Hey, what's going on, everybody? Thank you so much for joining this week's message from Zoe Church.

We are in a series called Character Killers, the Cost of Compromise.

We're going to jump in in just a second, but before we do, I want to thank every person that gives to and through our church.

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the country, and around the world.

But let's jump into this week's message called Dealing with it.

If you got a Bible, go to Psalm 18.

Psalm 18.

We are in part two of a series that we just started called Character Kill killers, the cost of compromise.

So intense, man. Chill out. But we're really talking about what God is concerned about,

and that is our character. Now, I'm going to give you a working definition here in just a moment

of what character is, but I want to give you a working definition here in just a moment of what character

is, but I want to encourage you today that God is, in fact, this is the first quote you can put

in your phone, God is less concerned with what you're doing, and he's more concerned with who

you're becoming. In fact, I would negotiate it this way.

God's using what you're doing right now to develop who you're becoming.

Anybody you ever seen the movie Karate Kid?

Where the Karate Kid lover's at?

Remember, he took that little Daniel son outside, and he wanted to learn how to be a karate man,

and he took him outside, and he taught him how to paint a fence.

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