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The Joy of Security

Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah

October 1, 2020

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In this message learn how to live a life of peace in a world of unrest.

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Now here is Dr. Jeremiahwith his message,
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"The Joy of Security."
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Dr. David Jeremiah: I heardabout a lady who was worried
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because she wasn't worryingas much as she used to worry,
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and she was wondering whatshe should be worrying about
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that she wasn't worrying about.
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Another man who hired somebodyto worry on his behalf,
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paid him to worry,paid him a lot of money,
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and his friend said,
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"Isn't that reallya lot of money to spend?"
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He says, "Well, I don't know.I let him worry about that."
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So, you know,that's the way it goes.
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Some peopletry to get around worry
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in the simplestand craziest ways,
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but how many of you knowChristians who still worry?
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And it must be truebecause Paul wrote this
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to a group of believersin Philippi,
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all of whomwere Christ followers,
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and he gave this instructionto them about worrying.
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In these four verses,
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which are very prominent textsin the Scripture,
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Paul does four things:
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First of all,he diagnoses the problem,
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and then he prescribes a cure,
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and then he recommendsa program,
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and, finally,he gives a promise.
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And we're gonna go throughthose things today, one by one,
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just taking it as it comesin the Scripture itself.
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Let's begin with the problem,which is worry.
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Paul writes in Philippians 4:6,"Be anxious for nothing."
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Now, the New King James says,"anxious,"
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but the Old King James says,"careful."
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The Old King James says,"Be careful for nothing."
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Now, that's the key versefor a lot of young people,
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you and I both know,but that's not what that means.
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The word "careful" thereis the word "anxiety."
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So Paul is saying,
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"Don't be anxiousabout anything."
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It's the same wordfor the word "worry,"
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and it's translatedfrom two words
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in the languageof the New Testament.
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One means the word "mind,"
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and the otheris the word "divided."
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So "worry" is a "divided mind"that goes back and forth
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between what is trueand what isn't true,
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and you never can makethe connection.
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You're always worryingabout what might happen,
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and when you do that,according to James,
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you are"unstable in all your ways."
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The word "anxious"that Paul uses here
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is a synonymfor the word "worry,"
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and it's the same word thatJesus used to describe Martha
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when he said, "Martha, Martha,you are worried
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and troubled about many things."
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"Martha, Martha, you are anxiousand troubled about many things."
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The Lord also use this wordin talking with his disciples
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when he told themthat they were to
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"take no thought about food anddrink and clothing or shelter."
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In other words, he said,"Don't be anxious about all that
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because your heavenly Fatherknows what you need."
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So, anxiety,though it is ultimately resolved
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through our faith in Christ,
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it can sneak back into our livesas Christians
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and begin to haunt usif we don't carefully watch out
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from the scripturalpoint of view.
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The problem is worry,
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and Paul gives usa prescription for that.
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Here it is in the next verse,verse 6,
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"but in everythingby prayer and supplication,
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with thanksgiving,
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let your requestsbe made known to God,
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and the peace of God,
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which surpassesall understanding,
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will guard your heartsand your minds
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through Christ Jesus."
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Here's a marvelous contrast:
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"In nothing be anxious,but in everything be prayerful."
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I'm convinced that weare confused about prayer.
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A lot of peopledon't understand prayer.
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They think that prayer is likea magic genie in Aladdin.
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You just sort of pray,
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and God does all thesewonderful things for you,
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that prayer is a way for youto get everything that you want.
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I've actually heard sermonsabout that on television
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where people teachthat if you pray,
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you can get whatever you want.
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God is not our magic genie.
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He is not automatically boundto give us everything we want.
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He often answers our prayersto give us what we need.
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Our goal as his childrenis to learn
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how to want what we need,
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and then we will be comfortablewith how we pray.
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That's why the Biblecan tell us,
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if we ask anything in his will,he will hear us.
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What does that mean?
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That means that,
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if I get my heart in syncwith God's heart
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about what God wants for me,
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when I ask himfor what I want and need,
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he will answer it becauseI'm already on his wavelength,
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and we're together in syncabout prayer.
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Paul said that whenwe are tempted to worry,
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we are to pray,
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and he gives usfour different words here.
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Please notice them in the text.The first word is "prayer."
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That's kind of the general wordfor what we do when we pray.
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The second wordis "supplication."
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That is an interesting word
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which means"to beg or entreat" somebody,
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to come to God--
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that's the kind of prayingthat we pray when we find out
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we got a serious illness,
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or when somebody that we lovehas just discovered
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they have a serious--what do we do?
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Supplication.It's in entreating.
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It's "Lord, please."
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I prayed that prayer.I know that prayer.
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The third prayer is "requests."
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Requests are the liststhat we make.
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Do you have a list?
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You may not have itwritten down,
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but you got one in your head,
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certain things that you prayabout all the time.
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That's the requestson this list.
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But the most important wordof these four,
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more than "prayer,"more than "supplication,"
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more than "requests,"is the word "thanksgiving."
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Do you see that wordin the Bible?
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Everything through prayerand supplication and request--
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and notice, the different wordis not the word "and."
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It's the word "with."
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Listen to me,the first three,
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"prayer" and "supplication"and "requests,"
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but then the word changes"with thanksgiving."
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So thanksgiving is not oneof the four kinds of prayers.
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It's the conditionthat describes
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how you should offerthe first three.
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So how do you pray?
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You pray with prayerand supplication and requests,
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and no matter what kindof prayer you're ever praying,
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it's always with thanksgiving.
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Gratitude is the unwrittenpromise of God.
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When we prayout of thanksgiving,
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we have a way of somehowgetting God's attention
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like we don't in any other way.
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The Bible says that,“When we pray,
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we're to always praywith thanksgiving.”
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Do you pray with thanksgiving?
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Do you take note of the thingsthat God does for you?
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And always rememberto say thank you.
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None of us does it perfectly,
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but it's a routineand a practice
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that we all need to cultivatein our lives.
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So notice, there arethree circles that we live in.
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The first circleis the circle of worry.
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What's in that circle?Nada, nothing.
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"Be anxious for," what?"Nothing."
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The second circleis the circle of prayer.
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What are yousupposed to pray for?
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Everything.
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And the third circleis the circle of thanksgiving,
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and what's in that circle?
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Anything.
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Worry about nothing,pray about everything,
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be thankful for anything,
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and you will findthat you are starting
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to take a little bitof that anxiety
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out of your life,
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just by the first thingPaul tells you to do.
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And let me encourage you,when you pray,
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don't pray church prayers.
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Don't pray sanitized prayers.Don't pray sanctified prayers.
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Talk to your Father and tell himwhat you need.
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Prayer is a conversationbetween you and God.
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It isn't a religious thing.It's not a church thing.
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It's your way of communicatingwith a Father in heaven
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who loves youmore than you will ever know.
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Pray honestly and openly.
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But notice,the problem is worry,
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and the prescription is prayer,
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but there's a third thingin this text,
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and that's the program,and the program
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is right thinkingand right action.
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Listen carefully: When anxiousthoughts are removed by prayer,
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you have to replace themwith something.
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How many of you know,
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you don't get ridof your anxiety
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by going around all daysaying to yourself,
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"I am not gonna worryas like I used to.
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I'm not gonna worry todaylike I worried yesterday.
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I'm not gonna be anxious, like--
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I am goingto conquer anxiety."
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You know what happenswhen you do that?
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You take your worryto a whole new level,
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and you are now an expertin worrying.
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So when you get rid of worrythrough prayer,
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you have to replace itwith something.
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How do you--so I've castall my burdens on the Lord.
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Now what's next?
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And Paul says,"Okay, let me give you
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a follow-up programto your prayers."
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Here's the first thing:Right thinking.
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He says, to avoid anxiety,we must think proper thoughts.
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Philippians 4:8, "Finally,brethren," he writes,
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"whatever things are true,whatever things are noble,
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whatever things are just,whatever things are pure,
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whatever things are lovely,
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whatever thingsare of a good report,
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if there's any virtue,
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if there's anythingpraiseworthy,
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meditate or thinkon these things."
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Now, what Paul is sayingis this:
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What we think has a lot to dowith how we function.
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Paul tells usthat there are certain things
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you need to programyour mind with,
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certain thingsyou need to think.
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Now, he doesn't get intoa lot of detailed here,
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but he gives us six guidelines,and I'll tell you what,
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if you go throughthese guidelines,
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and we're just gonnatouch on 'em today,
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you will realizethat there's a lot we can do
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as God's people to make surethat we stay in charge
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of what happensbetween our ears.
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We don't take thatvery seriously.
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We sort of allow thatto just happen, don't we?
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We're very passive about it,
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but Paul tells us there's a waywe can program our minds
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so that we becomethe beautiful people
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God wants us to be.
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First of all,"Whatsoever things are true,"
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"whatsoever things are true."
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How many of you know thatthe inability to cope with truth
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is a form of mental illness?
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When you learn to livewith things that are not true,
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and functionas if your non-truth was truth,
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you are in deep troubleand headed toward an abyss
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from which it is mostlyimpossible to recover.
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Truth is the touchstoneof our lives,
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and we need to learn
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to think about those thingswhich are true.
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What things are true?
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Jesus Christ said,
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"I am the way, the truth,and the life."
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This book is truth.
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Truth in our culture today
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is that which correspondswith reality,
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but truth according to God
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is that which correspondswith his Word.
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Think about true things.
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Get ridof all of the false narratives
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that are so prevalent today,and think things that are true.
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Guideline number two,"whatever things are noble,"
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we are to think on thingsthat are honorable,
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things that claim respect.
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If it is true that weexternalize our thoughts,
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then honorable people
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are the resultof honorable thoughts.
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Isn't that a great idea,
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to think about thingsthat are noble?
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How many of you knowthere's a lot of stuff
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that we get messed upwith in our world today,
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that's not very noble?
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Number three,"whatever things are just,"
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that's a general term for thingsthat are righteous
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by both divineand human standards.
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Number four,"whatever things are pure."
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Now, this was written by Paul,long before the Internet,
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so it wasn't nearly the problemin those days
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than it is in our day,but purity is a major, major war
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for many menin our culture today.
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The Bible says,if you don't wanna be filled
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with stressand anxiety and worry,
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get purity in your mind.
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Get rid of those thingsthat will corrupt your thinking.
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Stay off of thelate-night Internet.
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Discipline yourself to thinkthose things which are pure.
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You cannot lift your mind
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and let it open to those thingswhich are impure
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and live a Christian lifethat has any victory.
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It will totally destroy you.
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It will undercuteverything you do.
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Whatever you do, if you're gonnabe ruthless about anything,
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be ruthless about that.
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Tear the Internet connectionout of the wall.
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Do whatever--you know,I remember seein' a commercial
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where they threw a computerout the window.
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That may not be a bad thoughtfor some folks.
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Guideline number five is"whatever things are lovely."
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I like that word, don't you?
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Say that word with me,"lovely, lovely."
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Do you know that it's onlyin the Bible one time,
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and it's right herein Philippians 4?
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"Lovely" is a wordthat is often found
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in the New Testament times,not in the Bible,
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but sometimesit was in an epitaph,
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sometimes it was in a writing.
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It was a term that could be usedto describe fine art or music.
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A thorough readingof 1 Corinthians 13,
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will give you some ideasof what "lovely" is.
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It's the oppositeof the confusion and disorder
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that so often rules in our day.
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What a great thing to thinkabout things that are lovely.
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Lift your standard of thought.
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Get out of the doldrums,
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and get yourstandard of thought up here.
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And, finally,number six,
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"whatever thingsare of a good report."
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That means "fair speaking"
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is literallywhat the words mean.
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It describes what is appealing.
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Listening to such reportsbuilds you up.
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Take care to what you listen to.
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Have you ever heard peoplecome up and say,
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"Have you heardwhat's goin' on with," someone,
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and you know you're aboutto get a bad report?
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Most often,you don't wanna do that.
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You don't wanna hear that.
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We're always opento bad reports.
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The Bible says, "Whatever thingsare of a good report."
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I love it when people come,
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"Let me tell youwhat's happened,"
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and they tell youall the good things
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that are happening.
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I don't need anybodyto fill my mind up
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with negative things.
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So the Bible says, "Take controlof the gate of your mind"
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because that's where you can doa lot of good
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when it comesto what you think about.
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What you think about,if it's not right,
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will be what you worry about.
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"It's just in my head, Pastor."
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No, if it's in your head,you let it in your head.
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You have controlover your thoughts,
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and your thoughts come
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from the places you goand the things you do,
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and I just wanna remind youthat Isaiah 26, verse 3, says,
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"You will keep himin perfect peace,
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whose mind is stayed on you,because he trusts in you."
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Program your mindwith positive things,
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and you will takeanother step
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toward avoiding worryin your life.
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And then here's the second partof that plan:
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To avoid anxiety,we must think proper thoughts,
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and to avoid anxiety,we must do proper things.
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Philippians 4:9, "The thingswhich you have learned
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and received and heardand seen in me, these do."
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I remember that there was oncea highway in Canada that read,
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"Take care which routeyou choose.
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You will be in itfor the next 25 miles."
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Our thoughts make the routesthat our actions follow.
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Our thinking issuesin our doing.
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We ponderwhat we end up practicing.
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Our learning determinesour living.
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And Paul says,
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"Not only should you thinkthe right thoughts,
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you should do the right things."
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He instructs them to practice,
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"The things," notice this,"which you have learned
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and received and heardand seen in me," he said,
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"these things you watch me do,
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I'm the model here,these things, do."
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Well, you say,"Pastor Jeremiah,
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what thingsis he talkin' about?"
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You could go throughall of the book of Acts.
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You could takethe whole life of Paul
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and script it all outand have hundreds of things
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that Paul saidand that he did
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and that he encouraged peopleto follow,
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but let's just take Philippians.
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Let's just take
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the first three chaptersof Philippians.
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Here's what we learn about Paulthat he tells us we are to do
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in three chaptersof one of his letters.
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Hang on.
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I'm gonna fly through thison the screen.
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"Loving more,having greater discernment,
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being sincereand without offense,
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being filled with the fruitsof righteousness,
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having conductworthy of the Gospel,
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standing fast in one spirit,
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striving togetherfor the Gospel,
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being like-mindedof one accord,
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esteeming othersbetter than yourself,
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working out your own salvationin fear and trembling,
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doing all things withoutcomplaining and disputing,
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holding fast the word of life,looking out for false teachers,"
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verse 3 of chapter 3, and that'sjust three chapters about Paul.
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What is he saying?
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What Paul is saying is this:"You have the opportunity
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to carefully evaluatewhat the Bible says,
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but if you wanna translate itinto flesh and blood,
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here's how I've lived my life."
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I would never say that.
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I could never say that,but I'm not the apostle Paul.
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Under the inspirationof the Scripture, Paul said,
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"I am a living example
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of how you areto follow Christ."
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Here's what you do:
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Study his life,learn what he's doing,
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and do what he does.
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Paul's life matched his words.
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That's the kind of people,as leaders,
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we should all aspire to be.
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Great teachersfollow their own teaching.
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You can't be a great teacherif you don't live the truth.
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If I stood up hereand preach to you every week
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out of the Word of God
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and left a trail behind meof things that violated
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all the principles I taught,I would be useless.
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In fact, I would be worsethan useless.
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I would be a negative exampleof the things
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that God has called us to do.
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I can't be perfect,neither can anyone else,
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but I should aspire to the truth
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with the highest evidencein my life
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that I believe the thingsthat we talk about.
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Paul said, "The thingsyou have heard,
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the things you have received,
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the things you have seen in me,these things do."
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Now, here's the good partof all of this:
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Do you want a guarantee?
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You go to the doctor,and you say,
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"I've got this problem."
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Most often,they won't say to you,
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"Okay, take this,and I promise you,
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you will get better."
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But Paulisn't an average doctor.
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Paul is saying, "If you dowhat I tell you to do,
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you will be victoriousover worry."
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You say, "Where is that?"Okay, here we go.
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God's promise of peace,verse 7, "and the peace of God,
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which surpassesall understanding,
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will guard your heartsand your minds
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through Christ Jesus,
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and the God of peacewill be with you."
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If you pray, if you programyour thoughts,
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if you do what the Word of Godsays for you to do,
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and if you do that,"the peace of God,
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which surpassesall understanding,
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will guard your heart."
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Notice God's protection:
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It saysit will guard your heart.
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This is a tremendous Scripture,
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one of the bestin the Word of God.
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It says,when you do these things,
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God will send his garrison,his armed guard,
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to stand in frontof your heart's door
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so that it won't letany of these bad things
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into your heartthat will cause you to worry.
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If you do these things,
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God promises to garrisonyour heart with his peace.
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Notice how he describesthis peace:
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"And the peace of God,
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which surpassesall understanding."
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How many of you knowthat kind of peace?
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You've gone through something
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that you'd never dreamedyou'd ever go through,
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and God has intervenedin your life
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and given you strength,
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and you try to explain itto somebody,
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especially somebodywho's not a Christian,
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and they look at youlike they have no idea
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what you're talkin' about.
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How could anybody have peacein the midst of that?
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Well, you can't explain it
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because it's a peace thatsurpasses all understanding.
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You have to experience itto know it.
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Notice, not only does Godgive you his protection,
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he goes further than that.
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He gives you his presence.
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How many of you knowthere's two things here?
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There's the peace of Godthat garrisons your heart.
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That's protection.
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But there's the God of peace whocomes to live within your heart.
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That's even better.
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I'd rather have the God of peaceany day than the peace of God
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'cause, when you getthe God of peace,
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you can getthe peace of God, amen?
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So the Bible says that,when you do these things,
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God will come,
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and he will have a veryspecial presence in your life.
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You will get the presence of Godin your life.
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He will be with you.
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His presence will be yourcomfort and encouragement.
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When problems come,God will be with you.
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God draws near to usin times of desperate need
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in ways that wecan't understand.
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How is it that Godcould be nearer to me today
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than he wasbefore all this happened?
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It's not really possiblebecause God is never
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any more near to us at one timethan at the other,
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but when we gothrough these difficult times,
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we sense his presencelike never before,
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and so many times,people have come to me and said,
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"Pastor,when I went through that,
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if God hadn't been with me,
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I don't knowwhat I would've done,"
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or have you had people say,
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"How do peoplewho don't know the Lord
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go through times like this?"
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The Bible says,when we put our trust in him,
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when we pray, when we takethe Word of God seriously,
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when we determinewe're gonna control
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what enters our mind,the Bible says
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God not only garrisons our heartwith the peace of God,
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but he enters our heartwith the presence of God,
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and that is sufficientto help us.
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And, finally, God's peace,he calls it the "peace of God,
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which surpassesall understanding."
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So my question to you today
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is do you have that peacein your heart?
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Do you have that peaceworkin' for you?
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We do a little better with itsometimes than others,
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but we should be growingin our ability
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to turn over our caresto the Lord.
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"Cast your care upon him,for he cares for you."
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Let me tell you,you can choose to live your life
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worried to death,
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or you can chooseto follow God's principles
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and live above worry
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and have the joy of the Lordin your heart.
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I pray that you will dothe latter and let God control.
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male announcer: In additionto these free study resources,
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nothing is as profoundas the Word of God,
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for every memberof the family.
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announcer: Next timeon "Turning Point."
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Dr. Jeremiah:If you're not contented,
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if you're not happy,
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if you're not doingwhat you wanna do,
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if you feel like Godhas looked over you,
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and you're notwhere you should be,
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you need to fix that.
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You need to learnhow to be content.
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Paul tells you, you can do it,and if you need some help,
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here's God's promise:
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"I can do all thingsthrough Christ."
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announcer: Thank youfor being with us today.
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Join us next timefor Dr. Jeremiah's message,
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"The Joy of Serenity,"here on "Turning Point."
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