Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Last Days Living (Part 2)

June 12, 2026 | 27:29

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Last Days Living (Part 2) | June 12, 2026

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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No one knows for certain when christ will return, but one
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Thing is certain: we are 2,000 years closer to christ's return
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Than the apostles were when jesus first told them of what
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Was to come, and the birth pangs are rapidly increasing.
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Today i wanna show you why christians should not view the
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End with fear but with hope, courage, and boldness.
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My message is titled "last days living" on today's edition
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Of "pathway to victory."
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♪♪♪
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♪ when peace like a river attendeth my way. ♪
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♪ when sorrows like sea billows roll. ♪
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♪ whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, ♪
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♪ "it is well, it is well with my soul." ♪
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♪ it is will, it is well, with my soul, ♪
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♪ with my soul. ♪
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♪ it is well, it is well with my soul. ♪
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♪ o lord, haste the day when my ♪
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♪ faith shall be sight, the clouds ♪
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♪ be rolled back as a scroll. ♪
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♪ the trump shall resound, and the lord shall descend. ♪
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♪ even so, it is well with my soul. ♪
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♪ it is well, it is well, with my soul, with my soul. ♪
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♪ it is well, it is well with my soul. ♪
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♪ it is well, it is well with my soul. ♪♪
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Jeffress: do you remember it was just several months ago here in
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The dallas-fort worth area that a middle school student was
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Suspended for a day from school because he politely in a class
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Said he believed that homosexuality was wrong,
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According to his religion?
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Now, it is only a matter of time until political correctness, the
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Multiculturalism--whatever name you want to give to it--causes
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The rights of christians to be abrogated.
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How should we respond, not if that happens, but when
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That happens?
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I want you to turn over to acts chapter 5 for just a moment.
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Acts 5 tells us how to respond in times of persecution.
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Remember, the apostle peter and the apostles were brought before
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The jewish high priest, and they were condemned because they had
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Refused to quit preaching the gospel of jesus christ.
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And in acts 5, verses 28 to 29, luke records this account.
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He said the high priest said, "'we gave you strict orders not
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To continue teaching in this name," that is the name of
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Jesus, "and yet you have filled jerusalem with your teaching and
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Intend to bring this man's blood upon us.'
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But peter and the apostles answered and said, "we must obey
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God rather than men.'"
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Peter's response to these governing officials, i think,
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Gives us three important insights about how we need to
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React when we are threatened with persecution for
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Our convictions.
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Number one, pick your battles carefully.
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So pick your battles carefully.
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Secondly, demonstrate respect when you disobey.
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Demonstrate respect.
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You see this in peter.
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You know, when the sanhedrin, the jewish authorities, said to
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Him, "do not preach christ any longer," he didn't say, "i'm not
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Gonna listen to you bunch of christ killers.
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You can go jump in the lake of galilee."
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He didn't respond that way.
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Instead, he said politely, but firmly, "we must obey god rather
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Than men."
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You know, peter was simply emulating the response of
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Jesus himself.
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In 1 peter 2:23, peter said, "and while being reviled, jesus
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Did not revile in return; while suffering, he uttered no
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Threats, but he kept entrusting himself to the one who
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Judges righteously."
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In these last days, i think christians are going to be
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Challenged to courageously stand against those who deliberately,
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And sometimes just innocently, attempt to abrogate our
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Constitutional rights.
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But in doing so, in pushing back against these people who are
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Trying to curtail our rights, it's important that we not act
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Like jerks in the process.
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And number three, be prepared to suffer the consequences
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For disobedience.
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You know, i'm amazed that when christians boldly stand up for
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Their convictions, they're surprised when they get punished
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For their actions.
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Listen, just because you display courage doesn't exempt you from
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Persecution, it probably guarantees it.
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Now think about dr. martin luther king jr.
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He penned his famous letter from birmingham jail
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By being incarcerated for
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Nonviolent protest against segregationist policies by
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Downtown retailers, and he noted that that would be okay because
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Dr. martin luther king did some of his best work while he was in
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Jail, and always always kind of felt an affinity for dr. king
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Because of that.
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Listen, believers rarely are spared from having to suffer
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Consequences for disobeying civil authority.
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I mean, think about it, daniel did have to spend the night in
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The lions' den.
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Jesus christ was executed because he refused to give in to
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The demands that he deny his messiahship.
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And what happened to peter and the apostles when they boldly
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Said, "we must obey god rather than man"?
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Look at verses 40 to 41 of acts 5: "and so they flogged the
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Apostles and they ordered them not to speak in the name of
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Jesus, and then released them.
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And so they went on their way from the presence of the
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Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer
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For his name."
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If you indeed have to suffer persecution for standing up for
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Your beliefs, don't whine about it, don't cry about it, do what
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Peter did and count it a joy to suffer in the name of christ.
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Paul said in these last days, we are to be hopeful, we're to be
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Courageous, thirdly, we need to be productive.
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Notice how he closes this three-point admonition.
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He says, "be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in
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The work of the lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain."
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That word "abounding" is a greek word that refers to a river that
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Overflows its banks.
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What paul is saying is, the knowledge that either christ is
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Coming or you are going ought to cause you to turn on the
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Afterburners in your work for god.
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You ought to be exceeding, going over the boundaries of what is
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Required, just out of your excitement of what awaits you
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In the future.
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You know, i don't know if you're like me, but my most productive
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Work day in the whole year is the day before i leave
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On vacation.
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Hey, are you like that?
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I mean, the day before i leave on vacation, man, i know i'm
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Getting ready to leave and i have to get all of these things
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In order, and just the knowledge i'm getting ready to spend some
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Days doing nothing except what i want to, it gives me extra
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Energy to plow through the list of things that i need to do.
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By the way, my assistant carolynn's least favorite day of
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The year is the day before my vacation, but that's
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Another story.
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You know, the knowledge that there is something great that
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Awaits me gives me the energy to work extra hard, and that's what
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Paul is saying here.
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The fact that we know that either christ is coming or we're
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Leaving ought to cause us to abound in the work of the lord,
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And that means we live in three specific ways.
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Write down these words.
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First of all, that means we engage in offensive living,
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Offensive living.
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I used to live on the border between texas and oklahoma.
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That border was separated by the red river.
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The term "river" is an overgenerous term.
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It is not a river.
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It's more like a creek bed, or sometimes if it rains a swamp,
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But all the many times i drove over the border to oklahoma, i
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Don't ever remember having to get out of my car and go to
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Higher ground because that river was overflowing its banks.
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It just never happened.
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But you've seen cases like the mississippi river where that has
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Happened, where the river goes on the offensive and it starts
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Chasing people, causing them to abandon their home and
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Their cars.
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Well, that's the picture here.
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God wants us as christians not to be on the defensive, but we
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Are to be on the offensive.
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Do you remember jesus's words about the church in the days
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Preceding his return?
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He said in matthew 16, verse 18, "upon this rock i will build my
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Church; and the gates of hades will not overpower it."
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I've said this before, but most christians misinterpret
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That verse.
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They think this is a picture of the church behind the gates,
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Trying to survive satan's battering ram that's trying to
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Overtake us.
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That's not what the verse is saying.
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It's not the church that's behind the gates, it's the gates
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Of hades.
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It is satan and his minions behind that gate who are trying
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To survive the attack of the church.
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We're the ones on the offensive.
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We're the ones trying to retake what rightfully belongs to god
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And his son, the lord jesus christ.
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And those of us who are living in the age immediately preceding
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The return of jesus christ, we represent the first wave of
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Forces that god has sent to this planet to soften up this world
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To pave the way for the return of jesus christ and the
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Reclamation of the world for god.
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And that means we have an opportunity to strike a blow
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Against the enemy, an opportunity we should take every
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Time it is presented.
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Do you realize that every time you lead someone to a saving
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Faith in christ, you have rescued someone from the enemy's
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Camp and released satan's grip on this world just by a little
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Bit more?
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Every time you speak an encouraging and affirming word
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To another christian, you encourage one of our own trips--
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Troops, giving him the strength to continue his fight.
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Every time you publicly give credit to god for something he
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Has done in your life, you refute satan's lie that there is
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No god, and you thereby break the spell that he has cast over
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This world.
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Every time you refuse to surrender an area of your life
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To satan, you drive another stake in his plan and you throw
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Him into chaos.
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Just as an overflowing river affects everything in its path,
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Followers of christ are to proactively put satan and his
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Minions on the run.
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We're to live offensively, offensive living.
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Secondly, continuous living.
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Notice what paul says: we are to be always abounding in the work
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Of the lord.
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Underline that word "always."
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Do you know what the single greatest roadblock to fulfilling
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This command is?
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It is a word that is worshiped in our culture.
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It's the word "retirement."
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You know what the idea behind retirement is.
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You work yourself to death for 30 or 40 years so that you can
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Have enough money to spend the last 15 or 20 years of your life
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Doing absolutely nothing but entertaining yourself.
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Someone described retirement this way: "since i retired from
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Life's competition, each day is filled with complete repetition.
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I get up each morning and dust off my wits, go pick up the
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Paper, and read the old bits.
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If my name isn't there, i know i'm not dead, so i get a good
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Breakfast and go back to bed."
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Unfortunately, that's the way too many people live.
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God never meant for you to spend the final third of your life
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Entertaining yourself.
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You look in the bible, there is no word "retirement" in
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The bible.
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There is not one man or woman who was a servant of god who
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Ever retired, who traded in his ministry for a pension check.
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And although you may not continue working at the same
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Vocation you've worked at all of your life, that doesn't mean
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That you quit living a productive life.
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Even if you choose to leave your present vocation, paul says you
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Need to always be abounding, overflowing in the work of
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The lord.
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In his book, "this one thing i do," franklin graham relates the
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Story of charles mccoy, who pastored a baptist church in
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Oyster bay, new york.
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At the age of 72, mccoy's denomination required that
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He retire.
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You know, using that ridiculous policy, moses would have been
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Disqualified from being the leader of the exodus because he
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Was age 80 when he did that.
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What a stupid policy.
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But anyway, mccoy was forced to retire.
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He was understandably depressed.
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He said, "i just lay on my bed thinking that my life's over,
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And i really haven't done anything yet.
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I've been a pastor of this church for so many years, and
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Nobody really wants me much.
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What have i done for christ?" he wondered.
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The following week, he met a pastor from india and
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Impulsively asked him to preach in his church.
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After the service, the indian pastor invited mccoy to come to
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Preach for him in india.
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Mccoy explained that he was being forced to retire because
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Of his age and was planning to move to a retirement home
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In florida.
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However, this indian pastor explained that in his country,
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Men with white hair were respected.
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Mccoy prayed about it and finally accepted the invitation.
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He sold or gave away most of his belongings except for those that
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Would fit into a trunk.
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He booked a one-way ticket to india, never having traveled out
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Of the united states before.
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Upon his arrival in bombay, mccoy discovered that his trunk
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Containing his belongings had been lost.
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All he had were the clothes he was wearing, his passport,
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Wallet, and the address of some missionaries in bombay he had
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Clipped from a magazine.
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He boarded a bus to visit the missionaries.
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While on the bus, both his wallet and passport were stolen.
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When he finally arrived at the missionary's home, they had no
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Idea who he was.
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Furthermore, mccoy discovered that the indian pastor who had
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Invited him was back in the united states and had no plans
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To ever return to india.
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But mccoy believed god had led him to india for a reason.
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He refused to give up.
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He decided to make an appointment to see the mayor
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Of bombay.
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Miraculously, the mayor granted him an appointment and, upon
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Seeing his business card listing his various degrees, invited
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Mccoy to preach to some of bombay's highest officials.
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That preaching assignment began a new 16-year ministry for
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Charles mccoy that began at age 72.
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Before he died at age 88, mccoy traveled the world preaching the
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Gospel of jesus christ, never having more than enough money in
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His pocket to get him to the next destination.
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Charles mccoy died in a hotel room in calcutta one afternoon
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As he prepared to preach that evening.
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Today, there is a church in calcutta and a growing group of
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Christians in hong kong because this servant of god refused to
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Retire and instead chose to always abound in the work of
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The lord.
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Be productive, the bible says.
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And, finally, in addition to productive living,
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Strategic living.
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Write that down, strategic living.
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That's what it means to abound in the work of the lord.
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You know, the writer randy alcorn many times invites his
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Audience to take a sheet of paper and in the middle of the
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Piece of paper to put a dot and then to draw a line from that
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Dot to the end of the page.
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He says that dot represents the 70 or 80 years god gives us here
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On earth.
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The line represents eternity.
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Unfortunately, most people center on those 70 or 80 years
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Rather than ever thinking about eternity.
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Randy writes, "right now, we're living in that dot.
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But what are we living for?
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The person with perspective lives for the line.
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The person who lives for the dot lives for treasures on earth
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That end up in junkyards.
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The person who lives for the line lives for treasures in
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Heaven that will never end."
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You know, contrary to what a lot of people believe, the apostle
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Paul was not a sadomasochist who enjoyed suffering.
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That's not why he suffered, because he liked pain.
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No, the reason he willingly submitted himself to harsh
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Punishment: because he was living for the line and not for
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The dot.
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He believed that there was gonna be a payoff for whatever
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Suffering he experienced for the cause of christ.
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Listen to his words in 2 timothy verses--chapter 4,
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Verses 6 to 8.
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Paul says, "for i'm already being poured out as a drink
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Offering, and the time of my departure has come.
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I have fought the good fight, i have finished the course, i have
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Kept the faith; and in the future there is laid up for me
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The crown of righteousness, which the lord, the righteous
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Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but to
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Those who have loved his appearing."
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Paul didn't say, "i'm investing myself in the lord's work, not
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Expecting anything in return."
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He said, "i'm doing this because there's something that is
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Awaiting me: a crown in heaven, which the lord will award
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To me."
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He makes the same allusion in 1 corinthians 15, verse 58.
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Notice how he closes this verse.
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"therefore, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in
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The work of the lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain."
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He says to us tonight, "christians, there's something
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For you when you abandon the work of the lord."
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God's not asking you to overexert yourself to work
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Overtime for no pay.
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He is saying there is a reward coming for those who invest
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Their lives in the gospel of jesus christ.
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I read something really interesting years ago.
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Suppose you were alive on christmas day, ad 0, when
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Jesus christ was born.
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You'd have to be alive at that time.
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And you heard about this baby, this special baby that was born,
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And you said to yourself, "you know, i think that jesus is
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Going places, and i want to invest in his ministry."
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And so you invested $1 in a company called
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Jesus christ incorporated.
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You're gonna invest $1.
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You never invested another dollar again.
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You invested $1 in the life and ministry of jesus christ, and
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That $1 investment paid 6% interest compounded.
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Do you know 2,000 years later what your $1 investment would
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Be worth?
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One dollar, 6% interest compounded for 2,000 years, it
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Would be worth $720 quadrillion dollars.
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You know, the problem with most of our investments is we don't
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Have a long enough time horizon.
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We invest for the next ten, 20, 30, 40 years ago, and we invest
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In all the wrong things.
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We invest in things that can either be stolen or lost or
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Forgotten or worn out or left behind.
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No wonder our investments don't do any better.
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But the wise person is one who invests in those things which
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Will never be lost, stolen, forgotten, worn out, or
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Left behind.
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Think the kingdom of god.
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That's true, you and i weren't alive when jesus was born in ad
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0, but, you know, the truth is, we will be alive for the next 20
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Years, 200 years, 2,000 years, 2 trillion years.
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And god asks you and invites me to invest in his kingdom
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Right now.
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He invites us to invest in a reward, as peter says, that is
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Imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away.
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It is reserved in heaven for you.
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If you find yourself in the twilight of earth's existence,
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Or perhaps your own existence, how are you responding to these
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Last days?
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Are you allowing the cable news pundits to paralyze you
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With fear?
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Are you depending on some politician or some political
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Movement to reverse the downward spiral of this country?
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Listen to me tonight: god has called you to a greater purpose
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Than simply trying to eke out a living for yourself and trying
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To handle all of the problems that life throws at you.
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He has a bigger purpose for your life.
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God has invited you--he has enlisted you to be a part of an
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Offensive force, an offensive force that is willing to stand
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Up and push back against evil in our culture, a force that is
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Willing to stand up and illuminate the world with the
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Light of the gospel of jesus christ.
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As we see the twilight turn to darkness in our world, the
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Opportunity--the need to do both has never been greater.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: a lot of people are frustrated right now and
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With hope, courage, and boldness.
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In a relationship, when you suffer at school for following
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Christ, remember, you're deeply loved by god.
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Your suffering doesn't mean god has forgotten about you or that
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He doesn't care about you.
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This is just part of the price for following christ, and
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Frankly, it's the price we don't hear that often about today.
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Robert Jeffress - Last Days Living (Part 2)

June 12, 2026 | 27:29

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