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Robert Jeffress - Putting On Your Soul Shoes (Part 2)

March 11, 2026 | 27:29

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Putting On Your Soul Shoes (Part 2) | March 11, 2026

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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Dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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A clearly defined purpose is like a beacon that gives
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Direction in the darkness.
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It's the key to success in business and relationships, and
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Even in spiritual warfare.
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Today i want to show you why understanding your god-given
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Purpose is essential to defeating satan's attacks on
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Your life.
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I'll also reveal what the bible says about the spiritual
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Foundation every believer needs.
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My message is titled "putting on your soul shoes" on today's
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Edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪♪♪
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♪ lord, i will lift ♪
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♪ my eyes to the hills ♪
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♪ knowing my help ♪
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♪ is coming from you ♪
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♪ your peace you give me ♪
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♪ in times ♪
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♪ of the storm ♪
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♪ you are the source of my strength ♪
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♪ you are the strength of my life ♪
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♪ i lift my hands ♪
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♪ in total praise to you ♪
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♪ you are the source of my strength ♪
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♪ you are the strength of my life ♪
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♪ i lift my hands ♪
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♪ in total praise to you ♪
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♪ amen, amen, ♪
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♪ amen, amen ♪
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♪ amen, amen, ♪
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♪ amen, ♪
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♪ amen, amen. ♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Male announcer: whether you know it or not, you're in a battle.
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Satan has a strategy to attack your faith, disrupt your family,
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And derail your future, but god has given you everything you
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Need to fight back and win.
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In "the divine defense," dr. robert jeffress reveals six
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Practical strategies from ephesians chapter 6 to defeat
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Satan's destructive plan.
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When you put on the full armor of god, satan doesn't have
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A prayer.
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Request "the divine defense" when you give a generous
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Ministry gift to "pathway to victory."
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Jeffress: we all want to know what the purpose of our life is.
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The bible says we're not here by accident.
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We are not the result of some primordial chemical broth
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Emoting from the earth, being struck by lightning, producing
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The right amino acids that ended up producing you and me.
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No, we are here because god has created us, and he's created us
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For a great purpose.
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Remember god's word to the prophet jeremiah in jeremiah 1,
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Verse 5?
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God said, "'before i formed you in the womb i knew
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You, and before you were born i consecrated you; i have
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Appointed you as a prophet to the nations.'"
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Now, many times we use this verse to defend the
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Pro-life position.
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Abortion is the murder of the unborn, and we have no right to
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Kill the baby that god has created because every child has
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Been created, formed, skillfully made by god, and that's all
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True, but i want you to notice what god said to jeremiah.
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He didn't say, "your purpose came about after you were born,
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Or while you were in the womb."
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He says, "before i even formed you in the womb, jeremiah,
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Before you were conceived, i knew you."
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That word know in hebrew means to have an intimate
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Relationship with.
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He didn't just know about jeremiah.
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He didn't know at some point jeremiah was gonna be conceived.
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He entered into a relationship with jeremiah before he was
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Conceived, and before he was born, god said, "i consecrated
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You, i set you apart for a great purpose, to be a prophet to
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The nations."
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But jeremiah is not the only one who's been selected by god.
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God has a great purpose for your life as well.
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Now, when we talk about our purpose, we have to understand
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There's an eternal purpose that all of us were created for, and
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That is to have fellowship with god, to become more like
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Jesus christ every day, for whom god foreknew he predestined to
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Become conformed to the image of his son.
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God's ultimate plan for us is to enjoy him in heaven forever, to
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Worship him day and night, to enjoy unhindered fellowship with
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God, and by the way, that time is coming.
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In revelation 22, verse 3, after the destruction of the present
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Heaven and the present earth, after john sees the new heaven
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And the new earth, revelation 22, verse 3, says, "and there
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Will no longer be any curse, and the throne of god and of the
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Lamb will be in it, and his bond servants will serve him."
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We're looking forward--god is looking forward to that day when
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We serve and worship god without any interference.
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No longer are we pulled away from god by sin.
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No longer are we distracted by this world.
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We'll be able to obey god completely and perfectly, but
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That's in the new heaven and the new world.
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If that's god's goal, if that's his eternal plan for us, why
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Doesn't god just rapture us to heaven the moment he saves us?
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I mean, if god really wants to have uninterrupted fellowship
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With you, couldn't he do that better if we were in heaven with
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Him, where we don't get distracted, where we don't get
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Tangled up in sin?
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Why has god left us here on planet earth?
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Why is god engaging in delayed gratification on his part?
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He has a purpose for us here on earth.
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We were created for a unique purpose, and that leads to the
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Second statement i want to make.
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Your purpose is to fulfill god's purpose.
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So many times i see christians walking around in an emotional
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Or mental fog, asking the question, who am i?
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Why am i here?
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What is life all about?
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Now, i'm not ridiculing people for wanting to know god's
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Direction in their life, but the real question, as erwin mcmanus
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Says, "the real question we ought to be asking is not, god,
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What is your will for my life?
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That's not the question.
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The question is, god, what is your will and how can i give my
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Life to it?"
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That's what a true disciple of christ is asking.
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What is god's will, because my purpose ought to be to fulfill
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God's purpose.
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What is god's will?
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Let me give you three verses that will give you a hint about
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What god's purpose is.
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1 timothy 2, verses 3 to 4: "for this is good and acceptable in
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The sight of god our savior, who desires that all men be saved
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And come to the knowledge of the truth."
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Don't let anybody mislead you.
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God's goal is not to save as few people as possible.
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God's goal is to save as many people as possible.
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Any theology that tells you god wants to save as few as possible
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Is a wrong theology.
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God wishes to save all men, for all to come to a knowledge of
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The truth.
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Or 2 peter 3, verse 9, "the lord is not slow about his promise,
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As some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not wishing
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For any to perish but all come to repentance."
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Luke 19:10, "for the son of man came to seek and to save that
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Which was lost."
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God's purpose, god's will is to save as many people as possible,
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And that means our purpose is to share christ with as many people
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As possible as quickly as possible.
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Now, every time i share that, every time i get a little
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Passionate about it, there's always some pseudo spiritual
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Saint in the church, who says, "now, preacher, you need to
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Calm down.
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You need to calm down.
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That's god's business.
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That's god's work.
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It's not your work, that's god's work."
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Anytime i hear that, i remember the story about the old farmer
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Who bought a rundown farm.
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The paint was peeling from the barn, the fence was broken down,
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The fields have become overgrown with weeds and underbrush, and
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So he went to work cultivating the soil, rebuilding the fence,
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Repainting the barn.
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One day he was out in the field working when a friend of his
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Stopped by and said, "my, it is amazing to see what you and god
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Have done with this place," and the farmer, wiping the sweat
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From his brows, said, "you should have seen this place when
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God had it all to himself."
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Now, the fact is, there's some things god doesn't need our help
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On, and we can offer no help in.
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God didn't need our help in creating the universe.
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He did that all by himself.
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God doesn't need any help in salvation.
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He's the one who's done it all.
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It's a gift that we receive.
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But most worthwhile things that god does in the world represent
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A partnership, a partnership between god and his people.
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It's a joint project.
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You see that throughout scripture.
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For example, god said to the first couple, "i am giving you
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A perfect garden.
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Your responsibility is to cultivate it and to keep it."
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He said to noah, "noah, i'm about to send a flood.
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I'm gonna destroy everybody, but i'm gonna save you and your
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Family, but you have to build a boat."
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God said to nehemiah, "nehemiah, i'm gonna do a miracle.
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I'm gonna change the heart of the king.
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He's gonna allow you to go back to jerusalem, but your job is to
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Rebuild the wall," and he says to every one of us, "i've sent
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My only son, the lord jesus christ, to be a savior for
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You and to everyone who believes, but your job is to go
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And to announce that to as many people as possible."
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Most things we do are a partnership, and that's why it's
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Important for us to be sure that our business is god's business,
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That our purpose is god's purpose, to make sure nobody
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Missed what the mission was.
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Remember jesus's parting words to his disciples before he
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Ascended into heaven?
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In matthew 28, verses 19 and 20, jesus gave these final
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Marching orders.
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He said, "'go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
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Baptizing them in the name of the father, the son, and the
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Holy spirit, teaching them to observe all things
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That i commanded you;
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And lo, i am with you always, even to the end of the age.'"
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That's your one assignment.
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Go into all the world, make disciples.
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You know, i'm just continually flabbergasted at the number of
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Christians who absolutely give no thought to this
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Command whatsoever.
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Now, they've got a busy life.
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They've got a lot of plans.
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They have a strategy for getting an education.
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They have a strategy for building their careers.
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They have a strategy for success in the workplace.
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They have a plan, a strategy for their family.
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They have a plan, a detailed plan for their retirement to be
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Sure it's properly funded.
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They have a plan for doing everything they can think of
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Except the one thing god's commanded them to do, and that
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Is to go into all the world and make disciples.
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By the way, what's your strategy for doing that one thing, that
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One thing god left you here to do?
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You know, that's why every sunday we talk about
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Mission 1:8.
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Can i tell you something?
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Mission 1:8 is not just a fundraising strategy.
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It's just not a marketing tool.
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It's the plan that god gave us in acts 1:8 to begin in our own
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Jerusalem, our own city, to go to our nation, and to go
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Throughout the world sharing the good news.
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That's why we do what we do, and there is not a day of the week
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That comes and goes, but we don't hear from somebody in this
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Town, in this country, in this world, maybe halfway around the
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World, who's come to faith in jesus christ because of the
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Witness of the first baptist church of dallas.
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You're partnering with us to do what god has called you to do.
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We can't do it individually.
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We all can't go into all the world, but together as a church
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We can, and together as a church we are.
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That's our mission.
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In 2 timothy 2:4, paul repeatedly compares christians
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To soldiers in battle.
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Notice what he says in 2 timothy 2:4, "no soldier in active
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Service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so
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That he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier."
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In paul's day a roman soldier had one goal, and that was to
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Expand the emperor's kingdom.
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That was the job, expand the kingdom.
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Today a soldier in the service of the united states has or
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Should have one goal, and that is to obey his commander in
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Chief, to fulfill the mission that's been given to him.
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Just imagine a soldier who gets dropped in a war-torn country,
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And his first thing to do is to ask for a map, and he spends the
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First few days mapping out all the places he wants to go
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Sightseeing while he's in that country, or he says to his
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Friends, "you know, i've heard there's some great food in
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This country.
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I want to sample every local restaurant i can while i'm here
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On duty."
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If that were the major goal of any soldier, that soldier would
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Be court-martialed and probably in prison for dereliction
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Of duty.
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No, the job of a soldier is to fulfill his commander's orders,
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And our commander in chief has given us one order, and that is
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To push back against the kingdom of satan and expand the
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Kingdom of god.
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Colossians 1 says we are to deliver those who are in the
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Domain of darkness into the light of jesus christ's kingdom.
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That is our mission.
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God has created you for a great purpose.
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Your purpose is to fulfill god's purpose.
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Third, write this down, fulfilling your purpose is the
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Key to fulfillment in life.
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Fulfilling your purpose is the key to fulfillment in life.
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Psychologist carl jung in his book, "modern man in search of a
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Soul," wrote this: "about a third of my cases are suffering
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From no clinically definable neurosis, but from the
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Senselessness and the emptiness of their lives.
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This can be described as the general neurosis of our time."
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Carl jung wrote those words nearly 100 years ago, but don't
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They define the era in which we live?
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People have a sense of senselessness and emptiness to
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Their lives.
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How did they try to fill that senselessness,
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That meaninglessness?
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Some do it through their work.
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I understand that.
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Since we spend 60% of our waking hours at our work we try to
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Fulfill our lives through our work, but most people don't find
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Fulfillment in their work.
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If you don't believe that, just consider these statistics.
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One-third of americans say, "i hate my job."
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Two-thirds of workers say they've chosen the wrong career.
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Most suicides occur on sunday nights.
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Most heart attacks occur on monday mornings.
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Work will not fill the void of an empty life.
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Other people say, "well, i'm gonna try pleasure or money
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Or fame.
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Surely that will fill the void of an empty life."
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Whenever i'm tempted to think that, i remember an experience
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I had a number of years ago.
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We used to have an acquaintance who worked at nbc studios in
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California, and he would provide us with tickets to go see
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"the tonight show with johnny carson."
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We went out there dozens of times over the last 40 years to
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See johnny carson, and i told you all a few months ago, those
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Of you under 60 have no idea who johnny carson is, but just trust
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Me, in the days before conan o'brien or jimmy fallon or jay
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Leno, johnny carson was the king of late night television.
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He was the highest paid television performer in history,
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And the last time i saw johnny carson i was seated on the front
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Row just a few feet away from his desk.
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He was conducting an interview with another hollywood icon, bob
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Hope, one of the wealthiest stars of his day, and i tell
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You, they were having the best time.
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They were just yucking it up in front of the cameras and having
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So many laughs together until they went to a commercial, and
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As soon as they went to a commercial, the lights came
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Down, the cameras went off, and i watched those
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Two men.
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They didn't have one thing to say to one another.
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Instead, they looked straight ahead with a blank expression on
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Their face that said, i would rather be anyplace else in the
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World, doing anything else in the world than where i am and
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What i'm doing right now.
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They were miserable.
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How do you explain that?
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Why is it that we're constantly searching for some new pleasure,
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Some new relationship, some new accomplishment, only to be
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Profoundly disappointed?
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Here's the answer: eternal beings can only be filled and
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Satisfied by that which is eternal.
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Remember solomon, the wisest person, the wealthiest person of
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His day?
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He tried all of these pursuits, money, achievement, pleasures.
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Notice what he said in ecclesiastes 2:11, "thus i
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Considered all my activities which my hands had done and the
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Labor which i had exerted, and behold all was vanity and just a
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Striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun."
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Eternal beings can only be satisfied by that which
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Is eternal.
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To try to satisfy those eternal desires with temporary things is
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Like trying to fill an ocean with a bucket of water.
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You just can't do it.
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No, the only way to satisfy that sense of eternity that god has
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Placed in every heart, the only way that can be satisfied is
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With an eternal companion and an eternal purpose.
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That eternal companion is god.
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The eternal purpose that gives our life meaning is to make
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God's purpose your purpose, to dedicate your life to doing that
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One thing he has left us on planet earth to do.
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You may be thinking, "well, pastor, i understand how that
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Gives my life purpose.
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I understand how it's the key to fulfillment, but the subject
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We're talking about is spiritual warfare.
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How does living out your god-given purpose protect you
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Against the attacks of satan?"
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We're going to answer that question next time.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: the apostle paul makes it clear that our spiritual
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Foundation, the gospel of jesus christ, gives us stability
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In the battles we face, and i hope today's message has
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Encouraged you to stand firm on that foundation.
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Now, before we close today, i wanna share a note from a viewer
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Who wrote, "because i am not able to get out to church right
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Now, i've been leaning on 'pathway to victory.'
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I've been so blessed by this ministry...
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And because i have been blessed and am learning so much, i feel
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Empowered to pass the encouragement along to others in
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My life."
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Well, friend, that's exactly what today's message is all
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God's word.
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Now stay right there.
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I'll be back with more in just a moment.
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Jeffress: your mind is the devil's battlefield on which he
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Is warring against everything important to you.
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It is a battle that seeks to destroy your faith, your family,
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And your future.
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Jeffress: our spiritual footwear is the foundation of our faith,
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The gospel of jesus christ, and when we stand firm on that
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Foundation, we're equipped to withstand satan's attacks.
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Well, understanding your purpose in life provides far more than
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Just spiritual stability.
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It's also a powerful weapon against the enemy.
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Next time we're going to discover three critical choices
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That will protect you from satan's traps and help you
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Fulfill god's purpose for your life.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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Series, "the divine defense."
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Jeffress: as you know by now, ephesians 6 is probably the
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Clearest passage of scripture anywhere about the spiritual
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Battle we're all engaged in, whether we recognize it or not.
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You are in a life and death struggle against an adversary.
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That adversary is not your boss at work.
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That adversary is not the government.
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Your adversary is an unseen but very real being named satan.
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He has a blueprint to destroy everything important in
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Your life.
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Robert Jeffress - Putting On Your Soul Shoes (Part 2)

March 11, 2026 | 27:29

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