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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Moving From Doubt To Faith (Part 2) | July 8, 2025
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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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- Very few christians are willing to admit it,
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- But we all struggle with doubt,
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- Myself included.
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- Maybe your thoughts are frequently overrun
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- With questions about god's goodness,
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- His sovereignty, or even his existence.
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- Or perhaps there's a small nagging voice of uncertainty
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- In the back of your mind,
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- But you're embarrassed to divulge your weakness
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- To another person.
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- Gratefully, doubt is not only universal,
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- It's perfectly natural,
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- And i'm going to show you how to move from doubt to faith
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- On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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- ♪ whatever my lot ♪
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- ♪ thou hast taught me to say ♪
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- ♪ it is well ♪
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- ♪ with my soul ♪
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- ♪ o lord haste the day ♪
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- Bart ehrman went to the moody bible institute,
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- Graduated from that conservative school.
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- He went to princeton theological seminary.
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- He became the premier apologist
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- For conservative christianity.
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- He was a expert in the new testament,
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- But he never could resolve
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- That problem of undeserved suffering.
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- And because of that,
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- He gave up orthodox christianity,
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- Became its greatest critic,
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- No longer believes in the inerrancy of the bible
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- Or the exclusivity of christ for salvation.
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- He wrote a book about his journey to unbelief.
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- It was entitled "god's problem,
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- How the bible fails to answer our most important question,
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- Why we suffer."
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- And in that book, bart ehrman said,
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- "suffering is not only senseless,
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- It is also random, capricious and unevenly distributed."
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- For some of you who may be having great doubts about god
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- For undeserved suffering you feel,
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- Or some other fact in your life, unanswered prayer,
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- How do you handle that doubt?
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- How do you conquer that kind of doubt?
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- Remember, doubts are natural,
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- But if they're not taken care of,
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- If they're watered, they become seeds of unbelief
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- And ultimately departure from the faith.
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- We're going to talk about three practical ways
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- To handle your doubts.
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- But before we do that,
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- We're going to look at a case study in doubt
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- From the new testament.
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- If you have your bibles, turn to john 11.
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- We're going to look at the champion doubter of all time.
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- Do you know who he is?
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- His name is thomas.
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- He was one of the apostles.
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- We don't talk a lot about thomas,
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- Perhaps because of all of the doubts he had.
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- But i like thomas, i really do,
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- Because thomas was the kind of guy
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- That would ask the question
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- That everybody else was thinking privately.
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- I mean, he actually said
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- What everybody else was thinking in a room,
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- And god honored that.
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- He honored his sincere questioning.
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- Turn to john 11,
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- And we're going to look three areas of doubt
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- That thomas had and how they correspond
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- To the kind of doubts we have.
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- First of all, doubts about life itself.
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- Doubts about life itself.
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- I'm talking about doubts about what's happening to you
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- And whether god is capable of leaving you
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- Through the challenge of this life.
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- Thomas had that same question in john 11.
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- Let me show you what i mean.
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- You know this is about the resurrection of lazarus.
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- That's what we remember john 11 for.
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- But the events leading up to the resurrection of lazarus
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- Were quite interesting.
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- Lazarus was one of jesus' best friends,
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- Along with his sisters, mary and martha.
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- And when jesus got word that lazarus was sick,
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- The disciples thought, well, we'll go to heal him.
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- But jesus had a different idea.
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- He waited a little bit longer
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- So he could wait until lazarus had died
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- And he could perform that great resurrection.
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- But it's interesting that when
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- Jesus finally said "let's go," in verse eight,
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- The disciples said to him,
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- "rabbi, the jews were just now seeking to stone you
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- And you're going there again?"
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- They were going to go to bethany,
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- Just two miles away from jerusalem.
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- They said, "aren't you forgetting
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- What the leaders tried to do?
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- They just tried to kill you.
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- Are you going to go back and risk your life?"
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- And what they weren't saying is,
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- Are you going to go back and risk our life as well?
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- Why are you doing that?
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- Thomas was one of those disciples,
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- And yet i love his reply in verse 16,
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- "finally, therefore, thomas said to his fellow disciples,
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- 'let us also go,
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- So that we might die with him.'"
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- Thomas had a serious question
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- About whether this was a wise thing to do,
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- But notice how he expressed his faith.
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- We're going to go, even if it means dying with you.
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- Sometimes we have doubts about life.
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- Some of our doubts are about the future, about eternity.
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- The next time we see john, in the gospel of john,
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- It's in john 14.
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- The disciples were with jesus in the upper room,
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- The night before he was crucified.
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- Jesus was explaining
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- About the sacrifice he was about to make for them,
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- But he gave them these words of assurance in john 14:1,
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- This was all in the upper room.
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- He said, "let not your heart be troubled,
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- Neither let it be afraid.
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- You believe in god, believe also in me,
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- For in my father's house are many mansions.
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- If it were not so, i would've told you,
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- For i go to prepare a place for you.
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- And if i go and prepare a place for you,
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- I will come again and take you unto myself
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- That where i am, there you may be also."
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- And thomas, one of the apostles,
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- Raised his hand and said, "jesus.
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- Hey jesus,
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- We don't have a clue where you're going.
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- How in the world do you expect us
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- To know the way to where you're going?"
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- That's what he said in verse five.
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- And jesus responded to him, verse six and said,
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- "i am the way, the truth and the life.
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- No man comes to the father except by me."
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- Think about it, without thomas' doubt,
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- We never would've gotten that tremendous answer
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- That reminds us,
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- There is something on the other side of the grave,
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- That place called heaven.
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- It's all natural for us to doubt that.
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- Again, we've never seen it before.
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- We're stuck in this life,
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- It's natural to question about eternity.
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- But jesus says there is a heaven
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- And he showed us the way to get there
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- Through faith in his death for our sins.
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- Thirdly, thomas illustrates doubts about god himself.
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- Doubts about god.
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- And this is the foundational doubt
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- We have to wrestle with,
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- Is jesus really who he said he was?
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- Remember after the crucifixion that next day,
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- On friday, what did the disciples do?
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- They hold up in a secret hiding place,
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- Cowering in fear that they too would be arrested
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- And crucified like jesus had been.
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- And then on that sunday evening after the resurrection,
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- Jesus miraculously appeared
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- In front of those disciples.
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- He said, "i'm here.
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- See the scars in my hands.
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- Look at the scars in my side and my feet."
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- They were astonished at what they saw.
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- But then john sounds this ominous note in verse 24,
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- "but thomas, one of the 12 was not with them
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- When jesus came."
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- Where was he?
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- He had allowed his disbelief,
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- His disenchantment with jesus
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- To cause him to separate from the disciples.
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- When the disciples saw jesus crucified,
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- Their dreams evaporated.
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- They said, "he's just another man."
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- But thomas allowed his doubts to become disbelief
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- And he separated himself
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- From the rest of the apostles.
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- And so verse 25 says
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- That apparently they went out and found thomas,
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- And they said to him, "we have seen the lord."
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- But thomas said to them,
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- "unless i see in his hands the imprint of the nails
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- And put my finger into the place of the nails
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- And put my hand into his side,
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- I will not believe."
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- Now, here's a principle i want you to write down,
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- It's not on your outline, write this down.
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- Distance from others
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- Is dangerous for doubters.
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- Distance from others is dangerous for doubters.
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- Lone rangers are easily ambushed.
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- Thomas made a key mistake here
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- By separating from the other believers,
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- Going out by himself,
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- His doubt was turning in to unbelief.
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- Questions, if we're not careful,
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- Can become seeds of doubt,
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- And seeds of doubt can grow into unbelief.
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- And unbelief is like a mushroom,
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- It grows best in the darkness.
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- Now listen to me,
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- When you have times of doubt in your life
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- About your christian faith,
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- Satan will do everything he can to convince you,
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- You need to separate from the church.
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- You need to separate from other christians.
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- You need to work things out on your own
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- Before you come back and believe.
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- No, if you do that,
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- You become spiritual roadkill.
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- No, there is strength in numbers.
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- Don't make the mistake of distancing yourself from others
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- When you doubt.
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- So they found thomas, they said, "come back with us.
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- We've seen the lord."
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- And apparently thomas went back
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- And they stayed in that room for another eight days.
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- But eight days later, verse 26 said,
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- "jesus appeared again in their midst.
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- He said, 'peace be with you,'
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- And then turning to thomas,
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- He stretched out his hands and said,
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- 'put your finger here.'
- 00:14:19.415 --> 00:14:21.450
- Then he said, 'reach out your hand and put it into my side.'
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- The lord said to thomas, 'stop doubting and believe.'
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- And thomas said, 'my god and my lord.'"
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- Isn't it interesting?
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- Jesus knew exactly what thomas had said,
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- "unless i seen him,
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- Unless i put my finger in that scar, i won't believe."
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- That leads to a second principle,
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- Dependable evidence is distributed to doubters.
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- Dependable evidence is given, it's distributed to doubters.
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- Jesus didn't scorn thomas because he wanted evidence,
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- He didn't chastise him.
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- He gave him what he was looking for.
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- That's how god deals with people who honestly doubt,
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- People who are seeking sincere answers,
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- People who are looking for reasons to believe,
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- Not to disbelief.
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- If you're a doubter today,
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- God will do the same for you.
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- Now, the evidence god provides
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- Isn't always a supernatural appearance
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- Like he made to thomas.
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- Sometimes god will direct you
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- To the evidence that is already there.
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- I think about the story of lee strobel,
- 00:15:36.959 --> 00:15:39.128
- A pulitzer prize winning investigative newspaper journalist.
- 00:15:39.128 --> 00:15:44.466
- His wife was a christian, his children were christians,
- 00:15:45.601 --> 00:15:47.503
- But he wasn't a believer.
- 00:15:47.503 --> 00:15:49.405
- And what he tripped over
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- Was the resurrection of jesus from the dead.
- 00:15:52.741 --> 00:15:55.310
- And he honestly looked for the historical evidence
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- To verify the resurrection of jesus christ,
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- And he found that evidence in fact did exist.
- 00:16:01.683 --> 00:16:04.853
- He became a strong believer
- 00:16:04.853 --> 00:16:06.722
- And wrote those bestselling books,
- 00:16:06.722 --> 00:16:08.724
- "the case for christ and the case for faith."
- 00:16:08.724 --> 00:16:11.760
- But the point is,
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- When god sees a heart that wants to know him,
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- He'll provide the evidence that person needs.
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- Dependable evidence is distributed to doubters.
- 00:16:19.334 --> 00:16:24.606
- And then notice what happened.
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- Jesus said, verse 29,
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- "because you have seen me,
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- Have you now believed?
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- Blessed are those who did not see and yet believed."
- 00:16:32.815 --> 00:16:38.020
- Jesus said to thomas,
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- "i'm glad you believed, you've believed,
- 00:16:39.655 --> 00:16:42.858
- But there's an extra blessing
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- For those who haven't yet seen me but believe anyway."
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- You know who he's talking about?
- 00:16:48.764 --> 00:16:50.265
- He's talking about you.
- 00:16:50.265 --> 00:16:52.267
- He's talking about me.
- 00:16:52.267 --> 00:16:53.669
- He was looking down the corridors of history and saying,
- 00:16:53.669 --> 00:16:56.338
- "blessed are those who believe without seeing me."
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- How do you move from doubt to faith?
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- How can you make sure
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- That one day you hear similar words,
- 00:17:05.981 --> 00:17:09.451
- "well done, good and faithful servant."
- 00:17:09.451 --> 00:17:12.588
- Let me share with you three practical principles
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- From moving from doubt to faith.
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- Number one, don't deny your doubts, acknowledge them.
- 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:22.664
- Don't deny your doubts, acknowledge them.
- 00:17:23.532 --> 00:17:25.367
- The reason we're fearful of acknowledging our doubts is,
- 00:17:25.367 --> 00:17:28.770
- We've got this secret fear that our doubts
- 00:17:28.770 --> 00:17:31.640
- Are bigger than god's answers.
- 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:35.010
- We think our questions
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- Are too great for god's answers.
- 00:17:36.778 --> 00:17:39.148
- Don't worry about that.
- 00:17:39.148 --> 00:17:41.150
- God is big enough to handle your questions.
- 00:17:41.150 --> 00:17:44.820
- Philosophies, they come and go.
- 00:17:44.820 --> 00:17:47.256
- In the early part of the 19th century,
- 00:17:48.090 --> 00:17:49.658
- The german philosopher, nietzsche,
- 00:17:49.658 --> 00:17:51.460
- Frederick nietzsche said, "god is dead."
- 00:17:51.460 --> 00:17:55.697
- That was revolutionary, god is dead.
- 00:17:55.697 --> 00:17:58.300
- Today god says, "nietzsche is dead."
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- (congregation laughing)
- 00:18:01.136 --> 00:18:02.938
- I mean, philosophies come and go,
- 00:18:02.938 --> 00:18:05.340
- But god's word stands forever.
- 00:18:05.340 --> 00:18:07.709
- Isaiah 48, "the grass withers, the flower fades,
- 00:18:07.709 --> 00:18:11.613
- But the word of our god
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- Shall stand forever."
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- I remember talking to a christian.
- 00:18:15.918 --> 00:18:18.587
- She was crying, she had all kind of doubts.
- 00:18:19.488 --> 00:18:22.291
- She said, "i'm not even sure i believe in god anymore."
- 00:18:22.291 --> 00:18:27.729
- I said, "that's okay.
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- That's okay,
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- Because even when you don't believe in god,
- 00:18:31.767 --> 00:18:33.602
- He still believes in you."
- 00:18:33.602 --> 00:18:37.172
- Don't worry about denying your doubts,
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- Go ahead and acknowledge them.
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- Your questions are no match for god's answers.
- 00:18:43.145 --> 00:18:47.115
- Secondly, don't dread your doubts, analyze them.
- 00:18:47.115 --> 00:18:51.053
- Again, we dread doubts because we fear that our doubts
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- Will destroy our faith.
- 00:18:54.923 --> 00:18:56.458
- No, go ahead and analyze them.
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- Why? why are you doubting?
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- Is it something you read?
- 00:18:59.728 --> 00:19:01.196
- Some question you have about the faith?
- 00:19:01.196 --> 00:19:03.932
- Is it because of an unanswered prayer,
- 00:19:03.932 --> 00:19:06.468
- Or a suffering you're experiencing?
- 00:19:06.468 --> 00:19:09.004
- Is it because of perhaps disobedience in your life?
- 00:19:09.004 --> 00:19:12.574
- Analyze your doubts.
- 00:19:12.574 --> 00:19:14.076
- Thirdly, don't disguise your doubts, articulate them.
- 00:19:14.076 --> 00:19:19.381
- Don't disguise your doubts, articulate them.
- 00:19:20.282 --> 00:19:22.818
- Thomas was willing to verbalize
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- Exactly why he was doubting and what he needed.
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- You need to do that too.
- 00:19:28.824 --> 00:19:30.559
- Remember, doubt grows in the darkness.
- 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:35.197
- Doubt grows in the darkness.
- 00:19:35.197 --> 00:19:37.799
- You know, i read somewhere
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- That every christian needs to have three people in his life,
- 00:19:40.802 --> 00:19:44.406
- A paul, a timothy,
- 00:19:44.406 --> 00:19:47.409
- And a barnabas.
- 00:19:47.776 --> 00:19:50.279
- In other words, we need a paul,
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- Somebody who can mentor us,
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- A mature christian that we can look to for guidance.
- 00:19:54.416 --> 00:19:58.720
- We all need a timothy,
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- Somebody to disciple,
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- Somebody whose life we are pouring into.
- 00:20:01.089 --> 00:20:03.825
- But we all thirdly need a barnabas.
- 00:20:03.825 --> 00:20:06.461
- Remember, he was the son of encouragement in acts 5,
- 00:20:06.461 --> 00:20:09.164
- Who was always encouraging people.
- 00:20:09.164 --> 00:20:11.667
- Now, the key is when you go through a time of doubt,
- 00:20:11.667 --> 00:20:13.835
- You've got to know which one to go to.
- 00:20:13.835 --> 00:20:15.971
- Don't go to somebody you're trying to disciple,
- 00:20:15.971 --> 00:20:18.340
- Somebody who's younger in the faith than you are.
- 00:20:18.340 --> 00:20:21.109
- You're going to destroy them if you do that.
- 00:20:21.109 --> 00:20:23.412
- But there needs to be a mature christian you can go to.
- 00:20:23.412 --> 00:20:27.115
- And you'll find that when you voice your doubt to them,
- 00:20:27.115 --> 00:20:29.551
- They'll say, "you know what?
- 00:20:29.551 --> 00:20:30.952
- I've been through the same thing,
- 00:20:30.952 --> 00:20:32.587
- Or i've had the same question,
- 00:20:32.587 --> 00:20:34.156
- And here's how i resolved it in my life."
- 00:20:34.156 --> 00:20:37.092
- Make sure you have somebody you can go to.
- 00:20:37.092 --> 00:20:41.129
- And remember, above all people,
- 00:20:41.129 --> 00:20:43.699
- Go to god with your questions.
- 00:20:43.699 --> 00:20:45.634
- I came across the simple formula
- 00:20:45.634 --> 00:20:47.869
- For dealing with doubt that came from mark littleton.
- 00:20:47.869 --> 00:20:50.839
- He said, "turn your doubts into questions.
- 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:54.910
- Then turn your questions into prayers,
- 00:20:55.677 --> 00:20:59.414
- And turn your prayers to god."
- 00:20:59.414 --> 00:21:02.551
- That's the way for dealing with doubts.
- 00:21:02.551 --> 00:21:05.354
- Don't disguise your doubts, articulate them.
- 00:21:05.354 --> 00:21:08.924
- And when we turn our doubts into prayers
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- And turn them to god,
- 00:21:11.760 --> 00:21:13.362
- He will encourage you just like he did thomas by saying,
- 00:21:13.362 --> 00:21:17.599
- "do not be unbelieving, but believing."
- 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.770
- Apparently thomas held on those words
- 00:21:22.604 --> 00:21:25.674
- For the rest of his life,
- 00:21:25.674 --> 00:21:27.209
- "do not be unbelieving but believing."
- 00:21:27.209 --> 00:21:30.912
- How do i know that?
- 00:21:30.912 --> 00:21:32.447
- Well, church tradition tells us that after the resurrection,
- 00:21:32.447 --> 00:21:36.184
- Thomas went to india where he started churches there.
- 00:21:36.184 --> 00:21:40.389
- He then went to china
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- Where he started the christian church in peking.
- 00:21:41.923 --> 00:21:45.961
- He came back to india
- 00:21:45.961 --> 00:21:47.496
- And nurtured those new believers in christ.
- 00:21:47.496 --> 00:21:50.031
- One day when he was an old man,
- 00:21:50.031 --> 00:21:52.601
- He was in a cave, praying to god,
- 00:21:52.601 --> 00:21:55.804
- And a group of hindu priests attacked him,
- 00:21:55.804 --> 00:21:59.107
- Fearful that christianity was going to overshadow hinduism.
- 00:21:59.107 --> 00:22:04.212
- And one of those hindu priests
- 00:22:04.846 --> 00:22:07.516
- Thrust a spear into the side of thomas,
- 00:22:08.383 --> 00:22:11.586
- Thinking they had killed him,
- 00:22:11.586 --> 00:22:13.922
- But they hadn't.
- 00:22:13.922 --> 00:22:15.457
- When they left,
- 00:22:15.457 --> 00:22:16.825
- Thomas was able to crawl to a nearby church chapel.
- 00:22:16.825 --> 00:22:21.530
- He wrapped his arms around the base of a stone cross,
- 00:22:22.597 --> 00:22:27.936
- And he looked up at that cross and said,
- 00:22:28.804 --> 00:22:30.906
- "thank you, god, for your mercies in my life.
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- Into your hands, i commend my spirit."
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- ♪ music ♪
- 00:22:39.080 --> 00:22:42.250
- Those are not the words of a doubter,
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- They are words of somebody who finally conquered
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- The mountain of doubt.
- 00:22:50.659 --> 00:22:52.994
- And they can be your final words as well,
- 00:22:52.994 --> 00:22:56.264
- If you learn the secret of moving
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- From doubt to faith.
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- As you heard today's message on pathway to victory,
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- 00:23:09.644 --> 00:23:11.012
- Some of your own personal doubts,
- 00:23:11.012 --> 00:23:13.348
- Doubts about life, doubts about the future,
- 00:23:13.348 --> 00:23:16.585
- Even doubts about god.
- 00:23:16.585 --> 00:23:18.787
- Like thomas, god can turn your doubts into faith.
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- Doubted his faith at times.
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- Well, throughout the scriptures, we are told not to worry.
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- Stay tuned for a preview
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- Of the next message in our series "invincible."
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- What i mean by that is,
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- Whenever we build our life around the temporal,
- 00:26:20.902 --> 00:26:24.939
- 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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- And accumulate more and more and more.
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