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Robert Jeffress - The Bible Tells Me So? (Part 2)

September 11, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - The Bible Tells Me So? (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Bible Tells Me So? (Part 2) | September 11, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with dr.
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  • Robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Most preachers will tell you that to know god's will, you
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  • Need to know god's word, and that's good advice.
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  • But at the same time, it assumes something that many christians
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  • Really don't do, and that is read their bibles on a
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  • Regular basis.
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  • Today, i'm going to mention three practical ways to make
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  • God's word a part of your daily life.
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  • My message is titled "the bible tells me so" on today's edition
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  • Of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: how do you know which path god wants you to take?
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  • In "how to make wise decisions," trusted author and bible teacher
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  • Dr. robert jeffress cuts through the confusion with
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  • Time-tested biblical wisdom.
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  • Whether you're facing career changes, relationship questions,
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  • Or ministry decisions, this practical guide reveals how god
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  • Speaks to his children today.
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  • To victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: i can't tell you the number of times after a sermon
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  • Somebody has come up to me and said, "who told you?"
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  • I said, "what do you mean?"
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  • "obviously somebody told you about my situation, and you
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  • Tailor-made that message just for me."
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  • Well, you know the answer to that.
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  • I didn't know about their situation, but god knew about
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  • It, and he was able to use his word to penetrate that
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  • Individual heart.
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  • That's what god's word does.
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  • Hebrews 4:12 again, "for god's word is alive.
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  • It's active.
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  • It is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing as far as the
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  • Division of the soul and the spirit, of both joints and
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  • Marrow, and is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of
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  • The heart."
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  • God's word cuts through all the malarkey and gets to the heart
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  • Of the matter in our life.
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  • That's the jeffress paraphrase.
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  • That's what god's word does for us.
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  • Somebody has said, "the bible is alive, it speaks to me.
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  • It has feet, it runs after me.
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  • It has hands, it lays hold of me."
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  • God's word can speak to us about our situation and give us the
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  • Direction that we need.
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  • And thirdly, god's word communicates god's purpose for
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  • Our lives.
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  • It communicates god's purpose for our lives.
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  • Don't let anybody mislead you.
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  • Yes, the bible does tell us god's will.
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  • Did you know god's will for your life right now has already been
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  • Written in scripture?
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  • It's found in romans 8, verse 29.
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  • If you want to know god's will for your life, memorize
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  • Romans 8:29.
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  • It says, "for whom god foreknew, he predestined to become
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  • Conformed to the image of his son, so that he might be the
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  • Firstborn among many brethren."
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  • You know what that verse is saying?
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  • It's saying god so loved his son, jesus, he was so pleased
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  • With jesus christ, that he decided he didn't just want to
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  • Have one child.
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  • He wanted to have many children.
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  • He wanted to have many sons and daughters, just like his
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  • Firstborn, jesus.
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  • And that's why god saved you if you're a christian.
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  • He saved you not just so that you could escape hell.
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  • He saved you so that he could begin molding you, shaping you,
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  • Conforming you to become just like jesus.
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  • Specifically, that means god wants you to love exactly the
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  • Same things that jesus loved, to think about the same things
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  • Jesus thought about, to behave in every situation just like
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  • Jesus behaved.
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  • That is god's will for your life, that you become a replica,
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  • A perfect image of jesus christ in your thoughts, your
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  • Attitudes, and your affections.
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  • And he's in the process of doing that in your life right now.
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  • You know how god's gonna shape you into your--
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  • Into the image of his son?
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  • You know how god's gonna do that?
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  • He's gonna take his chisel and his hammer, and he's gonna chip
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  • Away everything from your life that isn't like jesus.
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  • That's what he's doing.
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  • He's trying to chip away those habits, those attitudes, those
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  • Priorities that are unlike jesus.
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  • Sometimes, it's a painful operation.
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  • Contrary, again, to what the tv preachers are telling you, god's
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  • Will is not for everything to be easy in your life.
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  • In fact, it's the hard things in your life, those hard things
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  • That some of you are running away from right now.
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  • It's those hard things that god uses to make you just like his
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  • Perfect son.
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  • That's god's general purpose for your life and for my life.
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  • But god also gives specific guidance in our life.
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  • Again, so many christians are seeking a fresh word from god.
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  • "oh god, what do you want me to do in this situation?"
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  • When god's already spoken in his word.
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  • Let me give you some just real practical things god has already
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  • To us about what we're to do.
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  • First of all, we are to only marry another christian.
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  • Some of you say, "oh, you know, i fell in love with this
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  • Wonderful person.
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  • Oh god, do you want me to marry them?
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  • Show me."
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  • You don't have to pray about that.
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  • God's already spoken about that.
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  • You're only to marry a believer.
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  • Or god's word says we are never to divorce, except in the case
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  • Of adultery and desertion.
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  • "oh god, i'm not fulfilled.
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  • I'm unhappy in my life, and i've met my true soulmate in life.
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  • Oh god, show me if i'm supposed to leave my mate to go find true
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  • Happiness in life."
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  • You don't have to pray about that.
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  • God's already spoken about that.
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  • Matthew 19, verse 9; 1 corinthians 7, verses 10-24.
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  • We're not to divorce, except in the cases of adultery
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  • Or desertion.
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  • We're to pray continually, 1 thessalonians 5:17.
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  • We're to refrain from critical speech, james 3, verses 5-12.
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  • We're to attend church regularly.
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  • You know, people asking, "well, are you
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  • Gonna cancel for this event?
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  • Are you gonna do this?"
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  • I don't have to pray about that, okay?
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  • We're not to forsake the assembling together
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  • Of ourselves.
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  • We're to perform our job with enthusiasm and excellence,
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  • Colossians 3, verse 23.
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  • We're to refrain from grumbling--mark that down
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  • Especially--philippians 2, verse 13, okay?
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  • Some of you, that can be your life verse right there,
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  • Philippians 2:13, "do all things without complaining
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  • Or grumbling."
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  • We're to share the gospel with unbelievers, you know?
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  • Quit, you know, "oh lord, if you want me to witness to this
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  • Associate or this family member, just show me if i'm supposed to
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  • Witness to them."
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  • Don't pray about it, just do it.
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  • You don't have to ask god about guidance for that.
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  • The bible says we're to share the gospel with unbelievers.
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  • We're to submit to those in authority, ephesians 5, verse 22
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  • Through--6, verse 12.
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  • Again, some of you are struggling about issues about
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  • Whether or not you ought to do this or that when those in
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  • Spiritual authority have already given you the direction
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  • You need.
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  • Much of what we need to know is already found in scripture.
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  • Well, now it's time to get real specific and practical.
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  • If the bible can do all of these things for me, if god wants to
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  • Speak to me through scripture, how do i allow the bible to
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  • Become a part of my life?
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  • How can i make sure i'm listening to god's voice?
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  • I could give a lot of suggestions, but let me just
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  • Mention three practical ways to make god's word a part of
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  • Your life.
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  • First of all, don't neglect your spiritual preparation.
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  • If you truly want to hear the voice of god through his word,
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  • Don't neglect your spiritual preparation.
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  • You see, folks, god doesn't speak to everybody through
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  • His word.
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  • Now, there are two prerequisites, two conditions,
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  • To hear from god in his word.
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  • First of all, and write it down out to the side, you have to
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  • Have a supernatural power to hear god's voice.
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  • You have to have a supernatural power.
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  • D. l. moody said one time, "trying to read the bible
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  • Without the holy spirit is like trying to read a sundial
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  • By moonlight.
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  • You just can't do it."
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  • You see, when you become a christian, god sends his holy
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  • Spirit into your life, and his holy spirit illuminates, it
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  • Throws light on, it allows you to understand the truth of
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  • God's word.
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  • There's some of you here today, maybe you've been reading the
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  • Bible, you're like the ethiopian eunuch, and it just didn't make
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  • Sense to you.
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  • You need a teacher, and that teacher is the holy spirit
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  • Of god.
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  • We need a supernatural power, but secondly, we need a
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  • Submissive mind.
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  • If you're gonna understand god's word, if you're really going to
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  • Hear god's word, you need to come to scripture with a
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  • Submissive mind.
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  • My old professor howard hendrick says it best when he said, "god
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  • Didn't give us his word to make us smarter sinners."
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  • I want to say something not in the least bit judgmental because
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  • I'm one of us.
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  • We're all a part of this.
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  • Folks, it's not enough to have it up here.
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  • God didn't give us the bible to increase our level of knowledge,
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  • But to increase our level of obedience.
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  • The real question is not how many facts we know about
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  • The bible.
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  • See, the question really is no longer, "do i take the
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  • Bible literally?"
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  • The real question is, "do i take it seriously?"
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  • God gave us the word to apply it.
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  • And if you approach the bible with the idea, "well, lord, show
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  • Me what you want me to do so i can decide whether or not i want
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  • To obey," god's not gonna reveal himself to you.
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  • In psalm 119, verse 33, the psalmist talked about the
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  • Relationship between understanding and obedience.
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  • He said, "teach me, o lord, the way of thy statutes, and i shall
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  • Observe it to the end."
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  • He said, in other words, "lord, if you will teach me what i need
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  • To know, i pledge to you, i will obey what you reveal to me."
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  • If we're gonna come to the bible to hear from god, we have to do
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  • So with a submissive mind.
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  • John ortberg writes, "one of my college friends had been
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  • Sexually involved with his girlfriend for two years.
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  • As we neared graduation, he wondered about marriage.
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  • 'is it god's will for me to marry this girl?'
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  • He asked.
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  • My friend really didn't want guidance.
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  • He already had clear scriptural guidance about sexual behavior
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  • That he wasn't the least bit interested in.
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  • All he wanted to know was if this girl was the big deal of
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  • The day or if he should wait to see what's behind door
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  • Number two."
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  • His story reminds me of that old saying, "light obeyed bringeth
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  • More light.
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  • Light rejected bringeth the night."
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  • If we want to hear from god's word, we have to have a
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  • Supernatural power, yes, but we also need a submissive mind.
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  • Number two, if you're gonna hear from god through his word,
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  • Develop a plan.
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  • Develop a plan.
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  • Just imagine somebody who said, you know, "one day, i would like
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  • To build my dream house."
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  • What's the likelihood of that actually happening if all he has
  • 00:12:01.710 --> 00:12:05.181
  • Is a dream?
  • 00:12:05.181 --> 00:12:06.849
  • You need more than a dream.
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  • You need a plan.
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  • If you're gonna build that dream house, eventually, you have to
  • 00:12:09.685 --> 00:12:11.854
  • Hire an architect.
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  • You have to develop the blueprints.
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  • You have to engage a contractor.
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  • You have to get the cost.
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  • You have to pour a foundation.
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  • You have to set a deadline.
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  • You have to do all of those things to make that dream a
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  • Reality, and it's the same way with god's word.
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  • If you simply say, "oh god, i would like to know more about
  • 00:12:26.068 --> 00:12:28.704
  • Your word," that's not enough.
  • 00:12:28.704 --> 00:12:31.674
  • You need to have a plan.
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  • Let me suggest to you that a plan--if you're really serious
  • 00:12:33.008 --> 00:12:35.945
  • About hearing from god's word, you need to have a plan that has
  • 00:12:35.945 --> 00:12:38.914
  • These three ingredients with it.
  • 00:12:38.914 --> 00:12:40.649
  • First of all, you need a period of time, a period of time that
  • 00:12:40.649 --> 00:12:44.186
  • You set aside for reading god's word.
  • 00:12:44.186 --> 00:12:47.256
  • Now, some people do best in the early morning.
  • 00:12:47.256 --> 00:12:51.327
  • Some people don't get saved until after 11 o'clock, so that
  • 00:12:51.327 --> 00:12:54.063
  • Doesn't work.
  • 00:12:54.063 --> 00:12:55.431
  • They do better late at night.
  • 00:12:55.431 --> 00:12:56.765
  • It's not so much when you do it, it's the idea that you have a
  • 00:12:56.765 --> 00:12:59.902
  • Period of time every day, 20 minutes, when you say, "if i
  • 00:12:59.902 --> 00:13:03.305
  • Don't do anything else today, i'm gonna be in god's word and
  • 00:13:03.305 --> 00:13:07.843
  • Let god speak to me."
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  • Many of you know steve farrar, who ministers here in this area.
  • 00:13:09.979 --> 00:13:14.183
  • Some years ago, he wrote a book, "point man," a great men's book.
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  • But in that book, he confessed that there was a period of his--
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  • In his life, he was even in ministry, when he became what he
  • 00:13:21.390 --> 00:13:25.261
  • Called a spiritual anorexic.
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  • You know what an anorexic is?
  • 00:13:28.631 --> 00:13:30.032
  • It's somebody who has developed a psychological
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  • Aversion to eating.
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  • He has no appetite.
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  • As a result, he ends up starving to death.
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  • Steve farrar said he had gotten to that point in his spiritual
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  • Life where he didn't want to read god's word, and yet he was
  • 00:13:41.877 --> 00:13:45.080
  • Starving to death spiritually.
  • 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:47.983
  • And so desperate was his condition that he finally made
  • 00:13:47.983 --> 00:13:50.953
  • This resolve, he said, that revolutionized his life.
  • 00:13:50.953 --> 00:13:54.223
  • He said, "i'm so desperate to hear from god that i'm gonna
  • 00:13:54.223 --> 00:13:57.326
  • Make this commitment, that every morning before i go outside to
  • 00:13:57.326 --> 00:14:00.529
  • Retrieve the newspaper or before i turn on the network news, i'm
  • 00:14:00.529 --> 00:14:05.267
  • Gonna spend 20 minutes reading in god's word."
  • 00:14:05.267 --> 00:14:09.505
  • And he did that, and lo and behold, when he began doing
  • 00:14:09.571 --> 00:14:12.608
  • That, his spiritual appetite came back, and he began to
  • 00:14:12.608 --> 00:14:16.645
  • Receive the nourishment that he needed from god.
  • 00:14:16.645 --> 00:14:20.082
  • Have you come to that point in your life that you are so
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  • Desperate to hear from god that you're willing to set aside a
  • 00:14:22.851 --> 00:14:26.288
  • Period of time to do just that?
  • 00:14:26.288 --> 00:14:28.357
  • We need a period of time.
  • 00:14:28.357 --> 00:14:29.692
  • Secondly, your plan needs to designate a place.
  • 00:14:29.692 --> 00:14:33.195
  • And by that, i mean there needs to be a geographical location
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  • Where you meet with god.
  • 00:14:37.666 --> 00:14:40.202
  • "well, are you saying god can't meet with you anywhere?"
  • 00:14:40.202 --> 00:14:43.172
  • Of course, he can meet with you anywhere, but i think there's
  • 00:14:43.172 --> 00:14:45.708
  • Something special about having a place you've designated where
  • 00:14:45.708 --> 00:14:48.711
  • You're gonna read your bible.
  • 00:14:48.711 --> 00:14:50.079
  • You know, when god met jacob, he met him at bethel.
  • 00:14:50.079 --> 00:14:53.248
  • When god met moses, as we're gonna talk about tonight, he
  • 00:14:53.248 --> 00:14:56.185
  • Revealed himself on mount sinai.
  • 00:14:56.185 --> 00:14:58.354
  • God met with his people at geographical locations.
  • 00:14:58.354 --> 00:15:01.957
  • I think there's something about having a chair by your bed in
  • 00:15:01.957 --> 00:15:05.761
  • The bedroom or maybe in your office or the sewing room or
  • 00:15:05.761 --> 00:15:09.631
  • Some special place where you meet with god.
  • 00:15:09.631 --> 00:15:12.835
  • There needs to be a place.
  • 00:15:12.835 --> 00:15:14.303
  • And then, number three, you need to have a program for reading
  • 00:15:14.303 --> 00:15:17.206
  • Through god's word.
  • 00:15:17.206 --> 00:15:18.540
  • A program for reading through god's word.
  • 00:15:18.540 --> 00:15:20.442
  • Suppose somebody came up to you and said,
  • 00:15:20.442 --> 00:15:22.811
  • "i've read this great
  • 00:15:22.811 --> 00:15:24.246
  • Book that will revolutionize your life, and i want to give
  • 00:15:24.246 --> 00:15:26.782
  • You a copy of it."
  • 00:15:26.782 --> 00:15:28.217
  • And you take it, you're a little skeptical, but you say,
  • 00:15:28.217 --> 00:15:30.219
  • "well, if it's a life-changing book, i'll read it."
  • 00:15:30.219 --> 00:15:33.255
  • So, one night, you open that book, open it up in the middle,
  • 00:15:33.255 --> 00:15:36.158
  • You read a couple of pages, makes no sense to you.
  • 00:15:36.158 --> 00:15:40.129
  • Then you look back at the back, read the last couple of
  • 00:15:40.129 --> 00:15:42.631
  • Paragraphs, makes no sense to you.
  • 00:15:42.631 --> 00:15:46.168
  • You open it up to the front, read a couple of lines.
  • 00:15:46.168 --> 00:15:49.838
  • "what in the world is this about?"
  • 00:15:49.838 --> 00:15:51.907
  • And you close the book and say, "i don't understand what the big
  • 00:15:51.907 --> 00:15:54.543
  • Deal about this book is."
  • 00:15:54.543 --> 00:15:57.146
  • You'd never read a book like that.
  • 00:15:57.146 --> 00:15:59.648
  • And yet many people approach god's word in that kind of
  • 00:15:59.648 --> 00:16:03.152
  • Haphazard way.
  • 00:16:03.152 --> 00:16:05.254
  • Don't you think it makes sense that we ought to read the bible
  • 00:16:05.254 --> 00:16:07.756
  • At least with the same amount of respect that we would read any
  • 00:16:07.756 --> 00:16:10.926
  • Other book?
  • 00:16:10.926 --> 00:16:12.461
  • We need to have a program for reading god's word.
  • 00:16:12.461 --> 00:16:16.432
  • Now, through the years, many people have suggested different
  • 00:16:16.432 --> 00:16:19.001
  • Plans for reading the bible.
  • 00:16:19.001 --> 00:16:20.335
  • A lot of people have their
  • 00:16:20.335 --> 00:16:21.703
  • Read-through-the-bible-in-a-year plan.
  • 00:16:21.703 --> 00:16:23.806
  • And if that works for you, that's great.
  • 00:16:23.806 --> 00:16:25.941
  • I don't want to discourage you.
  • 00:16:25.941 --> 00:16:27.810
  • Those plans have never really worked for me because what i
  • 00:16:27.810 --> 00:16:30.479
  • Found is i'm more interested in getting through those four
  • 00:16:30.479 --> 00:16:33.749
  • Chapters and checking them off the list sometimes than i am
  • 00:16:33.749 --> 00:16:37.653
  • Really in hearing from god.
  • 00:16:37.653 --> 00:16:39.822
  • Listen, it's not how much of the bible you've read, but how much
  • 00:16:39.822 --> 00:16:43.292
  • Of the bible has been incorporated into your life
  • 00:16:43.292 --> 00:16:45.994
  • That matters.
  • 00:16:45.994 --> 00:16:47.362
  • I often say, you know, the bible took 1,600 years to write.
  • 00:16:47.362 --> 00:16:50.933
  • Why do we feel like we have to rush through it in a year?
  • 00:16:50.933 --> 00:16:54.169
  • I think it makes a lot more sense to read smaller sections
  • 00:16:54.169 --> 00:16:57.206
  • Of the bible and let god's word speak to you.
  • 00:16:57.206 --> 00:16:59.842
  • I came across a plan a few years ago that john macarthur
  • 00:16:59.842 --> 00:17:03.312
  • Developed that has really been of great help to me.
  • 00:17:03.312 --> 00:17:05.447
  • Maybe you'll find this helpful too.
  • 00:17:05.447 --> 00:17:07.950
  • John suggests that you take one book of the new testament, say
  • 00:17:07.950 --> 00:17:12.154
  • The book of philippians, and you read through it once a day,
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  • Every day of that month.
  • 00:17:16.058 --> 00:17:17.559
  • Say starting february 1, you read philippians once a day for
  • 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.330
  • All 28 days.
  • 00:17:21.330 --> 00:17:23.132
  • You say, "well, you know, i'm not a pastor.
  • 00:17:23.132 --> 00:17:26.101
  • I have a real job.
  • 00:17:26.101 --> 00:17:27.469
  • How could i ever have time to do that?"
  • 00:17:27.469 --> 00:17:29.972
  • Remember, most of the books of the new testament can be read in
  • 00:17:29.972 --> 00:17:32.774
  • 20 minutes or less.
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  • Did you know that?
  • 00:17:34.143 --> 00:17:35.477
  • It only takes 20 minutes.
  • 00:17:35.477 --> 00:17:36.845
  • But you know what, if you read through the book of philippians
  • 00:17:36.845 --> 00:17:38.881
  • 28 times, by that last week, you'll know that book backwards
  • 00:17:38.881 --> 00:17:43.318
  • And forwards and inside out.
  • 00:17:43.318 --> 00:17:45.454
  • You'll be able to understand what god is saying through his
  • 00:17:45.454 --> 00:17:48.357
  • Apostle paul.
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  • It's that same way through every book in the bible.
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  • The book--the bible wasn't meant to be read verses at a
  • 00:17:51.693 --> 00:17:54.429
  • Time or even chapters at a time, but in its entirety.
  • 00:17:54.429 --> 00:17:58.066
  • And when you come to longer books, like romans or matthew,
  • 00:17:58.066 --> 00:18:01.003
  • Just divide it up into thirds.
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  • One month, the first third of romans.
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  • The second month, the second third.
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  • The last month, the final portion of it.
  • 00:18:06.475 --> 00:18:09.344
  • And i think you'll find that to be a very helpful plan.
  • 00:18:09.344 --> 00:18:12.347
  • Number three, if you want to hear from god through his word,
  • 00:18:12.347 --> 00:18:15.517
  • Learn to distinguish between principles and precepts
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  • In scripture.
  • 00:18:19.922 --> 00:18:21.290
  • Learn the difference to distinguish between principles
  • 00:18:21.290 --> 00:18:24.359
  • And precepts.
  • 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:25.827
  • Remember, the whole purpose of reading
  • 00:18:25.827 --> 00:18:27.663
  • This book is to change
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  • Your life, to hear from god, to operate your life according to
  • 00:18:30.098 --> 00:18:33.869
  • His plan.
  • 00:18:33.869 --> 00:18:35.204
  • But if you don't know what commands are meant to you, now,
  • 00:18:35.204 --> 00:18:40.576
  • You're gonna be really confused, if not misled.
  • 00:18:40.576 --> 00:18:45.280
  • One of the questions--whenever i'm on a radio talk show or tv
  • 00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:48.283
  • Talk show, there'll always be somebody who'll call in, some
  • 00:18:48.283 --> 00:18:52.187
  • Unbeliever, asking the same question,
  • 00:18:52.187 --> 00:18:54.156
  • And this is what they'll say.
  • 00:18:54.156 --> 00:18:55.490
  • They'll say, "you christians are so hypocritical.
  • 00:18:55.490 --> 00:18:57.926
  • You pick and choose what parts of the bible you want
  • 00:18:57.926 --> 00:19:00.062
  • To follow."
  • 00:19:00.062 --> 00:19:01.430
  • And they'll use this example, they'll say, "now, you
  • 00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:03.632
  • Christians, you say homosexuality is wrong, and you
  • 00:19:03.632 --> 00:19:06.602
  • Quote leviticus 18, and yet, in leviticus 19, it also says,
  • 00:19:06.602 --> 00:19:11.173
  • 'you're not to wear a garment that's made with two different
  • 00:19:11.173 --> 00:19:13.442
  • Kinds of fabric.'
  • 00:19:13.442 --> 00:19:15.043
  • So why is it that you say leviticus 18 applies for today,
  • 00:19:15.043 --> 00:19:19.381
  • But you say, 'leviticus 19, oh, that was for the jews
  • 00:19:19.381 --> 00:19:21.783
  • Back then?'
  • 00:19:21.783 --> 00:19:23.118
  • Isn't that inconsistent?"
  • 00:19:23.118 --> 00:19:24.453
  • By the way, how would you answer that question?
  • 00:19:24.453 --> 00:19:28.123
  • How do you know what parts of the bible apply to us and what
  • 00:19:28.123 --> 00:19:31.927
  • Parts don't apply to us today?
  • 00:19:31.927 --> 00:19:34.896
  • The key is in knowing the difference between principles
  • 00:19:34.896 --> 00:19:38.367
  • And precepts in scripture.
  • 00:19:38.367 --> 00:19:40.969
  • Precepts, commands, are specific commands that apply to us.
  • 00:19:40.969 --> 00:19:47.943
  • That's what a precept is.
  • 00:19:47.943 --> 00:19:49.311
  • It is a specific command that applies to us.
  • 00:19:49.311 --> 00:19:51.880
  • For example, chuck swindoll says if you were, you know, driving
  • 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:55.150
  • Along the highway and you see a sign that says "speed limit: 35
  • 00:19:55.150 --> 00:19:59.054
  • Miles per hour," that's a precept.
  • 00:19:59.054 --> 00:20:01.223
  • That's a command.
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  • No ambiguity there.
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  • Anything above 35 miles per hour, you're breaking the law.
  • 00:20:03.925 --> 00:20:08.864
  • A principle, on the other hand, is a guideline, a general
  • 00:20:08.864 --> 00:20:12.868
  • Guideline, that you have to apply to your
  • 00:20:12.868 --> 00:20:15.304
  • Individual situation.
  • 00:20:15.304 --> 00:20:17.205
  • For example, as i was creeping along this morning on the way to
  • 00:20:17.205 --> 00:20:20.409
  • Church through the fog, i saw a sign that said
  • 00:20:20.409 --> 00:20:24.146
  • "drive carefully."
  • 00:20:24.146 --> 00:20:26.715
  • And what does that mean, to drive carefully?
  • 00:20:26.715 --> 00:20:29.818
  • Well, again, swindoll says that means you need to be careful,
  • 00:20:29.818 --> 00:20:33.989
  • But how that applies--you have to have the wisdom to how to
  • 00:20:33.989 --> 00:20:36.425
  • Apply that.
  • 00:20:36.425 --> 00:20:37.759
  • If it's foggy like it was today, it means maybe 30 miles an hour.
  • 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:42.698
  • But on a beautiful, sunny day with no weather, it could mean
  • 00:20:42.698 --> 00:20:46.501
  • 70 miles an hour.
  • 00:20:46.501 --> 00:20:48.537
  • There's no way to list all the contingencies on that one sign
  • 00:20:48.537 --> 00:20:51.940
  • Of what "drive carefully" means.
  • 00:20:51.940 --> 00:20:53.709
  • It's a principle that you have to apply.
  • 00:20:53.709 --> 00:20:56.578
  • Now, it's the same way with god's word.
  • 00:20:56.578 --> 00:20:59.047
  • Some of god's word are precepts, specific commands: "abstain from
  • 00:20:59.047 --> 00:21:02.784
  • Sexual immorality.
  • 00:21:02.784 --> 00:21:04.853
  • Do not criticize or grumble."
  • 00:21:04.853 --> 00:21:06.722
  • All of those things are specific commands.
  • 00:21:06.722 --> 00:21:09.658
  • Principles are general truths that we have to live.
  • 00:21:09.658 --> 00:21:13.528
  • Now, precepts,
  • 00:21:13.528 --> 00:21:15.163
  • The commands we follow, are found in the
  • 00:21:15.163 --> 00:21:17.933
  • New testament.
  • 00:21:17.933 --> 00:21:19.301
  • That's where we find the specific commands that we are
  • 00:21:19.301 --> 00:21:22.337
  • To obey.
  • 00:21:22.337 --> 00:21:23.672
  • The old testament contains principles that we apply to our
  • 00:21:23.672 --> 00:21:27.843
  • Individual situation.
  • 00:21:27.843 --> 00:21:29.778
  • For example, we don't live under leviticus 19 anymore.
  • 00:21:29.778 --> 00:21:33.849
  • We don't have to worry about wearing a wool and cotton
  • 00:21:33.849 --> 00:21:36.618
  • Blend, okay?
  • 00:21:36.618 --> 00:21:37.986
  • That's not against god's law for us today.
  • 00:21:37.986 --> 00:21:41.523
  • But there is a principle from leviticus 19, that, as god's
  • 00:21:41.523 --> 00:21:44.860
  • People, we're to live holy lives.
  • 00:21:44.860 --> 00:21:46.461
  • We're to live lives that are distinctive from unbelievers.
  • 00:21:46.461 --> 00:21:50.065
  • We have to apply that to our situation today.
  • 00:21:50.065 --> 00:21:53.301
  • You said, "wait a minute, you didn't answer your own question.
  • 00:21:53.301 --> 00:21:56.671
  • Then why do we apply that prohibition against leviticus 18
  • 00:21:56.671 --> 00:22:00.642
  • About homosexuality?"
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  • If there's one truth i want you to come away with from today's
  • 00:22:02.544 --> 00:22:06.047
  • Message, it's this: the mark of truly belonging to god is your
  • 00:22:06.047 --> 00:22:12.087
  • Desire to hear his voice and obey him.
  • 00:22:12.087 --> 00:22:17.125
  • "my sheep hear my voice.
  • 00:22:17.125 --> 00:22:18.894
  • I know them, and they follow me."
  • 00:22:18.894 --> 00:22:23.398
  • Do you desperately have that desire in your life to know
  • 00:22:23.398 --> 00:22:26.268
  • God's will for your life?
  • 00:22:26.268 --> 00:22:29.771
  • If so, realize that although god might speak to you in many ways,
  • 00:22:29.771 --> 00:22:34.576
  • The primary way he's chosen to reveal himself to you is through
  • 00:22:34.576 --> 00:22:38.747
  • His word.
  • 00:22:38.747 --> 00:22:40.549
  • Are you desperate enough to hear from god?
  • 00:22:40.549 --> 00:22:43.452
  • Do you so want his approval in your life that you're willing to
  • 00:22:43.452 --> 00:22:47.322
  • Develop a plan to hear the master's voice?
  • 00:22:47.322 --> 00:22:51.359
  • Oswald chambers writes, "the mere reading of the word of god
  • 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:57.466
  • Has power to communicate the life of god to us mentally,
  • 00:22:57.466 --> 00:23:01.837
  • Morally, and spiritually.
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  • God makes the words of the bible a sacrament, a means whereby we
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  • Partake of his life.
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  • It is one of his secret doors for the communication of his
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  • Life to ours."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: today's message on "pathway to victory" sets the
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  • Foundation for our entire series this month.
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  • Knowing how to make wise decisions begins with immersing
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  • Ourselves in god's word.
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  • Now, as we conclude another half hour of bible teaching, let me
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  • Affirm how much your letters, phone calls, emails, and
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  • Comments on social media mean to me and the entire team at
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • This television program is prepared with you in mind, and
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  • We have no idea if we're making an impact until we hear directly
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  • From you.
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  • So perhaps today is the day you'll step forward and let us
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  • Know you're grateful for these daily visits.
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  • We'd love to hear how god is transforming your spiritual walk
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  • Through these programs.
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  • Now, stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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  • Announcer: life's most important crossroads often arrive
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  • Without warning.
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  • When the stakes are high and the path forward isn't clear, how
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  • Can you be confident you're following god's will?
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  • In "how to make wise decisions," trusted author and bible teacher
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  • Dr. robert jeffress offers you practical advice on how you
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  • Can know with certainty the will of god in any situation.
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  • Jeffress: one of the most frequently asked questions i
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  • Receive as a pastor is, "how can i know god's will for my life?"
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  • Too many believers are paralyzed by fear of making the wrong
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  • Choice, but god hasn't left us guessing.
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  • In my book, i reveal the biblical principles for
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  • Recognizing god's voice and discerning god's will.
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  • Announcer: request your copy of "how to make wise decisions"
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  • When you give a generous gift to "pathway to victory" or when you
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  • Become a pathway partner.
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  • And with your ministry gift of $75 or more, we'll also include
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  • Both cd and dvd.
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  • Jeffress: when god speaks to us, he does so more than just to
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  • Give us courage and comfort to face our present situation.
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  • He actually promises guidance, direction, to those who trust
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  • In him.
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  • Announcer: thank you for partnering with us to share
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  • God's life-transforming word with a world in need.
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  • Your generosity will empower "pathway to victory" to speak
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  • Bold, biblical truth into your life and the lives of millions
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  • Across the country and around the world.
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  • Jeffress: as christians, we rely on the bible to give us truth
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  • About god, instructions for life, and guidance for
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  • The future.
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  • But before we can apply scripture to our life choices,
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  • We need to read god's word on a regular basis and listen for
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  • His voice.
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  • Well, few things are more frustrating than trying to speak
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  • To someone who's clearly not listening.
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  • But sometimes, we commit this offense with our
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  • Heavenly father.
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  • God has important things to tell us, and we need to
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  • Pay attention.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series "how to make wise decisions."
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  • Jeffress: have you ever thought how remarkable it is that the
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  • Creator of the universe is interested in listening to you?
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  • The creator god of the universe is interested in listening
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  • To you.
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  • Not only does god want to listen to you, god also promises to
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  • Speak to you.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message
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  • "the god who speaks," here on "pathway to victory."
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