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Robert Jeffress - Choosing Relaxation Over Stress

January 25, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Choosing Relaxation Over Stress
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Choosing Relaxation Over Stress | January 25, 2026
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  • From the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory with dr. robert jefferess."
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  • Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Jesus said in this world, we will have tribulation,
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  • But our response to personal trials determines
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  • Whether or not we experience the abundant life
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  • That jesus also promised.
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  • Are you ready to exchange your worries
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  • For something much better?
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  • Well, today, i'm going to identify five causes
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  • Of unnecessary tension along with five biblical solutions
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  • For choosing relief.
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  • My message is titled choosing relaxation over stress
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • In 1964, supreme court justice potter stewart
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  • Was asked to define obscenity.
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  • And he famously said,
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  • "i'm not able to define it, but i know it when i see it."
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  • You know, the same thing could be said about stress.
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  • You may not be able to define stress,
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  • Give a dictionary definition of stress,
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  • But we know it when we see it.
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  • Or more accurately, we know it when we feel it, don't we?
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  • Migraines,
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  • High blood pressure,
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  • Certain strokes, even cancer,
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  • Are just some of the symptoms of a stressed out society.
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  • It's no accident that among the top selling drugs
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  • In our country right now are the ulcer medication, tagamet,
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  • The hypertension medicine, inderal,
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  • And the tranquilizer, valium.
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  • And don't make the mistake of thinking stress
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  • Is something that christians are exempt from.
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  • A famous television teacher-preacher
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  • Asked his electronic congregation to send in
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  • The number one problem they were dealing with in life,
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  • And at the top of the list was stress.
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  • Even though christians are not exempt from stress,
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  • Jesus offers us this word of promise that we read
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  • From matthew 11 just a few moments ago.
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  • Beginning in verse 28, jesus said,
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  • "come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden,
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  • And i will give you rest.
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  • Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
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  • For i am gentle and humble in heart,
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  • And you shall find rest for your souls.
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  • My yoke is easy and my load is light."
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  • Now, please don't misunderstand.
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  • Jesus is not saying because you're a christian,
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  • You're exempt from stress, you're exempt from problems.
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  • Nothing could be further from the truth.
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  • Any teacher, any preacher who tells you
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  • That christianity is an exemption from problems,
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  • You turn them off immediately.
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  • Walk out.
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  • They don't know what they're talking about.
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  • Jesus promised you're going to have problems in the world.
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  • In john 16:33, he said,
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  • "these things, i have spoken to you that in me,
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  • You may have peace.
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  • In the world, you have tribulation."
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  • The greek word tribulation literally means to press.
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  • In this world, you're going to have pressure.
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  • You're going to have stress.
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  • But he goes on to say,
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  • "take courage, i have overcome the world."
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  • Jesus is not saying we can live in this world
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  • Without problems, but he said,
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  • "there is a way to live above your problems."
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  • And that's what we're going to talk about today
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  • As we continue our series,
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  • Choose your attitudes, change your life.
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  • A certain amount of stress can actually strengthen us.
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  • For example, studies have shown that short burst of stress
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  • Can actually affect our pituitary gland
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  • And release a substance called beta-endorphin.
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  • We've known for a long time that beta-endorphin
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  • Is key to blocking the perception of pain in our brain,
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  • But we've also discovered recently
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  • That beta-endorphins can also help our immune system.
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  • What are the hazards of prolonged or ignored stress?
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  • Well, there're physical results of that.
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  • For example, we all know the relationship
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  • Between stress and high blood pressure,
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  • But new studies are demonstrating that stress
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  • That's not dealt with can actually raise our cholesterol
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  • That not only causes heart disease,
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  • But actually weakens our immune system
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  • And can lead to cancer.
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  • There are emotional effects of stress.
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  • Prolonged stress raises our level of cortisol in our bodies
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  • That can lead to chronic depression,
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  • But there are also spiritual effects of stress.
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  • Now, again, some stress
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  • Can actually be spiritually beneficial to us.
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  • I think that's what james has in mind
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  • When in james 1:2-4, he writes,
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  • "consider it all joy, my brethren,
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  • When you encounter various trials,
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  • Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
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  • And let endurance have its perfect result
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  • That you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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  • Just as a certain amount of stress can strengthen a metal,
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  • A certain amount of stress can strengthen us spiritually."
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  • In verse three, that word testing.
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  • The testing of your faith.
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  • That word in greek is dokimion.
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  • It's a word that referred to a piece of pottery
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  • That after being shaped was placed into a firing oven
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  • In order that it might be strengthened.
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  • And if that piece of pottery formed by clay
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  • Survived the firing oven without cracking,
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  • The potter would take it out, and in the bottom,
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  • He would write the word dokimazo.
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  • Tested, approved.
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  • But if it broke in that firing oven, if it cracked,
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  • It was discarded upon a heap of trash.
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  • It's the same way with us.
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  • God allows tests in our life, stress not to destroy us,
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  • But to strengthen us.
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  • It can have a positive benefit in our life
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  • As long as it drives us toward god and not away from god.
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  • Let me mention six causes of unnecessary stress in our life.
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  • First of all, stress caused by lack of purpose.
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  • A stress caused by lack of purpose.
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  • The french philosopher, nicola belay, said,
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  • "he is most fatigued, who knows not what to do."
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  • There's gold in that.
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  • He is most fatigued, who knows not what to do.
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  • You know, we have in our minds,
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  • It's those goal-oriented people,
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  • Those hard driving individuals,
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  • Who are just stressed out and prone to a heart attack.
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  • That's really not true.
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  • The people who are most stressed out in life
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  • Are those who don't know what they're supposed to be doing.
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  • Let me illustrate that for you.
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  • Have you ever been headed someplace in your car?
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  • You knew exactly where you wanted to go
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  • And yet you get lost?
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  • What happens?
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  • What's your emotion when you get lost?
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  • Don't you immediately start feeling stressed out?
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  • You don't know which way to turn, which way to go.
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  • That produces stress.
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  • It's the same way in life.
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  • When you don't have a clear purpose in life,
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  • It can produce stress.
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  • Secondly, stress caused by unrealistic goals.
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  • Much of the stress we have
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  • Is when we instill unrealistic goals
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  • That have no basis in scripture at all.
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  • We're just imposing these unrealistic goals on ourself.
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  • I remember many years ago when i got my first contract
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  • For my first book, i was so excited about that first book.
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  • And the publisher said, "now you have six months
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  • To do this book, to turn in the manuscript."
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  • But in a fit of insanity,
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  • I decided i would do it in three months.
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  • I was going to push myself
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  • And finish this book in three months.
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  • The only problem was julia had just been born,
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  • So that caused a little difference in our household.
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  • Things were going on at the church
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  • And i ended up putting undue stress,
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  • Not only on myself and amy and poor julia,
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  • But on my church as well as,
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  • And it was just all unnecessary
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  • Because of an unrealistic expectation.
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  • We bring to our vacations unrealistic goals
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  • That end up stressing us out.
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  • Writer tim hansel gives a great description of that.
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  • He says, "since they've waited 50 weeks for this vacation,
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  • Some people try to cram a year's worth
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  • Of living into two weeks."
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  • They wind up pushing harder
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  • And spending longer hours than they do on the job,
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  • Rushing from one place to the next, hurrying up to be happy.
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  • It's no wonder that peace eludes them."
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  • Related to this image that vacation is a reward
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  • For hard work is the notion that, therefore,
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  • We are supposed to enjoy this time.
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  • And if we don't, we feel anxious.
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  • We carry so many bionic images of leisure into the vacation
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  • That nothing could ever match it.
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  • And then we wonder why we're so unhappy.
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  • Much stress is caused by unrealistic expectations.
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  • Thirdly, stress caused by unresolved anger.
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  • Unresolved anger.
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  • You know, anger is a negative emotion we feel
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  • When our expectations are not met.
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  • In fact, i want you to think
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  • About the last time you got really angry.
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  • I bet you can trace that anger to some expectation you had
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  • That was not fulfilled by another person or a circumstance.
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  • Think about it.
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  • We get angry when the stoplight doesn't turn
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  • From red to green as quickly as we think it should.
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  • Much of the anger we have is caused by unmet expectations.
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  • And that's why it's important that we learn
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  • How to deal with that stress caused by unresolved anger.
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  • The word of god commands in james 1:19.
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  • "everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak,
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  • And slow to anger."
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  • Then the greek language, there are two words for anger.
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  • One word for anger means a violent, explosive,
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  • Volcanic outburst of anger.
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  • We've seen that.
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  • We've done that before.
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  • But the word here, anger, orge,
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  • Refers to a smoldering, persistent anger
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  • Rather than a temporary outburst.
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  • And it's that anger james writes about
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  • In verse 20 when he says, "for the anger of man
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  • Does not achieve the righteousness of god."
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  • Is anger always wrong?
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  • Not necessarily.
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  • Anger, sometimes, is like a headache.
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  • It's a symptom that something else is wrong
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  • That needs to be dealt with.
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  • And that's why paul said in ephesians 4:26 and 27,
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  • "be angry and yet do not sin.
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  • Do not let the sun go down on your anger,
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  • And don't give the devil an opportunity."
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  • When anger arises, deal with it.
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  • Deal with it before the sun sets.
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  • Don't allow it to smolder and destroy your life.
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  • A fourth source of unnecessary stress.
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  • Stress caused by comparison to other people.
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  • My late mentor, howard hendricks, used to call comparison
  • 00:15:10.231 --> 00:15:17.705
  • The favorite indoor sport of christians.
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  • He was right.
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  • Christians absolutely loved to compare themselves
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  • With one another.
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  • We compare our houses, our clothes, our cars,
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  • Our jobs, our bank accounts, our children.
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  • But listen to what the word of god says about comparison.
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  • I love the way the living bible paraphrases this
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  • In 2 corinthians 10:12.
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  • "their trouble is that they are only comparing themselves
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  • With each other and measuring themselves
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  • Against their own little ideas.
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  • What stupidity."
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  • The bible says, "it is stupid to compare yourself
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  • To anybody else."
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  • Next, some stress is caused by materialism.
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  • Building our affections around money
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  • Or the things that money buys.
  • 00:16:14.128 --> 00:16:16.330
  • Remember the story that jesus told in luke 12,
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  • The parable about the rich man who suffered from insomnia?
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  • He couldn't sleep at nights
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  • Because he was so caught up with his possessions.
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  • What am i going to do with all the excess income
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  • And produce i have?
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  • Where am i going to invest it?
  • 00:16:32.580 --> 00:16:34.182
  • And he says to himself, he said, "this is what i will do.
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  • I'm going to build larger barns."
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  • I'm going to do this, i'm going to do this, i'm going to do this,
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  • And then i'm going to store up so much money,
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  • I'm going to take off the rest of my life and say,
  • 00:16:44.125 --> 00:16:46.627
  • "soul, take ease, for you have enough now.
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  • Eat, drink, and be merry."
  • 00:16:50.364 --> 00:16:53.000
  • And god came to him that very night and said,
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  • "you fool, tonight, your soul is required of you
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  • And who now will own what you have left?"
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  • That word required is a banking term.
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  • It means to call in a loan.
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  • There's a day coming for all of us
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  • When god's going to call in our loan.
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  • He's going to say, "you've had enough time here on earth.
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  • It's time for you to come and stand before me."
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  • That's why it's so foolish to build your life
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  • Around the material.
  • 00:17:23.431 --> 00:17:25.133
  • In fact, people who have a lot of money,
  • 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.202
  • Experience a lot of stress.
  • 00:17:28.202 --> 00:17:29.770
  • Ecclesiastes 5:12 says, "the abundance of a rich man
  • 00:17:29.770 --> 00:17:34.075
  • Permits him no sleep."
  • 00:17:34.075 --> 00:17:36.677
  • That was true of this rich man.
  • 00:17:36.677 --> 00:17:39.180
  • But you know, materialism isn't a problem
  • 00:17:39.180 --> 00:17:42.049
  • Just for the wealthy.
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  • Materialism is an attitude that says money
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  • Or the things that money buys
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  • Can really solve my deepest longings.
  • 00:17:48.689 --> 00:17:51.893
  • Poor people can be materialistic as well.
  • 00:17:51.893 --> 00:17:55.363
  • Sixth, some unnecessary stress is stress caused
  • 00:17:55.363 --> 00:17:58.499
  • By physical fatigue.
  • 00:17:58.499 --> 00:18:01.002
  • Stress caused by physical fatigue.
  • 00:18:01.002 --> 00:18:03.604
  • Because we've talked about this before,
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  • I'm not going to camp here long.
  • 00:18:05.139 --> 00:18:06.507
  • But the great story, the great illustration of that
  • 00:18:06.507 --> 00:18:09.377
  • Is the story of elijah, the prophet of god.
  • 00:18:09.377 --> 00:18:13.347
  • Isn't it interesting?
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  • 850 angry prophets on top of mount carmel
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  • Didn't face the prophet of god,,
  • 00:18:18.786 --> 00:18:21.789
  • But one angry female sent him on the run.
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  • And he ran and he ran and he ran,
  • 00:18:27.061 --> 00:18:30.965
  • And then he sits down under the tree and say,
  • 00:18:30.965 --> 00:18:32.733
  • "it's enough, lord, i'm ready to go.
  • 00:18:32.733 --> 00:18:34.402
  • Just take me home.
  • 00:18:34.402 --> 00:18:36.137
  • I'm ready to go."
  • 00:18:36.137 --> 00:18:37.338
  • Now, if he had really wanted to die,
  • 00:18:37.338 --> 00:18:39.140
  • He could have stayed with jezebel.
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  • She would've taken care of things for him.
  • 00:18:40.975 --> 00:18:43.878
  • Why did he say that?
  • 00:18:43.878 --> 00:18:44.912
  • Why was he ready to end his life?
  • 00:18:44.912 --> 00:18:47.582
  • He was worn out.
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  • He was worn out spiritually
  • 00:18:50.318 --> 00:18:52.019
  • From that great victory on mount carmel.
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  • He was tired after running 120 miles.
  • 00:18:54.956 --> 00:18:58.059
  • Who wouldn't be?
  • 00:18:58.059 --> 00:18:59.961
  • And he had a distorted perspective of reality.
  • 00:18:59.961 --> 00:19:02.830
  • You know, i think of vince lombardi's famous quote.
  • 00:19:02.830 --> 00:19:06.367
  • "fatigue makes cowards of us all."
  • 00:19:06.367 --> 00:19:11.038
  • There's something about just being physically tired
  • 00:19:11.038 --> 00:19:13.874
  • That distorts your perception of yourself,
  • 00:19:13.874 --> 00:19:16.777
  • Your circumstances, and your god.
  • 00:19:16.777 --> 00:19:19.680
  • And that's why, again, to quote howard hendricks,
  • 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.016
  • "sometimes, the most spiritual thing you can do
  • 00:19:22.016 --> 00:19:26.354
  • Is take a nap."
  • 00:19:26.354 --> 00:19:28.456
  • Just take a nap, rest.
  • 00:19:28.456 --> 00:19:30.458
  • It restores your proper perspective.
  • 00:19:30.458 --> 00:19:34.061
  • Now, we've talked about some stress
  • 00:19:34.061 --> 00:19:36.664
  • That is unnecessary and can be removed,
  • 00:19:36.664 --> 00:19:39.834
  • But other stress is unavoidable and has to be dealt with.
  • 00:19:39.834 --> 00:19:44.739
  • How do you keep stress from paralyzing you?
  • 00:19:44.739 --> 00:19:48.476
  • You know, in my own life,
  • 00:19:48.476 --> 00:19:49.944
  • I've discovered how i begin my day
  • 00:19:49.944 --> 00:19:53.014
  • And how i end my day governs my stress level
  • 00:19:53.914 --> 00:19:58.986
  • Throughout the day.
  • 00:19:59.453 --> 00:20:01.489
  • You know, i woke up this morning,
  • 00:20:02.156 --> 00:20:04.992
  • I was about to bound out of bed,
  • 00:20:04.992 --> 00:20:06.861
  • Well, crawl out of bed to start the day.
  • 00:20:06.861 --> 00:20:10.364
  • And i thought, you know, "there's something i need
  • 00:20:10.364 --> 00:20:12.833
  • To talk to god about."
  • 00:20:12.833 --> 00:20:14.802
  • So i made myself stay in bed
  • 00:20:14.802 --> 00:20:17.538
  • Until i talked with the lord about that.
  • 00:20:17.538 --> 00:20:20.274
  • And just doing that, i mean,
  • 00:20:20.274 --> 00:20:21.575
  • It just has energized the rest of my day.
  • 00:20:21.575 --> 00:20:24.478
  • How you start, how you end determines
  • 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:27.081
  • The stress you feel throughout the day.
  • 00:20:27.081 --> 00:20:28.683
  • Years ago, i came across a plan
  • 00:20:28.683 --> 00:20:30.885
  • By the late pastor lloyd ogilvie
  • 00:20:30.885 --> 00:20:34.155
  • That i try to follow a personal devotional plan.
  • 00:20:34.155 --> 00:20:36.857
  • It's called 15 minutes to freedom.
  • 00:20:36.857 --> 00:20:40.661
  • And this pastor simply says,
  • 00:20:40.661 --> 00:20:42.363
  • "start your day spending 15 minutes with god,
  • 00:20:42.363 --> 00:20:46.467
  • Reading the bible, praying, maybe writing something down
  • 00:20:46.467 --> 00:20:50.204
  • In your spiritual journal.
  • 00:20:50.204 --> 00:20:51.605
  • Not an hour, not 30 minutes, 15 minutes a day,
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  • And then end your day doing the very same thing."
  • 00:20:55.309 --> 00:20:58.479
  • And when you have those bookends in your life,
  • 00:20:58.479 --> 00:21:00.448
  • It tremendously affects the rest of your day.
  • 00:21:00.448 --> 00:21:03.317
  • You know, in john 16:33, again, jesus said,
  • 00:21:03.317 --> 00:21:07.488
  • "in the world, you have tribulation,
  • 00:21:07.488 --> 00:21:09.390
  • But be of good cheer, for i have overcome the world."
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  • I think this was jesus' primary secret
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  • For dealing with the stress he felt
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  • With the assignment that he had in the world
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  • To be the savior of the world.
  • 00:21:22.236 --> 00:21:23.337
  • How did he deal with that?
  • 00:21:23.337 --> 00:21:24.705
  • With the disciples, who didn't always do
  • 00:21:24.705 --> 00:21:26.774
  • What they were supposed to do.
  • 00:21:26.774 --> 00:21:28.075
  • With his enemies, how did he deal with it?
  • 00:21:28.075 --> 00:21:31.011
  • I think the secret was he stayed connected
  • 00:21:31.011 --> 00:21:33.381
  • To his heavenly father.
  • 00:21:33.381 --> 00:21:35.383
  • I find one of the most fascinating verses
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  • About jesus' life comes from mark 1:35.
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  • It says, "and in the early morning,
  • 00:21:40.855 --> 00:21:44.058
  • While it was still dark, jesus arose and he went out,
  • 00:21:44.058 --> 00:21:48.262
  • And departed to a lonely place and he was praying there."
  • 00:21:48.262 --> 00:21:53.200
  • Now when you look at mark 1,
  • 00:21:53.801 --> 00:21:55.336
  • You'll discover that this morning that they talk about
  • 00:21:55.336 --> 00:21:59.473
  • Was the day after the single busiest recorded day
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  • In jesus' entire ministry.
  • 00:22:03.844 --> 00:22:05.880
  • He had started early,
  • 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:07.214
  • Teaching and preaching and healing people,
  • 00:22:07.214 --> 00:22:09.617
  • And gone late into night.
  • 00:22:09.617 --> 00:22:11.352
  • But then the next morning,
  • 00:22:11.352 --> 00:22:13.487
  • When he certainly had every excuse for sleeping in,
  • 00:22:13.487 --> 00:22:16.190
  • The bible says, "no, he got up.
  • 00:22:16.190 --> 00:22:19.660
  • He went to a lonely place
  • 00:22:19.660 --> 00:22:21.829
  • While it was still dark outside, and he prayed."
  • 00:22:21.829 --> 00:22:25.966
  • You see, for jesus, time spent with god
  • 00:22:25.966 --> 00:22:29.103
  • Was not just some legalistic spiritual requirement
  • 00:22:29.103 --> 00:22:32.506
  • To be checked off.
  • 00:22:32.506 --> 00:22:34.442
  • Jesus' time spent with god was the secret of his strength,
  • 00:22:35.609 --> 00:22:40.247
  • The source of his peace.
  • 00:22:40.748 --> 00:22:43.017
  • And he offers us the same strength,
  • 00:22:43.751 --> 00:22:47.755
  • The same peace if we'll spend time with him.
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  • God said it this way through the prophet isaiah.
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  • Isaiah 40:29-31, "god gives strength to the weary,
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  • And to him who lacks might, he increases power.
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  • Though youths grow weary and tired
  • 00:23:03.404 --> 00:23:05.606
  • And vigorous young men stumble badly,
  • 00:23:05.606 --> 00:23:08.609
  • Yet those who wait for the lord will gain new strength.
  • 00:23:08.609 --> 00:23:13.347
  • They will mount up with wings like eagles.
  • 00:23:13.347 --> 00:23:16.150
  • They will run and not get tired.
  • 00:23:16.150 --> 00:23:18.586
  • They will walk and not become weary."
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  • That's the foundation for choosing relaxation over stress.
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  • God's message through isaiah brings comfort
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  • To those who are running ragged today.
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  • The chaos in our world reminds us
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  • That apart from god's intervention,
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  • We have every reason to be stressed out.
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  • But when we keep our eyes fixed on the source of peace,
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  • We can remain calm and even relax.
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  • Well, before our time is up today,
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  • Let me say a word of thanks to those of you,
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  • Maybe you've been watching today
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  • And god's spirit is convicting you.
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  • Perhaps you've begun to realize
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  • That your stress is self-manufactured.
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  • Isn't it time to quit churning
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  • About things you cannot change?
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  • Remember, jesus said,
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  • "in this world, you will have tribulation,
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  • But be of good cheer, for i have overcome the world."
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  • Well, many people believe that happiness comes
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  • From things like money, good health, and comfort.
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  • But scripture shows us that contentment
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  • Has nothing to do with what we have or don't have.
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  • It all comes down to how we think.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next in our series,
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  • Choose your attitudes, change your life.
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  • And it's interesting that the climactic command
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  • Of the 10 commandments in exodus 20,
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  • "thou shall not covet."
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  • You know why that's the final climactic commandment?
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  • Because every other sin flows out of that sin.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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  • Choosing contentment over comparison,
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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