254: Drew Lawrence – Exhortation: Risk

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Welcome to good Chris Elfian
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And now let’s talk more about.
This week’s Talk

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This week’s talk is an
excitation by Brother Drew

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Lawrence that was given at the
San Diego Ecclesia.

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He’s a member there in January
of 2021.

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So it this is one kind of going
back to we we we post a lot of

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these kind of COVID coronavirus
pandemic era talks which he does

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kind of mention at the beginning
and I think his it is a

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worthwhile consideration for the
context of his topic.

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So as you know from the title
the title is Risk.

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But he does a really interesting
job kind of talking about how

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really at the end of the day
love is a risk and how we have

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to take risks in our life
technically we and and he has a

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bunch of beautiful lines at the
end of the exhort before you

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know what kind of sets the table
throughout the beginning very

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well.
And then I feel that the the

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last five minutes are is really
when he kind of pounds the point

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that that love is a risk, that
vulnerability is a risk and

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that, you know, technically,
while we, we don’t think of

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being risky as also being
spiritual, we do.

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We are advised to, you know, to
open up to each other and to

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love each other, which really is
the ultimate risk.

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So this is a really, really
beautiful excitation and I was

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really happy to to finally get
to it.

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This is actually a suggestion
from when it happened from, you

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know, over 2 1/2 years ago and
it’s been on our list for a

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while.
And I’m actually wanting to

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thank Sister Jamie who was our.
I got to thank her twice because

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she was the guest host for a
couple weeks in July, which

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gives us a gives us a break as
we are usually traveling or busy

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in the summer.
We’ve done this if you’ve

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listened to the show for a
while, we we usually have a

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guest host in July.
Jamie’s also one of our

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volunteers now who does the
social media posting and she

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volunteered to go through and
listen to a bunch of the

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suggestions that we’ve had, some
of the ones that have piled up

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for a while and kind of download
the talk for us and make it even

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easier for us to post it.
So really me sharing Drew’s talk

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is a credit to to Jamie’s work
and and and my laziness

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essentially to finally get to
it.

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But I know, I know Drew quite
well and I’m very thankful to

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have to to share this talk and
to have listened to it and to

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now share it with you.
This is a great exertation.

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That’s something I’ll be
thinking about through this

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week.
So please do continue to send

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suggestions.
We’re even more organized than

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we used to be and we will, we
will get to all of them.

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We we thank you all for
listening.

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And here is Risk by brother Drew
Lawrence.

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Hey, good morning, everyone.
It’s it’s great to be here I

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guess on the 1st Sunday of 2021.
And I bet you’re all glad that

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2020 is finally over.
It’s 2021.

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And of course all the problems
of 2020 are gone.

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Now that hindsight is officially
2020.

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Covid’s gone.
Everything’s back to normal.

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Clearly joking.
But it did kind of feel like

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that would be the case.
You know, this next year will

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come.
All the problems of the past

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year will be gone.
Clearly.

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Clearly not the case.
But it is.

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It is the start of a new year.
And perhaps at the time to pause

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and reflect on the past year and
to look forward to the new year,

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You know, it’s common practice
for many people to do

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resolutions around this time of
year.

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So yeah, so we can we can look
to that this new year.

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So it does just feel like
yesterday that I wrote an

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expectation on the need to slow
down.

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And that was what feels like
literally a moment ago.

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And and it kind of feels like
nothing has changed.

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And to be honest, society around
us feels like we’re almost in

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the exact same place we were in.
And that was in May.

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So, you know, uncertainty,
abounding cases, surging

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lockdowns, lots of political
turmoil, We’re kind of in the

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same place.
But today I want to take a

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different approach.
And this morning I want to, I

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want to discuss the idea of
risk.

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It’s something I’ve been
thinking about.

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And when I say that maybe your
your red flags are going to go

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up and you’ll be triggered as to
what I may be thinking or

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talking about, you know, he’s
going to talk about COVID and

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the risks about and his views on
that.

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Well, sorry to disappoint.
I’m not, and I want to be

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explicitly clear that I’m not
and I want to.

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Fully assure you that my words
this morning are not about that.

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But I don’t deny, however, that
there’s a strong likelihood that

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that’s where my thoughts
stemmed.

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I’m sure it’s inspired by by not
thinking about risk and what is

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risk, what it means, where it
comes from, all those things.

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And I do think that society has
been moving in a direction where

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we think we can move, remove all
risk from our lives and I think

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that’s been detrimental.
I think we are shielded from

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many of the harsh realities of
the world of of life just by the

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nature of us modernizing over
the years.

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And I think that’s kind of led
us to a place where I think

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there could be some problems.
And I think maybe the biggest

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reason I’ve been thinking about
risk is I’ve been, I’ve been

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looking at, you know, some
concepts around.

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Happiness.
What?

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What makes people happy?
I’m always interested in

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different people’s views on
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So I’ve read some books from,
you know, some very successful

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people who are not spiritual at
all.

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I’m trying to see what their
thoughts are and and the

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quickest side.
And it’s kind of funny how how

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much they are filled with
spiritual concepts without the

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spirituality.
Some of them even go as far as

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saying they pray, but they’re
atheists, but.

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But that’s an aside.
So I was thinking about

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memories.
You know what?

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What are some of my best
memories?

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And you know what makes me
happy?

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Those kind of questions, you
know, especially as you look

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back over the last year, you
know, what were the best

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moments?
You know what’s and and what

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brought the most meaning, I
guess.

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And undoubtedly I could conclude
that experiences were much more

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valuable than things.
I think we would know that.

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But another thing I noticed, at
least for me, was that all of

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these important memories involve
some sort of risk.

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And let me share one with you.
This was from, you know, a few

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years ago, but a good friend of
mine who loves, loves hiking and

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doing.
He wants to do all the state

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high points, So basically the
highest point in each state.

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You know, just climb to it,
check it off a list.

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So he was flying down to to.
To do the high points in Nevada,

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in California and invited me to
go along and so.

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So I was excited.
Our plan was to climb Nevada’s

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first, which is called Boundary
Peak and it’s just above 13,000

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feet.
So it’s probably the highest I’d

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ever climbed at the time.
So with this hike, it’s more one

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of the more difficult ones to
get to because this list is just

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the highest point.
It’s not like there’s accessible

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roads to all of them.
It’s just kind of.

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Like a list that people go to.
So like even the trail was not

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an official trail.
I don’t believe it’s just kind

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of people who are doing this
that tend to go there.

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So as we kind of explored you
know, maps and trail reports and

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what we could get from it, we
researched you know basically

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the road like how are we going
to get close enough to where we

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can hike this in a reasonable
amount of time.

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And one thing that we noticed
was it it highly recommended,

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you know, high clearance 4 wheel
drive vehicle to get there.

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Some reports said you could get
there in other other cars

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through like sure, we’ll figure
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And since my friend was coming
down from from Canada, I was

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like yeah, I’ll drive, we’ll
figure it out.

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So around the same time I was
looking for a new car and I

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bought, you know, a four wheel
drive Audi wagon.

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And if I’m truly honest with
myself, I kind of bought it for

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the trip thinking I’ve got 4
wheel drive, I’ll be able to get

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up there.
So off we went and as we get

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into Nevada and off kind of the
main mainish Rd.

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I mean you’re in the middle of
nowhere up this old mining Rd.

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leading up to the mountains
didn’t start too bad.

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And the road keeps getting
narrower, narrower.

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The potholes keep getting larger
and larger to the point where

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you’re driving and.
Straddling over them, just

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trying to find a place to, to
get across.

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We’re not going to fall in and
get stuck in parts.

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You know, the brush is just so
tight.

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It’s just scraping along the
side of the car.

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And at this point we had
mentally committed, partially

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because we couldn’t turn around,
but also because, you know,

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that’s why we’re here.
We came down to do this, so

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there’s no way we’re going to
try and turn back.

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So eventually we got to the spot
where we we were close enough.

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Where we could park, it was at a
mine where there was kind of an

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open area, but it would add, you
know, a couple 1000 feet of

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climbing.
So we decided, you know, it’s

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only like 2 more miles if I
remember correctly.

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And we’re like, let’s push on.
It wasn’t that bad to this

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point, but once we started up
this next stretch it, it just

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got insane for for our car and
we had to straddle.

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The road, basically the center
of the road just from you know

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where cars had come before, it
was too high for, for our

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vehicle.
Like it would just hit the

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bottom and then there’s big
rocks and we would get hung up.

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So we’re driving on the center
of the road and like the edge of

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a Cliff, basically trying to get
up this thing and it’s all

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shale.
So we couldn’t stop.

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We had to just keep going and
amazingly, we made, we made it,

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you know, we camped there, we
hiked the peak the next day and

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it was a amazing spot with.
Wild horses and deer and and

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this the whole time I I was, you
know, quite anxious because not

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only do you have to get there,
but you have to get out.

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So my mind’s on that, especially
because, you know, it’s my car.

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And trying to figure that out,
you know, on the way down, it

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was kind of the same story.
You know, we did end up blowing

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out a tire in one one spot where
we had to.

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To go right to the edge.
And we kind of slid down a rock

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and it popped the tire, but we
made it out.

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You know, we had a spare we and
it and it worked out.

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But you know, why do I tell you
this?

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I think for me, that’s a really
good memory that I cherish.

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And it’s something that, you
know, perhaps I wouldn’t

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normally do, and perhaps it’s
just because I was with friends

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on an adventure.
Perhaps it’s just how memory

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works.
Maybe we just don’t ignore the

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mundane and just remember the
unique.

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But it’s always like that for
me, and almost always I don’t

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want to go do these things when
it finally comes down to it and

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I calculate all the risks and
all the problems.

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Another brief story was just
recently, you know, we got a

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storm come through, you know,
the mountains were getting snow.

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Kelly and I are watching.
Watching the weather and we saw

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it supposed to snow pretty good
up in the mountains.

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And we were discussing if we
should take the kids up there.

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You know, we had a place to stay
by ourselves, but the fireplace

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is out, you know, there’s no
insulation at at this place.

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There’s tons of variables
outside of our control.

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It’s pretty remote.
We don’t know if it’s like the

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plow of the road going up to it.
If we get a ton of snow, we

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could be stuck for a while, and
if we lost power, we could lose

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any source of heat.
And who knows, you know, if we

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would get stuck but.
And we didn’t even tell the kids

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our plans until about an hour
before we left because we were

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just contemplating, should we
go, Should we not, You know, but

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we did.
We ended up going and and it was

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a really special time.
And it’s again one of those

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memories that was really well
worth it.

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And we did get a ton of snow.
We did.

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I did have to shovel us out, but
but it was great.

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And I guess I realize most of my
cherished memories and and

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thinking of those and and many
others involve some sort of

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risk.
And most of the time there are

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things I know deep down that I
wanted to do.

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But the realistic side of me,
when it really comes down to it

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doesn’t want to do it.
You know, I always find that

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when I go hiking or or wherever,
you know, I wake up in the

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morning and I almost don’t go.
And like, I don’t want to go.

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But what pushes me through is
knowing I’m always thankful I

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did.
Maybe you’re a bit like that as

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well.
So this theme seemed big when

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I’m looking back at at memories.
And so I wanted to look a little

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bit into, you know, the Bible
and risk, Like risk, at least

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for me, if I say that in the
context of the Bible is.

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I’m not sure why.
Maybe you’re a bit the same.

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But when I hear that, you know,
you hear a little voice inside

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saying, like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
you know, we’re Christians.

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We’re godly people.
We don’t take risks.

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That’s unwise and foolish.
Maybe that’s just me.

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Maybe you’re the total opposite.
But that was my initial gut

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reaction.
And maybe it’s just the word

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risk because it kind of brings
up a connotation we aren’t used

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to.
But I actually like it.

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But risk is everywhere in the
Bible, as as you’re probably

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thinking about Abraham.
He risked everything when he

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left everything he knew.
He risked his son’s life by

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being being willing to sacrifice
him.

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We have the story of Esther, you
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She knew the law.
And for anyone who approached

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the king without being summoned
would be put to death unless he

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lifted a scepter.
And and we could read through

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that but but we all know the
story.

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And in in Esther’s response to
more decay.

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I in verse 15, you know, she
says go gather all the Jews to

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be found in Sousa and hold it
fast on my behalf and neither

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eat nor drink for three days,
night or day.

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I and my maids will also fast as
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Then I will go to the king,
though it is against the law,

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and if I perish, I perish.
So those are such strong words

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to me, you know, like if I
perish, I perish.

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She’s taking a a massive risk
and we see this in in so many

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story.
I mean basically every story.

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You know, we see Shadrack Mishak
in a bed and ago, You know,

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Nebuchadnezzar sets up his image
and he commands them when the

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trumpet sounds that everyone
bowed down but they refused in a

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similar sentiment.
You know, oh, Nebuchadnezzar,

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they say in Daniel 3:15, we have
no need to answer you in this

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matter.
If it be so, our God whom we

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serve, is able to deliver us and
from the burning fiery furnace,

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and he will deliver us out of
your hand, O king.

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But if not, be it known to you,
O king, that we will not serve

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your gods or worship the golden
image which you have set up no

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powerful words.
We have the example of Rahab.

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She took a huge risk in hiding
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We we have all the stories in
David’s life, especially, I

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think of, you know, David and
Goliath.

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We read in Samuel 1731 that
David said when he’s kind of

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justifying it, the Lord who
rescued me from the paw of the

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lion and the paw of the bear
will rescue me from the hand of

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of the Philistine.
And that’s when Saul said to

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David, go and may the Lord be
with you.

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We, we see Paul’s basically
Paul’s whole life, you know, we

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know when he lists off his
resume, if you will, in 2nd

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Corinthians 11, you know, five
times I received at the hands of

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the Jews the 40 lashes less 1/3
times I’ve been beaten with

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rods.
Once I was stoned, three times

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I’ve been shipwrecked.
And then the list goes on and

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on.
You know he took.

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Massive risks all the time.
In a similar sentiment I think

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we see from Paul in Acts 2024, I
do not account my life of any

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value, nor is precious to
myself.

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If only I may accomplish my
course in the ministry which I

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received from the Lord Jesus to
testify to the gospel of the

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grace of God.
We see risk when Peter stepped

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out of the boat, when Jesus
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We see risk in everything, you
know, Old Testament, New

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Testament, almost literally
every story.

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So how do we think about risk?
You know, can we avoid risk?

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Should we avoid risk?
You know, for a while I worked

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at the City of Poway on this
project that was, you know,

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doing risk management.
You know they had to do it for

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their.
Insurance that they had.

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So it was reading through, you
know, binders, a policy and

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trying to figure things out and
have basically a policy on

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everything, you know.
And the one that sticks out to

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me was basically with sidewalk,
sidewalk like tolerances.

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You know, they wanted to have at
least a policy where they’re

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marking every sidewalk crack
that’s, you know, above a

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certain threshold and getting
rid of every risk.

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And it just seemed like an
impossible task to me and

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probably is.
It’s probably for insurance

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purposes.
But anyway, can can we avoid all

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risk and and should we try?
Well, we can try, but I think

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life is risk.
Life is filled with risk, even

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if we don’t realize it.
You know, every decision we

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make, we assess the risk.
Consciously or unconsciously and

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then we make a decision based on
that assessment.

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But, but to me there is risk in
doing nothing and perhaps it’s

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the riskiest of all and perhaps
we’ve become numb to those the

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risks in everyday life.
You know, sometimes it’s that

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like, which was the case of
Pilot.

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You know, he was merciful until
it became risky.

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I mean and maybe we’re the same,
you know, we we feel maybe we

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feel loving or we feel like
we’re a loving person, but if

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we’re not showing that or if it
becomes risky, maybe it breaks

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down.
Another one that I want to look

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at is the parable of the
talents.

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Matthew 2514.
For it is just like a man about

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about to go on a journey who
called his own slaves and

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entrusted his possessions to
them, to the one who gave 5

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talents to another two and
another one and each according

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to his own ability.
And he went on his journey.

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And we know the story.
The one who got 5 earned 5 more.

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The one who got 2 earned 2 more.
And the one who received 11

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talent was rebuked because he
just returned back what was

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given.
You know they didn’t take the

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risk and not even the safest
risk of just putting it in the

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bank and getting it back with
some interest And and we read in

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in Matthew 5 this morning
basically all of these involve a

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lot of risk.
You know the idea whoever forces

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you to go one mile go with him
to give to him who asks you and

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do not turn away him who wants
to borrow from you.

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You know, all these high level
things that Jesus brings up,

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there’s risk in almost all of
them.

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And of course, I hope you know
now that the risk I’m talking

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about is not in referencing the
desire for adventure or for fame

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or notoriety, or to be noticed
or to earn God’s goodwill.

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You know, the stories above for
me were more of probably the

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desire for adventure.
That’s not what I’m talking

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about now, but I do think that
that idea of risk is so

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intricate to life and basically
hardwired into who we are and

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and what drives us.
And it’s not to experience

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self-reliance.
In fact, I think it’s the

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opposite.
The biggest risk is to let go of

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control and realize how little
control we have.

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You know, I talked about
everyday lives.

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You know, we see the risks
around us.

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We have a bunch right now.
And how can we choose God, God’s

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ways?
You know, God uses people who

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are willing to get out of their
comfort zone, uses people who

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are willing to take those risks.
So I guess I asked the question,

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you know, what risks are you
facing?

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And those could be simple
things.

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I think you know, sometimes odd
things and taking risks as you

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know, part of living by faith it
maybe is faith.

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It’s and I would argue that most
things that are worthwhile

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involve that risk.
And obviously God doesn’t

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promise short term success.
It’s not like you take a risk.

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Everything is going to be great.
You know, you could look at John

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the Baptist if you want to check
that one.

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Things don’t always turn out
great in the short term, but

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it’s not the short term that
matters.

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We like to think wait until we
have everything planned out to

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take the leap.
You know, for us having having

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kids that was a discussion we
were having.

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You know should we try and wait
until we get to a point where

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we’ve got a good job good
insurance, all of that and and

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we kind of went the way of you
know, we don’t know when that

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will be we and just kind of let
it happen and everything was

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taken care of.
But at the time we didn’t have

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an insurance.
I wouldn’t say my job was

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stable.
So I think there was a risk

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there.
You know So what is your risk?

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I think leadership is taking a
risk you’re going to upset

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people.
We could step away from that to

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avoid that risk.
Maybe it’s the the risk to take

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on a role that you you see a
need and and you think that it

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will really help.
You know, maybe it’s a risk to

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expose your talents and use
them.

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Maybe it’s a risk to stand up
for the little guy, someone

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who’s downtrodden.
Maybe it’s the risk to your

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reputation to do what’s right,
you know.

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Maybe it’s a risk to be
vulnerable.

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Perhaps it’s even the risk to
feel.

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Maybe our hearts have become
hardened.

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You know, one thing I think
about a lot is to to be

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depressed, as often said, not to
be about feeling sad, but rather

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about not feeling anything.
And by no means do I imply there

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that you can just fix it, you
know, just feel.

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But I think it is something that
we can prevent ourselves from

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doing.
Maybe it’s to take, take the

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risk to ignore the things that
don’t matter, you know, risk

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putting God in control, risk
letting your light shine before

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others.
And I I think a lot of times

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it’s especially, you know, in
our current paradigm, maybe

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it’s, you know, to risk telling
someone you appreciate them,

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risk being honest with someone,
risk calling someone things like

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that.
But perhaps the biggest risk of

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all and maybe it’s just me, you
know, is love.

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And I think it’s a weird one
because it I feel it’s kind of

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what we need and want right now.
And a lot of times it’s

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ridiculously simple.
But it’s oddly hard, you know,

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just to know you matter, that
someone cares about you.

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Those things you know
relationships are often

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difficult and and by loving by
telling someone you love them

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that can be oddly difficult and
you’re definitely opening up

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yourself to some pain and and
just to be open and and to tell

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those who we care about and to
express those things.

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You know, and it’s hard to talk
about love without talking about

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Jesus.
You can’t really separate them.

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And I want to look at a few
examples of of risk kind of

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around Jesus.
And too, specifically in Luke

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517, we see the paralytic who,
you know, I think we know the

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story, who was let down from the
roof to be healed by Jesus.

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And that’s a massive risk and a
lot of levels from his friends,

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from him, from a practical
standpoint, you know, you’re

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taking someone’s roof off.
But he took a massive risk.

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And.
And the other story I want to

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look at there was, you know, the
women with the issue of blood

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and Luke 8.
And I’ll, I’ll read this one

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starting in verse 43.
And a woman who had suffered A

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chronic flow of blood for 12
years and could not be healed by

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anyone came up behind him and
touched the fringes of of his

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cloak.
And immediately her bleeding

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stopped.
And Jesus said, who was the one

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who touched me?
And while they were all denying

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it, Peter said, Master, the
people in crowd are crowding and

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pressing in on you.
But Jesus said someone did not,

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or someone did touch me, or I
was aware that power had left

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me.
Now when the woman saw that she

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had not escaped notice, she came
trembling and fell down before

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him, and admitted in the
presence of all the people the

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reason why she had touched him
and how she had been immediately

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healed.
And he said to her daughter that

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her faith has made you, well, go
in peace.

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She took a big risk.
She risked coming to Jesus, and

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she was desperate.
And maybe that’s why she took

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the risk.
In fact, I think it was why she

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took the risk.
Just like many who approached

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Jesus, the paralytic, basically
anyone who approached Jesus, you

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know, they were desperate.
They did seemingly foolish

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things, embarrassing things, and
they climb trees.

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If you look at Zach, he is it’s
those who know they need help.

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Those who are desperate, who
come to Jesus and who are

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willing to risk everything.
Those who are at the very ends

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of themselves and desperate to
humble themselves at the feet of

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Jesus.
And they are the ones who find

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what they are looking for.
So I mentioned the Bible doesn’t

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use the word, the word risk very
much.

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But I think we see the concept
there and it sure talks a ton

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about fear and control.
And it’s important to understand

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that what our level of control
is and it’s very little and

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humble ourselves and trust God.
Yeah, we see tons of verses that

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talk about fear.
Not with Joshua.

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Haven’t heard this was Tim?
No, it was Joshua and Joshua 19.

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Have I not commanded you?
Be strong and courageous.

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Do not be terrified.
Do not be discouraged, for the

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Lord your God will be with you
wherever you go.

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So it’s kind of this fear, not
take that risk.

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Get rid of control.
Trust that God is in control of

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the situation.
Obviously not reckless risk.

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You know, mine was probably a
bit reckless.

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It’s not the quest for
adventure.

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And another important side note
is that it’s not those epic

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risks or moments in life that I
I’m talking about.

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You should strive for.
Where I think your faith gets

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stronger is more in the
day-to-day.

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You know, it’s actually this
week we’re told what great love

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looks like and it’s a risk, you
know, greater love have no man

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than this, but to lay down his
life for his friends.

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You know, Jesus exemplified this
to the very end.

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He risked everything for us and
fully trusted in God’s plan.

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So maybe this year, maybe this
week, you know, take a look

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inside and and see what those
risks are for you.

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You know, I think, I think we’ve
come accustomed to to, to not

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taking those risks to not being
vulnerable and and and you know,

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whatever it is that’s that deep,
that’s deep down in you.

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There are tons of things we can
do in our current paradigm, and

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I think especially in our
current paradigm, we need to

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take those risks.
But most of all, I think we need

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to take the risk to throw
ourselves at the feet of Jesus.

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You know, humbled loving.
Since we have no other way, we

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are desperate.
This is Jesus.

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This is love.
And yes, it’s a risk.

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