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Robert Jeffress - Reproofs That Restore (Part 2)

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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"
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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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The bible clearly teaches that god
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Will punish unbelievers
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For their unforgiven sins for all eternity.
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But does god ever punish christians
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For their sins during their time on earth?
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(laughing) the answer might surprise you.
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My message is titled "reproofs that restore"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ who has never wanted ♪
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♪ and spread out the land ♪
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♪ give him praise ♪
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♪ 'cause god endures forever ♪
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♪ his love endures forever ♪
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♪ oh, 'cause god endures forever ♪
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♪ give him praise ♪
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♪ who has conquered kingdoms ♪
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♪ crushed the enemy ♪
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♪ give him praise ♪
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♪ who will fight our battles ♪
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♪ give us victory ♪
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♪ give him praise ♪
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♪ give praise to the lord ♪
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♪ for he is good ♪
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♪ give thanks to the god of all gods ♪
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♪ give thanks to the lord ♪
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♪ for he is good ♪
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♪ give thanks to the god of all gods ♪
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♪ give thanks ♪
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After that judgment in 2 samuel 12,
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You find david's son, absalom,
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Rebelling against david
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And trying to overthrow his kingdom.
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Is that an accident?
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No, god had said,
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"because of what you have done,
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There is going to be trouble in your house
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From now until the day you die."
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That's not accidental.
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Absalom had observed his own father rebelling against god.
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And from his father's example,
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He learned about how to rebel against god as well.
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By the way, the same is true in your household.
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If you are living in the far country apart from god,
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Your children are watching and learning from that.
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And god's not going to allow you to go unpunished
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If for no other reason for the sake of your children
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And what they see and witness.
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I remember in a former church,
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A businessman in our church,
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Very successful,
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Poured his life into building his career.
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We many times talked,
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And he said, "pastor, i know i'm not where i should be,
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But eventually i'll come back to god."
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But then when his son was 18 years old,
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His son fell into substance abuse.
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He was addicted to hard drugs,
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And he renounced his christian faith.
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The father was heartbroken.
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He said to me one day, "pastor, i just don't understand.
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How could my son rebel against god like he's doing?"
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I didn't want to stick the knife in too deeply,
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But i had to tell him the truth.
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I said, "your son is just living out
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What he has watched in your life
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For the last six or seven years."
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Fortunately, this man was brought to his senses,
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And he dropped to his knees
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And prayed for god's forgiveness,
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And his son was restored to the faith as well.
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Don't be surprised if god uses family conflict
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To bring you back to himself.
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A third reproof of god
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Can be sometimes illness.
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God can bring sickness into our life
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To get our attention.
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Now, please don't misunderstand what i'm saying.
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I'm not saying all sickness is the result of sin.
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Remember job's three friends,
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Who were absolutely sure that job's illness
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Was a result of his disobedience.
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They were wrong.
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And by the way, we're never to try to explain
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Somebody else's reproofs.
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We're never to try to discern if somebody else
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Is suffering because they're living outside of god's will.
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God will give you that wisdom about yourself,
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But not (laughing) about other people.
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They were wrong about job.
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They didn't know any better.
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But even though job's illness
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Was not the result of sin,
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Some illness is the result of sin.
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Now, the bible says,
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And you may want to mark this down,
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God gives three reasons in his word
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Why we experience illness.
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Three possibilities for sickness.
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First of all, some sickness leads to death.
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In john 11:4, when jesus heard about lazarus,
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His friend, being sick,
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Jesus knew instinctively
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And he said in verse 4, john 11:4,
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"this sickness of lazarus
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Is not the sickness unto death,"
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But some sickness is.
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I mean, think about it, if we never got sick,
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We wouldn't die,
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And if we didn't die,
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We'd never experience the heaven
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That god has planned for us.
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Many times, sickness is the tool
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God uses to give us that new life
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We're all waiting for in christ jesus.
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That's by the way why, as a pastor,
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I never get that excited
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When i hear stories of miraculous healings.
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You know, some people just get so worked up about,
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"oh, so-and-so experienced stuff miraculous healing."
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Well, good for them,
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But it's only temporary,
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'cause the fact is,
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No matter how miraculously you're healed,
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It's only a temporary healing.
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You are going to die.
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And that's good news,
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Because if we don't die,
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We can't get rid of this old body
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And receive the new body that god has for us.
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So there is a sickness that leads to death.
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Secondly, some sickness is for the glory of god.
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That was true of the apostle paul.
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Remember paul had this thorn in the flesh,
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He prayed three times
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That god would miraculously healed him.
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And guess what? he never experienced that miracle.
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That thorn in the flesh stayed with him.
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And in 2 corinthians 12:9,
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Paul said that god told him,
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"my grace is sufficient for you,
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For power is perfected in weakness.
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Most gladly, therefore,
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I will rather boast about my weakness
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So that the power of christ may dwell in me."
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You know, whenever i read that passage,
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I think about my friend, joni eareckson tad.
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We all know her story.
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When she was 17 years of age,
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She was in a diving accident,
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Was paralyzed,
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Became quadriplegic,
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And has been in a wheelchair for 50 years.
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And yet think of god's miraculous work through her life,
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The way god has used her testimony
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To win countless thousands of people
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The faith in jesus christ.
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God showed himself strong in her life
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Not through her strength,
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But through her weakness.
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And sometimes god does that in our life as well.
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But third, some sickness is the result of personal sin.
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Some sickness is the result of personal sin.
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For example, in numbers 12,
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Miriam, the sister of moses,
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Was struck with leprosy
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Because she rebelled against her brother, moses.
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I always remind my sister, jennifer, of that.
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-(audience laughing) -just speaking out
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Against moses.
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No, but that's what happened to miriam.
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Gehazi, the servant of elisha,
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Was also stricken with leprosy
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Because of his disobedience to god.
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Look at david, what happened to him?
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Psalm 32 says that during that time
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When he refused to repent of his sin
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With bathsheba and uriah,
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God afflicted him.
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In psalm 32:3-4,
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"when i kept silent about my sin,
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My body wasted away
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Through my groaning all day long.
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For day and night,
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Your hand was heavy upon me
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And my vitality was drained away
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As with the fever heat of summer."
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In james 5:14-16,
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James says, "is there any among you sick?
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Then he must call for the elders of the church
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And they are to pray over him,
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Anointing him with oil
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In the name of the lord,
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And the prayer offered in faith
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Will restore the one who is sick
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And the lord will raise him up.
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If he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him."
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Why is james talking about healing
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And confessing sins in the same passage?
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Because james is saying there are some sins
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That are the result of sin.
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And we need god's wisdom
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To determine whether or not our sickness
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Is a sickness because of sin.
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Now, we've talked about what a reproof is.
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It's a difficult circumstance
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God brings into our life to correct us.
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Secondly, we've talked about examples of reproofs
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That we experience.
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Today, i'd like to close
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By talking about three timeless truths about reproofs
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That come from hebrews 12:5-8.
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First of all, god's reproofs are impartial.
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Hebrews 12:5-8,
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"you have forgotten the exhortation
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Which is addressed to you as sons.
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My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the lord,
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Nor faint when you are reproved by him.
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For those whom the lord loves,
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He disciplines,
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And he scourges every," underline that,
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"every son whom he receives."
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I want you to imagine
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That you and i go to the top of this worship center.
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You're an obedient christian,
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I'm a disobedient christian.
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And we both jump off the top of this worship center.
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What's going to happen to us?
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The answer, splat and splat.
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(everybody laughing)
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It doesn't matter that you're obedient and i'm disobedient,
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The law of gravity applies to all of us.
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And it's the same truth about god's discipline.
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You may have lived your life
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As an obedient christian forever,
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And you wander away from god.
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I may be a disobedient christian,
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But none of us is exempt from god's discipline.
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Folks, i can't tell you the number of people i know
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Who think somehow they're exempt
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From this passage we're talking about today,
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That they have a special relationship with god
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That allows them to get away with things
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That other people just can't get away with.
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They think perhaps
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Because of some dramatic conversion experience
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They had 30 years ago,
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Or they think about the fact
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'cause grandpa was a preacher,
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Or they think because they're a member
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Of the great first baptist church of dallas,
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Or because they are the pastor
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Of the great first baptist church of dallas,
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Somehow they're exempt from god's discipline.
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They're not,
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And you're not either.
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Remember what paul said to the corinthian christians?
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They felt like because they were the part
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Of such a great church,
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A church that was experiencing new members
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And the display of spiritual signs and wonders,
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That somehow they could live
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However they wanted to.
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In 1 corinthians 10:1-5,
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Paul warned him, he said,
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"for i do not want you to be unaware, brethren,
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That our fathers, that is the israelites,
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They were all under the cloud
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And all passed through the sea."
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In other words, they had experienced
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A supernatural deliverance,
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The parting of the red sea.
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They were all baptized into moses.
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That means they just identified with moses, the leader,
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In the cloud and in the sea.
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That means they were the recipients
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Of supernatural revelation.
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God spoke to their leader, moses,
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And moses spoke to them,
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The direct revelation from god.
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And they all ate the same spiritual food.
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God miraculously provided manna for them
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And water when they needed it.
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Verse five, "even though they were the recipients
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Of supernatural deliverance,
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Supernatural revelation,
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Supernatural provision," look at this,
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"nevertheless, with most of them,
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God was not well pleased,
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For they were laid low in the wilderness."
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Remember what happened to them
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Because they were disobedient?
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God sentenced them to 40 years
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Of wandering in the wilderness,
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And they died in the wilderness
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Without ever experiencing the promised land.
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In fact, if you could fly over the negev, the desert,
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You would see the desert littered
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With the bodies of god's own people,
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The israelites,
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Who were disciplined by god.
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You and i can look around right now
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And see the bodies of christians who have fallen,
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Who have been afflicted with god's discipline
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Because of their disobedience.
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God's discipline is impartial,
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Nobody is exempt from it.
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Secondly, god's reproofs are restorative.
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Look at verses nine and 10.
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Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us,
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And we respected them.
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Shall we not much rather be subject
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To the father of spirits and live?
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For they disciplined us for a short time,
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But god disciplines us for our good
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So that we may share his holiness."
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And then he quotes proverbs 3:12,
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"for whom the lord loves he reproves,
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Even as a father corrects the son
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In whom he delights."
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"for whom the lord loves he disciplines."
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Notice it doesn't say, "he condemns."
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"he disciplines."
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Think about a murderer
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Who's on death row
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And is executed.
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The purpose of executing a criminal
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Is not to restore him,
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To rehabilitate him.
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No, the purpose is not restoration or rehabilitation,
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It's retribution.
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But god doesn't deal with us that way if we're a believer.
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When you trust in christ as your savior,
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God took all of the retribution you and i deserve,
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And he poured it out upon his own son, jesus christ.
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God corrects us, disciplines us
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To restore us back into a right relationship with him.
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You know, i don't know about you,
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But as a child, i never believed
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That speech from my parents
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Right before they walloped me.
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"this is going to hurt us
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-more than it hurts you." -(audience laughing)
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I never fell for that,
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Until i became a parent.
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Then i understood exactly what they were saying.
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It really hurts you.
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It is inconvenient to discipline your children.
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The easier thing to do
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Would be to just let it go.
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Just let it go.
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But if you love your child,
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You know that those sassy replies,
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Those wrong attitudes,
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Those breaking of the rules
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Could lead to something even more serious down the road
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If you don't deal with it.
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I think about james dobson's words.
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Every parent has to have the attitude about discipline
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That says, "i love you too much
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To allow you to continue this kind of behavior."
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That's what god says about us.
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He could let it go,
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But the writer says if he did that,
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If you're not disciplined,
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It means you're not his child.
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For whom the lord loves, he disciplines.
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God's reproofs are impartial.
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Nobody's exempt.
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God's reproofs are restorative.
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They're meant for our good.
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And finally, god's reproofs are instructional.
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Look at verse 11,
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"all discipline for the moment
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Seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful.
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Yet to those who have been trained by it,
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Afterwards, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."
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Whenever god sends a reproof into your life,
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It's primarily for your benefit
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And you choose to remain stiff necked
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And suddenly be destroyed
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Or to submit in repentance.
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Most of the discipline god sends into your life
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Is for your benefit,
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But it's also for the benefit of other people as well
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Who are watching you.
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They're to learn from your discipline.
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I think about acts 5,
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Remember the story of ananias and sapphire,
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That first-century couple
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Who lied to the holy spirit
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About money they supposedly were giving to god,
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But they didn't give the money to god,
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And god struck them dead?
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And remember verse 11 of acts 5 says,
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"and great fear came upon the whole church
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As they witnessed that."
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By watching these two people being struck dead,
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They knew god's attitude
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Toward lying to the holy spirit of god.
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They all learned the lesson
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From the discipline of this couple.
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That's what paul said in 1 corinthians 10:11
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About those israelites in the wilderness,
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"now these things happen to them as an example,
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And they were written for our instruction."
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"if you want to know how god deals with children
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Who are living in the far country,
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Look at the israelites," paul says.
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You see, there is something about viewing calamity
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In other people's lives
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That ought to be a stark warning to us.
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Having watched a disaster in the life of other people,
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Instead of gloating about that example,
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We ought to learn from it and respond.
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I remember years ago
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Sitting in an airplane seat,
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Parked at the gate at dfw,
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Waiting for a late-night flight to san diego.
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And as we were sitting there getting ready to taxi,
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I looked out the window at the plane next to us
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And i saw this orange streak
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Shoot out from the wing tip.
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I thought, "that's strange."
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I asked the guy sitting next to me, "did you see that?"
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And he said, "no."
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I looked about a minute later
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And another orange streak came out.
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And the flight attendant was coming down the aisle,
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I said, "ma'am, i'm sorry,
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But i think that plane's on fire next to us."
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She said, (laughing)"oh, sir, that couldn't be."
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And she looked out there,
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And about that moment,
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The whole wing erupted into flames.
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And suddenly the back door opened to that plane
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And the rubber chute came down
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And people started jumping
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And bounding on that raft
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And came down and exited the runway
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And the fire equipment came
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And it was the biggest commotion you've ever seen.
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And finally, after about 30 minutes,
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After all the fire equipment left,
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We were ready to take off.
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And we were doing the normal taxi
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And the flight attendant was standing at the front
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And she was explaining the emergency exits.
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You know that announcement
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That nobody ever pays attention to?
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(audience laughing)
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Trust me, everybody was paying attention.
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Some people were even taking notes.
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(audience laughing)
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Why?
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Having witnessed a disaster in somebody else's life,
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We were especially sensitive to warnings in ours.
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Let me ask you a question.
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Have you recently been experiencing
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Some unexplained hardships into your life?
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Financial pressure, illness,
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Family conflict, something else?
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Don't just automatically write those things off
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As the problems of everyday life.
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♪ music ♪
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Realize that if you're a christian
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And you're living apart from god,
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God will bring difficult circumstances into your life,
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Not because he hates you,
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But because he loves you
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And wants you to return to him.
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For whom the lord loves
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He disciplines.
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We live in times when leaders are overly cautious,
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Looking for ways to avoid conflict
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With their constituents.
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Friends, that's the opposite of what god does.
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He loves us so much that he's willing
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To reprove, correct and discipline us if needed.
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Well, at "pathway to victory,"
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We're committed to god's model of truth telling.
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I don't skip around challenging bible passages,
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Avoiding the hard stuff.
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Instead, i simply tell you what the bible says
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And leave the consequences to god.
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♪ music ♪
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Discipline, reproof, correction,
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These are all healthy expressions
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From a loving parent.
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It's a mirror reflection of god's love for his children
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Expressed in the many ways he disciplines
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Those who follow him.
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Well, the writer of hebrews compares the christian life
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To a race.
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And next time, we're going to look at two dangerous detours
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That we must avoid while running the race
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Because those detours are guaranteed
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To distract us from the finish line.
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Stay tuned for a preview
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Of what's coming up next in our series, "spiritual fitness."
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Let's imagine you're in a foot race.
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The stadium is packed with people cheering you on.
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You're exhausted as you round the bend
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For the final lap of that race.
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You're hot, you're fatigued,
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And as you have your eyes on the finish line,
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You can't help but look over to the side
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And you see a person on the side of the track,
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He has lifted up a picture of ice tea.
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You're tempted.
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Set your dvr and join us next time
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For the message "detours that destroy"
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Here on "pathway to victory."
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♪ music ♪
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Robert Jeffress - Reproofs That Restore (Part 2)

May 18, 2026 | 27:29

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