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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Moving From Anxiety To Peace | July 9, 2025
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- [announcer] 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'm robert jeffress
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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- It seems like every headline
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- Gives us something new to worry about,
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- Don't you agree?
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- There are times when the future of our country
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- Appears uncertain,
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- And in our personal lives,
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- Conflict and hardship make us feel unsettled.
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- Well, today i'm going to show you the biblical prescription
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- For a mind overrun with worry.
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- Today we're talking about "moving from anxiety to peace"
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- As we continue our series "invincible"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ high and exalted ♪
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- ♪ my eyes are fixed upon his face ♪
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- ♪ it shines like the sun ♪
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- ♪ all praise unto the lamb who sits on the throne ♪
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- ♪ unto the lamb who was and is ♪
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- [announcer] sometimes our emotions are like mountains
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- That stand in our way.
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- Obstacles like doubt, bitterness, or fear
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- Keep us from enjoying a peaceful life of courage.
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- In his book "invincible: conquering the mountains
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- That separate you from the blessed life,"
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- Dr. robert jeffress helps you overcome barriers like guilt,
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- Loneliness, lust, grief, anxiety, and more.
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- Discover how to conquer the mountains that hold you back.
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- Request your hardcover copy of "invincible"
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- When you give a generous gift to "pathway to victory."
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- In august of 1933,
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- Famed novelist f. scott fitzgerald
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- Wrote a letter to his 11-year-old daughter
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- Who is away at summer camp.
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- He was trying to counsel her
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- On the things she needed to be concerned with
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- And the things she didn't need to worry about.
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- Included on the things to be concerned about were courage,
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- Cleanliness and horsemanship.
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- The things he told his daughter not to worry about
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- Were mosquitoes, flies, and boys.
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- Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world
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- In which the biggest thing you had to worry about
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- Were mosquitoes, flies, or boys?
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- But that's not our world, is it?
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- Global pandemic, threat of loss of our job,
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- Contracting the coronavirus, losing a loved one,
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- Those are the things that we are combating today.
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- And yet one thing i've discovered is
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- The size of what you're worrying about
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- Really doesn't determine your level of anxiety.
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- You could be worried about a pandemic
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- Or be worried about mosquitoes,
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- But they both have the ability to sap the strength and joy
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- Right out of your life.
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- It's not the size of the object you're worrying about,
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- It's your focus.
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- For example, have you ever done this before?
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- Take a penny and put it in front of each eye,
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- And that tiny penny,
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- If you're standing in front of a mountain,
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- Can block out an entire mountain range
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- Millions of times larger than the penny.
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- It's not the size of what you're worrying about,
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- It is your focus.
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- Somebody has said,
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- "worry is a thin stream trickling through the mind.
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- If left unchecked, it will cut a deep channel
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- Into which all of our other thoughts are drained."
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- We're in our series "invincible"
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- And we're talking about conquering the 10 mountains,
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- The 10 obstacles that separate us from the kind of life
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- God wants us to experience.
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- Jesus said, "if you have a faith of a mustard seed,
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- You can move a mountain."
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- Now, obviously you can't actually move the mountain,
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- But you can change your perspective of that mountain,
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- You can conquer that mountain.
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- And in the same way, there are obstacles we face,
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- We may not be able to remove those obstacles
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- But we can conquer them.
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- And none is more debilitating than worry, anxiety.
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- And so today we're going to talk about
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- How to conquer the mountain of anxiety
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- By moving, by shifting our focus from anxiety to peace.
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- If you have your bibles, turn to matthew 6.
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- Of all of the things that can choke the word of god
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- And render it ineffective in your life,
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- At the top of the list are the worries of this world.
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- Well, why do we grow anxious, especially as christians?
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- I've noticed in the bible several reasons
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- That god's word gives for anxiety in our life.
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- First of all, a misguided perspective
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- Can be a source of worry.
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- What i mean by that is whenever we build our life
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- Around the temporal instead of the eternal,
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- We're going to be fearful of losing what we prize the most.
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- For example, if we've built our life around money,
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- Instinctively we know that can be taken from us
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- And so we work and work and work
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- And accumulate more and more and more,
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- Hoard more and more,
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- But we know deep down we can't protect ourself from loss.
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- Or maybe we've built our life around another person,
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- And so what do we do?
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- We know there's a possibility they could leave us
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- Or die on us,
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- And so we just smother them with affection
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- And end up chasing them away.
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- Or maybe your security,
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- Your life is built around your health
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- And so you exercise and diet obsessively
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- Or every time you feel an ache or a pain,
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- You run to the doctor
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- Because instinctively you know you can lose your health.
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- That's why jesus said in matthew 6:19-20,
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- "do not store up for yourselves treasure on earth,
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- Where moth and rust destroy
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- And thieves break in and steal."
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- Money can be lost.
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- "instead, store up for yourselves treasure in heaven,
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- Where neither moth nor rust destroys
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- And where thieves do not break in or steal;
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- For where your treasure is,
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- There your heart will be also."
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- He wasn't just talking about money.
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- He was talking whatever you value in life,
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- That's where your heart is going to be.
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- Secondly, unconfessed sin can be a source of anxiety.
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- Certainly if you're not yet a christian,
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- If you've never received god's forgiveness of your sin,
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- There's a barrier between you and god,
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- And that barrier can produce fear in your life
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- About the possibility of facing god
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- With your sins unconfessed.
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- A third source of fear in our life, anxiety,
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- Can be satanic attack.
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- Mark it down, remember it.
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- Satan wants to steal your joy as a christian.
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- He wants to destroy it.
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- And one of the ways he does it is through anxiety.
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- What are the effects of anxiety?
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- First of all, the consequences of anxiety.
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- There are some emotional consequences of anxiety.
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- Anxiety disorders include panic disorders, social anxiety,
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- Persistent depressive disorder.
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- It can lead to eating disorders, headaches,
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- Irritable bowel syndrome, sleep disorders, fibromyalgia,
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- And a host of other serious diseases
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- All coming from anxiety.
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- But there's spiritual consequences of anxiety as well.
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- In colossians 3:15, paul said,
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- "let the peace of christ rule in your hearts,
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- To which indeed you were called in one body;
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- And be thankful."
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- You know that word rule is the word that means to umpire.
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- When a challenging situation comes into your life,
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- You don't get to choose that circumstance,
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- But you can choose how to label that circumstance.
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- You can choose to label it
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- Insurmountable, unending, devastating,
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- Or you can let christ be the umpire
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- And have a final say about that problem.
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- Let the peace of christ umpire in your hearts.
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- You know, if you replace jesus christ
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- On the throne of your life
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- And allow fear to rule your life,
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- It's really putting yourself on the throne of your life.
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- "jesus, i don't think you're capable of handling this.
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- I'm going to be the one to take control of it."
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- And your life quickly goes from being god-centered
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- To being self-centered.
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- Well, why shouldn't we worry?
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- Let's look at the case against anxiety,
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- And you find it in matthew 6
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- In the middle of the sermon on the mount.
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- Notice the five reasons he gives us.
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- First of all, he says worrying is unreasonable.
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- Verse 25, "for this reason i say to you,
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- Do not be worried about your life,
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- As to what you shall eat or what you shall drink,
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- Nor for your body, as to what you shall put on.
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- Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?"
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- Inherent in that verse are two questions.
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- Who made your body? god.
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- Who knows better than anyone
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- What your body needs to survive? god.
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- Then why are you worrying? it's unreasonable.
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- God is not only your creator, he's your sustainer.
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- Secondly, jesus said worry is unfounded.
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- Well, i believe god made me and can sustain me, but will he?
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- That's the real question you ask.
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- Look at verse 26.
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- "look at the birds of the air
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- That do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns,
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- And yet your heavenly father feeds them.
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- Are you not worth much more than they?"
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- Worry is unfounded.
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- Third, he says worry is unproductive.
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- Look at verse 27.
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- "which of you by taking thought
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- Can add one cubit unto his stature?"
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- A cubit was 18 inches.
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- Worrying yourself to death
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- Doesn't add an inch to your stature,
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- Or some translations say
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- It doesn't add an hour to your life.
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- So why do it? it doesn't change anything.
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- Fourth worrying is unnecessary.
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- Look at verse 28, "why are you so worried about clothing?
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- Observe how the lilies of the field grow,
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- They don't toil nor do they spin.
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- Yet i say to you that not even solomon in all of his glory
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- Clothed himself like one of these.
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- But if god so clothes the grass of the field,
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- Which is alive today and thrown tomorrow into the furnace,
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- Will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?"
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- Finally, and this is the heart of it, why not worrying?
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- Worrying is ungodly.
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- Look at verses 31 to 32.
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- "do not worry then, saying,
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- 'what will we eat or what will we drink
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- Or what will we wear for clothing?'
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- For the gentiles eagerly seek all of these things.
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- For your heavenly father knows that you have need of these."
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- What jesus is saying is gentiles, unbelievers,
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- They worry about what they're going to eat
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- And what they're going to put on,
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- They worry of their life, but they're unbelievers.
- 00:14:05.301 --> 00:14:08.070
- Shouldn't it be different from you?
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- You know, i want you to remember this
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- If you don't remember anything else i say today.
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- The basis of all anxiety in life
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- Is calculating without god.
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- Calculating without god,
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- That's the basis of all of our worry.
- 00:14:25.521 --> 00:14:28.390
- We get ourselves all worked out
- 00:14:28.390 --> 00:14:29.959
- About what's happening to our children or at the workplace
- 00:14:29.959 --> 00:14:32.928
- Or what's happening in the country,
- 00:14:32.928 --> 00:14:34.396
- And we get worked up and worked up and worked up,
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- But we forget god.
- 00:14:37.566 --> 00:14:39.301
- We leave out the god factor out of the equation.
- 00:14:40.302 --> 00:14:44.139
- How do you cure the problem of anxiety?
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- Let me just give you some simple steps
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- All based in god's word.
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- First of all, repent of any known sin in your life.
- 00:14:53.115 --> 00:14:57.386
- Now, julia gave me a word last night about this mass.
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- She said, "robert, don't tell people
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- That sin is the cause of their anxiety."
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- And that's a good word.
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- Sin is not always the cause of anxiety,
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- There are many other causes.
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- Sin isn't always the cause of anxiety, but sometimes it is.
- 00:15:15.637 --> 00:15:20.242
- And again, if you're listening today
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- And you're not yet a christian,
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- The most important step you can take
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- Is to receive the forgiveness that christ offers you.
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- If you're already a christian,
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- Go ahead and acknowledge the sin that's in your life
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- And make things right between you and god.
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- If we confess our sins,
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- He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
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- And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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- Secondly, remove unnecessary fear from your life.
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- Remove unnecessary fear.
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- Some of your fear can be removed by you.
- 00:15:53.108 --> 00:15:57.379
- Let me illustrate what i mean.
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- We're coming up on april 15th, income tax day.
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- I don't know if you're like me,
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- But i put off and put off and put off
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- Getting my information together
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- To file my income tax return, because why?
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- I'm fearful of what i'm going to end up owing.
- 00:16:11.627 --> 00:16:15.464
- Does putting off doing my responsibility
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- Alleviate that fear?
- 00:16:19.535 --> 00:16:20.803
- No, it means i just carry it around with me.
- 00:16:20.803 --> 00:16:23.505
- Or maybe some of you it's been more than a year
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- Because of the pandemic that you've been to the doctor
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- And now you're fearful about going to the doctor.
- 00:16:28.977 --> 00:16:31.613
- Have him lecture you on how much you've deteriorated
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- Over the last year,
- 00:16:35.651 --> 00:16:37.219
- How lousy your blood work is,
- 00:16:37.853 --> 00:16:39.488
- And so you keep putting that off
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- But you still have that fear.
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- No, here are three words that can help you alleviate
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- Unnecessary fear in your life.
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- Do it now.
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- Is there a difficult email you need to return? do it now.
- 00:16:53.268 --> 00:16:56.772
- Is there an appointment you need to make? do it now.
- 00:16:56.772 --> 00:17:00.242
- You say, "where do you find that in scripture?"
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- You know, proverbs is filled
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- With warnings about the sluggard, the lazy person.
- 00:17:04.213 --> 00:17:07.783
- And in proverbs 26:13-14,
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- "the sluggard says,
- 00:17:11.320 --> 00:17:13.255
- 'there is a lion in the road!
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- A lion is in the open square!'
- 00:17:15.591 --> 00:17:18.327
- As a door turns on its hinges,
- 00:17:18.327 --> 00:17:21.130
- So does the sluggard on his bed."
- 00:17:21.130 --> 00:17:24.967
- The sluggard, the lazy person is always looking for a reason
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- Not to begin doing what he needs to do
- 00:17:28.170 --> 00:17:30.439
- Or to finish doing what he's going to do,
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- And he ends up miserable.
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- Remove unnecessary fear from your life.
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- Number three, remember god's past faithfulness.
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- Remember god's past faithfulness.
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- When you find yourself the victim
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- Of one of satan's arrows of worry,
- 00:17:49.591 --> 00:17:53.162
- Reflect on god's past faithfulness.
- 00:17:53.162 --> 00:17:57.065
- David did that.
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- You know, there was a time in his life,
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- Which is the background for psalm 3
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- In which david was facing the rebellion
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- Of his son, absalom.
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- He was facing losing his kingdom,
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- He had many things to worry about.
- 00:18:08.076 --> 00:18:10.779
- And he wrote honestly about that worry in psalm 3:1-2.
- 00:18:10.779 --> 00:18:13.949
- "o lord, how my adversaries have increased!
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- Many are rising up against me.
- 00:18:17.419 --> 00:18:19.655
- Many are saying of my soul,
- 00:18:19.655 --> 00:18:21.523
- 'there is no deliverance for him in god.'"
- 00:18:21.523 --> 00:18:24.760
- The word selah means pause.
- 00:18:24.760 --> 00:18:27.763
- And then notice verse 3.
- 00:18:27.763 --> 00:18:29.565
- "but you, o lord, are a shield about me.
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- My glory, and the one who lifts my head.
- 00:18:33.001 --> 00:18:35.637
- I was crying to the lord with my voice
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- And he answered me from his holy mountain."
- 00:18:37.639 --> 00:18:40.409
- Why that pause?
- 00:18:40.776 --> 00:18:42.010
- Because as david's anxiety level rose,
- 00:18:42.010 --> 00:18:45.547
- Suddenly he remembered the faithfulness of god.
- 00:18:45.547 --> 00:18:49.718
- He reflected on how god had been faithful to him in the past
- 00:18:49.718 --> 00:18:53.989
- And he thought the same god who delivered me in the past
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- Is capable of delivering me from absalom right now.
- 00:18:56.625 --> 00:19:01.230
- You know, that was david's pattern.
- 00:19:01.964 --> 00:19:03.932
- When he was younger, much younger,
- 00:19:03.932 --> 00:19:06.768
- And he was facing the giant goliath,
- 00:19:06.768 --> 00:19:09.071
- Remember what he said in one samuel 17:37?
- 00:19:09.071 --> 00:19:11.974
- "the lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion
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- And from the paw of the bear,
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- He will deliver me from the hands of this philistine."
- 00:19:16.578 --> 00:19:19.948
- As a young boy, david could look back on his experiences
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- When he was a shepherd and god delivered him.
- 00:19:23.719 --> 00:19:26.255
- Now here's the point i want you to see.
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- The longer david lived,
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- The more examples he had of god's faithfulness in his past.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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- Growing older should not make you more fearful.
- 00:19:36.598 --> 00:19:40.068
- Growing older ought to make you less fearful.
- 00:19:40.068 --> 00:19:44.039
- You ought to have more times
- 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:45.540
- You can look back on in your past
- 00:19:45.540 --> 00:19:47.576
- When god delivered you and protected you,
- 00:19:47.576 --> 00:19:49.878
- And that same god is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- 00:19:49.878 --> 00:19:54.149
- Remember god's past faithfulness.
- 00:19:54.149 --> 00:19:57.286
- Finally, and most importantly, remain in contact with god.
- 00:19:58.453 --> 00:20:03.191
- Remain in contact with god.
- 00:20:03.792 --> 00:20:05.627
- You know, we're talking a lot about vaccines today.
- 00:20:05.627 --> 00:20:10.499
- A lot about vaccines, it's all over the news.
- 00:20:10.499 --> 00:20:12.834
- I want to share with you a three-dose vaccine
- 00:20:12.834 --> 00:20:16.505
- That will vaccinate you against anxiety.
- 00:20:16.505 --> 00:20:19.374
- Would you like one of those vaccines?
- 00:20:19.374 --> 00:20:22.077
- Okay, there are three doses to it,
- 00:20:22.077 --> 00:20:24.313
- But i'm going to give you all three doses right now.
- 00:20:24.313 --> 00:20:26.982
- Turn over to philippians 4 for just a moment.
- 00:20:26.982 --> 00:20:29.818
- Philippians 4, paul was in prison
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- Facing what could have been his execution
- 00:20:32.087 --> 00:20:34.056
- And he gives us this three-dose vaccine against anxiety.
- 00:20:34.056 --> 00:20:39.261
- Dose number one, pray persistently.
- 00:20:39.995 --> 00:20:44.232
- Look at verses 6 and 7.
- 00:20:44.232 --> 00:20:45.467
- "be anxious for nothing,
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- But in everything by prayer and supplication
- 00:20:47.035 --> 00:20:49.604
- With thanksgiving
- 00:20:49.604 --> 00:20:51.239
- Let your request be made known to god.
- 00:20:51.239 --> 00:20:54.142
- And the peace of god,
- 00:20:54.142 --> 00:20:55.243
- Which surpasses all comprehension,
- 00:20:55.243 --> 00:20:57.879
- Will guard your hearts and your minds in christ jesus."
- 00:20:57.879 --> 00:21:01.283
- I love the way the living bible says it.
- 00:21:01.283 --> 00:21:02.884
- "don't worry about anything.
- 00:21:02.884 --> 00:21:05.253
- Instead, pray about everything."
- 00:21:05.253 --> 00:21:08.657
- Remember we've talked about
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- How you need to take your worry list
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- And turn it into your prayer list.
- 00:21:12.494 --> 00:21:14.830
- Don't worry about anything, pray about everything.
- 00:21:14.830 --> 00:21:18.533
- And that's pretty powerful, but that's just dose one,
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- Pray persistently.
- 00:21:21.870 --> 00:21:23.271
- Paul goes on with dose number two.
- 00:21:23.271 --> 00:21:26.108
- Think truthfully. think truthfully.
- 00:21:26.108 --> 00:21:29.411
- Look at verse 8.
- 00:21:29.411 --> 00:21:30.879
- "finally, brethren, whatever is true,
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- Whatever is honorable, whatever is right,
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- Whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
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- Whatever is of good repute,
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- If there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise,
- 00:21:39.821 --> 00:21:42.958
- Dwell, think on these things."
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- Whatever is true, pure, lovely.
- 00:21:47.262 --> 00:21:49.898
- Remember how i said at the beginning of the message
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- You can't control necessarily,
- 00:21:52.033 --> 00:21:53.602
- It's not the size of what you're worrying about
- 00:21:53.602 --> 00:21:56.805
- That determines your anxiety level,
- 00:21:56.805 --> 00:21:58.640
- It's what you're focusing on.
- 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:01.243
- You determine your focus in life.
- 00:22:01.243 --> 00:22:05.080
- And paul said one important antidote to worry
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- Is making sure you're focusing on the right thing.
- 00:22:07.816 --> 00:22:11.887
- Make god your focus.
- 00:22:11.887 --> 00:22:13.221
- His word, his promises.
- 00:22:13.221 --> 00:22:14.990
- And here's the promise.
- 00:22:14.990 --> 00:22:16.425
- In psalm 119:165,
- 00:22:16.425 --> 00:22:18.927
- "those who love your law have great peace
- 00:22:18.927 --> 00:22:23.064
- And nothing causes them to stumble."
- 00:22:23.064 --> 00:22:26.768
- Pray persistently, think truthfully.
- 00:22:26.768 --> 00:22:29.704
- You got to have this final dose for it to work.
- 00:22:29.704 --> 00:22:32.641
- Live obediently.
- 00:22:32.641 --> 00:22:35.243
- Look again at philippians 4:9.
- 00:22:35.243 --> 00:22:37.012
- "the things which you have learned
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- And received and heard and seen in me,
- 00:22:39.815 --> 00:22:42.951
- Practice these things;
- 00:22:42.951 --> 00:22:46.154
- And the god of peace will be with you."
- 00:22:46.154 --> 00:22:48.657
- It's not enough to know the word of god,
- 00:22:48.657 --> 00:22:51.059
- It's to practice the word of god, live obediently.
- 00:22:51.059 --> 00:22:55.330
- And when you live obediently,
- 00:22:55.330 --> 00:22:56.865
- You don't ever have to worry about god's discipline
- 00:22:56.865 --> 00:22:59.301
- In your life.
- 00:22:59.301 --> 00:23:00.769
- You will never stumble.
- 00:23:00.769 --> 00:23:03.705
- William barclay, the new testament commentator, said,
- 00:23:03.705 --> 00:23:06.875
- "there may be bigger sins than worry,
- 00:23:06.875 --> 00:23:12.214
- But there is no sin as disabling as worry."
- 00:23:13.114 --> 00:23:17.152
- Here's the good news.
- 00:23:17.652 --> 00:23:19.120
- You don't have to be disabled by anxiety any longer.
- 00:23:19.120 --> 00:23:22.557
- God has given you everything you need
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- To conquer that mountain of anxiety
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- And moving from anxiety to peace.
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- ♪ music ♪
- 00:23:33.034 --> 00:23:36.705
- Are you ready to make some changes in your life?
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- Ready to let go of some stifling habits
- 00:23:41.042 --> 00:23:44.012
- And allow god to help you?
- 00:23:44.012 --> 00:23:46.114
- He wants to bless you with the tools
- 00:23:46.114 --> 00:23:48.483
- To get around the mountains you face.
- 00:23:48.483 --> 00:23:51.520
- Now, as we wrap up today's program,
- 00:23:51.520 --> 00:23:53.922
- Let me thank you for your generous support
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- Of "pathway to victory."
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- Now please stay right there,
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- I'll be back with more in just a moment.
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- Jesus told us that if we have faith
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- ♪ music ♪
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- Anxiety is a formidable obstacle
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- On the road to god's blessing,
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- But it's an obstacle that can be overcome.
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- Worry is unfounded, it's unproductive, it's unnecessary,
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- And most of all, it's ungodly.
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- And when we follow the biblical cure for anxiety,
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- We can enjoy god's supernatural peace.
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- Well, at some point in our lives,
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- We all have to deal with the mountain of discouragement.
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- And so next time we're going to talk about moving
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- From discouragement to hope.
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- Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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- On "pathway to victory."
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- Whenever somebody wrongs us,
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- We are disappointed in somebody,
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- Sometimes we don't feel like we can express that to them.
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- If it's a mate, we're afraid they'll leave us.
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- If it's an employer and we express our anger,
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- We're afraid they'll fire us.
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- So we turn it inward.
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- It's like a broken sewer pipe
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- That just flows into our own hearts.
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- For the message "moving from discouragement to hope"
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- Here on "pathway to victory."
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