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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Fearless Faith | January 24, 2025
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- [announcer] 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 jeffress.
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- Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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- Scientists contend that humans develop
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- The emotion of fear purely out of necessity.
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- Fear was designed to keep us safe
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- From predators and other dangers.
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- But scripture reveals a much more sinister reality.
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- The bible is full of stories of people who acted out of fear
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- And suffered the consequences,
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- Which is why the writer of hebrews
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- So adamantly urged his readers to develop a faith
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- That is unshakeable.
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- My message is titled "fearless faith"
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- I remember reading a study once by dr. walter cavert,
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- And he said that 92% of the things
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- That you and i worry about end up never happening.
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- Isn't that an interesting thing?
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- 92% of the things we tend to worry about
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- Never come to pass.
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- Which i guess proves the adage: it doesn't pay to worry.
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- But the flip side of that is, it does cost.
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- It costs a lot to worry.
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- And somebody has said,
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- "fear doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles,
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- But it does empty today of its strength."
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- There are many downsides to worry, to fear,
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- But perhaps the greatest downside is this:
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- Fear always leads us to make bad decisions.
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- In fact, if you look back over some of the worst mistakes
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- You have ever made, the worst decisions,
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- I bet you can trace many if not all of them to fear.
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- Proverbs 29:25 says, fear is like a trap that ensnares us.
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- I remember reading in a book
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- By christian financial consultant ron blue.
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- He told the story of one of his clients who was a christian,
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- But who had heard all of these reports
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- And read books about the coming economic earthquake
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- And how the world's economy was going to be destroyed,
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- And this client was so fearful of that,
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- That he decided to sell all of his stocks
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- And invest in silver.
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- Over the next years,
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- That client watched the stock market quadruple in value,
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- While silver did absolutely nothing.
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- It was a bad decision motivated by fear.
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- Lots of people make bad decisions, based on fear.
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- Some single adults are fearful
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- Of being single the rest of their lives,
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- So they make a wrong decision about a life partner.
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- Some people are fearful about death,
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- They make wrong decisions about health treatment
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- Or lack of health treatment.
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- There are some people, teenagers
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- Who are fearful of missing out, being left out of the crowd,
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- So they make bad decisions
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- Related to substance abuse and immorality.
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- Fear always leads to wrong decisions.
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- And that was true of the hebrew christians
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- To whom this letter to the hebrews is written.
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- They were brand new christians,
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- They had come out of judaism, and now they were fearful
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- Of the persecution they were getting ready to experience.
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- They were fearful of being ostracized by their family
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- And friends for embracing christianity.
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- And they were on the brink of making a disastrous decision,
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- And that was the decision to give up their christian faith
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- And go back into judaism.
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- And so the writer writes this letter
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- To warn them of the consequences
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- Of making that kind of disastrous decision.
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- What's the antidote to fear that leads to wrong decisions?
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- In a word, it's faith.
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- And that's what the 11th chapter of hebrews is all about,
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- About what real faith is and what real faith does.
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- Remember our definition of faith?
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- Faith is believing that god will do
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- What he has promised to do and acting accordingly.
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- And throughout the book of hebrews 11,
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- We see different aspects of that kind of faith.
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- A faith that sanctifies, a faith that saves,
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- A faith that submits, a faith that surrenders.
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- And today we're going to look at another aspect of faith,
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- A faith that is unshakable.
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- Specifically, we're going to look at how faith
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- Helps you conquer the four most common fears in life,
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- The four fears that will keep you
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- From experiencing god's best in your life.
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- If you have your bible turned to hebrews 11,
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- As we talk about developing a fearless faith.
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- Remember i said last time,
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- Abraham was to the jewish people
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- What george washington is to us?
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- He was the father of the nation.
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- Well, if that's true, then moses
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- Is probably like abraham lincoln is to us today.
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- Moses was the great law giver,
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- And it is the character of moses that the writer uses
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- To illustrate how faith can help you conquer
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- Four specific fears in life.
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- First of all, the fear of loss.
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- One reason some of you may be struggling right now
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- In your commitment to god,
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- Struggling in whether or not you're going to go all in
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- In serving god with all of your heart
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- Is you're fearful that if you make
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- That kind of radical commitment,
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- You're going to have to give up something important to you.
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- You're going to lose out on some benefit,
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- And that's what's causing you
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- To shrink back in your commitment to god.
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- Did you know moses faced that as well?
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- Let's see how faith helped him overcome the fear of loss.
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- The story begins in verse 23.
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- By faith moses, when he was born was hidden for three months
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- By his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child
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- And they were not afraid of the king's edict.
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- We don't know much about moses' first 40 years of living,
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- We have this verse.
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- We also have acts 7:21-22 that says,
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- After moses had been set outside,
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- Pharaoh's daughter took him away
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- And nurtured him as her own son.
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- Moses was educated in all the learning of the egyptians
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- And he was a man of power in words and deeds.
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- Then hebrews 11:24-25,
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- By faith moses, when he had grown up,
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- Refused to be called the son of pharaoh's daughter,
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- Choosing rather to endure ill treatment
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- With the people of god
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- Than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.
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- By this time, it is evident moses knew his life purpose
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- Was to be the deliverer of the israelites.
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- And one day he goes out to one of the work sites
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- And he sees an egyptian
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- Mistreating one of the hebrew slaves.
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- And moses is so infuriated that he kills the egyptian,
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- Hides him in the sand, thinking nobody noticed.
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- Now, let me be clear.
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- What moses did was wrong. but he did have the right motive.
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- On that day, he made a choice.
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- He said, "i would rather identify with god's people
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- Who are suffering than continue to enjoy the privilege
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- Of being pharaoh's grandson."
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- And that's why it says he chose to endure the ill treatment
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- With the people of god
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- Than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.
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- Now, moses paid for his mistake.
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- He spent the next 40 years fleeing from pharaoh.
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- He spent 40 years on the backside of the desert,
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- But he said, "i would rather experience punishment
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- Than endure the passing pleasures of sin."
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- By the way, will you underline that phrase?
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- It is so key in verse 25, the passing pleasures of sin.
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- Don't let anybody, including satan, mislead you about sin.
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- Sometimes we preacher types will talk all the time about
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- How painful sin is, how unpleasant sin is,
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- How distasteful sin is,
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- And then one of our flock goes out and gets him sin.
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- And guess what? it's kind of fun.
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- It's kind of pleasurable.
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- It's not nearly as bad as the preacher told him it was.
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- They think, "well, if the preacher was wrong about that,
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- Maybe he's wrong about some other things as well."
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- No, the bible says sin is very pleasurable,
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- For a season.
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- For a season, but ultimately what is sweet becomes bitter.
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- And that's what the writer is saying here.
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- Moses decided to give up the passing pleasures of sin
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- In order to follow god.
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- What's the antidote to the fear of loss?
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- It a faith in the promises of god. look at verse 26.
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- For moses considering the reproach of christ,
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- Greater riches than the treasures of egypt,
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- For he was looking to the reward.
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- He did the mental arithmetic in his mind
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- Before he made this choice,
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- And he decided, "i would rather give up present pleasures
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- In order to receive future benefits."
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- Yes, being in pharaoh's household,
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- There's a lot of fleshly pleasures to that.
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- There's a lot of material gained to be an heir to pharaoh,
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- But all of that is passing, fleeting
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- Compared to the eternal promises of god.
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- And that's the same for you and me.
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- God doesn't always reward our obedience immediately,
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- But he always rewards it ultimately.
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- And the only way to conquer the fear of loss in your life
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- Is to focus on the promises of god.
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- Faith allowed moses to conquer the fear of loss.
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- It also allowed him to conquer the fear of other people.
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- The fear of other people will also prevent you
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- From experiencing god's best in your life.
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- Look at verse 27.
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- By faith, he, that is moses, left egypt
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- Not fearing the wrath of the king
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- For he endured as seeing him, that is god, who is unseen.
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- What's the antidote to the fear of other people?
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- What will conquer that fear in your life?
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- It is faith in god's power. a faith in god's power.
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- You know, whenever i'm tempted to be afraid of other people
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- And what they might do to me,
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- I always think about jesus words in matthew 10:28,
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- When he said, "do not fear those who kill the body
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- But are unable to kill the soul.
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- Instead, fear the one
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- Who is able to destroy both your body and your soul."
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- Whenever i'm tempted to be fearful of somebody, i think,
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- "okay, what's the worst thing this person can do to me?"
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- And i guess when you think about it,
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- The worst thing anybody can do to you is kill you.
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- I mean, that's the ultimate thing, right? kill you.
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- Would that be so bad?
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- The key, the antidote to conquering fear of people
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- Is a faith in god's power.
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- There's a third fear
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- That moses learned to conquer through faith
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- And it's the fear of death
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- And it's referred to in hebrews 11:28.
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- By faith, he, moses, kept the passover
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- And the sprinkling of the blood so that he, that is god,
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- Who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
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- Exodus 12 is a story of how god saved the worst plague
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- For the last that would come to egypt,
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- To turn pharaoh's heart, to allow the people to leave egypt.
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- God said, "i'm going to send the death angel
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- Throughout egypt and i'm going to kill the firstborn
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- Of every house."
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- That was, by the way, a promise
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- Made not just to the egyptians but to the israelites.
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- "i'm going to kill the firstborn of every house,
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- But there's one way to escape my judgment," he said,
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- "if you will take an innocent lamb
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- And you will take the blood of that lamb
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- And place it on the doorpost of your home,
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- When i see the blood of that lamb,
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- I will pass over you in judgment."
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- And i'm sure there are those who argued with moses
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- When he relayed the instruction.
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- "moses, that can't be enough. just the blood of a lamb?
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- Don't we need to make a sacrifice?
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- Don't we need to make some oath or commitment to god?
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- Don't we need to learn to be better to one another
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- And kinder to the egyptian?
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- Surely, there's something else that we have to do."
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- Moses said, "no, the only instruction is
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- 'take the blood of a lamb and put it on the doorpost
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- And when i will see the blood,
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- I will pass over you in judgment.'"
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- That's where we get passover from.
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- That was the first passover,
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- God passing over the people in judgment.
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- And of course all of that was a foreshadowing of
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- What would happen 1,300 years later when jesus christ,
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- The perfect lamb of god,
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- Who takes away the sins of the earth,
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- Offers us the way to be passed over in judgment.
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- You see, ladies and gentlemen,
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- Every one of us deserves to die.
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- Maybe you're fearful of death.
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- Maybe you wonder, "what awaits me
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- On the other side of the grave, if anything?
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- How can i know for sure i'm going to be welcomed
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- Into god's presence instead of sent to hell
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- That i deserve forever and ever?"
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- There are not many ways to escape that judgment.
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- There's only one way.
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- It is by believing and trusting in jesus, the lamb of god
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- Who died for the sins of the world,
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- Believing that in some inexplicable way,
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- When he died on that cross, he endured the punishment
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- That you and i deserve for our sins.
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- And the bible says, the instant
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- That you put your faith in jesus christ,
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- God no longer sees your sin, he sees the blood of his son,
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- And he passes over you in judgment.
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- Romans 8:1, there is therefore now no condemnation
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- Awaiting those who belong to christ jesus.
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- Today, if you're fearful of death
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- And want to know how to escape eternal punishment,
- 00:16:05.154 --> 00:16:08.490
- There is only one antidote to that fear of death
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- And it is a faith in god's provision,
- 00:16:12.027 --> 00:16:15.364
- The only provision for your sin, jesus christ, our lord.
- 00:16:15.364 --> 00:16:21.670
- There's some people who would say, "pastor,
- 00:16:22.571 --> 00:16:25.607
- I'm not nearly as afraid of dying as i am of living
- 00:16:26.608 --> 00:16:31.480
- Through some terrible problem, through some trial in life,
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- Whether it be an illness, whether it be a bankruptcy,
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- Whether it be a divorce.
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- I'm fearful of the trials of this life,
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- Not what happens in the next life."
- 00:16:46.395 --> 00:16:49.665
- And that was true of these hebrew christians
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- Who were beginning to experience persecution
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- For their faith, as we'll see next time, verse 37 says,
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- Some in the past were being sawn in two, others stoned,
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- Other tortured, even worse,
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- Watching their families tortured."
- 00:17:06.381 --> 00:17:08.117
- And they said, "god, we don't want to do that."
- 00:17:08.117 --> 00:17:11.086
- What's the antidote to the fear of trials?
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- It is a faith in god's protection.
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- And you see that illustrated in verse 29,
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- "by faith they," talking about the israelites,
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- "passed through the red sea
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- As though they were passing through dry land:
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- And the egyptians, when they attempted it, were drowned."
- 00:17:30.405 --> 00:17:34.576
- After that tenth and final plague
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- Of killing of the first born, that was enough for pharaoh.
- 00:17:36.512 --> 00:17:39.348
- He said, "get out of here, scram as quickly as possible.
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- I don't want you hebrews around here anymore."
- 00:17:44.286 --> 00:17:46.822
- And so they packed up quickly and off they went
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- Toward the promised land.
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- But then they came to the red sea,
- 00:17:52.294 --> 00:17:54.796
- The obstacle between them and their future.
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- And they had one of two choices.
- 00:17:57.866 --> 00:18:00.369
- They could go forward into the red sea and drown
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- Or they could stay where they are and face pharaoh's army.
- 00:18:03.305 --> 00:18:06.108
- Not much of a choice. but god said, "go forward."
- 00:18:06.108 --> 00:18:11.380
- And you know what the miracle was?
- 00:18:12.147 --> 00:18:13.015
- God parted that red sea.
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- He held the great walls of water on either side at bay
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- Through the mighty winds
- 00:18:20.989 --> 00:18:22.391
- And the israelites went forward in faith
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- Believing that god would protect them.
- 00:18:25.460 --> 00:18:28.864
- Just think, just think of the faith that took
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- To take that first step.
- 00:18:32.668 --> 00:18:34.436
- That second step. that third step.
- 00:18:34.436 --> 00:18:37.472
- Remember these israelites had not seen
- 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:40.809
- "the ten commandments" movie yet.
- 00:18:40.809 --> 00:18:42.578
- They didn't know how this was going to turn out.
- 00:18:42.578 --> 00:18:45.514
- They just took god at his word and they moved forward,
- 00:18:45.514 --> 00:18:49.151
- And god supernaturally protected them.
- 00:18:49.151 --> 00:18:53.222
- You know, the same is true for you and me.
- 00:18:53.222 --> 00:18:55.691
- God didn't tell those israelites,
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- "now here you faced those tremendous trial ahead of you,
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- The red sea.
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- I'm going to take you around the red sea."
- 00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:05.667
- Nor did he say, "i'm going to build a bridge
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- So you can pass over the red sea."
- 00:19:07.502 --> 00:19:10.906
- Instead, verse 28 says,
- 00:19:10.906 --> 00:19:13.208
- "i will lead you through the red sea."
- 00:19:13.208 --> 00:19:17.045
- And god says the same thing to you and me.
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- Listen to me, if you don't remember
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- Anything else i say this morning, god has not promised
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- To exempt you from problems in this world.
- 00:19:28.290 --> 00:19:30.792
- God doesn't have a special blessing for christian
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- That says, "because you're a christian,
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- You don't ever have to worry about sickness
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- Or financial difficulty,
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- Or children who rebel against you, or divorce.
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- You're supernaturally protected from those things."
- 00:19:45.007 --> 00:19:48.610
- No, christians experienced the same problems
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- As everybody else does in this world.
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- There is no exemption from problems
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- When you become a christian.
- 00:19:56.184 --> 00:19:58.186
- Nor does god promise to always deliver you out of a problem.
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- He does sometimes.
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- There are miracles.
- 00:20:06.928 --> 00:20:09.197
- But miracles wouldn't be miracles
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- If they happened all the time.
- 00:20:11.800 --> 00:20:13.001
- You'd call miracles, normals, yeah?
- 00:20:13.001 --> 00:20:16.204
- But they're called miracles because they're rare,
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- They're exception.
- 00:20:18.140 --> 00:20:19.441
- Most of the time god does not deliver you
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- Out of your problem.
- 00:20:21.710 --> 00:20:23.245
- He doesn't say i'm going to exempt you from problems,
- 00:20:23.245 --> 00:20:24.913
- "i'm going to deliver you out of problems."
- 00:20:24.913 --> 00:20:26.415
- But what he does promise is this.
- 00:20:26.415 --> 00:20:28.216
- "i will walk with you through your problem.
- 00:20:28.216 --> 00:20:31.453
- I will be with you through the problem."
- 00:20:32.321 --> 00:20:33.522
- Isn't that what isaiah 43:2 says?
- 00:20:33.522 --> 00:20:35.957
- "when you pass through the water," not around the water.
- 00:20:35.957 --> 00:20:40.095
- "when you pass through the water, i will be with you.
- 00:20:40.095 --> 00:20:43.498
- And through the rivers, they will not overflow you.
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- When you walk through the fire,
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- You will not be scorched nor will the flame burn you."
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- Let me ask you again this morning.
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- What is it that's keeping you
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- From experiencing god's blessing in your life?
- 00:21:00.048 --> 00:21:02.584
- What's keeping you from going all in
- 00:21:02.584 --> 00:21:05.120
- In your commitment to jesus christ?
- 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:07.723
- Is it the fear of loss?
- 00:21:08.223 --> 00:21:10.759
- Have faith in god's promises to you.
- 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:14.229
- Is it a fear of other people?
- 00:21:14.863 --> 00:21:17.299
- Have faith in god's power to overcome those people.
- 00:21:18.367 --> 00:21:21.803
- Is it the fear of death?
- 00:21:22.304 --> 00:21:25.374
- Have faith in god's one and only provision
- 00:21:25.374 --> 00:21:28.176
- For your salvation and your eternity.
- 00:21:28.176 --> 00:21:31.113
- Is it a fear of trials?
- 00:21:31.613 --> 00:21:33.115
- Have faith in god's power and protection
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- To sustain you through that trial?
- 00:21:36.852 --> 00:21:40.322
- You know, it's said that whenever the great commander,
- 00:21:41.423 --> 00:21:46.128
- General napoleon would get ready for a major battle,
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- The night before the battle, he had this ritual of
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- Where he would stand alone in his tent.
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- And one by one, his top generals
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- Would come into the tent with napoleon
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- And without saying a word they would shake his hand,
- 00:22:03.745 --> 00:22:09.050
- Look straight into his eyes and then leave the tent
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- Ready to die for the general that they loved.
- 00:22:12.788 --> 00:22:16.958
- Why? because they knew their general.
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- It's the same thing for us,
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- Ultimately, the antidote to fear in our life
- 00:22:23.832 --> 00:22:29.204
- Is knowing our god.
- 00:22:29.671 --> 00:22:32.274
- Daniel said it this way in daniel 11:32,
- 00:22:32.274 --> 00:22:35.210
- "the people who know their god
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- Shall stand firm and take action."
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- Nothing will give us more courage
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- When we renew our minds with the truth of god's word,
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- That's when we acquire the boldness of abraham
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