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Allen Jackson - I Choose God's Promise (Part 2)

August 11, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - I Choose God's Promise (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - I Choose God's Promise (Part 2) | August 11, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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  • Podcast for my "culture & christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, we--it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents' life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together, they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: well, i wanna do a youtube video with you because
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  • It'll end up on youtube, on applying one of the promises of
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  • God, because it's not enough to talk about them, folks.
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  • What's it mean to choose a promise of god, to make
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  • It yours?
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  • How do you live that out?
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  • See, i don't--i could give you 30 promises from scripture that
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  • God says belong to you.
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  • But i'm much--i'd be much more interested in walking through
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  • The process one time because then you can apply it to all the
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  • Promises you find.
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  • And not all the promises of god begin with, "i promise."
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  • Sometimes god will say something like, "the fear of the lord will
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  • Bring wealth and honor and life."
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  • I'm like, wow.
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  • Maybe i should figure out how to cultivate the fear of god,
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  • 'cause i don't have to chase those things.
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  • It'll bring them to me, like amazon.
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  • It's a promise.
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  • "well, i don't believe that."
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  • I know, it's what i'm saying: you could choose that.
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  • But you'd have to choose the fear of the lord.
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  • So not all the promises come, like, with a neon light going,
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  • "hey, this is the promise."
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  • But i chose a promise, john 16:33, because i'm making
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  • The video.
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  • This was jesus speaking, and he said, "i've told you these
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  • Things," he's talking to his friends, "so that in me you may
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  • Have peace.
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  • In this world you'll have trouble.
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  • But take heart! i have overcome the world."
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  • Jesus told his friends we could lead lives of peace.
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  • Wow, that's a promise i'm interested in.
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  • We live in a world filled with turmoil and confusion and anger
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  • And bitterness and division and everybody with a computer that
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  • Can find a parent's basement to put it in has got a
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  • Loud opinion.
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  • Now, jesus's peace is not an absence of conflict because he
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  • Didn't lead that kind of a life.
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  • Jesus's peace is the calm assurance of god's
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  • Abiding presence.
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  • Even if you're in the midst of trouble, if you're in the midst
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  • Of a storm and the fishermen wake you up in the boat, you can
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  • Say to the wind and the waves, "oh, hush."
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  • You can stand before the roman governor that has the power to
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  • Condemn you to death, and you can say, "actually, unless my
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  • Dad gave you the jews, you wouldn't even have a job.
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  • Jesus said, "my peace."
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  • Now, that's a promise.
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  • It doesn't mean it fills our lives.
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  • So how do we appropriate that promise?
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  • Well, there's some facts that jesus put in the record that i
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  • Think are worth noting.
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  • I can tell you this, at least in my experience, the promises of
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  • God don't come to my life casually.
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  • I mean, the one most of us are familiar with, romans 10:9-10,
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  • You can confess with your mouth and believe in your heart, you
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  • Can be saved.
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  • You can do that in a moment, but to live that out is not a
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  • Casual thing.
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  • Is that fair?
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  • Takes some intentionality.
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  • You have to cooperate with the spirit of god.
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  • There's--it's a lifetime.
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  • Well, there's some facts that jesus put in record in that
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  • Verse that i think are worth noting.
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  • He said, "in me you may have peace."
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  • You can have peace, and peace is a little open-ended.
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  • You can have peace with god in jesus.
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  • In christ, you can have peace with god.
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  • In christ, you can have peace with yourself.
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  • You don't have to live in turmoil and torment.
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  • You don't have to live a rejected life.
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  • You don't have to lead a life that is scarred by the existence
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  • Of evil.
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  • In christ, you can have peace.
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  • You can have peace with others, people who are not peaceful.
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  • You can have peace.
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  • That's an amazing promise.
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  • But you need to--we need to get the full picture.
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  • Jesus said we'd have trouble too.
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  • That's a part that's in there.
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  • I know it. i wanted to white it out.
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  • I looked through several translations.
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  • I even tried the original language and i could not get rid
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  • Of, "you'll have trouble."
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  • So peace is not an absence of trouble.
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  • The peace is going to be in the midst of trouble.
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  • That's how you know it's peace.
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  • If there was never any trouble, you wouldn't know what
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  • Peace was.
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  • The third fact is he said be encouraged.
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  • He said take heart, but it means be encouraged.
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  • Don't let your heart melt.
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  • Don't lose courage.
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  • So the appearance of trouble, the emergence of trouble,
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  • Growing trouble, big trouble.
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  • Don't lose courage.
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  • You can have peace.
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  • I mean, jesus models that for us.
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  • They come to arrest him and, you know, peter's ready to--"put
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  • Your sword away, i really--i need to go with these fellows."
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  • I mean, he allowed--he gave his life.
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  • Nobody took it from him.
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  • And you see, you and i are giving our lives to the lord.
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  • So nobody's taking anything from us.
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  • If we serve someone else, the lord said he'll reward us, it's
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  • A promise.
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  • If we're generous with our time or our attention or our
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  • Resources, god said, "i'm taking note of that."
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  • It's a promise.
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  • If we really begin to consider the promise and think about it,
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  • When there's trouble, be encouraged, he said.
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  • In fact, he said if people persecute you and falsely say
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  • All manner of evil against you, he said, rejoice because great
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  • Is your reward in heaven.
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  • That's a promise.
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  • And the fourth fact he put in the record, he said--is the
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  • Summary statement,
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  • He said, i've overcome the world.
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  • In this world, he said, you'll have some trouble.
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  • But take heart, don't be discouraged.
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  • I have overcome the world.
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  • Nothing in the world is more powerful than jesus's peace,
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  • No matter what you face.
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  • Wow, i'd like to know more about that promise.
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  • So i've given us a little--it's "peace for dummies."
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  • And that's not about you.
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  • I'm the one that built the outlines.
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  • It was the one i could understand.
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  • I looked at "peace for geniuses" and i couldn't understand it.
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  • I looked at "peace for mature christians" and i couldn't
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  • Interpret that one either, but the "peace for dummies" i can
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  • Read, so i'm just sharing the part that made sense to me.
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  • And it starts in matthew 6.
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  • It's jesus's sermon on the mount, or a portion of it.
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  • He said, "do not worry, saying, 'what will we eat?'
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  • Or 'what will we drink?' or 'what shall we wear?'
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  • Pagans run after that, and your heavenly father knows you
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  • Need them.
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  • But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these
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  • Things will be given to you as well.
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  • Therefore do not worry about tomorrow," wow.
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  • "tomorrow will worry about itself.
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  • Each day has enough trouble of its own."
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  • So how do we start to appropriate this peace?
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  • Well, jesus himself gave us a clue.
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  • He said don't worry.
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  • But worry is the expression of my life force.
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  • You know, i find in christian world, when we do something
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  • That's unscriptural, we come up with christian language for it.
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  • Most of us wouldn't come to church and say, "you know, i'm
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  • Very worried."
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  • But we might come to church and say, "you know,
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  • I have a burden.
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  • The lord has put something on my heart."
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  • [coughing]
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  • So if i'm a smart aleck, i cough, that's not a good thing.
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  • Jesus said we don't have to worry.
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  • He didn't say we won't be tempted to.
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  • He didn't say there wouldn't-- won't be things that could
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  • Be worrisome.
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  • He said it's not helpful.
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  • The old english word for worry, means literally--it was to choke
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  • The way a wolf would worry a lamb when it grabbed it by
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  • The throat.
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  • Worry will choke you.
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  • And jesus said worrying about tomorrow is not fruitful.
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  • It would change us.
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  • We're bullied, we're intimidated, we're threatened.
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  • We often respond with fear, and the effective lever in that
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  • Is worry.
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  • Then we forfeit our peace.
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  • Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently, did a podcast.
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  • He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • Our family.
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  • They started a home bible study all the way up to the beginning
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  • Of this church that i've served now for decades.
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  • And as i listened, the heart of it was the
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  • Work of the holy spirit in his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic, and we have it so
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  • That you can invite the spirit of god to be the dynamic
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  • Presence of the power of god to bring change and life and hope,
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  • No matter what the circumstances.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • Allen: now, one of the things that's helpful for me when i'm
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  • Tempted to worry, when worry starts and that circle starts in
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  • Your head and you get on the treadmill of being anxious, i
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  • Have to stop it with another message.
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  • So i'll just stop and begin to thank the lord.
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  • God, i thank you that you're faithful or you're just.
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  • I thank you for your goodness and your mercy, that you're a
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  • God who delivers, that through the blood of jesus, i've been
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  • Delivered out of the--you take something
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  • That you can do repetitively.
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  • Take the blood of jesus and say it until it becomes
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  • Memorized for you.
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  • Take a psalm.
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  • You put something else on the tape,
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  • Or on the digital loop or whatever the appropriate 21st
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  • Century version of a repetitive message is.
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  • Put it in your cloud.
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  • But don't spend your days worried.
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  • Some of you have to change your speech patterns.
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  • 'cause you'd rather talk about the things that worry you than
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  • About the victories that the lord's made available.
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  • And you keep reigniting the fuse.
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  • So the first one is we're not gonna worry.
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  • Jesus is not coaching us to be passive or timid.
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  • He said, listen, you're gonna be arrested.
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  • You're gonna be beaten, you're gonna suffer, that if you looked
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  • At the church over the last few years, you'd think our goal was
  • 00:11:49.024 --> 00:11:51.393
  • To stay undercover, incognito, we're camouflaged.
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  • That's not what jesus is coaching us towards.
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  • The second component of this, remember, it's peace for
  • 00:11:58.367 --> 00:12:00.469
  • Dummies, 'cause that's the only one i could understand, is don't
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  • Be afraid.
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  • Doesn't mean we won't see frightening things.
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  • The fishermen in the boat with jesus were terrified of
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  • The storm.
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  • The waves were breaking over the boat.
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  • They could tell they were losing ground.
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  • They couldn't bail as fast as the water was coming in.
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  • Wake the carpenter, he's going to drown.
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  • And we will face some frightening things in our lives,
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  • All of us.
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  • Psalm 56 says: "when i'm afraid,"
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  • Says, "i'll trust in you."
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  • He doesn't say i'm never afraid.
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  • The psalmist didn't say i'm never afraid.
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  • Frightening things happen.
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  • Fear exposes something in our lives.
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  • When fear is present, you recognize something is absent.
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  • I don't have enough trust in god in that place.
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  • And so my emotional response, my visceral response is to
  • 00:12:49.218 --> 00:12:52.054
  • Withdraw, to run, to shut down.
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  • But i would rather trust the lord here.
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  • So i'll not be afraid. i'll tell fear to leave.
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  • I treat fear like a person without a body.
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  • When i find myself truly wrestling with fear, i'll say,
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  • "in jesus's name, you go."
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  • I prefer to trust the lord.
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  • "holy spirit, you give me your direction.
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  • You show me your responses."
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  • And i'll get my bible out and i'll start to read until i can
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  • Find the emotions and the thoughts that go with that trust
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  • In god that i want to cultivate.
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  • I'm not going to give fear a place.
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  • There's frightening things happening.
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  • There's frightening messages that come to us.
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  • "when i'm afraid, i will trust in you."
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  • Look at isaiah 12: "surely god is my salvation; i will trust
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  • And not be afraid."
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  • Think of it as a graph and the continuum is trust and fear.
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  • Where are you?
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  • "the lord, the lord, is my strength and my song; he has
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  • Become my salvation."
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  • You've got to--you've got to deal with the fear.
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  • You can't ignore it.
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  • It's real.
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  • Doesn't make you weak, it makes you human.
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  • It means you're alive.
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  • But don't--you don't have to capitulate to the fear, you
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  • Don't have to give in to it.
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  • I'm not suggesting it's easy.
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  • I'm telling you it's a pathway.
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  • And the opposite is to trust in the lord.
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  • You can say--i say to the lord, "lord, i wanna trust you in
  • 00:14:24.280 --> 00:14:26.615
  • This place.
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  • I need to trust you in this place.
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  • I don't wanna trust myself.
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  • I don't wanna trust my experience or my strength.
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  • God, i need your help.
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  • Holy spirit, i need your help."
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  • Stop sitting in church nodding.
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  • Let's start to live this stuff.
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  • It'll change our futures.
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  • It'll change our families.
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  • This is as--this can be implemented in the same way you
  • 00:14:46.268 --> 00:14:50.973
  • Would build something out of physical parts.
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  • You can build the peace of god into your life.
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  • The third one is to cast all of your anxiety on the lord.
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  • This is 1 peter.
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  • This is the fisherman jesus recruited again.
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  • 1 peter 5: "cast all your anxiety on him.
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  • He cares for you."
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  • This is peter that almost drowned trying to walk on
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  • The water.
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  • I don't know, do you imagine biblical scenes?
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  • I do.
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  • You know, when i'm reading them, i kind of put them into my head
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  • And then i try to walk around the scene.
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  • What do you think it was like when peter walked on the water?
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  • It's stormy.
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  • There's some waves.
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  • It's late at night, the disciples are tired,
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  • They're grumpy.
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  • It's not a friendly boat.
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  • Here comes jesus.
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  • They're terrified. it's a ghost.
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  • Peter says, "lord, if it's you, i wanna walk."
  • 00:15:39.521 --> 00:15:44.994
  • This is peter, you know, that said, "the rest of these guys
  • 00:15:44.994 --> 00:15:47.162
  • May betray you, but not me."
  • 00:15:47.162 --> 00:15:51.200
  • So in my imagination, peter climbs over the edge of the boat
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  • And he takes a step, a little tentative.
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  • He takes a second step and he's doing okay.
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  • So now he's looking back at the boat.
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  • And he starts to sink.
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  • Of course he does.
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  • So now he's writing us: "cast all your anxiety on him.
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  • He cares for you.
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  • I denied him and he cared for me.
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  • He sent me to caesarea to that stinking roman
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  • Centurion's house.
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  • And he opened my heart to a whole different kind of a world
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  • To live in.
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  • He cares for me."
  • 00:16:34.676 --> 00:16:37.413
  • He didn't care for peter because his life was easy.
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  • By this point, he's been arrested and beaten, driven from
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  • One place to the next.
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  • He's had to oversee turmoil in the church and turmoil outside
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  • The church.
  • 00:16:48.757 --> 00:16:50.592
  • And what's his message: "cast all your anxiety on him.
  • 00:16:50.592 --> 00:16:54.596
  • He cares for you."
  • 00:16:54.596 --> 00:16:55.964
  • Now, i've--let's finish.
  • 00:16:55.964 --> 00:16:57.299
  • "be self-controlled and alert.
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  • Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion
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  • Looking for someone to devour.
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  • Resist him, standing firm in the faith.
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  • You know that your brothers throughout the world are
  • 00:17:06.775 --> 00:17:08.343
  • Undergoing the same kind of sufferings."
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  • Remember the goal.
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  • This is peace.
  • 00:17:11.547 --> 00:17:14.016
  • And peter says, "cast all your anxiety on him."
  • 00:17:14.016 --> 00:17:16.251
  • It's not the absence of an enemy.
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  • He said there's a lion in the camp.
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  • It's not an absence of conflict, it's none of those things.
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  • It's not a passive response.
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  • He said, listen, collect all your anxiety, bundle it up, put
  • 00:17:26.295 --> 00:17:30.265
  • It in a bag, do something with it.
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  • God gave my bride a hypersensitive olfactory sense.
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  • She can smell the garbage at your house.
  • 00:17:41.176 --> 00:17:46.682
  • Which means if there's any organic material in the trash in
  • 00:17:46.682 --> 00:17:50.085
  • Our house, it's offensive.
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  • Not so much to me.
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  • I grew up in a barn.
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  • Whole different odor experience in my profile.
  • 00:17:58.460 --> 00:18:03.765
  • But there's a sensitivity to that.
  • 00:18:03.765 --> 00:18:06.869
  • And i'm reading this when peter writes and, you know, he said,
  • 00:18:06.869 --> 00:18:11.807
  • "take all that anxiety.
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  • Get that trash out of here.
  • 00:18:14.877 --> 00:18:17.846
  • Don't accept it.
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  • Don't live with it. don't fuel it."
  • 00:18:19.314 --> 00:18:20.883
  • "well, i got reasons to be anxious."
  • 00:18:20.883 --> 00:18:22.217
  • There are reasons to be anxious.
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  • $37 trillion in debt is a reason to be anxious.
  • 00:18:23.552 --> 00:18:29.191
  • I mean, incredible people with lots of education and they can't
  • 00:18:29.191 --> 00:18:32.161
  • Determine whether we're male or female.
  • 00:18:32.161 --> 00:18:33.662
  • That would make you anxious.
  • 00:18:33.662 --> 00:18:36.465
  • Church is saying the bible isn't the authoritative word of god
  • 00:18:36.465 --> 00:18:39.101
  • And jesus's redemptive work was not unique.
  • 00:18:39.101 --> 00:18:41.837
  • That will make you anxious if you make that your focus.
  • 00:18:41.837 --> 00:18:47.576
  • I don't intend to.
  • 00:18:47.576 --> 00:18:49.778
  • It's not where i'm gonna give my thoughts.
  • 00:18:49.778 --> 00:18:52.514
  • I have to pay enough attention to know what's happening.
  • 00:18:52.514 --> 00:18:56.051
  • People that say to me they don't want to read the news, they
  • 00:18:56.051 --> 00:18:57.886
  • Don't wanna know what's happening, that's as foolish as
  • 00:18:57.886 --> 00:18:59.588
  • Not reading signs.
  • 00:18:59.588 --> 00:19:00.956
  • The sign might say bridge out.
  • 00:19:00.956 --> 00:19:04.393
  • You need to know, you need to know the landscape, you need to
  • 00:19:04.393 --> 00:19:06.962
  • Know the season, you need to know what's happening, but you
  • 00:19:06.962 --> 00:19:09.298
  • Don't have to be anxious about it.
  • 00:19:09.298 --> 00:19:11.433
  • Why? 'cause i give the anxiety away.
  • 00:19:11.433 --> 00:19:14.670
  • I need to know so i can navigate appropriately.
  • 00:19:14.670 --> 00:19:16.939
  • I need to know so i can respond appropriately.
  • 00:19:16.939 --> 00:19:19.074
  • I need to know so what--i know which promises are more
  • 00:19:19.074 --> 00:19:21.677
  • Important in this season.
  • 00:19:21.677 --> 00:19:25.581
  • But once you see them, yeah, i know there's enemies.
  • 00:19:25.581 --> 00:19:29.051
  • They make noise and they growl and they've got the ability to
  • 00:19:29.051 --> 00:19:31.687
  • Do some real damage.
  • 00:19:31.687 --> 00:19:34.223
  • But i'm not the only one that faces enemies.
  • 00:19:34.223 --> 00:19:36.191
  • I've got brothers and sisters around the earth facing greater
  • 00:19:36.191 --> 00:19:38.627
  • Threats than anything i face.
  • 00:19:38.627 --> 00:19:41.430
  • So i'm gonna put my anxiety in perspective and go, yeah, it
  • 00:19:41.430 --> 00:19:43.832
  • Could be a little threatening, but nothing like it could be.
  • 00:19:43.832 --> 00:19:45.767
  • I'm getting that trash out of here.
  • 00:19:45.767 --> 00:19:47.269
  • It stinks.
  • 00:19:47.269 --> 00:19:50.072
  • What's the goal? peace.
  • 00:19:50.072 --> 00:19:51.974
  • I'm not gonna worry.
  • 00:19:51.974 --> 00:19:53.809
  • I'm not gonna be afraid.
  • 00:19:53.809 --> 00:19:56.712
  • And i'm not hanging on to anxiety.
  • 00:19:56.712 --> 00:19:59.281
  • I'm not foolish. i'm not uninformed.
  • 00:19:59.281 --> 00:20:02.017
  • I don't have my head buried in the sand.
  • 00:20:02.017 --> 00:20:05.254
  • I've just got my hopes someplace else.
  • 00:20:05.254 --> 00:20:09.925
  • Number four, we gotta go. i gotta get done.
  • 00:20:09.925 --> 00:20:11.593
  • We gotta persevere. i don't like that word.
  • 00:20:11.593 --> 00:20:15.797
  • Persevere presupposes resistance.
  • 00:20:15.797 --> 00:20:20.168
  • Hebrews 10: "don't throw away your confidence;
  • 00:20:20.168 --> 00:20:22.337
  • It will be richly rewarded."
  • 00:20:22.337 --> 00:20:23.672
  • Ugh, you know what's implied there, right?
  • 00:20:23.672 --> 00:20:29.478
  • If you throw away your confidence, you throw away
  • 00:20:29.478 --> 00:20:31.280
  • Your reward.
  • 00:20:31.280 --> 00:20:34.816
  • "don't throw away your confidence; it'll be rewarded.
  • 00:20:34.816 --> 00:20:36.985
  • You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of
  • 00:20:36.985 --> 00:20:41.590
  • God, you will receive what he's promised."
  • 00:20:41.590 --> 00:20:45.027
  • How do you get to the receiving the promise?
  • 00:20:45.027 --> 00:20:48.430
  • By choosing to do the will of god and persevering in it.
  • 00:20:48.430 --> 00:20:52.601
  • It's not random or accidental.
  • 00:20:52.601 --> 00:20:54.369
  • It's not just gonna come find you.
  • 00:20:54.369 --> 00:20:56.972
  • I want to honor god.
  • 00:20:56.972 --> 00:20:58.340
  • I choose to do the will of god.
  • 00:20:58.340 --> 00:21:01.677
  • I intend to move.
  • 00:21:01.677 --> 00:21:03.011
  • I'm not staying in egypt.
  • 00:21:03.011 --> 00:21:04.346
  • I'm not staying on the wrong side of the red sea.
  • 00:21:04.346 --> 00:21:06.114
  • I'm tired of making bricks.
  • 00:21:06.114 --> 00:21:08.784
  • Well, how are you gonna eat out there?
  • 00:21:08.784 --> 00:21:10.152
  • I don't know, i'm following.
  • 00:21:10.152 --> 00:21:14.256
  • Yeah, that may be your inheritance, but it looks like
  • 00:21:14.256 --> 00:21:16.058
  • Giants over there.
  • 00:21:16.058 --> 00:21:17.426
  • "there may be, but they got--better be moving.
  • 00:21:17.426 --> 00:21:20.162
  • You all's got giant trucks.
  • 00:21:20.162 --> 00:21:23.965
  • That's my inheritance."
  • 00:21:23.965 --> 00:21:27.969
  • "aren't you afraid?"
  • 00:21:27.969 --> 00:21:29.304
  • Yeah, i was, but i'm working on some trust.
  • 00:21:29.304 --> 00:21:32.874
  • "it makes me anxious."
  • 00:21:32.874 --> 00:21:34.242
  • I understand. why don't you throw it out?
  • 00:21:34.242 --> 00:21:39.648
  • I'm amazed, we will use language where we embrace things the
  • 00:21:39.648 --> 00:21:42.951
  • Bible tells us not to embrace.
  • 00:21:42.951 --> 00:21:48.490
  • Imagine somebody saying, "that makes me wanna be immoral."
  • 00:21:48.490 --> 00:21:53.028
  • We probably wouldn't say that, would we?
  • 00:21:53.028 --> 00:21:55.530
  • "ooh, that worries me."
  • 00:21:55.530 --> 00:22:01.002
  • We take some of the things jesus said to us pretty lightly.
  • 00:22:01.002 --> 00:22:04.506
  • And then we wonder why we don't live in the promises.
  • 00:22:04.506 --> 00:22:07.275
  • We have to persevere.
  • 00:22:07.275 --> 00:22:08.610
  • Look at ephesians 6: "pray in the spirit on all occasions with
  • 00:22:08.610 --> 00:22:11.646
  • All kinds of prayers and requests.
  • 00:22:11.646 --> 00:22:14.616
  • Be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints."
  • 00:22:14.616 --> 00:22:18.120
  • Why does the bible say, "always keep on praying"?
  • 00:22:18.120 --> 00:22:21.022
  • 'cause we want to stop.
  • 00:22:21.022 --> 00:22:23.058
  • I'm tired of praying about that.
  • 00:22:23.058 --> 00:22:25.394
  • I prayed and nothing happened.
  • 00:22:25.394 --> 00:22:27.863
  • It's far more frightening when you pray and something
  • 00:22:27.863 --> 00:22:29.464
  • Does happen.
  • 00:22:29.464 --> 00:22:31.066
  • Luke 18: "jesus told his disciples a parable to show them
  • 00:22:31.066 --> 00:22:33.602
  • That they should always pray and not give up."
  • 00:22:33.602 --> 00:22:35.971
  • I don't think--i think i took that out of your notes.
  • 00:22:35.971 --> 00:22:38.573
  • I ran out of space, but it is in the bible.
  • 00:22:38.573 --> 00:22:40.208
  • It's luke 18:1.
  • 00:22:40.208 --> 00:22:42.711
  • And the last piece of peace for dummies, our little
  • 00:22:42.711 --> 00:22:46.181
  • Youtube video,
  • 00:22:46.181 --> 00:22:48.583
  • All right, we've got to decide that we're not gonna worry, that
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  • We're not gonna be afraid, we're gonna cast all of our anxiety on
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  • Him, we're gonna persevere, we're gonna finish.
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  • The last component is we're gonna rejoice, always.
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  • Always.
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  • Look at psalm 40 and verse 16: "may all who seek you rejoice
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  • And be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always
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  • Say--always say, 'the lord be exalted!'"
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  • When they feel like it, the lord be exalted.
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  • When they don't feel like it, the lord be exalted.
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  • When it looks like they have the upper hand, the lord be exalted!
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  • When it looks like the enemy has come in like a flood, may
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  • The lord be exalted.
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  • I will rejoice.
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  • "well, i don't know why you're rejoicing."
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  • 'cause the lord will be exalted.
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  • The lord will be exalted.
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  • I read the end of the book.
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  • It's a white horse and all the angels and the glory of god, he
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  • Will be exalted.
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  • Well, it's hard to see that in your circumstance.
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  • I understand. think of jesus on a cross.
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  • Hungry, thirsty, naked, no friends, humiliated, labeled as
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  • A criminal, and it's a triumph over satan and all of
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  • His kingdom.
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  • "my peace i give to you.
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  • My peace.
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  • In this world, you may have a little trouble.
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  • But don't lose heart.
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  • I have overcome the world."
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  • There's a promise there for you and me.
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  • It's not arbitrary, it's not abstract.
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  • We can have the assurance of god's abiding presence,
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  • No matter.
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  • But if we're going to appropriate that promise, we're
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  • Gonna have to determine to choose it for ourselves the same
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  • Way you have to choose to believe in your heart and
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  • Confess with your mouth.
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  • You can't take a poll at work and then get to that decision.
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  • And you can't take a poll and get to the peace of god in
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  • Your life.
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  • But let's take those promises and make them ours, amen?
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  • I brought you a prayer. i brought you a prayer.
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  • It's kind of a summary statement.
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  • It's a good prayer, you could put it in your phone
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  • Or someplace and repeat it.
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  • Why don't you stand? we can say it together.
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  • If you're at home, say it with us.
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  • I got an email this afternoon, says: "i'll be watching in the
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  • Morning and i'll put down my egg sandwich."
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  • Have you found the prayer?
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  • Together: "i choose the peace of jesus.
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  • I repent of worry and fear.
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  • I choose to put my trust in my lord and king.
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  • I know god cares for me, even in the midst of troubles.
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  • I will lift my voice in prayer and rejoicing to my deliverer.
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  • Your promises secure my life and my future.
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  • May "the lord be exalted" throughout the earth,
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  • Amen," hallelujah.
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  • Go in peace.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i got a question.
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  • What's the eternal breath of life?
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  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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  • When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
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  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
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  • Family's life all the way up to the beginning of the church that
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  • I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
  • 00:26:31.673 --> 00:26:35.276
  • The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives, i
  • 00:26:35.276 --> 00:26:38.246
  • Asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help, we all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
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  • Bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing with--for you.
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  • You'll pair it with "unleashing the power of the holy spirit."
  • 00:26:55.964 --> 00:26:58.667
  • It's one of the most effective tools we have.
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  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
  • 00:27:05.740 --> 00:27:07.909
  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
  • 00:27:07.909 --> 00:27:10.979
  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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