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Gaining Control Over Your Emotions

Creflo Dollar

August 12, 2020

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Gaining Control Over Your Emotions

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Creflo Dollar: Remember, if youcontrol your emotions,
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you're going to get to thedestination that God wants
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you to be.
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But if your emotions are outof the control, you get out.
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So, in trouble, the best thingfor you to do is to choose the
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right emotion so you can get towhere God's trying to get you.
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Have some self-controlso you can get to where
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he want to get you.
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But we keep letting ourself-control take us back
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and take us into all ofthese things that,
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when we get there, wesay, "How did I get here?
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How did this happen?
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Creflo: All right, now watchthis. Deuteronomy 28.
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Deuteronomy 28,verse 45 through 48,
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I want to show you this.
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Deuteronomy 28:45 through 48.
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Now, this ispretty, pretty amazing.
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Again, trying to convinceyou that you have control
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over these emotions.
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Now, we are goingback to the law.
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And so, under the law,sin was judged harshly.
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But under the grace of God,which we live under the covenant
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of grace, God'sjudgment is on Jesus.
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Even though you don'tbehave right all the time,
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his judgment still is on Jesus.
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But it's good to see howGod views the thing
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even under a law.
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And so, I want to show youthis because this is quite
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fascinating to me.
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It just shows you thatGod is not an unjust God.
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So, look at this.
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Deuteronomy 28,verse 45, what did I say?
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Okay, 45 through 48,45 through 48.
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"Moreover all these curses shallcome upon thee and shall pursue
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thee, and they'll overtake thee,till thou be destroyed because
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thou hearkenedst is not untothe voice of the Lord thy God,
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to keep his commandmentsand his statutes which
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he commanded thee."
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So, they're being judged fornot keeping the commandments.
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And he says, "And they shall beupon thee for a sign and for a
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wonder and upon thy seed foreverbecause thou servedst not the
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Lord thy God with joyfulnessand with gladness of heart,
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for the abundanceof all things."
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Stop, did you see that?
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He said, "Because you didn'tserve the Lord with joyfulness,
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emotion, and you didn'tserve the Lord with gladness,
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emotion, for all thethings he'd done."
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You know what he just said?
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He says they're getting readyto be judged because they didn't
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serve God withthe right emotions.
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They're getting ready to bejudged because they didn't serve
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God with the right emotions forall the things that he's done.
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He says, "Therefore shaltthou," here's the judgment,
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he says, "Now, because youdidn't serve God with the
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correct emotions, you didn'tchoose the right emotions,
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joyfulness and gladness,therefore shalt thou serve
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your enemies which theLord shall send."
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And what are theseenemies going to look like?
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In hunger, 'cause youdidn't serve him with
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the right emotions.
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Thirst 'cause you didn't servehim with the right emotions.
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Nakedness 'cause youdidn't serve him with
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the right emotion.
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You're going to be in want ofall things because you didn't
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serve him with the rightemotions for all the
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things he did.
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"And he shall put a yoke ofiron upon thy neck until he have
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destroyed thee," all becauseyou didn't serve him
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with the right emotions?
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All right, now that'snot even, you know,
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what we deal with today, butthat's under that covenant.
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But here's the pointof me showing you that.
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And some of you better be gladyou ain't under that covenant.
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All the stuff thatGod does for you,
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how sometimes you don'thave a right attitude,
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and you're not grateful,and you murmur,
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and you complain,and you go around,
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and you want more, and youcan't be thankful for what he's
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already done.
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If we were under that covenant,a lot of us would be destroyed.
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But thank God we'renot under that covenant.
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Somebody say,"Thank God for Jesus."
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But what was he saying here?
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What he says was this.
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If God will judge people forhaving the wrong emotions in
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serving him, that only concludesthat they could have made a
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choice to havethe right emotions.
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They could have decidedand chosen to have
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the correct emotion.
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It would not be just, it wouldbe an unjust thing to do to
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judge somebody for somethingthey did if they didn't have the
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authority to dosomething differently.
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They had the authorityand they had the choice
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to choose the right feelings.
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They could've chosenthe right feelings,
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just like you and I canchoose the right feelings.
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They didn't choosethe right feelings,
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and they were judged for notchoosing the right feelings
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'cause they could havechosen the right feelings.
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So, don't come telling me,"I can't help how I feel."
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How many of youheard that before?
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You know you heard that before.
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"Well, I can't help how I feel."Yes, you can.
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What you mean--you know, 'causemy mom and dad will get the belt
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and the switch and say,"Well, let me help you.
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Let me help you--let me--"
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[laughs]
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Everybody in the neighborhood
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had hedges, acommunity with hedges.
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Didn't have no grass,but they had them hedges, boy.
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You could have made adecision to do that.
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You could have made adecision to choose it.
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Now, go to SaintJohn chapter 14, verse 1.
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Saint John 14, verse 1.Again, you can choose.
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That's an amazing, amazingrevelation to me is the fact,
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how long have we beenlied to about our feelings?
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"There's nothing Ican do about it."
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You can.
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You can choose whatthe feelings you want.
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He says here, he says, "Letnot your heart be troubled."
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Don't let yourheart be troubled.
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That sounds likeyou have authority, right?
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Don't you let youheart be troubled.
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Well, why would he even saysomething like that if you had
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no authority over whether ornot you felt troubled or not?
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I wrote a book years ago onhow to trouble your trouble.
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And it talked about how youdon't have to be--even though
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you're in trouble, you don'thave to be troubled because you
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can choose to have peacein the midst of trouble.
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Remember, if youcontrol your emotions,
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you're going to get to thedestination that God wants
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you to be.
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But if your emotions are outof the control, you get out.
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So, in trouble, the best thingfor you to do is to choose the
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right emotion so you can get towhere God's trying to get you.
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Have some self-controlso you can get to where
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he want to get you.
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But we keep letting ourself-control take us back
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and take us into all ofthese things that,
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when we get there, wesay, "How did I get here?
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How did this happen?
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Why do I keep ending upwith the same kind of no
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good for nothing man?"
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There's a reason for that.
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The level of a woman'sself-esteem will always draw
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the type of person to her.
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Yep, you bettersee yourself better.
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You better see yourself betterif don't nobody agree with the
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better that yousee about yourself.
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You need to let that joker know,you know,
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you don't even understandwhat you getting.
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"I know I'm fine and I knowI'm awesome and smart.
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And I know I'm amazing,alright?
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I might not have no three inchwaist
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but, you know, whatchu gonna dowith a three inch waist,
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you need a little somethingto hold onto,
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you don't need no three inchwaist."
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[laughing]
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Amen. Three inch waist,something the matter with you.
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I know some of you are like huh?Where'd that come from?
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I don't know.
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All right now.
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In fact, go to Deuteronomy 30,let me--I think this is where
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that came from, Deuteronomy 30verse--.
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Deuteronomy 30, 19.
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Yeah, "And I call heaven andearth to record this day against
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you, that I have set thee beforeyou--I've set before you life
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and death," choice now.
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"I've set before youlife and death," choice, choice.
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"I've set before youblessing and cursings," choice.
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This is awesomebecause God says,
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"I'm setting thechoices before you."
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And then he says,"Before I stop,
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I'm going to tellyou what to choose."
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And then he says,"Therefore choose life."
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It's almost like God was saying,"I set before you life and
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death, blessing and cursing.
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And if you too dumb toknow what to choose,
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choose life, thatboth thou--"
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Look at this, look at the powerof your choice.
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"Thou and your seed may liveand prosper and be successful
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because you madethe right choice."
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Now, I believe when youchoose life--he says
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and recommends choose life.
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I believe when you choose life,you can't talk about choosing
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life and not choosingemotional stability.
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It's not--it's not life tonot have stable emotions.
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It's not life to not haveauthority and a choice where
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your feelings are concerned.
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So, involved in choosing lifeis choosing emotional stability.
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You know, I have a right tochoose whether or not I am going
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to be in control of my emotions,or I'm going to have a right to
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choose whether or notI'm not going to be in
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control of my emotions.
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You have a right to choose.You have a right to choose.
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So, turn to two peopleand say, "I have a right
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to choose how I feel."
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Look at Romanschapter 8 and verse 6,
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Romans chapter 8 and verse 6.
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I have a right tochoose how I feel.
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Somebody can come and cuss youout and maybe spit a little bit
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in your face.
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And you still--see, youknow how you responded, right?
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You responded because you havetraditionally marked in stone
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how you're going torespond emotionally.
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Wish you would.
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And all of that is thatsame part of the fear of being
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disrespected that causes you torespond as if the disrespect has
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already occurred.
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And it just gets you in trouble.
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It's the story of the guywho purchases the new car,
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he's driving downold national highway.
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Somebody hits hiscar from behind,
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you jump out of thecar and you--you know,
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you chose your emotions,it was just real quick.
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You jumped out of the car like,"No you didn't hit my car."
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You were very aggressive,and then you hit the guy.
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And the police was pulling upabout that time and saw
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you assault the guy.
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And it was on aFriday, and before you left,
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your boss said, "Youcan't be late no more.
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And if you're late again, I'mgoing to have to let you go."
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And on that Thursday,your wife said,
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"Don't lose your job.
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I'm tired of going through this.
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You lose your job,I'm going to go."
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And so, theyarrested you for assault,
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put you in jail,it was the weekend,
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the judge ain'tcoming back till Tuesday,
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you lost your job on Mondayand your wife on Tuesday.
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And you sat there in thecell and you ask yourself this
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question, "How did I get here?"
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The answer, your emotionsdrove you all the way there.
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How many times are you goingto put in jeopardy the blessing
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that God has for your life?
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But you can't ever walk into itbecause as soon as you're like a
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step away, your emotions froma negative place lead you away
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from the designed place becauseyou have no self-control,
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no temperance, you won'tpractice temperance because you
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see that as being weak.
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Somehow in your mind,you think by losing it,
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it shows how bigof a man you are.
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That's not the truth.
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It shows you're the weakestpunk on the planet by that time
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'cause you can't evencontrol what you're
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supposed to have control over.
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And like laughter,you're quiet because
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you know thisis the truth.
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Romans chapter 8 and 6 says,"For to be carnally minded is
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death, but to be spirituallyminded," look what happens,
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"it's life and it's peace."
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Here you have a choice.
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When you talkabout carnality here,
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it's literally referring to incontext here to be dominated
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by your senses.
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It's like, you know,you're allowing what
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you see to dominatehow you feel.
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You're allowing what youhear to dominate how you feel.
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You're allowing, youknow, what you smell
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to dominate how you feel.
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Somebody says, "How that works?"
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I mean, somebody mightnot be smelling all right,
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but you know, yougot to be mean.
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And you don't know they justgot put out of their house,
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and they've beenstruggling to do stuff,
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and it's dominatingyour feelings.
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So, what happens is to bedominated by just your emotions
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and your feelings, it'll leadto death or separation from
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the great things that God'strying to do in your life.
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But he says if you'respiritually minded,
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wherever your mind goes,your emotions going to follow.
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If you're spiritually minded,it'll lead to peace and life.
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So, now you have to choose to bespiritually minded and allow the
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Word of God--infact, go to John 6:63.
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What does it mean when I talkabout being spiritually minded?
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What are the--what's the essenceof being spiritually minded?
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John chapter 6:63.
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Because in Romans8, it talks about,
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you know, when we'respiritually minded,
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we can produce emotionalstability when we're
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spiritually minded.
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Peace and life, life and peace.
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He says, "It is thespirit that quickeneth;
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the flesh profiteth nothing.
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The words that I speakunto you, they are spirit
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and they are life."
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The question is, will youchoose to allow the Word of God
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to dominateyour emotions?
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It's a choice.
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You're going to be dominated bythe carnal or you're going to be
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dominated by the Word of God.
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And you think about it.
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In that time where you'rechoosing the type of emotions
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and how you're going to feel,when was the last time you said,
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"Hold on a minute,let me go to the Word.
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Hold on a minute,let me go and pray.
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Hold on a minute, let mepause and stick this tape in"?
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It works, the issue iswe just don't do it.
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It works, it'll calm you down,it'll get you to a place where
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you can think, but you justdon't do it because I guess if
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you don't honor that Word andexalt it enough for you to say,
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"Well, this is what I'm goingto turn to in the time of great
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temptation and in the time ofbeing tempted to choose the
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wrong emotion," that the Wordof God can help you to always
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choose the right one.
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But not many people reverencethe Word enough to go to it
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when they need it.
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You know, the Bible doesn'tjust tell us to have--choose the
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right emotion, you know,when everything's going right.
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He tells us to choose the rightemotion even when things are
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not going right.
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Look at John 16:33, John16:33, choose the right--no,
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no, let's go toPhilippians first.
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Philippians chapter 4.
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Philippians chapter 4, verse 6and 7 because here I want to
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mention something here.
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I think it's so importantas Christian people that we
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understand that we need to beaccountable for our feelings.
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Don't try to make thedevil responsible for it,
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we need to beaccountable for our emotions.
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You need to acceptthe accountability
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for your emotions.
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'Cause if you're out ofcontrol and you beat your wife,
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all I'm going to hear is excusesof why you beat your wife.
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Nobody want to hear no excuses.
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You got to beaccountable for your emotions.
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"Well, I decided to get in afight and beat somebody up."
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You got to beaccountable for your emotions.
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"Well, I decided to shootsomebody 'cause I don't--they
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disrespected me."
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You got to beaccountable for your emotions.
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And then this preciouslife ends up in jail,
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never fulfills the will ofGod for his life because his
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emotions took himout of the play,
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took him out of the place ofwhere he could do what he needs
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to do because you won't beaccountable for your emotions.
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And that's a lot ofthings with Christians,
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they don't want to beaccountable for nothing.
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They want to blame it onGod or blame it on the devil,
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but I don't want anyaccountability for this thing.
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It's either God or the devil,but you ain't have nothing
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to do with it.
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Well, if that's the case,why did he give you free moral
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agency, the right tochoose and to make a choice?
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And if you're notchoosing or making a choice,
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oh, you want to choose and makea choice to do what you want to,
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then you want to do it.
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And what Godtrying to speak to you,
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you don't want to hearwhat he got to say then.
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But now, but now whensomething bad happens,
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"Well, that was thedevil or that was God."
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And God's like, "Whotold you to get that car
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that's hurting you?"
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"Well, that'sjust what I wanted."
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Well, see, as easy asyou made a choice to
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get just what you wanted.
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Are you seeing what I'm saying?
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We've got to beaccountable for our emotions.
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Turn to your neighbor and say,"It's time to be accountable
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for our emotions."
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Look at verse 6, he says, "Becareful for nothing," or don't
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be anxious about anything, ordon't worry about anything.
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Wow, be careful for nothing,don't worry about nothing,
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don't be anxious about nothing.
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Did you hear what he just said?
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Yes, stuff's goingto happen, he says,
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"But don't be anxious about it.
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Don't worry about it.
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You know whereyour confidence is.
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You know what you believe in,you know who you trust in."
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He says, "Don't worry about it.
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Be careful for nothing.
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In everything by prayer andsupplication with thanksgiving."
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He says, "Instead ofworrying about it,
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take it to prayer, bethankful for what you know,
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and watch God dosome stuff for you."
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By prayer and thanksgiving,let it be known unto God.
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By prayer and thanksgiving.
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Here's what he says.
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Situation happens, go to Godand be thankful for what he's
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already doneabout the situation.
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Look at verse 7.
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He says, "And thepeace of God," he says,
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"When you do that in the middleof trouble rather than worry and
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be thankful for whatGod's already said,
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and the peace ofGod," look what happens,
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your emotions nowhave been chosen by you.
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When did you choose them?
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When I decided to be thankfulfor what God has already done
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about the thing rather thanworrying about the situation
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that appearsbefore me right now.
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Watch this, peace willguard your emotions.
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Peace will guardyour emotions.
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Say this out loud, "My peaceis my most valuable asset.
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I will not spend it onother people's drama.
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If I take care of my peace, mypeace will take care of me."
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Amen.
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Look at John 16:33.
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It's not justsaying, "Well, you know,
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choose to be in controlof your emotions only
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when things are going right."
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No, he's like, "Whenit's not going right."
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He said, "These thingsI have spoken unto you,
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that in me youmight have," what?
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Peace.
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In him or in his Wordyou're going to have peace.
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He said, "In the worldyou shall," it ain't might.
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It ain't might.
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It ain't, well, if Ido these ten things, it won't.
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There is no way outof in this world,
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you're going tohave tribulation.
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You're going to have tribulationwhen you done did everything
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in your mind that is right.
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And somebody going to tribulateon you because you done did
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everything that youthought was right.
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You ain't got to do nothingwrong to be tribulated on.
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Boy, I got some newvocabulary coming out
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this morning, don't I?
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[laughs]
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Going to have to add theseto the Ebonics dictionary.
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You're going to have trouble.
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You're going to--you'regoing to have trouble.
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Why do Christians--likeyou know,
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you're surprised, "Oh myGod, this is happening to me.
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Oh God, they'retalking about me.
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Oh God, I was betrayed."Seriously?
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In this here world,
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[laughs]
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you's going to havesome trouble.
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But, but makethe choice,
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be of good cheer.
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The trouble doesn't determineyour emotion, you determine.
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In the world, I'mgoing to have tribulation,
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but I've alreadydecided to be of good cheer.
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Baby need a pair of shoes.
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Look, you got a light bill due.
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How are you goingto pay your rent?
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All your money's spent.
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--buy some food, babyneed a pair of shoes,
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look, got a light billdue, even got a gas bill too,
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telephone'sdisconnect, wait next paycheck.
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Paycheck bounce on you,what are you going to do?
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I'm going to be of goodcheer in the midst of
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all of it, praise God.
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I've already decided I'mgoing to be in good cheer.
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Because if I stay in good cheerI'll get to the destination
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where the supply is.
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But if I lose it, I'm going togo so far away from it
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that I'm going to have to hear,"Rerouting, rerouting."
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Says be of good cheer becauseI've already overcome the world.
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Look at this little baby here inHabakkuk chapter 3.
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Habakkuk.
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Habakkuku.
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Look at this, I want you to seethis, man, this is
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an illustration of a guyapplying this principle.
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Verse 17-18, Habakkuk chapter 3,verse 17-18.
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A little bit more here thenI'mma let you go.
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"Although the fig treeshall not blossom,
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neither shall fruitbe in the vines,
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the labor of the oliveshall fail,
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and the fieldsshall yield no meat;"--
00:24:04.411 --> 00:24:10.284
"the flock shall be cut offfrom the fold,
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and there shall be no herd inthe stalls:--"
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Now, look, look, at all thisstuff he done went through.
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Go back at verse 17,we're looking at all
00:24:20.561 --> 00:24:21.996
the stuff he went through.
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Fig trees not blossomed,no fruit on the vine,
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the labor of the olives arefailing,
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the fields not giving upno meat,
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the flock is cut off from thefold,
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and there are no herdin the stalls.
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Now, people who don't knowChrist and are not born again
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here's how they will respondin their emotions
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and their feelings.
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They will feel sad.
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