The Worship Series - Brandon Lake

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Welcome to the I Can.

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He Can podcast the podcast

for literally anyone.

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However, if you are a woman, you're

probably the person listening on the

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I'm your host Sarai, And you'll

pretty much get to know everything

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about me, including the things that

make me say I can't, but also the

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things that remind me that he can.

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So without further ado, let's

jump into today's episode.

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I.

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All right, you guys.

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Welcome back to episode four.

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and I am very, very excited

for today's episode.

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It's actually the start of a new series

And while I am going to be discussing

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other topics in different episodes,

this series is only going to be about

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worship worship songs, artists, and

we're gonna kind of break them down.

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So there's just so, so much to talk

about, and I'm just, I'm super excited

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and I couldn't have honestly even done

this without one of my friends, Hector.

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he is also on the worship team of my

church, so I'm very grateful he actually

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gave me this idea because there really

is just so much to unpack here and.

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The first person that we're going

to be discussing today is an

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artist by the name of Brandon Lake.

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However, every time I do one of these

episodes, I do tend to go down a

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little bit of a research rabbit hole.

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Um, but I'm not sure if you guys knew

that in the Renaissance period there

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was such a thing as the division

of secular music and sacred music.

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So secular music, meaning music of genres

that are not religious in nature Now.

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It's interesting to me because

in today's world, we're seeing

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more than ever, honestly the

tremendous growth of worship music.

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I'm not mad about that.

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I'm really not mad about that.

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'cause worship music is

just, it's fantastic.

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but secular music really is just

kind of not what it used to be.

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Now when I think of music in

general, or music that we grew up

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with, it mostly brings up memories.

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Moments in time, if you will.

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So I'm a nineties kid and I think about

the last bit of good secular music

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that there was, and that's really in

the nineties when I was growing up.

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But when I think of that music

it reminds me of my childhood,

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not how it made me feel.

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It didn't change me in any way.

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Even till this day.

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I can listen to the Spice Girls.

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Backstreet Boys, Selena Nirvana.

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I could keep going honestly, but none

of those artists ever changed me.

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Yeah, it made me happy.

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You can't really take out the joy

from listening to those songs that

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bring back good times, good memories,

but those were in fact the good days.

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And that's all it does for me now.

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It's all that it did for me then.

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but there's nothing like what

worship music does to your heart.

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It really isn't.

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So worship music was made to praise

the highest of highs, God, the Father.

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Now before I jump into the good

stuff, into the series of worship, I

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do wanna point out something that I

learned, um, in my research in this

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episode, and that is that even Jesus

sing and praise, I'm not going to

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read all of those chapters, in full.

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It is quite a lot to go through

and to cover in one day, but.

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If you are curious, just like I was, you

can definitely see how Jesus, our Lord

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and Savior worship God through music

and some of these chapters in the Bible.

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Anyway, I will note these scriptures

in the note section for you guys.

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And they are Matthew 26 30, mark

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Um, and if I'm being honest, the more that

I do these episodes or these podcasts.

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The more I learned of the humility

that Jesus had and the humility that he

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showed everyone He, I mean, he would say

truly, I say to you, but I mean, I don't

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feel worthy of like saying that myself.

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Um, so anyway, I'm gonna scratch

what I was gonna say there.

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But he was truly not ashamed

to stand with his brothers and

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sisters in Christ and worship God.

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There was no shame.

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Absolutely none.

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And.

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I know some people who, you know, they're

different kind of worshipers as they say.

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Like you see different kind

of people, in church and, you

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know, they stand differently.

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Some, just have no shame and they're

just going all out, which is amazing.

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I love to see that.

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But, Jesus had no shame and he

praised God with everyone, and

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that's just so beautiful to see.

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but now to get to the crux of it

all, worship music, the famous.

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Singer that we're going to be

talking about is Brandon Lake.

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you guys have heard of Brandon

Lake, there's probably not a

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song that he is not involved in.

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Like he, he is just amazing.

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but there are so, so many different

artists today that I just wanted

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to kind of briefly shout out and

touch on its Elevation Worship.

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I know they are also way up there.

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Elevation Worship Hillsong,

United Maverick City, CC Winans.

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Ugh.

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Love her.

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Phil Wickham.

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Cody Kass, Fort Frank.

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He just had a concert.

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Danny Gokey, torn Wells.

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Ryley.

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Morillo.

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I am just, I love her.

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Love, love, love her.

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Uh, Saray Rivera and, uh, Chand Moore

and Naomi Rain are a part of Maverick

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City, but they are also getting a bit

more famous, as well on their own.

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And, Chris Brown.

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Also sings with Elevation.

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now, sometimes with Maverick, but not

Chris Brown, the one that you guys know.

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Anyway, going back to Brandon, he's

just, man, like, there's not a song, a

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lyric or a word that he sings that won't

make your heart feel some kind of way.

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And yes, like I said before, secular

music can pull at your heartstrings,

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but when music is centered in Christ.

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And is embellished with the words of the

gospel and is used to cry out to God.

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It just, it does something to your spirit.

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It really does.

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I'm, I'm telling you, it is powerful.

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Goosebumps don't mean anything.

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Goosebumps is just something that

happened to you in the nineties when

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you heard the new Backstreet Boys song.

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Um, I mean, at least for

me, that's what happened.

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But anyway, out of all the

songs that Brandon Lake.

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Has written and sang.

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There was one that he

released earlier this year.

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It's called Daddy's, DNA.

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And at first glance, the song

seems like it's about his father,

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but in reality he is talking about

his Heavenly Father about God.

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And I wanted to play a clip, but because

I am on various, podcasts like Apple,

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Spotify, I don't wanna trigger anything.

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Uh, by playing other people's music.

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So I, I don't want that.

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So I'm just gonna read some of the

lyrics because I do want to say those

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words and have you hear those words.

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so without further ado, here's just a

few verses and choruses from daddy's DNA.

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It says, I thought the world had

something special I was missing.

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My daddy told me not to chase it.

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I didn't listen.

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Fell downhill a mile a

minute before I knew it.

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I was living in a pigsty a

long, long way from home.

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Now, honestly, when I heard that,

and he's saying that I was living

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in a pigsty a long, long way from

home, what a deep way to explain

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the mess that you made of your life.

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that's powerful.

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And especially when you hear it

coming from his mouth, with his voice.

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It's just, it's very, it's deep.

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Now the chorus says, I went running

like a rebel, racked up debts.

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I couldn't pay.

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I went dancing with the devil

with one foot in the grave.

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How the heaven did I get here?

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Notice he didn't say hell.

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How the heaven did I get here when?

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And through it all away?

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All I've given you was trouble.

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All you've given me was grace,

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man.

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Just even saying it, I

just kind of get chills.

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Now verse two says, and the freedom

I was chasing felt like prison.

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Lord, I've done so many

things, wish I didn't.

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And after all the risky business,

could I ever be forgiven?

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I'm afraid to even ask to come back home.

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You guys, when I heard that sentence

the first time, it, it just.

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Punched me in the gut.

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It just punched me in the gut

because when I first started walking

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with Jesus, it was so hard to

repent and to ask for forgiveness.

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'cause the things that I've done

were just so dark and so, uh, just

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so horrible that how could you ask

someone to forgive those things?

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And he said that.

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And After all the risky business,

could I ever be forgiven?

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I'm afraid to even ask to come back home.

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But you know what?

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God does forgive.

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God does forgive, and he loves you,

and he accepts you, and he will

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take you back home because as they

say, Jesus left the 99 for the one.

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So as long as that one repents and

truly, truly just seeks forgiveness.

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You will be able to go back home,

there's no doubt about that.

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Now I'm gonna skip a few verses and chorus

and jump to the very end of the song.

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This section right here really

showed me where he was tying in

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the words of the song to the Bible.

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And I'll tell you guys about it

after as soon as I'm done reading it.

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This last verse goes, there

was something in the marrow.

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Always coursing through my

veins, but buried deeper than

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the rubble is my daddy's DNA.

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Now listen.

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Listen you guys, those last

words, but buried deeper than

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the rubble is my daddy's DNA.

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Those last words, man, it's a

reminder to us that despite all.

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The things that we do.

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All the things that we carry, the

burdens of our past, the problems.

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This is a reminder.

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We are made of him.

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We are made of Christ of God in his image.

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And as the Bible says, we are made in

his image and there is some of him in us.

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It doesn't matter what way we look

at it, there is some of him in us.

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Now you all know that I like to throw

in my scriptures here as well, so I

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couldn't leave it out of this episode.

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Genesis 1 27 specifically says, so

God created man in his own image,

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in the image of God, he created him,

male and female, he created them.

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Now, that's in the very beginning

of the Bible, but just like it

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says there in Brandon's song.

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Buried deeper than the

rubble is my daddy's DNA.

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And surely you find it there

in the beginning of the Bible.

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Now also in Colossians one 15, it says,

the sun is the image of the invisible

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God, the firstborn, overall creation.

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And time and time again, we are constantly

reminded that we are made in his image.

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So don't let the things of your past.

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Don't let those things keep

you buried in the rubble.

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Don't let the weight of those

things keep you from being

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reminded that God is in you.

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That good is also in you.

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Pray on it.

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If you're not sure, and if you don't know

how to pray, it shouldn't be a problem.

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the Bible says in Psalm

1 0 5, 2, sing to him.

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Sing praise to him, tell

of all his wonderful acts.

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You don't have to say with your words

all the things that you wanna say.

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And in all honesty, God already

knows what you wanna say to him.

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He knows you before you were born, so he

already knows what you're going through.

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But the act of you talking to him and

praying to him is your show of wanting

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to build that relationship with him.

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So if you don't know the words,

just find a worship song.

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Find a worship song and sing to him.

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Praise it to him because that is a way

that you are going to show a wonderful act

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in building your relationship with him.

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Psalm 95, 1 says.

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Come let us sing for joy to the Lord.

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Let us shout aloud to the rock of our

salvation and he truly is the rock.

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He is the one that

continuously shows up for us.

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Time and time again, whether

you're a believer in God or

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you're not, he is always there.

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And for those people that don't believe

in God or have doubts in God, when you

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say, oh, I have a gut feeling about this.

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I have a gut feeling about that.

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That's God, that's the Holy Spirit.

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That is your discernment, kicking

in and warning you, making

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sure that you don't go astray.

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Making sure that you don't do the wrong

thing or hang around the wrong person.

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Discernment is of God

and of the Holy Spirit.

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So you need to pay attention to all of

these things 'cause he is always with you.

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He is the rock of our salvation.

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Now you can listen to some

great music and just sing along.

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That's really all it takes.

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You know, it's, it's not very complicated.

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That's all it took for me

to open up my heart really.

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And one day I'll share my testimony with

you guys and we'll go down that road.

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It's a very emotional, very

dark kind of road in the middle,

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but there was light at the end.

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And there's light at the end

because there's Jesus, and there's

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a lot for me to say about that.

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But use music to draw closer to God.

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Use music in the way that

it was intended to be used.

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Worship will connect you in

ways that you won't ever expect.

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Never.

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You can't imagine what it

will do for your heart.

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I hope this has blessed you.

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Please be sure to return since I

will definitely, definitely need to

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make this a series because there's

just so much more to talk about.

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So many more artists,

musicians, so many songs.

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There's just too much greatness,

honestly, that we need to

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uncover with worship music.

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So I thank you guys for listening.

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Till next time my friends.