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Robert Jeffress - Storming The Gates of Hell (Part 2)

March 18, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Storming The Gates of Hell (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Storming The Gates of Hell (Part 2) | March 18, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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  • Dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • In football, they say the best defense is a good offense, and
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  • The same principle applies to spiritual warfare.
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  • Yes, we need to know how to protect ourselves from satan's
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  • Attacks, but god never intended us to spend our time just hiding
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  • Behind the walls.
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  • Today, we're going to look at a powerful weapon god has given
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  • Us, one that will allow us to move forward and actually push
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  • Back against the forces of darkness.
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  • My message is titled, "storming the gates of hell," on today's
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  • Edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ praise the lord ♪
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  • ♪ from whom all blessings flow ♪
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  • ♪ for he has washed ♪
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  • ♪ and made me white as snow ♪
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  • ♪ i'm redeemed ♪
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  • ♪ from all my sin and shame ♪
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  • ♪ for now and forever ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy name ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy name ♪
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  • ♪ to god be the glory ♪
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  • ♪ now and forever ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy name ♪
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  • ♪ god is great ♪
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  • ♪ and greatly to be praised ♪
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  • ♪ above all others ♪
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  • ♪ let his name be raised ♪
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  • ♪ saints and angels ♪
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  • ♪ evermore proclaim ♪
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  • ♪ that he alone is worthy ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy name ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy name ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy name ♪
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  • ♪ to god be the glory ♪
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  • ♪ to god be the glory ♪
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  • ♪ to god be the glory ♪
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  • ♪ to god be the glory ♪
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  • ♪ to god be the glory ♪
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  • ♪ now and forever ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy name ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy name ♪
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  • ♪ to god be the glory ♪
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  • ♪ now and forever ♪
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  • ♪ praise his holy name ♪
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  • ♪ name ♪♪
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  • [congregation applauds]
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  • Announcer: whether you know it or not, you're in a battle.
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  • Satan has a strategy to attack your faith, disrupt your family,
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  • And derail your future.
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  • But god has given you everything you need to fight back and win.
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  • In "the divine defense," dr. robert jeffress reveals six
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  • Practical strategies from ephesians chapter 6 to defeat
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  • Satan's destructive plan.
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  • When you put on the full armor of god, satan doesn't have
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  • A prayer.
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  • Request "the divine defense" when you give a generous
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  • Ministry gift to "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: i want you to think about what really faith is.
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  • If you listen to some television preachers, they will give you
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  • The idea that faith is just this positive emotion you conjure up
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  • In yourself, making yourself believe that god will do what
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  • You want him to do.
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  • And if you simply will declare in power, "i claim this, god
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  • Must do this."
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  • If you say that loudly enough and often enough and with enough
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  • Persistence, god will be forced to do what you want him to do.
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  • That's what they call faith.
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  • Faith is the assurance they believe that god will do what
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  • You want him to do.
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  • Anytime i hear that, i think about a story i used to read the
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  • Triplets when they were little, "the little engine that could."
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  • Do you remember that story?
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  • The little tiny engine and it's got a big hill to go up.
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  • It's not sure it can make it, but it keeps saying to itself,
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  • "i think i can. i think i can.
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  • I think i can, i think i can, i think i can," gets to the top
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  • Of the hill and it's downhill after that, everything's great.
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  • A lot of christians actually think that's kind of what
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  • Faith is.
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  • It's this belief that if we just say something, chant something,
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  • It'll make god want to do it.
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  • If we will just believe hard enough that god will heal my
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  • Marriage, if we believe strongly enough that god will heal my
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  • Body, if we believe that god will answer this request or this
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  • Request, if we just have enough faith that god will do what i
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  • Want him to do, he must act.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, that is not faith.
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  • That is presumption.
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  • Here's what faith is.
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  • Faith is the assurance that god will do what he has promised to
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  • Do and acting accordingly.
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  • I don't know all the time if it's god--god's plan to heal or
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  • God's plan to take care of a financial need, or it's god's
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  • Will to give you a job or not.
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  • You can ask for those things, but faith means quietly resting
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  • In whatever god's answer is.
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  • But there are some things god has promised to do, and faith
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  • Means believing those things that he has promised to do and
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  • Acting accordingly.
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  • Jot down hebrews 11:1.
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  • This is the definition of faith that the writer gives: "now
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  • Faith is the," what?
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  • Say it out loud.
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  • What?
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  • "it's the assurance of things hoped for.
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  • It is the," what?
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  • "conviction of things not seen."
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  • Will you notice that real biblical, god-pleasing faith is
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  • First of all, not a hope, wish, or desire.
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  • It is an assurance.
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  • That greek word "assurance" refers to the concrete
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  • Foundation of a massive building.
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  • It is concrete.
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  • It is the assurance of things hoped for.
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  • It is secondly, the conviction.
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  • That word "conviction" refers to the result of our faith, actions
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  • You take because of your faith.
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  • Let me illustrate that for you.
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  • Think about noah.
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  • He believed with all of his heart what god said that there
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  • Was gonna be a flood, and he acted accordingly.
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  • He built a boat.
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  • Or think about abraham.
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  • Abraham believed that god would make him the father of a great
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  • Nation, and he acted accordingly by moving his family to a land
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  • That god would show him.
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  • Think about rahab the harlot.
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  • She believed what god said, that god was gonna give the
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  • Israelites victory over the canaanites.
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  • And what did she do?
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  • She hid those two hebrew spies risking her own life.
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  • Again, faith is believing god will do what he has promised to
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  • Do and acting accordingly.
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  • And in the realm of spiritual warfare, faith means moving
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  • Forward and following god's plan for your life in spite of the
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  • Flaming missiles of doubt, discouragement, depression, or
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  • Whatever else satan may fire in your direction.
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  • A great illustration of somebody who held up that shield of faith
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  • When he was under attack is the old testament patriarch job.
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  • Remember job?
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  • He was having in chapter 1 what we would call a really bad,
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  • Horrible day.
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  • In just 24 hours, think of all that happened to him.
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  • There was a fire that destroyed all of his livestock,
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  • His livelihood.
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  • Then there was that freak windstorm that killed all of his
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  • Ten children.
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  • And if that weren't enough, there were these illnesses that
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  • Were incurable.
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  • Job was discouraged, rightly so, but he held up the shield
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  • Of faith.
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  • There are three truths that made up job's shield, three truths
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  • That constructed his shield of faith that it's vital you and i
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  • Have in our shield of faith.
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  • Three convictions and appropriate actions
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  • That followed.
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  • First of all, job believed that god is in control.
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  • Therefore, he could trust him.
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  • If you're going to have a shield of faith that allows you to move
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  • Forward in spite of satan's flaming arrows, your shield of
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  • Faith has to be an assurance that god is in control and
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  • Therefore you can trust him.
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  • It's hard to believe god is in control sometimes, isn't it?
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  • We look at what's happening in the world in general or in our
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  • World in particular.
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  • And we think, god, are you asleep at the switch?
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  • Don't you know what's going on?
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  • I mean, if there really is a god in control, why doesn't he
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  • Reconcile my marriage?
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  • Why doesn't he return that prodigal child?
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  • Why doesn't he heal my illness or the illness of a loved one?
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  • If god is in control, why do these things happen?
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  • And we're tempted to think a lot of things.
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  • Maybe god is apathetic.
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  • He doesn't care.
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  • That's what the greeks thought about their gods.
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  • They were apatheos, without feeling.
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  • Maybe god doesn't care, or maybe god is impotent.
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  • He wishes he could help.
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  • He'd love to help, but there are these natural laws that preclude
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  • Him from doing anything supernatural.
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  • That was the thoughts of rabbi harold kushner, the famous
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  • Jewish rabbi in the 1980s and '90s who wrote that book, "when
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  • Bad things happen to good people."
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  • He had a young son who died from a terrible illness, and rabbi
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  • Kushner came to the conclusion that god would have loved to
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  • Have helped him, but he was just incapable of doing so because of
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  • The natural laws of the universe.
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  • Another jewish rabbi in reading that, responded, "if that's who
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  • God is, then he ought to resign and let somebody more competent
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  • Take over."
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  • Is god impotent?
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  • Not the god that i serve.
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  • Well, maybe it's that god doesn't even exist.
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  • Maybe we've just conjured up this god to make us feel better,
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  • But in fact, he doesn't answer because he can't answer.
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  • But to have faith means that god is in control even when we see
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  • Evidence to the contrary.
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  • That's the conclusion, by the way, job came to.
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  • It's interesting, when you read the book of job, job did not
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  • Immediately come to the right answer.
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  • It took him some time to process things.
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  • He had some questions he wanted to ask god.
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  • You know what?
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  • God is not troubled by your questions.
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  • God's not bothered by you asking questions.
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  • What he's bothered by are not difficult questions, but it's
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  • Wrong answers.
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  • God doesn't mind you asking the question as long as you come to
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  • The right biblical answer.
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  • And in job 42, verse 2, after suffering all of these losses,
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  • Listen to what job said: "i know that you can do all things, and
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  • That no purpose of yours can be thwarted."
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  • That's the shield of faith.
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  • I know that you're going to do all things and that no purpose
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  • Of yours can be thwarted.
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  • Do you believe that?
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  • Do you believe that god has a plan for your life and that
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  • Nothing is going to change that plan?
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  • Do you have that assurance?
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  • I think about tim castellon.
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  • Relatively new member of our church.
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  • He and his wife, sherlene, came a year ago.
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  • He came to be our facilities manager here on our staff, ended
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  • Up coming the week that our church burned.
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  • What a way to become the facilities manager.
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  • But he's done a great job, he and his wife, and we're so
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  • Honored to have them here.
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  • Thursday night, their just turned 27-year-old son, cole,
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  • Was in an automobile accident here in dallas.
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  • And he survived the accident, got out of his car, called his
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  • Dad, tim, to ask him to come pick him up at a convenience
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  • Store that was across the highway.
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  • And thursday night as he was talking to his dad on the
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  • Telephone, as he crossed that busy highway, he was struck by
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  • Another automobile and killed instantly.
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  • I talked to tim.
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  • He certainly has questions as any of us would.
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  • But his faith in god remains steadfast.
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  • He believes what psalm 139 says that all the day of his son's
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  • Cole's life were written in god's book before he lived one
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  • Of them.
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  • Tim and his wife believe that nobody leaves this earth one
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  • Second sooner or one second later than god's ordained time.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, when those fiery missiles come into your
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  • Life, you need to know that god is in control, and you can trust
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  • Him, even though in the darkness you cannot see what god
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  • Is doing.
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  • That's what job believed.
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  • God is in control.
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  • I can trust him.
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  • Secondly, job believed god rewards the righteous, therefore
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  • Obey him.
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  • God rewards the righteous, therefore obey him.
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  • You know, job was very honest.
  • 00:15:58.781 --> 00:16:00.349
  • He said, god, there doesn't appear to be much upside to
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  • Worshiping and following you.
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  • I mean, look around.
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  • The wicked, the righteous, doesn't seem to be much
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  • Difference between the two.
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  • Both groups, christians and non-christians, righteous and
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  • Unrighteous, they all have family difficulties.
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  • They all struggle with health problems.
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  • They all die.
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  • So where's the upside of being a believer?
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  • In job 21, verse 17, he voiced that question when he said, "how
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  • Often is the lamp of the wicked put out, or does their calamity
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  • Fall on them?
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  • Does god apportion destruction in his anger?"
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  • God, why don't you save some of this calamity and pour it on the
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  • Unrighteous, is what he's saying.
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  • Why don't you give them the same stuff you're giving us?
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  • What profit is there in following god?
  • 00:16:45.561 --> 00:16:49.031
  • And yet in james 5:11, we read this about job: "we count those
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  • Blessed who endured.
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  • You have heard of the endurance of job and have seen the outcome
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  • Of the lord's dealings, that the lord is full of compassion
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  • And merciful."
  • 00:17:03.011 --> 00:17:04.513
  • Even though job had questions, he kept obeying god because he
  • 00:17:04.513 --> 00:17:08.550
  • Felt like there would be some reward in doing so.
  • 00:17:08.550 --> 00:17:12.821
  • Now it's interesting how job's story ends.
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  • It ends with job seeing the rewards of his obedience,
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  • Blesses him with a new family, blesses him with
  • 00:17:20.028 --> 00:17:24.299
  • Multiplied possessions.
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  • And job and his family lived happily ever after.
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  • It would be nice if life always ended that way, but it doesn't,
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  • Does it?
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  • The writer of hebrews knew that.
  • 00:17:35.777 --> 00:17:37.846
  • You know, the writer of hebrews, when he talked about faith, gave
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  • All of these examples of men and women who obeyed god in spite of
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  • Their circumstances.
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  • And you know what the writer says?
  • 00:17:45.787 --> 00:17:47.289
  • They all died without ever receiving the promise, the full
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  • Promise of what god was going to give them.
  • 00:17:52.094 --> 00:17:55.898
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:17:55.898 --> 00:17:57.432
  • It doesn't mean god denied the rewards.
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  • He just delayed them.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, god's reward for obeying him is not
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  • Always today.
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  • It's sometimes someday.
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  • But that reward is coming.
  • 00:18:09.545 --> 00:18:12.214
  • And if you're going to move forward in your walk with god in
  • 00:18:12.214 --> 00:18:15.651
  • Spite of those flaming arrows, you must believe that god will
  • 00:18:15.651 --> 00:18:20.722
  • Reward you.
  • 00:18:20.722 --> 00:18:22.057
  • Therefore, i must obey him.
  • 00:18:22.057 --> 00:18:25.093
  • And finally, job believed that god's kingdom would one
  • 00:18:25.093 --> 00:18:28.297
  • Day prevail.
  • 00:18:28.297 --> 00:18:29.665
  • Therefore, serve him.
  • 00:18:29.665 --> 00:18:31.700
  • Abraham lincoln said, "i would rather fail in a cause that will
  • 00:18:31.700 --> 00:18:36.238
  • Ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that would
  • 00:18:36.238 --> 00:18:40.742
  • Ultimately fail."
  • 00:18:40.742 --> 00:18:43.378
  • In other words, abraham lincoln was saying the same thing job
  • 00:18:43.378 --> 00:18:46.848
  • Said: i want to be sure i'm on the winning side.
  • 00:18:46.848 --> 00:18:50.118
  • Whether it seems to be i'm winning or losing at any
  • 00:18:50.118 --> 00:18:53.121
  • Particular time, i know how this story ends, and i want to be on
  • 00:18:53.121 --> 00:18:57.226
  • The winning side.
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  • Job believed that.
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  • He believed one day god was going to win.
  • 00:18:59.928 --> 00:19:03.398
  • You say, how did job know that?
  • 00:19:03.398 --> 00:19:05.567
  • I mean, he didn't have all these commentaries on the book
  • 00:19:05.567 --> 00:19:09.104
  • Of revelation.
  • 00:19:09.104 --> 00:19:10.439
  • He didn't have an eschatology degree from seminary.
  • 00:19:10.439 --> 00:19:14.209
  • In fact, job's book, many people believe, was the first book
  • 00:19:14.209 --> 00:19:17.813
  • Written in the old testament.
  • 00:19:17.813 --> 00:19:19.982
  • How did job know all that?
  • 00:19:19.982 --> 00:19:21.750
  • Are you just reading into what you think job believed?
  • 00:19:21.750 --> 00:19:25.020
  • Not at all.
  • 00:19:25.020 --> 00:19:26.355
  • Listen to this in job 19, verses 25 to 26.
  • 00:19:26.355 --> 00:19:29.691
  • He said, "and as for me, i know that my redeemer lives and that
  • 00:19:29.691 --> 00:19:36.798
  • At the last he will take his stand upon the earth.
  • 00:19:36.798 --> 00:19:41.370
  • And even though my skin is destroyed, yet one day from my
  • 00:19:41.370 --> 00:19:44.740
  • Flesh, my new body, i will see god."
  • 00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:49.444
  • Job believed that there was a reward coming for serving god.
  • 00:19:49.444 --> 00:19:55.417
  • And that's a decision we have to make.
  • 00:19:55.417 --> 00:19:58.220
  • Whom are we going to serve?
  • 00:19:58.220 --> 00:19:59.855
  • Which god are we going to serve?
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  • Whose kingdom do we want to be a part of?
  • 00:20:02.524 --> 00:20:05.027
  • Do you remember in 1 kings 18:21, when elijah was on top of
  • 00:20:05.027 --> 00:20:08.964
  • Mount carmel, and he told the israelites it's time to make
  • 00:20:08.964 --> 00:20:13.101
  • A decision.
  • 00:20:13.101 --> 00:20:14.603
  • You've got to quit playing footsie with these
  • 00:20:14.603 --> 00:20:16.738
  • Baal worshippers.
  • 00:20:16.738 --> 00:20:18.106
  • Decide who you're really going to worship.
  • 00:20:18.106 --> 00:20:19.875
  • He said it a little more eloquently than that.
  • 00:20:19.875 --> 00:20:22.311
  • He said in 1 kings 18:21: "how long will you hesitate between
  • 00:20:22.311 --> 00:20:26.481
  • Two opinions?
  • 00:20:26.481 --> 00:20:28.250
  • If yahweh is god, serve him; if baal is god, serve him, but make
  • 00:20:28.250 --> 00:20:36.491
  • Up your mind."
  • 00:20:36.491 --> 00:20:38.927
  • And i think elijah would say the same to every one of us today.
  • 00:20:38.927 --> 00:20:41.797
  • We've got to decide whose kingdom we're in, whose kingdom
  • 00:20:41.797 --> 00:20:45.334
  • Are we serving.
  • 00:20:45.334 --> 00:20:47.002
  • If money is your god, then serve it with all of your heart,
  • 00:20:47.002 --> 00:20:52.074
  • Elijah says.
  • 00:20:52.074 --> 00:20:53.442
  • Don't be half-hearted, don't be double-minded, as james says.
  • 00:20:53.442 --> 00:20:56.678
  • If you really believe money is king, serve it with all of
  • 00:20:56.678 --> 00:20:59.981
  • Your heart.
  • 00:20:59.981 --> 00:21:01.483
  • If pleasure is your god, serve it with all of your heart.
  • 00:21:01.483 --> 00:21:07.489
  • Engage in any pleasure you can dream up.
  • 00:21:07.489 --> 00:21:09.958
  • Don't be half-hearted.
  • 00:21:09.958 --> 00:21:11.293
  • Don't let guilt dampen your pleasure.
  • 00:21:11.293 --> 00:21:13.795
  • Just go ahead and go for it all.
  • 00:21:13.795 --> 00:21:17.666
  • If fame is your god, exalt yourself every way you
  • 00:21:17.666 --> 00:21:23.138
  • Possibly can.
  • 00:21:23.138 --> 00:21:25.707
  • If your job is your god, don't give it 80% of your time.
  • 00:21:25.707 --> 00:21:30.645
  • Go ahead and work on sunday.
  • 00:21:30.645 --> 00:21:32.581
  • Go ahead and neglect your family.
  • 00:21:32.581 --> 00:21:34.182
  • Give it everything you get, and maybe you'll get one of those $1
  • 00:21:34.182 --> 00:21:38.153
  • Trillion pay packages like elon musk.
  • 00:21:38.153 --> 00:21:40.589
  • Who knows what will happen.
  • 00:21:40.589 --> 00:21:42.224
  • But quit being half-hearted in what you're doing.
  • 00:21:42.224 --> 00:21:45.160
  • Decide who your god is and serve him with all of your heart, but
  • 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:49.531
  • If yahweh is god, serve him.
  • 00:21:49.531 --> 00:21:54.069
  • The bible says the shield of faith that we have to raise up
  • 00:21:54.069 --> 00:21:58.273
  • In order to move forward is a shield that is built on trusting
  • 00:21:58.273 --> 00:22:03.178
  • God, believing he's in control, obeying god, believing that he
  • 00:22:03.178 --> 00:22:07.516
  • Rewards the righteous, and serving him and him alone.
  • 00:22:07.516 --> 00:22:14.055
  • Remember what the writer of hebrews said in hebrews 11:6:
  • 00:22:14.055 --> 00:22:16.992
  • "for the person who comes to god must believe that he is and that
  • 00:22:16.992 --> 00:22:22.397
  • He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek after him."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Discouragement come your way, i pray you'll raise up the shield
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  • Of faith and keep moving forward in god's plan for your life.
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