Dr. Robert Jeffress delivers a powerful message on "New Year, New Choices" at the First Baptist Church of Dallas. Drawing from the book of Deuteronomy, he explores the importance of making God the priority in our lives to experience His blessings. He emphasizes the need for obedience, fear of God, and total devotion to Him. Through insightful anecdotes and biblical teachings, Dr. Jeffress challenges listeners to make deliberate decisions to love, serve, and obey God in every aspect of their lives, setting the stage for a transformative year ahead.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - New Year, New Choices | January 3, 2026
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- 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 am robert jeffress
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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- Chances are you're entering the new year
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- With a list of worthy resolutions.
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- Maybe it's your goal to exercise more,
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- Or to eat healthier,
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- Or to spend more time with your family.
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- And while those are all important,
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- There's something even greater to consider.
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- My message is titled, "new year, new choices"
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- On today's special edition of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ all creatures of our god and king ♪
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- ♪ lift up your voice and with us sing ♪
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- ♪ alleluia ♪
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- ♪ thou rushing winds that art so strong ♪
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- ♪ ye clouds that sail in heav'n along ♪
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- ♪ o praise him ♪
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- ♪ alleluia ♪
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- ♪ thou burning sun with golden beam ♪
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- ♪ thou silver moon with softer gleam ♪
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- ♪ o praise him ♪
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- ♪ alleluia ♪
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- ♪ thou rising morn, in praise rejoice ♪
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- ♪ ye lights of evening, find a voice ♪
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- ♪ o praise him ♪
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- ♪ alleluia ♪
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- ♪ praise god from whom all blessings flow ♪
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- ♪ praise him all creatures here below ♪
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- ♪ o praise him ♪
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- ♪ alleluia ♪
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- ♪ amen ♪
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- Tom parker in his book,
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- "one day, the things americans do,"
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- Notes, "every day in america,
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- 108,000 of us move to a different home,
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- 18,000 of us move to another state,
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- The united states government
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- Issues 50 more pages of regulations,
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- 40 americans turn 100,
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- About 5,800 become 65,
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- And 8,000 try to forget their 40th birthdays.
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- Every day in america,
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- Americans purchase 45,000 new automobiles and trucks,
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- And smash up 87,000.
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- More than 6,300 get divorced while 13,000 get married,
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- Dogs bite 11,000 citizens, including 20 mail carriers.
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- Every day in america,
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- We eat 75 acres of pizza,
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- 53 million hot dogs, 167 million eggs,
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- 3 million gallons of ice cream, and 3,000 tons of candy,
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- And we burn 1.7 million calories while we're at it."
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- I bet those don't even out either.
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- You know, every day in america,
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- We're engaged in endless activities
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- And we make numerous decisions.
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- The greatest decision you're going to make
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- In the coming year has nothing to do
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- With what car you're going to drive,
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- Where you're going to live or where you're going to work.
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- The single greatest question you're going to face is this,
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- Are you going to make loving,
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- Serving and obeying god your highest priority,
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- Or are you going to allow your life
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- To be once again swept away
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- By the endless activities
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- And concerns of everyday life?
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- Are you going to experience god's blessing
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- Or are you going to experience his discipline?
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- You know, the children of israel faced a similar choice
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- As they stood on the brink of a new era in their lives.
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- They had a choice to make
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- As they entered the promised land.
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- Would they obey god and experience his blessings
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- Or would they disobey god and experience his curses?
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- If you have your bibles today,
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- I want you to turn to deuteronomy chapter 11
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- As we look at the new year before us
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- And the new choice we have today.
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- Deuteronomy chapter 11,
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- What do you want to face in the years ahead?
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- Do you want to obey god and experience his blessing
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- Or curse god and receive his discipline?
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- Look at deuteronomy 11:26-28.
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- Moses says, "see, i'm setting before you today
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- A blessing and a curse.
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- The blessing if you listen to the commandments
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- Of the lord, your god, which i'm commanding you today,
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- And the curse if you do not listen to the commandments
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- Of the lord, your god,
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- But turn aside from the way which i'm commanding you today
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- By following other gods which you have not known."
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- Now, folks, there is no deep theology here.
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- This is a very simple, straightforward proposition.
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- If you want god's blessings, obey him.
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- If you want his discipline, disobey him.
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- I'm amazed at the number of christians
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- Who see absolutely no relationship
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- Between their disobedience of god
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- And the problems they face in their life.
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- Problems such as divorce,
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- Or rebellious children,
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- Or bankruptcy, or health problems.
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- The bible says, "if you are a child of god
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- And disobey god or ignore god's commands,
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- There are going to be
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- Real painful consequences in your life."
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- If you don't believe that, the bible says,
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- Just look at 1 corinthians 10, beginning with verse seven,
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- "and do not be idolaters,
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- As some of them, the israelites were.
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- As it is written,
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- The people sat down to eat and drink and stood up to play."
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- That's a reference to what happened
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- At the base of mount sinai,
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- While moses was receiving the law.
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- "nor let us act immorally as some of the israelites did,
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- And 23,000 fell, that is died, in one day.
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- Nor let us try the lord as some of them did
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- And were destroyed by the serpents,
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- Nor grumble as some of them did
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- And were destroyed by the destroyer.
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- Now these things happened to them as an example
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- And they were written for our instruction
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- Upon the ends of the ages have come.
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- Therefore, let him who thinks he stands
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- Take heed lest he fall."
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- Paul is saying god allowed these things
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- To happen to the israelites.
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- He wrote them down in his book as a reminder to us
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- Of the consequences of disobeying or ignoring god.
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- Which do you want as you face the coming year,
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- God's blessing or god's curses?
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- I want you to look at the pathway to god's discipline
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- That the experience of the israelites illustrates.
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- The pathway to god's discipline in your life
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- Always begins with an improper view of god,
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- An improper view of god/
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- Instead of believing in the god of the bible,
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- Most people believe in the god of their own imagination.
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- They refuse to believe the god of the bible,
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- The god who is intolerant of sin,
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- Who is holy, who is totally impartial.
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- Instead, they have created a god in their mind
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- Who is just as arbitrary and tolerant of sin
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- As everyone else.
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- And that's the mistake the israelites made.
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- Sure, they thought god would destroy
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- The pagan inhabitants of canaan for their idolatry,
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- But they thought they were the exception to god's judgment.
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- They thought because of their special relationship with god,
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- God's rules didn't apply to them.
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- If you're a christian,
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- God's forgiveness means he has wiped away
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- The eternal consequences of your sin.
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- It means you're not going to hell,
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- But being a christian does not exempt you
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- From god's very real
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- And painful punishment when you disobey him.
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- In fact, it guarantees that discipline.
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- Because, again, as the writer of hebrews says,
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- "those whom the lord loves, he disciplines."
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- The second milestone on the road to discipline
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- Is an improper view of ourselves
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- And that is believing that the good things
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- That happen to us are the result of our good behavior,
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- Our hard work are just plain luck
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- Rather than seeing the good things in our life
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- As a gift from god.
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- Again, the israelites made that mistake.
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- In deuteronomy 8:11-14,
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- Listen to the word of warning for moses.
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- He said, "beware lest you forget the lord your god.
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- By not keeping his commandments and his ordinances
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- And his statutes, which i'm commanding you today,
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- Lest when you have eaten and are satisfied
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- And have built good houses and lived in them,
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- And when your herds and your flocks multiply,
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- And your silver and gold multiply,
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- And all that you have multiplies,
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- Then your heart becomes proud
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- And you forget the lord your god
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- Who brought you out from the land of egypt,
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- Out of the house of slavery."
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- And then, thirdly,
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- It is marked by an improper view of others,
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- That is depending on other people
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- Or other things to fill the place in our heart
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- That god can only fill.
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- You know that's the essence of what idolatry is?
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- Idolatry is loving someone
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- Or something else more than we love god.
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- If you look through the book of deuteronomy,
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- One thing you come away with is there is one sin
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- That god is absolutely certain to punish every time
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- And it is the sin of idolatry.
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- God hates idolatry.
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- He hates it when we look to anyone or anything else
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- To satisfy our need in life, why is that?
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- It's because god is a jealous god.
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- Now, does that bother you to hear that,
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- That god is a jealous god?
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- As pascal the philosopher said,
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- God has placed a god-shaped vacuum in every heart
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- And god knows that we will only truly be satisfied by him
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- And that's why he is jealous about anything
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- Or anyone else that attempts to replace him in our life.
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- God loves you too much to allow you to get away
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- With worshiping something that ultimately won't satisfy you.
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- That's why god hates idolatry.
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- One writer defines sin as "the suicidal abandonment of joy."
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- In isaiah 12:3, god says,
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- "therefore with joy,
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- You will draw water from the wells of salvation."
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- Now, listen to this,
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- We assassinate the deep-seated joy
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- God has for each of us
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- When we seek to draw life from the empty
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- And the broken cisterns this world so readily offers.
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- But what is it that leads to god's blessing?
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- Moses also shares with us the pathway
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- To god's blessing in our life.
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- Look again at verses 26 and 27 of deuteronomy 11,
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- He said, "see, i'm setting before you today
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- A blessing and a curse.
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- The blessing if you listen to the commandments
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- Of the lord, your god, which i'm commanding you today.
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- You want god's blessing in your life?
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- Then listen to his commands."
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- Now, let me clarify by what he means by listen.
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- By listen, he's not talking about sitting there,
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- Allowing the words of the pastor to go in your ear gate
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- While you think about this afternoon's football game, okay?
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- The word listen in hebrew means to absorb
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- With a goal of application.
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- That's what he's talking about,
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- Listening to the commands of god
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- With a view to applying them.
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- Turn back one chapter to deuteronomy 10:1,
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- And you'll get a clearer idea
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- Of what moses has in mind here.
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- "but to fear the lord, your god,
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- To walk in all of his ways, and to love him
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- And serve the lord, your god, with all your heart
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- And with all your soul."
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- Moses says, "here are three things god wants from you
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- If you want to experience his blessing in your life.
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- Number one, to fear god."
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- To fear god.
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- Proverbs 1:7 says, "the fear of the lord
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- Is the beginning of knowledge."
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- Now, what does it mean to fear god?
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- You know, people try to soften that word.
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- They say, "oh, it really doesn't mean to be afraid of god,
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- It means to have a reverential respect for god,
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- It means to be in awe of god,
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- But it doesn't mean to be afraid of god."
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- No, fear means fear.
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- To fear god means to be afraid of god.
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- Specifically, it means to be afraid
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- Of the consequences of disobeying god.
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- The fear of god, a healthy respect for the holiness of god,
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- His impartiality is the beginning place
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- Of all wisdom and wise living.
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- He says, "we need to fear god,"
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- But secondly, he says, "to walk in all of his ways."
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- If you want god's blessing in your life,
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- It means obeying god in every part of your life,
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- Not just select parts of your life,
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- In all parts of your life.
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- Let's do an inventory this morning.
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- Are you obeying god in every part of your life?
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- What about your moral life?
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- Are there any secret sexual sins in your life
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- That if they were portrayed on this giant screen up here
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- Before the whole congregation,
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- You would be ashamed for anyone to see?
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- What about your family life?
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- Are you treating your mate the way god says you should?
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- How about your children, your parents?
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- Are you obeying god in your work?
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- Are you seeing your work as an assignment from god
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- And you're doing it enthusiastically, wholeheartedly,
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- Or are you just trying to get by?
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- What about your business dealings?
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- Any dishonesty there
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- In the way you're treating other people or the government?
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- What about your spiritual life?
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- Are you tithing as god has commanded you to
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- Or are you robbing god?
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- Are you spending time with god,
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- Learning to know him more or can you go days, weeks,
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- Even months without opening your bible
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- Or ever talking with god?
- 00:18:21.356 --> 00:18:23.926
- "if you want god's blessings in your life,"
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- Moses says, "you need to walk with god
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- And obey him in all of your life."
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- Thirdly, what's the key to god's blessing?
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- To love god and to serve him with all of your heart.
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- Moses added this phrase to remind israel
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- That their obedience to god
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- Was not just out of some cold legalistic requirement.
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- It wasn't even just out of the fear
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- Of the consequences of disobeying god.
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- Ultimately, our obedience to god
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- Is based on our love for god,
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- Our appreciation for all he's done for us,
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- And god says the same thing to us today,
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- Just think about all god has done for you.
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- When you and i were dead in our trespasses and sin,
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- Headed for an eternity of separation from god,
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- God, for no other reason than the great love
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- With which he loved you, reached down and picked you up.
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- He saved you by the death of his son.
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- He indwelled you with the holy spirit of god.
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- He has given you numerous
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- And undeserved blessings every day of your life
- 00:19:29.224 --> 00:19:32.027
- Out of gratitude for all god has done for you.
- 00:19:32.027 --> 00:19:35.697
- Shouldn't you wholeheartedly want to obey him?
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- That's the pathway that leads to god's blessing.
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- You know, i'm reminded of the story
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- Of missionary nate saint,
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- Who along with jim elliot
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- And three other missionaries was killed
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- By the auca indians in south america in the 1950s.
- 00:19:52.714 --> 00:19:57.686
- Before nate saint was martyred for his faith,
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- He made this comment, he said,
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- "the most revolutionary discovery in my christian life
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- Is this, that obedience to god
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- Is not a momentary option,
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- But it's a die cast decision made beforehand."
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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- If you wait until you're in the middle
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- Of a spiritual battle,
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- In the middle of a temptation
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- To decide whether or not you're going to obey god,
- 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.889
- You've waited too long.
- 00:20:33.889 --> 00:20:35.557
- The decision's already been made for you.
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- The choice to obey god and serve him with all of your heart
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- Is a decision that you make beforehand.
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- And so let me ask you,
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- Are you ready to make that deliberate die cast decision
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- To make god the priority of your life?
- 00:20:53.041 --> 00:20:56.411
- Are you ready to say, "god, whatever happens,
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- I'm going to obey you in every part of my life.
- 00:20:59.681 --> 00:21:03.585
- I'm going to make knowing you, spending time with you
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- And your word and in prayer,
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- That is going to be the priority of my life."
- 00:21:10.258 --> 00:21:14.129
- It's that deliberate die cast decision that will lead you
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- To experience god's innumerable blessings
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- Rather than his discipline.
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- Next time we're going to embark on a series
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- Titled, "choose your attitudes, change your life."
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- We may not be able to change our circumstances,
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- The essential attitude choices you must make
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