Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Moving From Loneliness To Companionship (Part 2)

July 21, 2025 | S25 E347 | 29:0

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Moving From Loneliness To Companionship (Part 2) | July 21, 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, i'm robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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It's ironic to think
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That even though we've reached new levels of connection,
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Thanks to modern travel and technology,
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Loneliness has become an epidemic.
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Computers, cell phones,
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And social media do little to cure our deep-seated feelings
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Of isolation.
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So today we're going to look
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At the bible's remedy for loneliness.
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My message is titled,
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Moving from loneliness to companionship
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As we continue our series invincible
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[narrator] sometimes our emotions
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Are like mountains 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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When i look at the new testament,
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Of course, my first thought when i think of somebody
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Who experienced isolation was our lord himself.
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Jesus felt the pang of being betrayed
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By his closest followers, by his friends, his disciples.
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Even his own family turned their back on jesus.
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But most painful of all,
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Jesus felt being abandoned by god.
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As he hung on the cross, he cried out,
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"my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
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Don't try to explain away that verse.
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Jesus meant what he said.
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He felt abandoned by god.
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Have you ever felt that way before,
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That god doesn't hear your cry to him?
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Jesus experienced that.
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That's the ultimate loneliness.
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And then i think about the apostle paul.
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Turn over to 2 timothy 4.
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This is the last letter he wrote before he was beheaded.
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Remember, paul was actually imprisoned in rome
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On two different occasions.
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The first imprisonment was from 60 to 62 ad.
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He was really under house arrest.
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He had a lot of freedom.
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He could receive visitors, he could write letters.
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That's where the prison epistles came from.
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Colossians, ephesians, philippians, philemon,
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The prison epistles.
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But then he was arrested again,
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And this time he was put in the mamertine prison.
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Many of us have been there before.
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To call it a prison is really overstating it.
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It was really more like a hole in the ground
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That the sewage ran through.
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It would make san quentin
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And alcatraz today look like the ritz carlton.
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I mean, it was a horrible place to be.
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And as paul was there awaiting his trial
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And his ultimate beheading, he wrote this letter to timothy.
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He said, "please come to me as soon as you can."
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Verse nine of chapter four.
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And then he went on to say again in verse 21,
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"make every effort to come before winter."
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Timothy was in ephesus.
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It would take four months to get there.
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And he said, "i want you to get here before winter
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Because i need you to bring me some things.
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I need a cloak. i'm getting cold.
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And by the way, when you come,
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Bring the books and the book."
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The books probably were early drafts of the gospels
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That had just been written by 62.
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The book was probably a reference for the parchments,
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The old testament.
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But then he started to do an honest assessment with timothy
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Of what had happened to him.
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He said in verse 16,
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"at my first defense no one supported me,
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But all deserted me."
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And he pointed out several people
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Whom he was terribly disappointed in who had left him.
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He said, "demas," verse 10.
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"demas has forsaken me, a fellow worker,
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Because he loved this present world."
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Paul had trusted demas,
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But demas said, "i'm tired of the persecution.
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I'm tired of living in poverty.
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You know, i'm out of here."
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And then he said, "not only did demas forsake me," verse 14,
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"alexander the coppersmith did me much harm,
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The lord will repay him according to his deeds."
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This word that is translated, "did me much harm"
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Is a word that refers to snitching on somebody,
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An informant.
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Apparently alexander accused paul of sedition
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To the roman authorities that led to his ultimate trial
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And martyrdom.
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Well, i understand what paul was doing here.
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Paul wasn't having a pity party for himself
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In the mamertine prison.
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He was being honest with his protege, timothy,
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A young pastor.
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He said, "timothy, don't depend on other people.
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People i trusted in, they left me,
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But bring the scriptures when you come."
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What i'm trying to say to you is loneliness is natural,
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But it doesn't have to be lethal.
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And there is a way out of the shadow of loneliness.
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And in the few moments that we have left right now,
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I want to open god's word
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And talk about what i call the abcs
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Of moving from loneliness to companionship.
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First of all, a, acknowledge your feelings of loneliness.
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Don't try to slap on a superficial smile
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Or engage in holy hallelujahs
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Or pious platitudes when they don't fit.
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Be honest with yourself and with god about your feelings.
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David was.
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He cried out in psalm 22:16,
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"turn to me and be gracious to me,
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For i am lonely and afflicted."
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B, be proactive in conquering loneliness.
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You make the moves you need to
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To conquer the problem of loneliness.
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It may begin with looking at yourself.
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Why is it there aren't people around you?
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What is the cause of your loneliness?
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It could be a poor self-image.
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Maybe you're thinking, "i don't deserve to have friends,
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Or i've got this physical defect
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Or this personality disorder,
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Or i don't have the right heritage or background.
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My economic level isn't what it needs to be
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To attract a friend."
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You come up with all these self-image reasons.
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Remember ephesians 2:10.
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Paul said, "for we are god's workmanship,
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Created by christ jesus for good works,
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That god prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."
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That word workmanship is the greek word poiema.
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We get poem from it.
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Do you realize you are god's poem?
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You are the expression of god himself.
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"and every part of your life," psalm 139 says,
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Your physical characteristics,
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Your personality, everything about you,
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The days of your life and how you live them,
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Were all foreordained by god.
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There are no accidents.
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Maybe as you look inwardly,
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It's not a self-image that's the problem.
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It's selfishness.
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You say, "i'm too busy to have any friends."
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That's code for i'm too wrapped up in myself
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To have any friends.
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Remember, friendship, companionship is not a luxury.
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It's a necessity.
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And maybe it's time for you to reach out to other people.
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Have you ever heard the expression,
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Maybe your parents used it with you.
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The best way to have a friend is to what?
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Be a friend.
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Reach out to somebody else.
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Paul actually said the same thing.
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In philippians 2:3-4, he said,
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"do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit,
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But with humility of mind,
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Regard one another as more important than yourselves.
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Do not merely look out for your own personal interest,
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But also for the interest of others."
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You want to have friends? try this.
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Try meeting somebody else's need.
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Ask, what can i do to help you?
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If you'll make that move,
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You'll have more friends than you'll know what to do with.
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People are clamoring to be around somebody
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Who takes an interest in them.
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You know, the thing i want you to understand is
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Friendship again isn't a luxury.
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It is absolutely essential for our spiritual, our emotional,
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Even our physical well-being.
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An article in the magazine "modern maturities" said, quote,
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"researchers have determined
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That participation in formal social networks,"
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That is, church and community groups,
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"is an even more important predictor of mortality
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Than a person's health."
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That's an amazing statement when you think about it.
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The greatest determining factor of how long you live
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Is not your blood pressure.
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It's not your cholesterol.
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It is whether or not you are connected to other people.
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Now, as we think about reaching out to other people
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And filling our life with friends, companionship,
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We need to review the four levels of companionship
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So we don't have greater expectations than are realistic.
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The most basic level of friendship,
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The beginning level, is acquaintances.
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These are people you run into every week.
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You don't know their name.
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You just see people at the grocery store.
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You see them at school, you see them at church,
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But you have no interaction with them.
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This is where most friendships begin.
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But with most of these people,
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It will never evolve into anything else.
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You know, before the pandemic,
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Most people had about 100 to 150 people a week
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That they had some contact with on a superficial level,
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Acquaintances.
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The second level is a casual friends.
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These are people that we have some contact with.
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Most of the time we will know their first names,
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But if we do engage in conversations,
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It's only superficial things,
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The weather, the stock market, sports, and so forth.
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The third level is close friends.
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Most people, if they're fortunate,
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Have anywhere from five to 25 of these people.
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These are people with whom you have a shared interest,
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Perhaps shared spiritual views.
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These are people that you feel comfortable
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Asking to pray with you, for example,
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About a certain situation.
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Again, if we have five to 25 close friends,
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That's a good thing.
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But the fourth, the deepest level of companionship,
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Would be intimate friends.
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These are people you allow into your personal world.
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These are people with whom,
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Even if one moves away
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And you don't see them for a month, a year,
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When you see them again,
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You pick up right where you left off again.
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There's just a bond there.
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These are the people that if you had a crisis in your life
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At three o'clock in the morning,
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These are the people or this is the person you would call.
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If you have one to no more than five of these,
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You are a blessed person.
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Now the key is we need all four levels,
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But acquaintances,
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Casual friends aren't going to fill the void
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That you need for companionship.
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It may be the pool out of which those people come,
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But we all need close friends, and we need intimate friends.
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And the best place to find those close friends
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And intimate friends who will encourage you is the church.
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It just is.
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The church is the best place to find those people.
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I want you to turn over to hebrews 10 for just a moment.
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Hebrews 10.
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Remember, the hebrew christians were under persecution.
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They were in danger of giving up their faith,
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And the writer says in verse 23,
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"let us hold fast the confession
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Of our hope without wavering,
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For he who promised is faithful."
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Don't waver in your faith.
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Well, that's great to say,
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But how do you keep from wavering?
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Look at verse 24.
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"and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love
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And good deeds,
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Not forsaking our own assembling together
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As is the habit of some,
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But encouraging one another,
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And all the more as you see the day, join near."
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Church family, we need to be together
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To encourage one another.
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We need to be together.
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One of the most destructive consequences
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Of this pandemic for the last year
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Has been making it difficult for us as a church
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To come together,
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And be together to encourage one another.
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I'm grateful for online ministry.
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God's blessed our online ministry,
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But i think even those of you
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Who are watching online would agree it is a substitute,
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Not a replacement for being together.
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We were created as a church to be together.
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Now that's straight from god's word.
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That's straight from god's word.
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We need one another.
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We're like those porcupines up in northern canada
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In the frozen tundra region
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That huddled together to keep warm.
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They needed each other even though they needled each other.
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(congregation laughs)
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We need one another in the body of christ.
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How do you deal with loneliness?
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A, acknowledge your feelings.
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B, be proactive in conquering loneliness.
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And third, cultivate your relationship with god.
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Saint augustine said this,
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"you have made us for yourself,
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And our heart is restless until it finds its rest in you."
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Like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,
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A relationship with god is that final piece
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That makes the picture complete.
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We need god.
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Now, i know some of you probably saying,
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"wait a minute, preacher, you're contradicting yourself.
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Don't you just remember what you said earlier?
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You said in genesis 2:18,
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'it's not good that man be alone.'
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Adam had a relationship with god.
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It wasn't enough."
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That's all true.
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But remember this, i put it down on your outline.
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Having a relationship with god alone
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Does not prevent loneliness,
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But not having a relationship
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With god guarantees loneliness.
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You see the difference?
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Having a relationship with god alone
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Doesn't prevent loneliness,
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But not having that relationship guarantees it.
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It all begins with our relationship with god.
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David understood that.
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Remember in psalm 25:18,
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After he had admitted his loneliness, he said,
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"look upon my affliction and my trouble
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And forgive all my sins."
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For david, cultivating a relationship with god,
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For the man who was a man after god's own heart,
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It started with the confession of sin.
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Maybe that's where it starts for you.
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Maybe you're a christian,
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And you've allowed some sin in your life
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To become a barrier between you and god.
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Confess that sin.
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But cultivating a relationship with god doesn't stop there.
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It means communicating with god
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And allowing god to communicate to you through his word.
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Psalm 119:24-25, david said,
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"your testimonies are also my delight.
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They are my counselors.
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My soul cleaves to the dust,
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Revive me according to your word."
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There's something about being in scripture
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That revives our relationship with god.
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It gets us out of that bubble of isolation.
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Remember paul said, "bring me the books
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And bring me the book, as i'm alone in this prison cell."
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We have many of you who are prisoners
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Who watch our program every week.
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You understand that isolation,
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And i'm so proud of some of you i hear from
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Who are studying god's word.
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You're listening to our broadcast.
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You're drawing near to god.
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Paul said, "i need god's word."
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1500 years after paul said that,
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There was another man who looked to god's word
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To revive him and his relationship with god.
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His name was william tyndale, the bible translator,
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The reformer, the great bible scholar.
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He was imprisoned in belgium,
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And he wrote to the marquis of bergen these words,
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"i beg you, your lordship,
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And that by the lord jesus,
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That if i must remain here for the winter,
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You will beg the commissary to be so kind
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As to send me from the things that belong to me a warm cap.
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I feel the cold painfully in my head.
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Also, a warmer cloak for the cloak i have is very thin.
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He also has a woolen shirt of mine, if he will send that.
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But most of all, my hebrew bible, grammar, and vocabulary,
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Please send those that i may spend time in that pursuit."
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I'm going to tell you,
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After studying hebrew for three years at dallas seminary,
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If i were on my deathbed,
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The last thing i would ask for is a hebrew old testament.
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(congregation laughs)
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There is nothing about that that would revive me at all.
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It would finish me off.
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(congregation laughs)
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But for william tyndale,
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The pursuit of that hebrew old testament
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Was the same thing as pursuing god.
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The way you pursue god is through his word.
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Listen to me today.
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Like the apostle paul, like william tyndale,
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If you are in the shadow of loneliness,
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If it has overtaken every part of your life,
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Remember, the beginning place for conquering loneliness,
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Not the ending place, the beginning place is cultivating,
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Renewing your relationship with god.
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♪ music ♪
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Even in today's world,
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Close relationships are challenging to cultivate
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And maintain.
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And as we get older,
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We can become disconnected from friends, family members,
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And church.
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But when we choose to pursue companionship with god
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And others,
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We start the journey to a better and a brighter future.
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Now, in the time we have left today,
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I want to say a special word of thanks
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To all of you who give so generously
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So please keep up the good work,
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And i look forward to hearing from you today.
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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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Jesus told us that if we have faith
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As tiny 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
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Are going to face 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 fear to courage, and much more.
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But in the eyes of the mountain mover,
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Every mountain you face is a molehill,
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And god is ready to take you to the other side of blessing.
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In your life any more than doubt.
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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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Loneliness may be a widespread issue in our day,
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But it's certainly not new.
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The bible is filled with examples of men
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And women who struggled with feeling alone,
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And the path they took paves a way
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From moving from loneliness to companionship for all of us.
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Well, fear is an emotion that paralyzes us
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And keeps us from moving forward in god's plan for our life.
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So next time,
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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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Fear is an emotion that paralyzes us.
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Robert Jeffress - Moving From Loneliness To Companionship (Part 2)

July 21, 2025 | S25 E347 | 29:0

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