Scripture to Superheroes to Everyday You Heroes

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Coming up on Renewed Mindsets.

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What is a hero to you?

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A hero kills people, people that we should harm.

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A hero is part human and part supernatural.

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A hero is born out of a childhood trauma or out of a disaster.

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I believe you're thinking of a superhero.

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We all have a hero in our heart.

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Michael, let's go boys.

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Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets, the totally awesome podcast for Gen Xers who are ready to bust a move with the hand we were dealt.

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I'm Rick, and if you're feeling discontent with the way life has turned out, well, we're the goonies you're looking for.

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We're here to guide you in purging what you think you know, breaking free from conforming to this world and transforming your mind into the Christ-centered powerhouse.

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It was destined to be.

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Calm that mullet and grab a can of new Coke.

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It's time to get radical.

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Dude, I'm so glad you're here.

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I love a good action movie.

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Even when the odds are against the hero, they sometimes somehow manage to turn things around and by the end, the universe is safe once again.

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Now, why does this matter?

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Now, as a podcaster with an email, I hear at least one really sad story every day, sometimes two or three.

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And if you spend your day reading these things and helping others.

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You know what it's like.

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So when I'm done for the day, I'm not in the mood to go home and watch some tear-jerking movie or anything that's overly emotional.

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I've had my fill of feelings for the day.

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What I need is to see things blowing up.

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The more over the top, the better.

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I want explosions in space that make sound, even though, as a product of the 80s, I know that in space no one can hear you scream.

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The more aliens, the better.

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I just want to escape from the real world for a while.

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I need to do something totally unreal.

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Hollywood is great at distorting reality, whether it's an action-packed adventure or a drama or anything in between.

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That's why I turn to movies.

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When I need a break from reality for an hour or so, that's where I go.

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When I need a break from reality for an hour or so, that's where I go.

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But recently I find myself asking what really makes a hero a hero in real life.

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I didn't want some shallow, meaningless answer from Hollywood.

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How would God answer that question?

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And after watching countless action movies, I realized I still didn't know.

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It became clear that the answers that I was seeking wasn't going to be found in a movie from Hollywood.

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Is it even possible to be a hero in God's eyes?

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Should I be concerned with becoming one of God's heroes?

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And if I am, or if I should be, how can I achieve that?

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So, to find the answers, I decided to go to the Bible, looking for stories of heroism and the strength of heart needed to stand firm as God's champion.

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So what we're going to talk about is what I found.

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How do heroes, how do real heroes actually do it?

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Not just how they end up with the girl, or how do they keep from freezing in fear while everything happens around them.

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How do God's heroes trust that God is going to come through for them exactly when they need it?

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Where does that kind of bravery come from when the odds are clearly against you?

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You don't just give the Sunday school answer either.

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You don't just give the Sunday school answer either.

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If you tell me that you just have to have faith, I won't be ticked off, because that doesn't offer anything practical, and faith is part of the answer.

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But it raises even more questions.

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Where does that faith come from?

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How do they know?

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Where do they find the courage to take that first step?

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How do they get chosen.

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How, how, how?

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I can't answer all those questions, but I think I've figured out why the answer is so hard to pin down In a single sentence being a hero for God.

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It ain't glamorous.

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Being a hero sounds exciting, so we expect the how to be just as thrilling.

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But in real life, the how isn't glamorous at all.

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The journey to becoming a hero is so boring, so less exciting than the destination.

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It's actually pretty ordinary.

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Than the destination, it's actually pretty ordinary, it's predictable.

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And it's not a secret.

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The truth is, anybody can be God's hero.

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That's why it's often overlooked.

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We assume that only certain special people with some extraordinary quality can be heroes, and when we see acts of great faith, it's easy to think well, that could never be me, I mean.

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After all, who sees Harrison Ford and thinks that we all get to be both Han Solo and Indiana Jones in one lifetime?

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Or, on a lesser scale, julie Andrews she played Mary Poppins and Maria from the Sound of Music all in the same year.

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It's very rare, almost impossible, something that happens to very few people.

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Now I wonder if we transfer that sort of rarity over to real life, allowing Hollywood to pollute and confuse reality, what would it look like Life is very prejudiced, and that's not the way God rolls.

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He's an equal opportunity, hero, maker.

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God is not the one who shows partiality due to a person's station in life or their wealth, and he can't be bribed and he can't be manipulated.

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Deuteronomy 10.17 says For the Lord, your God, is the God of gods and the Lord of lords.

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He is the great God, the mighty and awesome God, who shows no partiality and cannot be bribed.

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And in Acts, chapter 10, 34-35,.

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Then Peter replied I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism.

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In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right Dang.

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Even those sent by Jesus' enemies admitted that he was impartial and didn't play favorites Matthew 22, 16.

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Everyone knew Jesus is a straight shoot and equal opportunity Savior.

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Nobody's more qualified or more advantaged than another when it comes to becoming one of God's champions.

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Now even look at all the famous people in the Bible.

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Have you ever been reading about the incredible faith of somebody and the courage and thought?

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Well, I could never do that.

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You hear about Noah building the ark, moses parting the sea, david defeating Goliath, joshua bringing down the walls of Jericho, even the apostles healing the sick.

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How did they do that.

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How did they know they would succeed and where did they find the courage to even try?

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You know, in every case that I can think of.

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The biblical hero's journey didn't begin with the exploit that they're best known for, and that's not where their relationship with God started either.

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The truth is, beginning at zero is a requirement for making it to hero.

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First you got to be a zero, then you be the hero.

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Right, I'm going to double down and say that only zeros can become heroes.

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Nobody begins at hero.

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Now, I'm a bit of a superhero nerd.

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I'm the kind of guy that has an opinion, whether Marvel superheroes or DC heroes are the best, whether it's a movie or based on the comics.

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But the fictitious superheroes, even the ones I thought of in the top of my head, they all have a backstory.

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Even the villains do.

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Something happened in their past that pushed them one way or another, or the guide that came along to show them the way was either good or evil and influenced them down the road one way or the other.

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But even that's a backstory.

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Zero comes before hero.

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Noah was already a righteous and blameless man that walked in fellowship with God for 600 years prior to the flood.

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Moses was 80, and he had a rocky start for 40 years and he was still arguing with God when he was called to be a hero.

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David had already killed a bear and a lion while he was still a shepherd Little boy.

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Joshua watched Moses lead the people for decades before his big day and yet he was still very fearful when God replaced Moses with him.

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The apostles had three and a half years with Jesus and made a lot of mistakes before they did anything noteworthy.

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And just throwing it in for good measure, paul, remember Paul?

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He was Saul.

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His backstory is pretty negative up to that point that we meet him and really he was kind of a hero to some people's minds back then.

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Just not in God's.

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Little did he know that he was one little short donkey ride away from becoming God's flag bearer.

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Little did he know that he was one little short donkey ride away from becoming God's flag bearer.

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In every case, I can think of the Bible's hero.

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His journey didn't begin with the exploit that they're known for.

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The hero's story doesn't just start with the heroic act.

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Heroes don't wake up one day and decide to become the main character in some epic tale.

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Even Jesus didn't begin his life with his greatest moment of self-sacrifice.

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He grew into it.

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Check out Hebrews 5, 7-9.

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To truly understand a hero's journey you have to know the whole story, from beginning to end.

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Books, movies, any kind of narrative it's meant to be read from start to finish.

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Now I know that might sound obvious, but, believe it or not, some people actually skip to the end first to see if it's a happily ever after.

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But that's not how the author intended it to be read.

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Reading a novel or a biography or a history out of order can spoil the story and make it hard to understand.

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Now, this might not be popular what I'm about to say, but Sunday school might have given you the wrong idea.

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Yeah, the way those stories are often told.

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You'd think that the famous Bible characters were born ready to fight giants and lead armies practically with swords in hand while they're still in diapers.

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But that's not true at all.

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They started out as babies just like everybody else, and grew up as ordinary people far from heroes.

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This is a great place to start unpacking the secret of becoming a hero.

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When you follow a character's development, you're going to find that heroes and even villains go through similar experiences that, if they're understood and applied, can help anybody become a hero in God's eyes.

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Thankfully, we don't have to look far to see what it takes to go from zero to hero.

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As I've explored and studied the Bible for this podcast, I've noticed several recurring themes that show how ordinary people become God's champions.

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Now let me say this Many of you might think that heroes are just a special kind of people, different from us, as if they were just born that way, but the truth is people who do extraordinary things with God grow into it over time.

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They face smaller battles first.

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They get experience, they learn along the way.

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They win some, they lose some, but both victories and losses build their strength of character and their determination.

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God places people in heroic situations that he specifically groomed and prepared them for.

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Their abilities aren't about physical and mental skills, but about having a strong heart and a deep, well-tested confidence in God.

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Greatness is grown If you think about it.

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Greatness has always grown.

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People with great potential become people of wasted potential if they don't choose growth.

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If they choose entitlement or chance or bribery or luck or some other way to get there, their potential is largely wasted.

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Let's go back to Hollywood for a second.

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This isn't found in a movie script, but in real life.

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Now, while I was looking up Harrison Ford and Julie Andrews that I talked about earlier, I just checked out Chris Pratt's IMDb.

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Now you know Chris Pratt.

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He played Owen Grady in Jurassic World and he played Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy.

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But Chris Pratt was anything but a hero.

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If you get on the IMDb and you go way down on the credits list, you see some titled miscellaneous crew and you're going to find his name beside assistant to the producers on a movie called the steel from 1995.

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Now, since Chris Pratt was born in 1979, that made him about 16 years old.

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Now I don't know what that job entailed, but I kind of see an errand boy running around fetching Starbucks and making copies.

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Now for sure that was formative for him.

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It absolutely gave him an appetite and a vision and even some idea of the behind-the-scenes workings of a Hollywood movie set.

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Even Star-Lord had an unheroic backstory, and it's not luck.

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Do I even need to say that it takes work and consistency and determination to become a hero?

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Listen to what I'm saying.

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To become a hero, listen to what I'm saying.

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Heroic results are the product of a personal choice, not some random selection.

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God's heroes are not the result of activating a massive dormant gene, some kind of potential, inside their body, but it's little steps of everyday bravery by everyday people.

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Every single Bible character that eventually became the subject of a children's Bible story had a moment in their life.

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No, no, no, no, no, no.

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They had multiple moments in their lives where they were faced with a decision to do something that eventually added up to their heroic growth.

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God's heroes, or their pre-heroes, his pre-heroes, had to choose to bloom where they were planted.

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I got some examples of these pre-heroes in the Bible.

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Look at Joseph he was a servant.

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Look at how he was as a servant and later on in jail.

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Moses on the backside of the desert before the burning bush moment.

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Dwight Schrute serving as assistant to the regional manager, michael Scott.

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Joshua as Moses' apprentice.

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David tending the sheep in the fields.

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Jesus' disciples facing confusing or controversial teachings that challenge their traditions and leaders.

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One of these things is not like the others.

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Sorry, I'm really on a Dwight Schrute kick today, but there's countless more Many heroes whose stories aren't even recorded in the Bible or historic records.

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Heroic actions aren't about unlocking some hidden genetic potential, but the result of small acts of bravery every day by ordinary people.

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God seeks men and women who serve faithfully, right where they are, whether it's their job or their position, whether it's glorious or humble, whether they're being watched or they're alone, whether there seems to be room for advancement or not, whether it aligns with their previous interests and dreams or not, whether it fits with what God had revealed about their future or not, whether it see what I mean.

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The key is not to be in the right place at the right time, which is out of our control and it can't be staged.

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The secret is to be the right person when the opportunity comes to do the mundane and ordinary with extraordinary faithfulness.

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People don't become heroes as a result of happenstance and luck, but by consistency and integrity.

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Say it another way God's heroes are not fortunate.

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They're faithful Heroes, don't sit around and do little or nothing, waiting for the heroic time to come to them.

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They get up and they do what's in front of them, and they're ready to seize the moment when providence gives them the opportunity of a lifetime.

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They pray to God and row toward the shore.

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They do the last thing God told them to do until God gives them a new thing to do, and then they do it in humble dependence on God, not in an arrogant, self-promoting independence, with stubbornness and selfishness.

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God's heroes aren't super saints, they're just regular saints.

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They're ordinary people like you and me.

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If you read only the end of their stories, it's easy to think that they were extraordinary super saints or even a little bit crazy.

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It's natural to look at their incredible acts of courage and faith and think that they were far from ordinary.

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But when you look more closely at their journeys, especially at the start, it's rarely the case, and the Bible makes no effort to gloss over their warts and scars.

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They were all born the same way and put their pants or their skirts on one leg at a time.

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Their humble beginnings are the perfect place where you can follow God's lead, step after step after step after step, if you feel rather normal or unexceptionable.

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Listen to me, you're in good company.

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Listen to me, you have the makings of greatness in you.

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Listen to me, you are hero material.

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Take a look at the qualifications to be an elder in 1 and 2 Timothy and in Titus, in 1 Timothy, 3, 1 through 13,.

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You'll find that the qualifications are basically what every follower of Christ should strive for, apart from the specific gifts of hospitality and teaching that you need for the role of elder, and the description fits any ordinary person.

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The scripture even notes that church leaders should not be new believers to avoid the risk of pride and to falling into temptation.

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Now this shows that they need to have faced and overcome smaller everyday challenges.

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First, there's that backstory.

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Now deacons they got to be thoroughly examined and pass certain tests to prove their readiness to serve.

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This reinforces the idea Backstory, backstory, backstory.

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None of these requirements are extraordinary or unique.

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They're what any committed Christ follower should embody.

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Now truth these leaders need certain gifts, but those gifts don't make them into God's heroes.

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They're simply suited to their roles because of their backstory and track record.

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What really qualifies them is how they've proven themselves, including their reputation with people outside the church.

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None of this is extraordinary.

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Really, the more ordinary you are, the better suited you are for herohood.

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There's a good word herohood.

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There are no super saints, just regular saints.

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They were given prominent missions, but their extraordinary ability the fact that they are extraordinary comes from their faithfulness in everyday life, not from any kind of special qualities.

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The real difference isn't in the individual, but in the job that God gives them.

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God's heroes start as ordinary people and they're faithful where they are and they choose to trust God when he calls them.

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It's called Wisdom for the Day.

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You can find it at wisdomforthedayorg or right here, wherever you're listening to this podcast.

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Just do a search for Wisdom for the Day.

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It's basically a daily podcast from the book of Proverbs.

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I read about two verses a day and do a deep dive on those two verses.

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Now, when you say deep dive on two verses, it's only going to be about five or six minutes, so you don't have to devote your whole life to another podcast.

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As much as I appreciate you listening to this one, I really want you to listen to the next one and I don't want to take up all your time.

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So give me five minutes.

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You can listen to that while you're shaving.

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You can listen to that while you're shaving.

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You can listen to it when you first get in the car and waiting for it to warm up or cool off.

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I guess now, since it's going to be summer, I'd appreciate it.

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If you like it, let somebody else know about it too.

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That's wisdomforthedayorg.

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I love you, see ya.

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I love you See ya.

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Well, that's all for this week's show.

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You know, the name of this show speaks my hope for you.

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It's taken from the words of Romans, chapter 12, verse 2.

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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing, you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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If you enjoyed what you heard, do me a favor, please, and tell someone you know about it.

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Send them a link in a text you know you may even need to download it to their phone and show them what a podcast is.

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If it was valuable to you, it will be to them.

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Visit renewedmindsetscom to hear past episodes, read the blog and check out the new merch.

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And, as always, while you're there, send me a voicemail by clicking the button at the bottom right corner of the main page.

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Tell me what you think about this show.

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I just might play it on a future episode.

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Until next week, I'm Rick.

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I love you.

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See ya?

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The intro and outro music for the Renewed Mindsets podcast is Are you Ready?

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By Floodgate From the album Are you Ready?

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Copyright 2002, offbeat Ministries Incorporated.

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Floodgate can be found on Apple Music and iTunes Music used with permission.

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Sit Ubu, sit Good dog.