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Today I want to share with you in this part two on the subject of pivotal decisions. Pivotal decisions. I'm going to Judges 13. I don't know if I'll

get there in the next few minutes. So if you don't know where judges in is in the Bible,

you're going to have a good head start. If you prefer to just look at the screen, that's okay, too.

But I wonder as I get started, how many of you right now are in the middle of making a big decision

for your life? Would you raise your hand if you're in the middle of making a big decision for your life.

Would you raise your hand if you're in the middle of making a big decision for your life and

keep it up?

Keep it up.

So what are you going to do?

How are you going to do like pros and cons or you're going to like flip a coin.

If it comes to that, you've got a plan for this?

You're going to ask a lot of people until somebody tells you what you want to hear like we all do.

Just keep asking people until you get the answer that you wanted so they can confirm the thing that you were going to do all along anyway. Now you wasted everybody's time, just asking them stuff that you already knew what you were going to do. What are you going to do? You're going to like just stress eat and put it off to the last minute? That's always a good plan. I like that. I like to just watch Netflix instead, personally, put it off to the last

minute, then make the decision when the pressure's on. The crazy thing is when I say that, a big

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