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Robert Jeffress - Moving From Fear To Courage (Part 1)

July 22, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Moving From Fear To Courage (Part 1)
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Moving From Fear To Courage (Part 1) | July 22, 2025
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  • [narrator] 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, am robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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  • Fear is a natural
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  • And even sometimes helpful reaction to danger,
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  • But fear doesn't have to control us.
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  • In fact, did you know that the bible includes 366 commands
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  • That begin with the phrase "fear not"?
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  • Well, today i'm going to show you
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  • How this human emotion robbed the israelites
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  • Of god's promise
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  • And how we can prevent fear from doing the same to us.
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  • My message is titled "moving from fear to courage"
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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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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • [narrator] 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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  • I want to begin today by asking you three questions.
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  • Question number one,
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  • Do you believe that god blesses those who obey him?
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  • Do you believe that?
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  • Most of you would say yes.
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  • Hebrews 11:6, "god is a rewarder of those who diligently
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  • Follow after him."
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  • Question number two.
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  • What do you believe god is leading you to do
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  • That you haven't done yet?
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  • Is there something in your life you feel like god is leading
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  • You to do but you haven't done it yet?
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  • The final question, why are you hesitant
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  • In doing what god is leading you to do?
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  • What is it that's prevented you from doing the thing
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  • That you know would result in god's blessing in your life?
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  • I imagine somewhere in your answer is the word fear.
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  • Maybe you feel like god's leading you to leave your job
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  • And take another job or even start your own business,
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  • But you're fearful of failure.
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  • Maybe you're a parent, a grandparent,
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  • And you have a child or grandchild who's a prodigal,
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  • Is living apart from god.
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  • You know you need to talk to them,
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  • But you're fearful of rejection.
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  • Maybe you know you need to take a stand for god
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  • In your business or school,
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  • But the only reason you haven't done it is you're fearful
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  • Of the blowback you know you're going to get.
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  • Fear is an emotion that paralyzes us.
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  • It keeps us from moving forward in god's plan for our life.
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  • Or to use the metaphor
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  • That we're using in this series, "invincible,"
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  • Fear is a mountain that separates us
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  • From the abundant life god wants us to experience.
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  • Today we're going to look at a group of god's people
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  • Who forfeited the blessings of the future
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  • Because of fear.
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  • And along the way,
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  • We're going to discover some biblical principles
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  • For moving from fear to courage.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to numbers chapter 13.
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  • As we begin talking about fear today,
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  • I need to point out that not all fear is harmful.
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  • There is a positive kind of fear.
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  • Sometimes we face a threatening situations.
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  • We get that adrenaline rush that gives us
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  • The strength we need,
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  • The boldness to either fight the situation
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  • Or at least to run away from it, fight or flight.
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  • We've talked about that before and that's positive.
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  • That can be useful.
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  • Fear in the short term can serve a positive benefit,
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  • But there's another kind of fear, a paralyzing fear.
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  • Remember, there are three possible responses to danger,
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  • Fight, flight, or freeze.
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  • And a lot of people when they face a challenge,
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  • They become like the proverbial deer
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  • Caught in the headlights.
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  • They freeze.
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  • And the fact is
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  • Long-term fear can have some devastating
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  • Effects in our life.
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  • There are physical consequences to prolonged fear.
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  • Doctors tell us that the physical effects
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  • Of fear include a suppressed immune system.
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  • There's a disturbance in the sleep wake cycle,
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  • Eating disorders, headaches and migraines,
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  • And a host of other maladies.
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  • There are emotional consequences to prolonged fear.
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  • Edith hamilton has written, "fear is of all emotions
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  • The most brutalizing."
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  • It's the feeling of being held under and suffocated,
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  • And when you realize you are suffocating,
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  • You become even more fearful and panic.
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  • That's what fear does.
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  • It induces mood swings,
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  • Obsessive compulsive thoughts, chronic anxiety,
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  • And the prevalent thought that you're a victim,
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  • But there are also spiritual consequences
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  • To paralyzing fear.
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  • Alexander solzhenitsyn, he spent years in a russian gulag
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  • And he asked this question about fear.
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  • He said, "if we live in a state of constant fear,
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  • Can we even remain human?"
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  • The implied answer is no.
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  • Even though we've been created in the image of god,
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  • When we allow fear to control our life,
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  • We're not like those image bearers of god.
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  • We become more like animals that run
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  • And hide at every sound and shadow.
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  • Today we're going to look at a group of god's people
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  • Who allowed paralyzing fear
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  • To keep them from experiencing god's blessings,
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  • And the account is found in numbers 13 and 14.
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  • Let me remind you of the setting of numbers 13.
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  • Remember, for 400 years,
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  • The children of israel had been held captive in egypt.
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  • They had been slaves for 400 years
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  • And then god raised up their leader, moses,
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  • Who led the exodus out of egypt.
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  • God sent those 10 miraculous plagues that struck pharaoh
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  • And all of egypt,
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  • And finally pharaoh said,
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  • I think the original hebrew is scram,
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  • Get out of here.
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  • And so they packed up as quickly as they could.
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  • They left.
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  • God parted the red sea.
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  • The israelites passed safely through it.
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  • Then they arrived at mount sinai
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  • Where they spent a year receiving god's revelation.
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  • Moses was on the mountain receiving god's instruction
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  • For how they would live in the promised land.
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  • They left sinai and came to kadesh-barnea,
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  • An oasis that was the entry point
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  • For entering into the promised land,
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  • And it's there that the story picks up
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  • In numbers chapter 13,
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  • As they stand on the edge of the promised land
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  • Ready to inherit what god had promised to them,
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  • God gave this requirement in verse two, this command.
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  • "send out for yourself men
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  • So that they may spy out the land of canaan."
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  • That was the promised land.
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  • "which i am going to give to the sons of israel."
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  • Underline that, that's key.
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  • God said, i am going to give it to you.
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  • "you shall send a man from each of their father's tribes,
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  • Everyone a leader among them."
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  • I've heard pastors make this tremendous error
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  • In preaching this passage.
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  • They said, oh, if the people have had more faith,
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  • They wouldn't have sent spies into the land.
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  • They would've just gone in
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  • And possessed what god had promised to them.
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  • They missed the simple point in this passage
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  • That it was god's idea to send the spies in.
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  • God told them to send spies
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  • Before they tried to take the land.
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  • What was the purpose in that?
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  • Well, he gave two purposes for the spies.
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  • Number one, that they could report the benefits
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  • Of the land in order to encourage the people.
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  • They were to do this reconnaissance mission
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  • So they could come back and tell them
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  • How truly productive the land was.
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  • And there's an important part of leadership exhibited there.
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  • If you're ever going to lead people into the future,
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  • You need to paint a picture of the future
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  • That motivates them.
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  • God understood that.
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  • He said the people,
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  • Before they invest their lives in fighting for this land,
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  • They need to know the benefits of the land.
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  • Help people visualize the future.
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  • Do you remember back in 2000, around that time,
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  • Seemed like churches everywhere were installing
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  • These imag systems, these image magnification systems.
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  • We call them big screens
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  • And they'd have them in the churches in order
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  • To help people worship more freely,
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  • Not have your head buried in a hymnal,
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  • But you could see the words and sing.
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  • Churches everywhere started doing that. this church did it.
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  • Our church in wichita falls did it.
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  • We all had the same name for our special offering,
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  • It seems like.
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  • Vision 2020.
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  • Help people see the words more clearly.
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  • Vision 2020.
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  • Well, we had the similar effort in our church
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  • In wichita falls, but i had another reason
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  • For wanting to put that imag system in.
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  • I told the people it was so we could
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  • Worship more freely and sing the songs and so forth,
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  • And that was all true.
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  • But i also knew that in a couple of years,
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  • I was going to challenge them
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  • To build a new worship center,
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  • And they had been bolted in their pews for 83 years
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  • In the old worship center there,
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  • And i knew it was going to take something to get them out
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  • Of that pew and into a new pew.
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  • They needed to see a visual depiction
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  • Of what a new worship center would actually look like.
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  • And it worked.
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  • When people saw that vision,
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  • They got excited about the future.
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  • If you're leading company
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  • And you're trying to move your employees
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  • And your organization somewhere,
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  • Give them a vision of the future.
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  • Parents, if you're trying to move your children
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  • And teenagers to be more obedient to god,
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  • Learn how to paint a verbal word picture
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  • That helps them understand the benefits of following god.
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  • That was the first purpose to encourage the people.
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  • There was a second purpose
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  • And that was to identify the obstacles they would face
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  • In possessing the land.
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  • They sent the spies to report on what obstacles there were.
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  • Look at verses 18 and 19.
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  • "see what the land is like
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  • And whether the people who live in it are strong or weak,
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  • Whether they are few or many.
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  • How is the land in which they live?
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  • Is it good or bad?
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  • And how are the cities in which they live?
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  • Are they like open camps or are they with fortifications?"
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  • You know what's interesting is god promised
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  • That he was going to give the israelites the land.
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  • Remember verse two?
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  • "the land which i will give them,"
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  • But he also told them,
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  • You're going to have to fight for every square inch of it.
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  • I'm going to give it to you, but it's not without your effort.
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  • Again, parents, if you have a teenage child
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  • And they want a new car,
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  • You may have the financial means
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  • To give it to them outright,
  • 00:11:38.087 --> 00:11:39.889
  • But if you're a wise parent,
  • 00:11:39.889 --> 00:11:41.056
  • You'll make them pay for part of it.
  • 00:11:41.056 --> 00:11:42.992
  • That way they have some skin in the game,
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  • They feel responsible for that automobile.
  • 00:11:45.294 --> 00:11:48.230
  • It's the same way with god.
  • 00:11:48.230 --> 00:11:49.698
  • Throughout scripture, you find this principle
  • 00:11:49.698 --> 00:11:53.402
  • That is that god uses our effort coupled with his power
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  • To achieve his purpose.
  • 00:11:58.207 --> 00:12:00.309
  • I mean, god could have removed all the obstacles in the land
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  • If he wanted to without any effort
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  • On the part of the israelites.
  • 00:12:05.114 --> 00:12:06.482
  • He could have given it to them without any effort,
  • 00:12:06.482 --> 00:12:08.684
  • But that's usually not how god works.
  • 00:12:08.684 --> 00:12:11.153
  • God wants us to cooperate with him
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  • In any worthwhile achievement.
  • 00:12:14.356 --> 00:12:16.559
  • You see that throughout scripture.
  • 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:18.093
  • God said to adam and eve,
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  • I'm going to give you this perfect garden, the garden of eden,
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  • But your job is to cultivate it and to keep it.
  • 00:12:22.264 --> 00:12:25.868
  • God said to noah,
  • 00:12:25.868 --> 00:12:27.303
  • I'm going to send a flood and destroy the world.
  • 00:12:27.303 --> 00:12:29.438
  • I'm going to save your family, but guess what?
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  • You've got to build the ark to put your family in the ark.
  • 00:12:31.407 --> 00:12:35.444
  • God said to rahab, the harlot said,
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  • I am going to destroy the city of jericho
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  • And give it to the israelites,
  • 00:12:40.316 --> 00:12:41.684
  • But her responsibility was to hide the spies.
  • 00:12:41.684 --> 00:12:45.588
  • It's the same thing with the israelites.
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  • God said, i'm going to give you this land,
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  • But you are going to have to fight for it.
  • 00:12:49.592 --> 00:12:52.561
  • By the way, there's only one significant accomplishment
  • 00:12:52.561 --> 00:12:56.398
  • That god refuses to allow us to participate in at all,
  • 00:12:56.398 --> 00:13:00.903
  • And that's salvation.
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  • God not only doesn't require it,
  • 00:13:03.305 --> 00:13:06.876
  • He doesn't allow us to exert any effort for salvation.
  • 00:13:06.876 --> 00:13:11.780
  • It is all of grace.
  • 00:13:11.780 --> 00:13:14.650
  • For by grace, you have been saved through faith
  • 00:13:14.650 --> 00:13:17.486
  • That not of yourselves, it is a gift of god,
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  • Not of works lest any man should boast.
  • 00:13:20.556 --> 00:13:24.493
  • But for everything else,
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  • God requires some effort on our part.
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  • He said, i want you to go in
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  • And spy out the land so that you can see
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  • What obstacles you can have and plan for it.
  • 00:13:31.934 --> 00:13:34.570
  • There's nothing unbiblical or unspiritual about planning.
  • 00:13:34.570 --> 00:13:37.673
  • I heard people say,
  • 00:13:37.673 --> 00:13:38.974
  • "well, we need to just pray and not plan."
  • 00:13:38.974 --> 00:13:40.676
  • No, the bible says pray and plan.
  • 00:13:40.676 --> 00:13:43.012
  • Proverbs 21 verse five,
  • 00:13:43.012 --> 00:13:44.647
  • "the plans of the diligent will surely lead to advantage,
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  • But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty."
  • 00:13:48.751 --> 00:13:52.788
  • Well, they sent the spies in.
  • 00:13:52.788 --> 00:13:54.089
  • It was a 40-day reconnaissance mission,
  • 00:13:54.089 --> 00:13:56.292
  • And after they finished looking
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  • North to south, east to west,
  • 00:13:58.327 --> 00:14:00.462
  • They came back to give their response
  • 00:14:00.462 --> 00:14:02.798
  • Beginning in verse 25 of numbers 13.
  • 00:14:02.798 --> 00:14:06.001
  • "and the spies came back with pomegranates, figs,
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  • And clusters of grapes."
  • 00:14:09.238 --> 00:14:10.873
  • Clusters so large they had to carry them on a pole.
  • 00:14:10.873 --> 00:14:13.642
  • And all the spies said the same thing.
  • 00:14:13.642 --> 00:14:15.377
  • They said, yes.
  • 00:14:15.377 --> 00:14:16.812
  • Verse 27, "the land is flowing with milk and honey
  • 00:14:16.812 --> 00:14:20.282
  • And fruit just like god promised."
  • 00:14:20.282 --> 00:14:23.419
  • But they also reported the obstacles. verse 28.
  • 00:14:23.419 --> 00:14:26.555
  • "nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong
  • 00:14:26.555 --> 00:14:31.160
  • And the cities are fortified and very large.
  • 00:14:31.160 --> 00:14:33.929
  • And moreover, we saw the descendants of anak there."
  • 00:14:33.929 --> 00:14:39.168
  • Who are the descendants of anak?
  • 00:14:39.802 --> 00:14:41.503
  • That word anak means strong neck, powerful.
  • 00:14:41.503 --> 00:14:46.008
  • We find out in verse 33
  • 00:14:46.008 --> 00:14:48.177
  • That they were descendants of the nephilim.
  • 00:14:48.177 --> 00:14:52.081
  • Now, there are only two places in the bible
  • 00:14:52.081 --> 00:14:54.817
  • The nephilim are mentioned.
  • 00:14:54.817 --> 00:14:56.986
  • One is here.
  • 00:14:56.986 --> 00:14:58.253
  • The other is in genesis chapter six, verse four.
  • 00:14:58.253 --> 00:15:01.924
  • I don't want to chase this rabbit trail too long here,
  • 00:15:01.924 --> 00:15:05.160
  • But it is kind of interesting.
  • 00:15:05.160 --> 00:15:07.563
  • Remember in genesis six, we had that unusual passage
  • 00:15:07.563 --> 00:15:10.699
  • Before the flood of how evil the world was.
  • 00:15:10.699 --> 00:15:14.236
  • And it says that the sons
  • 00:15:14.236 --> 00:15:16.372
  • Of god went into the daughters of men.
  • 00:15:16.372 --> 00:15:20.275
  • And the question always is, well, who were the sons of god
  • 00:15:20.275 --> 00:15:24.146
  • And who were the daughter of men?
  • 00:15:24.146 --> 00:15:26.348
  • And some believed that it is angels
  • 00:15:26.348 --> 00:15:29.518
  • Who rebelled against god,
  • 00:15:29.518 --> 00:15:30.853
  • Who came and had sexual relations with women,
  • 00:15:30.853 --> 00:15:34.723
  • And they produced demonic offspring
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  • Called the nephilim that were giants.
  • 00:15:37.292 --> 00:15:40.496
  • The only problem with that interpretation is genesis six
  • 00:15:40.496 --> 00:15:43.298
  • Says very clearly the nephilim
  • 00:15:43.298 --> 00:15:44.967
  • Were already on the earth when this event happened,
  • 00:15:44.967 --> 00:15:47.669
  • The daughters of men having relations with the sons of god.
  • 00:15:47.669 --> 00:15:52.941
  • What we can say with certainty
  • 00:15:53.575 --> 00:15:55.544
  • Is the nephilim were really big people.
  • 00:15:55.544 --> 00:15:59.014
  • They were giants.
  • 00:15:59.014 --> 00:16:01.183
  • Maybe goliath was a descendant of the nephilim
  • 00:16:01.183 --> 00:16:05.220
  • And that descendants
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  • Of anak here were associated in some way with the nephilim.
  • 00:16:06.989 --> 00:16:12.261
  • And notice what happened.
  • 00:16:12.828 --> 00:16:14.396
  • As soon as the spies mentioned anak and giants,
  • 00:16:14.396 --> 00:16:18.000
  • You could hear the murmuring of the people.
  • 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.469
  • "you got to be kidding.
  • 00:16:20.469 --> 00:16:21.603
  • We're going to have to fight anak
  • 00:16:21.603 --> 00:16:22.971
  • And the descendants of the nephilim?"
  • 00:16:22.971 --> 00:16:24.740
  • Look at verse 30.
  • 00:16:24.740 --> 00:16:26.175
  • "then caleb quieted the people before moses and said,
  • 00:16:26.175 --> 00:16:29.144
  • 'we should by all means,
  • 00:16:29.144 --> 00:16:30.612
  • Go up and take the possession of it,
  • 00:16:30.612 --> 00:16:32.481
  • For we shall surely overcome it.'
  • 00:16:32.481 --> 00:16:34.683
  • But the men who had gone up with him,
  • 00:16:34.683 --> 00:16:36.852
  • That is the other 10 spies, said,
  • 00:16:36.852 --> 00:16:39.321
  • 'we are not able to go up against the people
  • 00:16:39.321 --> 00:16:41.657
  • For they are too strong for us.
  • 00:16:41.657 --> 00:16:43.492
  • So they gave out to the sons of israel a bad report
  • 00:16:43.492 --> 00:16:46.595
  • Of the land which they had spied out saying,
  • 00:16:46.595 --> 00:16:49.932
  • 'the land through which we have gone
  • 00:16:49.932 --> 00:16:51.600
  • And spied it out is a land that devours its inhabitants,'
  • 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:56.505
  • And all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.
  • 00:16:56.505 --> 00:17:01.210
  • There also we saw the nephilim
  • 00:17:01.210 --> 00:17:03.245
  • And we became like grasshoppers
  • 00:17:03.245 --> 00:17:07.382
  • In our own sight,
  • 00:17:07.382 --> 00:17:08.984
  • And so we were in their sight.'"
  • 00:17:08.984 --> 00:17:12.521
  • When we saw the giants, we felt like grasshoppers.
  • 00:17:12.521 --> 00:17:17.793
  • And then they looked at us
  • 00:17:18.360 --> 00:17:19.661
  • And they thought of us as grasshoppers as well.
  • 00:17:19.661 --> 00:17:23.565
  • Here's an important principle.
  • 00:17:23.565 --> 00:17:25.267
  • How you see yourself is how others tend to see you as well.
  • 00:17:25.267 --> 00:17:29.738
  • If you see yourself as powerless, incapable, weak,
  • 00:17:29.738 --> 00:17:34.910
  • That's how other people see you.
  • 00:17:35.544 --> 00:17:37.179
  • We hear a lot about self-esteem,
  • 00:17:37.179 --> 00:17:39.148
  • And i know there's a bad side
  • 00:17:39.148 --> 00:17:43.585
  • To that concept,
  • 00:17:43.585 --> 00:17:45.621
  • That it can be a humanistic viewpoint, self-esteem,
  • 00:17:46.655 --> 00:17:50.692
  • But not when you see yourself as god sees you.
  • 00:17:50.692 --> 00:17:54.730
  • Yes, apart from god, we are weak and incapable,
  • 00:17:54.730 --> 00:17:57.866
  • But as paul said,
  • 00:17:57.866 --> 00:17:59.268
  • "in christ, i can do all things who strengthens me."
  • 00:17:59.268 --> 00:18:03.038
  • How you see yourself is how others see you as well.
  • 00:18:03.038 --> 00:18:06.642
  • They were terrified of the giants here.
  • 00:18:06.642 --> 00:18:09.478
  • What was the reaction of the israelites
  • 00:18:09.478 --> 00:18:11.780
  • To these two reports, the report of joshua and caleb?
  • 00:18:11.780 --> 00:18:16.618
  • That yes, the land is filled with obstacles,
  • 00:18:16.618 --> 00:18:19.555
  • But we should go up and possess it
  • 00:18:19.555 --> 00:18:21.290
  • As well as the 10 who said,
  • 00:18:21.290 --> 00:18:22.791
  • No, we can't overcome the obstacles.
  • 00:18:22.791 --> 00:18:25.427
  • Look at verse one of numbers 14.
  • 00:18:25.427 --> 00:18:28.430
  • "then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried
  • 00:18:28.430 --> 00:18:32.234
  • And the people wept that night.
  • 00:18:32.234 --> 00:18:34.036
  • And all the sons of israel grumbled against moses and aaron
  • 00:18:34.036 --> 00:18:38.073
  • And the whole congregation said to them,
  • 00:18:38.073 --> 00:18:40.742
  • 'would that we had died in the land of egypt
  • 00:18:40.742 --> 00:18:43.612
  • Or we had died in the wilderness.'"
  • 00:18:43.612 --> 00:18:47.015
  • Even though they had been praying for 400 years
  • 00:18:47.015 --> 00:18:49.151
  • For deliverance from egypt,
  • 00:18:49.151 --> 00:18:50.319
  • They said, we'd rather be back in egypt
  • 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:52.654
  • Than to have to face these giants.
  • 00:18:53.388 --> 00:18:55.023
  • We would've rather starved
  • 00:18:55.023 --> 00:18:56.258
  • To death in the wilderness than face this.
  • 00:18:56.258 --> 00:18:59.561
  • So what happens verse six?
  • 00:18:59.561 --> 00:19:01.096
  • Joshua and caleb tore their clothes as a sign of sorrow
  • 00:19:01.096 --> 00:19:06.101
  • And they delivered a pep speech to the israelites.
  • 00:19:06.101 --> 00:19:11.006
  • They said, look at verse seven,
  • 00:19:11.006 --> 00:19:12.908
  • "the land which we pass through to spy out
  • 00:19:12.908 --> 00:19:15.244
  • Is exceedingly good land.
  • 00:19:15.244 --> 00:19:17.179
  • If the lord is pleased with us,
  • 00:19:17.179 --> 00:19:19.414
  • Then he will bring us into this land and give it to us.
  • 00:19:19.414 --> 00:19:22.351
  • A land which flows with milk and honey only.
  • 00:19:22.351 --> 00:19:24.620
  • Don't rebel against the lord.
  • 00:19:24.620 --> 00:19:26.455
  • Don't fear the people of that land,
  • 00:19:26.455 --> 00:19:28.557
  • For they will be our prey.
  • 00:19:28.557 --> 00:19:30.826
  • Their protection has been removed from them
  • 00:19:30.826 --> 00:19:33.128
  • And the lord is with us.
  • 00:19:33.128 --> 00:19:34.796
  • Do not fear them."
  • 00:19:34.796 --> 00:19:37.266
  • Joshua and caleb gave a great speech that day,
  • 00:19:37.266 --> 00:19:41.069
  • A sermon entitled, moving from fear to courage.
  • 00:19:41.069 --> 00:19:46.341
  • And the people responded how?
  • 00:19:46.975 --> 00:19:48.744
  • Not with faith.
  • 00:19:48.744 --> 00:19:49.645
  • Look at verse 10.
  • 00:19:49.645 --> 00:19:50.712
  • "all the congregations said,
  • 00:19:50.712 --> 00:19:52.481
  • 'let's stone them with these stones.'"
  • 00:19:52.481 --> 00:19:55.217
  • They were not a receptive audience.
  • 00:19:55.217 --> 00:19:58.353
  • They were ready to kill their leaders,
  • 00:19:58.353 --> 00:20:00.055
  • Replace their leaders with somebody
  • 00:20:00.055 --> 00:20:01.657
  • Who wouldn't put them in peril like this.
  • 00:20:01.657 --> 00:20:04.426
  • And that's when god decided to show up.
  • 00:20:04.426 --> 00:20:06.928
  • Verse 10 closes by saying,
  • 00:20:06.928 --> 00:20:08.964
  • "then the glory of the lord appeared in the tent of meeting
  • 00:20:08.964 --> 00:20:12.301
  • To all the sons of israel."
  • 00:20:12.301 --> 00:20:14.236
  • God had, had it.
  • 00:20:14.236 --> 00:20:16.071
  • And in his rebuke, numbers 14,
  • 00:20:16.071 --> 00:20:18.040
  • He chastises them for their lack of faith.
  • 00:20:18.040 --> 00:20:20.676
  • And he said, i've had it with these people.
  • 00:20:20.676 --> 00:20:22.644
  • I'm going to destroy the israelites from the face of the earth
  • 00:20:22.644 --> 00:20:26.581
  • And i'm going to begin with the new people
  • 00:20:26.581 --> 00:20:28.116
  • To show my glory through.
  • 00:20:28.116 --> 00:20:30.185
  • Now, if god had said that and i had been moses,
  • 00:20:31.186 --> 00:20:33.288
  • I would say sic them god,
  • 00:20:33.288 --> 00:20:35.090
  • Give them what they deserve.
  • 00:20:35.090 --> 00:20:37.626
  • Just remember me when you decide to raise up
  • 00:20:37.626 --> 00:20:39.961
  • This new people.
  • 00:20:39.961 --> 00:20:41.363
  • I want to be a part of that.
  • 00:20:41.363 --> 00:20:43.265
  • But interestingly, that's not what moses does.
  • 00:20:43.265 --> 00:20:46.134
  • Instead, he begs god to change his mind.
  • 00:20:46.134 --> 00:20:50.405
  • In a great intercessory prayer, he says,
  • 00:20:50.405 --> 00:20:55.644
  • "god, if you **** israel
  • 00:20:56.345 --> 00:20:57.913
  • And condemn them to eternal punishment,
  • 00:20:57.913 --> 00:21:01.616
  • Your name is going to be blasphemed among the gentiles.
  • 00:21:01.616 --> 00:21:05.087
  • People are going to be saying
  • 00:21:05.087 --> 00:21:06.988
  • You're a god who wasn't powerful enough
  • 00:21:06.988 --> 00:21:08.924
  • To fulfill his own promise to his own people.
  • 00:21:08.924 --> 00:21:11.727
  • Don't destroy this people.
  • 00:21:11.727 --> 00:21:14.629
  • And god listened to moses.
  • 00:21:14.629 --> 00:21:16.231
  • Verse 20 says, "so the lord said,
  • 00:21:16.231 --> 00:21:18.734
  • I have pardoned them according to your word, moses.
  • 00:21:18.734 --> 00:21:22.337
  • I'm going to forgive them.
  • 00:21:22.337 --> 00:21:23.839
  • I'm not going to damn them eternally,
  • 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:25.640
  • But indeed as i live, all the earth will be filled
  • 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:28.877
  • With the glory of the lord.
  • 00:21:28.877 --> 00:21:30.345
  • Surely all the men who have seen my glory and my signs,
  • 00:21:30.345 --> 00:21:33.348
  • Which i performed in egypt and in the wilderness,
  • 00:21:33.348 --> 00:21:35.917
  • Yet have put me to the test these 10 times
  • 00:21:35.917 --> 00:21:38.787
  • And have not listened to my voice,
  • 00:21:38.787 --> 00:21:40.822
  • Shall by no means see the land
  • 00:21:40.822 --> 00:21:42.858
  • Which i swore to their fathers,
  • 00:21:42.858 --> 00:21:44.659
  • Nor shall any of those who spurned me see it."
  • 00:21:44.659 --> 00:21:49.231
  • I'm going to forgive them, moses,
  • 00:21:49.231 --> 00:21:51.433
  • But not one of them is going
  • 00:21:51.433 --> 00:21:53.635
  • To enter into the promised land.
  • 00:21:53.635 --> 00:21:56.171
  • In fact, he went on to say, everybody 20 years of age
  • 00:21:57.272 --> 00:22:01.109
  • And older will die in the wilderness
  • 00:22:01.109 --> 00:22:04.012
  • Without possessing the land.
  • 00:22:04.012 --> 00:22:05.914
  • They're not going to lose their salvation,
  • 00:22:05.914 --> 00:22:08.116
  • But they'll lose the benefit
  • 00:22:08.116 --> 00:22:09.317
  • Of their salvation in this life.
  • 00:22:09.317 --> 00:22:11.620
  • They shall not enter into my rest.
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  • ♪ music ♪
  • 00:22:14.990 --> 00:22:18.960
  • When fear threatens to drown your faith,
  • 00:22:19.828 --> 00:22:22.798
  • You can choose to place your life
  • 00:22:22.798 --> 00:22:24.633
  • In the powerful hands of god.
  • 00:22:24.633 --> 00:22:27.135
  • He'll give you the courage to become invincible.
  • 00:22:27.135 --> 00:22:31.573
  • Let me assure you that we're not finished with this topic.
  • 00:22:31.573 --> 00:22:35.076
  • There's much more i want to say
  • 00:22:35.076 --> 00:22:36.845
  • About moving from fear to courage.
  • 00:22:36.845 --> 00:22:39.581
  • So please make plans to join us again next time
  • 00:22:39.581 --> 00:22:42.851
  • For "pathway to victory".
  • 00:22:42.851 --> 00:22:44.753
  • But right now, i want to express my thanks to those of you
  • 00:22:44.753 --> 00:22:48.557
  • Who give to support this ministry.
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  • Your gifts help us reach people like anne
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  • Who wrote us recently
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  • And said, "it's very easy to become a tired believer
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  • And let that feeling of tiredness rule your life.
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  • But after i read your book, i made it my goal to speak
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  • To other people about the hope we have in jesus.
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  • I feel like you have given me encouragement
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  • To fight the good fight.
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  • I believe that good fight,
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  • That experience of sharing the gospel message is the spark
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  • That tired believers need to escape weariness.
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  • And so i gave your book to a friend of mine
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  • And now she's using it to help others."
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  • Well, thank you so much, anne, for those encouraging words,
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  • And to those of you who give the "pathway to victory"
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  • Your generous gifts are truly making a difference.
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  • Now, please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • Jesus told us that if we have faith as tiny
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  • As a mustard seed, we can move mountains.
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  • But what does that promise really mean?
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  • [narrator] in his book, "invincible,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress helps you conquer the mountains
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  • That separate you from the blessed life.
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  • [dr. jeffress] all of us are going to face
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  • Mountains in life,
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  • But those obstacles don't have to stop us in our tracks
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  • Because with god on our side, we are invincible.
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  • [narrator] in the pages of "invincible",
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  • You'll discover how to move from doubt to faith,
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  • From anxiety to peace,
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  • From discouragement to hope,
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  • From fear to courage, and much more.
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  • Life's up and downs can be overwhelming,
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  • But in the eyes of the mountain mover,
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  • Every mountain you face is a mole hill
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  • And god is ready to take you to the other side of blessing.
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  • [narrator] you are invited to request a hardcover copy
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  • Of "invincible" when you give a generous gift
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  • To "pathway to victory".
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  • And when your gift is $75 or more,
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  • We'll also send you the complete collection
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  • Of audio and video discs
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  • For the invincible teaching series,
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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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  • [narrator] your generosity today will help us spread
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  • The message of victory and hope.
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  • Thank you for giving generously to help us shine the light
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  • Of christ into the dark corners of our country and world.
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  • While there is such a thing as positive fear,
  • 00:25:18.306 --> 00:25:21.276
  • Most people tend to let fear paralyze them.
  • 00:25:21.276 --> 00:25:24.879
  • Today we saw that prolonged fear can have physical,
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  • Emotional, and even spiritual consequences.
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  • And fear can even keep us from realizing god's promises
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  • To us just as it did for israel.
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  • So make plans to join us again next time when we continue
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  • To follow the israelites disheartening tale
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  • And discover the biblical cure for fear.
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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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  • What is the antidote to fear?
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  • Now you might think i would say courage.
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  • The title of this message is "moving from fear to courage",
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  • But know the antidote to fear is faith.
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  • You see, true faith involves, first of all,
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  • A belief that god will do what he's promised to do.
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  • But it's not just a belief, it's an action.
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  • [narrator] set your dvr
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  • And join us next time for part two of the message,
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  • "moving from fear to courage" here on "pathway to victory".
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  • Step away from your daily routine
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  • And immerse yourself in god's masterpiece
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  • On the pathway to victory cruise to alaska,
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  • Then stepping out to witness god's grandeur
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  • From the majestic glaciers to soaring eagles.
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  • These moments in god's creation will deepen your faith
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  • In powerful ways.
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  • Like juneau, ketchikan, and skagway.
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  • We'll explore god's word together against the backdrop
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  • Of his most impressive handiwork.
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  • I promise you'll return home with memories
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  • That will last a lifetime
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  • And a heart renewed by god's presence.
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  • [narrator] to book your spot on the 2026 pathway
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  • To victory cruise to alaska,
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