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And we're being called upon to walk worthy
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of the calling that God has called us to.
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This is the question!
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Are you decided to succeed?
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And it doesn't start right now.
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Are you decided to take the message
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you heard in the first hour
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and say you know what?
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That convicts me, but I don't want to
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just go out here convicted,
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I want to go out of here changed.
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My wife doesn't really know this happened,
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but a couple weeks back
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I'm driving down Commerce Street.
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And I'm coming up on a street light
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and I've got a green light.
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And the guy comes up the other way
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and he makes a right on red,
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but I don't think he even stopped.
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He just kind of went through it,
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and I was really close to him.
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And you know, I didn't over-break.
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I just kind of flew up
real close behind him.
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And my wife said something
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about just doing that
because you're trying
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to punish the guy.
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I mean, she was mildly rebuking me.
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And I thought, well, that's
exact what I'm doing.
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And I thought I am not going
to do that any more.
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There have been various times
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my wife has said you know
this is what you're doing,
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and I've said like when she's not looking
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I turn to the Lord and I say,
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Lord, that was exactly what I was doing
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and I don't want to do that any more.
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But I hope you're like that.
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That's the way we've got
to approach Scripture
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where it's like something
is pointed out to us
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and it's like yes, I'm going
to put forth an effort.
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This may not happen perfectly,
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but I'm going to draw a line in the sand.
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It's like I'm not going there any more.
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And if I find myself there,
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I'm going to repent just like that.
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I'm going to back off of that.
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Are you decided to succeed?
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And like I say, it takes being honest.
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You've got to be dead honest.
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James could sit here and tell you
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this convicted me.
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Yeah, and I was squirming over there too.
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And I can tell when my wife -
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she's nodding and I'm thinking, yeah,
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she's thinking about me.
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But if we don't admit where we fail,
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you're not going to do well.
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We've got to be honest -
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honest with the Lord,
honest with each other.
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Because look, we're all in the same boat.
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We all are.
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We're a people that need to be saved.
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We need the grace of God.
We need the help of God.
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We need the power of God.
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This except was taken from the full sermon
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"Worthy of God's Calling."