Robert Jeffress - He's God... and You're Not!

August 20, 2025 | S25 E398 | 29:0

Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - He's God... and You're Not! | August 20, 2025
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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  • Dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • One of the greatest challenges christians face is learning how
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  • To live humbly before god.
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  • Our human nature constantly pushes us to be in control and
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  • To plan our lives as if we're the ones in charge, but the
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  • Bible teaches that true godliness requires us to
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  • Remember a fundamental truth about our human nature.
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  • Today, i want to show you two specific ways we try to usurp
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  • God's authority and how avoiding those traps will help you grow
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  • In godliness.
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  • My message is titled "he's god and you're not" on today's
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  • Jeffress: a doctor said to his patient, "i have some bad news
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  • And i have some terrible news for you."
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  • The patient said, "well, what's the bad news?"
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  • The doctor said, "well, the test results came in and you only
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  • Have 24 hours to live."
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  • The patient was stunned.
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  • He said, "what could be worse than that?"
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  • The doctor said, "i was supposed to have told you yesterday."
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  • You know, all of us face uncertain futures, don't we?
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  • And that's the thought that james has in mind about why we
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  • Should live without presumption in our lives.
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  • In james 4:10, "humble yourselves in the presence of
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  • The lord, and he will exalt you."
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  • What does that mean, to humble yourselves?
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  • Remember, i referred to comedian chevy chase, his signature line
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  • At the beginning of his skit.
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  • He always began by saying, "hi, i'm chevy chase, and
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  • You're not."
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  • Well, that's a real illustration of how we humble ourselves
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  • Before god.
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  • We say, "god, i realize you're god and i'm not."
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  • Now, that means more than just intellectually agreeing that
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  • You're not god.
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  • If you really understand that you and i are not god, we will
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  • Refrain from two specific actions that try to attempt to
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  • Usurp god's power and authority.
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  • First of all, james is gonna say, if we're gonna humble
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  • Ourselves before god, we must stop judging other people.
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  • Listen to verse 11 and 12, "do not speak out against one
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  • Another, brethren.
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  • For he who speaks out against a brother or judges his brother,
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  • Speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge
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  • The law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge of it.
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  • There is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who is able to
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  • Save and destroy; but who are you to judge your neighbor?"
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  • Now, there's a lot of misunderstanding about what
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  • James is saying and what he's not saying.
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  • I read a survey not long ago that said for years the favorite
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  • Verse of americans, christian and non-christian alike, the
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  • Favorite bible verse was, can you remember what it was?
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  • Would you like to guess?
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  • For years it's been john 3:16.
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  • Remember those guys who would hold up john 3:16 signs at
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  • Football games?
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  • Everybody quoted john 3:16, "for god so loved the world that he
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  • Gave his only son, that whosoever believes in him would
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  • Not perish but have everlasting life."
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  • But that verse has been replaced as america's favorite verse.
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  • You know what america's favorite verse is now?
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  • Matthew 7:1, "judge not, lest you be judged."
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  • People don't have a clue what that means.
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  • They think in this anything-go culture, it's a blanket pardon
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  • For anything you wanna do.
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  • They treat that verse like a king's x.
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  • If you dare question their activities, they say,
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  • "oh, judge not, judge not, judge not, lest you be judged."
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  • But was jesus really saying we're never to make any
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  • Discerning statement or any evaluation of another person?
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  • No.
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  • A closer analysis of what jesus meant is found
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  • In verses 1 to 5 of matthew 7.
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  • Hold your place in james 4 and turn over to matthew 7.
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  • Remember, jesus was james's older brother, and it explains
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  • Why james quotes jesus's sermon on the mount more than any other
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  • New testament book.
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  • Look what jesus really said about judging.
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  • "do not judge so that you will not be judged.
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  • For in the way you judge, you will be judged"--by the way,
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  • Circle that line, "way."
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  • It's not judging, it's the way you judge, "you will be judged;
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  • And by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.
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  • Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye,
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  • But do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
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  • Or how can you say to your brother, 'let me take that speck
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  • Out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye?
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  • You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and
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  • Then," circle that, "then you will see clearly to take the
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  • Speck out of your brother's eye."
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  • What james is saying--and jesus both--is don't engage in ungodly
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  • Judging, an ungodly type, a wrong type of judging.
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  • He's not saying don't judge at all, but guard against
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  • Ungodly judging.
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  • What is that?
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  • First of all, ungodly judging usurps god's authority to
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  • Pronounce condemnation.
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  • It's usurping only god's right to pronounce condemnation.
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  • That word "judge" in greek is the word "krino," k-r-i-n-o.
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  • It is a condemning type of judgment.
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  • It's a judgment that says, "here is the final verdict on this
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  • Person: what they've done is unforgivable.
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  • They are beyond forgiveness.
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  • They are a person who are beyond redemption."
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  • James says you can't pronounce that kind of judgment.
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  • Only god knows that.
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  • Secondly, james says, ungodly judging usurps god's ability to
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  • Discern someone's motivation.
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  • Whenever we attempt to discover somebody's motivation for doing
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  • Something, we're in dangerous territory.
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  • That's something only god can do.
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  • Remember in 1 samuel 16:7, it says, "man looks on the outward
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  • Appearance, but god looks on the heart"?
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  • Only god knows the full picture.
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  • Only god knows a person's heart.
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  • Chuck swindoll tells the experience he had when he was a
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  • Student at dallas seminary.
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  • He said they had a missionary speaker come to speak, and the
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  • Missionary speaker just bombed completely.
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  • It was a horrible message and a horrible delivery, and chuck
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  • Said he and some of the other students afterwards were
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  • Standing around and just criticizing this missionary and
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  • Talking about how awful he was, when another student approached
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  • Them, heard what was going on, and said, "chuck, there's
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  • Something you may not know.
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  • Two hours before the meeting tonight, this speaker received a
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  • Telephone call telling him that his youngest son had died.
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  • But he wanted to keep the engagement and be faithful to
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  • Deliver the message."
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  • Well, you can imagine how that made chuck feel, but it was a
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  • Good lesson, he said, about resisting trying to judge people
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  • When you don't know the whole story.
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  • Only god sees a person's heart, and that's why james says in
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  • Verse 12 of chapter 4, "there's only one lawgiver and judge, the
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  • One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you to
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  • Judge your neighbor?"
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  • There's only one judge who can make righteous and correct
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  • Judgments, and he's going to do that one day.
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  • Every deed is going to be judged, but it's when
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  • He returns.
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  • Don't try to take his role now.
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  • James 5:9 says, "do not complain, brethren, against one
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  • Another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the
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  • Judge," and he's talking about jesus, "is standing right at
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  • The door."
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  • He's about to come back.
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  • His return is imminent, and he will judge the righteous and
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  • The unrighteous.
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  • If we're going to be a godly person, if we're gonna become
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  • Godly in our character, we must refrain from judging
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  • Other people.
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  • Secondly, we must stop presumptuous planning.
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  • Now, this is an interesting topic, presumptuous planning.
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  • Look at what he says in verses 13 and 14.
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  • "come now, you who say, 'today or tomorrow we shall go to such
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  • And such a city, and spend a year there and engage in
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  • Business and make a profit.'
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  • Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.
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  • You're," a vapor, "just a vapor that appears for a little while
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  • And then vanishes away."
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  • Now, i was having a discussion with one of my daughters about
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  • This yesterday.
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  • We were talking about what this verse means and doesn't mean.
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  • He's not saying don't make plans.
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  • The bible is not against setting goals and making plans.
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  • In fact, you look at the bible, there are all kind of examples
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  • Of god honoring planning.
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  • For example, consider the book of proverbs written by solomon.
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  • James quotes solomon more than any other new testament writer.
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  • What does solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, have to say
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  • About planning?
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  • Listen to proverbs 15:22, "without consultation, plans are
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  • Frustrated, but with many counselors plans succeed."
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  • Or proverbs 16:1, "the plans of the heart belong to man, but the
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  • Answer of the tongue is from the lord."
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  • Proverbs 16:3, "commit your works to the lord and
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  • Your," what?
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  • "plans will be established."
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  • Proverbs 20:18, "prepare plans," make your plans "by consultation
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  • And make war by wise guidance."
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  • Or proverbs 21:5, "the plans of the diligent lead surely to
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  • Advantage, but everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty."
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  • Retail store mogul j. c. penney, who was a great christian, said,
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  • "give me a stock clerk with a goal, and i'll give you a man
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  • Who makes history.
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  • Give me a man without a goal, and i give you a stock clerk."
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  • He was talking about the importance of planning.
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  • What james is condemning here is planning without any thought of
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  • God, presumptuous planning, planning your life, living your
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  • Life as if there was no god.
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  • In verse 15, he said, "instead, you ought to say, 'if the lord
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  • Wills, we will live and do this or that.'"
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  • If the lord wills, we will do this.
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  • That phrase, "if the lord wills," is not some superfluous
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  • Prefix added on to make things more godly.
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  • "oh, if god wills, then i'm gonna go ahead."
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  • No, it means a mindset.
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  • It means realizing that all of our life, all of our plans hinge
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  • On the sovereignty of god.
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  • To say, "if the lord wills," it means to live your life under
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  • The sovereignty of god.
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  • It means to make god central in your planning for the future.
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  • Why should we do that?
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  • Why should we keep god central in our lives?
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  • James gives us four reasons.
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  • First of all, because of the brevity of life.
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  • Look again at verse 14, "you don't know what your life will
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  • Be like tomorrow."
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  • Your life, "you are just a vapor that appears for a little while
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  • And then vanishes away."
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  • Have you ever gone outside when it's cold, below freezing and
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  • Watched your breath just hang in the air for a few minutes, a few
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  • Seconds, and then suddenly disappear?
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  • James is saying that's what your life is like.
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  • It's like a mist.
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  • The word is "atmis," a mist.
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  • It appears for a little while and then it vanishes.
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  • Have you ever considered how brief your life is here
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  • On earth?
  • 00:14:02.498 --> 00:14:03.999
  • I discovered this some time ago, if you live to an average age of
  • 00:14:03.999 --> 00:14:10.039
  • 70--boy, that seems younger every day--the age of 70,
  • 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:16.378
  • You've been given 2,207,520,000 seconds of life.
  • 00:14:16.378 --> 00:14:23.485
  • Now, that may seem like a lot, 2 billion seconds of life, but
  • 00:14:23.485 --> 00:14:28.524
  • If you're 40 or more--how many of you are 40 or more?
  • 00:14:28.524 --> 00:14:33.562
  • Confessional.
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  • If you're 40 or more, you've already used up 1,261,000,000 of
  • 00:14:34.897 --> 00:14:40.536
  • Those seconds, means you only have 946 million of seconds
  • 00:14:40.536 --> 00:14:45.441
  • Left, but that's not all.
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  • Of those 946 million seconds, you're going to spend 315
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  • Million seconds sleeping.
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  • You're gonna spend 59,130,000 seconds eating--some of you more
  • 00:14:55.451 --> 00:15:01.657
  • Than that.
  • 00:15:01.657 --> 00:15:04.426
  • Furthermore, you're gonna spend 1200 seconds just listening to
  • 00:15:04.426 --> 00:15:08.564
  • Me in the next few minutes, leaving you with only
  • 00:15:08.564 --> 00:15:11.934
  • 570,157,000 seconds of life, and they're going by
  • 00:15:11.934 --> 00:15:19.441
  • Just like that...
  • 00:15:19.441 --> 00:15:24.580
  • The brevity of life.
  • 00:15:24.580 --> 00:15:28.083
  • Why should we make god central in our lives?
  • 00:15:28.083 --> 00:15:30.986
  • Not only is life brief, but it's filled with uncertainty.
  • 00:15:30.986 --> 00:15:35.324
  • He says in verse 14, "you don't know what your life will be
  • 00:15:35.324 --> 00:15:39.895
  • Like tomorrow."
  • 00:15:39.895 --> 00:15:41.630
  • You have no idea what your life is going to be like tomorrow.
  • 00:15:41.630 --> 00:15:46.402
  • That's why you ought to say, "if the lord wills, we will live and
  • 00:15:46.402 --> 00:15:50.706
  • Do this or that."
  • 00:15:50.706 --> 00:15:53.008
  • Have you discovered how uncertain life is?
  • 00:15:53.008 --> 00:15:56.178
  • I'll never forget having a friend and acquaintance who
  • 00:15:56.178 --> 00:15:59.014
  • Lived in another state who was planning to come to texas to
  • 00:15:59.014 --> 00:16:02.618
  • Attend the seminary and go into ministry.
  • 00:16:02.618 --> 00:16:05.721
  • He was so excited about beginning seminary, but while he
  • 00:16:05.721 --> 00:16:09.491
  • Was having lunch in a restaurant in his home state, he felt
  • 00:16:09.491 --> 00:16:14.696
  • Something crawling up his leg, and he didn't know what to do
  • 00:16:14.696 --> 00:16:19.334
  • But to swat it, and when he swatted it, whatever it was bit
  • 00:16:19.334 --> 00:16:23.639
  • His leg, and out of his pants leg fell a dead spider.
  • 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:28.744
  • He didn't think anything about it, but the man seated next to
  • 00:16:28.744 --> 00:16:31.980
  • Him said, "son, you better go to the hospital immediately."
  • 00:16:31.980 --> 00:16:36.618
  • He said, "why would i need to go to the hospital?"
  • 00:16:36.618 --> 00:16:38.821
  • He said, "that's a brown recluse spider.
  • 00:16:38.821 --> 00:16:42.257
  • It's extremely poisonous."
  • 00:16:42.257 --> 00:16:44.593
  • My friend went to the hospital.
  • 00:16:44.593 --> 00:16:46.361
  • Soon he lost all the feeling in that leg, gangrene set in.
  • 00:16:46.361 --> 00:16:51.400
  • He ended up having his leg amputated and losing one of his
  • 00:16:51.400 --> 00:16:55.437
  • Kidneys, and in the process, racked up over $250,000 in
  • 00:16:55.437 --> 00:17:00.509
  • Medical expenses.
  • 00:17:00.509 --> 00:17:02.578
  • His plans to go to seminary and into the ministry...changed just
  • 00:17:02.578 --> 00:17:07.449
  • Like that.
  • 00:17:07.449 --> 00:17:09.218
  • That's why we need to remember the sovereignty of god when
  • 00:17:09.218 --> 00:17:12.788
  • We're making our plans, "for you do not know what your life will
  • 00:17:12.788 --> 00:17:17.759
  • Be like tomorrow."
  • 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.095
  • Why should we make god central in our lives?
  • 00:17:20.095 --> 00:17:22.331
  • Thirdly, james says, because of the emptiness of success.
  • 00:17:22.331 --> 00:17:27.636
  • "come now, those who say, 'today we'll go to such and such a city
  • 00:17:27.636 --> 00:17:32.207
  • And engage in business and make a profit.'"
  • 00:17:32.207 --> 00:17:35.244
  • Notice in james 5, verses 1 to 3--there were no chapter
  • 00:17:35.244 --> 00:17:39.381
  • Divisions in the original text.
  • 00:17:39.381 --> 00:17:41.383
  • This is all part of the same discussion.
  • 00:17:41.383 --> 00:17:43.652
  • Look at what he says about money, "come now, you rich, weep
  • 00:17:43.652 --> 00:17:47.623
  • And howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.
  • 00:17:47.623 --> 00:17:51.793
  • For your riches have rotted and your garments have
  • 00:17:51.793 --> 00:17:55.330
  • Become moth-eaten.
  • 00:17:55.330 --> 00:17:56.732
  • Your gold and your silver have rusted, and their rust will be
  • 00:17:56.732 --> 00:18:00.335
  • Witnessed against you and will consume your flesh like fire.
  • 00:18:00.335 --> 00:18:04.139
  • It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!"
  • 00:18:04.139 --> 00:18:10.212
  • Have you discovered how fleeting money can be?
  • 00:18:10.212 --> 00:18:14.082
  • Have you been watching as your 401ks became 101ks over the last
  • 00:18:14.082 --> 00:18:20.088
  • Few days?
  • 00:18:20.088 --> 00:18:21.557
  • You know, the bible is correct, riches are like eagles that
  • 00:18:21.557 --> 00:18:25.027
  • Sprout wings and fly to the clouds.
  • 00:18:25.027 --> 00:18:28.163
  • Money that is earned can be so easily lost, and that's why
  • 00:18:28.163 --> 00:18:32.301
  • Solomon, who was the wealthiest man of his day, who was the most
  • 00:18:32.301 --> 00:18:36.104
  • Powerful king in israel's history, who built the temple,
  • 00:18:36.104 --> 00:18:40.943
  • He said about all of his achievements as he was an old
  • 00:18:40.943 --> 00:18:43.912
  • Man looking back, "worthless, worthless.
  • 00:18:43.912 --> 00:18:48.684
  • Everything in life is worthless."
  • 00:18:48.684 --> 00:18:52.554
  • And he came to the conclusion in chapter 12, verse 1, of
  • 00:18:52.554 --> 00:18:55.490
  • Ecclesiastes, "therefore, remember your creator in the
  • 00:18:55.490 --> 00:18:59.861
  • Days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the
  • 00:18:59.861 --> 00:19:03.665
  • Years approach when you say, 'i find no pleasure in them.'"
  • 00:19:03.665 --> 00:19:09.304
  • Why should we not engage in presumptuous living?
  • 00:19:09.304 --> 00:19:14.109
  • Why should we remember god, make him central in our life?
  • 00:19:14.109 --> 00:19:17.446
  • Finally, james says because of our accountability to god.
  • 00:19:17.446 --> 00:19:23.051
  • Look at chapter 5, verses 7 and 9, "therefore be patient,
  • 00:19:23.051 --> 00:19:27.289
  • Brethren, until the coming of the lord.
  • 00:19:27.289 --> 00:19:30.325
  • Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you
  • 00:19:30.325 --> 00:19:33.729
  • Yourselves may not be judged; behold, the judge is standing
  • 00:19:33.729 --> 00:19:39.234
  • Right at the door."
  • 00:19:39.234 --> 00:19:41.670
  • For all our jokes about dying and standing at the pearly gates
  • 00:19:41.670 --> 00:19:45.841
  • And talking to saint peter, there'll be nothing really funny
  • 00:19:45.841 --> 00:19:49.945
  • When we meet god for our judgment--and by the way, we're
  • 00:19:49.945 --> 00:19:53.282
  • All going to be judged by jesus christ.
  • 00:19:53.282 --> 00:19:56.685
  • Hebrews 9:27 says, "it's appointed unto every one of us
  • 00:19:56.685 --> 00:20:02.157
  • Once to die, and then the judgment."
  • 00:20:02.157 --> 00:20:05.594
  • Non-christians will face the great white throne judgment.
  • 00:20:05.594 --> 00:20:09.765
  • Revelation chapter 20, where john says, "if any man's name
  • 00:20:09.765 --> 00:20:13.669
  • Was not written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake
  • 00:20:13.669 --> 00:20:17.339
  • Of fire and tormented day and night forever and ever."
  • 00:20:17.339 --> 00:20:24.246
  • We christians don't have to fear the great white throne judgment.
  • 00:20:24.246 --> 00:20:28.817
  • We've been forgiven.
  • 00:20:28.817 --> 00:20:30.185
  • Our sins have been taken away, but that doesn't mean god's not
  • 00:20:30.185 --> 00:20:33.322
  • Going to evaluate our life.
  • 00:20:33.322 --> 00:20:35.290
  • He is.
  • 00:20:35.290 --> 00:20:36.658
  • It's a different judgment, the bema, the judgment seat
  • 00:20:36.658 --> 00:20:40.128
  • Of christ.
  • 00:20:40.128 --> 00:20:41.496
  • 2 corinthians 5:9 and 10, "for we have is our ambition, whether
  • 00:20:41.496 --> 00:20:45.767
  • Here or at home to be pleasing to god."
  • 00:20:45.767 --> 00:20:49.871
  • Why?
  • 00:20:49.871 --> 00:20:51.239
  • Because we must all appear before the judgment seat of
  • 00:20:51.239 --> 00:20:54.776
  • Christ, that each one of us may be rewarded for what we've done
  • 00:20:54.776 --> 00:20:59.414
  • In the body, whether it be good or worthless.
  • 00:20:59.414 --> 00:21:05.187
  • Whether it's the great white throne judgment or the judgment
  • 00:21:05.187 --> 00:21:09.624
  • Seat of christ, the writer of hebrews said, "it is a fearful
  • 00:21:09.624 --> 00:21:15.097
  • Thing to be in the hands of the living god."
  • 00:21:15.097 --> 00:21:20.068
  • We are all ultimately accountable to god.
  • 00:21:20.068 --> 00:21:23.338
  • That's why we need to make god central in our lives before it's
  • 00:21:23.338 --> 00:21:27.476
  • Too late.
  • 00:21:27.476 --> 00:21:28.844
  • I remember, years ago, reading the account of a girl who was
  • 00:21:28.844 --> 00:21:32.714
  • Driving with four of her best friends in the car, and the car
  • 00:21:32.714 --> 00:21:37.052
  • Was going much too fast.
  • 00:21:37.052 --> 00:21:38.553
  • It hit a concrete embankment.
  • 00:21:38.553 --> 00:21:40.889
  • The car flipped over four times.
  • 00:21:40.889 --> 00:21:43.925
  • For the next five hours, rescue workers tried to free the
  • 00:21:43.925 --> 00:21:47.763
  • Passengers in that car.
  • 00:21:47.763 --> 00:21:50.532
  • The driver listened to her best friends, to their moaning, to
  • 00:21:50.532 --> 00:21:56.104
  • Their weeping as each one passed into eternity.
  • 00:21:56.104 --> 00:22:01.009
  • Later, the rescue workers were able to save the girl that
  • 00:22:01.009 --> 00:22:04.079
  • Was driving.
  • 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:05.447
  • A reporter asked her what it was like being trapped in that car
  • 00:22:05.447 --> 00:22:09.084
  • For hours.
  • 00:22:09.084 --> 00:22:11.086
  • What did her friends say in the final moments of their life?
  • 00:22:11.086 --> 00:22:15.424
  • And she said each one of them died saying the same thing, "oh
  • 00:22:15.424 --> 00:22:21.430
  • God, no, no, no.
  • 00:22:21.430 --> 00:22:26.968
  • Oh god, no."
  • 00:22:26.968 --> 00:22:31.907
  • You understand, don't you?
  • 00:22:31.907 --> 00:22:34.042
  • We're all going to face that same future.
  • 00:22:34.042 --> 00:22:38.180
  • We're going to die.
  • 00:22:38.180 --> 00:22:40.282
  • It may or may not be in a car wreck.
  • 00:22:40.282 --> 00:22:42.484
  • It may not be today or tomorrow, but it's coming.
  • 00:22:42.484 --> 00:22:47.355
  • And at that point, we're going to stand before the judgment
  • 00:22:47.355 --> 00:22:50.926
  • Of god.
  • 00:22:50.926 --> 00:22:52.394
  • That's why solomon says, "remember your creator in the
  • 00:22:52.394 --> 00:22:56.565
  • Days of your youth, before the days of trouble come," for every
  • 00:22:56.565 --> 00:23:01.536
  • Act will be judged by god, whether hidden, whether it be
  • 00:23:01.536 --> 00:23:06.208
  • Good or whether it be evil.
  • 00:23:06.208 --> 00:23:09.511
  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: none of us knows what tomorrow will bring.
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  • Life is brief and uncertain, and we're all ultimately accountable
  • 00:23:17.719 --> 00:23:22.023
  • To god for how we've lived.
  • 00:23:22.023 --> 00:23:24.159
  • That's why it's so important for us to humble ourselves before
  • 00:23:24.159 --> 00:23:27.462
  • God today.
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