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Robert Jeffress - Developing A Trusting Heart (Part 2)

August 15, 2025 | S25 E391 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Developing A Trusting Heart (Part 2)
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Developing A Trusting Heart (Part 2) | August 15, 2025
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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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  • ♪♪ ♪ there is power in the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ there is power in the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ to break every chain, break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ to break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ there is power in the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ to break every chain, to break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ there's an army rising up ♪
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  • ♪ to break every chain, break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain, break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ there's an army rising up ♪
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  • ♪ his name is jesus ♪
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  • ♪ there's an army rising up ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain, break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain, break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ break every chain ♪
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  • ♪ hallelujah, praise the lord ♪
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  • ♪ praise the lord, praise the lord ♪
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  • Announcer: give your heart the encouragement it needs.
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  • Start and end each day meditating on god's word with
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  • Can we really trust god that we're gonna be better off
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  • If we obey him?
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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.
  • 00:14:34.897 --> 00:14:36.265
  • 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.
  • 00:15:05.694 --> 00:15:08.230
  • 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.
  • 00:15:27.349 --> 00:15:28.717
  • 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
  • 00:15:50.472 --> 00:15:55.377
  • 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.
  • 00:16:31.046 --> 00:16:33.749
  • 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
  • 00:16:45.194 --> 00:16:49.064
  • Praying that it will strengthen you.
  • 00:16:49.064 --> 00:16:51.100
  • Satan is using it to destroy you."
  • 00:16:51.100 --> 00:16:53.635
  • 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.
  • 00:17:01.110 --> 00:17:02.945
  • 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
  • 00:17:10.486 --> 00:17:14.823
  • Produces endurance.
  • 00:17:14.823 --> 00:17:16.191
  • And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be
  • 00:17:16.191 --> 00:17:19.228
  • Perfect, complete, and lacking in nothing."
  • 00:17:19.228 --> 00:17:23.765
  • You know, with every storm that comes into your life, there
  • 00:17:23.765 --> 00:17:27.169
  • Comes a promise.
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  • And that promise is not that god will take you out of the storm,
  • 00:17:28.837 --> 00:17:33.542
  • But he will lead you through the storm to the other side.
  • 00:17:33.542 --> 00:17:37.146
  • Remember what jesus had said to his disciples?
  • 00:17:37.146 --> 00:17:39.214
  • "get in the boat and we will go to the," what?
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  • "other side."
  • 00:17:42.618 --> 00:17:43.986
  • 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.
  • 00:17:50.626 --> 00:17:52.828
  • In isaiah 43, verse 2, he says, "when you pass through the
  • 00:17:52.828 --> 00:17:58.267
  • 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
  • 00:18:04.239 --> 00:18:08.277
  • Will the flame burn you."
  • 00:18:08.277 --> 00:18:11.079
  • Notice the word through.
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  • He doesn't take us out of the river, out of the floods, out of
  • 00:18:13.081 --> 00:18:15.918
  • The fire, but he will walk with us through them.
  • 00:18:15.918 --> 00:18:19.755
  • I had a friend one time who was going through a massive
  • 00:18:19.755 --> 00:18:22.858
  • Reorganization of his company that he worked for.
  • 00:18:22.858 --> 00:18:25.928
  • He didn't know if he was gonna have a job or not in six weeks.
  • 00:18:25.928 --> 00:18:29.398
  • And he said, "pastor, if i just knew that i was going through
  • 00:18:29.398 --> 00:18:33.035
  • This tunnel, and there would be five monsters i would have to
  • 00:18:33.035 --> 00:18:36.538
  • Fight but at least there was light at the end of the tunnel,
  • 00:18:36.538 --> 00:18:39.341
  • I think i could make it through this experience."
  • 00:18:39.341 --> 00:18:42.511
  • Well, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
  • 00:18:42.511 --> 00:18:44.780
  • 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
  • 00:18:46.481 --> 00:18:50.819
  • With you at the other side."
  • 00:18:50.819 --> 00:18:52.788
  • And that's what trust means, trusting in god's power frees us
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  • From panic about our present circumstances.
  • 00:18:57.826 --> 00:19:01.263
  • Thirdly, trusting god's wisdom provides freedom from worry
  • 00:19:01.263 --> 00:19:07.236
  • About future possibilities.
  • 00:19:07.236 --> 00:19:10.072
  • Trusting god's wisdom provides freedom from worry about
  • 00:19:10.072 --> 00:19:13.041
  • Future possibilities.
  • 00:19:13.041 --> 00:19:14.776
  • Can you recall something that happened in your life, perhaps
  • 00:19:14.776 --> 00:19:18.513
  • Years ago, a difficulty you were going through and you were so
  • 00:19:18.513 --> 00:19:21.550
  • Worried about, "what might happen?
  • 00:19:21.550 --> 00:19:23.418
  • What might happen?"
  • 00:19:23.418 --> 00:19:25.020
  • And the thing you dreaded most never ended up happening at all.
  • 00:19:25.020 --> 00:19:29.291
  • And as you look back on that experience, you smile almost
  • 00:19:29.291 --> 00:19:32.227
  • Thinking about all the needless anxiety you went through and you
  • 00:19:32.227 --> 00:19:35.497
  • Think, "you know, if only back then i'd had a fast forward
  • 00:19:35.497 --> 00:19:38.967
  • Button that i could have pressed that i would see how everything
  • 00:19:38.967 --> 00:19:42.704
  • Worked out, i could have saved some sleepless nights."
  • 00:19:42.704 --> 00:19:46.775
  • Well, you know what, life doesn't have any fast forward
  • 00:19:46.775 --> 00:19:49.211
  • Button on it.
  • 00:19:49.211 --> 00:19:50.545
  • But what life does have is the promise that we can trust god
  • 00:19:50.545 --> 00:19:55.150
  • With our future.
  • 00:19:55.150 --> 00:19:56.618
  • In jeremiah 29, verse 11, god says, "'for i know the plans
  • 00:19:56.618 --> 00:20:01.089
  • That i have for you,' declares the lord, 'plans for welfare and
  • 00:20:01.089 --> 00:20:05.894
  • Not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.'"
  • 00:20:05.894 --> 00:20:11.099
  • That's what god has planned for you.
  • 00:20:11.099 --> 00:20:13.669
  • His ultimate future for you--not immediate future necessarily,
  • 00:20:13.669 --> 00:20:17.339
  • But the ultimate future is good.
  • 00:20:17.339 --> 00:20:21.677
  • God knows your future because he has planned your future.
  • 00:20:21.677 --> 00:20:26.682
  • And it's a good future to those who know christ.
  • 00:20:26.682 --> 00:20:30.819
  • Trusting in god's wisdom gives us freedom from worry about
  • 00:20:30.819 --> 00:20:36.892
  • Future possibilities.
  • 00:20:36.892 --> 00:20:39.795
  • The gifted writer, henry newman writes about the special
  • 00:20:39.795 --> 00:20:44.666
  • Relationship in a trapeze act.
  • 00:20:44.666 --> 00:20:50.539
  • The relationship between the flyer and the catcher.
  • 00:20:50.539 --> 00:20:54.476
  • You know, on a trapeze act, if you've ever been to the circus,
  • 00:20:54.476 --> 00:20:57.346
  • The flyer is that poor soul who has to let go of the trapeze.
  • 00:20:57.346 --> 00:21:01.883
  • The catcher is the one who is supposed to catch him.
  • 00:21:01.883 --> 00:21:05.754
  • But there has to be a special relationship for everything to
  • 00:21:05.754 --> 00:21:08.590
  • Work out right.
  • 00:21:08.590 --> 00:21:10.292
  • Newman writes, "there comes that moment in the performance when
  • 00:21:10.292 --> 00:21:14.096
  • The flyer swinging high above the crowd must let go of
  • 00:21:14.096 --> 00:21:18.700
  • The trapeze.
  • 00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:20.369
  • In that instant, the flyer is suspended in midair.
  • 00:21:20.369 --> 00:21:24.306
  • He cannot reach back for the trapeze, and it's too early to
  • 00:21:24.306 --> 00:21:27.909
  • Reach for the catcher.
  • 00:21:27.909 --> 00:21:29.811
  • Instead, he must wait.
  • 00:21:29.811 --> 00:21:33.515
  • The flyer must never try to catch the catcher.
  • 00:21:33.515 --> 00:21:37.185
  • He must wait in absolute trust.
  • 00:21:37.185 --> 00:21:40.889
  • The catcher will catch him, but he must wait.
  • 00:21:40.889 --> 00:21:44.760
  • His job is not to flail about in anxiety.
  • 00:21:44.760 --> 00:21:48.497
  • In fact, if he does, it could kill him.
  • 00:21:48.497 --> 00:21:51.266
  • His job is to be still to wait."
  • 00:21:51.266 --> 00:21:56.138
  • And to wait is the hardest work of all.
  • 00:21:56.138 --> 00:22:02.411
  • Some of you right now are waiting.
  • 00:22:02.411 --> 00:22:05.847
  • You feel like your life is hanging in the balance.
  • 00:22:05.847 --> 00:22:10.519
  • What does god say?
  • 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:12.287
  • "don't flail about.
  • 00:22:12.287 --> 00:22:13.889
  • Don't try to reach toward the future."
  • 00:22:13.889 --> 00:22:15.524
  • Psalm 46:10, "be still, and know that i am god."
  • 00:22:15.524 --> 00:22:23.899
  • Trusting in god's love means god doesn't want you to fall.
  • 00:22:23.899 --> 00:22:30.038
  • God's power means he has the ability to keep you
  • 00:22:30.038 --> 00:22:33.408
  • From falling.
  • 00:22:33.408 --> 00:22:35.277
  • And god's wisdom means he knows exactly where you are right now
  • 00:22:35.277 --> 00:22:40.615
  • And he will be there at the very instant you need him most.
  • 00:22:40.615 --> 00:22:45.654
  • You really can trust him.
  • 00:22:45.654 --> 00:22:52.994
  • Jeffress: trusting god releases us from the tyranny of worry.
  • 00:22:54.196 --> 00:22:58.033
  • And if there's something that's causing you to worry today, let
  • 00:22:58.033 --> 00:23:01.636
  • Me encourage you to drop that concern at god's feet and trust
  • 00:23:01.636 --> 00:23:05.640
  • Him to carry the burden for you.
  • 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:08.510
  • Now, in closing today i wanna encourage you with a note from
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  • Betty in california.
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  • Well, betty, i'm so grateful that god used that message to
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  • "developing a content heart" here on "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: witness god's glory on display in america's
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  • Last frontier.
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  • Jeffress: alaska's majestic wilderness showcases our
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  • Creator's handiwork like nowhere else on earth and you're invited
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  • To experience it firsthand on the 2026 "pathway to victory"
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  • Cruise to alaska.
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  • Announcer: experience the unforgettable adventure june 13
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  • Through 20, 2026.
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  • To book your cabin, call... or go to ptv.org.
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