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How To Win Over Depression Part 2

Creflo Dollar

August 16, 2020

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Creflo Dollar: Yougotta ask yourself, "How long am
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tells you what to do when yougot feelings that are not lining
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Creflo: If have your Bibles,
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go with me, let'slook at Romans 8.
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Let's start off there.
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I know I left off with, I wassupposed to give you the four
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symptoms of depression, andwe're gonna continue that
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teaching tonight.
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I think the thing I like abouttonight, I was telling somebody,
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I said, "Tonight gives me an
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opportunity to getreally in detail."
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And somebody told me hesays, "I like Wednesday.
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We get a lot moredetail than y'all do."
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That's cause you're myWednesday night class, amen?
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And good news, youall are passing.
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Praise God.
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Now, let's look at somethingin Romans chapter 8 where we're
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continuing to talk about
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overcoming theemotion of depression.
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And in Romans chapter 8, verse6, it talks about to be
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carnally minded isdeath, but to be
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spiritually mindedis life and peace.
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To be carnally minded is death,
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to be spiritually mindedis life and peace.
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Now, one of the things weunderstand, man is a spirit.
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Say, "I'm a spirit."
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He possesses a soul.
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Say, "I have a soul."
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He lives in a physical body.Say, "I live in a body."
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Now, the soul iscomprised of what?
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Your feeler, your thinker, yourchooser, your mind, your will,
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your emotions.
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So, what I would say is thatone of the things we have to
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understand is that you're gonnalose it or win it in the arena
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of your mind, especiallyin the area of emotions.
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If you cannot control youremotions, they will control you.
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Now, if the emotions are goodemotions, that's great, godly
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emotions, that's great, but whenthey're negative emotions, and
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you don't know how to harnessthem, take authority over them,
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master them, or control them,then that's where it's gonna
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start taking you away fromthe will of God for your life.
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And one of the most prevalentemotions that has been so
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successful in the livesof people is this area of
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depression, and learning how toovercome depression through
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the Word of God.
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And so, the Bible says in
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Romans 8 to be carnally minded,okay, is death.
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A carnal mind means that you'regoing to be governed by--the
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word "carnal" means of the fivesenses, and when you're carnally
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minded, and it leads to death,that's because you're being
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dominated by yoursensory mechanism.
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You're being dominatedby what you see.
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God wants you to have thesenses so you can enjoy life.
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He don't want you to bedominated by what you see.
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He don't want you to bedominated by what you hear to
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enjoy them, but they'renever supposed to become the
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government of your life, they're
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never supposed togovern your life.
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And so, what he says is if youallow your senses to govern your
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life, it's gonna lead to death.
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Because what's gonna happen?
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Satan will operatein the sense realm.
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You cannot depend on youremotions 'cause they change.
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You might be--they might begreat when you go to bed, when
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you wake up, they might change.
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And so, what we're tryingto accomplish is emotional
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stability so you can wake up inthe joy of the Lord and go to
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bed the same way because you
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know how to becomespiritually minded.
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But to be carnally minded, alife that's being lived and
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governed by your senses is gonna
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lead to death because wewalk by faith, right?
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But if you walk by what you seehere, it's gonna lead to death.
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He said, but to be spirituallyminded is life and peace.
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We're trying achieve life andpeace, and the way you achieve
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that is to allow the Word ofGod to impact your thinking.
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Allow the Word of God to
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impact your mind, to impactyour thinking.
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So, what happens when somethingspiritual like God's Word
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impacts your thinking?
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What happens when God's Wordbegins to impact your mind?
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Well, the Scripture said it'sgonna lead to peace, and it's
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gonna lead to life.
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And I'm telling you rightthere, it just lets us know that
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whatever happened in yourmind is gonna lead you.
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This is where it is, it'sgonna lead you and your spirit's
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trying to fight and stop youfrom going that way, but you've,
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you're responsible for achievingspiritual mindedness, and the
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way you do that John 63, John6:63 says, "The words I speak
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unto you, they arespirit, and they are life."
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So, you're not gonna achieve a
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spiritual mind withoutthe Word of God.
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You're not gonna achievespiritual mindedness by putting
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on a T-shirt thatsays, "I'm a Christian."
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You will achieve spiritualmindedness because you're
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feeding on the Word of God andyou feeding on the Word of God.
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And every time somethinghappens, you go to the Word.
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Every time you needsomething, you go to the Word.
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Every time somethinghurts, you go to the Word.
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Every time there's an issuesomewhere, you go to the Word,
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what happens?
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You're now depending, relying,and leaning on something
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spiritual, and your thinkingin mind has been shaped with
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something spiritual, and itis gonna lead you to life and
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peace, even in the middle oftrouble, even in the middle of a
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hard time, it'lllead to life and peace.
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So, now the question is, howdo we overcome depression?
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I gave you three differentperspectives for depression, and
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the one I think we like thebest was the third perspective.
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We said that depression is aresult of external pressure
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getting inside of yourheart and weighing it down.
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We're talking about pressurethat comes from the outside or
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pressure that comes from outsidecircumstances and situations.
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The second perspective wasdepression is stress and
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pressure that's internalized.
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It's still external, it stillcomes on the inside, but it
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begins to weigh you downbecause you internalize.
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But the one that I thinkis workable is the third
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perspective that says depressionis the feelings that come from
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thinking thoughtsthat weigh you down.
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It comes from thinkingthoughts that weigh you down.
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Now, that's ultimately whereit's gonna come from, those
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thoughts that you have.
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So, you got to change the wayyou think if you want to change
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the way you feel.
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And we kept going over theanatomy of life, what you
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expose yourself to willproduce the way you think, how
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you think willdetermine how you feel.
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So, if you want to change howyou feel, you gotta go back to
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deal with how you think.
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You want to change how youthink, you gotta go and check
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out and change whatyou're being exposed to.
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So, if you just look at justthose three steps, before it
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gets to your emotions, youractions, your habits, your
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character, and your destination,if you can deal with depression
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just by understanding this, ifit is thoughts that are weighing
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you down, you have to deal withhow you're thinking if you're
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gonna deal with how you'refeeling because depression is
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all about, "This is how I feel."
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How you feel is all about the
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thoughts that areweighing you down.
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If you don't want to feel thatsame way, you're gonna have to
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change how you're thinking.
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So, a lot of times people aretrying to address how they feel
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without addressing how theythink because they're not
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understanding that it's how you
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think that's determininghow you feel.
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Imagine how big that is in yourmind to know that, "when I don't
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feel good, it's probablybecause I'm not thinking good.
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If I'm not thinking good,it's probably because I'm being
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exposed to somethingthat's caused me to think that
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particular way."
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Just imagine the authority thatyou have in your life in all
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you're getting to getunderstanding by understanding
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that, "if I feelbad, I'm thinking bad.
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If I want to change mydepression,
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I change what I'm thinking."
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So, you declare that, "thethoughts that are weighing me
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down that are heavy on me, I amgoing to use the Word of God and
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I'm gonna get ridof those thoughts."
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Now, let me show you what theWord has to say about that.
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So, if you're gonna deal withdepression, you're gonna have to
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deal with the way you think.
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You gotta dealwith your thinking.
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Go to Romans chapter 12,Romans 12 and verse 1.
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Let's look at verse 1 through 3.
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You know, the Bible says severalthings, 1 Peter 5:7 says what?
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"Cast all your cares on him'cause he cares for you."
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You know, that sounds great, butyou still have to deal with the
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way you think before youcan do your casting, okay?
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The Bible also says, "As a manthinketh," comma,
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"in his heart, so is he."
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So, think about it, the way youthink, if it is internalized and
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it gets in your heart and weighsyou down, you're still gonna
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have to deal with theway you think, okay?
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So, look what he says in Romanschapter 12, and I'm telling you
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somebody says, "What do you calldealing with those thoughts that
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weigh you down?"
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You call it renewing your mind.
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Renewing your mind is exchangingthe thoughts you have that weigh
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you down with thoughts that comefrom the Word of God that will
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lift you up, okay?
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So, first one says, "I beseechyou therefore, brethren, by the
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mercies of God, that you presentyour bodies a living sacrifice,
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holy, acceptable unto God, whichis your reasonable service."
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Now, I want you to payattention to verse 2.
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"And be not conformed to thisworld; but be transformed by the
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renewing of your mind."
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That is so powerful to me.
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See, we're wanting to changefrom depression to a better life
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and he's telling us aboutthe transformation process.
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He says, be conformed--don'tbe conformed to the world,
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be transformed, how?
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By renewing your mind and thenwhen you renew your mind, you
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can prove the good, theacceptable,
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and the perfect will of God.
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Depression's notthe will of God.
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You can't prove the perfect andacceptable will of God if you're
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thinking doesn't line up with
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the acceptable andperfect will of God?
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Look at this in the Amplified.
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Let's dissect itjust a little bit more.
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In the Amplified Bible, he,of course you know that to be
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transformed means to be changed.
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And people go to doctorsand therapists, and they take
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antidepressants becausethey're looking for, what?
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Change, all right?
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And here he says, "I appeal toyou therefore, brethren, and beg
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of you in view of all themercies of God, to make a
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decisive dedication of yourbodies, presenting all of your
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members and facultiesas a living sacrifice."
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I just want verse 2,guys, I apologize.
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Verse 2 in the Amplified.
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"Do not be conformed to thisworld, to this age, fashioned
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after and adapted to itsexternal superficial customs."
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Can you see that?
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So, first of all, he warns us,don't conform to these external,
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superficial customs.
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Why?
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Because it's those externalthings that if you don't know
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how to handle, they're gonnaweigh you down and they're gonna
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determine how you feel.
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He says, "So don't conformto these external supervision
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customs, but be transformedfrom them, be changed, how?
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"By the entire renewal of yourmind, renewing it by its new
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ideas and its new attitudeso that you may prove for
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yourselves what is the good,acceptable, perfect will of God,
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even the thing which is good,acceptable and perfect in His
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sight for you."
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Now, look atPhilippians 4 and 8.
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So, you get--you want to dealwith how you feel, you gotta
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deal with how you, what?
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Think.
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Man, the next time you go seeyour therapist, tell him that.
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We've gotta deal with how you
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think if we're gonna dealwith how you feel.
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Somebody says, "Well, youknow--" it's not even enough to
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deal with ultimately, that'snot gonna be a solution.
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It's gonna be on the way tosolution but ultimately, and I'm
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gonna ask you a question,ultimately, if I'm gonna deal
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with how I feel by dealing withwhat I think, what else am I
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gonna have to deal with?
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What are you exposed to?
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What are you exposed to?
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Because if you fail to deal whatyou're exposed to, it's just
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gonna continue to reintroducethose same kind of thoughts
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that are weighing you down.
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So eventually, you're gonnahave to ask yourself, "What am I
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exposing myself to?"
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In some cases, who are youexposing yourself to that
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continues to produce thatsame mindset or way of thinking?
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Now, here's thewarning here in this.
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He says, "Finally, Brethren,whatsoever things are true,
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whatsoever things are honest,whatsoever things are just,
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whatsoever things are--" what?
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"Pure.
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Whatsoever things are--" what?Lovely.
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"Whatsoever thingsare of good report.
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If there be any virtue, if therebe any praise--" do what?
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"Think of these things."
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Next verse, verse 9, Thinkon these things, what things?
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"Those things which you have
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both learned, received, andheard, and seen in
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me, do: and the God of peaceshall be with you."
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So, you gotta ask yourself,"How long am I gonna continue to
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disagree with the answer fromthe Creator who's responsible
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for the manufactured person thatwe are and who's included with
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it a manual of instruction, andhe tells you what to do when you
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got feelings that are notlining up with the Word of God?"
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Renew your mind.What is renewing the mind?
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It's in exchanging your thoughtsand your ideas for God's
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thoughts and God's ideas.
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Renewing the mind is not aone-time event,
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it is a lifetime process.
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It is something you commityourself to every day,
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all the time.
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And anytime your feelings arebad, go and get your thinking
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together, exposeyourself to the Word of God.
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That's what we want to do,expose ourself to the Word of
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God, let it determine ourthinking, then it determines our
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feelings, then it will determineour decisions, it will determine
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our actions, actions willdetermine our habits, our
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character, and our destinationwill end up right because the
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right seed that we were exposedto was planted and it now began
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to plot our path for our life.
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If you understand all ofthat, give a hearty amen.
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Now, let's look atsome things here.
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I began last week at the endto start talking to you about
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several symptoms that I believeare responsible and that you can
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kind of look at for depression.
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If I can tonight, I'd like
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to talk about thecause of depression.
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I'd like to talk aboutthe symptoms of depression.
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And if we have time, if nottonight or Sunday, how to how to
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get out of it even more so.
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I want to give lots of answers,but I want to give a lot of
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things that can help you to seeit, see it, see it, see it, and
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then nail it and not bea victim to it anymore.
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So, there's somesymptoms of depressions.
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I've identified four that Ithink that are pretty important.
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We talked about the first one alittle bit before we left, and
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the first one is something
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that I call reclusiveness,reclusiveness.
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It's exactly like it sounds.
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It's withdrawingor not engaging.
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In what I'm talking abouttonight, it can be a withdrawal
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from reality and I'm not sayingso deep into something where
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you're just spaced out, butsometimes, you know, we will
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violate God's purpose forrelationships, and then we'll
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withdraw because it feels likeit's a lot safer to just not
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have to cultivate relationships.
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And relationships, it's like abridge that will cause you to
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benefit from certain things.
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You just have to know howto choose the right ones.
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Genesis chapter 2 and 18, let'slook at that, reclusiveness or
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withdrawal from reality.
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What does the Bible have to say?
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Well, in Genesis chapter 2 andverse 18, he says that it's not
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good for a man to be alone.
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Please understand, he didn't
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say it's not good forman to be single.
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He said it's good forman not to be alone.
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Somebody said,"What's the difference?"
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Well, if I had a--yougot keys in your pocket?
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If I--yeah, perfect.
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If I had a key chain here, thesethings are not, you know, alone
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because you have a lot of otherstuff here,
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got a lot of stuff here.
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And each one of these aresingle, which means they have a
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specific functionand a specific design.
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It's single, but not alone.
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This key is special.
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It's unique, and it has ajob to do but it's not alone.
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Does that make sense?
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So, what he said is it'snot good for man to be alone.
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It's not good.
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It's amazing because if youjust take this by itself, you
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wouldn't even getthe wonderful sound.
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But because it's not alone, itproduces other things that it
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could not producebeing by itself.
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And so, he says it's notgood for man to be alone.
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He didn't say, don'tautomatically equate being alone
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with being single because whenyou're single, this key, even
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though it's single, it's whole,it's special, it's unique, it
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has a purpose, it has a design,
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and it can accomplish somethingbeing single.
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Because some singlepeople, they misinterpret that.
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You're single and you needto be whole, and special, and
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equipped, and unique, and notgoing around talking about you
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need another half.
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What if I split this key up andtalk about, why you gotta have
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the key on here?
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'Cause he's looking for--it'slooking for another half.
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This key is no goodif it's not whole.
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So, it's single and it's whole,and it's unique, and it has a
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purpose, but it is not alone.
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And God said, "It is notgood to be alone," why?
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Because there's some things
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that can happen whenyou're not alone.
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And he says in verse 18, "Andthe Lord said, It is not good
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that man should be alone.
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I'll make him help that isproper, suitable for him."
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I don't know whypeople say, "help meet."
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It ain't in there.
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"That's my help meet."
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Oh, Jesus, it ain't in there.
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Help, that's meet, orproper, or suitable for what?
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And for him.
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So, that's whathe's talking about.
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Don't just be satisfied bybeing with a bunch of animals.
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Understand that there's atremendous amount of growth and
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things that can be pulled outof you, and there's a lot of
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wonderful shaping that can takeplace with you when you're not
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self-centered, and you're opento receive reproof, correction,
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pressure, all that stuff.
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I mean trouble.
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You know, I'm not gonna goaround say, "Oh God, please
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don't let me have trouble."
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Without it, some of the thingsthat I had in me would not be
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available today and the peoplethat are around me and how they
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spoke into my life, or how theygot on my nerves still moved me
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out of self-centeredness andproduce something in me that
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helped to bring my designto its full potential.
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It's not God's willfor you to do that.
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And what happens is whensomebody recludes themselves in
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a situation, you're also puttingyourself in a position where all
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of those things that were in thedesign for your life going down
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the path that he had already hadplanned for you, so when you got
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to that point, all would be out,it would be developed, it would
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be where it needed to be.
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You avoid that, and in somecases delay the preparation
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that's necessary for you to be
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ready when you gotto a certain point.
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Sometimes we were so in a hurryto try to get to that certain
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point our way and by ourselves,and then when you got there, you
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were weird because therewere certain things that were
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designed to take the weird outof you, but you avoided them
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because you thought it wasgood for you to be alone.
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And in essence, he's saying thateven though you may not admit
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it, that when you find yourselfwithdrawing away from certain
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realities in your life,that's a symptom of depression.
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And reclusiveness is
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something that I think isworth mentioning.
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So reclusiveness, Ibelieve, it's dangerous.
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I believe you canbecome a antisocial.
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You can become a hermit.
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And it's easy to do,especially the older you get.
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It's like, "Dude, I can just gohome, get in my pajamas, and sit
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by myself andjust leave me alone.
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Don't call me, don'ttalk to me, go away."
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I remember my momreminded me of that.
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She said, "You gotta be carefulabout that, you can get used to
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that and boy, you'll become ahermit and you don't even want
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to answer the phone.
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You don't want to see nobody.I'll do it later.
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I'll do it later.I'll do it later."
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She said, you gotta bevery careful about that.
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