

673
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,160
Truth is found in Scripture.

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00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,400
And so I love this point that you brought up to our listeners.

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00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:45,920
You can't just say what's in your head.

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00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,600
You have to say what's in his word.

677
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,160
And the reason why that's so important is that I shared how my grandmother got delivered

678
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,680
from alcoholism.

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00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,440
And one of the things that I noticed is that when she gave her life to Christ, that process

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00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:06,600
of just re, for lack of better words, reprogramming her thinking, transforming her mind by meditating

681
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:12,120
on the Word, she modeled that for me that when I got saved, I recognized I want to be a Word

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00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,120
person.

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00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:14,120
That's right.

684
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,400
And people say, well, I got to argue, man, I just found this on Google and I'm like, hey,

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00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,800
I'm not going to build my life on what you Googled last night.

686
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,720
I'm going to build my life on what delivered my grandmother off alcoholism and won't feel

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00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:24,720
sweet.

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Say that.

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Hey, we want to thank you so much for being a part of the Keep It 100 tribe.

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00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:29,880
We love that you're tuning in.

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00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:30,880
Keep tuning in.

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00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,360
We're going to keep bringing it to you week in and week out every Tuesdays, a new podcast

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00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,720
coming out for you.

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We have you in mind as we create these because we want to continually pour into you because

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you matter.

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If you want to stay connected to us during the week, check us out on social media.

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00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:45,960
Sean and I are both on Instagram.

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You can also check us out on SeanandChristaSmith.com on our website, on our homepage

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at the bottom of our website.

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You can actually find our social media handles and click there.

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It will take you directly.

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But we want to encourage you.

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Check us out.

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Stay connected.

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We want to build relationship and community with our tribe.

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Yes.

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Subscribe to our podcast, which obviously you found us and just click subscribe and you

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will continually catch us on all the major platforms that are out there.

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You want to stay tuned because next week, a two-part series on the genesis of a voice.

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We want to talk about what prepares you to become God's mouthpiece to influence people.

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We want to give you principles of communication, how we found our voice, how God can put the

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mic to your movement.

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Join us next week.

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We're so glad that you joined us this week and we love you guys.

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Until next time, keep it 100.