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Debt - The Fear of Financial Collapse

Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah

February 14, 2021

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Dr. David Jeremiah shows us how to allow God to direct our lives in every aspect – including our finances.

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Debt - The Fear of Financial Collapse

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male announcer: There'sa power within you
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to help you overcome your mostdaunting challenges.
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Where could life take youif fear was not a factor?
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Are you ready to movefrom worry to confidence,
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from anxiety to hope?
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Why be safe when you canboldly step into what's next?
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♪♪♪
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announcer: It's time to movefrom fear to fear not.
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Dr. David Jeremiah: Hello,I'm David Jeremiah,
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and it's time to movefrom fear to fear not.
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For many of us, just thinkingabout finances
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is enough to raise our pulse,cause our palms to sweat,
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and recent times may haveproduced one of the hardest
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financial periods in your life,but there is hope to be found
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even as you lookat your financial future.
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If our fragile economyleaves you insecure,
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you're not alone.
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God speaks to uswith seven principles
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for letting go of thingsthat promise earthly security
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and embracing thingsof eternal value.
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Join me in exploringthese principles
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and dealing with debt,the fear of financial collapse.
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You'll find that when you dependon God's faithfulness,
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you'll never be disappointed.
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That's next, right hereon "Turning Point."
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announcer: Are you in a placein your life
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where you need hope?
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Dr. Jeremiah wants to teach youhow to move from fear
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to fear not, in his book,
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"Hope: Living Fearlesslyin a Scary World."
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In its pages, Dr. Jeremiahexplores the top seven fears
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holding so many of us backas he shares practical lessons
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for facing down these fears.
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Learn to walk the path of hopeand experience
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still controls even the smallestdetails of your life.
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Now, here's Dr. Jeremiahwith his message,
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"Debt: The Fearof Financial Collapse."
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Dr. Jeremiah:When we've lost our home,
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our possession,our bank account,
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and our investments,and the very concept
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of financial securityhas been swept away
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and we have nothing left,or if we find ourselves
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fearing thatthat could happen to us,
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where do we turn?
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Does God have anything to saythat will give us comfort?
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And, of course,you know that he does,
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and the Bible itselfis a book of comfort.
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The psalms in our Bible isthe go-to book for comfort,
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and one of my favorite psalmswe're going to look at today
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for a few moments,and that's Psalm 37.
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I would like to suggest to youthat Psalm 37 is
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an incredible portionof Scripture
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for our discussion todaybecause it is a simple statement
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of some thingsAlmighty God wants us to do
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when we're feeling insecure.
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Not just about life,but about everything.
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Sometimes when youread the Psalms,
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you have to read,and then you develop principles
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having read it.
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Here, the principles arejust stuck right in the psalm.
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There are seven of themhere in the first few verses,
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just places where God,through the Psalms, says to us,
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"Here's what you should do."
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I kinda like thatbecause it's always helpful
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when you knowwhat you're supposed to do,
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and it begins herein the third verse
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where we're told to decideto trust in the Lord.
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Chapter 37, verse 3 says,"Trust in the Lord--"
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This is one of the themesof the Psalms,
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to trust in the Lord.
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And, you know,that's very important
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in this discussionbecause this whole issue
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of financial stability isan issue of trust.
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We even put thingsin what we call trusts,
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and we put our trust in peopleto care for those things.
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And here the Bible saysif you want to survive
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the uncertainty of lifeas a follower of God,
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you need to learnto put your trust in God,
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and that's a decisionthat you make.
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You decide to trust in the Lord.
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This is mentioned three timesin Psalm 37:
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here in the verse we just read,over in verse 5
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where we're told to commitour way to the Lord
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and trust also in him,and in verse 40,
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at the very end of the psalm,it appears again.
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Now, everybody has to trustin something.
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If you put all your trustin your resources,
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you're probably gonna finddisappointment along the way.
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If you put all of your trustin what you've been able
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to amass out of your workon this Earth,
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you're never gonna feela sense of great security,
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because if you put itin the bank,
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what if the bank fails?
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If you invest itin the stock market,
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what if it goes upside down?
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If you get it converted to goldand silver and put it
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in your safe at home,what if somebody breaks in
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and steals it?
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Where can you find somethingto put your trust in
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that will not fail you?
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The psalmist says trust in God.
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And let me just suggest to youthat this is not emotional.
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This is not some feelingthat you have.
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When you trust in God,you make a decision to do that.
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I've been very convincedof that more and more of late,
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even when it comesto the matter of salvation.
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How does a personbecome a Christian?
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That person decides to puttheir trust in God.
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Does that mean they haveall of the answers
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to all of the questionsthey might ever have
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about being a Christian?
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Absolutely not,but there comes a time
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when they have enough answersthat they say,
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"I am gonna put my trustin God,"
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and they makethe decision to do it.
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It's a choice.
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And when, as Christians,we're dealing
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with the uncertaintiesof life,
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we have to makethat same choice, don't we?
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What about what's going onin this country?
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Where are we going financially?
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Are the government officialsgetting us in so much debt
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that it's all gonna come downon us like a house of cards?
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Is inflation gonna go crazy?
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I don't know.
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I don't put my trustin any of those things.
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I've put my trust in God,
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and I knowthat God will not fail me.
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Beginning at the very beginningof this is a choice
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that a person makesto put their trust in God.
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If you look down in your Biblesat verse 25,
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here's an affirming verse.
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"I have been young,and now I am old;
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yet I have not seenthe righteous forsaken,
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nor his descendantsbegging bread."
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Paul said in the New Testament,
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"My God shall supplyall your need according
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to his riches in gloryby Christ Jesus."
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I'm here to tell you today,God is trustworthy.
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You can put your trust in him.
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He will help youin every situation.
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2 Corinthians 9:8 says,
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"God is able to makeall grace abound toward you,
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so that you, always havingall sufficiency in all things,
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will have an abundancefor every good work."
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Go through the Bible,and you will find promise
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after promise that just simplyunderscores this truth,
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that when you putyour trust in God,
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you have found the one placewhere you will not be
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discouraged or disappointed.
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And then, the next partof the verse gives us
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our next instruction.
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"Trust in the Lord,and do good."
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Trust in the Lord, and do good.
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That's, kind of, interesting,isn't it?
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Put your trust in the Lord,and then do good.
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And if you want to knowwhat that means,
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there's a commentary on thatin 1 Timothy chapter 6,
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verses 17 through 19.
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Let me read this passage.
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"Command those who are richin this present age
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not to be haughty, or to trustin uncertain riches but to trust
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in the living God, who gives usrichly all things to enjoy.
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And let them do good,
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that they may be richin good works, ready to give,
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willing to share,storing up for themselves
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a good foundationfor the time to come--"
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It's almostas if the psalmist says
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when you're in a situationwhere you don't know
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what to do,first put your trust in God.
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And then,instead of sitting around
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and wondering how thingsare gonna be for you,
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look around for somebodyto help,
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and do some good thingswith what you have.
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What an incredible way to dealwith life as we face it today.
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Trust, and do good.
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All of us areinto the trusting part,
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but what about the do good part?
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What about takingwhat God has given us?
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How many of you knowthat no matter
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how bad things are for you,
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somebody you knowis doing worse than you are?
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That's the second instruction.
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Here's the third one: dwellon the faithfulness of the Lord.
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Notice the last phrasein verse 3.
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Three principlesin one little verse.
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"And feed on his faithfulness."
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The Bible says whenyou're trusting in the Lord,
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you fill up your mind andyour heart with the realization
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that he is a faithful God,and he is worthy of your trust.
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Feed on that.
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He is faithful.
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The early verses of Psalm 37draw our attention
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to the faithfulness of the Lord,but I'm gonna do
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what you should never dowhen you're reading a novel.
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I'm gonna take you clearto the end of the chapter,
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and notice what it saysin verse 40,
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where the word "trust"appears again.
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"And the Lord shall help themand deliver them;
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he shall deliver themfrom the wicked,
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and save them,because they trust in him."
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When you trust in Godand you do good,
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and then you fill your lifeand your mind up with truth
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of his faithfulness, which is,like, memorizing verses
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and putting truthinto your spiritual computer,
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you develop a kind of Teflonspiritual personality
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that bad thingsjust roll off of you.
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You say, "Well, my 401has become a 101."
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But God is still on his throne,and he's always been faithful
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to me, and I know he's worthyof my trust.
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"How do you know that?"
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Well, lemme just sharewith you what I've learned
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from the Bible.
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The Bible says thatwhen I am faithless,
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he's still faithful.
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His faithfulness is not troubledby what I do
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or what happens in the world.
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He is worthy of our trust.
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And how many of you knowyou cannot really know that
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until you go through somedifficult things in your life?
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Because when things are goodyou probably think it's you.
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When things are going well,you probably think how smart
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you are, where you've put--but soon as some of that
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is threatened you become awareof your vulnerability.
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The Bible says to decideto trust in the Lord
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when you're goingthrough uncertain times,
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to do the things that honorthe Lord with your life
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even though things are,kind of, upside down,
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to dwell on the faithfulnessof the Lord.
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And here's oneof my favorite ones in the text:
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delight yourself in the Lord.
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Verse 4, "Delight yourselfalso in the Lord,
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and he shall give youthe desires of your heart."
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Even when our circumstanceshold nothing
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that seems delightful to us,
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we can always find our delightin the Lord.
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We could be facing lossand oppression,
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but these thingsdo not define us.
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We should never letthe challenges we face
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in our life define who we are.
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We're not the difficultieswe face.
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We are who we arebecause of our relationship
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with Almighty God.
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Now, the interesting thingabout this verse is that there's
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a promise attached to it,and often it's misunderstood,
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and I wanna try to explain itthe best I can today.
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The Bible says,
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"Delight yourself alsoin the Lord,
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and he will give you the desiresof your heart."
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Years ago, I was readinga book on the will of God,
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and the writer of the booksaid the simplest way
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he knew to explainhow to get the will of God
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in your life was to fallin love with God
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and then dowhatever you wanted to do.
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I thought that waspretty simplistic,
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but maybe he's not too farfrom the truth.
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This passage of Scripturedoesn't say that
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when you delight in the Lordyou can ask him
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for anything you want,and he'll just give it to you
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no matter how frivolousit may seem.
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"Lord, I'm delighting in youtoday.
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I'd sure like to havea new Corvette."
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No, that's not what it means.
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Some teachers teach that,but that's not what it means.
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Here.Listen to this.
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The Bible says,if you delight in the Lord,
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if you delight in him,if you truly have
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all of your delight in him,you will never ask anything
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from him that does not coincidewith who he is.
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In your delighting in the Lordyou define the things
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that you need and that you want.
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It becomes the contextin which you ask,
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so that if you're trulydelighting in the Lord
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you can ask himfor what you want,
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and he will give you the desiresof your heart.
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And so, the Bible tells us thatthere are some things we can do
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during times that are uncertain.
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We can trust in the Lord.
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We can do the thingsthat honor the Lord.
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We can dwellon the faithfulness of the Lord.
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We can delight ourselvesin the Lord.
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And then, it says dedicateyour life to the Lord.
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It says here in verse 5,"Commit your way to the Lord,
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trust also in him,and he shall bring it to pass."
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That means you cometo the place where you say,
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"Lord, here is my life.I have no idea what's ahead.
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I don't know what you havein store for me,
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where this is all going,but I'm dedicating this to you.
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I'm signing the paperat the bottom of the page,
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and you just fill inwhatever you want.
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And that's who I am.
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That's where I'm going.
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My life is yours, Lord God.
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We're in this together.
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I dedicate my life to you."
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As we look back over our lives,sometimes we have to admit
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that the things we thoughtwere negative were just ways
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that God was getting readyto do something really positive,
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and we see him at work.
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So, we decide to trustin the Lord.
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We delight ourselvesin the Lord.
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Verse 4, we dedicate our lifeto the Lord.
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Verse 5, and here's one I love,download your worry to the Lord.
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Just do it.Download it.
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Verse 7, "Do not fret becauseof him who prospers in his way,
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because of the man who bringswicked schemes to pass."
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The Bible says don't getyourself caught up in worrying
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about what's going onwith other people.
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I mentioned earlier that oneof the things we do sometimes
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as Christians is we kindalook around and say,
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"Lord God, I'm serving you.I'm honoring you with my life.
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I'm doing everything I know todo to be an obedient Christian.
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Why am I having a hard timeand all these people
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that don't even know how to sayyour name without cussing,
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they seem to be doing well?"
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And the Bible says fret not.
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Fret not.
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The word "fret's"a very interesting word.
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It has two different meanings.
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One meaning is the word"fret" means to gnaw at,
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like a rat gnawingat a rope or something,
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and the other meaning isto have a--
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kind of, like an explosive burstof flame.
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And that's what worry is like.
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It's like something gnawingat you on the inside.
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It's like something burningon the inside.
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And so, the Lord Jesus sayswhen you look out at how life
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seems to be laying outin front of you, don't fret.
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Kill the rat, put out the fire,and get on with your life, amen?
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Because if you worry about it,it's not gonna change one thing.
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Not gonna change one thing,except you.
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It's gonna ruin you.
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Here's the last oneof the seven,
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and we're finished.
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Download your worry to the Lord.
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And finally, discipline yourselfto wait on the Lord.
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And I wish that weren'tin the Bible.
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I don't like waiting.
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I'm built more for speedthan for comfort
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and waiting is notmy favorite thing.
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Wait on the Lord.
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What does that mean?
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It means God is at work,but he works on his timetable
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and feels no obligationto coincide his timetable
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with yours or mine.
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We may say, "God,would you please resolve this?"
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And he says, "Yes."
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"Would you please resolvethis now?"
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And he says, "Wait,"and we don't like to wait.
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In the waiting we learn.
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In the waiting we grow.
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Waiting is what happens betweenthe promise and the fulfillment.
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Waiting builds our faith.
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Waiting reminds us that Goddoes not live on our schedule.
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We live on his,and if we will learn to wait,
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we will see Goddo some great things.
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One of the joysof being a bit older
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is to look backover your shoulder
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and see how God resolved thingsthat I wondered
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how they wouldever get resolved.
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God was at work the entire time.
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I just didn't see it,and I was left to wait.
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Almost 200 years ago,our nation went
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through anothereconomic upheaval,
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the financial Panicof 1837 chronicled
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in the history books in detail.
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Anna and Susan Warnerand their father,
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Henry Warner, at that timein their lives lived
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in a mansion filledwith art treasures,
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high-class furnishings,and an army of servants.
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They were at the topof the world of wealth,
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and then came the recession.
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The market crashed,took Henry Warner's investments
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down with it.
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The family lost it alland were deeply in debt.
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They moved to a decrepitold house up the river
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from New York City.
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Henry's financial collapsedevastated him emotionally.
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He never did really recoverfrom it.
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The daughters, accustomedto expensive parties
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and the social world,now realized
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they had to pitch inand find something to do,
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just to seeif they could keep
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the family together and not havethem go down through debt.
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They didn't havea lot of talents,
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but one thing they knewhow to do was to write.
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This story from historyis quite encouraging.
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They wrote some thingsand tried to find a publisher
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and eventually Putnamaccepted Susan Warner's novel,
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"The Wide, Wide World"and success began to happen.
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Those two sisters ended upwriting more than 100 books,
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all built on the foundationof the gospel,
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and one of the books called,"Say and Seal"
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contained a little poem thatAnna had woven into the story,
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and that little poem beginswith the words, "Jesus loves me.
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This I know."
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Songwriter William Bradburyadded music, and now,
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"Jesus Loves Me" is lovedthroughout the whole world.
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Untold millions of childrenfirst meet God
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through that simple,little song.
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I didn't know this,but back in 1943,
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when John F. Kennedy's PT-109was sunk in the Solomon Islands,
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local islandersand American marines sang,
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"Jesus loves me.Jesus loves you.
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Jesus loves me,"as they rescued the survivors.
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"Jesus loves me.This I know."
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If you had been a partof the Warner family
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when all that tragedy happened,you would have wondered,
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"What in the worldcould come out of this,
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of any value whatsoever?"
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You might have known even thenthat God had something special,
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but you didn't know what it was.
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Out of the wreckage of thatfamily at that moment of time
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came a little song that has beenused by God to bless the world
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and hundreds of thousandsof children have come to know
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Jesus Christ because theydiscovered that Jesus love them.
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The devil sometimes likesto fool us into thinking
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that the defeats thatwe are experiencing now
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are because of us or becauseGod has forgotten us,
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but they are not.
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They're the devil's work.
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We don't have to acquiesceto his agenda.
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We have onethat God has given us.
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Waiting is not alwaysa bad thing.
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Sometimes in the waitingwe learn to build
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our trust in God.
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So, if you are facinguncertainty or if you know
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people that are, I commendto you the 37th Psalm.
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And you don't have to gopast the seventh verse
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if you don't want to,
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because in this psalmare these crisp instructions.
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I've underlinedall of the instructions
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in my Bible.
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The Word of Godtells us to trust in the Lord,
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to do good,to feed on his faithfulness,
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to delight in the Lord,to commit our way
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to the Lord,to wait on the Lord,
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and when we do that,we discover
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the Lord's in charge,and we can trust him,
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and we will be strongin the midst of it all.
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And that's a resourceyou only have
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if you know Godthrough Jesus Christ.
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In fact, let me just suggest toyou as we close this message
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today that if you haven'tever put your trust in God,
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here's what you should do:
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you should decideto do it today.
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Just decide to do it.
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You don't have to makeanything mystical out of it.
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What I've told you about Godis true.
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Do you want him in your life?
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Here's how it happens:You accept what the Word of God
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says about you as a person.
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I had to accept that about me.It's true of all of us.
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You know what it is?We're all sinners.
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Guess what?
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We're all sinners,and the Bible says
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that when we acknowledgethat we're sinners,
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we come to God and we say,
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"Almighty God, will youforgive me of my sin?"
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And God says, "Yes, I willdo that through what my Son,
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Jesus, did for you on the cross.
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He died on the cross andpaid the penalty for your sin.
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If you will trust himand put your faith in him
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and what he did for youon the cross,
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you can become a memberof my forever family."
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And you say, "Well,I've never done that."
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Well, why don't you do it?
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Why don't you decide to do it?
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Why don't you decide today,"I've had enough of this life
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depending on myselfand everybody else.
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I wanna get in on the God thing.
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I have decided to putmy trust in him"?
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We used to sing a songwhen I was growing up
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that goes like this: "I havedecided to follow Jesus."
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I want you to decide that today.
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Make that decisionand just tell God,
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"I have decided to put my trustin you and in Jesus Christ,"
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and he will hear youand acknowledge you,
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and you will become a Christian.
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"And then, all these things thatI've promised from Psalm 37
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will come into playin your life."
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Why would you not wanna do that?
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You're just one decision awayfrom being involved
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in the blessing of God.
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"Defeat: The Fear of Failure,"
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here on "Turning Point."
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Debt - The Fear of Financial Collapse

Debt - The Fear of Financial Collapse

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Debt - The Fear of Financial Collapse

Debt - The Fear of Financial Collapse

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