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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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- ♪ my eyes are fixed upon his face ♪
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- ♪ it shines like the sun ♪
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- ♪ i can see jesus ♪
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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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- ♪ oh-oh ♪
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- ♪ all praise unto the lamb who sits on the throne ♪
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- ♪ and we give you praise ♪
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- ♪ unto the lamb who sits on the throne ♪
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- ♪ all praise unto the lamb ♪
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- ♪ unto the lamb who was and is ♪
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- -♪ and is to come ♪ -♪ oh, he is to come ♪
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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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- ♪ and is to come ♪
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- -♪ hallelujah ♪ -♪ jesus, lord ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah ♪
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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.
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- 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.
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- We get ourselves all worked out
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- About what's happening to our children or at the workplace
- 00:14:29.781 --> 00:14:32.750
- Or what's happening in the country,
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- And we get worked up and worked up and worked up,
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- But we forget god.
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- We leave out the god factor out of the equation.
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- 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.
- 00:14:52.937 --> 00:14:57.141
- 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.
- 00:15:30.008 --> 00:15:34.278
- 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.
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- Does putting off doing my responsibility
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- Alleviate that fear?
- 00:15:56.434 --> 00:15:57.702
- No, it means i just carry it around with me.
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- 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.
- 00:16:05.877 --> 00:16:08.513
- Have him lecture you on how much you've deteriorated
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- Over the last year,
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- How lousy your blood work is,
- 00:16:14.752 --> 00:16:16.387
- 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.
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- Is there an appointment you need to make? do it now.
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- 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.
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- And in proverbs 26:13-14,
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- "the sluggard says,
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- 'there is a lion in the road!
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- A lion is in the open square!'
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- As a door turns on its hinges,
- 00:16:55.226 --> 00:16:58.029
- So does the sluggard on his bed."
- 00:16:58.029 --> 00:17:01.866
- The sluggard, the lazy person is always looking for a reason
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- Not to begin doing what he needs to do
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- 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,
- 00:17:26.491 --> 00:17:30.061
- Reflect on god's past faithfulness.
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- 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.
- 00:17:44.976 --> 00:17:47.678
- And he wrote honestly about that worry in psalm 3:1-2.
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- "o lord, how my adversaries have increased!
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- Many are rising up against me.
- 00:17:54.318 --> 00:17:56.554
- Many are saying of my soul,
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- 'there is no deliverance for him in god.'"
- 00:17:58.422 --> 00:18:01.659
- The word selah means pause.
- 00:18:01.659 --> 00:18:04.662
- And then notice verse 3.
- 00:18:04.662 --> 00:18:06.464
- "but you, o lord, are a shield about me.
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- My glory, and the one who lifts my head.
- 00:18:09.901 --> 00:18:12.537
- I was crying to the lord with my voice
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- And he answered me from his holy mountain."
- 00:18:14.539 --> 00:18:17.308
- Why that pause?
- 00:18:17.675 --> 00:18:18.910
- Because as david's anxiety level rose,
- 00:18:18.910 --> 00:18:22.446
- Suddenly he remembered the faithfulness of god.
- 00:18:22.446 --> 00:18:26.617
- He reflected on how god had been faithful to him in the past
- 00:18:26.617 --> 00:18:30.888
- 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.
- 00:18:33.524 --> 00:18:38.129
- You know, that was david's pattern.
- 00:18:38.863 --> 00:18:40.831
- When he was younger, much younger,
- 00:18:40.831 --> 00:18:43.668
- And he was facing the giant goliath,
- 00:18:43.668 --> 00:18:45.970
- Remember what he said in one samuel 17:37?
- 00:18:45.970 --> 00:18:48.873
- "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."
- 00:18:53.477 --> 00:18:56.847
- As a young boy, david could look back on his experiences
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- When he was a shepherd and god delivered him.
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- 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.
- 00:19:13.497 --> 00:19:16.968
- Growing older ought to make you less fearful.
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- You ought to have more times
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- You can look back on in your past
- 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:24.475
- When god delivered you and protected you,
- 00:19:24.475 --> 00:19:26.777
- And that same god is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- 00:19:26.777 --> 00:19:31.048
- Remember god's past faithfulness.
- 00:19:31.048 --> 00:19:34.185
- Finally, and most importantly, remain in contact with god.
- 00:19:35.353 --> 00:19:40.091
- Remain in contact with god.
- 00:19:40.691 --> 00:19:42.526
- You know, we're talking a lot about vaccines today.
- 00:19:42.526 --> 00:19:47.398
- A lot about vaccines, it's all over the news.
- 00:19:47.398 --> 00:19:49.734
- I want to share with you a three-dose vaccine
- 00:19:49.734 --> 00:19:53.404
- That will vaccinate you against anxiety.
- 00:19:53.404 --> 00:19:56.274
- Would you like one of those vaccines?
- 00:19:56.274 --> 00:19:58.976
- Okay, there are three doses to it,
- 00:19:58.976 --> 00:20:01.212
- But i'm going to give you all three doses right now.
- 00:20:01.212 --> 00:20:03.881
- Turn over to philippians 4 for just a moment.
- 00:20:03.881 --> 00:20:06.717
- Philippians 4, paul was in prison
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- Facing what could have been his execution
- 00:20:08.986 --> 00:20:10.955
- And he gives us this three-dose vaccine against anxiety.
- 00:20:10.955 --> 00:20:16.160
- Dose number one, pray persistently.
- 00:20:16.894 --> 00:20:21.132
- Look at verses 6 and 7.
- 00:20:21.132 --> 00:20:22.366
- "be anxious for nothing,
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- But in everything by prayer and supplication
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- With thanksgiving
- 00:20:26.504 --> 00:20:28.139
- Let your request be made known to god.
- 00:20:28.139 --> 00:20:31.042
- And the peace of god,
- 00:20:31.042 --> 00:20:32.143
- Which surpasses all comprehension,
- 00:20:32.143 --> 00:20:34.779
- Will guard your hearts and your minds in christ jesus."
- 00:20:34.779 --> 00:20:38.182
- I love the way the living bible says it.
- 00:20:38.182 --> 00:20:39.784
- "don't worry about anything.
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- Instead, pray about everything."
- 00:20:42.153 --> 00:20:45.556
- 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.
- 00:20:49.393 --> 00:20:51.729
- Don't worry about anything, pray about everything.
- 00:20:51.729 --> 00:20:55.433
- And that's pretty powerful, but that's just dose one,
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- Pray persistently.
- 00:20:58.769 --> 00:21:00.171
- Paul goes on with dose number two.
- 00:21:00.171 --> 00:21:03.007
- Think truthfully. think truthfully.
- 00:21:03.007 --> 00:21:06.310
- Look at verse 8.
- 00:21:06.310 --> 00:21:07.778
- "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,
- 00:21:16.721 --> 00:21:19.857
- Dwell, think on these things."
- 00:21:19.857 --> 00:21:24.161
- Whatever is true, pure, lovely.
- 00:21:24.161 --> 00:21:26.797
- Remember how i said at the beginning of the message
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- You can't control necessarily,
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- It's not the size of what you're worrying about
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- That determines your anxiety level,
- 00:21:33.704 --> 00:21:35.539
- It's what you're focusing on.
- 00:21:35.539 --> 00:21:38.142
- You determine your focus in life.
- 00:21:38.142 --> 00:21:41.979
- And paul said one important antidote to worry
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- Is making sure you're focusing on the right thing.
- 00:21:44.715 --> 00:21:48.786
- Make god your focus.
- 00:21:48.786 --> 00:21:50.121
- His word, his promises.
- 00:21:50.121 --> 00:21:51.889
- And here's the promise.
- 00:21:51.889 --> 00:21:53.324
- In psalm 119:165,
- 00:21:53.324 --> 00:21:55.826
- "those who love your law have great peace
- 00:21:55.826 --> 00:21:59.964
- And nothing causes them to stumble."
- 00:21:59.964 --> 00:22:03.667
- Pray persistently, think truthfully.
- 00:22:03.667 --> 00:22:06.604
- You got to have this final dose for it to work.
- 00:22:06.604 --> 00:22:09.540
- Live obediently.
- 00:22:09.540 --> 00:22:12.143
- Look again at philippians 4:9.
- 00:22:12.143 --> 00:22:13.911
- "the things which you have learned
- 00:22:14.678 --> 00:22:16.714
- And received and heard and seen in me,
- 00:22:16.714 --> 00:22:19.850
- Practice these things;
- 00:22:19.850 --> 00:22:23.053
- And the god of peace will be with you."
- 00:22:23.053 --> 00:22:25.556
- It's not enough to know the word of god,
- 00:22:25.556 --> 00:22:27.958
- It's to practice the word of god, live obediently.
- 00:22:27.958 --> 00:22:32.229
- And when you live obediently,
- 00:22:32.229 --> 00:22:33.764
- You don't ever have to worry about god's discipline
- 00:22:33.764 --> 00:22:36.200
- In your life.
- 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:37.668
- You will never stumble.
- 00:22:37.668 --> 00:22:40.604
- William barclay, the new testament commentator, said,
- 00:22:40.604 --> 00:22:43.774
- "there may be bigger sins than worry,
- 00:22:43.774 --> 00:22:49.113
- But there is no sin as disabling as worry."
- 00:22:50.014 --> 00:22:54.051
- Here's the good news.
- 00:22:54.552 --> 00:22:56.020
- You don't have to be disabled by anxiety any longer.
- 00:22:56.020 --> 00:22:59.457
- God has given you everything you need
- 00:22:59.457 --> 00:23:02.893
- To conquer that mountain of anxiety
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- And moving from anxiety to peace.
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- ♪ music ♪
- 00:23:09.934 --> 00:23:13.604
- Are you ready to make some changes in your life?
- 00:23:14.605 --> 00:23:17.942
- Ready to let go of some stifling habits
- 00:23:17.942 --> 00:23:20.911
- And allow god to help you?
- 00:23:20.911 --> 00:23:23.013
- He wants to bless you with the tools
- 00:23:23.013 --> 00:23:25.382
- To get around the mountains you face.
- 00:23:25.382 --> 00:23:28.419
- Now, as we wrap up today's program,
- 00:23:28.419 --> 00:23:30.821
- Let me thank you for your generous support
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- Of "pathway to victory."
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- For this television and radio ministry,
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- But there's still so much more to do
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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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- As tiny as a mustard seed,
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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,
- 00:25:52.162 --> 00:25:56.467
- And most of all, it's ungodly.
- 00:25:56.467 --> 00:25:59.169
- And when we follow the biblical cure for anxiety,
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- We can enjoy god's supernatural peace.
- 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:06.644
- Well, at some point in our lives,
- 00:26:06.644 --> 00:26:08.512
- We all have to deal with the mountain of discouragement.
- 00:26:08.512 --> 00:26:12.816
- And so next time we're going to talk about moving
- 00:26:12.816 --> 00:26:15.919
- 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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- 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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