Paul | Episode 13
April 24, 2018
28:30
Max Lucado: Unshakable Hope
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Paul | Episode 13
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- (Max Lucado) They don't build things like they used to.
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- Cathedrals, castles, and monuments
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- still standing centuries after they were constructed,
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- or buildings like this one.
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- Cracks and creaks reveal the years,
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- yet it still remains.
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- From the cathedrals of Rome to the Alamo near my own home,
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- there's something special about a building
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- that stands the test of time.
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- Wars could not destroy them, storms could not devastate them.
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- You might even say they're unshakable.
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- Hi, I'm Max Lucado, and I wonder,
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- what kind of life are you building?
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- We live in a shaky world.
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- Promises break and stock markets crash
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- and relationships crumble.
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- These pillars of our faith will be tested.
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- Want to be unshakable in a shaky world?
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- You can build your life on the enduring promises of God.
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- You have a problem, God has a promise,
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- and these promises stand the test of time,
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- and they weather life's biggest storms.
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- Today we're going to explore some of these great
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- and precious promises found in God's Word.
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- And when the world rages around you,
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- you can stand with unshakable hope.
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- Unshakable
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- (female announcer) We are building our lives on the promises of God.
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- Because his word is unbreakable, our hope is unshakable.
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- We do not stand on the problems of life
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- or the pain in life.
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- We stand on the great and precious promises of God.
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- This is "Unshakable Hope."
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- There is a hope-filled promise in Philippians 4:19 that says,
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- "God will meet all your needs."
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- If ever there was an uninvited guest at our life's party,
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- it would be worry.
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- It doesn't have a single positive thing to offer anyone,
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- and yet it quietly unlocks the door to our hearts and minds
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- and slips in unannounced.
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- Then it stealthily settles into a place of comfort
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- and makes plans to stay for the long haul.
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- When politely asked to leave, it nonchalantly declines.
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- Then it resumes its relentless routine
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- of casting a dark shadow of fear in the heart
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- and light-blocking shade on our outlook.
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- Under the weight of worry's spell,
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- we feel and see things that haven't even happened yet
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- and maybe never will.
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- You can see it happening all around you
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- if you look close enough.
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- A traveler stands in the security airport line
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- and removes her bracelet.
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- She's already placed her shoes in a rubberized bin
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- and liquids in the plastic bag
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- and removed the boarding pass from her purse,
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- and she wonders about the fungus on the floor.
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- Will she miss her flight?
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- Will the flight make it on time?
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- Will it make it at all?
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- She hates the thought but permits it anyway.
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- Any day now her luck is going to run out.
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- Meanwhile, there's a fellow sitting on the back row
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- of an English as a second language class.
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- He'd prefer the front row, but by the time he caught
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- the city bus and endured the evening traffic,
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- the best seats were taken.
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- His hands still smelled of diner dishwater,
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- where worry worked since 6 a.m. this morning.
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- Within 12 hours he'll be at the sink again,
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- but for now he does his best to make sense
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- of verbs and adverbs and nouns.
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- Everyone else seems to get it. He doesn't.
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- He never diagrammed a sentence in Spanish.
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- How will he ever do it in English?
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- Yet with no English, how will he ever do more
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- than wash plates?
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- Worry has more questions than answers,
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- work than energy, and thinks often about giving up.
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- I know how these two feel.
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- Worry has woven its way into my home as well.
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- On a recent morning, I woke at 4:30 a.m.,
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- struggling with a message.
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- It needed to be finished by 5 p.m.
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- I pulled the pillow over my head and tried in vain to return
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- to the blissful netherworld of sleep
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- that knows nothing of deadlines or completion dates,
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- but it was too late.
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- The starter's pistol had fired.
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- An Olympic squad of synapses was racing in my brain,
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- stirring a wake of adrenaline.
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- So, worry climbed out of bed and dressed
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- and slipped out of the house into the silent streets
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- and drove to the office.
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- And worry unlocked the door, turned on the computer,
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- and stared at the passage on the monitor.
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- But then I smiled.
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- There on the screen was some very clear direction.
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- Matthew 6:25 yielded some precious words
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- that Jesus spoke about worrying.
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- "So I tell you, don't worry about everyday life,
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- whether you have enough."
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- Worry doesn't work.
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- A better way is right in front of us.
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- The passage in Matthew continues,
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- "Look at the birds.
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- "They don't need to plant or harvest or put food in barns
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- "because your heavenly Father feeds them.
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- "And you are far more valuable to him than they are.
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- "Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
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- Of course not."
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- Jesus doesn't condemn legitimate concern for responsibility,
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- but rather the continuous mind-set
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- that dismisses God's presence.
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- Destructive anxiety subtracts God from the future,
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- faces uncertainties with no faith,
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- tallies up the challenges of the day
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- without entering God into the equation.
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- Worry is the dark room where negatives become glossy prints.
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- My friend saw an example of perpetual uneasiness
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- in his 6-year-old daughter.
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- In her hurry to dress for school,
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- she tied her shoe laces in a knot,
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- and she plopped down at the base of the stairs
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- and fixated her thoughts on the tangled mess.
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- The school bus was coming and the minutes were ticking
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- and she gave no thought to the fact
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- that her father was standing nearby,
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- willing to help upon request.
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- Her little hands began to shake, and tears began to drop.
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- Finally, in an expression of total frustration,
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- she dropped her forehead to her knees and sobbed.
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- Why didn't she request her father's help to start with?
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- We could all ask the same of ourselves.
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- Next time you're quaking from anxiety,
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- take a look at this unshakable promise found
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- in Philippians 4:19, which says, "God will meet all your needs."
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- Imitate the mother of Jesus at the wedding in Cana.
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- The wedding reception was out of wine,
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- a huge social no-no in the days of Jesus.
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- Mary could've blamed the host for poor planning
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- or the guests for over-drinking, but she didn't catastrophize,
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- no therapy sessions or counseling.
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- Instead, she presented the problem to Jesus,
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- and he turned the water into wine, problem solved.
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- When you have a problem, what's your first response?
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- Panic, outcry, worry?
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- Who's got time for that?
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- Quickly assess the problem, take it to Jesus,
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- and let him do his work.
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- Become a worry slapper,
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- treat frets like you do mosquitoes.
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- Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug
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- lands on your skin, thinking,
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- "I'll take care of it in a moment"?
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- Of course you don't.
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- You'd give the critter the slap it deserves.
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- Be equally decisive with anxiety.
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- The moment a concern surfaces, deal with it, don't dwell on it.
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- Head worries off before they get the best of you.
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- Don't waste an hour worrying what your boss thinks, ask her.
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- Before you diagnose that mole as cancer,
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- have it examined.
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- Instead of assuming you'll never get out of debt,
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- consult an expert.
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- Be a doer, not a stewer.
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- Where can you find the strength to kick worry out the door
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- and make room for the peace that's promised?
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- By claiming and trusting in the precious promise
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- of Philippians 4:19.
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- God will meet all your needs, and that means all of them.
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- If ever there was a place where worrying
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- might not just be prevalent but even overpowering,
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- it would be prison.
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- Imagine what goes through the mind of a man in chains
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- pondering his fate.
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- Will he be subjected to torture?
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- Will he ever see his wife and children again?
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- Will he become sick
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- and waste away from malnutrition?
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- Will he be forgotten and left here to die
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- or sentenced to death in a public display
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- to teach others a lesson?
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- So many dark thoughts could enter into
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- an incarcerated man's heart, but not if that man was Paul.
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- He chose another path.
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- Now, Paul had reason to worry. He was impoverished.
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- The very reason we have the letter called Philippians
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- is because a church took pity on his poverty.
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- He had no health.
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- His tired body carried the marks of whippings,
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- shipwrecks and diseases.
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- He spoke of a thorn in the flesh
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- and complained of frailty in his eyes.
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- His money was gone, his health was failing,
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- and what's worse, his life work was in jeopardy.
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- The Galatians were defecting,
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- the Corinthian church was squabbling,
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- the Ephesian church was struggling,
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- the Romans needed encouraging.
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- It was a tough time for Paul, purse empty, health fleeting,
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- churches battling.
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- And in the midst of it all, he ended up in jail.
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- What a lousy time to be arrested.
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- The apostle didn't even have good timing.
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- Can you envision Paul in prison?
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- The rap of old age hangs from his shoulders.
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- His chin sags like a worn cloth.
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- The Roman chain rests at his feet like a tired dog.
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- Paul is at the end of the line, a long line.
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- But give him half the chance,
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- and he'll tell you the story of stories.
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- He will tilt his large head to the side
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- and smile a wry smile.
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- He'll speak of the light that left him blind
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- and the voice that left him speechless.
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- "Saul, Saul," Jesus had spoken.
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- And just as Abraham was called to walk by faith,
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- just as Moses was called to deliver the slaves,
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- now Saul was called to do both.
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- In about the same time Nero was born in Rome,
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- Saul became Paul and was born again in Damascus.
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- For the next three decades, neither Paul nor the world
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- would be the same.
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- Tireless, focused, unfailingly faithful,
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- he criss-crossed the eastern world,
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- stitching tents and preaching Christ
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- and planting churches.
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- He was angular, forceful, brilliant, and unbudging.
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- And because he wouldn't budge, the church feared him
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- before they loved him, and he slept in more jails than hotels.
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- But that was okay with Paul.
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- Suffering was tolerable
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- because he had the one thing that mattered.
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- He had the Lord.
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- He the sinner had met Christ the Savior,
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- and the sinner was never to be silenced.
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- Put him in a synagogue, and he'd preach.
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- Put him in a boat, and he'd witness.
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- Put him in a jail, and he'd write.
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- Here's a curious question, had you been a Roman citizen
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- in 61 or 62 AD and someone gave you the choice,
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- would you rather be the Emperor Nero
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- or the Apostle Paul?
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- Lounging in the palace or locked away in prison?
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- Which would you have chosen?
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- Ask Paul the question, he'd be quick to answer.
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- "My purse may be empty," he'd say,
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- "but my Father's is not."
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- Paul embraced the very words he wrote in Philippians 4:19,
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- "God will meet all your needs."
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- That's the promise. That was the discovery of Paul.
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- That is the hope of the believer.
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- Some of you are much like Paul in prison,
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- only your prison isn't made of walls,
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- it's made of circumstances.
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- But look at you, there's still a twinkle in your eye
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- and a song on your lips.
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- You've learned well.
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- Like Paul, you too have maintained a joyful heart.
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- Rather than being paralyzed with the worry of what may come,
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- you're moving forward in faith with your confidence in Christ.
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- Others of us could learn a little more.
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- Instead of focusing on what's wrong in our lives,
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- we could turn our eyes to what's right.
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- Rather than using our voice to complain,
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- we could use it to sing.
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- And rather than living in fear, we could live in faith.
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- We needn't give any room in our lives to worry.
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- We have a promise that God will meet all of our needs.
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- No matter what chains are holding you back today
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- or what prison bars are blocking your progress
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- and stealing away your freedom, I encourage you
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- to remember God's promise and then make it your own.
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- I will trust God to meet my needs.
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- Unshakable
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- God is a good God,
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- but in order for him to be a good God,
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- he also must be a just God.
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- So, one of the promises found in Acts 17:31 is this,
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- "For God has set a day when he will judge the world."
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- In the predawn hours of December 14, 2012,
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- Daniel Barton awoke early
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- and reveled in the sight of the sunrise.
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- Through a silhouette of the bare trees,
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- the dark sky outside their Newtown, Connecticut, home
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- turned red-orange.
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- Christmas tree lights reflected on the window
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- dotted the sunrise.
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- "Isn't that beautiful?"
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- Seven-year-old Daniel asked his father,
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- who captured the moment in a photo
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- before walking his son to the school bus.
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- Daniel was 1 of 20 children and 6 adults shot to death
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- at Sandy Hook Elementary School later that morning.
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- Mark, Daniel's father, has reflected on that final morning
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- more times than he can count.
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- He remembers how Daniel took a moment
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- to hug his sister Natalie
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- and see her off to the school bus.
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- They played "Jingle Bells" on the piano.
- 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:32.200
- Later, Daniel ran down the stairs,
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- his toothbrush still in his mouth,
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- to hug and kiss his mother before she left for work.
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- On most mornings, when Barton walked Daniel to the school bus,
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- his son insisted on a quick game of tag.
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- "Do we have to play tag today?"
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- Barton asked Daniel that morning.
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- "Can we just hold hands today?"
- 00:15:51.250 --> 00:15:54.070
- "And so we did," he said. "We just held hands."
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- David had no way of knowing the rage
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- that was about to erupt.
- 00:16:00.040 --> 00:16:02.090
- A deranged gunman was lying in wait for the opportunity
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- to slaughter innocent people.
- 00:16:05.250 --> 00:16:08.000
- Sandy Hook wasn't the first massacre in American history,
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- but it seemed the cruelest.
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- And these weren't adults, they were children.
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- This wasn't a war, it was a quiet neighborhood.
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- These weren't gangsters, they were elementary-aged kids
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- at an elementary school on a holiday morning.
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- The kids didn't deserve death,
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- their parents don't deserve such grief,
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- and we've received an all too common reminder:
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- life isn't fair.
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- When did you learn those words?
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- It's not fair.
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- What deed exposed you to the imbalanced scales of life?
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- Did a car wreck leave your mother a widow,
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- a disease leave your body disfigured?
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- Did friends forget you, a teacher ignore you,
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- an adult abuse you?
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- When did you discover the injustice of life?
- 00:16:54.060 --> 00:16:57.250
- When did you first pray the prayer
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- of the prophet Jeremiah,
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- "Why does the way of the wicked prosper?"
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- There are so many questions that are easy to ask
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- and hard to answer.
- 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:08.120
- Why do drug peddlers get rich, sex offenders get off,
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- charlatans get elected, murderers get out,
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- cheaters get by, scoundrels get in?
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- How long will injustice flourish?
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- God's answer is direct.
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- Not long.
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- Take confidence in knowing that justice will be served,
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- maybe not in our preferred time,
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- but in God's perfect time.
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- He is not sitting idly by, he's not twiddling his thumbs.
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- Every flip of the calendar brings us closer
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- to the day in which he will judge all evil.
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- The Apostle Paul assures us in the book of Acts chapter 17
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- and verse 31, "God has set a day when he will judge the world."
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- Now, to set means to single out.
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- A judgment day has been chosen.
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- The hour is marked, and moment is reserved.
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- Judgment is not a possibility, it is a stark reality.
- 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:08.150
- Now, judgment day is an unpopular term.
- 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.200
- We dislike the image of a great hour of reckoning,
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- which is ironic.
- 00:18:14.230 --> 00:18:16.190
- We distain judgment, but we value justice.
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- Yet the second is impossible without the first.
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- One can't have justice without judgment.
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- For that reason, the judgment seat shares equal status
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- with the king's throne as the two symbols
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- of the great day.
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- Matthew 25:31 tells us that on the day Jesus returns,
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- he will sit on his glorious throne.
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- All of the people of all nations
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- will bow low before his authority.
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- Every person will acknowledge the king
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- and his one-king kingdom.
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- Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:10,
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- "We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,
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- "so that each of us may receive what is due us
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- for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad."
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- So, justice will prevail.
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- Now, this promise may not matter to you.
- 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:09.120
- For some people, life feels fair and just.
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- If that describes you, count your blessings.
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- There are others, however,
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- who fight a daily battle with anger.
- 00:19:17.110 --> 00:19:20.280
- They've been robbed.
- 00:19:20.290 --> 00:19:22.190
- Evil people have pilfered days with their loved ones,
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- disease has sapped health from their body.
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- They believe that justice must be served.
- 00:19:28.100 --> 00:19:32.040
- The Bible says,
- 00:19:32.050 --> 00:19:33.220
- "For God has set a day when he will judge the world."
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- Can I encourage you to stand on that promise?
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- Place all the injustices of life before Christ.
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- Place them in the shadow of the cross
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- and be reminded God understands injustice,
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- and he will right all wrongs and heal all wounds.
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- And he has prepared a place where life will finally
- 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.160
- and forever be just.
- 00:19:58.170 --> 00:20:01.180
- For as he promised, God has set a day
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- when he will judge the world.
- 00:20:04.280 --> 00:20:08.070
- 00:20:08.080 --> 00:20:14.140
- We laud the Apostle Paul for his ability to be content
- 00:20:14.150 --> 00:20:17.190
- in all circumstances.
- 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:19.050
- I think it's because he had the ability
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- to look beyond the present and focus on the future.
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- While he might be poor,
- 00:20:24.110 --> 00:20:25.270
- the riches of heaven awaited him.
- 00:20:25.280 --> 00:20:27.230
- While he might be captive in a dungy prison cell,
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- he'd soon be free walking the glorious streets of heaven.
- 00:20:30.130 --> 00:20:34.030
- Paul was sure of his future,
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- and that changed his perspective on the present.
- 00:20:35.260 --> 00:20:39.010
- He had faith in God and that in God's perfect time
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- justice would be served.
- 00:20:42.130 --> 00:20:44.090
- The Greek word for judgment seat is bema.
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- The terms denotes a court in session,
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- a place where the judge is present
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- and the verdicts are declared.
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- From his throne, Jesus will forever balance
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- the scales of fairness, and he will do so
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- through three declarations.
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- First, he will publicly pardon his people.
- 00:21:02.190 --> 00:21:06.120
- When the Apostle Paul said,
- 00:21:06.130 --> 00:21:07.240
- "We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,"
- 00:21:07.250 --> 00:21:11.090
- he meant everyone.
- 00:21:11.100 --> 00:21:12.190
- According to Romans 2:16,
- 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:14.170
- "This will be the day when God judges people's secrets
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- through Jesus Christ."
- 00:21:17.210 --> 00:21:19.120
- Why will Christ expose every deed of the Christian heart?
- 00:21:19.130 --> 00:21:23.240
- For the sake of justice.
- 00:21:23.250 --> 00:21:25.250
- He must declare each sin forgiven.
- 00:21:25.260 --> 00:21:30.000
- God filters his verdict through Jesus.
- 00:21:30.010 --> 00:21:32.200
- Believers won't stand before the bench alone.
- 00:21:32.210 --> 00:21:34.290
- Jesus will be at our side.
- 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:37.010
- As the sin is disclosed, so is the forgiveness.
- 00:21:37.020 --> 00:21:41.120
- On and on the reading will go until every sin
- 00:21:41.130 --> 00:21:44.140
- of every believer is proclaimed and pardoned.
- 00:21:44.150 --> 00:21:47.210
- God's justice demands a detailed accounting.
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- He will not permit the hint of injustice in his new kingdom.
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- Every citizen will know that every sin
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- has been surfaced and pardoned.
- 00:21:56.260 --> 00:21:59.030
- Heaven can't be heaven with secrets or buried pasts,
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- but you won't be embarrassed.
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- To the contrary, you'll be stunned,
- 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:06.120
- your awe will grow as the list of forgiven sins lengthens.
- 00:22:06.130 --> 00:22:10.260
- The results will be a heaven draped in justice.
- 00:22:10.270 --> 00:22:14.060
- No saint will look upon another with suspicion.
- 00:22:14.070 --> 00:22:16.150
- No saint will look into his or her past with guilt.
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- All will be disclosed, all will be forgiven.
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- The public display of forgiven sins
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- will prompt eternal gratitude to our Savior.
- 00:22:24.150 --> 00:22:27.100
- But wait, that's not all.
- 00:22:27.110 --> 00:22:29.250
- There's even more good news for God's people.
- 00:22:29.260 --> 00:22:32.090
- The second declaration is that he will applaud
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- the service of his saints.
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- Paul tells us he will bring to light
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- what is hidden in darkness,
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- and he will expose the motives of the heart.
- 00:22:41.220 --> 00:22:44.030
- At that time, each will receive their praise from God.
- 00:22:44.040 --> 00:22:48.170
- God will walk you through your life day by day,
- 00:22:48.180 --> 00:22:51.180
- moment by moment, as if a video replays your biography.
- 00:22:51.190 --> 00:22:55.200
- And he will issue commendation after commendation.
- 00:22:55.210 --> 00:22:59.210
- You gave up your seat on the bus, well done.
- 00:22:59.220 --> 00:23:02.080
- You greeted the new student in your school, fine job.
- 00:23:02.090 --> 00:23:05.190
- You forgave your brother, encouraged your neighbor,
- 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:08.050
- stayed awake in Max's message, I'm so proud of you.
- 00:23:08.060 --> 00:23:11.260
- God records and rewards your goodness.
- 00:23:11.270 --> 00:23:15.110
- It's only fair that he do so.
- 00:23:15.120 --> 00:23:18.110
- And since God is a just God,
- 00:23:18.120 --> 00:23:20.160
- he will declare the pardon of his people,
- 00:23:20.170 --> 00:23:23.150
- applaud the service of his servants.
- 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:26.030
- As a general places a medal on his shoulders,
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- God places a robe on his.
- 00:23:29.040 --> 00:23:31.230
- But for those who would fight against God,
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- the third declaration now applies.
- 00:23:34.150 --> 00:23:37.100
- He will honor the wishes of the wicked.
- 00:23:37.110 --> 00:23:40.200
- The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1:21 and 23
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- that some people will stand before God
- 00:23:44.150 --> 00:23:46.130
- who didn't treat him like God, refusing to worship him,
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- and they trade the glory of God who holds the whole world
- 00:23:50.070 --> 00:23:53.260
- in his hands for cheap figurines
- 00:23:53.270 --> 00:23:55.270
- you can buy at any roadside stand.
- 00:23:55.280 --> 00:23:58.200
- A just God must honor the wishes of God rejecters.
- 00:23:58.210 --> 00:24:03.240
- Even our judicial system, fragile as it may be,
- 00:24:03.250 --> 00:24:06.270
- forces no defense on the accused.
- 00:24:06.280 --> 00:24:09.280
- The defendant is offered an advocate,
- 00:24:09.290 --> 00:24:12.040
- but if he chooses to stand before the judge alone,
- 00:24:12.050 --> 00:24:15.020
- the system permits it.
- 00:24:15.030 --> 00:24:16.220
- So does God.
- 00:24:16.230 --> 00:24:18.080
- He offers his Son as an advocate.
- 00:24:18.090 --> 00:24:21.030
- Jesus will stand in judgment at the side of every person
- 00:24:21.040 --> 00:24:24.140
- except those who refuse him.
- 00:24:24.150 --> 00:24:26.250
- And when their deeds are read,
- 00:24:26.260 --> 00:24:28.130
- heaven's tribunal will hear nothing but silence.
- 00:24:28.140 --> 00:24:30.270
- You denied my presence, silence.
- 00:24:30.280 --> 00:24:34.030
- You abused my children, silence.
- 00:24:34.040 --> 00:24:37.010
- You slandered my name, silence.
- 00:24:37.020 --> 00:24:40.110
- You ignored my Word, silence.
- 00:24:40.120 --> 00:24:42.290
- You rejected my Son, silence.
- 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:46.070
- What response can be given?
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- What defense can be offered?
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- God is right, God is just.
- 00:24:49.210 --> 00:24:52.020
- No one in heaven or hell will accuse
- 00:24:52.030 --> 00:24:54.210
- the judge of injustice when he announces,
- 00:24:54.220 --> 00:24:58.110
- "Depart from me, you who are cursed,
- 00:24:58.120 --> 00:25:01.020
- into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels."
- 00:25:01.030 --> 00:25:05.040
- Indeed, justice will prevail.
- 00:25:05.050 --> 00:25:08.050
- Paul was very clear, a day is coming
- 00:25:08.060 --> 00:25:11.100
- when scores will be settled.
- 00:25:11.110 --> 00:25:13.160
- Let this covenant abate the anger you feel
- 00:25:13.170 --> 00:25:17.110
- at the hurting world.
- 00:25:17.120 --> 00:25:19.190
- Devastations have bloodied every generation.
- 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:23.030
- Does our globe have one square mile of unstained soil?
- 00:25:23.040 --> 00:25:27.130
- The Hutu slaughtered 800.000 Tutsis.
- 00:25:27.140 --> 00:25:30.180
- Hitler exterminated 6 million Jews and gypsies.
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- American bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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- Japanese tortured American soldiers.
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- Suicide bombs in Baghdad, mass murders at Sandy Hook.
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- It's not right, it's not just, it's not fair, it's just not.
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- And when you wonder if the unrepentant wicked
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- will go unpunished or injustices will go unaddressed,
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- let this promise gratify your desire for justice.
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- God will have the final word.
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- He has prepared a place where life will be finally
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- and forever fair.
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- You can be sure of this.
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- God gives you this promise,
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- "For God has set a day when he will judge the world."
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- Now, make your own promise, "I will respect God's justice
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- and I will delight in God's grace."
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- What's shaking in your world?
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- Your finances, your family, your faith?
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- It's easy to lose hope when the storms of life come.
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- But there is one thing in life we can stand on
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- when everything else around us is shaken.
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- We can build our lives on the promises of God.
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- Why?
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- God's Word is sure, and what he says happens.
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- God will not, indeed he cannot break his promises.
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- His covenants won't collapse.
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- His word is his bond, and his bond won't break.
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- What he says will happen.
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- Won't you say it with me?
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- We are building our lives on the promises of God.
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- Because his word is unbreakable, our hope is unshakable.
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- We do not stand on the problems of life
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- or the pain in life,
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- we stand on the great and precious promises of God.
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- Unshakable
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- (announcer) Many in the world have resigned themselves
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- to living with ever-rising levels of fear and uncertainty,
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- but this should not be so for God's people.
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- That's the reassuring message that comes through powerfully
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- in Mac Lucado's new series, "Unshakable Hope:
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