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Robert Jeffress - Moving From Discouragement To Hope (Part 2)

July 11, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Moving From Discouragement To Hope (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Moving From Discouragement To Hope (Part 2) | July 11, 2025
  • ♪ music ♪
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  • [announcer] from the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church 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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  • We all feel sad and dejected from time to time,
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  • But for many people,
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  • Discouragement becomes less of a passing feeling
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  • And more of a permanent state of mind.
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  • Today we're learning from a great leader named nehemiah,
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  • Who shows us how to escape the emotional depths of despair.
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  • Nehemiah recognized the dejection among his people,
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  • And he led them to a better place.
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  • My message is titled: "moving from discouragement to hope"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • ♪ it's not conservative or liberal ♪
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  • ♪ however they're defined ♪
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  • ♪ it's not about interpretation ♪
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  • ♪ or the judgment of the mind ♪
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  • ♪ it's the opposite of politics, power, or prestige ♪
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  • ♪ it's about a simple message and whether we believe ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the blood of calvary ♪
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  • ♪ that cleanses sin ♪
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  • ♪ and sets the captives free ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the name ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ that has power to save the lost ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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  • ♪ some may say it's man's religion ♪
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  • ♪ or ancient history ♪
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  • ♪ the cross of jesus still remains ♪
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  • ♪ the price for sin that sets us free ♪
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  • -♪ oh, it's the cross ♪ -♪ it's still the cross ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the blood of calvary ♪
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  • ♪ oh, it cleanses us, it cleanses our sin ♪
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  • ♪ and sets the captives free ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the name ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ that has power to save the lost ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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  • ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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  • ♪ it's the cross ♪
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  • -♪ the cross ♪ -♪ it's still the cross ♪
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  • -♪ thank god ♪ -♪ it's still the cross ♪
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  • ♪ oh the cross ♪
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  • (congregation applauds)
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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,
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  • Or fear 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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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • We're halfway through that 52 day construction project,
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  • And nehemiah records this.
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  • The people were discouraged.
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  • I want you to notice the four reasons they were discouraged.
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  • The four d's that add up to discouragement.
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  • First of all, the people were drained. look at verse 10.
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  • Halfway through the project it says,
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  • "and the strength of the burden bearers is failing."
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  • (robert speak in hebrew) in hebrew.
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  • Literally, the people are stumbling.
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  • They are staggering. they are toddling.
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  • There's something about a major project that drains you.
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  • Vince lombardi famously said,
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  • "fatigue makes cowards of us all."
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  • When our bodies grow tired, we become discouraged.
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  • Weary people are whiny people. never forget that.
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  • Secondly, the people were not only drained,
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  • They were disgruntled.
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  • Look again at verse 10, "yet there is much rubbish."
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  • That is the life verse for every parent of a teenager.
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  • Look around, there is much rubbish.
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  • Whenever you're involved in something big and worthwhile,
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  • There's going to be a lot of garbage,
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  • Literal and figurative around.
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  • There's going to be a lot of stuff around you
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  • That can cause discouragement.
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  • Third, notice the progression here. they were drained.
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  • They were disgruntled. they became dejected, dejected.
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  • Look at verse 10 again,
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  • "and we ourselves are unable to rebuild the wall."
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  • They said, "we're in over our heads. we just can't do it.
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  • We might as well hang it up."
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  • And that led to the final d. they were distressed.
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  • The people were distressed.
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  • They were so discouraged that they came to the point,
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  • They said, "we can't handle one more problem.
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  • We've had it.
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  • If we get one more piece of bad news, we're going to collapse."
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  • Have you ever felt that way in your life?
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  • Where you get to the point you say,
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  • "i can't take one more bad thing happening."
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  • Doesn't matter how big or small it is,
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  • "i can't take one more thing."
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  • And usually that one more thing ends up happening.
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  • The enemy knows he's got you when you say,
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  • "i can't handle one more thing."
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  • That's what happened to the israelites
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  • When they were at the end of themselves.
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  • Look at verse 11.
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  • "our enemies said, 'they will not know or see
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  • Until we come among them, kill them
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  • And put a stop to the work.'"
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  • Now, that's what the enemies were saying,
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  • But how did those building the wall know about it?
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  • Look at, this is so key. verse 12.
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  • "then the jews, our own people
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  • Who lived near the enemies came and told us 10 times,
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  • 'they will come up against us
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  • From every place where you turn.'"
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  • Do you know people who love to deliver bad news?
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  • They love to come into your life
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  • And they'll say something they heard
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  • And they'll say to you, they will amplify it 10 times.
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  • "you know, i just think you need to know.
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  • Everybody is saying! everybody is saying!"
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  • Now, they may have heard it one time,
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  • It's probably from their mate,
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  • But oh, that suddenly becomes, everybody is saying,
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  • Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  • When somebody says that to you, ask them.
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  • "well, exactly who is saying that?
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  • Could you tell me?"
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  • "oh, no, no, no, it's confidential."
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  • "okay, if you can't tell me their name,
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  • Just tell me how many?
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  • You said, 'everybody saying,' are you talking about
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  • You've heard that from 100 people?"
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  • "oh, well, no, not 100 people."
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  • "would you say 50 people have said that to you?"
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  • "oh, no, no, no, no, no, not 50."
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  • Usually it's them and maybe their mate or best friend.
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  • This is what the israelites were doing.
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  • They were listening to people who bore bad news.
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  • This led to the people becoming discouraged.
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  • They were discouraged, they were drained,
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  • They were disgruntled, dejected, distressed.
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  • That led to discouragement.
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  • Now, how do you handle discouragement?
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  • Well, if somebody says,
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  • "well, we just need to pray about it."
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  • Look, if your tire goes flat, you can pray all you want to,
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  • But eventually the tire has to be inflated.
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  • Same way with discouragement.
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  • Yes, we ought to pray,
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  • But discouraged people need to be encouraged.
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  • And i want to show you how nehemiah illustrates
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  • How to be encouraged when you're facing discouragement.
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  • The path that leads from discouragement to hope.
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  • I want you to look at the five decisive actions
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  • That nehemiah took when the people became discouraged.
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  • First of all, find encouragement in your family.
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  • Find encouragement in your family. look at verse 13.
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  • "i stationed men in the lowest part of the space
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  • Behind the wall, the exposed places,
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  • And i stationed the people in families
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  • With their swords, spears, and bows."
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  • He put the people together as families to work on the wall.
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  • Your family ought to be a place,
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  • Where regardless of what's happening on the outside,
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  • You can find encouragement.
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  • It ought to be your safe place.
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  • Now, i realize for many of you, that's not the case.
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  • You may come from a dysfunctional family.
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  • You may have had an absentee father.
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  • You don't find the encouragement you need in your family.
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  • Then you need a family of friends,
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  • Or you need your church family,
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  • But there ought to be someplace
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  • Where you find encouragement,
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  • A group of people who love you unconditionally.
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  • Secondly, remember, god is on your side.
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  • Whenever you feel discouraged,
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  • Remember, god is on your side.
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  • Nehemiah reminded the people of that in verse 14.
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  • He said, "when i saw their fear,
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  • I rose and i spoke to the nobles,
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  • The officials and the rest of the people,
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  • And i said, 'do not be afraid of them;
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  • Remember the lord who is great and awesome.'"
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  • Underline that, god is great and awesome!
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  • "and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters,
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  • Your wives, and your houses."
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  • We need to be reminded of the greatness,
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  • The awesomeness of god.
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  • Because when we're reminded of the greatness of god,
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  • Now listen to this.
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  • Our problems don't evaporate,
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  • But remembering the greatness of god
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  • Puts our problems in proper perspective.
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  • It reminds us how small our problems really are
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  • Compared to the greatness of god.
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  • Remember numbers 13, the spies,
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  • The 12 spies who went into canaan to check things out,
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  • And they came back with a report
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  • And 10 them said, "we cannot overtake the land.
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  • There are giants in the land!"
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  • And there were giants in the land,
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  • But then they said, "there are giants in the land,
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  • And we became as grasshoppers in our own eyes."
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  • Yeah, they had giants, that was accurate,
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  • But what was inaccurate is they weren't grasshoppers.
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  • But without god we're susceptible to being overwhelmed
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  • And discouraged with our problems.
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  • They forgot god and they became less than they really were.
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  • The same thing is true for you.
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  • You need to remind yourself of the greatness of god.
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  • You say, "well, how do i do that?"
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  • One way to do that is through the scripture.
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  • I want to give you a couple of scripture verses
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  • To memorize to remember the greatness of god
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  • And the fact that god is on your side.
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  • Romans 8:31-32, paul said, "what shall we say them?
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  • If god is for us, who can be against us?
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  • He who did not spare his own son,
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  • But delivered him up for us all,
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  • Will he not also freely give us everything else?"
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  • Or psalm 34:8, "o taste and see that the lord is good.
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  • How blessed are the people who take refuge in him!"
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  • Or psalm 8, "o lord, our lord,
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  • How majestic is your name and all the earth.
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  • When i consider the heavens, the work of your fingers,
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  • The moon and the stars which you have ordained,
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  • What is man that you're even mindful of him?
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  • Or the son of man, that you take care of him?"
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  • Remind yourself through scripture of the greatness of god.
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  • Listen to good christian praise music,
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  • Wonderful music from our choir and orchestra,
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  • Our day one band that reminds us of the greatness of god.
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  • When you remember the greatness of god,
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  • It puts your problems into perspective.
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  • See, do the work god has given you.
  • 00:12:51.894 --> 00:12:55.831
  • Now, this suggestion alone
  • 00:12:55.831 --> 00:12:58.834
  • Is worth the price of the sermon.
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  • Do the work that god has given you.
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  • Don't wait until the cloud of discouragement lifts
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  • Before you start doing what god has called you to do.
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  • Where do i find that? look at verses 15 and 16.
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  • "when our enemies heard that it was known to us
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  • And that god had frustrated their plan,
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  • Then all of us return to the wall,"
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  • Underline this, "each one to do his work."
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  • And then again in verse 16, "from that day on,
  • 00:13:25.527 --> 00:13:27.796
  • Half of my servants carried on the work
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  • While half of them held the spears."
  • 00:13:31.367 --> 00:13:33.802
  • Now, you know what most of us do?
  • 00:13:33.802 --> 00:13:35.671
  • We wait until we feel right to do right,
  • 00:13:35.671 --> 00:13:38.741
  • And we've got it reversed.
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  • Jerome bruner, a psychologist at harvard university, said,
  • 00:13:40.476 --> 00:13:45.781
  • "it is much easier to act yourself into a feeling
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  • Than to feel yourself into an action."
  • 00:13:51.153 --> 00:13:54.723
  • That's gold right there.
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  • It's a lot easier to act yourself into a feeling,
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  • Then feel yourself into an action.
  • 00:13:59.261 --> 00:14:00.663
  • In other words, if you wait until you feel right
  • 00:14:00.663 --> 00:14:03.165
  • To do right, you'll never do right.
  • 00:14:03.165 --> 00:14:05.367
  • But if you'll do right, you start to feel right.
  • 00:14:05.367 --> 00:14:08.270
  • By the way, jerome bruner didn't make that up.
  • 00:14:09.238 --> 00:14:12.508
  • That came from the scriptures itself.
  • 00:14:12.508 --> 00:14:15.177
  • Remember in genesis 4:6, god was talking to cain.
  • 00:14:15.177 --> 00:14:20.482
  • Cain was all depressed and discouraged
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  • After he tried to bring that no account offering to god,
  • 00:14:23.719 --> 00:14:26.388
  • And god rejected it
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  • And accepted the offering of his brother.
  • 00:14:27.589 --> 00:14:30.159
  • Remember what god said to cain in genesis 4:6,
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  • "why are you angry, cain
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  • And why has your countenance fallen?
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  • If you do right, will not your countenance be lifted up?"
  • 00:14:38.934 --> 00:14:44.273
  • In other words, cain, if you will do right,
  • 00:14:45.207 --> 00:14:47.876
  • You'll start to feel right.
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  • Do the work that god has already called you to do.
  • 00:14:50.245 --> 00:14:54.850
  • Number four, enlist other people to help you.
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  • Enlist the help of others.
  • 00:14:59.154 --> 00:15:01.857
  • I came across a term this week that i was unfamiliar with.
  • 00:15:03.025 --> 00:15:07.262
  • It's the term sologamy. do you know about sologamy?
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  • You know what it is?
  • 00:15:12.868 --> 00:15:14.436
  • It's the new trend of people choosing to marry themselves.
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  • Solo, sologamy, marrying yourself.
  • 00:15:20.709 --> 00:15:24.546
  • Now you think i'm making this up.
  • 00:15:24.546 --> 00:15:26.248
  • Go read the new york times this week.
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  • There's a big article
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  • On the trend of people marrying themselves.
  • 00:15:29.351 --> 00:15:32.187
  • They actually send out invitations to a wedding ceremony.
  • 00:15:32.187 --> 00:15:36.658
  • People give gifts.
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  • They have a reception for a person to marry himself.
  • 00:15:38.127 --> 00:15:43.032
  • Now, we're not going to explore that completely,
  • 00:15:43.966 --> 00:15:48.103
  • But obviously, it is a ridiculous idea.
  • 00:15:48.103 --> 00:15:51.006
  • You need somebody else to marry.
  • 00:15:51.006 --> 00:15:54.276
  • You can't marry yourself,
  • 00:15:54.276 --> 00:15:56.612
  • And you also need other people to help you through life.
  • 00:15:56.612 --> 00:15:59.114
  • That's a principle you find in scripture.
  • 00:15:59.114 --> 00:16:01.216
  • Look at verses 19 and 20 of nehemiah 4.
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  • By the way, did you hear somebody's phone going off
  • 00:16:07.222 --> 00:16:10.159
  • Just a moment ago, that amber alert that comes?
  • 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:14.163
  • You know, that can be very annoying.
  • 00:16:14.163 --> 00:16:16.732
  • Or your television, the tornado warning
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  • That comes and so forth.
  • 00:16:20.369 --> 00:16:21.603
  • Back in nehemiah's day,
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  • They didn't have the alerts like we've got.
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  • If an enemy came, then nehemiah had to devise a way
  • 00:16:26.241 --> 00:16:30.079
  • To warn everybody of it,
  • 00:16:30.079 --> 00:16:31.580
  • And that's exactly what he does in verses 19 and 20.
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  • "and i said to the nobles,
  • 00:16:34.650 --> 00:16:36.218
  • The officials and the rest of the people,
  • 00:16:36.218 --> 00:16:38.087
  • 'the work is great and extensive,
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  • And we are separated on the wall from one another.'"
  • 00:16:40.189 --> 00:16:42.891
  • Even though people were in families,
  • 00:16:42.891 --> 00:16:44.393
  • They were still separated.
  • 00:16:44.393 --> 00:16:45.928
  • "at whatever place you hear the sounds of the trumpet,
  • 00:16:45.928 --> 00:16:49.064
  • Rally to us there, our god will fight for us."
  • 00:16:49.064 --> 00:16:52.334
  • In other words, if we're under attack,
  • 00:16:52.334 --> 00:16:54.570
  • We'll get a bugler to blow the bugle
  • 00:16:54.570 --> 00:16:57.139
  • Instead of sounding the amber alert
  • 00:16:57.139 --> 00:16:59.274
  • And you go to the place, wherever you hear the bugler,
  • 00:16:59.274 --> 00:17:02.744
  • And we'll all come together instead of being alone
  • 00:17:02.744 --> 00:17:05.414
  • When the enemy attacked.
  • 00:17:05.414 --> 00:17:07.149
  • He established a place for the people to gather together
  • 00:17:07.149 --> 00:17:09.952
  • Where the bugler is.
  • 00:17:09.952 --> 00:17:11.487
  • But also a principle that we all need to remember today.
  • 00:17:11.487 --> 00:17:14.123
  • Never try to fight your battles alone.
  • 00:17:14.123 --> 00:17:19.328
  • Or even in a family,
  • 00:17:19.795 --> 00:17:21.063
  • You need a bigger group to be a part of.
  • 00:17:21.063 --> 00:17:24.433
  • You need a church family.
  • 00:17:24.433 --> 00:17:26.702
  • You need a group of believers who will surround you.
  • 00:17:26.702 --> 00:17:30.272
  • Isolated people are defeated people.
  • 00:17:30.272 --> 00:17:34.476
  • Solomon said it this way. i like the new living translation.
  • 00:17:34.476 --> 00:17:37.546
  • Ecclesiastes 4:12.
  • 00:17:37.546 --> 00:17:39.348
  • "a person standing alone can be attacked and defeated,
  • 00:17:39.348 --> 00:17:42.618
  • But two can stand back to back and conquer.
  • 00:17:42.618 --> 00:17:46.488
  • Three are even better,
  • 00:17:46.488 --> 00:17:48.023
  • For a triple braided cord is not easily broken."
  • 00:17:48.023 --> 00:17:52.928
  • You know, one of the most dangerous things
  • 00:17:52.928 --> 00:17:54.730
  • About this pandemic
  • 00:17:54.730 --> 00:17:56.331
  • Has been unlike other crises in american life,
  • 00:17:56.331 --> 00:18:00.002
  • The civil war, world war ii, terrorist attacks.
  • 00:18:00.002 --> 00:18:05.340
  • Unlike those crises, we had to go through this alone.
  • 00:18:06.441 --> 00:18:09.311
  • We were separated from one another
  • 00:18:09.311 --> 00:18:11.113
  • And from our places of worship,
  • 00:18:11.113 --> 00:18:13.482
  • And that's why i would just encourage those of you
  • 00:18:13.482 --> 00:18:16.618
  • Who are watching online right now,
  • 00:18:16.618 --> 00:18:19.188
  • Get back to church as soon as you possibly can.
  • 00:18:20.189 --> 00:18:23.992
  • The enemy loves to isolate us
  • 00:18:24.626 --> 00:18:27.529
  • And ultimately attack and defeat us.
  • 00:18:27.529 --> 00:18:30.432
  • We need one another. isolated people are defeated people.
  • 00:18:30.432 --> 00:18:35.771
  • And finally, how do you move from discouragement to hope?
  • 00:18:36.905 --> 00:18:39.675
  • Serve another person in need,
  • 00:18:39.675 --> 00:18:42.978
  • Encourage another person who needs encouragement.
  • 00:18:42.978 --> 00:18:45.747
  • Where do i get that? look at verses 21 and 22.
  • 00:18:45.747 --> 00:18:48.984
  • "so we carried on the work
  • 00:18:48.984 --> 00:18:50.485
  • With half of them holding spears
  • 00:18:50.485 --> 00:18:52.154
  • From dawn until the stars appeared.
  • 00:18:52.154 --> 00:18:54.656
  • At that time, i also said to the people,
  • 00:18:54.656 --> 00:18:56.925
  • 'let each man with his servant
  • 00:18:56.925 --> 00:18:58.393
  • Spend the night within jerusalem
  • 00:18:58.393 --> 00:19:00.862
  • So that they may be a guard for us by night
  • 00:19:00.862 --> 00:19:03.165
  • And a laborer by day.'"
  • 00:19:03.165 --> 00:19:04.800
  • I read and read this,
  • 00:19:04.800 --> 00:19:06.268
  • The commentaries this week about this passage
  • 00:19:06.268 --> 00:19:08.270
  • Trying to figure out what was going on.
  • 00:19:08.270 --> 00:19:10.305
  • Here's my best shot at it.
  • 00:19:10.305 --> 00:19:12.107
  • Nehemiah said, "we need to speed up
  • 00:19:12.107 --> 00:19:13.675
  • The construction project, so we're going to work double shifts
  • 00:19:13.675 --> 00:19:16.211
  • And get this thing done before the enemy attacks.
  • 00:19:16.211 --> 00:19:19.348
  • So to do that, we need people
  • 00:19:19.348 --> 00:19:21.216
  • After they finish their shift,
  • 00:19:21.216 --> 00:19:23.051
  • We need them to go ahead and stay here,
  • 00:19:23.051 --> 00:19:25.220
  • Stay in the city, guard the other people who are working
  • 00:19:25.220 --> 00:19:29.758
  • So we can speed up the project."
  • 00:19:29.758 --> 00:19:32.227
  • Even though the people were drained and tired
  • 00:19:32.227 --> 00:19:34.296
  • After a busy day of working, nehemiah said,
  • 00:19:34.296 --> 00:19:37.165
  • "protect somebody else."
  • 00:19:37.165 --> 00:19:40.302
  • And the principle here is sometimes
  • 00:19:40.302 --> 00:19:42.671
  • The best thing you can do when you're discouraged
  • 00:19:42.671 --> 00:19:45.907
  • Is to encourage somebody else.
  • 00:19:45.907 --> 00:19:49.111
  • Now you probably feel like you're in no position to do that.
  • 00:19:49.111 --> 00:19:52.014
  • I've heard people say, "oh, i'm just so drained emotionally.
  • 00:19:52.014 --> 00:19:55.717
  • I don't have anything to offer anybody."
  • 00:19:55.717 --> 00:19:58.020
  • That's not true if you're a christian,
  • 00:19:58.020 --> 00:19:59.955
  • You do have something to offer somebody else.
  • 00:19:59.955 --> 00:20:02.557
  • I heard somebody say this week, and i wrote this down,
  • 00:20:02.557 --> 00:20:05.160
  • "a candle doesn't lose anything
  • 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:08.764
  • When it lights another candle."
  • 00:20:08.764 --> 00:20:11.667
  • That's a profound thought.
  • 00:20:12.234 --> 00:20:13.602
  • There is nothing of a candle that's diminished
  • 00:20:13.602 --> 00:20:15.771
  • When it lights another candle.
  • 00:20:15.771 --> 00:20:18.607
  • And the same thing is true
  • 00:20:18.607 --> 00:20:19.808
  • When we encourage another christian,
  • 00:20:19.808 --> 00:20:23.745
  • It doesn't cost us anything.
  • 00:20:23.745 --> 00:20:26.548
  • I think about my friend jimmy draper,
  • 00:20:27.316 --> 00:20:29.351
  • Who was the associate pastor here years ago.
  • 00:20:29.351 --> 00:20:32.688
  • I remember when he was preaching one time,
  • 00:20:32.688 --> 00:20:34.356
  • I heard him as a teenager
  • 00:20:34.356 --> 00:20:36.024
  • And he said something i'll never forget.
  • 00:20:36.024 --> 00:20:37.693
  • He said, "be nice to everybody
  • 00:20:37.693 --> 00:20:40.228
  • Because everybody's having a hard time."
  • 00:20:40.228 --> 00:20:43.065
  • I'd change that a little bit to say,
  • 00:20:43.865 --> 00:20:46.134
  • Encourage anyone you meet
  • 00:20:46.134 --> 00:20:48.270
  • Because everybody needs encouragement,
  • 00:20:48.270 --> 00:20:51.940
  • And you've got the ability to encourage other people.
  • 00:20:53.008 --> 00:20:56.211
  • I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, my daughter julia,
  • 00:20:56.211 --> 00:20:59.848
  • Has written a very honest book called "pray big things,"
  • 00:20:59.848 --> 00:21:04.052
  • And she details the discouragement she and ryan felt
  • 00:21:04.052 --> 00:21:07.823
  • After going through a season of infertility
  • 00:21:07.823 --> 00:21:10.959
  • And three miscarriages.
  • 00:21:10.959 --> 00:21:13.595
  • And in the book she describes an episode in which she,
  • 00:21:13.595 --> 00:21:16.965
  • About four years ago,
  • 00:21:16.965 --> 00:21:18.600
  • Had lunch with her younger sister dorothy.
  • 00:21:18.600 --> 00:21:22.070
  • And dorothy said something that lifted julia's spirits.
  • 00:21:22.070 --> 00:21:26.174
  • Julia writes, "at that lunch,
  • 00:21:26.174 --> 00:21:28.310
  • Dorothy looked at me and said, 'julia,
  • 00:21:28.310 --> 00:21:31.279
  • I think something really big is about to happen.'
  • 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.816
  • Now, this was a year before the triplets were born,
  • 00:21:34.816 --> 00:21:37.886
  • Before my dad became a presidential advisor,
  • 00:21:37.886 --> 00:21:40.489
  • Before ryan and i were cast in a reality tv show
  • 00:21:40.489 --> 00:21:43.792
  • That gave us the ability
  • 00:21:43.792 --> 00:21:45.527
  • To talk about christ on a national platform.
  • 00:21:45.527 --> 00:21:48.196
  • How did dorothy know something big was about to happen?
  • 00:21:48.196 --> 00:21:52.734
  • Dorothy is not some kind of modern day prophetess,
  • 00:21:52.734 --> 00:21:56.171
  • But she understands the spiritual progression of events.
  • 00:21:56.171 --> 00:22:01.009
  • Temptation, struggles, trials
  • 00:22:01.009 --> 00:22:04.112
  • And persecution usually come before a blessing.
  • 00:22:04.112 --> 00:22:09.084
  • If we figure out that sequence,
  • 00:22:09.084 --> 00:22:11.486
  • We will not be swayed in our beliefs.
  • 00:22:11.486 --> 00:22:14.356
  • While the trials will be hard, our victory is certain."
  • 00:22:14.356 --> 00:22:20.095
  • There's some of you right now who feel like
  • 00:22:20.996 --> 00:22:24.232
  • The mountain of discouragement is overshadowing
  • 00:22:24.232 --> 00:22:27.269
  • Everything else in your life.
  • 00:22:27.269 --> 00:22:29.504
  • Remember, struggles, trials,
  • 00:22:30.105 --> 00:22:34.109
  • Difficulties many times are just the prelude
  • 00:22:34.109 --> 00:22:38.814
  • To a new season of blessing
  • 00:22:38.814 --> 00:22:41.049
  • That's about to come into your life.
  • 00:22:41.049 --> 00:22:43.418
  • Remind yourself, encourage yourself with that truth
  • 00:22:44.419 --> 00:22:48.190
  • And then find somebody else to encourage with that truth.
  • 00:22:48.190 --> 00:22:52.527
  • Why?
  • 00:22:52.527 --> 00:22:54.062
  • Because the path that leads from discouragement to hope
  • 00:22:54.062 --> 00:22:57.399
  • Is best traveled together rather than alone.
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  • If you feel stuck in a rut of discouragement today,
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  • I hope you'll begin to see
  • 00:23:10.812 --> 00:23:12.447
  • That life's trials are not a permanent destination,
  • 00:23:12.447 --> 00:23:15.684
  • But a stop on the road to god's blessings,
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  • And understanding that truth is key
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  • To conquering the mountain of discouragement.
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  • Along with a personal and group study guide.
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  • Nothing will prevent your conquering mountains
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  • In your life any more than doubt.
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  • We've got this secret fear
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  • That our doubts are bigger than god's answers.
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  • Don't worry about that.
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  • God is big enough to handle your questions.
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  • [announcer] your generosity today will help us
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  • Spread the message of victory and hope.
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  • Thank you for giving generously
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  • To help us shine the light of christ
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  • Into the dark corners of our country and world.
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  • Life's problems seem a lot more manageable
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  • When we have someone to help us through them.
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  • Don't you agree?
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  • Well, in turn, we're called to lift up other people
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  • As they navigate their personal struggles as well.
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  • That's the biblical path from discouragement to hope.
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  • Now, the bible says that all of us have sinned
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  • And fallen short of the glory of god,
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  • And as a result, everyone struggles with a measure of shame.
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  • So please join us next time
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  • When i talk about conquering the mountain of guilt.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next on "pathway to victory."
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  • Everybody struggles with guilt about something
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  • Because we've all sinned and fallen short of god's plan,
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  • But we have a choice of how we handle our guilt.
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  • We can try to cover it, we can run away from it,
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  • We can blame others for it, we can rationalize it,
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  • Or we can discover the freedom
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  • That comes from god's forgiveness.
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  • [announcer] set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For the message, "moving from guilt to repentance,"
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