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Robert Jeffress - Choosing Faith Over Worry (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Choosing Faith Over Worry (Part 2) | January 8, 2026

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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"
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With dr. 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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Fear is a relentless enemy.
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Once it slips into our lives, fear begins to escalate into
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Irrational levels until it reaches full blown worry.
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Well, no matter what fears are nagging you right now, today,
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I'm going to challenge you to transform your worry list into
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Your prayer list.
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In doing so god will turn your heaviest problems into an
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Opportunity to experience his peace.
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My message is titled, "choosing faith over worry" on today's
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Edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ it's still the cross. ♪
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Jeffress: again, have you been in that situation where all of a
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Sudden out of nowhere you think this worry comes into your life
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And the result is you don't feel like doing anything, including
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You don't feel like reading your bible.
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You don't feel like talking to god's people.
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You are absolutely paralyzed.
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Now, yes, some fear comes from god when we're not living
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Righteously or had the wrong value system, but much of the
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Worry we have in life comes from satan himself.
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2 timothy 1:7, paul says, "for god has not given us the spirit
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Of fear, but of love power and of a sound mind."
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How do you know if this is coming from satan?
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Whenever this worry drives you away from god rather than closer
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To god, you can know that's not coming from god, it's coming
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From the evil one.
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You know, another way i know most anxiety in our life comes
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From satan and not god because it's based on a lie.
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I read this study by a guy named dr. walter calvert.
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He did a study about worry and he concluded that 92% of the
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Things we worry about never actually happened.
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Have you known that in your life?
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I can go back and read my spiritual journal from
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Decades ago.
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The things i was consumed about, the things i was so fearful of,
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They never ended up happening.
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That's just like satan.
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John 8:44 says, satan is a liar jesus said, and he is the father
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Of all lies.
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Many times our worry can be attributed to satan himself.
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We've talked about the causes of worry.
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Now, how do we erect that shield of faith in our lives to
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Extinguish the flaming attack of anxiety?
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Well, let me give you just four positive steps that you can take
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All based on god's word.
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Number one and most importantly, repent of known sin in
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Your life.
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If some of our anxiety is because of a wrong value system,
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That worry is like a headache, it shows something else is wrong
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In our life.
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Maybe for you, you realize that you have built your life around
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The temporary, not necessarily the sinful, but things that
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Could be easily taken away from you and you need to change where
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You're putting your affections and your desires.
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Colossians 3 verses 1 and 2 say, "if then you have been raised up
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With christ, keep seeking the things above where christ is
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Seated at the right hand of god.
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Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on
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The earth."
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You know, that word repent, and again, we're talking about this
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Next week when we talk about "choosing repentance over
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Guilt," but i'll give you a sneak preview.
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The word repentance, "metanoeo" means a change of mind that
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Leads to a change of direction in life.
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For some of you to repent in your life means to change your
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Value system, to change your mind about what you value.
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For others of you, repenting may mean letting go of things in
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Your life that you know, are displeasing to the lord.
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Maybe a wrong relationship.
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It may be a dishonest practice you're involved in.
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It may be an addiction.
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You know god is displeased and you have this sense that if you
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Don't stop, if you don't change, god is going to send his
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Discipline into your life. and that fear is not without merit.
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Hebrews 12:6 says, "for those whom the lord loves
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He disciplines.
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And he scourges every son whom he receives."
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If you're involved in a sin in your life, it's not a matter of
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If god is going to send discipline, it's only when that
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Discipline is going to come.
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And he sends it into your life not because he hates you.
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He doesn't send it into your life because he doesn't
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Love you.
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He sends discipline into your life because he loves you.
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Just like a parent who loves his child disciplines his child, so
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God, our loving heavenly father, sends discipline into our life
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As well.
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I can tell you from personal experience, god's discipline is
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Never pleasant.
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There are times in my life, don't ask for details i'm not
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Gonna give them to you, but i can tell you there are times
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That i have not been doing the right thing and god put his
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Heavy hand upon me and i can tell you for sure i never want
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To experience that again.
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The good news is we don't have to experience it.
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We can escape god's loving but painful discipline in our life.
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How do we do that?
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1 corinthians 11:31 says, "but if we judged ourselves rightly,
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We should not be judged."
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Right now you have the chance.
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Right now you have the opportunity to say i'm not
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Headed in the right direction.
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Today, i'm gonna start walking in a new direction.
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That's one way to avoid fear in your life.
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Repent of known sin.
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Number two, remove unnecessary fear in your life.
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You know, much of the fear we have can be easily removed
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Simply by confronting the source of our fears.
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For example, many of us are anxious about not doing things
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We know we ought to be doing.
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For example, we know we ought to go see the dentist.
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It's been a year since we've been to the dentist, but we're
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Afraid of what he might discover in our mouth.
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And so we put it off and the longer we put it off, the more
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We worry thinking, you know, these cavities are multiplying
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In my mouth and i know i need to do something but we can't bring
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Ourselves to do it.
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Or maybe, you know you need to reconcile your bank statement,
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But you're afraid to do that.
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You don't want to find out that you're in worse financial shape
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Than you thought.
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So you keep postponing that and you carry around that low grade
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Fear in your life because you're not doing something you know you
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Should be doing.
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You know, a doctor has said that the three killers of our age are
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A clock, a calendar, and the telephone.
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You know why that is?
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All three of those instruments remind us of things we should be
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Doing that we're not doing.
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Let me give you three words that can remove a lot of the
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Unnecessary fear in your life.
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You're ready for them?
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Here are the three words.
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Do it now.
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Do you have a hard telephone call you need to make?
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Do it now.
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Do you have a difficult letter or email you need to send?
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Do it now.
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Do you have an appointment that you need to make?
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Do it now.
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Proverbs talks about the diligent person versus the lazy
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Person who is always finding an excuse to postpone to tomorrow
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What should be done today.
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You know, removing unnecessary fear can also mean dealing
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Realistically with your anxiety.
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Do you remember willard scott, the old weather man from the
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"today show?"
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He was so much fun.
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I remember reading a story that he wrote about a fear he had in
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His own life.
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He was deathly afraid of bridges.
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He was always fearful that if he drove across the bridge, it
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Would collapse.
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So many times he would spend hours going out of the way
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Driving someplace to avoid a bridge.
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And he thought, "this is silly.
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I'm wasting valuable time in my life.
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I'm going to confront my fears."
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You know what he did?
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He rode in his convertible across the chesapeake bay bridge
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45 times back and forth across that bridge until he conquered
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His fear of bridges.
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You say, "well, that sounds like a bunch of positive thank you,
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Mumbo jumbo.
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Where is that in the bible?"
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I'm glad you asked.
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Ephesians 6:14,
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"stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth."
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1 peter 1:13.
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"therefore, gird your minds for action."
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What's all this about girding and loins and all of that?
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Well, another piece of spiritual armor the roman soldier had was
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A belt, a belt around his waist.
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And here's why that was important.
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Every soldier had that free flowing tunic that he wore.
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But if he went into battle with that tunic flowing this way and
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That way an enemy could grab hold of it and gain an
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Unfair advantage.
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So before the soldier went into battle, he would take the ends
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Of that tunic and he would tuck it into the belt so that there
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Were no free flowing ends to that tunic.
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And what the word of god is saying, paul is saying, we need
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To take these loose thoughts or even thoughts that are based on
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Unrealistic fears and we need to confront them with truth, the
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Truth of god's word, the truth that the bridge isn't going
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To collapse.
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That kind of truth makes worry evaporate in our life.
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Number three, remember god's past faithfulness in your life.
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One way to erect that shield of faith is to remember and
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Meditate on god's past faithfulness.
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You know, if you read through the psalms, you'll discover that
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David battled with worry all the time.
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So many of his psalms, you can feel the anxiety he was feeling
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And many times with good cause.
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For example, i think about psalm 3 that he penned, he wrote that
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When his son absalom was building a rebellion against
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His father.
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You'll recognize these words because our choir sings them so
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Beautifully in a song.
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Psalm 3, verses 1 and 2: "0 lord, how my adversaries
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Have increased!
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Many are rising up against me.
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Many are saying to my soul, there is no deliverance for him
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And god."
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The jerusalem times is saying i'm gonna lose this battle
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Against my son.
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I'm done for.
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It's over.
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But then notice the quick change of mind he has in verse 3. "but
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Thou o lord, art a shield about me.
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My glory, and the one who lifts up my head."
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Can't you hear our choir singing that?
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"i was crying to the lord with my voice, and he answered me
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From his holy mountain.
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I lay down and slept: i awoke, for the lord sustains me.
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I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people who have set
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Themselves against me round about."
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Now, how do you account for that attitude change in the white
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Space between verses 2 and 3?
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What caused him to quit worrying?
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He remembered god's past faithfulness to him.
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He remembered how god had delivered him in the past.
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And he said, you know what?
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The same god who delivered me in the past will deliver me
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From this.
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Say, "pastor, you're reading a lot into that.
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How do you know that's what caused david to suddenly lose
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His anxiety?
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Because david made a history of focusing on the past
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Faithfulness of god.
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Years earlier in his life when he confronted that giant
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9 feet 9 inches tall named goliath.
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Remember what he said in 1 samuel 37?
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"david said, the lord who delivered me from the paw of the
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Lion and from the paw of the bear, he will deliver me from
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The hand of this philistine."
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I don't have anything to fear, david said.
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When i was a little shepherd boy out there where nobody knew me,
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God miraculously delivered me from lions and bears.
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He's gonna take care of me today.
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And we know the story he did.
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Now, years later, the same david, much older, is fearing
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What his own son, absalom, is going to do to him.
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David said, the same god who delivered me from the paws of
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The lions and the bears and the hand of that giant goliath, just
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As he did years ago with goliath, he's gonna do for
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Me today.
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Reflect, remember god's past faithfulness.
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I hope you have in your mind.
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I hope you have somewhere in the spiritual journal, milestone
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Events in your life when god intervened miraculously.
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When something happened in your life to deliver you out of a
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Predicament that can only be explained by the power of god.
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We all need events like that.
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That's why i keep a prayer journal.
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A list of god's answered prayers so that i can go back and i do
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It often and reflect on god's past faithfulness.
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It's the secret for erecting faith in our life.
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Finally, how do you choose faith over worry?
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Remain in contact with god.
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Turn over to philippians 4 for just a moment.
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The passage we read earlier in the service.
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You remember the situation when paul wrote to the philippians is
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One of my mentors used to say.
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Paul wasn't sitting on the french riviera sipping a
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Piña colada.
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He was in prison facing what could have been his execution.
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He was waiting for the verdict of the trial whether he was
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Gonna live or die.
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Nineteen times in that letter to the philippians, he talked about
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Rejoicing in the lord.
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Look at what he says in verse 6, "be anxious for nothing, but in
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Everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
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Let your request be made known to god.
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And the peace of god, which surpasses all comprehension,
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Shall guard your hearts and your minds in christ jesus."
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Remaining in contact with god means talking to god about
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What's on your heart.
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I like the way the living bible paraphrases that section
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Of scripture.
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"don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
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Tell god your needs and don't forget to thank him for
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His answers."
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Remember that hint i gave to you a couple of years ago.
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If you're plagued with worry how you apply this verse.
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Take out a sheet of paper and put at the top, "my worry list"
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And start listing everything you're worried about.
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Some of us need more than one page.
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That's okay.
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Just keep writing and writing and writing until you've emptied
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Every worry you have in your life onto that sheet of paper.
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And once you're finished, take your pen, cross out the word
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Worry and write above it prayer.
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Make your worry list, "my prayer list."
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Those are the things you start praying about.
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Don't worry about anything instead, pray about everything.
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And what happens when you do that?
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Look at verse 7, "and the peace of god which surpasses all
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Comprehension will guard your hearts and minds in
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Christ jesus."
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Underline that word guard.
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Paul was saying as he was chained to that roman guard in
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Prison, he was saying, you know what?
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Just as this roman guard is guarding me, watching over me,
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When i pray, god watches over, he marches around my heart
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Keeping it safe and free from anxiety.
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One way we remain in contact with god is talking to him, but
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We also need to allow him to speak to us.
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That's what he says in verses 8 and 9. "finally, brethren,
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Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right,
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Whatever is pure and lovely and of good repute, if there is any
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Excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind
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Dwell on these things."
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What is he talking about here?
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We don't have time to do it today, but if you go to psalm 19
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Verses 7 and 10, you'll see all of these words are used to
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Describe the word of god.
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When you let your mind dwell on god's unchanging truth, it
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Causes worry to flee from your life.
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Why?
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Because the bible is a reminder that god never changes.
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The bible is a record of god's past dealings with his people.
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And when we read these accounts of thousands of years ago, we're
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Reminded that god has the ability of taking care of us and
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Meditating on god's word gives us peace.
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And that's why he says in verse 9, "the things which you have
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Learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these
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Things," and what?
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There it is again, "the god of peace shall be with you."
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Prayer, talking to god.
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Meditation on scripture, allowing god to talk to us,
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Freed the apostle paul from many anxious moments while he was
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In prison.
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And that same peace of god is available to you when you take
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Concrete steps to choose faith over worry.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: isn't it remarkable that paul's counsel came not
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From the comforts of his own home, but from a prison cell?
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Even while suffering, paul chose faith over worry and you can
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As well.
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Our world.
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Can't protect yourself against every loss in life.
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And that's where faith comes in.
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Faith is like a shield that protects us from life's
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Circumstances and the attacks of satan and with that shield of
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Faith, we can conquer worry.
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Well, because of our sinful nature, it's not a matter of if
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We're going to mess up, but when we're going to mess up.
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So whenever you experience those inevitable moments of failure,
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Will you choose guilt or repentance?
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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Series, "choose your attitudes, change your life."
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Meet god's standard.
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Sometimes we rationalize it.
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But one of the biggest decisions we have to make in life is are
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We going to deny our failure or are we going to choose to repent
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Of our failure.
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Robert Jeffress - Choosing Faith Over Worry (Part 2)

January 8, 2026 | 27:29

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