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Robert Jeffress - How To Live and Love in a World That's Lost It's Way (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - How To Live and Love in a World That's Lost It's Way (Part 2) | June 2, 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 jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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In the old testament,
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We find a long and complicated system of laws
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That god gave to the israelites.
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These laws were impossible for anyone to follow perfectly.
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So why would god establish them in the first place
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And why don't christians follow them all today?
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Well, today i'm setting the stage for a study
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Of the 10 commandments.
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My message is titled:
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How to live and love in a world that's lost its way?
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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As our nation marks 250 years,
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Stay tuned for a very special ask dr. jeffress segment
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After today's message.
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When moses was on mount sinai,
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For 40 days and 40 nights,
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He got all of the law.
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Everything you find in deuteronomy, in leviticus,
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It all was given to moses on the top of mount sinai,
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But the law was divided into three parts.
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First of all, you had the civil law.
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It was for how the nation of israel
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Was to conduct its affairs.
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The civil law, israel was a theocracy.
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America is not a theocracy.
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The civil law that god gave israel
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Has no impact on how we are to live today.
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That has been done away with.
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We're not under that old covenant.
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There was the civil law.
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Secondly, there was the ceremonial law.
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These were the instructions about the endless sacrifices
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That the israelites offered
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To temporarily atone for sin.
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The blood of goats and bulls could never wash away our sins.
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It was only a symbol.
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They went through these endless sacrifices.
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They went through these feast
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And observance of special days.
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But they were no longer applicable to us today.
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How do i know that?
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Listen to what paul says in colossians 2:16 and 17.
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"therefore, no one is to act as your judge
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In regard to food or drink
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Or in respect to a festival or a new boon
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Or a sabbath day.
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These things which are a mere shadow of what is to come,
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But the substance belongs to christ."
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You know, sometimes you can see somebody
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Coming by their shadow approaching?
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But when they come to you, ultimately,
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Do you interact with the shadow or with the person?
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Well, what paul said,
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All of these sacrifices,
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These special days, diets,
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They simply were a shadow of the christ who was yet to come.
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But now that christ was here,
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We don't need the shadow,
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We worship the substance.
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That's what he's talking about here.
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There was the civil law, ceremonial law,
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But the third part of the law was the moral law.
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That is how we are to conduct our personal lives.
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And those laws are still operational today.
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How do i know it?
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Because the new testament repeats those laws
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For personal behavior.
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Jesus alluded to or quoted all of the 10 commandments
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With the exception of one,
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And jesus came not to nullify the law.
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Get this, he didn't come to nullify the law.
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He came to amplify the moral law.
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Remember, we saw that in the sermon on the mount?
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Jesus said, "you've heard it said,
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'thou shall not commit adultery.'
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I say to you, 'whoever looks on another person with lust
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Has committed adultery in his heart.'"
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He was amplifying the meaning.
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Jesus said, "you've heard it said, 'do not murder.'
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I say to you, 'everyone who is angry toward his brother
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Is guilty before the law.'"
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He amplified.
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And then, he also clarified some of the moral law
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And that specifically relates to the 10 commandments.
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Jesus never repeated the commandment,
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"keep the sabbath.
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Keep it holy."
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"observe the sabbath and keep it holy."
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Because the day was going to change under the new testament.
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But as we'll see in a moment,
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The principle of work and worship still remains.
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When we talk about the law,
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We're talking about the moral law
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And the 10 commandments is the summation
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Of that moral law of god.
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Remember, in matthew 22:
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Somebody asked jesus,
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"lord, what is the greatest commandment?"
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He said, "here is the greatest commandment.
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You shall love the lord your god with all of your heart,
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Your soul, and your mind.
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And the second is likened to it.
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You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
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That's a summary of the 10 commandments.
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The first four commandments deal
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With how do we love god with all of our hearts?
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The final six deal
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With how we are to love our neighbor as ourself.
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I think it's well past time
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For us to attack the 10 commandments,
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Not only up in our school rooms,
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But in our own hearts and minds,
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And to pass these rules
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Onto our children and our grandchildren.
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Now, i'm going to give you in these final few moments,
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Just a preview of coming attractions.
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Let's look at these 10 commandments
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In about three minutes or less, okay?
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Write 'em down.
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Here's what we're going to look at starting next week.
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The first command, the most foremost command:
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"esteem god alone.
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You shall have no other gods before me."
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You may think, "well, i don't worship other gods."
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Think again.
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An idol is anything we love
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Or follow more than we love jesus christ.
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That's what an idol is,
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And the most foundational requirement for living
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Is to have no other gods before the true god.
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The second command is "worship god only."
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Verses 4 and 5,
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"you shall not make for yourself an idol
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Or any likeness of what is in heaven or on earth
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Or beneath the water under the earth.
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You shall not worship them or serve them
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For i, the lord your god, am a jealous god."
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Now, some people, even some christian groups,
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Combine these two,
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But they're not the same.
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The first command tells us whom we're to worship.
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The second command is how we to worship the true god.
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It's possible to worship the correct god
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In an incorrect way.
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Many people think they're worshiping god
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When, in fact, they're worshiping only an image of god,
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An expression of god,
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And we're going to talk about how that applies to us.
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Thirdly, "revere god's name."
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Exodus 20, verse 7.
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"you shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain
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For the lord will not leave unpunished
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Those who take his name in vain."
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We all think of this in terms of don't curse
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And use god's name in a curse.
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That's one application,
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But it's not the only application.
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There are many ways we use god's name
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Recklessly and needlessly,
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And we will talk about that.
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The fourth command, "value god's day."
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"remember the sabbath, verse 8,
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"and keep it holy.
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For in six days, verse 11,
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"the lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea
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And all that is in them and rested on the seventh day.
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Therefore, the lord god blessed the sabbath day
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And made it holy."
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And though the day has changed,
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The principle hasn't changed.
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We need one day a week
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To focus on worship and relaxation.
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The next command has to do
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With how we're to treat one another.
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"honor your parents.
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Honor your father and your mother,
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That your days may be prolonged
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In the day which the lord your god gives you."
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We know children are to obey their parents,
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But what about single adults
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Who are no longer living at home?
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What about young adults who have their own families?
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How do they or should they still honor their parents?
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What if your parents are dead?
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Is it still possible to obey this command?
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We'll discuss all of that.
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The next command preserve life.
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"you shall not murder."
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A very specific word there,
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How does this command relate to self-defense,
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To war, to suicide, to abortion?
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There are many ramifications of this command.
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The next command, "you shall not commit adultery.
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Keep marriage holy."
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We've all witnessed the attempt
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To expand the definition of marriage
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To include two men or two women.
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We know that's wrong,
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But you know what's interesting is even those who follow
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An unbiblical definition of marriage
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Will agree with us
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That the greatest single threat to a marriage relationship,
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However you define it, is adultery, unfaithfulness.
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How do we avoid the trap
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Of unfaithfulness in marriage?
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Next, respect the property of others.
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"you shall not steal."
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You know, the right to personal property
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Is enshrined in the fifth amendment of our constitution,
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But it came long before that in god's word.
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God is the one who expounded on the concept
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Of personal property.
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And then, protect the reputation of others.
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Verse 16, "you shall not bear false witness
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Against your neighbor."
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Have you noticed that with social media today,
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You can destroy somebody,
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You can obliterate their reputation in a nanosecond
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By a tweet, by a post.
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We're going to talk about how that commandment applies today.
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And finally, control yourself and be content.
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"you shall not covet your neighbor's house,
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Your neighbor's wife,
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Or anything else that belongs to your neighbor."
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You know, look at most any other sin:
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Adultery, theft, murder.
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Whatever the sin, at the root of it
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Is a feeling of discontent with your present circumstance,
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Wanting something more,
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Wanting something different
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Than what god has provided for you.
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And in this final message,
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We will talk about how to develop
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That attitude of contentment.
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Why should we obey these 10 commandments?
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Why are they just as applicable today
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As they were 3,500 years ago?
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God himself gives the best reasons
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For obeying the commandment
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In verses 1 and 2 of exodus 20:
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"then god spoke all these words saying,
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'i am the lord your god.'"
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The first reason we're obligated to keep these commandments
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Is because god is our lord.
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"i am the lord your god."
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You see, the ruler gets to make the rules.
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We have an obligation to serve god.
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John ortberg says it much more eloquently than i could.
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He said, 'the reality of this world
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Is that i was born into somebody else's kingdom."
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Let those words sink in.
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"i was born into somebody else's kingdom."
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My life came to me as a gift i didn't choose.
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It is suspended from a slender thread that i did not weave
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And cannot, on my own, sustain.
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That's why we obey the commands because god said to.
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God is our lord.
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Secondly, god said: "obey me because god has set us free.
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I'm the lord your god who brought you
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Out of the land of egypt,
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Out of the house of slavery."
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He said, "israelites, remember,
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The reason i freed you
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Is not so you can go out and serve yourself.
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It's so that you can serve me
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And experience the blessing of doing so."
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And the same thing is true for us.
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That's the whole point of romans 6, 7 and 8.
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Paul said, "before you became a christian,
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You were slaves to sin.
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Satan was your task master and he's a cruel task master.
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But christ paid the price to redeem you out of slavery,
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Not so that you could serve yourself,
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But so that you could serve me
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And appreciate and enjoy the benefits of doing so."
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We all serve somebody.
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We're either going to serve satan
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Or we're going to serve god,
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And that's the choice before us.
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You know, we often talk about disobedience.
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We describe disobedience as breaking god's commandments.
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Have you heard that?
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People talk about breaking god's commandments.
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The truth is, it's impossible to break god's commandments.
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God's commandments remain strong and firm.
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The psalmist said,
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"thy word is established forever in heaven."
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You cannot break god's commands.
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You can only break yourself upon god's commands.
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Could i tell you what i see as a pastor every week?
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I see people, not only non-christians,
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But christians who are experiencing
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The carnage of breaking themselves on god's commands.
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They experience unwanted divorces,
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Unending regrets, unrealized dreams,
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All because they've chosen to say no
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To god's most basic commands in life.
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Which is it going to be for you?
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Are you going to experience god's blessing in your life
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Or god's judgment in your life?
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Moses said it this way,
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The choice that is before every one of us in deuteronomy 11.
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"see, i am setting before you today
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A blessing and a curse."
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The blessing, if you listen
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To the commandments of the lord your god,
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Which i'm commanding you today;
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And the curse,
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If you do not listen to the commandments
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Of the lord your god,
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But you turn aside from the way,
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Which i'm commanding you today."
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♪ music ♪
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The choice is simple.
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If you listen to god's commandments,
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You will choose god's blessing,
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But those who disobey choose judgment instead.
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Well, as we approach america's 250th anniversary,
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We need to ask ourselves,
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Are we doing everything we can to uphold the biblical values
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That shaped our great nation?
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Today, i'm asking you to partner with "pathway to victory"
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To proclaim god's truth across america.
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Your gift will be matched and therefore doubled in impact
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Through the in god we trust matching challenge.
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Today, we can get god's word to more people,
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Build up more believers in their faith,
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And pierce the darkness with the light of god's word.
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Now, stay right there.
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I'll be back in just a moment
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With more "pathway to victory."
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Most of us grew up seeing the 10 commandments
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Posted in our schools and courthouses.
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So why don't we seem to follow
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Those 10 commandments anymore?
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In "the 10,"
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Dr. robert jeffress shows us
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These ancient truths were not given to us
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To take away our freedom.
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They were given to enhance our happiness,
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And to invite us into a deeper love relationship with god.
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In a culture where moral confusion reigns,
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For what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right,
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We desperately need to get back to the basics of morality.
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And that's exactly what the 10 commandments help us do.
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"the 10" by dr. robert jeffress,
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A copy is yours today
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When you give a generous gift to "pathway to victory."
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And when your ministry gift is $125 or more,
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You'll receive not only the book,
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But a personal and group study guide,
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The 10 encouragement cards,
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A colorful children's book
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Called the 10 commandments for kids,
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And the complete series on dvd video and audio disc.
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You'll never make it to heaven
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By keeping the 10 commandments,
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But you will have a much better life
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Here on earth if you do.
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That is the promise that god is making.
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For 30 years,
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"pathway to victory" has been sharing god's truth
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With the world that needs it now more than ever.
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And when you give today,
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Your gift will be doubled in impact
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Through the in god we trust matching challenge.
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Thank you for helping us pierce the darkness
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With the light of god's word.
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Are you going to obey god and experience his blessing
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Or disobey god and experience his judgment?
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God gave us these commands not to restrict our joy,
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But to enhance it.
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And next time, we're going to dive
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Into the first commandment:
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Esteem god alone.
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Just because you don't have an idol in your home
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Doesn't mean you've never broken this commandment.
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Stay tuned for a preview
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Of what's coming up next in our series: the 10.
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If the root cause of every other sin
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Is loving something or somebody more than we love god,
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Then it's no surprise
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That the very first commandment god gave
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Had to deal with rooting out idolatry from our lives.
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Set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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The first commandment: esteem god alone
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Here on "pathway to victory."
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♪ music ♪
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-hi, dr. jeffress. -hi, julianne.
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I have a question about angels from harold
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Who lives in pittsburgh and he asked this:
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"is there really such a thing as a guardian angel?
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Do we really have an angel
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Over our shoulder looking out for us?
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And if we do, should we pray to a guardian angel?"
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Well, first of all, angels are real.
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In fact, the writer of hebrews
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Talked about them in chapter 1.
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He was arguing that jesus is superior
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To every element of judaism,
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Including the prophets, the old testament,
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And yes, even angels.
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But angels are real.
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The writer says,
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"are they not ministering spirits sent by god
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To render aid to those who inherit salvation?"
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I like to call angels god's aaa service:
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Always available to assist.
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And so, that's very real angels.
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You know, i can think in my life of an instance or two
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When i really believe an angel intervened.
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The day my father's funeral was held,
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The funeral director was driving us back to our home.
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It was in the middle of a driving rainstorm
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And he was pulling to make a left hand turn
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On an unprotected green light,
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And there was a cadillac
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Barreling down the road headed toward us.
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We didn't slow down a bit.
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He was ignoring that car and it was about to hit us.
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And yet, miraculously it didn't.
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And i think the only answer, logical answer,
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Is that an angel gave that car a little push
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To push us out of the way just in time.
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I think a lot of our viewers
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Can probably testify of things
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When god did something supernatural in their life.
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Many times the angels are the conduits
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Through which god works out his purpose in our life.
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Now, your question was,
00:26:10.825 --> 00:26:12.394
"are there guardian angels?"
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There's nothing in the bible to suggest
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That there's one angel that's been assigned to us.
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That's more hollywood.
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Think about clarence
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In "it's a wonderful life" protecting jimmy stewart.
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No verses indicate that there's one angel.
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Matthew 18 talks about children and their angels.
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Well, that's plural.
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There's no one angel for one child.
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In acts chapter 12, remember,
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Peter was in jail and he was miraculously released.
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The church in the home praying for his release.
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Peter knocks on the door
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And the little maid comes to open the door and says,
00:26:46.327 --> 00:26:50.465
"it must be peter's ghost or his angel."
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Well, she wasn't talking about a guardian angel.
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She was talking about the disembodied spirit of peter.
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The fact is god can send as many angels as we need.
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One will probably do the trick,
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But if we need more,
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He will send those.
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The key is we're not to worship angels.
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We're to worship the god who made angels.
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Thank you, dr. jeffress.
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If you'd like to read more questions and answers
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From dr. jeffress,
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You can visit ptv.org/read.
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Robert Jeffress - How To Live and Love in a World That's Lost It's Way (Part 2)

June 2, 2026 | 27:29

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