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and your future is now all we have is

this point in time none of us are

promised tomorrow

but this moment is ours no one can take

this moment for us and the Power of

Choice is our power to redeem our past

and step into the future

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the last session of insights to a life

without rival is about pursuing your

Eternal story

and I’m going to open up with a story of

something that happened to us in July

actually I was finishing this book and

and not not really sure how I wanted to

close the book and I had gone to color

with my beautiful daughter-in-law

Juliana and while I was there in in May

the Holy Spirit had said you’ve written

on lions and you’ve written on swords

now you’re going to write on a crown

and so I had come home and researched

the different crowns and you know I kind

of have this little annoyance with the

princess Tierra thing so I was not

necessarily having a really good

attitude about it and

that all changed in one afternoon I was

driving in my car and word reached me

that the man the father

a precious brother and the Lord that

distributes our resources in the Middle

East

predominantly in the language of Arabic

had been killed by an Isis missile

and

I was like wait a minute

um he’s he’s he’s he’s he’s dead and

they’re like yes you know he’s he’s gone

and we we can’t we can’t let this be

known too much because of the safety of

his family and he was he was had left

Armenia and he was ministering to the

Kurdish people in Syria and Isis just

you know set a bunch of missiles and and

he was gone and they said you know we

we’re just wondering if you would write

a letter to his widow

well

I said yes I’d love to do that

and it seemed easy

until I sat down to write a letter

what do you say

to somebody

who has lost their husband

who has

a teenage son

teenage daughter

what do you say thank you thank you for

your partnership thank you for

Cole I I I just

sat there

Frozen

I didn’t know what to say

I didn’t know what to write

I wrote our guy that connects with him

and I said I I’m actually can’t find

words I’m really having a hard time

finding words to to know what to say and

he wrote me back and he said Lisa

some give much

and others give all

and I realized

that that giving all

was the crown that I wanted to talk

about

the Crown of Life

no idea

that our culture was going to begin to

shift and shake and move in such ways

where we even our own American Shores

are seeing people martyred martyred

senselessly you know not long ago in

Oregon

a young man came in and asked each

person are you a Christian

and shot them in the head if they said

they were a Christian and shot him in

the leg if they said they weren’t you

know maybe the first person that said

yeah I’m a Christian had no idea what

that response was going to be but you

know there was there was eight other

people that did

and they still said

I’m a Christian

we’re not promised tomorrow

and if we are going to live a life

without rival we are going to have to

have a constant consistent

Eternal perspective

Galatians 5

25-26 and the message tells us since

this is the kind of life we have chosen

the life of the spirit

let us make sure that we do not just

hold it as an idea

in our heads or a sentiment in our

hearts

you know I actually I’m going to pause

there for a second you know I actually

was talking to somebody about that

particular incident I just talked about

because I happen to be in Oregon two

days after that shooting

and I was talking this over with this

person and I said you know exactly what

I said to you and this person Shrugged

their shoulders and they said you’re

with the grace of God

even if they had denied Christ it

doesn’t matter

he would have understood

sometimes I just think do

do we understand

this isn’t just

concept

or a sentiment

this is our lives

because on to say

but work out its implications and every

detail of Our Lives

that means we will not compare ourselves

with each other as if one of us were

better and another worse

we have far more interesting things to

do with our lives

each of us

is an original

an original ambassador an original son

or daughter of the most high

and so we’re going to end where we began

this unique expression of you is

actually in keeping with a life filled

with the Holy Spirit

copying

is counterproductive to a life in the

spirit

it’s competition

it’s self-driven it’s self-motivated a

life in the spirit spends time with God

and says what am I the original of what

do you need to imprint on my world

through and from my life

your heavenly father whether you know

this or not wrote out

every single intimate detail of your

life in living letters

he wrote These before you even Drew your

first breath

we have living story lines written about

us

and the choices whether we’re going to

enter into those storylines

or try to impose ourselves on somebody

else’s story

are we going to be trying out for the

wrong movie when we’re supposed to be in

this play over here

each of us has a specific course and a

specific destiny

and you’re hearing a lot of people

talking about stay in your lane well

it’s not even just about staying your

lane you can’t even check to see what

other people are doing in theirs

we just need to look forward lift our

eyes and run

spirit-led life is a god-given

entrustment

and it would be a shame to be had given

so much

and let that treasure be buried

underneath the opinions and the words of

other people

you are not a spectator

you have far more interesting

and important things to do with your

life

and your future is now

all we have is this point in time none

of us are promised tomorrow

but this moment is ours no one can take

this moment for us and the Power of

Choice is our power to redeem our past

and step into the future

we have each been seated with stories of

stunning hope promise danger Adventure

Galatians 6 4-5 describes it this way

make a careful exploration of who you

are and I already told you how you do

that you get in the presence of God you

don’t ask friends you don’t ask your

parents you don’t look at your past

make a careful exploration of Who You

Are you ask God in his presence and you

go into the word of God and you read who

he says you are

and the work you have been given and

then sink yourself into that

let everybody else argue sink yourself

into that don’t be impressed with

yourself don’t compare yourself with

others each of you must take

responsibility for doing the creative

best you can with your own life

you know when I read that I thought

about when we were in school

you know each of us given assignments

you weren’t allowed a copy off of other

people

you aren’t allowed to say let me see how

you answer that question on the test

wait what are you doing for your project

I’m going to do the same thing and if

you did your teacher knew that you’d

copied and you would get marks off for a

lack of originality

we’re not supposed to be comparing with

each other looking whether they’re doing

it how far they are where are we in the

race we each take our own responsibility

for our assignment

there is a dangerous pull

on our of our world right now that would

want to weigh you down so that you

cannot run your race

first John 2 says do not love the world

or the things in the world for if anyone

loves the world the love of the father

is not in him for all that is in the

world

the desires of the flesh the desires of

the eye and the pride of life is not

from the father but it’s from the world

and the world is passing away along with

its desires but whoever does the will of

God abides forever

that’s the eternal

battle between eternity and the world

between the temporal and the scene and

the Unseen and the eternal

three things that the world wants to

attach us to the desire of the flesh or

always wanting your own way

the desires of the eye wanting

everything you see or more and more and

more

the pride of life which is wanting to

appear important

these driving passions will anchor us to

the world instead of release us to what

God has for us

James 4 4 says do you not know that

friendship with the world is enmity with

God

therefore whoever wishes to be a friend

if the world makes himself an enemy to

God

you know never in the history of

humankind it may increase in it but

never never

have people had more access to other

people

more intimate knowledge of what other

people are doing

and yet more difficulty connecting

people know all about other people and

don’t know how to connect with the

people that are in front of them they

don’t know how to put their phones down

they feel the the weight the pull of

this world and they are forgetting the

relationships

and the words that are eternal

relationships and words that we speak to

one another are actually an eternal

factor and when he’s talking about

friendship with the world is enmity with

God he’s not saying don’t be friends to

a worldly person he’s not saying don’t

be friends with you know somebody in the

world

what he’s saying is there’s a difference

between befriending people

and befriending the world

when we befriend the world we reward the

lust of the eye the lust of the Flesh

and the pride of life

there is so much arrogance right now

sometimes I’m I’m embarrassed sometimes

I’m embarrassed by what I see even our

Brothers and Sisters in Christ say

sometimes I’m like oh please don’t

somebody needs to stop you somebody

needs to pull you aside and so please

don’t do that you are not you’re not

understanding what you’re modeling so

James isn’t saying don’t be a friend to

the world

he’s saying don’t be a friend with the

world and there’s a big difference

between to and with Jesus was a friend

to sinners but he wasn’t a friend with

Sinners he didn’t do he didn’t pursue

what they pursued he didn’t act like

they acted he did not treat sacred

things as though they were profane and

I’m very concerned that we don’t

understand that by being such a profane

Nation

we are bringing ourselves under

the Judgment of God not that God is

judging us but God judges things that

are profane and so when we are under an

area that God is judging we come under

the judgment and that’s why God is

saying come apart and be separate

don’t be profane understand being sacred

don’t use your words for profanity don’t

use your words for that which is not

Eternal begin to understand I I need the

weight

of what is on your life for Eternal

measures

so

I look at our day and our age and I

I

to be honest with you we live in the

greatest days and the worst days

it’s going to get clearer and clearer

what’s dark and what’s like

what’s fear and what’s love

it’s going to get clearer and clearer

and that may mean some of us may in fact

lose our lives because we decide that we

want to be Christians I I don’t know I

kind of hate it because

hi I found every book that I’ve ever

written ends up being prophetic and so

when God talked to me about writing

about Martyrs and I will say

um in the book without rival the last

two chapters

talks about martyrs

because the early church considered it

an honor

to die on his behalf they considered an

honor to be persecuted they considered

an honor to be beaten and I’m not

thinking any of us need to go out and

look for trouble

I think it’s going to find us I think

it’s going to find us but I do need you

to understand you won’t make it if you

don’t know who you are

and you don’t know whose you are

I have a dog named Tia

and she’s actually dead now but anyway I

had a dog I had a dog named Tia and John

and I went to South and I do care about

her but it’s not the point right now

anyway

um

John I went to South Korea and while we

were in South Korea there was a Workman

working on our house and he left the

door open and my my dog just went

wandering into the Colorado blizzard of

January and she had cataracts and all

this kind of stuff somehow she didn’t

find her way back and my boys didn’t

tell me what was going on because they

knew I’d like freak out in South Korea

so anyway they looked and looked for her

all night call for her she didn’t come

home and kind of the next day somebody

said well maybe we should check the

pound maybe we should check the pound so

they go and Austin finds her in the

pound and Austin said when he found her

he wasn’t even sure she was our dog

because he expected her to be like so

happy like yes you found me he said

instead she was like cowering in a

corner and and then you know they were

kind of rough with Austin I think he had

to pay the equivalent of a night in an

expensive hotel to get her out because

I’d let her license expire I thought it

was like a one-time thing and she didn’t

have the couple shots anyway so so we

had to pay all these all these fines she

was like distressed she was like I’ve

been living in a cage I don’t know

what’s happened you know but I’ll tell

you the reason why she ended up in the

pound instead of back at our house

because I had a tag on TIA

had her name

but it had the wrong phone number

and she had no way of telling people

who she was

and because she had no way of telling

people who she was

she was lost

and we have a generation out there

that they don’t know

how to make the connection

and they’re lost

and they’ve been dumped off somewhere

and they’re cowering in a cage

and we need to go and find them and just

like because my dog had one air at night

we didn’t say sorry now you’re not our

dog anymore you know if I would do that

for our dog and we would pay a fine

how much more

Jesus does that for us

how much more we need to be mindful that

there are people lost and they are

wandering

and we need to give them clear evidence

of the path back

because when we look like the world

we can’t save the world

when we act like the world

if they can’t find what we have that is

any different

we need to have some identifying

distinguishing factors that are on our

lives so that people can find their way

home

so people can be redeemed from their

destruction

so I want to declare some of your

distinguishing factors over you

first of all

you are our daughter without rival

you are called to a life without rival

you are loved by a father without rival

you are alive in a Time perilous

dangerous without rival

we hail from a nation without rival

we serve a god without rival

we are bought by a sacrifice without

rival we are entrusted with the name of

Jesus which is a name without rival it

is the name above every name that can be

named we are empowered by a spirit

without rival The Same Spirit that

raised Christ from the grave has

quickened our mortal body we are versed

in a language without rival it is called

the word of God we are part of the body

without rival it is called the body of

Christ you and I have been entrusted

with a commission without rival equipped

with a weapon without rival engaged in a

war without rival and before us

is opportunities without rival

for you and I have been chosen out of

all of eternity for a season of harvest

without rival because we are all

destined for an eternity without rival

this broken

confused darkened world

needs the light that is in you to be

shined brightly without rival

so I began to think

to go forward

I want to find out what the church

looked like when it was truly without

rival

and I want to pray a prayer that was

formed in that season without rival

from the book of Acts

acts 4 29 so now Lord

listen to their threats to harm us

and Empower us as your servants to speak

the word of God freely and courageously

stretch out your hand of power through

us to heal and to move in signs and

wonders by the name of your holy son

Jesus

may all that was written about us may

all that we have been positioned for

be done without rival in Jesus name

God bless you

you know I’m so excited about you being

all in I hope you could see the

difference between being a friend to the

world and a friend with the world if we

have a friendship with the world then

we’re heading in a place of sympathy and

place of sympathy does not carry with it

Authority but if you are our friend to

the world you’re in a position of

compassion and when you are in a

position of compassion you actually can

bring solution to problems we are not

promised tomorrow so we want our lives

to matter we want each and every day to

be a direction of moving forward and I

know I know you’re a person of prayer

and prayer is amazing and prayer is the

impetus of beginning something but I

also believe that we pray big and we do

big but you start doing big by just a

few steps so we’re gonna challenge you

what are the actions you can take you

know I love Hebrews 11 33 it says

through acts of faith through acts of

Faith they took the promises for

themselves they made Justice work and

they toppled kingdoms there are some

kingdoms that your actions are going to

topple there are some promises that you

can take there are some dynamics of

Injustice that you can counteract with

actions of Justice I want you to think

about those things I want you to write

down those actions I believe that you

are alive in this time without rival yes

there is a world that seems like it is

so filled with problems that are without

rival but you have been positioned out

of all of the periods of time for this

moment because you are our child of God

without rival entrusted with the

promises of God without rival destined

for an eternity without rival equipped

with a weapon without rival the sword of

the spirit which is the word of God

hailing from Nations without rival I

hope you understand that right now this

is a moment without rival you have just

finished this course well done I believe

that you are well equipped to move

forward I believe that you can pray and

you can act in such a way that God is

going to Astound you with a life without

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