Robert Jeffress - Against All Odds

January 27, 2025 | S25:E46

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Against All Odds | January 27, 2025
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  • [announcer] from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas, this is 'pathway to victory,'
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to 'pathway to victory.'
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  • When hard times come our way,
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  • We often ask god to remove those burdens from our lives,
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  • And while sometimes he does that, other times he doesn't.
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  • Gratefully god has given us the faith
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  • To handle either situation.
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  • In the conclusion of hebrews 11,
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  • The writer reminds us
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  • That faith both enables us to conquer problems,
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  • And to endure problems,
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  • And those who persevere will be rewarded greatly.
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  • My message is titled, "against all odds,"
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  • On today's edition of 'pathway to victory.'
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  • Dr. john pemberton wasn't really a doctor,
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  • But after all, who would buy a product called,
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  • Mr. pemberton's liver pills?
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  • No one.
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  • And so this local pharmacist who lived during the civil war
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  • Came up with concoctions like,
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  • Dr. pemberton's globe of flower cough syrup,
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  • And other names.
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  • But his real dream was to create a medicine
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  • That would cure headaches and hangovers.
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  • He experimented with extracts of fruits, and nuts,
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  • And leaves but that was for taste.
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  • What he really needed
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  • Was some kind of stimulant like caffeine,
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  • And so he came up with a formula that pleased him,
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  • But now he needed some financial backing,
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  • By this time, dr. pemberton had moved to atlanta.
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  • During the summer of 1886,
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  • Dr. pemberton took a jug of his reddish-brown syrup
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  • To jacob's pharmacy,
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  • Which bought a couple of jugs of the potion.
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  • 'just mix with water and drink,' were the instructions,
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  • But sales were slow that summer.
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  • The residents of atlanta
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  • Didn't suffer from too many headaches.
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  • But one day a customer stumbled into jacob's pharmacy
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  • With a hangover,
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  • And the clerk suddenly remembered dr. pemberton's syrup,
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  • And he went back to mix some up.
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  • He was new on the job
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  • And he accidentally used carbonated water,
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  • And the results were so tasteful
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  • That the word of this new potion begin to spread.
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  • Unfortunately, dr. pemberton couldn't heal himself.
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  • He died when his little headache remedy business
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  • Could have been bought for $2,000.
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  • In spite of his hard work and persistence,
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  • He never lived to see what that business would become.
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  • It's a business that's known today
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  • As the coca-cola corporation.
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  • History is filled with people
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  • Who never saw the full results of their hard work.
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  • That's true, by the way, not only in the realm of business,
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  • But in the realm of faith.
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  • Although god occasionally allows us
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  • To experience just a taste of the rewards
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  • For our faith in him,
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  • Most people end up dying
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  • Without ever fully seeing the results of their faith
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  • In this life at least.
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  • But the kind of faith that pleases god
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  • Is a faith that obeys god, in spite of any visible results,
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  • And in spite of adverse circumstances.
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  • And that's the kind of faith described in hebrews 11.
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  • If you have your bibles turn to hebrews 11,
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  • As we look at men and women who obeyed god against all odds.
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  • You remember in verse one,
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  • The writer defines what faith is.
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  • Contrary to popular thinking,
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  • Faith is not a wish, it's not a hope, it's not a desire.
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  • Instead, faith is the assurance
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  • That god will do what he has promised to do,
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  • And then acting accordingly.
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  • You see that on your outline.
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  • Let me say it one more time.
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  • Faith is not a hope, wish, or desire.
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  • It is the assurance, it is the conviction
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  • That god will do what he's promised to do,
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  • And acting accordingly.
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  • After giving us that definition,
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  • Then we've seen in hebrews 11
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  • The example of what faith is,
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  • And these men and women from the old testament
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  • Demonstrated different aspects of faith.
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  • And now when we come to the concluding section
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  • Of hebrews 11, beginning with verse 30,
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  • The writer's going to explain what real faith does.
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  • And really he's going to talk
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  • About two different kind of believers
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  • Who exercise two different kinds of faith,
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  • With two very different results.
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  • Beginning in verse 30, you might come to the conclusion
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  • That this is just a hodgepodge of characters
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  • That came to the writer's minds.
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  • But as you look more closely
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  • At these verses we're going to look at,
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  • You'll discover there's a reason
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  • They are listed the way they are.
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  • Now, note this on your outline.
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  • Write these words in.
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  • In verse 30 to 34 we find a list of believers
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  • Who conquered problems,
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  • But in verses 35 to 40,
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  • This is a record of believers who endured problems.
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  • In verses 30 to 34, this is an illustration of faith
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  • In god's ability to deliver them out of their problems.
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  • But in verses 35 through 40,
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  • These are men and women who demonstrate the faith
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  • In god's ability to sustain them through their problems.
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  • In verses 30 to 34, this is a demonstration
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  • Of promises of god that were fulfilled.
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  • Verses 35 to 40 described the promises of god
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  • That were delayed.
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  • Two very different categories of faith.
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  • First of all, some people exercise a faith
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  • That actually conquers problems,
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  • And sometimes that will be true in your life.
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  • There'll be occasions when faith absolutely
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  • Allows you to conquer once and for all
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  • Whatever problem you're facing.
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  • I want you to notice that in this first section,
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  • Versus 30 to 35, there were two characteristics
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  • That were common of these men and women.
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  • First of all,
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  • They obeyed god's instructions in spite of reason.
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  • A faith that conquers problems,
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  • Obeys god's instructions even when they don't make sense,
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  • In spite of reason.
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  • And here's a good illustration, verse 30,
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  • "by faith the walls of jericho fell down,
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  • "after they had been encircled for seven days."
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  • Many times when god promises something,
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  • He expects us to have some participation
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  • In the fulfillment of that promise.
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  • The only thing, the only promise of god
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  • We have absolutely no hand in, is the gift of salvation.
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  • That is completely god's work by grace.
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  • But many other times, god tells us
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  • We're going to have a part in the fulfillment of that promise.
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  • That was true for joshua.
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  • The angel said to joshua, remember in chapter six,
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  • "this is what i want you to do.
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  • "i want you to take your men,
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  • "and i want you to march around
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  • "the walls of jericho once a day for six days.
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  • "and then on the seventh day,
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  • "you and your men are to march
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  • "around the city wall seven times.
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  • "and on that seventh time,
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  • "which plus six the other days before,
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  • "on the 13th time you're to blow the trumpet,
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  • "and shout at the top of your lungs,
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  • "and the wall will come crashing down."
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  • Now, can you think how illogical
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  • That must have seemed to joshua?
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  • You want us to do what?
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  • Just march.
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  • Just march once a day for six days, last day for seven days.
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  • You know, many times god's commands
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  • Just don't seem to make sense to us.
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  • Think about noah.
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  • God told noah to build an ark in the middle of the desert
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  • To save himself and his family from a flood
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  • When it had never rained on the earth before.
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  • But noah obeyed god.
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  • Or think about naaman,
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  • Remember the captain of the syrian army
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  • Who was suffering from leprosy?
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  • He sent word to the prophet of god,
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  • What am i supposed to do?
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  • And god told the prophet,
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  • Tell naaman to go to the muddy jordan river,
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  • And dip himself seven times in that muddy river,
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  • And the leprosy will fall away.
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  • It made no sense, but all three of those men,
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  • Naaman, and noah, and now joshua,
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  • They obeyed god in spite of reason.
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  • You see, that's the kind of faith that pleases god,
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  • A faith that conquers,
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  • Obeys god's instructions when they don't make any sense.
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  • Not only that,
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  • But i want you to notice a second characteristic
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  • Of conquering faith.
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  • Each of these men and women received god's blessing
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  • In spite of themselves.
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  • They received god's blessing in spite of themselves.
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  • Look at verse 31.
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  • "by faith, rahab the harlot,
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  • "did not perish with those who were disobedient,
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  • "after she had welcomed the spies in peace."
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  • This is a part of the joshua and jericho story,
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  • But it occurs a few chapters before joshua 6,
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  • It's back in joshua 2.
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  • While joshua was still overlooking the city of jericho,
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  • Trying to figure out what he was going to do,
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  • He sent two spies into the city itself
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  • On a reconnaissance mission
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  • To see what kind of obstacles they were going to face.
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  • These two spies were risking their lives,
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  • And there was a city prostitute
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  • Who lived between the two walls i talked about.
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  • Her name was rahab,
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  • And she risked her life to hide these spies.
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  • Why did she do such a thing?
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  • Because joshua too says she believed in the god of israel.
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  • I don't know how she came to know about the god of israel,
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  • But she did, she believed, and because of that,
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  • She spared these spies and they spared her life
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  • When they invaded the city.
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  • By faith, god used this spy, this harlot named rahab
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  • To preserve the life of the spies.
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  • Now, rahab is not somebody you would normally think of
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  • That god would use, but when you follow her genealogy,
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  • What is fascinating is this city prostitute
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  • Became the mother of boaz,
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  • Who married ruth in the old testament.
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  • She became the great-great-grandmother
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  • Of the great king david.
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  • And when you turn to matthew 1,
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  • The genealogy of jesus, you look at his family tree,
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  • It goes all the way through rahab the harlot.
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  • Rahab the harlot was an ancestor of jesus christ, our lord.
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  • Don't ever think, ladies and gentlemen,
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  • That god could never use you
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  • Because of some sin in your past.
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  • God used rahab the harlot.
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  • Why? because she was a forgiven harlot.
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  • The grace, the blood of jesus christ
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  • Is sufficient to cleanse you,
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  • Not just of some unrighteousness,
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  • But of all unrighteousness.
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  • In fact, when you read through this list of people
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  • In verses 30 to 35, all of them,
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  • Jephthah, david, samson,
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  • They all had tremendous character flaws.
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  • They had made humongous mistakes in their life,
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  • But god used them, not because of their sinlessness,
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  • But because of their faithfulness.
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  • And the same is true for you and me.
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  • It's a miracle when god conquers a problem,
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  • And removes it from your life once and for all,
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  • But there is another kind of faith,
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  • And you find it in verse 35.
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  • And what you find beginning in that section
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  • All the way through verse 40 is a different kind of faith.
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  • A faith that doesn't conquer problems,
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  • But a faith that allows you to endure problems.
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  • And that's where most of us are.
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  • Most of us don't experience
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  • Once for all conquering of problems.
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  • So what good is faith?
  • 00:13:13.148 --> 00:13:14.450
  • Faith allows you to endure problems.
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  • That's the norm for most people.
  • 00:13:16.585 --> 00:13:18.988
  • Look at verse 35,
  • 00:13:18.988 --> 00:13:20.456
  • "women received back their dead by resurrection,
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  • "and others were tortured, not accepting their release,
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  • "so that they might obtain a better resurrection."
  • 00:13:29.598 --> 00:13:32.134
  • Underline that word, tortured.
  • 00:13:32.134 --> 00:13:35.170
  • "and others experienced mockings and scourings,
  • 00:13:35.170 --> 00:13:38.307
  • "yes, also chains and imprisonment, they were stoned."
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  • This is probably a reference to jeremiah and stephen,
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  • And other saints.
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  • "they were sawn in two."
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  • This is a reference to what happened to isaiah,
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  • When isaiah refused to quit speaking out against
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  • The adultery of the israelites.
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  • King manasseh had him put to death by being sawn in two
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  • With a wooden saw.
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  • Can you imagine any more of a gruesome and slow death than that?
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  • One historian records the scene of isaiah's death.
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  • "others," the writer says, "were put into sheepskins,
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  • "and in goatskins,."
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  • Verse 38, "men of whom the world was not worthy,"
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  • They went about in goatskins being destitute,
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  • Afflicted and ill-treated.
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  • "wandering in deserts and mountains
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  • "and caves and holes in the ground."
  • 00:14:34.263 --> 00:14:37.866
  • Most scholars agree that this particular phrase
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  • Refers to a specific time in history
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  • Of intense persecution of god's people.
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  • It occurred in 168 bc when antiochus epiphanes,
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  • The king of syria ruled the world.
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  • He was a type of the antichrist that is yet to come.
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  • And anyone who dared followed
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  • The god of abraham, isaac, jacob and joseph,
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  • Suffered horrible consequences for doing so.
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  • You understand why it is
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  • That god rewarded these people not immediately,
  • 00:15:11.467 --> 00:15:14.370
  • But ultimately because of their faith.
  • 00:15:14.370 --> 00:15:16.538
  • What allowed them to endure their faith,
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  • And their problems in spite of their circumstances?
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  • I want you to notice two characteristics here.
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  • First of all,
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  • They were focused on future rewards
  • 00:15:27.282 --> 00:15:30.285
  • Instead of the present results.
  • 00:15:30.285 --> 00:15:34.356
  • They were focused on future rewards
  • 00:15:34.356 --> 00:15:36.859
  • Instead of present results.
  • 00:15:36.859 --> 00:15:38.560
  • Look again at verse 35.
  • 00:15:38.560 --> 00:15:40.963
  • "yes, women received back their dead by resurrection,
  • 00:15:40.963 --> 00:15:43.599
  • "but others were tortured, not accepting their release
  • 00:15:43.599 --> 00:15:47.036
  • "so that they might obtain a better resurrection."
  • 00:15:47.036 --> 00:15:51.907
  • One thing all of these men and women
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  • In hebrews 11 had in common was,
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  • They died without seeing the full results
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  • Of their faithfulness to god.
  • 00:16:00.115 --> 00:16:02.518
  • They died without seeing the results
  • 00:16:02.518 --> 00:16:05.020
  • Of their faithfulness to god.
  • 00:16:05.020 --> 00:16:06.455
  • That is true about every one of these men and women.
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  • And you know, that's been god's pattern throughout history.
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  • The people god has blessed most,
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  • Are people who have died without seeing the full results
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  • Of their faithfulness to god.
  • 00:16:19.334 --> 00:16:20.836
  • I think about the great colonial pastor, cotton mather.
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  • He prayed for years and years and years
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  • For a revival in america,
  • 00:16:27.242 --> 00:16:30.045
  • And yet the great awakening began the year that he died.
  • 00:16:30.045 --> 00:16:34.016
  • Or i think about william wilberforce,
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  • The christian abolitionist who prayed,
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  • And worked and worked and worked for 50 years
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  • To remove slavery from great britain.
  • 00:16:41.924 --> 00:16:44.793
  • And again, it was only on his deathbed
  • 00:16:44.793 --> 00:16:46.829
  • That the british people decided to rid
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  • Their continent of that terrible practice of human slavery.
  • 00:16:50.833 --> 00:16:54.736
  • I think about hudson taylor, a missionary to china.
  • 00:16:54.736 --> 00:16:57.506
  • He spent decades witnessing,
  • 00:16:57.506 --> 00:16:59.641
  • Sharing his faith to the chinese
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  • With only a handful of converts.
  • 00:17:01.610 --> 00:17:04.113
  • And yet today, millions of chinese
  • 00:17:04.113 --> 00:17:06.482
  • Embrace the christian faith,
  • 00:17:06.482 --> 00:17:08.117
  • Because of the faithful witness of hudson taylor.
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  • That's what true faith is.
  • 00:17:11.587 --> 00:17:13.522
  • You will never exercise obedience to god,
  • 00:17:13.522 --> 00:17:16.859
  • Until you are focused on future rewards,
  • 00:17:16.859 --> 00:17:19.895
  • Rather than present results.
  • 00:17:19.895 --> 00:17:22.131
  • Remember hebrews 11:6,
  • 00:17:22.131 --> 00:17:23.665
  • "those who come to god must believe that god is,
  • 00:17:23.665 --> 00:17:27.069
  • "and he is a rewarder of those
  • 00:17:27.069 --> 00:17:29.338
  • "who diligently follow after him."
  • 00:17:29.338 --> 00:17:32.040
  • You will never consistently obey god in your life,
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  • Until you are absolutely convinced
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  • That god will reward you, not immediately,
  • 00:17:37.312 --> 00:17:41.116
  • But ultimately for your faithfulness to him.
  • 00:17:41.116 --> 00:17:44.520
  • A second characteristic these christians have
  • 00:17:44.520 --> 00:17:47.022
  • In verses 35 to 40,
  • 00:17:47.022 --> 00:17:48.857
  • Is that they were more concerned with god's approval
  • 00:17:48.857 --> 00:17:53.262
  • Than they were their own comfort.
  • 00:17:53.262 --> 00:17:57.032
  • They were absolutely focused on god's approval,
  • 00:17:57.032 --> 00:18:00.636
  • Not their own comfort.
  • 00:18:00.636 --> 00:18:01.904
  • Look at verse 39, "and all of these,
  • 00:18:01.904 --> 00:18:04.139
  • "having gained approval through their faith,
  • 00:18:04.139 --> 00:18:07.442
  • "did not receive what was promised."
  • 00:18:07.442 --> 00:18:10.445
  • Remember the words i read in hebrews 10,
  • 00:18:10.445 --> 00:18:13.215
  • Or matthew 10:28 last week?
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  • Jesus said, "do not fear those who kill the body,
  • 00:18:15.784 --> 00:18:19.087
  • "but are unable to kill the soul.
  • 00:18:19.087 --> 00:18:21.323
  • "instead, fear him who is able to destroy
  • 00:18:21.323 --> 00:18:23.825
  • "both the body and the soul in hell."
  • 00:18:23.825 --> 00:18:27.696
  • Listen to me,
  • 00:18:27.696 --> 00:18:29.698
  • You will never consistently obey god
  • 00:18:29.698 --> 00:18:32.868
  • Until you start to live your life for an audience of one,
  • 00:18:32.868 --> 00:18:37.573
  • Remembering that it's really in the end
  • 00:18:37.573 --> 00:18:40.142
  • Only what god thinks of you that really matters.
  • 00:18:40.142 --> 00:18:45.080
  • That's the kind of faith that endures problems.
  • 00:18:45.080 --> 00:18:50.552
  • When i think of somebody who lived their life,
  • 00:18:50.552 --> 00:18:53.322
  • And died without seeing the results
  • 00:18:53.322 --> 00:18:56.658
  • Of their obedience to god,
  • 00:18:56.658 --> 00:18:59.461
  • I think about the story of william borden.
  • 00:18:59.461 --> 00:19:04.600
  • You may remember his name from history.
  • 00:19:04.600 --> 00:19:07.769
  • William borden grew up an heir to the great borden fortune
  • 00:19:07.769 --> 00:19:12.741
  • In the last century.
  • 00:19:12.741 --> 00:19:14.543
  • By the time he was in high school, he was a millionaire,
  • 00:19:14.543 --> 00:19:19.147
  • Which in the early 1900s was a lot, a lot of money.
  • 00:19:19.147 --> 00:19:23.318
  • He and his family assumed that he would become an heir,
  • 00:19:23.318 --> 00:19:26.521
  • And worker in the family business.
  • 00:19:26.521 --> 00:19:28.824
  • He would take it over after he had graduated from college.
  • 00:19:28.824 --> 00:19:32.261
  • So after he graduated from high school,
  • 00:19:32.261 --> 00:19:34.029
  • Before he was to enroll in yale university,
  • 00:19:34.029 --> 00:19:37.332
  • His family sent him on a around the world trip
  • 00:19:37.332 --> 00:19:40.569
  • As a graduation present.
  • 00:19:40.569 --> 00:19:42.971
  • And he went to africa, he went to the middle east,
  • 00:19:42.971 --> 00:19:45.207
  • He went to china.
  • 00:19:45.207 --> 00:19:46.875
  • And while he was in china, god began to speak to him,
  • 00:19:46.875 --> 00:19:50.479
  • And called him distinctly to spend the rest of his life
  • 00:19:50.479 --> 00:19:54.016
  • Sharing the gospel with muslims in china.
  • 00:19:54.016 --> 00:19:57.386
  • In fact, he was so certain
  • 00:19:57.386 --> 00:19:59.021
  • That that was god's call in his life,
  • 00:19:59.021 --> 00:20:01.189
  • In the back of his bible he wrote these words,
  • 00:20:01.189 --> 00:20:03.892
  • "no reserves," and he dated it.
  • 00:20:03.892 --> 00:20:08.196
  • He came back and told his parents
  • 00:20:08.196 --> 00:20:11.967
  • What god had said to them.
  • 00:20:11.967 --> 00:20:13.969
  • They weren't very encouraging.
  • 00:20:13.969 --> 00:20:15.737
  • They said, "you must be mistaken.
  • 00:20:15.737 --> 00:20:17.572
  • "you're supposed to take over the family business."
  • 00:20:17.572 --> 00:20:20.275
  • He said, "no, god has spoken to me."
  • 00:20:20.275 --> 00:20:22.244
  • And so he went to yale, graduated in 1909,
  • 00:20:22.244 --> 00:20:26.682
  • And once again was faced with what he was going to do.
  • 00:20:26.682 --> 00:20:30.352
  • And instead of taking over the family business,
  • 00:20:30.352 --> 00:20:33.588
  • He enrolled in princeton theological seminary
  • 00:20:33.588 --> 00:20:36.425
  • To train as a minister of the gospel.
  • 00:20:36.425 --> 00:20:40.095
  • His family threatened him and said,
  • 00:20:40.095 --> 00:20:41.697
  • "if you do this, we're going to disinherit you."
  • 00:20:41.697 --> 00:20:47.069
  • He wasn't going to be deterred by that,
  • 00:20:47.069 --> 00:20:49.071
  • And in the back of his bible,
  • 00:20:49.071 --> 00:20:50.706
  • Under the words, "no reserves,"
  • 00:20:50.706 --> 00:20:52.841
  • He wrote two more words and dated them.
  • 00:20:52.841 --> 00:20:55.744
  • "no retreat."
  • 00:20:55.744 --> 00:20:58.213
  • No retreat.
  • 00:20:58.213 --> 00:21:00.682
  • He went to princeton seminary, graduated in 1913,
  • 00:21:00.682 --> 00:21:04.953
  • Said goodbye to his family and friends,
  • 00:21:04.953 --> 00:21:06.822
  • And set sail for china.
  • 00:21:06.822 --> 00:21:09.157
  • On the way to china he stopped in egypt,
  • 00:21:09.157 --> 00:21:12.260
  • In order to learn the muslim language,
  • 00:21:12.260 --> 00:21:14.830
  • And to learn about their habits and customs
  • 00:21:14.830 --> 00:21:18.433
  • So he could minister to them more effectively.
  • 00:21:18.433 --> 00:21:22.270
  • And while in egypt, he contracted cerebral meningitis.
  • 00:21:22.270 --> 00:21:27.242
  • They put him in the hospital,
  • 00:21:27.242 --> 00:21:29.411
  • And within 30 days he died at the age of 25,
  • 00:21:29.411 --> 00:21:33.615
  • Without ever making it to china.
  • 00:21:33.615 --> 00:21:36.785
  • The headlines around the world capture the story,
  • 00:21:36.785 --> 00:21:39.621
  • "heir to borden fortune dies at age 25."
  • 00:21:39.621 --> 00:21:44.359
  • Unbelievers said, what a tragedy,
  • 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:46.428
  • Somebody gives up all of their wealth
  • 00:21:46.428 --> 00:21:49.197
  • In order to go and do that.
  • 00:21:49.197 --> 00:21:51.600
  • Even christians said, what a shame
  • 00:21:51.600 --> 00:21:54.970
  • That somebody who would give up so much,
  • 00:21:54.970 --> 00:21:57.572
  • Died even before they got to the mission field in china.
  • 00:21:57.572 --> 00:22:01.410
  • What a waste.
  • 00:22:01.410 --> 00:22:06.481
  • What is it that was a secret of william borden's life?
  • 00:22:03.044 --> 00:22:10.652
  • After he died, they found his bible.
  • 00:22:10.652 --> 00:22:14.356
  • And in the back of the bible,
  • 00:22:14.356 --> 00:22:16.425
  • Underneath those phrases, "no reserves and no retreat,"
  • 00:22:16.425 --> 00:22:24.299
  • They found two more words.
  • 00:22:24.299 --> 00:22:27.002
  • As he laid dying in that cairo hospital,
  • 00:22:27.002 --> 00:22:30.639
  • William borden had written the words, "no regrets."
  • 00:22:30.639 --> 00:22:36.411
  • No regrets.
  • 00:22:36.411 --> 00:22:40.282
  • The kind of faith that endures problems
  • 00:22:40.282 --> 00:22:45.053
  • Is a faith that is without reserve,
  • 00:22:45.053 --> 00:22:47.989
  • Without retreat,
  • 00:22:47.989 --> 00:22:50.492
  • And without regrets.
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  • I hope today's message sets you on a course
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  • To live your life without regret.
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  • When we give our all to the cause of christ,
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  • He gives strength to get through any trial
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  • That may come our way.
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  • Now, before our time is up for today,
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