The Joy of Security
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.
- 00:20:36.340 --> 00:20:39.210
- 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."
- 00:20:53.724 --> 00:20:55.493
- 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.
- 00:22:34.492 --> 00:22:37.762
- You have to experience itto know it.
- 00:22:37.795 --> 00:22:40.464
- 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.
- 00:22:45.369 --> 00:22:47.805
- 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.
- 00:22:57.248 --> 00:22:58.682
- 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.
- 00:23:29.780 --> 00:23:32.116
- 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,
- 00:23:38.956 --> 00:23:42.359
- 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,
- 00:23:50.367 --> 00:23:52.002
- if God hadn't been with me,
- 00:23:52.036 --> 00:23:53.337
- 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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- if you're not doingwhat you wanna do,
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- you need to fix that.
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