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Robert Jeffress - Gain Situational Awareness (Part 1)

July 8, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Gain Situational Awareness (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Gain Situational Awareness (Part 1) | July 8, 2026
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas,
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  • This is pathway to victory with dr. robert jeffers.
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  • Hi, i am robert jeffers,
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  • And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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  • Have you ever been driving down the highway
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  • When another driver suddenly swerved into your lane?
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  • It's frightening
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  • Because that driver had no awareness of the danger
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  • He was creating.
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  • Well, the same is true in our spiritual life.
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  • A lack of awareness can be deadly.
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  • God calls us to stay alert
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  • And today i'll show you how to do that.
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  • My message is titled survival tip number two,
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  • Gain situational awareness
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  • On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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  • If you've ever felt like your faith is under attack,
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  • Like the world is trying to wear you down,
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  • You're not imagining it.
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  • The cultural pressure and spiritual opposition is real,
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  • But you don't have to face it alone.
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  • In his powerful book, "courageous,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffers offers 10 practical biblical strategies
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  • For standing strong,
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  • Strategies that will give you fresh fire
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  • And real hope in a world hostile to your faith.
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  • Request your copy of "courageous"
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  • When you give a generous ministry gift
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  • To pathway to victory.
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  • In the early hours of june the 30th, 2013,
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  • 43-year-old eric marsh,
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  • Superintendent of the granite mountain hotshots
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  • Emerged from his sleeping bag
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  • At prescott arizona's fire station number seven.
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  • He brewed a pot of coffee, which he drank black.
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  • There's no milk or sugar on the fire line,
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  • So why get used to any other kind he would often say.
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  • Carrying his steaming mug, marsh walked into the ready room
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  • Where his tight knit team of wildland firefighters
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  • Met every morning.
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  • Tacked on the wall behind him was a poster
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  • That featured devastating pictures of wildfire fatalities
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  • In which skilled firefighters
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  • Had been caught off guard while battling small wildfires
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  • That escalated unexpectedly.
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  • In ominously large letters the poster asked,
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  • "how is your situational awareness today?"
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  • By 5:15, most of the crew had gathered in the ready room,
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  • "we've got an assignment to yarnell."
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  • Eric marsh said, "it's 300 acres
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  • And burning on the ridge top in thick chaparral.
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  • It's going to be hot, real hot."
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  • By 5:40 marsh and his crew of 19 firefighters,
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  • His kids, as he referred to them,
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  • Loaded their two firetrucks
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  • And headed toward the small town of yarnell,
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  • About an hour south of prescott.
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  • Once on the fire line,
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  • Marsh set his team to work while he scouted out the fire,
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  • Noticing a shift in the weather,
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  • He sent one of his firefighters back down the mountain
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  • To serve as a lookout in case the fire pivoted, it did.
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  • The firebreak his men had been cutting
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  • Was suddenly compromised,
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  • So they had to retreat.
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  • The radio crackled,
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  • Asking if the granite mountain hotshots were okay.
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  • They were, they had reached the black, an island of ash
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  • That the fire had left the day before.
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  • The brush had already been incinerated,
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  • Robbing the fire of fuel,
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  • Making it the safest possible place they could be.
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  • Then the fire pivoted again
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  • And raced downhill toward yarnell,
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  • Threatening homes and ranches.
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  • Eric marsh decided to leave the safety of the black
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  • In hopes of savings some of the homes.
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  • He couldn't have imagined that by heading for town,
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  • He was leading his crew
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  • Toward a series of increasingly compromised circumstances,
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  • Each one more desperate than the last,
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  • A reporter later wrote,
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  • As the firefighters hiked down the mountain,
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  • The raging wildfire became obscured by a ridge line.
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  • Without eyes on the fire,
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  • Marsh had a decision to make,
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  • Bail off to his right
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  • And head for the safety of the desert floor 2000 feet below
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  • Or continue toward yarnell in hopes of saving homes.
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  • He decided to continue toward yarnell,
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  • Descending an additional 500 feet
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  • Through thick chaparral,
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  • Marsh and his team found themselves in a basin,
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  • Walled in on three sides by granite boulders.
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  • This was an extremely dangerous place
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  • Because it offered no means of escape.
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  • Just then, the worst happened.
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  • They heard the roar of flames that had been obscured
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  • By the ridgeline.
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  • Through the smoke marsh saw the fire
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  • Ripping up the hill toward them.
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  • They were trapped.
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  • Eric marsh and 18 of the firefighters with him
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  • Died in that basin,
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  • The most wildland firefighters
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  • Ever killed in a single incident.
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  • Their bodies were found under fire shelters,
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  • Small aluminum tents
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  • Meant to protect firefighters from extreme heat
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  • But not from direct flames.
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  • The fire had burned over them so quickly
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  • And with such intensity
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  • That the massive granite walls of the basin
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  • Cracked like eggshells.
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  • After the fire, marty cole, a friend of eric marsh
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  • And the safety officer on duty
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  • Stood among the charred bodies
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  • Of the granite mountain hotshots.
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  • What were they doing here, he wondered,
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  • Eric was too good of a wildland firefighter
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  • To have led his men into this situation, but he did.
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  • You and i will probably never face
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  • The fiery inferno of a wildland brush fire of 300 acres
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  • Coming toward us like eric marsh and his men did that day.
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  • But nevertheless, you and i are surrounded,
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  • It seems like on every side by fires
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  • That are racing toward us threatening to destroy us.
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  • From one direction,
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  • We have the fires of culture racing toward us
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  • That threaten to consume everything we hold valuable
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  • And dear in our faith.
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  • From another direction, we have the fire of satan's test
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  • And temptations in our life.
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  • The bible says we have an adversary,
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  • The devil who prowls about like a roaring lion
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  • Seeking someone to devour.
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  • And then in another direction,
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  • We face challenging circumstances in our family,
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  • In our work, in the world in which we live.
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  • And if that were not enough from another direction come
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  • The attacks from our very own sin nature,
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  • That wages war against us
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  • And wants to pull us away from god.
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  • We are in many ways in a situation
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  • Where there seems to be no escape.
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  • How can we ever survive those kinds of ordeals?
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  • Well, in our series titled "courageous,"
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  • We're looking at 10 survival tips, if you will,
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  • To not just survive
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  • But thrive in the hostile environment
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  • In which we live right now.
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  • And last time
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  • We began looking at the first of those survival tips.
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  • Remember what it is, don't panic.
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  • Every first responder knows
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  • That if you're in a threatening situation, you cannot panic.
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  • You've got to gain control of your emotions
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  • As god told joshua in joshua one,
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  • Be strong and courageous.
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  • The second tip is the one that we're going to look at today
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  • To survive and thrive in threatening situations,
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  • And that is gain situational awareness.
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  • The question that hung over eric marsh's shoulder
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  • In that ready room every day is a haunting question,
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  • How is your situational awareness?
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  • And that's not only a question for first responders,
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  • It's a question that all of us need ask,
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  • How aware are you of the testing situations
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  • You find yourself in?
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  • How aware are you of what is really happening around you?
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  • You say, "well pastor, that's a stupid question.
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  • I know what's happening around me."
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  • Do you? do you really understand the situation you're in?
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  • You know, the single greatest enemy
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  • Of situational awareness is denial,
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  • And we all engage in it
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  • When we substitute what we wish were happening
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  • For what is actually happening.
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  • I saw a good illustration of that a couple of years ago.
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  • I got a call to come down to the news studio immediately
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  • To comment on a breaking news story.
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  • You may remember it.
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  • A gunman had positioned himself in a hotel room
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  • In las vegas, nevada,
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  • And he began to opening fire on concert goers below him.
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  • And it was interesting,
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  • Those who were attending the concert,
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  • They heard the gunfire,
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  • But they assumed it was fireworks going off
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  • Even though there was no sign of fireworks in the sky,
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  • Even though people were dropping around them hit by gunfire,
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  • They substituted what they wish was happening
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  • Instead of what was actually happening.
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  • And by the way, before you're critical of them
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  • Realize we all have a tendency to do that,
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  • To practice denial of what is really happening.
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  • For example, we read about the rise of online harassment
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  • And cyber bullying among adolescents
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  • And they, we say, oh, well that's not that big of a deal.
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  • It's just normal teenage behavior.
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  • Or we look around
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  • And we observe our first amendment rights
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  • As christians being threatened.
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  • We deny that's really what is happening.
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  • We say, well, that's just the culture in which we live.
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  • Or we hear pastors, religious leaders saying, you know,
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  • There's really more than one way to heaven
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  • Other than faith in jesus christ.
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  • We hear that, but we just assume,
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  • Well, they're trying to be compassionate
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  • Toward other people,
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  • But if we're going to survive the culture
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  • In which we're living,
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  • The situation in which we're living,
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  • We've got to see things the way they are.
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  • We've got to have situational awareness,
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  • And for that, we need wisdom.
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  • Now, wisdom seems to be in short supply today, doesn't it?
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  • Never have we lived in a culture before
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  • When there was such a shortage of wisdom.
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  • I mean, we can't even figure out what a man is
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  • And what a woman is and who is either one.
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  • I mean this gender fluidity is everywhere,
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  • But it's not only gender that is fluid.
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  • Apparently ethnicity is fluid as well.
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  • Many people are identifying themselves as transracial.
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  • That is caucasians wanting to identify as african americans.
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  • Island pacifics wanting to call themselves native americans.
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  • It's not only gender and race that are fluid,
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  • But did you know even age is becoming fluid as well?
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  • I was reading this week,
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  • This is a true story about a dutch businessman
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  • Who is suing an online dating service
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  • Because even though he is 69 years of age,
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  • He wants to identify as a 49-year-old.
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  • He said, that's how i really feel.
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  • And so to him, age is fluid.
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  • And if that were not enough,
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  • Did you know even being a human being is fluid,
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  • There are some people
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  • Who don't want to identify as humans.
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  • Instead they want to call themselves otherkin,
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  • I guess like et or something else.
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  • You know, whenever i hear that kind of idiocy,
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  • It reminds me of the prophecy from isaiah five verse 20.
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  • God said, woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
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  • Who substitute darkness for light
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  • And light for darkness,
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  • Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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  • You know why you see this kind of lunacy
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  • In our culture today?
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  • It's because people have rejected
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  • The knowledge of the true god.
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  • And the bible says in romans one,
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  • "if you reject the knowledge of the true god,
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  • God will send you into darkness."
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  • You become diluted in your thinking.
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  • That's the culture in which we live.
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  • Well, how do we gain situational awareness
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  • And know exactly what is happening around us?
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  • It begins with knowing what time it is,
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  • Knowing what time it is.
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  • You say, well, it's about time for lunch pastor,
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  • And that's not what i'm talking about.
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  • Turn over to second timothy, chapter three, verse one.
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  • Paul warned his protege, timothy,
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  • About the coming moral and spiritual decline in the world.
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  • And the single insight is like a flashing caution sign
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  • For all of us.
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  • Look at two timothy three verse one,
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  • But realize this, that in the last days,
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  • Difficult times will come.
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  • Now, i want you to notice two phrases in this verse
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  • That are key to gaining situational awareness,
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  • To knowing what time we're living in.
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  • First of all, the phrase the last days in the last days.
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  • Now you may be thinking,
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  • Well, people have been claiming it's the last day
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  • Since the time of christ.
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  • Pastor, are you saying we are living in the last days?
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  • Most definitely we are in the last days.
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  • How do i know that?
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  • Well, the last days began
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  • The moment christ ascended into heaven
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  • Into the mount of olives after his first coming,
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  • Because before he ascended into heaven,
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  • He said to his followers,
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  • "i'm coming back again."
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  • And the moment he ascended into heaven,
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  • The stopwatch started the countdown to his return.
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  • You say, well, paul thought jesus was coming in his day,
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  • And that was 2000 years ago.
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  • That's exactly right. and guess what?
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  • We are 2000 years closer
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  • To the coming of christ today than we were back then.
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  • Every second that passes moves us closer
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  • And closer to that greatest event in human history.
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  • So we are living most definitely in the last days.
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  • It's the period of time between the first
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  • And second comings of christ.
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  • The second phrase to notice here is the word difficult.
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  • He says, know this, that in the last days,
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  • Difficult time will come.
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  • The greek word translated difficult
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  • Only appears one other time in the greek new testament
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  • In matthew eight, verse 28,
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  • When it's used to describe two demon possessed men
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  • Who could not be restrained,
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  • They were extremely violent or difficult.
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  • That word difficult literally means without restraint,
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  • Without moral restraint.
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  • What paul is saying is, in these last days
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  • Before the lord returns,
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  • It's going to be a time without any moral restraints.
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  • Isn't that a great description of the age
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  • In which we're living right now?
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  • We need to gain situational awareness.
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  • You know, i remember something billy graham said years ago,
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  • If you want to understand what is happening
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  • In the world today,
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  • You need two things.
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  • You need to have a newspaper in one hand,
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  • Today it would be your facebook newsfeed,
  • 00:16:36.652 --> 00:16:39.588
  • But back then it was your newspaper in one hand,
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  • And you need to have a bible in your other hand.
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  • The newspaper tells you what is happening in the world,
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  • But the bible tells you what it means.
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  • If we're going to gain situational awareness
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  • And understand our world,
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  • We need both a newspaper and we need a bible.
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  • You know, a great model of having situational awareness
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  • And why it's so important is found in an obscure verse
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  • In the old testament.
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  • Turn over to first chronicles, chapter 12, verse 32,
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  • Where we find a model of situational awareness.
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  • First chronicles 12:32, as you turn there,
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  • I can see some dust poofing up from your bibles
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  • As you go back to first chronicles.
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  • I stole that line from somebody, but it's a good one.
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  • First chronicles 12:32.
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  • Now look at this verse.
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  • And of the sons of issachar men who understood the times
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  • With knowledge of what israel should do,
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  • Their chiefs 200
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  • And all their kinsmen were at their command.
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  • Now, a little history here will help you understand
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  • Why this verse is so relevant to us today.
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  • The sons of issachar, who was issachar, remember,
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  • Jacob had 12 sons.
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  • His ninth son was issachar,
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  • And before jacob died,
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  • The patriarch of israel pronounced a blessing on his sons
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  • And predicted their future.
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  • And when it came to the ninth son issachar, jacob said,
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  • "you will be a strong donkey."
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  • Now, if your dad said that about you,
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  • What would you think about that?
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  • Probably not take it as a compliment,
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  • But in jacob's day, that was a compliment.
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  • But he went on to predict not only that,
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  • You would find rest in a pleasant land.
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  • And that's exactly what happened.
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  • Years later when the israelites actually conquered
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  • The promised land,
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  • They divided the land according to the sons of jacob,
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  • And the sons of issachar were given
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  • A small fertile tract of land
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  • Between the kishon and the jordan rivers.
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  • It was fertile land that was perfect for farming.
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  • The sons of issachar became farmers,
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  • And to be an effective farmer,
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  • You had to be great in skills of observation,
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  • Correlation, and application.
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  • To be a successful farmer, you had to study the weather
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  • And know what time it was,
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  • You had to know the condition of the soil,
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  • You had to be able to know
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  • When it was the right time to plant
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  • And the right time to harvest.
  • 00:19:34.429 --> 00:19:37.399
  • Now, the sons of issachar were skilled in observation,
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  • Correlation, application,
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  • But that didn't just help them with agriculture.
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  • You see, the sons of issachar
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  • Were also keen observers of their culture,
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  • And the bible says they sensed unrest
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  • In the nation of israel,
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  • And they sensed that this was a time for david
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  • To expand his kingdom.
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  • They discerned there there were such unrest in israel
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  • This was the time to anoint david as king over all israel.
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  • And they were instrumental in helping him do just that.
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  • They understood not just the soil,
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  • They understood the culture, they understood their times,
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  • And the bible says they knew what they should do.
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  • And god says, if we're going to be effective for him
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  • In this world,
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  • We've got to be like the sons of issachar.
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  • We've got to understand our time
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  • So that we can know what we should do.
  • 00:20:37.092 --> 00:20:39.861
  • Have you ever heard people, christians who say, you know,
  • 00:20:39.861 --> 00:20:42.464
  • I don't tune into the news very much.
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  • I don't read the newspaper, i don't watch television.
  • 00:20:45.233 --> 00:20:47.869
  • I just read my bible and pray.
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  • I just kind of keep my blinders on
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  • So i don't get distracted by what's happening in the world.
  • 00:20:52.107 --> 00:20:56.111
  • You know, there's a word
  • 00:20:56.111 --> 00:20:57.979
  • That describes people like that, stupid.
  • 00:20:57.979 --> 00:21:01.983
  • If you are just reading your bible and praying
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  • And have no observance of what's happening around you,
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  • You are stupid, stupid, stupid.
  • 00:21:08.590 --> 00:21:11.893
  • And god does not place a premium on stupid.
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  • Some people think he does.
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  • Some people think,
  • 00:21:18.066 --> 00:21:19.568
  • Oh, people who aren't aware of the world around them,
  • 00:21:19.568 --> 00:21:21.169
  • They're so spiritual, no, they're stupid,
  • 00:21:21.169 --> 00:21:24.406
  • Because they cannot know what they're supposed to do
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  • If they don't understand the culture in which they live.
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  • They need to be like the sons of issachar.
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  • God didn't leave us here, ladies and gentlemen,
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  • Just to take up space waiting for the rapture to come.
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  • God left us here
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  • To make a difference in this world in which we live.
  • 00:21:40.522 --> 00:21:43.992
  • And if we're going to make a difference,
  • 00:21:44.860 --> 00:21:46.294
  • We've got to understand what's happening around us.
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  • God calls us to be salt and lye
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  • In this decayed and dark world.
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  • Now that's what i mean.
  • 00:21:52.467 --> 00:21:54.169
  • We've got to understand the situation in which we're in
  • 00:21:54.169 --> 00:21:57.139
  • So that we can know what we should do.
  • 00:21:57.139 --> 00:21:59.541
  • But the situational awareness i'm talking about
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  • Is not only an awareness of our culture
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  • And the spiritual temperature of the nation as a whole.
  • 00:22:05.947 --> 00:22:08.550
  • God wants us to ascertain the situation we're in right now
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  • So that we can know individually as christians
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  • What we're supposed to do.
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  • Parents, grandparents here today,
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  • How's your situational awareness
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  • About the spiritual condition of your children
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  • And your grandchildren?
  • 00:22:25.700 --> 00:22:27.035
  • Are you aware of the temptations
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  • That are coming into their life?
  • 00:22:29.204 --> 00:22:31.273
  • Are you aware of what you can do to help strengthen
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  • And encourage them?
  • 00:22:33.875 --> 00:22:35.944
  • Husbands and wives here today,
  • 00:22:35.944 --> 00:22:38.680
  • Do you have a situational awareness
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  • Of the condition of your marriage?
  • 00:22:40.682 --> 00:22:43.051
  • Where are the weak spots?
  • 00:22:43.618 --> 00:22:45.053
  • Where are the points
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  • That satan could gain a foothold in your marriage
  • 00:22:46.421 --> 00:22:48.957
  • And destroy your home?
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  • Pastors who are watching
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  • Or listening to this message,
  • 00:22:53.161 --> 00:22:55.230
  • Are you aware of the spiritual condition of your church?
  • 00:22:55.230 --> 00:22:58.967
  • Do you know where the opportunities
  • 00:22:59.768 --> 00:23:00.702
  • As well as the temptations are
  • 00:23:00.702 --> 00:23:02.537
  • So that you can strengthen your congregation?
  • 00:23:02.537 --> 00:23:05.407
  • Today we have our high school graduates here,
  • 00:23:06.341 --> 00:23:09.511
  • You're getting ready to enter the next phase of your life.
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  • Do you have situational awareness of the world
  • 00:23:12.514 --> 00:23:15.016
  • That you're getting ready to enter as a college student?
  • 00:23:15.016 --> 00:23:19.621
  • (upbeat music)
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  • Situational awareness is crucial,
  • 00:23:23.859 --> 00:23:25.961
  • Not only to our spiritual survival,
  • 00:23:25.961 --> 00:23:28.663
  • But to our effectiveness for god's kingdom.
  • 00:23:28.663 --> 00:23:31.933
  • Now let me close today's program
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  • With a note i received from marie in washington.
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  • She wrote "by listening to pathway to victory
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  • I feel like i've been brought back to knowing jesus
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  • After a long time away.
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  • Your messages are a great source of inspiration
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  • And give me a new and better understanding of the bible."
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  • Well thanks marie for your encouragement
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  • And thank you to all of our pathway partners
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  • And everyone who supports this ministry
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  • For reaching friends like marie and countless others
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  • With the truth of god's word.
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  • Now, please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more pathway to victory in just a moment.
  • 00:24:07.102 --> 00:24:11.206
  • Christians today are living in hostile territory.
  • 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:14.943
  • The attacks are real, the opposition is fierce,
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  • And the stakes couldn't be higher.
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  • That's why i wrote "courageous"
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  • To give you the biblical tools you need,
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  • Not just to survive, but to stand strong and thrive.
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  • In "courageous,"
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  • You'll find 10 biblical survival strategies
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  • Drawn straight from scripture that will give you fresh fire
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  • And real hope no matter what you're facing.
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  • Survivors have two things in common,
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  • A different response to trouble,
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  • And a different perspective on life.
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  • In "courageous" i'll give you 10 biblical strategies
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  • To develop both
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  • And come out stronger on the other side.
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  • He doesn't mean walk around
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