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That most of them would be like, yeah, I'll buy you that set of books.

And if they are not willing to buy that set of books, give me their number.

I'll call them and tell them that they should buy you that set of books.

Okay, not really.

Well, maybe actually come and talk to me.

Alright, we're going to have prayer here real quick.

And I want to talk to you tonight about how to keep it real father in Heaven.

Bless us as we spend this time together.

Lord, tonight's a big one and it's one.

I'm a little nervous about not because I'm nervous to be preaching or teaching, but because I think I might say too much and so father gives me wisdom.

Give me Grace to know how to say, what needs to be said.

And how do not say what I should not say.

And this is my prayer in Jesus name.

Let everyone say, amen.

And amen.

All right.

Well, I have two sons.

Landon is 20 and 18 and both of my sons act as kind of what I called Emoji police.

And what I mean by that is like, emojis are kind of a new phenomenon.

Many of you have grown up your whole lives use PetSmart phones.

They have at least been aware of smartphones and you sort of know which emojis to use in which situation but my sons would sometimes come over and look at the text.

I was sending to my friends, to my family members, to my wife, to my church members, and they would say to me over and over again.

That's the wrong emoji.

I think that's the right Emoji to what I'm trying to say here.

Oh, no.

That's the wrong Emoji.

You should be using this emoji.

And we have these like arguments about Emoji, protocols and none of them can use that many emojis.

And so what are the emojis that I think I know how to use correctly.

Is this one, right?

You familiar with this one?

It's the 100 emoji, which is basically a way of saying like, yes, definitely absolutely one-hundred and we will sometimes use phrases like keep it 100, right or or keep it real.

And when you say that you're here, sometimes people, you know in a really braggadocious way to a man.

I keep it 100.

What they're saying is there truth?

Tellers their authentic.

They don't flatter people.

They don't play the political game that don't play the posturing game.

Nah, son.

I keep it real.

Okay, you keep it real.

You're awesome.

You're A Cut Above.

The Rest of us.

You are perfectly transparent and you're always a truth-teller, not true, of course, but that's how people like to present themselves.

And we'll, we'll sort of elevate people that are claiming to be really authentic and really transparent and you know, keeping it real or keeping it 100.

I actually went to dictionary.com just to look up that phrase, keep it 100 and it's a little hard to see, but I'll read it for you hear it.

It says, what does keep it 100 mean.

Keep it 100 is a slang phrase that means being authentic and truthful attend to keeping it real and noticed that word comes up again.

Authentic being real, not being insincere, not being disingenuous, but being real, keeping it 100 and I would go so far as to say, the in the culture and context and climate that people under the age of about 25 today, live in, you could almost say that the highest social value.

The highest of all the various moral hierarchies that are available is authenticity, living an authentic life, young.

People have always been able to snap out in sincerity to snap out hiphoprisy to snap out when somebody's not telling the truth or being perfectly up front.

I mean from a very young age are two sons, which they get Dad.

You told me this, but you did this.

Write like children are wired for idealism.

They're wired to pick up in consistencies.

They see hip hop, Chrissy, and that's right.

No problems at all with that.

And yet at the same time.

We can almost delude ourselves into thinking that because we have a nose for insincerity or hiphoprisy.

That that means we are automatically living authentic live for keeping it real for keeping it 100 in Tilton.

I don't want to talk about the nature of living an authentic life.

I want to talk about what authenticity is and what authenticity is and I'm 100% sure that we passed around a piece of paper.

So we took a survey and said, do you want to live an authentic life?

100% of you would say, yes.

Nobody would say, no.

I want to live in, insincere disingenuous inauthentic.

Like people want to live real authentic lives sincere life.

They want to keep it real.

They want to keep it 100.

And this is especially true when you're in that sort of sub twenty-five-year-old category, and you're very idealistic, very even at times.

Let's be real judgmental.

You see the way the world should be and you're going to hold the rest of the world kind of to account, right?

If I don't live up to what you think is fair and right.

So I've been reading a book credible book.

I would recommend it, but I can only recommend it if you I don't want to I know you're doing a lot of reading already.

I thought this is not a book that I would recommend without reservation without qualification.

It's a heavy book.

It's a deep book.

It's titled, the rise and Triumph of the modern self written by New Testament, Theologian and ecclesiastical history, and Carl trueman.

Now, it's a little difficult to see down at the bottom.

But the subtitle is cultural Amnesia expressive individualism and the road to sexual Revolution, absolutely fascinating book.

Okay, if you're into historical movements, how we arrived at the place that we are today, and this weird Wild Wonderful, woolly World modern technology.

It's a great book to read.

Because what you learn is we did not arrive here today in 2021.

By merely the events that happened in 2020 or 2010 or 2000 Visa vents of actually been predicated and preceded by writers and Poets and philosophers going back.

Post-enlightenment.

So about the last two hundred years and Incredible Book.

Now, the book is deep, its broad is erudite, its research.

It's not an easy book to read, but there is so much gold in there and I want to spend a little time tonight.

In encouraging, you to put your thinking cap on for at least.

The first part of the presentation tonight messages going to be maybe a little schizophrenic in this sense.

I'm going to ask you to do a little bit of thinking with me and then we're going to make some application specifically with regards to what it means to be authentic to live with authenticity, to keep it real to keep it 100.

So, one of the things that Truman talks about in his book, The Rise in Triumph of the modern self, he's actually using a Rubric that was invented by a Canadian philosopher by the name of Charles Taylor.

And I wouldn't imagine that many of you know, who Charles Taylor is, but hugely influential political and social philosopher and Taylor has created this sort of way of evaluating and describing the world in which we live.

And I need you to come with me on this journey a little bit Taylor says that there are basically two ways of viewing reality MK1 is through mimesis and the other is through poiesis.

Okay, let's just talk about these two words, their Greek words, the word mimesis think of the word MIME.

You know, what mine is.

A my name is someone who you know pretends they don't speak, they act out things, right?

So I can actor the trying to imitate something or resemble something.