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And then, with all the seasoned drama

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of a desert Father, he offered the second question, Do I really want to change? Again, it is me asking myself, not someone else asking me. Two, nay, three key words here. Notice the word really. It leads us past the water table of interest and into the deep well of intention. Notice the second keyword, want. I may think I need to change. In fact, I may know I need to change. But thinking and knowing and needing are not part of the question at all. Do I really want to change? The third keyword, change. It brings us back to where we started, the Mount of Transfiguration. Remember the watch word, the original word behind the English word Transfiguration. Say it with me. Metamorpho O. It means transformation or transcendent formation, which is the very presence of God entering into the form of a human being, the temple of the human body and bringing the change. In perhaps one of the most stunning texts in all of scripture, Peter writes about the story of, of transformation, of metamorpho o, and yes, of change. You see, Peter was there on the mount. He beheld the vision. Years later, he's writing through these. He has given us his very great and precious promises so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. Did you get that? Participate in the divine nature. This is earth shattering. Now back to that day with Maxi. Rather than launch into my answer to transformational question number two, I asked him another question. So, Maxie, what is the change you are talking about? With the slightest tone of irritation, he replied, stick with the question. Do I really want to change foreign. Let's pray for our Father. How we thank you for your son Jesus and Lord Jesus. You are the change. We are weary of trying harder to change our nature. We want to participate in your nature. Come Holy Spirit, and bring us the change who is Jesus. And we're praying in your name, Jesus. Amen. Well.

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Wow.

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Journal prompts. What do you think it means to participate in the divine nature? What do you think that means? I mean, I want you just to, to roll those words around in your soul. Participate in the divine nature. Now, second question. What scares you about change? What scares you about it? Okay, I just, I still can't. I remember the first time I read that phrase and it was like, what really? Participate in the divine nature. That's exactly what the Bible says. He's given us the, the promises, the word of God. He's given us his word so that through them we may participate in the divine nature. That's saying the very nature of God wants to come into our inmost being and transform us from the inside out. Jesus in us bringing with him all the glorious things. I'm in. Are you? And remember, the measure is love. The measure is not perfect behavior that produces legalism. The measure is love. And that's what he's bringing. And we're just learning to assess, to observe, to be given over to him and to watch, to behold how he, you know, that's the prayer of transformation that we, we've done so often on the wake up call. And I gotta find a way to bring it back more regularly, but it's, It's Jesus. I receive your righteousness. I release my sinfulness. I receive your wholeness. I release my brokenness. I receive your fullness. I release my emptiness. I receive your peace. I release my anxiety. I receive your joy. I release my despair. I receive your love. I release my self interestedness. I receive your holiness. I release my scatteredness to everything under the sun, my distractedness. I mean, that prayer can go on and on and on. I bet you we've probably written already a hundred of those entries, those, those sentences. I wonder how you would write that sentence today. What do you see? What do you behold in him? What do you want to receive from him? And then how does what you receive from him in his very presence begin to displace the broken thing in us? It displaces it. It pushes it out. And this is how he works. And our world follows our words, our prayer. This is how prayer changes the environment, the atmosphere, the temple. This is. Anyway, you get it. You get it. It's Friday.

B (15:26)

This is good stuff.

A (15:27)

But back to that word of participate in the divine nature Christ in you. I. I just feel epiphanies. I feel light bulbs. Just. I see them over your heads. Some of you. I see the mind blown emoji. You're like, I see it. I. I'm starting to get it. Me too.

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Okay.

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Okay. We're gonna. We're going back to our medley today, the one we're writing together. We're going to start on 502. Come ye sinners, poor and needy. We're going to sing verse three and four. We're going to sing verse three. Then we're going to go back to oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus and sing verse three again. And then we might sing our little chorus. I love you, Lord, with it. You ready? 502. Our other hymn is 121, if you want to poll the page. One hundred and twenty one. 502.

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Come ye weary heavy laden Lost and ruined by the fall. If you tarry till you're better, you will never come at all. I will arise and go to Jesus. He will embrace me in his arms. In the arms of my dear Savior. Oh, there are 10,000 charms. O the deep breath, Deep love of Jesus Love of every love the best. Tis an ocean vast of blessing. Tis a haven sweet of rest. O the deep deep love of Jesus. Tis a heaven of heavens to me and it lifts me up to glory. For it lifts me up to the and I will arise and go to Jesus. He will embrace me in his arms in the arms of my dear Savior. Oh, there are 10,000 charms and I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice to worship you. O my soul, rejoice. Take joy, my king, in what you hear, and may it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear.

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Amen. If you're watching this on the YouTube, you saw me just kind of lift my hands. You know why we lift our hands in worship? Because heaven has gravity. It literally, heaven is pulling us upward and outward and through the veil into the presence of God. And it's just like you're putting your hands up. It's just like you're putting your hands up to be embraced, to be picked up, to be lifted up. I wonder if you'd try that at home sometime. A lot of people, that kind of weirds them out, seeing people raise their hands in church. And I'm like, you know, I get it. I used. I. I went through the. Everybody goes through that. But what's happening is people are responding to, by faith, to something that. That other people that you can't see. You just know it. You feel it, you're in it. It's gravity. And it's fine to be, like, leery of it, but I wonder if you'd just try at home now. Don't try it if you're driving a car. I was thinking, I hope people aren't taking their hands off the steering wheel and saying, jes. Will. All right, we gotta go. Y'. All. People ask me, like, what happens? Those seeds. Who's. Who's picking. Those are. Where are they going? They're going all over the floor in there. My. My son David, who works now with us at Seabed, he's. He. He runs the social media for Seed Bed. I hope you'll check that out on Instagram and our Facebook and. And Tick Tock. We even have a Tick Tock channel now. We're trying to get that going. And. And David knows how to speak TikTok. I don't, but he's. He's kind of our artist in residence here in Gillette. And he came to me, he's like, dad, I'm not the seed sweeper here. And I said, david, that's exactly what you are. You're the seed sweeper. You just got a new title. So he sweeps up the seeds and brings them back and puts them into my little seed bin. All right, gang, I got my seeds for the awakening. I'm J.D.

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walt, and I'll see you on the field.