Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Developing A Trusting Heart (Part 2)

July 18, 2025 | S25 E342 | 29:0

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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
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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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Most of us would say that we trust god.
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We're willing to obey him when his commands don't cost us very
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Much or when following his will seems reasonable and beneficial.
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But what happens when god asks us to do something that just
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Doesn't make sense?
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That's when our trust in god gets put to the test.
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Today, i wanna show you how to develop the kind of trusting
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Heart that obeys god joyfully even when you don't understand
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His plan.
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My message is titled, "developing a trusting heart" on
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Today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪♪♪
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♪ who can satisfy my soul like you? ♪
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♪ who on earth could comfort me and love me like you do? ♪
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♪ who could ever be more faithful to you? ♪
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♪ i will trust in you, ♪
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♪ yes, i will trust in you, my god. ♪
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♪ who can satisfy my soul like you? ♪
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♪ and who on earth could comfort me, ♪
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♪ oh, and love me like you do? ♪
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♪ who could ever be more faithful to you? ♪
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♪ i will trust in you, ♪
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♪ oh, i will trust in you, my god. ♪
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♪ there is a fountain who is the king. ♪
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♪ victorious warrior and lord of everything. ♪
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♪ my rock, my shelter, my very own. ♪
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♪ blessed redeemer ♪
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♪ who reigns upon the throne. ♪
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♪ there is a fountain who is the king. ♪
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♪ victorious warrior and lord of everything. ♪
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♪ my rock, my shelter, my very own. ♪
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♪ blessed redeemer who reigns upon ♪
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Jeffress: last time we talked about one of the marks of
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A disciple was an obedient heart.
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Being willing to do everything god asked us to do.
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Not picking and choosing like a buffet what we're going to obey,
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But obeying all things.
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But ladies and gentlemen, we will never be that
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Obedient disciple.
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We will never obey god immediately, completely, and
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Joyfully until we learn to trust god.
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And that's what i wanna talk about today, how to develop that
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Trusting heart that allows us to obey god in all things
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Whatsoever he has commanded us.
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Today, we're talking about trust, but in the bible, the
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Word faith is the synonym for trust and it's invaluable in
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A disciple's life.
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Until you know all is right between you and your creator,
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You will never experience peace.
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How can you have that peace?
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Paul says, "we have that peace by being justified by faith
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Through our lord jesus christ."
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Now that word translated by in your english bible, the
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Preposition is better translated through.
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"we have been justified through faith through our lord
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Jesus christ."
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It's the same thought that you find in ephesians 2:8 through
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10, "for by grace you have been saved through faith; and that
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Not of yourselves, it is a gift of god; not of works, lest any
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Man should boast."
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How are we saved?
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We're not saved by faith.
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There's no amount of faith we could conjure up that could ever
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Wipe away our sins.
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People say, "i'm saved by faith."
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No, you're not.
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You don't have enough faith to save yourself.
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We are saved by god's grace that we receive through faith.
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It's god's grace that saves us.
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It was god sending his only son, jesus, the perfect son of god,
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To die on a cross, to take the penalty for sin that we deserve.
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It was that time when god made him, jesus, who knew no sin, to
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Become sin for us that we might become the righteousness of god
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In him.
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That is what saves us.
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It is the grace of god.
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What he did on the cross for us that wipes away our sin, but we
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Access that grace through our faith.
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Let me see if i can explain that to you in a very simple way, the
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Difference by grace, and through grace, and through faith.
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Let's imagine parents that on thursday you say to your teenage
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Son, "now, son, i know you're gonna want to go out tomorrow
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Night with your friends, that's great.
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But you have one job around the house tomorrow and that is to
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Empty the dishwasher before you go out with your friends."
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Friday rolls around, your son has a dental appointment that
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Runs later than expected.
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Realizing he's not going to be able to do that, you empty the
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Dishwasher for him.
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Seven o'clock rolls around, somebody's honking their horn
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Out in front of your house.
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Your son bounds down the stairs, he's on the way out when he
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Says, "oh, mom, the dishwasher.
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I forgot, i really wanted to do that.
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I am so sorry."
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And you say, "son, i knew that, i knew you couldn't do it.
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I emptied it for you.
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Now go out and have a good time."
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Now, how did that happen?
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I mean, you had laid down the law, no empty dishwasher, no
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Night out with your friends.
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That was the law.
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But you also knew your child was incapable of keeping
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That requirement.
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And so, you did the work he was unable to do for himself.
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And you allowed his apology.
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All you needed to see was that, "mom, i'm sorry."
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That's all it took.
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That's all it took for him to become the beneficiary of what
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You did on his behalf.
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His apology didn't empty the dishwasher.
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No amount of apology would do that.
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It was your work that emptied the dishwasher, but his
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Apology--you allowed him to count that as the work you did
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For him.
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Now, it's the same with what god does for us.
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We are saved not by our faith, we are saved by god's grace, but
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We receive it through faith.
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Romans 4:5 says, "but to the one who does not work, but believes
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In him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted
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As righteousness."
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The moment you confess your sins to god and believe that jesus
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Died on the cross for your sins, god takes your faith no matter
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How little it is, and he counts that for righteousness.
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And the bible says, "trusting in god's love for us, frees us from
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Guilt over past sins."
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The bible says, "as far as the east is from the west, so far
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Has god removed our transgressions from us."
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The bible says--the prophet says, "he takes our sins and he
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Casts them into the depths of the sea."
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Somebody added, "and he puts a sign there that says
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No fishing."
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That is so true.
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You never have to worry that your sin is gonna be dredged up
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Again one day.
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When god forgives, he forgives your sin,
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It's forgotten forever.
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That's what trusting in god's character does for us.
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It frees us from guilt about past sins, but secondly,
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Trusting god's power provides freedom from panic about our
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Present circumstances.
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Not only does it free us from guilt over past sins, but
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Trusting in god's power frees us from panic about our
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Present circumstances.
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Let me ask you a question today, what is the biggest concern
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You're facing in your life right now.
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Perhaps it's about a mate whose love has grown cold towards you.
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Maybe it's about a child or a grandchild who's living far away
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From the lord.
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Maybe it's about a health concern that is threatening to
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You or somebody you care about very much.
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Maybe it's a financial need, a very real pressing need.
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Does everybody have in mind something that you're
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Concerned about?
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I wanna ask you this question, do you believe god has the
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Capability of removing that difficult circumstance
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You're experiencing?
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How many of you believe in god's power to change whatever
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Difficulty you're facing?
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Well, if you believe that and if he hasn't removed that
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Difficulty, then he must have a reason for it.
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And when you trust in god's power, it gives you freedom from
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Panic about this present circumstance.
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It gives you the assurance that god has a purpose for this
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Difficulty in your life.
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If you have your bibles, turn over to luke chapter 8 for just
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A moment.
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Let's just look at it briefly 'cause this is a great
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Encouragement--will be to so many of you.
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Verse 22, "now it came about on one of these days that jesus and
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His disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, 'let us go
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Over to the other side of the lake.'"
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Underline that, "'the other side of the lake.'
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And so, they launched out.
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But as they were sailing along jesus fell asleep; and a fierce
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Gale of wind descended upon the lake, and they began to be
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Swamped and to be in danger."
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A couple of weeks ago, we were flying in a helicopter over the
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Mountains surrounding the sea of galilee.
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It's really the lake of gennesaret.
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It's a lake about 13 miles long and 8 miles wide.
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And as you fly over those mountains, you understand
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Exactly what luke is talking about here.
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These mountains surround the lake.
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The lake is in a basin.
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And what happens is, the cool air from the mountains descend,
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And they collide the cool air--with the warm air rising
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From the lake, and there are these sudden storms that
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Take place.
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That's what happened here.
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The wind descended upon the lake and the boat begins to rock back
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And forth.
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And the disciples begin to yell, "lord, lord, help us, help us."
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Did you see the news footage of those planes trying to land in
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Washington dc?
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And because of the wind, the plane was rocking back and forth
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And couldn't land.
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One pilot finally--who landed the plane said, "everybody on
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Our flight threw up before we landed."
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Well, i imagine that--was going on here.
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The boat was rocking back and forth.
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The disciples are leaning over and losing their lunch over the
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Side of the boat.
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And they cry out, "lord, save us!"
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And where's the lord?
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Sound asleep.
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They said, "'lord, don't you care what is happening to us?'
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The lord awakens and he said, 'wind and waves be quiet.'"
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Literally, wind and waves be muzzled.
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Put a lid on it!
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Stop that!
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"and immediately," the bible says, "the wind died down and it
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Became perfectly calm."
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And then he turns to his disciples and said, "where is
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Your faith?"
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The disciples said, "we lost it with our lunch over the side of
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The boat."
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Now, it didn't say that, but that's exactly what happened.
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Now, we look at that and we shake our heads, we cluck
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Our tongues.
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"oh, they should have known better.
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They should have known better.
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They said to one another, "who is this, that even the wind and
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The waves should obey him?"
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"oh, they should have known better.
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Look at all the miracles they had seen from the lord.
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Where was their faith?
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Where was it?"
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Before you cluck your tongues and shake your head, where is
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Your faith right now?
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Those of you who know the lord, look at all he's done for you
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In the past.
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Think about all the ways he's taken care of you.
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Don't you know who he is?
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He's the one whom the wind and the waves obey.
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He's in control of what is happening in your life
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Right now.
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Alan redpath writes about the storms that come into our life.
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He says, "there is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no
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Testing that can ever touch me until first of all, it has come
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Past god and past christ right through to me.
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And if it's come that far, it has come with a great purpose."
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God has a purpose for what you're going through right now,
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And trusting in god's power is the key from panicking about
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Your present circumstances.
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You know, when these adversities come into our life, remember,
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They're not good or bad automatically.
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They're good or bad according to our response to them.
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When we have difficulties that come into our life, god is
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Rooting for us that we will allow it to strengthen our faith
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In him.
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But satan's on the other side rooting that that difficulty
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Will destroy our faith.
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Nowhere is that more clearly seen than in luke 22, verses 31
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And 32.
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Remember in the upper room, at the lord's supper the last few
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Hours before the lord was betrayed in gethsemane
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And crucified.
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Remember this prediction he made made to simon peter.
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Verse 31, "simon, simon, behold, satan has demanded permission to
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Sift you like wheat; but i've prayed for you, that your faith
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May not fail, and you, when once you have turned again,
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Strengthen your brothers."
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He was predicting what was gonna happen to simon.
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He said, "simon, in the next few hours you're gonna go through
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The biggest test of your life.
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You're gonna be tested to deny me.
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And you're gonna deny me not once or twice, but you're gonna
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Deny me three times."
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And that's exactly what happened a few hours later.
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In caiaphas's courtyard, simon denounced the lord that he said
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He loved.
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It was the greatest failure in his life.
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But, but, he repented of that failure.
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He found god's forgiveness and he became the courageous leader
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Of the apostles in jerusalem.
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That's what jesus was predicting.
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He says, "this difficulty that's coming into your life, i'm
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Praying that it will strengthen you.
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Satan is using it to destroy you."
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And the same thing is true of you right now.
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Whatever challenge you're facing, god is rooting for you.
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God is on your side.
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You know, i think about the words in james chapter 1, verses
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2 to 4, "consider it all joy, my brethren, and when you encounter
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Various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith
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Produces endurance.
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And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be
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Perfect, complete, and lacking in nothing."
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You know, with every storm that comes into your life, there
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Comes a promise.
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And that promise is not that god will take you out of the storm,
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But he will lead you through the storm to the other side.
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Remember what jesus had said to his disciples?
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"get in the boat and we will go to the," what?
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"other side."
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He said, "i'm gonna get you to the other side.
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It doesn't mean there's not gonna be difficulty along the
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Way, but i'll get you to the other side."
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He makes the same promise to us.
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In isaiah 43, verse 2, he says, "when you pass through the
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Waters, i will be with you; and through the rivers, they will
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Not overflow you.
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When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor
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Will the flame burn you."
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Notice the word through.
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He doesn't take us out of the river, out of the floods, out of
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The fire, but he will walk with us through them.
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I had a friend one time who was going through a massive
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Reorganization of his company that he worked for.
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He didn't know if he was gonna have a job or not in six weeks.
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And he said, "pastor, if i just knew that i was going through
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This tunnel, and there would be five monsters i would have to
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Fight but at least there was light at the end of the tunnel,
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I think i could make it through this experience."
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Well, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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That light is the presence of god.
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God says, "i will walk with you through the tunnel and i'll be
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With you at the other side."
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And that's what trust means, trusting in god's power frees us
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From panic about our present circumstances.
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Thirdly, trusting god's wisdom provides freedom from worry
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About future possibilities.
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Trusting god's wisdom provides freedom from worry about
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Future possibilities.
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Can you recall something that happened in your life, perhaps
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Years ago, a difficulty you were going through and you were so
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Worried about, "what might happen?
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What might happen?"
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And the thing you dreaded most never ended up happening at all.
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And as you look back on that experience, you smile almost
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Thinking about all the needless anxiety you went through and you
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Think, "you know, if only back then i'd had a fast forward
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Button that i could have pressed that i would see how everything
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Worked out, i could have saved some sleepless nights."
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Well, you know what, life doesn't have any fast forward
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Button on it.
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But what life does have is the promise that we can trust god
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With our future.
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In jeremiah 29, verse 11, god says, "'for i know the plans
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That i have for you,' declares the lord, 'plans for welfare and
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Not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.'"
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That's what god has planned for you.
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His ultimate future for you--not immediate future necessarily,
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But the ultimate future is good.
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God knows your future because he has planned your future.
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And it's a good future to those who know christ.
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Trusting in god's wisdom gives us freedom from worry about
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Future possibilities.
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The gifted writer, henry newman writes about the special
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Relationship in a trapeze act.
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The relationship between the flyer and the catcher.
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You know, on a trapeze act, if you've ever been to the circus,
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The flyer is that poor soul who has to let go of the trapeze.
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The catcher is the one who is supposed to catch him.
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But there has to be a special relationship for everything to
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Work out right.
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Newman writes, "there comes that moment in the performance when
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The flyer swinging high above the crowd must let go of
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The trapeze.
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In that instant, the flyer is suspended in midair.
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He cannot reach back for the trapeze, and it's too early to
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Reach for the catcher.
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Instead, he must wait.
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The flyer must never try to catch the catcher.
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He must wait in absolute trust.
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The catcher will catch him, but he must wait.
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His job is not to flail about in anxiety.
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In fact, if he does, it could kill him.
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His job is to be still to wait."
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And to wait is the hardest work of all.
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Some of you right now are waiting.
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You feel like your life is hanging in the balance.
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What does god say?
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"don't flail about.
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Don't try to reach toward the future."
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Psalm 46:10, "be still, and know that i am god."
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Trusting in god's love means god doesn't want you to fall.
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God's power means he has the ability to keep you
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From falling.
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And god's wisdom means he knows exactly where you are right now
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And he will be there at the very instant you need him most.
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You really can trust him.
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Jeffress: trusting god releases us from the tyranny of worry.
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And if there's something that's causing you to worry today, let
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Me encourage you to drop that concern at god's feet and trust
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Him to carry the burden for you.
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Now, in closing today i wanna encourage you with a note from
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Betty in california.
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She wrote: "thank you for the meaningful message on prayer.
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I caught it early one morning on television and listened
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Again later.
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After multiple strokes, i've struggled to move joy from my
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Head to my heart.
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That message was just what i needed.
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I believe the lord is helping me continue serving through music
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Ministry--with renewed joy."
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Well, betty, i'm so grateful that god used that message to
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Encourage you in your journey of faith.
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You from an endless cycle of worry.
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Well, have you ever found yourself daydreaming about
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Moving up in the world?
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You think, "i wish i owned a larger home," or "i wish i drove
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A better car."
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Or maybe, "i wish i had a better job."
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Those are natural feelings but the bible says that even without
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Those things we can experience genuine contentment.
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Guess what?
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You won't be worrying about the balance in your 401(k)
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Retirement plan.
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You won't be envious of those who have bigger mansions.
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You will be completely satisfied with everything that god has
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Given you.
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But here's the good news, you don't have to wait until you die
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To experience that satisfaction.
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Robert Jeffress - Developing A Trusting Heart (Part 2)

July 18, 2025 | S25 E342 | 29:0

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