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[953.38 --> 954.24] I love how it's written.
[954.24 --> 955.52] He starts off saying,
[955.70 --> 957.30] let us throw off everything that hinders
[957.30 --> 958.82] and the sin that's so easily entangled.
[959.02 --> 960.46] Like, throw that stuff aside.
[960.82 --> 962.04] And then run with perseverance.
[962.44 --> 963.74] The race marked out for you.
[964.10 --> 964.46] How?
[965.30 --> 966.90] Fixing our eyes on Jesus,
[968.02 --> 969.64] pioneering the perfecter of our faith.
[972.60 --> 973.54] Focused on Jesus.
[973.54 --> 977.14] It's so easy to get focused
[977.14 --> 978.98] on all kinds of other things.
[980.22 --> 982.56] Jesus came and he basically said,
[983.26 --> 984.72] my life for you.
[985.72 --> 987.24] My life for you.
[987.62 --> 988.92] My life for you.
[989.82 --> 991.14] That's how he lived his life.
[991.48 --> 993.60] And then he calls us to do the same.
[993.96 --> 995.64] And then we look into other people's lives
[995.64 --> 997.02] and we say too,
[997.40 --> 998.52] my life for you.
[999.76 --> 1001.06] My life for you.
[1001.06 --> 1006.48] But quickly we switch focus.
[1007.02 --> 1008.64] And pretty soon we find ourselves in
[1008.64 --> 1010.00] my life for me
[1010.00 --> 1011.46] and your life for me too.
[1014.92 --> 1016.10] And we're off track.
[1017.30 --> 1018.54] Test your work.
[1019.02 --> 1020.20] Check your focus.
[1020.54 --> 1021.48] Is it on Christ?
[1022.74 --> 1023.88] Great relationships,
[1024.14 --> 1025.00] gospel relationships
[1025.00 --> 1026.98] are all about my life for you
[1026.98 --> 1028.24] because I know Jesus
[1028.24 --> 1030.40] and I see him looking me in the eyes
[1030.40 --> 1031.00] all the time
[1031.00 --> 1032.04] and seeing him say,
[1032.38 --> 1033.92] my life for you, Sid.
[1035.28 --> 1036.44] My life for you.
[1036.64 --> 1038.32] Now go out and live that.
[1041.58 --> 1042.26] Every day,
[1042.66 --> 1043.32] my life for you.
[1044.54 --> 1045.76] And then serving becomes
[1045.76 --> 1047.58] more and more natural.
[1050.16 --> 1051.40] I was thinking of an example.
[1052.20 --> 1053.24] Imagine parents
[1053.24 --> 1054.26] who said,
[1054.32 --> 1054.78] yeah, yeah, yeah,
[1054.78 --> 1055.76] I want kids,
[1056.06 --> 1057.32] but I don't want kids
[1057.32 --> 1058.64] who mess with my lives
[1058.64 --> 1059.40] and my schedule.
[1059.40 --> 1065.42] Don't become a parent
[1065.42 --> 1069.02] because that's how it goes.
[1069.78 --> 1070.30] Right?
[1070.40 --> 1071.36] That's not the pathway
[1071.36 --> 1072.72] to love.
[1072.80 --> 1074.14] Love is about serving,
[1074.36 --> 1075.34] which means your schedules
[1075.34 --> 1076.48] get messed with
[1076.48 --> 1079.00] and there's lots of inconvenience.
[1079.00 --> 1081.94] all of real life
[1081.94 --> 1083.90] is about sacrifice.
[1084.32 --> 1085.12] My life for you.
[1086.22 --> 1086.90] That's the key
[1086.90 --> 1087.72] to great parenting.
[1087.90 --> 1088.16] It's the key
[1088.16 --> 1089.00] to a great marriage.
[1089.12 --> 1089.38] It's the key
[1089.38 --> 1090.24] to great friendships.
[1090.62 --> 1091.78] It's in great communities
[1091.78 --> 1092.58] and great lives.
[1092.88 --> 1093.26] Paul says,
[1093.32 --> 1093.98] you get to choose.
[1094.20 --> 1096.34] Choose the vain glory way
[1096.34 --> 1098.30] where you're trying
[1098.30 --> 1100.18] to fill your glory
[1100.18 --> 1100.94] somehow
[1100.94 --> 1102.14] or the way of Jesus.
[1102.14 --> 1103.40] One of those ways
[1103.40 --> 1104.16] has fruit
[1104.16 --> 1105.44] and the other
[1105.44 --> 1106.68] has nothing
[1106.68 --> 1108.38] that brings life.
[1110.52 --> 1111.46] So how do you get there?
[1112.44 --> 1113.44] Kind of talks about that
[1113.44 --> 1115.70] in verses 12 and 14.
[1115.78 --> 1116.60] Paul at one point says,
[1117.18 --> 1118.46] we are a whole new person.
[1118.84 --> 1120.66] We're a whole new creation
[1120.66 --> 1121.40] in Christ.
[1123.14 --> 1124.42] And then he talks about,
[1124.48 --> 1124.72] you know,
[1125.40 --> 1126.90] some of them are boasting
[1126.90 --> 1128.14] in the work they're doing
[1128.14 --> 1129.16] in other people's lives
[1129.16 --> 1130.20] when they convince them
[1130.20 --> 1131.10] to get circumcised
[1131.10 --> 1131.56] and all that.