Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Flame Throwers vs. Fire Extinguishers (Part 2)

May 14, 2025 | S25:E229

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Flame Throwers vs. Fire Extinguishers (Part 2) | May 14, 2025

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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As christians, all of us long to experience more of god's power
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In our everyday lives.
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Yet many times we fail to recognize the harmful behaviors
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That actually have the opposite effect.
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Today we're going to look at four spirit quenchers that we
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Need to eliminate if we want to keep the power of the holy
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Spirit burning brightly in our lives.
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My message is titled "flame throwers vs. fire
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Extinguishers," on today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪♪♪
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♪ ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
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♪ ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
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♪ ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh ♪
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♪ ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ many are they increased that trouble me ♪
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♪ many are they that rise up against me ♪
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♪ many there be which say of my soul ♪
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♪ there is no help for him in god ♪
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♪ but thou, oh lord are a shield for me ♪
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♪ my glory and the lifter of my head ♪
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♪ thou, oh lord are a shield for me ♪
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♪ my glory and the lifter ♪
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♪ of my head ♪
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♪ for thou, oh lord are a shield for me ♪
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♪ my glory and the lifter ♪
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♪ of my head ♪
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♪ thou, oh lord are a shield for me ♪
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♪ my glory and the lifter ♪
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♪ of my head ♪
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♪ for thou, oh lord are a shield for me ♪
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♪ my glory and the lifter of my head ♪
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♪ thou, oh lord are a shield for me ♪
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♪ my glory ♪
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♪ and the lifter of my head ♪
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♪ of my head ♪♪
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♪♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Male announcer: god never intended for the holy spirit to
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Be a mystery to believers.
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In fact, if you're a follower of jesus, then god's spirit is
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Dwelling inside of you, and he's waiting to unleash his
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Supernatural power in your life.
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In his bestselling book "i want more," dr. robert jeffress
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Teaches what it means to be filled with the power of the
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Holy spirit.
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Request the book i want more, when you give a generous gift to
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Jeffress: you know, forgiveness isn't about forgetting.
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It's not about sweeping something under the rug or
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Playing like it never happened.
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Real forgiveness first of all acknowledges that a wrong
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Has occurred.
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"you meant it for evil," joseph said, but god used it for good.
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Go ahead and acknowledge that you've been wrong.
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Calculate the debt of what is owed you because of the wrong,
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But thirdly, forgiveness releases the other person of
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That debt.
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Forgiveness is giving up your right to hurt somebody else for
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Hurting you.
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That's what forgiveness is.
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Turning it over to god, letting god deal with that person rather
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Than you.
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And then number four: remember the consequences
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Of unforgiveness.
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We've talked in past messages before.
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There are very real physical consequences when you refuse
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To forgive.
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The leading christian psychiatrist in america today
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Said, "pent-up anger, bitterness is the leading cause of death in
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America today."
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There are physical consequences.
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There are emotional consequences when you refuse to
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Forgive somebody.
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I mean, just think about it.
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Here is somebody--just imagine: you're grabbing hold of somebody
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Who is continually punching you in the face.
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Now what would be the wise thing to do: to keep on holding to
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That person, holding on to that person or letting them go?
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I mean, why would you hold on to somebody who is continuing to
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Hurt you?
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It's the same thing when you're holding on to an offense that
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Has been committed against you.
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It's like you're reliving that hurt over and over and
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Over again.
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Instead, release it.
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There are emotional consequences to unforgiveness, but the most
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Serious consequences to bitterness are the
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Spiritual consequences.
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Jesus said it very clearly in matthew 6:15.
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"if you do not forgive others, neither will my father in heaven
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Forgive you."
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Immorality quenches the spirit's presence in our life.
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Bitterness, refusing to forgive quenches the spirit's power to
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Heal our hurts.
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There's the third spirit quencher, and that is greed.
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That is greed.
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Greed quenches the spirit's purpose in our life.
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Now, let me explain what i mean.
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You know, the bible says in romans 8:28 and 29, that god has
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One purpose for every christian.
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His purpose, for which all things are working together for
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Good, is to conform us to the image of christ, for whom god
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Foreknew he predestined to become informed of the image of
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His son.
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So that's god's plan for every one of us here this morning that
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We perfectly resemble jesus christ in our actions, attitudes
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And our affections, but god also has a specific unique plan for
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Your life, a unique path he wants you to travel on, and the
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Way that he communicates his unique purpose to you is through
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The holy spirit of god.
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In philippians 2:13, paul writes, "for it is god who is at
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Work within you, giving you both the will--" that is the desire
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And the power to achieve his purpose.
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God is working at, working in your life right now.
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He's giving you both a desire and the unique power to fulfill
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His unique plan for your life.
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God may be speaking to some of you right now.
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God is continually speaking to all of us to do his will, but
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You know what can quench the spirit's purpose in your life
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More quickly than anything?
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It's greed, it's holding on to money.
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It's saying, "you know what, i would like to do that, but i
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Just don't have the money to be able to do that."
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Now hear me clearly: jesus said we need to do planning before we
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Begin a project.
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A wise person is one who counts the cost.
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But a lot of times we don't follow through on what the
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Spirit is leading us to do because there's an over
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Obsession with money hanging on to it rather than letting go
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To it.
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We think, you know what, i really would like to go to the
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Mission field, but i just--i can't give up a good paying job
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In order to do that.
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Mayor, i'm sure god spoke to you and spoke to you about serving
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Our city as the leader of our city.
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But i imagine if you had looked at the salary, that was not a
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Compelling reason to give up what you were doing to serve
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Our city.
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You could have said, "well, it just doesn't pay enough,
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Therefore, i'm not going to do that."
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Some of you who are saying, "you know, i know i ought to get
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Married, but i just don't have the money to do it."
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Let me give you a news bulletin.
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You'll never have enough money, so forget it, okay?
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I mean, you know, if you wait around till you have enough
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Money to get married, you'll never have a kid.
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Oh, i don't have enough money.
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Listen, it's gone once you have children.
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So just remember that that is greed and obsession with money
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Can many times quench what the holy spirit is saying to us.
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How do we keep greed from extinguishing god's purpose in
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Our life?
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First of all, view money realistically.
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View money realistically, it's power to protect us and satisfy
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Us is far less than you can possibly imagine.
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Secondly, hold on to money loosely.
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Hold on to it loosely.
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After you have tithed, after you've set aside 10 to 15% for
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Your future and for emergencies, you need to learn to hold the
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Rest of it very loosely.
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You know, if god prompts you to buy a gift for your child, go
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Ahead and buy it, spend the money.
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If god prompts you to take your mate on a trip, go ahead and
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Take the trip.
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If god is moving you to give an extra gift, go ahead and give
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That gift.
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Learn to hold things loosely.
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You know what, every time you follow that impulse to let go of
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Money, you have reduced just by a little bit more the
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Stranglehold that greed has on your life.
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It's a victory when you let go of it.
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Hold your money loosely, and thirdly, thank god for your
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Money regularly.
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You know, expressing gratitude to god for what he has already
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Given us has a way of reminding us that it really does all
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Belong to him.
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I was thinking, somebody who had made a generous contribution to
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Our church, and you know what they said to me?
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They said, "pastor, it's really easy to give, when you realize
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It's not yours, to begin with."
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When we express gratitude to god, it has a way of reminding
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Us that it all belongs to him.
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The immorality quenches the spirit's presence in our life.
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Bitterness quenches the spirit's power to heal our hurts.
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Greed quenches the spirit's purpose in our life.
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Spirit quencher number four is worry.
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Worry quenches the spirit's peace in our life.
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Have you ever had this happen to you?
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Maybe you've been at a stage in life where things seem to be
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Going quite well.
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Your career is going well, things in your family are
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Relatively peaceful, you're following through on your goals
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And, quite frankly, you've never had a better relationship with
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God than you're experiencing, when all of a sudden, out of
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Nowhere, you are overwhelmed by fear.
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A particular fear comes into your life, you know.
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What if i lose my job?
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What if my child is killed in an automobile accident?
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What if i develop cancer?
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What if i lose my job?
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What if, what if, what if?
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And suddenly it's like you're hit with a 50,000-volt stun gun.
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You're just paralyzed.
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You can't move forward.
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You can't continue doing what god is leading you to do.
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You become a victim of worry.
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The bible says, "worry will stop the spirit's peace in our life."
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One writer notes that the most common command in the bible, the
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Most frequent command, you know what it is?
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It's not "hate not" or "covet not" or "lie not."
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The most common command in the bible is "fear not."
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"fear not," it's found 365 times in the bible.
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It's as if god is saying to us at least once a day, "don't be
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Afraid, don't be overwhelmed by fear."
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And sometimes that's easier said than done, isn't it?
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How can you keep fear from extinguishing the spirit's peace
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In your life?
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First of all, when you find yourself overwhelmed by fear,
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First of all, try to determine the source of your fear.
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Ask god to help reveal to you the source of your fear.
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Now this is key.
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Sometimes fear can come from god.
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Now i know what some of you are thinking.
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You're thinking, "pastor, you need to go back and listen to
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Your message from several weeks ago.
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You quoted 2 timothy 1:7, 'for god has not given us the spirit
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Of fear but of love, power, and a sound mind.'
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Pastor, you just contradicted yourself."
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Is god ever the author of fear?
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Well, by fear, i'm talking about a prompting that can come
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From god.
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Sometimes god will give us a prompting of something in our
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Life that is not right, something that needs to be taken
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Care of.
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It may be something like, he may prompt us to call a doctor for
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An appointment.
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He may prompt us to call and check up on our child.
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He may prompt us to check our bank deposit and see if our
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Finances are in order.
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He may prompt us with something much more serious that all is
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Not right in our relationship with god.
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God is continually giving us these promptings.
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A prompting from god only becomes a fear when we obsess
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About it rather than acting upon it.
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See the difference?
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God gives us these promptings all the time in our life.
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If we act on them, then that's fine, but if we obsess on them
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And don't act, it turns into a fear.
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Sometimes promptings come from god.
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Sometimes fear comes from fatigue.
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We all know the famous vince lombardi line: "fatigue makes
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Cowards of us all."
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There's just something about being physically exhausted that
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Makes you more susceptible to fear.
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Think about the story of elijah in 1 kings 18 to 19.
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Remember elijah, the one who slew the hundreds of prophets of
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Baal on mount carmel, and yet he allowed one disgruntled king--
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Queen, queen jezebel to send him running.
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He became overwhelmed with fear.
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While he was exhausted, he said, "lord, just go ahead and take my
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Life right now."
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But then he slept, he ate, and he gained a new perspective.
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Did you know sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is to
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Take a nap.
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You know that?
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Not read your bible, not pray, not listen to christian music.
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Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is just take a
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Nap, and when you wake up, things will seem different.
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And that's what elijah did.
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Fatigue can sometimes be a source of our fear.
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Thirdly, satan can be a source of fear.
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Sometimes he is responsible for much of the fear that comes into
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Our life.
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You know why i say that?
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Because much of the fear that we face is based on things that
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Never turn out to be true.
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Last night i had some time by myself and i just started
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Flipping through some of my past spiritual journals from years
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Gone by.
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I looked at them from 10 years ago, 20 years ago.
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I wrote down the things i'm concerned about, the things i
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Was praying for, the things, some of them that i was fearful
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About, and i just started laughing as i read these things
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Because not one of the things i feared 10 or 20 years ago ever
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Came to pass.
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None of it ever happened.
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The other stuff happened that i didn't know about and didn't
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Expect to happen, but nothing i was fearful about, worried
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About, none of those things ever came to pass.
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Isn't that just like satan?
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He would love to get us, overwhelmed by the what-ifs of
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Life, things that will never occur in your life.
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That's why jesus said in john 8:48, "satan is a liar.
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He's the father of all lies."
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He wants you to worry about things that in fact have no
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Basis in reality.
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So that's why i say one of the best things you can do is first
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Of all determine the source of your fear.
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Is it a legitimate prompting that needs to be acted on?
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Is it simply a case of fatigue or is it the enemy
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Attacking you?
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Secondly, decide to confront your fear.
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If you determine that it is a legitimate concern that needs to
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Be acted upon, go ahead and act upon it instead of stewing
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Over it.
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I mean if there's a doctor's appointment that needs to be
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Made, pick up the phone and make it.
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If there's a bank statement that needs to be reconciled, go ahead
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And reconcile it.
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If in fact you need to go ahead and do something about that
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Growing distance between you and your mate, go ahead and sit down
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And talk with him or her about it.
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Don't put it off, don't obsess about it.
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Act upon your fear.
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You see, again, there is a vast difference between legitimate
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Concerns that god places in our heart and the irrational fear.
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Here's the difference: godly concern always leads to change
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And ultimately to success, but fear always leads to paralysis
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And failure.
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Now paul made that distinction in 2 corinthians 7:10.
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He said, "for the sorrow, that is the concern that is according
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To the will of god, produces a repentance, that is a change
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Without regret.
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And it leads to salvation, but the worry of the world
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Produces death."
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Real godly concern will always lead somewhere.
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It leads to change and salvation, but the sorrow, the
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Regret, the obsessing of this life always leads to paralysis
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And ultimately to death.
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Napoleon hill once said, "do the things you fear, and the death
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Of fear is certain."
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Go ahead and confront your fears, and thirdly, deliver your
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Fear to god.
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You know, after you confront your fear head on, you still may
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Find that the enemy comes back and comes back and tries to get
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You paralyzed by fear.
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In that case, deliver that fear to god.
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1 peter 5:7 says, "casting all your care upon him because he
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Cares for you."
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You know, the best word in that verse to me is the word "all."
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Cast all your anxiety upon him.
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God's shoulders are broad enough not just to handle the little
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Concerns of your life, but the biggest concerns of your life.
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Remember corrie ten boom, that great saint of god, wrote "the
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Hiding place."
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She used to say whenever she was overwhelmed by worry, whenever
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She was paralyzed by fear, she would stand in front of the
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Mirror and she would say, "this fear, this concern is too big
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For even jesus christ himself to handle."
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Then she would smile, and then she would feel ashamed
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Of herself.
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What concern in your life?
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Let me ask you, what concern in your life is too big for god
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To handle?
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Can you think of one?
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"casting all your anxiety upon him, for he cares for you."
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Immorality quenches the spirit's presence.
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Bitterness quenches the spirit's power to heal your hurts.
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Greed extinguishes the spirit's purpose in your life.
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And worry extinguishes the spirit's peace in your life.
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What's the antidote to all of these spirit quenchers?
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In a word, it's obedience, obedience, very simply doing
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What you know you need to do.
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Now don't tune out here.
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Listen.
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Is there an immoral practice, an immoral relationship you're
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Involved in right now?
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Go ahead and forsake it, abandon it.
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Is there somebody you are having trouble forgiving right now and
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Bitterness has been in your heart for a long time, go ahead
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And forgive that person.
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Is there something you feel like god is leading you to do, but
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Because of your obsession with money, you just can't do it.
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Go ahead and flee from that greed.
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Is there some worry that is overwhelming you extinguishing
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God's peace in your life?
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Go ahead and give it to god, cast it upon god because he
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Cares for you.
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Jonathan edwards, the great puritan preacher, during his
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Lifetime composed a list of 70 resolutions that guided his
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Life, and resolution number 25 is particularly relevant to our
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Discussion today.
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This is what he wrote: "resolved to examine carefully and
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Constantly what that one thing is, which causes me in the least
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To doubt the love of god and then to direct all my forces
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Against it."
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What is the one thing in your life that is quenching the holy
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Spirit's power in your life?
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I imagine you already know what it is, don't you?
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You see, god has given you the desire, but he is also giving
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You the power to change that one thing.
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Go ahead and change it.
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Change it today and watch the flame of god's spirit to begin
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To burn brightly in your life again.
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Jeffress: it's my hope and prayer that viewers all across
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Our nation and around the world are making a decision to turn
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Away from their sin and surrender their lives in
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Obedience to god.
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When the spirit is in control, we can truly feel satisfied in
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Our walk with god.
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Jeffress: if you're longing for something more in your
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At one time i felt dissatisfied and powerless to change it, but
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By god's grace i discovered how to deploy the power of the holy
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Spirit in my life.
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Everything he has given you is all wrapped up in the holy
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Spirit of god.
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Jeffress: immorality, bitterness, greed, and worry may
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Sound like intimidating enemies, but all four are easily
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Defeated, when we are obedient to god and when we simply do
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What we know we need to do.
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Only then can we experience the power of the holy spirit in
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Our lives.
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Well, all of us possess a holy hunger for more: more joy in our
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Worship, more power in our prayers, more success in
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Our struggles.
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But to satisfy that hunger, we have a choice to make.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next on
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Jeffress: as i looked there at that box of donuts and then
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Thought about the special k cereal, i had a choice to make
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In that instant.
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I had to choose between taste or nutrition.
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Between health or happiness, you know, that's a choice that we
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All face, not just in relationship to our physical
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Diet, but our spiritual diet.
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Robert Jeffress - Flame Throwers vs. Fire Extinguishers (Part 2)

May 14, 2025 | S25:E229

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