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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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - How To Break Free From Fear (Part 2) | December 22, 2025
- 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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- But here's the good news.
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- Joshua didn't let his past hold him back.
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- You don't either.
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- Paul said it like this. now listen to these words.
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- Philippians chapter three, verse 13.
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- No, dear brothers and sisters, i have not achieved it.
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- But i focus on one thing.
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- What am i focusing on?
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- Forgetting the past.
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- These words are heavy from paul
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- Because he's following jesus,
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- But he used to persecute believers.
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- He used to raid houses.
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- He is to torment families.
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- He understands what it's like to be ashamed of your past.
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- That heaviness from the past.
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- But on the road to damascus, he would meet his lord
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- And savior, who did not kill him, but changed him.
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- Understand that
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- Jesus had the opportunity to kill paul.
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- You're persecuting my believers.
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- I could squash you right now, but instead he opened his eyes
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- And the scales fell off for him to see
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- The truth.
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- And that's what the lord has done
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- With each and every one of us.
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- At some point in your life
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- We have all been blind.
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- But the moment you met jesus, the scales fell off
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- Of your eyes to see things with clarity.
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- And i believe that's amazing.
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- Okay, but here's what i want to do.
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- I want to read joshua chapter one, verses one through nine.
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- I'm going to break it down as we go,
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- And we're going to learn how to overcome fear.
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- Joshua chapter one, verses one through nine.
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- After the death of moses, the lord's servant,
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- The lord spoke to joshua, son of nun, moses's assistant,
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- And he said, moses, my servant is dead.
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- Therefore it is time for you to lead these people,
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- The israelites, across the jordan river
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- And to the land that i am giving you.
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- Now notice what the lord is stating here.
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- Okay.
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- You're going to step into moses's shoes.
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- I know it's a big deal, but look at this.
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- But i promise you what i have promised moses
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- The same words that i spoke over moses.
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- I'm speaking over you. you're not alone in this fight.
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- Wherever you set foot,
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- You will
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- Be on the land that you have conquered
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- That you were able to figure out on your own.
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- No, no, no.
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- You're on the land that i will give you.
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- The land that i will provide.
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- God is making it known. i am the one giving you this.
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- Now listen to the, description here of israel
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- For the negev wilderness in the south,
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- To the lebanon mountains in the north, from the euphrates
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- River in the east
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- To the mediterranean sea in the west,
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- Including all the land of the hittites.
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- No one will be able to stand against you
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- As long as you live, for i will be with you again.
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- He he's confirming i will be with you as i was with moses.
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- You will not fail, and i will not abandon you.
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- Something really interesting.
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- Okay, look at the description here again of what israel
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- Should be.
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- The nation of israel should be the promised.
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- Israel is much bigger than the israel we see today.
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- The israel that we see today is only the size of new jersey.
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- And i want you to think about that, because all that we see
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- In the world and the war that we see in the middle east,
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- And what we see prophetically that will happen in the end days
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- Is dealing with a piece of land that's the size of new jersey.
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- But biblically, god is always taking what small
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- And used what seems small
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- And insignificant to change the entire world.
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- But this means now i think this is interesting.
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- This means that israel promised by god would also own parts
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- Of lebanon, syria, jordan and iraq.
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- It is a whole lot bigger than what we see today.
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- In fact, here's another interesting fact
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- Israel has never owned this much land.
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- The closest they came to owning this much land
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- Was during the days of king david and king solomon's reign.
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- They got very close,
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- But they have never owned this much land before.
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- Which tells me, and here's what many scholars believe,
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- That this land will be owned fully by israel.
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- When jesus comes back.
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- And by the way, in case you didn't know,
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- Jesus is coming back
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- And i believe he is coming back very soon, right?
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- But during the millennial reign of christ, it is believed that
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- This is how big the nation of israel will be,
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- Because what god speaks will always be fulfilled,
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- Always be fulfilled.
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- But sometimes we have to have patience for that.
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- And that's a word that we don't like.
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- Seems like a sin to even say it. right?
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- But it's through the patience that we learn how good god is.
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- So again, god is saying, i'm not going to abandon you.
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- Now listen to this.
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- Be strong and courageous.
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- I love that phrase right there in joshua chapter one.
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- Be strong and courageous is mentioned to joshua four times.
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- Four times. god is reminding him.
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- Be strong and courageous,
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- For you are the one who will lead these people
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- To possess the land that i swore to the ancestors
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- I would give them.
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- Be strong and very courageous.
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- Be careful to obey all the instructions moses gave you.
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- Do not deviate from them turning
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- Either to the right or to the left.
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- Then you will be successful in everything you do.
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- Okay, don't miss that.
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- Did you hear that?
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- If you focus on the word of god
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- And obey the lord's word for your life,
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- You will be successful
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- In everything you do.
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- You will be prosperous in everything that you do.
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- It doesn't mean that you're going to do everything you want.
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- I'm not telling you that you're going to get a mansion,
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- But putting god first.
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- But what i am telling you
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- Is that god works all things out for the good,
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- And he is a good, good father who will bless you, provide
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- For you, and protect you.
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- But the way to see success in your life.
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- And i'm telling you, i've seen it in my own life.
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- I've seen it in the lives of many others
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- Where god can just change your life in an instant.
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- And here's how it usually happens.
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- God will usually change your life
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- In an instant because of years of obedience.
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- Let me say that one more time.
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- God can change your life in an instant.
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- Instant because of years of obedience
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- When nobody was looking
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- And nobody cared.
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- And you felt alone, but you still followed the lord.
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- This is how we see success.
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- Everything good comes from above.
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- Okay.
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- But then he said, meditate on it day and night.
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- Now at the end of it he says, this is my command.
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- Now again, notice it's a command.
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- It's not an option.
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- Be strong and courageous.
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- Do not be afraid.
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- Do not be discouraged, for the lord
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- Your god is with you wherever you go.
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- When god tells you a command, he always attaches it
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- With a promise.
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- I command you to be strong, courageous.
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- But hey, when you're afraid, i'll be with you.
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- I'll be with you.
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- All right, let's break this down and really see from joshua's
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- Life how we can see freedom over the fear in our life.
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- So point number one is this.
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- Break free from fear by knowing
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- God's presence is with you.
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- I am really excited
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- About this point
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- Because a lot of times
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- As believers, if you've been in the
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- Church world for a very long time, we say this all the time.
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- I just want god's presence in my life.
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- I just need god's presence there. okay.
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- If you were to describe
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- God's presence, what would you write down?
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- What does that actually mean?
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- Well, it means that god is with me.
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- Okay. what does that mean? god is with me,
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- You know?
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- So i want to show you something really cool out
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- Of the scriptures today
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- Of what his presence actually brings in your life.
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- Before i get there, though, i want to make this clear.
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- Here's what fear does in your mind.
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- Fear will exaggerate the worst outcomes.
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- Okay?
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- So fear will always exaggerate the worst outcomes.
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- Here's what god told me to do.
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- But if i fail, it's going to be so bad. and.
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- But it's going to make fun of me,
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- And i'm going to feel like the worst.
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- Do you know somebody that is so consumed with fear
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- They're no longer living in reality?
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- I have met people that are no longer
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- Living in reality, like they have made up something
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- On the inside of them because of fear.
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- Consuming them.
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- So fear will always exaggerate.
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- And i believe that this is a spirit of fear.
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- This is something demonic.
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- You ever have one of those moments where it just seems like
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- Something was spoken to you out of nowhere?
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- Get rebuked in the name of jesus.
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- But then we counteract this by speaking, by faith.
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- Faith will remind you of god's best outcomes.
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- So fear is going to remind you of the worst outcomes.
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- But faith reminds you of the best outcomes.
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- What god told you that he would do.
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- And again in joshua chapter one, we see the wording
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- That i will be with you four times.
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- Be strong, courageous four times.
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- But we also see this phrase where god stated to joshua,
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- I will be with you three times in verse five,
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- Verse nine,
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- Verse 17, okay,
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- Listen to this, because i believe
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- This is really important that we're going to break it down.
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- Verse five i believe sums up all the fears
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- That joshua had that you can relate to.
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- Because listen, joshua on the outside
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- Looks like a courageous warrior who was fearless.
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- But we talked about this last week.
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- Nobody is fearless.
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- And you can act tough on the outside,
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- But god's going can speak to your heart
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- Because he knows what you're battling on the inside.
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- Here's what god spoke to joshua.
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- Verse five
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- No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live.
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- He's reminding him of that,
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- For i will be with you as i was with moses.
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- Now notice this right here.
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- I will not fail you or abandon you.
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- The first fear that god is
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- Speaking into joshua's life is against opposition.
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- There's going to be.
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- Now please listen.
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- Joshua is not new to battles, but there's going to be
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- Some different type of battles coming your way.
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- All right.
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- Notice this when you start to mature in
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- Jesus, new levels also bring out new demons,
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- New levels.
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- You can also remember it like this.
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- New levels bring out new devils.
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- Okay.
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- So there may be new things
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- That come into your life as you start to mature with jesus.
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- But again, god is going to win those fights.
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- The first time we see joshua, here's
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- How we know that he's a warrior was in
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- Exodus chapter 17, in exodus chapter 17, nine and ten.
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- Here's what we see moses commanded joshua, choose
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- Some men to go out and fight the army of amalek for us.
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- And to morrow
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- Moses stating,
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- I would stand on top of the hill,
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- Holding the staff of god in my hand.
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- So joshua did what moses had commanded.
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- He didn't think about it and pray about it
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- And say, okay, maybe let me check my schedule.
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- Maybe next month i'm going to fight for israel.
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- The very first time we see joshua, he is ready to fight,
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- And he fought the army of amalek
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- And obeyed without any hesitation.
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- Okay, what i love about this and exodus chapter 17,
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- This story right here. what is this battle over?
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- Okay, on the surface,
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- In the physical world, it looks like
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- It is battle over territory, but really, it's a battle over.
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- Who do you worship over?
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- Who do you worship?
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- Okay.
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- It's always been a battle over who you worship.
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- The very fall of satan and one third of the angels falling from
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- Heaven dealt with because satan wanted to be worshiped as god.
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- He wanted to sit on god's throne.
- 00:11:47.667 --> 00:11:49.703
- So everything that attacks you, the fear in your life.
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- Guess what?
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- Fear itself wants to become your god.
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- Fear wants to become your god.
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- Because when you say,
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- I'm not going to listen to god because i'm too afraid,
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- You just proclaim that fear is stronger than the god you serve.
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- I don't know if you've ever thought about it like that.
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- And this is why there's many times when,
- 00:12:07.954 --> 00:12:09.990
- When samuel was getting on to king saul.
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- Yeah.
- 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:14.895
- When samuel was getting on to king saul,
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- He said, listen, you have sinned against god
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- Because you have not obeyed him,
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- Because you're too afraid of people.
- 00:12:19.432 --> 00:12:22.102
- Your fear over people has led you to disobey god
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- And what god has called you to do.
- 00:12:26.139 --> 00:12:28.175
- So in this story, what happens if you know the story?
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- I love it
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- Because moses
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- Gets on top of the cliff and he just lifts his hands.
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- He's holding the staff
- 00:12:36.216 --> 00:12:37.784
- And as long as he holds the staff, israelites are winning.
- 00:12:37.784 --> 00:12:40.720
- The battle really represents worship to god.
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- Okay.
- 00:12:45.025 --> 00:12:46.459
- Now, you would think that's pretty easy, right?
- 00:12:46.459 --> 00:12:48.395
- Right. what if i told you to hold your hands the whole time?
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- I preach?
- 00:12:50.530 --> 00:12:52.132
- Yeah, i'd
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- Be saying, pastor, better preach quicker, please.
- 00:12:53.466 --> 00:12:55.735
- My arms are hurting.
- 00:12:55.735 --> 00:12:57.003
- My slaps somebody in the head as it falls down, i don't know.
- 00:12:57.003 --> 00:12:58.972
- But. but what happened?
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- So aaron, his brother
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- And a man named her a leader came up to hold his hands up.
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- Joshua witnessed all this.
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- Even though he's on the battleground,
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- Fighting with swords and his fists.
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- He's looking up to him, moses, his hands raised.
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- And this is why again, you need community.
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- You need people to help build you up.
- 00:13:16.623 --> 00:13:18.792
- Because there's times in your life where it's
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- You're just too tired to worship.
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- You're too tired to hold up your hands.
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- You need somebody else to hold up your hands for you.
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- Somebody to strengthen you, somebody to be there for you.
- 00:13:29.970 --> 00:13:32.205
- And so joshua witnessed all this and this is the first time
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- That we see joshua. he is a warrior.
- 00:13:35.475 --> 00:13:37.244
- And again, he looks fearless on the outside,
- 00:13:37.244 --> 00:13:40.080
- But on the inside, god knows that he's afraid.
- 00:13:41.047 --> 00:13:43.149
- Now, if he's a warrior, why is he afraid of these battles?
- 00:13:43.149 --> 00:13:45.752
- Like i said, they're different.
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- Here's what he knows about the battles to come.
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- The first thing is, since the enemies are larger
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- And stronger than israel.
- 00:13:52.826 --> 00:13:54.394
- Imagine that you're 80 years old and god's like.
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- Oh, by the way, i'm going to have you fight these guys.
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- They're bigger than you.
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- They're stronger than you. they have more money than you.
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- Their army is bigger than you as well.
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- Good luck. you know.
- 00:14:05.105 --> 00:14:07.107
- Look at this right here.
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- Do you know what i mean? chapter seven, verse one.
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- When the lord your god brings you into the land
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- That you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away
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- Many nations ahead of you.
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- The hittites,
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- The gargash fights the amorites, the canaanites, the parasites,
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- The high bites, and the jebusites. a lot of fights.
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- Now listen to this.
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- So these seven nations are greater, though, than you,
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- And they're more numerous than you.
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- You know what i love about god.
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- He will tell you to move by faith,
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- But he does not sugarcoat the battles you will face.
- 00:14:36.269 --> 00:14:40.173
- He does not pretend like there's there's some people out there
- 00:14:40.173 --> 00:14:42.809
- Like it's going to be okay. it's it's going to be all right.
- 00:14:42.809 --> 00:14:45.011
- Yes, it will, but it's going to be hard.
- 00:14:45.011 --> 00:14:47.881
- It will be scary.
- 00:14:47.881 --> 00:14:49.149
- God does not sugarcoat the fight that is coming
- 00:14:49.149 --> 00:14:52.185
- Because god didn't promise you small battles.
- 00:14:52.185 --> 00:14:55.121
- He promised you big victories.
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- He didn't promise you small battles.
- 00:14:57.791 --> 00:14:59.292
- We all went to small battles.
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- But how would you see big victories
- 00:15:00.427 --> 00:15:02.529
- If of it was always something small that you could do
- 00:15:02.529 --> 00:15:04.831
- By your own strength and so that's what joshua knew.
- 00:15:04.831 --> 00:15:07.801
- The second thing is this.
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- The cities are fortified, right?
- 00:15:08.935 --> 00:15:11.438
- Jericho had a massive, impenetrable wall.
- 00:15:11.438 --> 00:15:14.541
- Joshua chapter six, verse one states it like this.
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- Now the gates of jericho were tightly shut,
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- Because the people were afraid of the israelites,
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- And no one was allowed to go ahead.
- 00:15:21.281 --> 00:15:22.749
- Now, that's pretty interesting to me.
- 00:15:22.749 --> 00:15:25.218
- You know why they're afraid of the israelites?
- 00:15:25.218 --> 00:15:28.388
- Because they've heard about the israelites. god.
- 00:15:28.388 --> 00:15:31.791
- They heard the stories about what god did in the red sea.
- 00:15:31.791 --> 00:15:35.161
- In fact, to get into the promised land,
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- They had to part the jordan river.
- 00:15:37.197 --> 00:15:38.765
- I don't know if you remember the story,
- 00:15:38.765 --> 00:15:40.367
- But when they parted the jordan river,
- 00:15:40.367 --> 00:15:42.002
- The jordan river rose up.
- 00:15:42.002 --> 00:15:43.737
- And it's believed that it rose up so high that the people
- 00:15:43.737 --> 00:15:46.940
- From jericho with their big, tall wall was able to see it.
- 00:15:46.940 --> 00:15:50.143
- And they said, the living god is coming our way.
- 00:15:51.111 --> 00:15:54.681
- See, there may be some enemies that you have in your life
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- That are afraid to talk
- 00:15:57.584 --> 00:15:58.651
- About you, touch you, or come after you. why?
- 00:15:58.651 --> 00:16:00.387
- Because god has already proved to them he is with you.
- 00:16:00.387 --> 00:16:04.224
- God is already moving in your life.
- 00:16:05.025 --> 00:16:07.861
- By the way, demons are afraid of you.
- 00:16:07.861 --> 00:16:11.097
- Spiritually,
- 00:16:11.431 --> 00:16:13.299
- We give demons too much credit.
- 00:16:13.299 --> 00:16:15.702
- We give demons too much control.
- 00:16:15.702 --> 00:16:18.004
- We're scared to even talk about the subject
- 00:16:18.004 --> 00:16:21.107
- When god has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power.
- 00:16:21.107 --> 00:16:24.210
- And the bible also states, the one who is in
- 00:16:24.210 --> 00:16:25.945
- You is greater than he who was in this world.
- 00:16:25.945 --> 00:16:28.715
- Demons should run because jesus lives inside of you.
- 00:16:28.715 --> 00:16:31.184
- The holy spirit is seen inside of you,
- 00:16:31.184 --> 00:16:34.287
- But he knows that the walls are fortified.
- 00:16:34.287 --> 00:16:35.655
- He didn't know that this is going to happen yet.
- 00:16:35.655 --> 00:16:38.091
- He just wondering how he's going to get there
- 00:16:38.091 --> 00:16:39.426
- And how he's going to win these battles.
- 00:16:39.426 --> 00:16:40.827
- The third thing is this there were giants in the land,
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- Right?
- 00:16:44.731 --> 00:16:45.799
- Joshua was an eye witness of giants when he spied
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- In the land of the pass.
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- Numbers 1328.
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- But the people living there are powerful.
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- This is what they studied about the people there.
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- And the towns are large and fortified.
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- We even saw notice nowhere to go.
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- We saw the giants there, the descendants of the enoch.
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- Verse 33.
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- Next to them we felt like grasshoppers.
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- Would you say that about somebody who's six foot?
- 00:17:08.421 --> 00:17:12.759
- Just to
- 00:17:12.992 --> 00:17:13.960
- Put it in perspective, i'm six foot one, okay.
- 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:16.296
- Nobody would say, man, he's a giant.
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- Nobody would say that.
- 00:17:18.865 --> 00:17:19.899
- But there are many people that have
- 00:17:19.899 --> 00:17:21.868
- Taken this verse and said, you know what?
- 00:17:21.868 --> 00:17:23.369
- They're just way shorter back then.
- 00:17:23.369 --> 00:17:25.271
- And so the people that they're seeing
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- That the ratified are about six foot,
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- And it just seems so dry to them.
- 00:17:28.174 --> 00:17:29.776
- You don't say, i feel like a grasshopper
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- On somebody that's six foot, even though it is tall, okay.
- 00:17:32.979 --> 00:17:35.682
- It's not a giant.
- 00:17:35.682 --> 00:17:37.884
- So what we see here and in the bible is very clear about this.
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- They came from the lineage of the nephilim
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- In genesis chapter six.
- 00:17:41.588 --> 00:17:43.690
- Very, very interesting story.
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- I would it's been about 45, 55 minutes
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- Just to explain that genesis chapter six. okay.
- 00:17:47.660 --> 00:17:50.330
- But we see these giants before the flood,
- 00:17:50.330 --> 00:17:52.332
- And we also see them after the flood.
- 00:17:52.332 --> 00:17:54.467
- The interesting thing to me
- 00:17:54.467 --> 00:17:55.435
- Is that they were bigger before the flood,
- 00:17:55.435 --> 00:17:57.737
- And they were smaller after the flood.
- 00:17:57.737 --> 00:17:59.739
- Also, if you study giants, they have six fingers, six toes.
- 00:17:59.739 --> 00:18:02.308
- A lot of deformities, stuff like that as well.
- 00:18:02.308 --> 00:18:04.344
- You see it with, goliath.
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- You see it with king og of bishan.
- 00:18:05.812 --> 00:18:07.680
- He was, i believe he was one of the
- 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:09.582
- The largest giants that we see out of the bible.
- 00:18:09.582 --> 00:18:12.285
- After after the flood.
- 00:18:12.285 --> 00:18:13.853
- So joshua knows this.
- 00:18:13.853 --> 00:18:15.722
- And again, at the age of 80,
- 00:18:15.722 --> 00:18:17.724
- He's about to face all this.
- 00:18:18.324 --> 00:18:20.593
- Do you understand why god kept reminding him?
- 00:18:20.593 --> 00:18:22.395
- I will be with you, though
- 00:18:22.395 --> 00:18:24.631
- I will be with you.
- 00:18:24.631 --> 00:18:25.565
- And what you fight. i will be with you.
- 00:18:25.565 --> 00:18:27.100
- And where you're going. i will be with you.
- 00:18:27.100 --> 00:18:28.902
- The enemy cannot stand against you when i am with you.
- 00:18:28.902 --> 00:18:33.706
- Your life would change if you believed it.
- 00:18:34.574 --> 00:18:38.077
- Your life would completely change
- 00:18:38.077 --> 00:18:39.846
- If you truly believed that no matter what god told you to do.
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- He is bigger than the trials that you are facing
- 00:18:42.682 --> 00:18:47.120
- Because it's a spiritual fight.
- 00:18:47.754 --> 00:18:50.023
- Very quickly,
- 00:18:50.023 --> 00:18:50.657
- Let me give you
- 00:18:50.657 --> 00:18:51.124
- One more
- 00:18:51.124 --> 00:18:52.058
- Example of the spiritual fight that we have
- 00:18:52.058 --> 00:18:52.959
- And how god is bigger than the enemy
- 00:18:52.959 --> 00:18:55.261
- Is found in a second kings. you don't have to turn there.
- 00:18:55.261 --> 00:18:57.096
- I'll just explain the story.
- 00:18:57.096 --> 00:18:58.298
- But we talked about the prophet elijah not that long ago,
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- And the king of,
- 00:19:01.634 --> 00:19:03.236
- Aram sent a large army with horses and chariots
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- To surround the city.
- 00:19:06.072 --> 00:19:06.839
- They were tired of elijah
- 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:08.141
- Because god will always reveal
- 00:19:08.141 --> 00:19:09.475
- To elijah with the enemy was about to do so.
- 00:19:09.475 --> 00:19:12.212
- They got really upset with that.
- 00:19:12.212 --> 00:19:13.479
- Okay, so he brings his armies and then elijah, his servant,
- 00:19:13.479 --> 00:19:17.350
- Sees him, and elijah servants like,
- 00:19:17.350 --> 00:19:19.352
- Oh jesus, you know, oh god, i need you right now.
- 00:19:19.352 --> 00:19:22.989
- Second kings, chapter six, verse 15.
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- When the servant of the man of god
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- Got up early in the next morning,
- 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:27.961
- Went outside, there were troops, there were horses,
- 00:19:27.961 --> 00:19:31.331
- Chariots everywhere. they had weapons.
- 00:19:31.331 --> 00:19:33.399
- And he said, oh, sir, what do we do now?
- 00:19:33.399 --> 00:19:37.303
- The young man cried to elijah.
- 00:19:37.303 --> 00:19:40.039
- He went, overcome fear.
- 00:19:40.540 --> 00:19:42.609
- Somebody ask you, what do we do in a harmful situation?
- 00:19:42.609 --> 00:19:45.612
- Devastating situation?
- 00:19:45.612 --> 00:19:47.447
- The temptation is to immediately
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- Give an answer to prove that you know everything.
- 00:19:49.182 --> 00:19:52.485
- Elijah did not do that.
- 00:19:52.986 --> 00:19:54.587
- Instead, the first thing that he did, his response was to pray.
- 00:19:54.587 --> 00:19:59.859
- Instead of providing an answer
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- Proving his status,
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- He prayed to the lord first.
- 00:20:06.432 --> 00:20:08.968
- So in 16 and 17 states, don't be afraid.
- 00:20:08.968 --> 00:20:11.371
- Elijah told him, for there are more on our side than on theirs.
- 00:20:11.371 --> 00:20:15.174
- Now listen to this.
- 00:20:15.174 --> 00:20:16.109
- Then elijah prayed, oh lord, open his eyes
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- And let him see spiritually.
- 00:20:20.313 --> 00:20:22.181
- Okay, there is a veil over our eyes.
- 00:20:22.181 --> 00:20:25.118
- Biblically there are.
- 00:20:25.118 --> 00:20:26.486
- We cannot see the spiritual world around us.
- 00:20:26.486 --> 00:20:28.655
- We know that it's there.
- 00:20:28.655 --> 00:20:30.356
- Okay? it's not make believe, okay?
- 00:20:30.356 --> 00:20:32.191
- Demons and angels are real, all right.
- 00:20:32.191 --> 00:20:34.360
- But there are times where god will allow you to see.
- 00:20:34.360 --> 00:20:37.797
- Biblically, we've seen this.
- 00:20:37.797 --> 00:20:39.065
- Okay, so the lord allowed the young man's eyes to see this.
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- And he saw what he saw the hillside around elijah
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- Filled with horses and chariots of fire.
- 00:20:44.570 --> 00:20:47.473
- He saw an angelic army surrounding them,
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- Bigger than the enemy that they were about to fight.
- 00:20:52.145 --> 00:20:55.882
- And then here's what the lord did.
- 00:20:56.649 --> 00:20:59.352
- God confused the enemy,
- 00:20:59.352 --> 00:21:02.889
- Actually blinded them and confused them.
- 00:21:02.889 --> 00:21:05.558
- And that's what the lord would do to your enemies as well.
- 00:21:05.558 --> 00:21:09.295
- So let me clarify one more time, okay?
- 00:21:09.295 --> 00:21:11.230
- When we say that, when we say that god's presence is with us,
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- That god can do the impossible,
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- We see that his army surrounds us spiritually.
- 00:21:20.106 --> 00:21:23.176
- And then just just one of the fights.
- 00:21:23.976 --> 00:21:25.611
- Okay, the walls of jericho fell down supernaturally. why?
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- Because they must run at seven times.
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- And on the seventh day.
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- Yeah, on the seventh day, they marched around seven times.
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- And then what did they do?
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- They yelled and blew trumpets.
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- They blew safaris.
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- All right.
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- That's all they did. can you imagine?
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- They had to walk in obedience for the walls to fall.
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- God did that.
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- You can say the israelites won that fight on their own.
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- God did that
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- And did another way that we can see god's presence in our life.
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- And this is what i love. all right.
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- And joshua, chapter ten,
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- Five kings come to attack gibbon.
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- Joshua leads israel to defend him.
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- Here's what god did for them.
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- Here's what god would do for you.
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- First of all, again he confused the enemy.
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- Joshua 1010 the lord threw them into confusion,
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- The enemy before israel.
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- So joshua and the israelites defeated them completely
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- At gideon.
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- God can also do supernatural things.
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- He controls all creation.
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- Second thing he did you know. you know what he did.
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- He said a hail storm that killed more soldiers than israel.
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- Swords.
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- When god is saying, i will defend you,
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- He's not playing around.
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- He's not pretending.
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- Joshua chapter ten, verse ten or verse 11,
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- The lord hurled large hail stones down on them,
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- And more of them died from the hell.
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- Ten were killed by the sword of the israelites.
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- All right.
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- Last thing. here's a love
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- God. here's what seems to be impossible.
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- Prayers.
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- So joshua sees this moment
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- And he prays a bold, impossible prayer.
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- God, make the son stand still
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- So that we can wipe out our enemies.
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- And then joshua, chapter ten, verse 13, the sun stood still
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- And the moon stopped
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- Till the nation avenged itself on its enemies.
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- So when we say god's presence is with you, listen,
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- That means the sun can stop, the enemy can fall. and
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- When the world is in confusion, god will give you clarity.
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- That's what his presence
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- Means in your life.
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- That's a supernatural that it can do for you.
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- The second fear
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- That he was facing
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- Was also the fear of not being enough.
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- Again, he was stepping into moses's shoes,
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- But god reminded him in verse five, i'll be with you,
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- As i was with moses.
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- I feel like most of us battle with this.
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- I can't be as smart as my mentor.
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- I can't be as talented as those that are on the stage
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- Doing the work of the lord.
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- I there's no way that i can do what they do.
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- You're not meant to do what they do.
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- You meant to do what god has called you to do.
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- You can't be you who god called you to be.
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- Trying to be like somebody else.
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- You can't so understand that he will lead you and guide you.
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- But god, remind me, remind you there's somebody you look up to.
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- Guess what? god will remind you as i was with them.
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- I'm with you and your situation in which you're facing.
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- My last point is this. so
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- My last point is this
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- Break free from fear by meditating on god's word, i.
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- I got a little bit of time left, but i want to spend
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- I want to spend a minute on this. okay.
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- Joshua, chapter one, verse eight states it like this.
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- Keep this book of the law always on your lips.
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- Meditate on it day and night, all right?
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- So that you may be careful to do everything written in it.
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- Then you'll be prosperous and successful.
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- When you look at the first kings
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- And you look at the story of solomon as well,
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- When you see that god was telling them, okay,
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- If you just follow me and obey me and love me,
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- I will protect you and guide you.
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- But if you chase the world,
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- Disaster, division and death will come.
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- And there were good kings, and there were bad kings.
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- And every time they chased the world
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- And walked away from meditating on the word of god,
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- Darkness would come into the land.
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- Joshua's secret weapon was not his sword.
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- Let me also say like this joshua secret
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- Weapon was not his fist.
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- It was not as bench press.
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- His biggest flex was
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- The word of god.
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- Meditate on it day and night.
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- What does that mean?
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- It means when you wake up,
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- Let his word lead you.
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- When you go to bed.
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- Let his word give you peace.
- 00:26:03.222 --> 00:26:06.459
- And here's what i want to take a second just to clear this up.
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- I'm not talking about worldly meditation.
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- There is a major, major difference.
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- Worldly meditation is demonic
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- Worldly meditation.
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- Notice the counter active worldly
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- Meditation says, empty your mind
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- And be one with the universe.
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- A lot of times.
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- And what it really means is be one with demons.
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- Notice out of the bible.
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- Here's what the bible says.
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- It is very dangerous to open your mind
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- And not feel it with god's word.
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- It is actually very bad to not guard your mind.
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- From any demonic attack.
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- And jesus warned this in matthew chapter 12, verse 43 to 45.
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- Listen to this.
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- Now this is interesting when an evil spirit leaves a person,
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- It goes into the desert seeking rest, but finding none.
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- Then it says, i will return to the person
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- This demon was living in.
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- A person
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- I will return to the person i came from.
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- So if i return or it returns,
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- So it returns and finds its former home
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- Empty, swept and in order. what does this mean?
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- It means that this person
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- Was trying to get their life in order.
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- By worldly standards,
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- This person was not full of the holy spirit.
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- This person has not given his or her life to jesus,
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- But the mind is empty.
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- Seems in order, but it's empty.
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- So the demon comes into his mind.
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- But then the spirit finds seven
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- Other spirits more evil than itself,
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- And they all enter the person and live there so that person
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- Is worse off than before.
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- The world is going to tell you when you meditate,
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- Open your mind.
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- But the word of god says, no, no, no.
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- Meditate on my word.
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- Fill your mind up with my word so that you know the truth.
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- In a world full of lies.
- 00:28:03.609 --> 00:28:07.179
- Because we're very familiar with this now,
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- Lies are all over the place, and they're shouting at us.
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- And if you're not careful, the lies will drown out
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- The word of god or the voice of god speaking to you.
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- And fear.
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- Fear is going to tell you
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- That you can't do it, that you can't move forward,
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- That you can't escape your past,
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- That you can't be set free, that god can't use you.
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- When fear speaks like that. understand this.
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- How do you overcome fear from mind?
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- Fear the word of god.
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- My god has already commanded me.
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- Be strong and courageous.
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- And whenever i face fear, because i will and you will,
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- I know by his promises stated over and over again,
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- The lord is with me.
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- That's how you set free.
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- You choose to believe either fear.
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- Or faith.
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- That choice is up to 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.
- 00:29:22.555 --> 00:29:26.458
- 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 bobbie 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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