Bobby Chandler - How To Break Free From Fear (Part 1)

December 22, 2025 | 28:48

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

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She. and it's very
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Easy for us to get hurt and have a broken heart
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And start to point the finger at god.
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When god is like
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I told you over and over again, this is not good for you.
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And if you're new in the house of the lord today,
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Maybe it's your first time here.
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I pray that you keep coming back.
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You know, i always pray that you guys feel like family.
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Because the church is so important
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And i believe there's
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A lot of attacks on the church today in culture,
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And there's a lot of division, and there's a lot of lies
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Being spread
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That you don't need the church and that you can just do life
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On your own.
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But listen, the whole point of this series,
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We've been in a new series titled courageous.
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We started last week.
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Okay, if you weren't here,
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The whole point of this series is to prove to you biblically
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That you are not supposed to fight everything on your own,
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And so it doesn't matter how hard headed you are,
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Doesn't matter how stubborn you are.
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It doesn't matter if you win every argument you have,
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Because some of you are really good at arguing, right?
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You have that skill.
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Maybe the holy spirit does it through you.
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I don't know. okay,
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But still, in order to get by in life,
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You need the strength of god, and you need the church.
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You need his holy spirit leading you and guiding you.
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And listen, you need a community that's praying for you.
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You need people willing to lay hands on you
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And and share their testimonies with you.
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Like i've been through it too. and i get it.
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There's there's incredible stories in this room right here.
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To me.
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There are so many miracles in just this room.
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If you were to hear all the miracles,
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It would blow you away.
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Because i've heard many of your testimonies
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And i've seen what god has done in your life.
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I've seen what god has done in your marriages, has seen
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How god has pretty much brought some people back from the dead
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To be here
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Today, to be in the word of god.
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And so, like i said, we started this new series of courageous.
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This is our second week,
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And the vision behind this series is to teach you
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How to be strong in the lord and so here's the truth.
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In order to be strong, in order to be courageous, guess what?
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You got to face some fears, right?
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You got to face some fears in your life
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In order to see the miraculous of what god can do.
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And as as i started praying, i believe there
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There are three fears that love to dominate our minds.
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Okay, the first fear assists the fear of embarrassment.
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What if i try and people laugh at me?
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What if i try to do something outside of the normal
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In a move by faith?
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And now people criticize me.
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They say that i'm dumb, they laugh at me.
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What if they get on my social media page?
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I get on tiktok, instagram, whatever,
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And they start commenting all these mean things.
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And now every day i got to see these hateful comments.
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What if i'm embarrassed? you struggle with that.
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Okay, the
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Second thing is this what if i what if i fail
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The fear of failure?
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You will always be afraid
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To fail when you live for people and not god,
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Right?
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Because if you're living for the pressure to please
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People, somebody, no matter what you do,
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No matter how good you do it, somebody
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Is going to have an opinion,
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Somebody is going to have an agenda
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And somebody is going to speak against you.
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I actually just had a
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Conversation with my eight year old daughter, just recently,
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About how living for jesus means that there will be more tax
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Living for jesus and having the holy spirit inside of you.
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Because listen, this is what i love about it spiritually.
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The bible talks about it like this.
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We're the light in the darkness.
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Okay, so there's actually a light shining in you.
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Demons don't like that, by the way,
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And because of the light shining in you,
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There will be hateful people.
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There will be people that make fun of you.
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There will be mean people in your life.
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And so i was trying to help her to grasp that.
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So i gave her a bowl of ice cream
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To kind of help out the situation.
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You know, maybe i should do that in here.
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Maybe that would kind of help us out and hear as well.
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But the truth is, listen, if you're trying to please
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People, you're always going to be in bondage,
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Right?
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So. so live your life to please the lord, okay?
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Live your life to please the lord.
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The third fear, though, is this the fear of pain?
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What if i move by faith and i get hurt?
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Or what if i move by faith that i hurt somebody that i love?
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Have you
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Have you noticed that when you get closer to the lord,
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It's going to tell you to do some difficult things?
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I've heard many testimonies
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And many stories of people saying i came to jesus,
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And the hardest thing that god told me to
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Do was walk out of a dating relationship that was hurting me
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Because i cared for this person, but i knew that it was
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It, right?
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I knew that it didn't honored the lord, but i
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But i
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But i felt like i love this person,
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But i want to love jesus more,
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And i want to do the right thing.
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And so sometimes you can experience pain.
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And it's not just emotional pain.
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Sometimes it's physical pain.
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Sometimes you are literally risking your life
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Because you're proclaiming jesus everywhere you go.
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And so if you're dealing with one of these fears
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Today, i pray that this encourages you
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In second timothy chapter one, verse seven.
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Notice what paul is stating here.
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For god has not given us a spirit of fear.
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The lord has given you a spirit of fear or timidity,
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But of light, but of power, dunamis power,
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Love and self discipline.
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Now notice what the spirit of god would do in your life.
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The holy spirit will bring power that you don't have
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Supernatural power, the holy spirit.
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What i love about this too,
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Is when you're having a hard time
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And you're going through a trial,
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The holy spirit can help you love
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People that are difficult to love.
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How many of y'all need that?
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I do like difficult people.
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God's going to tell you love them.
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I'll show you what they're really going through.
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You see the demons that torment them.
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And it changes when you see that it's a spiritual thing.
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So one more time.
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And the last thing is this self-discipline. who?
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Who in here needs that self discipline?
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Nobody likes that word.
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I didn't come to church to hear about discipline.
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I came to church to hear about miracles
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And what god can do for me.
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Yes, he is calling you though to walk in obedience
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And to live for jesus is to die to the flesh.
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And the holy spirit has come to wage war against your flesh.
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And so paul is reminding us all, all of this,
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What the holy spirit could do in your life.
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But but god is not given us a spirit of fear and timidity.
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Who is paul talking to you, by the way?
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Because we love to quote this verse.
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Do you know the context to this?
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So paul is actually talking to a young pastor named timothy,
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Okay?
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And timothy is leading a church in the city of ephesus,
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And he's dealing with some struggles.
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He's got some obstacles before him.
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The first thing that we know is this at first and second
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Timothy is that he is a young pastor.
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And so the older believers
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Coming in are kind of condemning him and criticizing him.
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And many scholars believe that he's in his early 30s.
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Okay. so he's in his early 30s.
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He's trying to minister to people,
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But there are people coming in and saying, no, no, no,
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You don't have enough life experience to be called by god.
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You don't know enough to be called by god
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Or you can't teach me because i'm older than you.
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Yet he was called by god and confirmed
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By paul that this is what god has told you to do.
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It's not going to be easy to speak up,
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But you're going to have to speak the truth
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Even to those that criticize you.
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And again, this is why paul reminded him
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The holy spirit can help you love people
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That are difficult to love.
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Now the second thing that he's dealing with, the
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There's a lot of division. why?
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Because in first timothy
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It talks about these false teachers.
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Okay.
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These false teachers almost these
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These religious people coming into the church,
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And they're creating division and they're spreading lies,
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And they start talking
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About their genealogies and how that's what saves
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Him, their family lineage.
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And so paul is pretty much stating to timothy,
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This is all dumb, and you need to correct it quickly
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Because people are falling for the lies.
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If you hear it enough, you start to believe it.
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Okay.
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And so i
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Just want you to understand paul is encouraging timothy.
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Listen, it's going to be hard.
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You're going to have to call out some false teachers.
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You're going to have to call out some things that are bad,
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But do it for the lord.
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You must be courageous.
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The third thing is this is that
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Timothy could also face a lot of persecution.
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He's leading a church in ephesus.
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The city of ephesus is known for idol worship.
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In fact, there is a temple of diana
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In ephesus that people would travel to.
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It's one of the ancient seven wonders of the world.
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People would come here just to see it.
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But in acts chapter 19,
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Because of paul preaching, so much of the gospel believers
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Started to rise up, christianity started to spread,
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And the people that loved idol worship got very angry
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And an angry mob came after them.
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And the reason they got angry is because they were losing
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Profit
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From the idols that they made.
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Let me let me share with you, okay?
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The world is always going to come after you
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For freeing people,
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Because the world wants people to believe that your possessions
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Can be your god and give you status.
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Why? because they make a they make a profit off of this.
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But jesus says you're so valuable
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That nothing in this world could really set you free,
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Could be worth the fulfillment that i have for you.
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You're so valuable that he gave his life for you to save you.
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He is the only one that can satisfy you.
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But because they started to lose money
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Over people not loving the idols are buying the idols.
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And christianity is starting to spread.
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They started to persecute
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The christians and believers in ephesus.
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And so here's young
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Timothy, and i want you to understand
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This like it's one thing on the outside,
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People want to hurt me, the nonbelievers,
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They want to hurt me.
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But it's another thing for the believers to criticize you, too.
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At the same time,
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The nonbelievers
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And the believers are attacking him.
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False teachings are going around.
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This is why paul is stating, listen,
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But god has not given you
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A spirit of fear.
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You don't have to be afraid of these people.
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In fact,
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Here's another fear a lot in timothy's life.
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I believe
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If we were to be honest,
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I believe that timothy battled loneliness.
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And maybe that's a fear for you today,
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Because paul would reveal to him through the letter to timothy
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That, listen, timothy, people are going to abandon you.
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People are going to leave you.
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Why? because you're speaking the truth.
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Now. because you're doing the wrong things,
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But because you're actually doing the right things.
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There will be people who leave you
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For doing the right thing that god has called you to do.
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Second timothy chapter four, verse
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Three and four for paul stated, a time is coming
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When people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome
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Teaching.
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Does that sound familiar?
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Do we see it today in today's culture?
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But they will follow their own desires.
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Notice this because when you look up temptation
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Out of the bible, temptation comes from your desires
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And satan will entice you with your desires
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To lead you astray from the presence of god.
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But the same thing can happen when it comes to a teaching
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Of the word of god.
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Satan content you to want to hear what you want to hear
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So that you can live however you want to live.
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And so paul is reminding timothy that you can't you can't.
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You can't be a false teacher.
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You can't allow them to spread the lies.
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You have to speak the truth.
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But the people, they're following
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Their own desires and they will look for teachers
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Who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.
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They're looking for certain things
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That make them feel good about the sin that is in their life.
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But i've called you to freedom from.
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And this has to hurt.
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They will reject the truths.
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They will reject the truth, and they will chase after myths.
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Instead,
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They will reject god's word, and they will chase
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After lies to satisfy feelings
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And superficial needs.
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But again, i want to look at the text here.
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God has not given us a spirit of fear.
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So paul is making it
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Very clear to timothy and paul is making it very clear to us
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That the fear that consumes you, that torments your mind,
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That that gives you anxiety, does not come from god.
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You need
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To know that that type of fear of the world
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And the things around you come from the devil.
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It comes from culture, okay?
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And it also comes from your your own thoughts, your flesh.
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It comes from the devil.
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It comes from culture and it comes from you.
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Yet paul is reminding timothy you can fight back.
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Has anybody ever taught you that you can fight your fear,
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That you can actually give it over to the lord
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And see the outcome that god has called you to step into,
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Because fear will always be the wall
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Stopping you from what god has called you to be.
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How many of you have experienced that before?
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God, call me to go out and pray over somebody.
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But that's weird. so now
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Here we have one of
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Those moments where you're just out and about
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And there's like a stranger and god is like, go pray over them.
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Like god. i don't know them.
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Like i can't go pray over them.
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Many times within our ministry, i remember one time
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Praying over this lady in walmart and,
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I don't know, we we just felt from the lord
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We were just being courageous and moving by faith.
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And we were in walmart
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And meeting a couple of friends and and all of a sudden
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We just felt we need to pray over her.
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And it's funny
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Because people automatically are like, oh, i'm good.
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Oh, i need prayer.
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Oh that's awesome.
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Okay, in jesus name, you know?
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And we started praying.
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And then by the end of the conversation, she's in tears
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Because you want to know that
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God's real and that he can use you.
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The holy spirit can speak to you
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Because in those moments
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You'll say something that you
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Don't know about their life, but god does.
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And they'll look at you like, wow, who are you?
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You know, like
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And you can be like, i'm
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Just the vessel of the god that loves you.
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And really, the lord's presence is meeting
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You today, even in walmart.
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And that crazy was demonic place you can be.
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You know what i mean?
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Oh, okay.
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Sorry. god. all right.
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But but he's making it clear.
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Fear does not come from god.
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We must learn how to fight it.
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Okay, so the title of today's message
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Is this how to break free from fear.
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How do we break free from the fear that torments
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Our mind, the the anxiety that tries to consume us?
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And so if you have your bibles tonight, joshua chapter one,
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Joshua chapter one.
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So we're going to go back to the old testament now,
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Because when i believe if we're looking at a story
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Of how to walk by faith
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And really be courageous, i love the story of joshua.
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Let me encourage you today.
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Like if you're facing something, a trial
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And you are afraid to battle it, read the story of joshua
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Because from the very beginning,
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God called him to be courageous.
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So let me give you some background information
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First about who joshua is. joshua is not a nobody.
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He was the servant to moses. okay?
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So he was the assistant to moses.
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He was in fact, he was one of the original
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12 spies called out to scout the promised land.
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So 12 spies go into the promised land.
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And when they came back, remember the story?
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Around ten of the spies came back.
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And what did they say?
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Oh, man. it's everything god said it would be.
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Now notice it. that's how they started it out.
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They said it's everything that god said it would be okay.
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The fruit is massive.
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It really is overflowing.
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It's a landfill of milk and honey.
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It's everything that god spoke. but
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There's some giants, you know,
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There's some strong people there.
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There's some things that i don't want to tackle.
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And so they came back.
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Ten out of the 12 spies came back speaking fear.
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The thing about fear,
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I fear controls your mouth.
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It becomes contagious. okay.
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So when you speak fear, you actually plant
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A seed of fear in somebody else's mind.
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And what do they do?
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They allow it in their heart.
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It overflows out of them.
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And then the next thing you know, everybody around you
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Is afraid.
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Now the thing is, moses, get this moses is leading
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Millions of people.
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This is an entire nation of people.
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And the bible makes it clear the fear was spread around
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So badly that every one was afraid except two men.
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Imagine an entire
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Nation was afraid because of the fear
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That was spoken, except two men, joshua and caleb.
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Here's what they stated. they said, no, no, no.
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It is everything that god said it would be
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And god has confirmed it.
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God has called us to it.
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And so we believe god can take down the enemy.
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You understand that the bible is very clear.
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There are demonic principalities that try to overcome nations.
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Notice that we live in a time
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Where it seems like every nation is afraid.
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Every nation is fed fear when you're on social media.
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What are you on a feed?
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You're feeding on fear and everything around you.
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But what if we started speaking by faith
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And believing that the church can do so much more?
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Amen.
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That we can step in to the promises
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That god has called us to be in, that we can see revival
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Okay, that we can pray over the nation and believe god
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To do the impossible.
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That's what they believe.
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And so they were the only two
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Out of the entire nation to step foot in to the promise.
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And here's what that teaches us.
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Be careful about what you speak.
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You hear me?
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Be very careful about the words that come out of your mouth.
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Are you constantly speaking fear over your situation
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Or are you speaking by faith?
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Let me also clarify.
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Speaking by faith doesn't mean you're naive, okay?
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It doesn't mean that you're not looking at the situation.
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You understand? there's giants in the land.
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You understand there's problems, there's trials.
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You can get hurt.
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But my god is still bigger. i'm
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In the things that i will face.
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But what you speak matters.
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Jesus also told it like this.
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Because what you speak flows from the
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Blood, from the heart
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On the inside of you.
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And so we see this about joshua.
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Joshua is a great,
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Faithful man, but he's also a courageous man.
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And then all of a sudden, we see in joshua chapter one
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That joshua is now called to step into the shoes of moses.
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Can you imagine
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Moses, who parted the red sea,
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Freed everybody from egypt, leading millions
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Into the promised land, that type of moses.
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And now god is calling him
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To step into those shoes, to lead millions
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Into the promise and to face giants.
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I know, no big deal, right?
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How would you feel?
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Some interesting facts about joshua before we get started.
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One fact is this most likely, most likely.
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Joshua was around the age of 40 years old
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When he first stepped foot into the promised land to spy on it.
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What happened after that?
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Because the people didn't believe, okay, they they lasted
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40 years in the wilderness.
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So this means now when god is calling joshua
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To lead the nation of israel into the promised,
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He's around the age of 80 years old.
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Can you imagine?
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Many of us would be like, god, that's
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Not part of my retirement plan.
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I didn't think about facing giants.
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I thought about facing my mother in law.
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But that's another story.
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You know,
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I don't get myself in trouble.
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But but, like, think about that for a second.
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Like facing giants at the age of 80.
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At the age of 80, leading all of these people.
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All right, here's another big takeaway.
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And i think this is very important to understand.
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So this means that joshua's early life, his
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His younger years of life was spent as a slave in egypt.
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That's powerful because this means he understood
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What it was like to be overlooked.
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He understood what it was like to be mistreated.
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He understood what it was like to be stuck in bondage.
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Yet even as a slave, he had hope for the future.
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Why did he have hope for the future?
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Because he believed in god's promise.
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He believed in god's word.
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I know my god can rescue me from what i came out of.
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I know my god can still lead me into the promised.
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There are sometimes, sometimes people are so stuck in the past
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Of something that hurt them, or something they grew up in,
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And they allow that past to torment their mind,
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And they never believe god for the better future.
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And i'm telling you today,
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Are you stuck in the past?
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As a pastor, i've had so many conversations
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Of people just just telling me like
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They're still stuck in the past.
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Well, i was in this relationship and it hurt me so bad
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That now i don't believe in any good relationships
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Or i don't really know how to love, because
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This is what i saw growing up, and this is my family,
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And it's full of dysfunction.
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And so that's all i'll ever know.
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Okay, well, abraham was to
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Abraham was called to the land of the chaldeans.
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They were pagans.
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They worshiped idols.
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And god called him to move by faith and change his family,
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Change everything, and see the miracles of god.
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Some of the some of the things i hear too.
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I just going to share this with you.
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Sometimes i hear this god must not love me
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Because he allowed me to be in this relationship.
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I come on, god has given you a free will.
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Let me make it very clear god will warn you.
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God will give you all the red flags,
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But it's up to you
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To choose to follow god or follow your feelings.
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And it's very easy for us to get hurt and have a broken heart
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And start to point the finger at god.
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When god is like i told you over and over again,
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This is not good for you.
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But the thing about the god we serve is that he can
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Heal the broken heart.
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He can bandage your wounds,
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And he can make you better than before.
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But are you stuck in something
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That god told you to be free from?
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Listen, jesus has redeemed you.
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Let me. let me make that very clear.
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Jesus has redeemed you and forgiven you of the past.
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You need to learn how to forgive yourself,
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To be able to move forward into what god has for you.
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All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
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But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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There is a reason you heard this word today.
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It's not by mistake.
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You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
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And listen, if you love this church
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And thinking about giving to this church, all you have to do
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Is visit our website at bobby chandler ministries.com.
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And it's very easy to give.
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And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives.
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Because of your faithful giving.
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We're able to reach not only the nation, but the world.
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We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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So that they know the love of god.
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And listen.
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If you want to hear more sermons as well, don't forget
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You can join us live every sunday, 815, 10:00, and 1145.
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So thank you for watching today
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And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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All right, before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
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And this one's a big one.
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Okay.
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This year
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We held
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Our very first awaken conference in hickory, north carolina
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For authentic church.
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And we saw
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People come out from everywhere, from all over the nation
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And even outside of the country
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To experience what god is doing here.
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So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
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We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
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And if you want to look into more details
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Over the conference,
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All you have to do is click the link below.
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In fact, here's a recap video to show you what all god did.
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We. and
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The reason i even bring it up tonight
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Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus
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The man, the gospel message is all about
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Your understanding of the message about the man
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Who will inform your methods of getting to know the man.
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And he.
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Says this job doesn't.
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Work out for me.
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What if i move my life by faith and it all just
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Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
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But i would rather move by faith
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And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
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And i ended up exactly.
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Where i needed to be.
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With.
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You know what?
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Today is
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Pentecost sunday,
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Pentecost sunday.
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Woo! you better
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Not ask the holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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I came here to remind you
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You need the holy spirit.
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Maybe.
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Bobby Chandler - How To Break Free From Fear (Part 1)

December 22, 2025 | 28:48

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