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Robert Jeffress - Spiritual Aerobics

May 14, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Spiritual Aerobics
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Spiritual Aerobics | May 14, 2026
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • 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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  • Welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • The bible uses a helpful metaphor
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  • To depict the christian life.
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  • Scripture teaches us that life is a lot like running a race,
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  • And we're taught to run this race with the prize in mind.
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  • So how do we develop the spiritual legs
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  • To finish and even win the race?
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  • Well, today i'll introduce you to faithful men and women
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  • Who showed us the way.
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  • My message is titled, "spiritual aerobics"
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  • At the age of five,
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  • Shelley mann suffered from polio so badly
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  • That she could barely move a muscle in her body.
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  • Her mother would put her in the swimming pool
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  • Just to get some circulation
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  • Running between her arms and her legs.
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  • The day she lifted an arm out of the water,
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  • Shelley cried, not because of the evident pain,
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  • But because that action represented
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  • A major victory in her life.
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  • Shelley then made it her goal that she would try
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  • To swim 30 feet, the width of her swimming pool.
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  • For months, she struggled through numbness and pain
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  • To make it across the pool.
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  • Finally, she did it, but she didn't stop there.
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  • She wasn't content.
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  • She now made it her goal to swim the length of the pool.
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  • After struggling for months, she made it,
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  • But she didn't stop there.
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  • She tried to make it two, three, four, five times.
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  • Years later, shelley mann went on
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  • To win eight american records in swimming
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  • And became the greatest women's swimmer
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  • In the australian 1952 olympics.
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  • The same shelley mann, the former polio victim,
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  • Went on to win the gold medal.
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  • You know, shelley mann had a handicap in life
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  • That would be enough for most of us to throw in the towel,
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  • But not shelley.
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  • She was a winner.
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  • She was a finisher
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  • Because she possessed that invaluable quality of endurance.
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  • And it's that same quality of endurance
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  • That the bible says we must possess
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  • If we're going to win in the christian life.
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  • How do you develop endurance in your life?
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  • The writer of hebrews answers that question
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  • In the passage we're going to look at today.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to hebrews 12,
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  • As we discover a lesson in spiritual aerobics.
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  • Hebrews 12.
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  • You know, the bible uses a number of different metaphors
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  • To describe the christian life.
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  • In 1 corinthians 9, paul says the christian life
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  • Is like a boxing match.
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  • We're boxers and we're not flailing our arms in the air
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  • Trying to hit anything we can find.
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  • We have a specific target we're jabbing at.
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  • In ephesians 6, the apostle paul says our life
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  • Is like a wrestling match.
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  • "for our struggle," literally our wrestling match,
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  • "is not against flesh and blood."
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  • It's not against other people.
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  • It's against the unseen forces of darkness
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  • In the heavenly places.
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  • And that's why, if we're going to win that wrestling match,
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  • We have to put on the full armor of god.
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  • But the most common metaphor in the bible
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  • For the christian life is a race.
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  • You find that, for example, in 1 corinthians 9,
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  • In galatians 5:7, in philippians 2:16,
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  • And here in hebrews 12.
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  • In what way is the christian life like a race?
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  • You didn't get credit just for running.
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  • No, there was a winner and the winner won something great.
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  • In most of the games, if you won the marathon,
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  • You would be exempt from paying taxes the rest of your life.
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  • Now, wouldn't that be a great thing?
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  • No taxes? why that is worth running for.
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  • Let's look at the first three verses of hebrews 12:
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  • Therefore, since we have so great
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  • A cloud of witnesses surrounding us,
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  • Let us also lay aside every encumbrance
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  • And the sin which so easily entangles us,
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  • And let us run with endurance
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  • The race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on jesus,
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  • The author and perfecter of faith,
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  • Who for the joy set before him endured the cross,
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  • Despising the shame,
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  • And has sat down at the right hand of the throne of god,
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  • For considering him who has endured such hostility
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  • By sinners against himself,
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  • So that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
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  • Now, most of you will find grammar boring,
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  • But the grammar of this passage is key to understanding it.
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  • Did you know, in these verses there's only one command?
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  • It is, "let us run with endurance."
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  • That's the command.
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  • The other, what seemed to be verbs,
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  • Are actually, participles.
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  • Having a great crowd of witnesses,
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  • Laying aside every encumbrance,
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  • Fixing our eyes on jesus.
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  • Those are the three keys for endurance,
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  • Having a cloud of witnesses,
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  • Laying aside every encumbrance,
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  • Fixing our eyes on jesus.
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  • I want to turn those participles into three words,
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  • Each beginning with an r.
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  • Remember, remove, and redirect.
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  • If we're going to succeed in our christian life,
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  • We first of all need to remember.
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  • Remember what?
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  • Remember our heroes who have gone on before us.
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  • Remember our heroes.
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  • Now, every true texan knows the story of the alamo.
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  • If you're a transplanted texan,
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  • -go rent the movie, -(congregants laugh)
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  • The john wayne version.
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  • That's the only legitimate alamo movie out there.
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  • Every other one's a fake movie.
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  • But you remember from the movie,
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  • Or from reading about the alamo, what happened.
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  • Between february and march of 1836,
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  • 187 brave soldiers, texas soldiers,
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  • Fought off the 5,000-member mexican army
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  • Under the command of santa anna,
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  • And they withstood that onslaught for 13 days.
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  • But finally on march 6th,
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  • Santa anna overcame them and slaughtered all 187.
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  • Remember, santa anna later boasted
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  • It was just a small affair.
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  • But six weeks later, sam houston,
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  • That great texas leader who later became a devout christian,
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  • Remember he led texas forces to defeat santa anna
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  • At the battle of san jacinto.
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  • People who just come down here to our church,
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  • They see we're on the street we're on,
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  • And they look up at it, and they say, "san jack-in-toe?
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  • What is that, san jack-in-toe?"
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  • -(congregants laugh) -no, it's san jacinto,
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  • And it commemorates the great texas battle at san jacinto,
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  • Defeating the army of santa anna.
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  • And remember the battle cry that led them to victory?
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  • Every texan knows it.
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  • Say it with me.
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  • -"remember the alamo!" -"remember the alamo!"
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  • "remember the alamo!"
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  • What does that mean, "remember the alamo?"
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  • Remember the defeat of the alamo?
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  • No.
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  • Remember the fortress we know as the alamo?
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  • No.
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  • Remember the heroes of the alamo.
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  • Those men who had the courage
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  • To withstand any attack against them
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  • And to keep on fighting to the very end.
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  • Now, that's exactly what the writer of hebrews
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  • Is saying here.
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  • Remember the heroes that went before us.
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  • Look at verse one: "therefore, since we have
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  • So great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us."
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  • What is he talking about?
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  • What cloud of witnesses?
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  • Well, it's the ones he just talked about in chapter 11.
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  • Remember, in the original text there was no chapter break.
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  • He has just spent the whole chapter
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  • Talking about moses and noah and rahab and abraham.
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  • And then he says, "therefore, as you think
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  • About these heroes of the faith, follow their example."
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  • Secondly, we need to remove our obstacles.
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  • Remember our heroes, remove our obstacles.
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  • Look at verse one: "let us also lay aside
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  • Every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us."
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  • Sin is anything that trips you up
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  • In your relationship with god,
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  • But an encumbrance is anything
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  • That weighs you down in your relationship with god.
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  • Let's talk about that for a moment.
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  • An encumbrance, lay aside the encumbrance.
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  • I read that american airlines was doing a study
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  • About how they could reduce the weight of their aircraft
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  • So that they could use less fuel
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  • And save money.
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  • And so they did a study
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  • Of the in-flight magazine they published,
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  • And they found out that if they would change
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  • The kind of paper they were using,
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  • They could reduce the weight of that magazine by one ounce.
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  • And so they changed printers, they changed the paper.
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  • You say, "one ounce?
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  • Why would anybody go to that trouble for one ounce?"
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  • Well, think about 200 magazines on an airplane.
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  • Think about thousands of airplanes
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  • And tens of thousands of flights every day.
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  • They found that by reducing
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  • The weight of the magazine by one ounce,
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  • And the fuel they would save,
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  • It would save the airline $417,000 a year, one ounce.
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  • Now it's that kind of determination we have to have
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  • To lay aside anything
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  • That weighs us down in our relationship with god.
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  • I remember a friend of mine a few years ago
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  • Had a renewal in his commitment to god,
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  • And he had a practice of every morning drinking coffee
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  • With some longtime friends of his.
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  • He would meet them for coffee every morning,
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  • And he said, "you know, pastor,
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  • I've just decided i can't do that any longer.
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  • It's not that, you know,
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  • We pass around pornographic magazines at our coffee,
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  • Or do anything like that,
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  • But there's nothing motivating about the conversation to me.
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  • And so i've decided i'm just going to give that up."
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  • For you, laying aside an encumbrance
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  • Might be laying aside a friendship.
  • 00:12:44.453 --> 00:12:48.257
  • For other people, it may be laying aside a hobby
  • 00:12:48.257 --> 00:12:53.562
  • That again, isn't wrong, but it distracts you.
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  • It keeps you from giving your all
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  • To your relationship with god.
  • 00:12:58.734 --> 00:13:00.102
  • It's become a focus, maybe an idol in your life.
  • 00:13:00.102 --> 00:13:03.339
  • Maybe it's television.
  • 00:13:03.339 --> 00:13:04.373
  • Nothing wrong with television,
  • 00:13:04.373 --> 00:13:06.108
  • But maybe it's keeping you from spending time with god.
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  • A person who really is intent on winning
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  • Is going to lay aside anything that weighs him down.
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  • I remember reading an interview with the film director
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  • Who just died this last year, joel schumacher.
  • 00:13:21.056 --> 00:13:24.760
  • He was the guy who directed
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  • The first "batman & robin" movie.
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  • And while he was directing that movie,
  • 00:13:28.764 --> 00:13:30.599
  • They had a teenage actress named alicia silverstone.
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  • And throughout the filming of the movie,
  • 00:13:34.904 --> 00:13:36.338
  • He said she was battling with her weight,
  • 00:13:36.338 --> 00:13:39.375
  • Trying to keep the weight off, and she wasn't succeeding,
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  • And the tabloids were having a field day criticizing her,
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  • And it really hurt her feelings and discouraged her.
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  • And so one day joel schumacher took her off to the side
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  • And said, "alicia, there is absolutely
  • 00:13:53.489 --> 00:13:56.859
  • Nothing wrong with your weight.
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  • There are plenty of teenage girls
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  • Who weigh exactly what you do."
  • 00:14:02.264 --> 00:14:05.067
  • And she started to kind of feel encouraged,
  • 00:14:05.067 --> 00:14:07.536
  • But then he said, "but alicia,
  • 00:14:07.536 --> 00:14:09.538
  • If you're going to be a movie star,
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  • You can't be like everybody else."
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  • Now don't send me any emails about that, okay?
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  • "oh, that's terrible.
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  • You know, we're not supposed
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  • To look on, you know, outward appearance.
  • 00:14:22.184 --> 00:14:24.386
  • Man looks on the outward appearance,
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  • God looks on the heart."
  • 00:14:25.821 --> 00:14:27.089
  • That's right. god does look on the heart.
  • 00:14:27.089 --> 00:14:28.590
  • But it's also true man looks on the outward appearance.
  • 00:14:28.590 --> 00:14:31.427
  • I mean, he was telling her truth.
  • 00:14:31.427 --> 00:14:32.828
  • If you want to be different than everybody else,
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  • You have to make certain sacrifices.
  • 00:14:36.532 --> 00:14:38.667
  • There may be things
  • 00:14:38.667 --> 00:14:40.035
  • That are perfectly legal according to christianity.
  • 00:14:40.035 --> 00:14:43.872
  • There's nothing in the bible against them.
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  • But you may come to the point that you say, "you know what?
  • 00:14:45.708 --> 00:14:48.610
  • I can't do this
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  • If i'm going to succeed in the christian life,
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  • And i'm going to lay this aside, not because it's sinful,
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  • But because it's weighing me down."
  • 00:14:55.084 --> 00:14:57.886
  • That's what he's talking about here,
  • 00:14:57.886 --> 00:14:59.755
  • Laying aside every encumbrance.
  • 00:14:59.755 --> 00:15:03.058
  • And then he says, also,
  • 00:15:03.058 --> 00:15:04.593
  • Laying aside the sin that so easily entangles us.
  • 00:15:04.593 --> 00:15:09.832
  • We all know what sin is.
  • 00:15:10.332 --> 00:15:12.167
  • I imagine right now you can think
  • 00:15:12.167 --> 00:15:14.837
  • Of immediately one thing in your life,
  • 00:15:14.837 --> 00:15:18.874
  • A relationship, an attitude, a habit,
  • 00:15:19.675 --> 00:15:23.479
  • That you know is displeasing to god.
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  • The question is, are you ready to lay it aside?
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  • May i remind you that if god has already identified
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  • That one thing to you,
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  • And you have that desire to get rid of it,
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  • The same desire, the same power
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  • That was able to raise jesus christ out of the grave,
  • 00:15:42.598 --> 00:15:45.567
  • Lives in you through the holy spirit of god.
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  • You have the desire, and whether or not you know,
  • 00:15:48.504 --> 00:15:51.106
  • You have the power right now to lay aside that sin
  • 00:15:51.106 --> 00:15:55.110
  • That is tripping you up in your relationship with god.
  • 00:15:55.110 --> 00:15:59.014
  • If we're going to be successful in the christian life,
  • 00:15:59.014 --> 00:16:01.750
  • We have to remove those obstacles,
  • 00:16:01.750 --> 00:16:04.086
  • Both sins and encumbrances.
  • 00:16:04.086 --> 00:16:07.856
  • I came across something,
  • 00:16:07.856 --> 00:16:09.324
  • Some words that so spoke to me that i wrote them
  • 00:16:09.324 --> 00:16:14.596
  • In the back of my green hardback "living bible."
  • 00:16:15.531 --> 00:16:18.634
  • Do you all remember the green hardback "living bibles?"
  • 00:16:18.634 --> 00:16:21.570
  • You're going to age yourself if you do,
  • 00:16:21.570 --> 00:16:23.639
  • But these were so popular,
  • 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:25.541
  • And i took this bible to school with me every day.
  • 00:16:25.541 --> 00:16:29.178
  • And before i went to richardson high school,
  • 00:16:29.178 --> 00:16:32.414
  • There was a park across the street, cottonwood park,
  • 00:16:32.414 --> 00:16:35.350
  • And i would go and read my bible and then i would read this,
  • 00:16:35.350 --> 00:16:39.021
  • These words i'd written in the back of my bible.
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  • It's titled "the man god uses."
  • 00:16:41.890 --> 00:16:46.095
  • "what kind of person does god use?
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  • Number one, he has but one great purpose in life.
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  • Number two, he has placed himself absolutely
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  • At god's disposal.
  • 00:16:58.207 --> 00:17:00.209
  • Number three, he has learned how to prevail in prayer.
  • 00:17:01.310 --> 00:17:05.481
  • Number four, he is a student of the word of god.
  • 00:17:05.481 --> 00:17:09.351
  • Number five, he has a vital message for a lost world.
  • 00:17:10.452 --> 00:17:15.257
  • Number six, he is a man of faith who expects results.
  • 00:17:16.325 --> 00:17:20.963
  • Number seven, he works in the anointing of the holy spirit.
  • 00:17:22.164 --> 00:17:25.934
  • And number eight, he, by god's grace,
  • 00:17:25.934 --> 00:17:29.972
  • Has removed every hindrance from his life."
  • 00:17:29.972 --> 00:17:35.444
  • Have you done that?
  • 00:17:35.911 --> 00:17:37.212
  • Have you, through god's grace and power, removed everything
  • 00:17:38.413 --> 00:17:42.751
  • That is weighing you down in your relationship with god?
  • 00:17:42.751 --> 00:17:45.587
  • That's the way you develop endurance.
  • 00:17:45.587 --> 00:17:49.558
  • What is the key to endurance?
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  • Remember our heroes, remove our obstacles,
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  • And number three, refocus our attention.
  • 00:17:56.665 --> 00:18:01.170
  • Refocus our attention and focus.
  • 00:18:01.803 --> 00:18:05.474
  • Look at verse two again:
  • 00:18:05.474 --> 00:18:07.576
  • Fixing our eyes on jesus,
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  • The author and perfecter of faith,
  • 00:18:10.946 --> 00:18:13.615
  • Who for the joy set before him endured the cross,
  • 00:18:13.615 --> 00:18:16.852
  • Despising the shame, and has sat down
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  • At the right end of god, for consider him, jesus,
  • 00:18:19.221 --> 00:18:22.457
  • Who's endured such hostility by sinners against himself,
  • 00:18:22.457 --> 00:18:26.895
  • So that you will not grow weary.
  • 00:18:26.895 --> 00:18:30.599
  • You know, focus is so important for a runner.
  • 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:34.169
  • If a runner is focused on those in the stands,
  • 00:18:34.169 --> 00:18:37.506
  • He's going to become distracted.
  • 00:18:37.506 --> 00:18:39.508
  • If he focuses on his feet, he's going to become distracted.
  • 00:18:39.508 --> 00:18:43.178
  • What he's got to do is focus on the finish line
  • 00:18:44.112 --> 00:18:46.915
  • And the prize.
  • 00:18:46.915 --> 00:18:48.517
  • And that's what he's saying here.
  • 00:18:48.517 --> 00:18:50.185
  • Steve farrar tells a great story in one of his books.
  • 00:18:50.185 --> 00:18:54.389
  • He said he has a friend who was a rower on the oxford crew.
  • 00:18:54.389 --> 00:18:59.294
  • Have you seen those long, sleek boats
  • 00:18:59.294 --> 00:19:02.531
  • The oxford participants row in?
  • 00:19:03.165 --> 00:19:05.467
  • You've got this mass of sweating men and women in the ship,
  • 00:19:05.467 --> 00:19:09.471
  • And they're rowing these massive oars,
  • 00:19:09.471 --> 00:19:11.540
  • And they're exhausted.
  • 00:19:11.540 --> 00:19:13.041
  • The only problem in these beautiful, sleek boats is this:
  • 00:19:13.041 --> 00:19:16.878
  • The rowers can't see the finish line.
  • 00:19:16.878 --> 00:19:19.248
  • It's behind them.
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  • They're directed, they're seated, facing the opposite way.
  • 00:19:21.149 --> 00:19:24.820
  • There's only one person
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  • Who can see the finish line in the boat,
  • 00:19:26.388 --> 00:19:28.690
  • And it's that guy with the megaphone.
  • 00:19:28.690 --> 00:19:31.326
  • He's called the coxswain,
  • 00:19:31.326 --> 00:19:33.362
  • And he is the one who sees the finish line.
  • 00:19:33.362 --> 00:19:36.198
  • And those who are rowing the massive oars,
  • 00:19:36.198 --> 00:19:39.368
  • Their job is to look at him, listen to his instructions,
  • 00:19:39.368 --> 00:19:44.640
  • Obey his commands,
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  • And trust him to get them over the finish line.
  • 00:19:46.908 --> 00:19:51.713
  • That's the imagery here.
  • 00:19:52.214 --> 00:19:54.049
  • No, we can't see the finish line,
  • 00:19:54.049 --> 00:19:56.652
  • But we aren't to focus on the finish line.
  • 00:19:56.652 --> 00:19:59.221
  • We're to focus on jesus,
  • 00:19:59.221 --> 00:20:02.457
  • The one who's already gone ahead of us,
  • 00:20:02.457 --> 00:20:05.193
  • The author and finisher of our faith.
  • 00:20:05.193 --> 00:20:08.630
  • That word "author," it can mean trailblazer,
  • 00:20:08.630 --> 00:20:11.199
  • But it really means example.
  • 00:20:11.199 --> 00:20:13.935
  • Whenever you get fatigued, whenever you get discouraged,
  • 00:20:13.935 --> 00:20:16.605
  • When you think, "i can't make it any longer,"
  • 00:20:16.605 --> 00:20:19.508
  • Remember jesus and what he did,
  • 00:20:19.508 --> 00:20:21.877
  • Who for the joy set before him endured the cross.
  • 00:20:21.877 --> 00:20:26.448
  • There was nothing joyous about going to the cross.
  • 00:20:26.448 --> 00:20:28.817
  • It was a miserable experience.
  • 00:20:28.817 --> 00:20:30.585
  • But jesus didn't crawl to the cross.
  • 00:20:30.585 --> 00:20:33.121
  • He marched to the cross triumphantly,
  • 00:20:33.121 --> 00:20:35.724
  • Because he looked beyond death
  • 00:20:35.724 --> 00:20:37.359
  • And saw the prize that god had for him.
  • 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:40.729
  • And the bible says,
  • 00:20:40.729 --> 00:20:42.030
  • If we're going to endure this christian life,
  • 00:20:42.030 --> 00:20:44.533
  • We need to focus on the trailblazer jesus,
  • 00:20:44.533 --> 00:20:47.636
  • Who has gone on ahead of us.
  • 00:20:47.636 --> 00:20:50.305
  • We follow his example until the very end.
  • 00:20:50.305 --> 00:20:53.642
  • You know, when i read this passage,
  • 00:20:54.376 --> 00:20:56.745
  • I can't help but think about a member of our church
  • 00:20:57.779 --> 00:21:00.549
  • Who went home to be with the lord about a year ago.
  • 00:21:00.549 --> 00:21:03.385
  • Many of you knew him well, our deacon orville rogers,
  • 00:21:03.385 --> 00:21:07.422
  • Who died at the age of 101. (chuckles)
  • 00:21:07.422 --> 00:21:11.426
  • And you remember, orville, halfway through his life,
  • 00:21:11.426 --> 00:21:14.363
  • His long life, he took up aerobics with dr. ken cooper.
  • 00:21:14.363 --> 00:21:18.734
  • He said, "i was doing aerobics
  • 00:21:18.734 --> 00:21:20.202
  • Before it was the cool thing to do."
  • 00:21:20.202 --> 00:21:22.704
  • And he ran and ran and ran,
  • 00:21:22.704 --> 00:21:24.539
  • And he started running in all of these races around america,
  • 00:21:24.539 --> 00:21:27.809
  • And gained national notoriety
  • 00:21:27.809 --> 00:21:30.045
  • As being the oldest man to run this race
  • 00:21:30.045 --> 00:21:32.681
  • And this race and this race and this race.
  • 00:21:32.681 --> 00:21:35.784
  • He learned the secret of endurance.
  • 00:21:35.784 --> 00:21:38.920
  • And when i think about orville,
  • 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:40.188
  • I think about several different scenes.
  • 00:21:40.188 --> 00:21:41.957
  • I think about the scene of him jumping out of an airplane
  • 00:21:41.957 --> 00:21:44.726
  • On his 90th birthday to do skydiving.
  • 00:21:44.726 --> 00:21:47.863
  • Remember, we ran that video in the old sanctuary.
  • 00:21:47.863 --> 00:21:51.133
  • I think about all those endless videos
  • 00:21:51.133 --> 00:21:53.368
  • Of him crashing through the finish line, the tape,
  • 00:21:53.368 --> 00:21:56.805
  • And holding his hands up and getting the medal.
  • 00:21:56.805 --> 00:22:00.142
  • The thing i think about most when i think about orville
  • 00:22:01.243 --> 00:22:04.112
  • Is two nights before he died, i went by to see him.
  • 00:22:04.112 --> 00:22:07.916
  • He was in the bed, in and out of sleep,
  • 00:22:07.916 --> 00:22:11.787
  • But when he knew i was there,
  • 00:22:11.787 --> 00:22:12.988
  • He grabbed my hand and he said,
  • 00:22:12.988 --> 00:22:16.792
  • "pastor, i'm so thankful.
  • 00:22:16.792 --> 00:22:20.495
  • I'm so thankful, i'm so thankful."
  • 00:22:20.495 --> 00:22:24.065
  • He couldn't stop saying that.
  • 00:22:24.065 --> 00:22:25.367
  • "i'm so thankful."
  • 00:22:25.367 --> 00:22:27.636
  • What was he thankful for?
  • 00:22:28.203 --> 00:22:30.105
  • He didn't mention his wealth, didn't mention his medals.
  • 00:22:31.239 --> 00:22:35.177
  • He wasn't thankful for a pain-free life he had had.
  • 00:22:36.178 --> 00:22:40.282
  • He hadn't had one of those.
  • 00:22:40.282 --> 00:22:41.616
  • The greatest hurt of his life
  • 00:22:41.616 --> 00:22:43.118
  • Was losing his oldest son, curtis, in the vietnam war.
  • 00:22:43.118 --> 00:22:48.123
  • But what he was thankful for, he said,
  • 00:22:48.924 --> 00:22:51.960
  • Was that god was willing to sacrifice his own son
  • 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:56.364
  • To provide eternal life for me.
  • 00:22:56.998 --> 00:23:00.135
  • Orville, until the day he died,
  • 00:23:00.769 --> 00:23:02.404
  • Never got over the fact
  • 00:23:02.404 --> 00:23:04.673
  • That jesus died for him.
  • 00:23:04.673 --> 00:23:08.376
  • That was the foundation of everything in his life.
  • 00:23:09.377 --> 00:23:12.614
  • He never lost sight of that.
  • 00:23:12.614 --> 00:23:16.084
  • And that's why he was able to approach the end of his life
  • 00:23:16.084 --> 00:23:19.421
  • Just like the apostle paul, who said,
  • 00:23:19.421 --> 00:23:22.290
  • "for i have fought the good fight,
  • 00:23:22.290 --> 00:23:25.494
  • I have finished the course, i have kept the faith,
  • 00:23:25.494 --> 00:23:30.832
  • And there is now laid up for me in heaven
  • 00:23:31.733 --> 00:23:33.401
  • A crown of righteousness,
  • 00:23:33.401 --> 00:23:35.437
  • Which the righteous judge shall award to me on that day,
  • 00:23:35.437 --> 00:23:39.774
  • And not to me alone,
  • 00:23:39.774 --> 00:23:41.276
  • But to all who have loved his appearing."
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  • 00:23:50.485 --> 00:23:51.786
  • And this is the great hope of the gospel.
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  • Those who keep the faith
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  • Will be awarded a crown of righteousness,
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  • Stored up for us in heaven.
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  • At pathway to victory, we're committed
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  • To bringing this hope of the gospel
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  • To every corner of our country
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  • And around the world as god gives us opportunity.
  • 00:24:07.002 --> 00:24:10.672
  • There's a spiritual hunger right now,
  • 00:24:10.672 --> 00:24:12.674
  • An urgent need for hope, and god is clearly calling us
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  • To spread the gospel far and wide.
  • 00:24:16.344 --> 00:24:19.381
  • For that reason, we're inviting you
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  • To invest in this ministry by giving a generous gift today.
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  • Any amount you give today
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  • Will go directly toward fueling our mission
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  • To pierce the darkness with the light of god's word.
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  • So thank you for generously supporting pathway to victory.
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  • Now please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with a final word of encouragement
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  • In just a moment.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress has written a book
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  • To help you rediscover the joy of time with god.
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  • It's called "spiritual essentials."
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  • In "spiritual essentials,"
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  • I share three simple, deeply personal ways
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  • You can make god's word
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  • A meaningful part of your everyday life,
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  • Including a practical plan to help you get started today.
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  • These are the same strategies i use in my own bible study.
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  • I'll also show you how to pray with purpose and confidence
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  • For your children and grandchildren.
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  • Whether you've been walking with god for decades
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  • Or you're just getting started,
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  • "spiritual essentials" will help you get back
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  • To the basics of your faith
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  • And experience god's presence in a fresh new way.
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  • Request your copy of "spiritual essentials"
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  • When you give a generous gift
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  • To support the ministry of pathway to victory.
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  • And when you give $50 or more, we'll also send you
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  • The complete "spiritual fitness" teaching series
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  • On both cd and dvd.
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  • When we go through fiery problems in our life,
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  • Sometimes those problems can strengthen us,
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  • But sometimes they can cause our faith to shatter.
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  • Thank you for giving generously to pathway to victory.
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  • Every day your support makes it possible
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  • To reach people across the nation and around the world
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  • With the practical, life-changing truth of god's word,
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  • Transforming lives, strengthening families,
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  • And pointing a lost world toward hope in jesus christ.
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  • To win a marathon, we need to have endurance,
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  • And it's the same way in the christian life.
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  • We must stay in it for the long haul.
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  • God promises to reward those who endure
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  • In ways that are far greater than we can possibly imagine.
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  • Well, it will likely come as no surprise to you
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  • That god punishes unbelievers who disobey.
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  • But many christians are dismayed
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  • To learn that god disciplines believers as well.
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  • So how does god reprimand his children who wander away?
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  • And what is his goal in doing so?
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • In our series, "spiritual fitness."
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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, that 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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  • Set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For the message "reproofs that restore,"
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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