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Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #10: Do The Next Right Thing

May 29, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #10: Do The Next Right Thing
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #10: Do The Next Right Thing | May 29, 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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  • Most of us know the right thing to do, but we struggle to
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  • Actually do it.
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  • Fear, doubt, and uncertainty have a way of keeping us frozen
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  • In place.
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  • Today i'm going to share four practical principles from the
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  • Life of esther that will help you take action even when you
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  • Can't see how it's all going to turn out.
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  • My message is titled, "survival tip number ten: do the next
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  • Right thing."
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: vice admiral james stockdale had a brush with fame
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  • As texas billionaire h. ross perot's running mate on the
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  • Independent reform ticket.
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  • Remember that?
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  • On october 13th, 1992, stockdale's first words during
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  • The nationally televised vice presidential debate were,
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  • "who am i? what am i doing here?"
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  • Those questions meant to introduce himself, instead made
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  • Him a laughingstock in the media, who portrayed stockdale
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  • As a weak, doddering old man.
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  • Don't you remember those saturday night live routines
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  • About james stockdale?
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  • Stockdale may have been from a bygone era, but he was anything
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  • From doddering.
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  • A graduate of the us naval academy, stockdale was an
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  • Accomplished fighter pilot.
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  • In 1965, the 41-year-old father of four was shot down
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  • Over vietnam.
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  • As he ejected from his a4 skyhawk and floated to the
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  • Ground, he said to himself, "five years."
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  • That's how long he thought he would be held in captivity.
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  • As it turned out, he spent almost 8 years in the infamous
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  • Hanoi hilton prison.
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  • For four of those years, stockdale was in
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  • Solitary confinement.
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  • For 2 years, he was forced to wear leg irons.
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  • He was tortured at least 15 times.
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  • Stockdale was the highest ranking officer among the
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  • Hundreds of us prisoners of war in the prison camp.
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  • Despite his solitary confinement, stockdale organized
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  • A system of wall taps, hand signals, and hidden notes for
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  • The prisoners to communicate with one another.
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  • He also developed a set of rules governing prisoner behavior.
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  • These rules gave his fellow american prisoners a sense of
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  • Purpose and hope.
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  • Later, he said, "when a person is alone in a cell, and sees the
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  • Door open only once or twice a day for a bowl of soup, he has
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  • To build some sort of ritual into his life if he wants to
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  • Avoid becoming an animal."
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  • Stockdale led the prisoner's resistance against the
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  • Vietnamese attempts to use them as propaganda or informants on
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  • Fellow soldiers.
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  • To stockdale, integrity was the most important thing to maintain
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  • For a prisoner of war.
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  • More important than food, avoiding torture, or even
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  • Life itself.
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  • Stockdale wrote, "i came to realize that if you don't lose
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  • Your integrity, you can't be had, and you can't be hurt."
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  • To live as honorable prisoners, stockdale instructed the
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  • American soldiers that it was okay to divulge useless
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  • Information along with their name, rank, and serial number,
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  • And birth date.
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  • One pilot, under torture, gave his captors the names of comic
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  • Book heroes when he was asked to name their top flyers.
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  • In doing so, he bolstered the men's spirits, protected vital
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  • Military secrets, and preserved his honor.
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  • In 1969, stockdale's vietnamese captors decided to parade the
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  • Prisoners through the streets of downtown hanoi to show foreign
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  • Journalists how humanely the prisoners were being treated.
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  • Stockdale refused to take part of the charade.
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  • He slashed his scalp with a razor and beat his own face with
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  • A wooden stool because he knew his captors wouldn't want to
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  • Show a prisoner with cuts and bruises on his face.
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  • When he learned that some prisoners had died during
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  • Torture, stockdale cut his own wrists to let his captors know
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  • That he would rather die than betray his country, his
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  • Countrymen, and his character.
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  • These were radical steps to take to protect his integrity and the
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  • Honor of his men.
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  • But they worked.
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  • When the vietnamese saw how determined stockdale was to
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  • Resist, and how his resistance emboldened his fellow soldiers,
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  • They ceased torturing american pows and improved conditions in
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  • The prison.
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  • In 1973, during operation homecoming, james stockdale,
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  • Along with the other prisoners in the hanoi hilton, was
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  • Finally released.
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  • His courage and heroism became widely known.
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  • And in 1976, president gerald ford awarded stockdale the
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  • Congressional medal of honor.
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  • In our series, "courageous," we're looking at ten strategies
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  • For thriving in a hostile world.
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  • C.s. lewis
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  • Described the world in which we live as enemy-occupied
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  • Territory for christians.
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  • How do we survive and thrive in that kind of environment?
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  • Well, today we're going to look at the tenth and the final
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  • Principle for thriving in a hostile world.
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  • And it's one that james stockdale embodied.
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  • And the principle is simply this, "do the next right thing."
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  • Whatever situation you're in, no matter how difficult it is, do
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  • The next right thing.
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  • When stockdale's airplane was hit with a missile, he didn't
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  • Start wondering what he did wrong to have placed himself in
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  • That kind of situation.
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  • When he was in prison, he didn't have a pity party and blame his
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  • Captors for his situation.
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  • Instead, he concentrated on doing the next right thing.
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  • He didn't have an elaborate plan for the next 8 years, but he
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  • Wanted to do--"what can i do next to improve the situation
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  • For myself and my fellow soldiers."
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  • How do you maximize your opportunity to do good?
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  • Let's look and see what the word of god says.
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  • First of all, if you're gonna do good, look beyond yourself.
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  • Doing good means having a focus that is not on yourself.
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  • We looked at this in depth a few weeks ago when we looked at
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  • Philippians chapter 2, verses 3 and 4.
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  • Remember paul's words?
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  • He said, "do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit,
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  • But with humility of mind, let each of you regard one another
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  • As more important than himself."
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  • Now get this, "do not merely look out for your own personal
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  • Interest, but also for the interest of others."
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  • My friend bob beale has a great saying.
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  • He says, "every life exists for one of two purposes, either to
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  • Meet a need, or to fill a greed."
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  • Your life is either focused on meeting other people's needs, or
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  • Living according to your own greed.
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  • Your life is others and god-focused or self-focused, it
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  • Can't be both.
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  • If you're really gonna have a life that is marked by doing
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  • Good, it begins with looking beyond yourself.
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  • Secondly, ask god to create opportunities to do good.
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  • Ask god to create opportunities to do good.
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  • In colossians 4:3, paul said, "i am praying"--and we should be
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  • Praying--"that god may open up to us a door for the word, so
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  • That we may speak forth the mystery of christ."
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  • Paul was saying, "we're praying that god gives us an opportunity
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  • To share the gospel."
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  • Friends, that's a prayer god will always answer.
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  • Whenever you pray that god will give you an opportunity to share
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  • Christ, or that he will give you an opportunity to do good to
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  • Others to glorify your father who is in heaven, know for sure
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  • God's gonna answer that prayer.
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  • But he may not answer it in the way you think, and those
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  • Opportunities don't always come at the most convenient time.
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  • Look at the life of jesus.
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  • Remember he was on his way to someplace important and a woman
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  • Started tugging at him.
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  • And he stopped, and she had that issue of blood.
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  • And he stopped, he interrupted what he was doing to heal her.
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  • Or remember that time he was in somebody's house, large group
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  • There, he was preaching an important message when he heard
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  • All this racket up on the roof, and saw dust coming down, and
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  • The roof opened up, and some men lowered a friend of theirs on a
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  • Pallet right down from the roof in front of jesus in order that
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  • The paralytic might be healed.
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  • Jesus interrupted his sermon.
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  • He healed the paralytic and preached one of the most
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  • Important messages he ever preached on the subject
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  • Of forgiveness.
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  • Sometimes opportunities to do good come disguised as
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  • Interruptions in your schedule.
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  • Sometimes they don't come at the most opportune time according to
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  • Your calendar.
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  • I even hate to say this, but i guess i say confession is good
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  • For the soul.
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  • I was in a major metropolitan city of lawrenceburg, tennessee.
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  • I've never been to lawrenceburg, tennessee, but i was there to
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  • Preach for a men's conference, and they had like 700 or
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  • 800 men.
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  • It was a great, great conference, and so many of them
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  • Were listeners and viewers of "pathway to victory," and they
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  • Were so blessed by our church, and appreciative of our church
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  • Reaching out like we do now 7 days a week, and through the
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  • Devotionals and the programs.
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  • But anyway, i preached that night, did two messages, and
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  • Then afterwards was meeting the people, and standing there, and
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  • Shaking hands, and signing stuff.
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  • And this man came up and he said, "i know you don't have
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  • Time to talk right now, but i have something i wanna give you
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  • To read.
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  • I'm going through a very difficult time.
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  • Would you read my letter and email me or call me when
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  • You can?"
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  • And so, i took it and i said, "well, i'll certainly try to
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  • Do that."
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  • And it was a lengthy letter.
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  • And so, i put it in my coat pocket, went back to the motel,
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  • Went to sleep, got up, and i was thinking about my sermon on
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  • Sunday, everything i was gonna be doing, so forth, and i
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  • Thought, "i am so tired.
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  • I can't read this letter.
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  • If i tried to answer every letter that people sent to me,
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  • If i tried to answer every email, if i tried to answer
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  • Every telephone call, that's all i would do, and i'm the pastor
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  • Of a church, i've got a responsibility, and i'm tired."
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  • I came up with all these excuses, and then i thought
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  • About my sermon i was preaching today.
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  • An opportunity to do good.
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  • And i said to myself, "self, are you so tired that it's actually
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  • Going to kill you to make that telephone call?
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  • Are you gonna drop over dead from fatigue?"
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  • Well, no, probably not.
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  • Well, why don't you do something good and help this person?
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  • So, i opened up the letter and i read it.
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  • I called the guy on the telephone.
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  • We talked for about 10 or 15 minutes, and i was able to share
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  • With him some things from god's word that were what he needed to
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  • Hear at that moment.
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  • I had an opportunity to do good that i almost passed up because
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  • It wasn't convenient for my schedule.
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  • The bible says, "we ought to ask god to create opportunities."
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  • And then thirdly, when those opportunities come, seize the
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  • Opportunities that god creates for us.
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  • Seize the opportunities that god creates.
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  • Now look, there are all kind of needs around you.
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  • That doesn't mean you're the one necessarily to meet those needs.
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  • You can't meet every need in the world, but you ought to meet the
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  • Needs that god gives you the opportunity to meet.
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  • Decades ago when i was youth pastor here, i knew that someday
  • 00:13:04.974 --> 00:13:08.677
  • God was gonna have me be a pastor, and i was anxious to
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  • Become a pastor.
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  • And i never will forget after a particularly contentious staff
  • 00:13:13.649 --> 00:13:17.219
  • Meeting here, i went back to my office, and i was pleased that
  • 00:13:17.219 --> 00:13:20.656
  • I'd gotten a telephone call.
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  • I returned the call and it was a pastor of a well-known church
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  • Here in texas.
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  • And he said, "robert, i've been praying about this, and i want
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  • You to come and be the executive pastor at our church."
  • 00:13:30.733 --> 00:13:36.005
  • And i'm telling you, "i was so excited about that phone call."
  • 00:13:36.005 --> 00:13:39.475
  • No, it wasn't the call to be a pastor, but it was an executive
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  • Pastor, and i thought that would get me closer to my goal of
  • 00:13:42.878 --> 00:13:46.248
  • Being a pastor.
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  • So, i went home, and told amy, and we got excited, and we
  • 00:13:47.750 --> 00:13:51.053
  • Started packing our bags, getting ready to go to
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  • This church.
  • 00:13:53.355 --> 00:13:54.690
  • And the pastor told me before he hung up--he said, "i'm gonna
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  • Call you in a couple of weeks with all of the details."
  • 00:13:56.425 --> 00:13:58.661
  • I said, "great."
  • 00:13:58.661 --> 00:14:00.095
  • Well, he called me in a couple of weeks, but not with the
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  • Information i wanted to hear.
  • 00:14:02.798 --> 00:14:04.566
  • He said, "you know, robert, i've gotta be honest with you,
  • 00:14:04.566 --> 00:14:06.669
  • There's some real unrest in our church right now, and i don't
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  • Know how much longer i'm gonna be here, and some things have
  • 00:14:10.806 --> 00:14:13.409
  • Happened, and i just don't think it would be fair to bring you
  • 00:14:13.409 --> 00:14:16.679
  • Into that situation."
  • 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.181
  • Well, i was just devastated.
  • 00:14:19.181 --> 00:14:21.550
  • I thought, "you know, god, were you playing some kind of cruel
  • 00:14:21.550 --> 00:14:24.053
  • Trick on me?
  • 00:14:24.053 --> 00:14:25.421
  • It seemed like this is where i was supposed to go."
  • 00:14:25.421 --> 00:14:28.057
  • Well, it turned out that pastor didn't stay long, he was gone
  • 00:14:28.057 --> 00:14:30.793
  • Within a couple of months.
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  • Had i gone there, it would have been a disaster.
  • 00:14:32.227 --> 00:14:35.331
  • But shortly after that, god opened up a door of opportunity
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  • For me to go to a small county seat church in eastland, texas,
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  • And begin a process that would eventually lead us to become the
  • 00:14:43.772 --> 00:14:47.309
  • Pastor here.
  • 00:14:47.309 --> 00:14:48.844
  • I thought god was leading one way, but god said, "no, here's
  • 00:14:48.844 --> 00:14:52.247
  • Another opportunity that you're to meet."
  • 00:14:52.247 --> 00:14:55.250
  • If you're gonna do good, seize the opportunities that god
  • 00:14:55.250 --> 00:14:59.855
  • Creates for you.
  • 00:14:59.855 --> 00:15:01.957
  • You know, when i think of doing the next right thing, even when
  • 00:15:01.957 --> 00:15:05.060
  • You can't see the whole picture, i think of one woman in the
  • 00:15:05.060 --> 00:15:08.497
  • Bible who illustrates that principle the best.
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  • In fact, she has a whole book that's attributed to her name.
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  • Her name is esther.
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  • Remember the story of esther in the old testament?
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  • You know, in the book of esther, esther is the only book of the
  • 00:15:22.111 --> 00:15:25.614
  • Bible in which the word god is not mentioned one time.
  • 00:15:25.614 --> 00:15:30.285
  • God's not mentioned at all in the book of esther.
  • 00:15:30.285 --> 00:15:32.521
  • For that reason, martin luther and others thought the book
  • 00:15:32.521 --> 00:15:35.057
  • Didn't even belong in the bible.
  • 00:15:35.057 --> 00:15:37.259
  • But that's wrong.
  • 00:15:37.259 --> 00:15:38.594
  • Even though god's name doesn't appear, you see his fingerprints
  • 00:15:38.594 --> 00:15:41.296
  • All over esther's story.
  • 00:15:41.296 --> 00:15:44.333
  • Chapter 4, verse 14, "who knows whether you have not attained
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  • Royalty for such a time as this?"
  • 00:15:48.170 --> 00:15:51.440
  • Whereas the king james says, "who knows that you have come
  • 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:54.410
  • Into the kingdom for such a time as this?"
  • 00:15:54.410 --> 00:15:58.347
  • In other words, esther, you're not where you are by accident.
  • 00:15:58.347 --> 00:16:01.683
  • God put you there for a great purpose.
  • 00:16:01.683 --> 00:16:05.554
  • Well, it finally persuaded esther to do the right
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  • Thing--the next right thing.
  • 00:16:08.757 --> 00:16:10.659
  • But before she rushed into the king's presence, she asked
  • 00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:13.262
  • Mordecai and the other jews in the land to pray and to fast
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  • For her.
  • 00:16:17.066 --> 00:16:18.400
  • And finally, at the end of 3 days, she decided to go, and she
  • 00:16:18.400 --> 00:16:21.136
  • Uttered those famous words in chapter 4, verse 16, "if i
  • 00:16:21.136 --> 00:16:25.174
  • Perish, i perish."
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  • Esther went into the presence of the king, trembling, i'm sure.
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  • She didn't die that day.
  • 00:16:32.014 --> 00:16:34.016
  • Instead, to her surprise, the king welcomed her, and told her
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  • He would grant her any request she made.
  • 00:16:37.953 --> 00:16:41.457
  • She had an elaborate plan.
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  • She didn't unveil her request that day, but later on at a
  • 00:16:43.025 --> 00:16:46.695
  • Banquet, she revealed that she was jewish herself.
  • 00:16:46.695 --> 00:16:51.200
  • She talked about what the king's official haman had done, and how
  • 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:55.437
  • He had plotted against mordecai.
  • 00:16:55.437 --> 00:16:58.507
  • She persuaded the king to do something, to intervene on
  • 00:16:58.507 --> 00:17:02.478
  • Behalf of the jewish people.
  • 00:17:02.478 --> 00:17:05.047
  • Now again, according to persian law, a king could not reverse
  • 00:17:05.047 --> 00:17:08.517
  • An edict.
  • 00:17:08.517 --> 00:17:09.885
  • Have you heard of the laws of the medes and the persians?
  • 00:17:09.885 --> 00:17:12.654
  • It means something that cannot be changed.
  • 00:17:12.654 --> 00:17:15.524
  • But what the king could do was to another order that gave the
  • 00:17:15.524 --> 00:17:20.062
  • Jewish people a right to defend themselves when they
  • 00:17:20.062 --> 00:17:23.298
  • Were attacked.
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  • He did that.
  • 00:17:24.666 --> 00:17:26.001
  • Haman was executed, and as a result, the entire jewish people
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  • Were saved, all because of the courage of one woman to do the
  • 00:17:30.372 --> 00:17:36.378
  • Next right thing.
  • 00:17:36.378 --> 00:17:38.747
  • Understand, at every stage, esther had no idea how this was
  • 00:17:38.747 --> 00:17:41.617
  • Gonna turn out, but she did the next right thing.
  • 00:17:41.617 --> 00:17:46.388
  • You know, as i look at that story of esther, i find four
  • 00:17:46.388 --> 00:17:49.224
  • Principles about doing the next right thing that apply to every
  • 00:17:49.224 --> 00:17:53.462
  • One of us today.
  • 00:17:53.462 --> 00:17:55.230
  • Just jot these down, would you?
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  • First of all, determined to take action in spite of danger
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  • Or doubt.
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  • Determined that you're going to take action in spite of danger
  • 00:18:04.106 --> 00:18:06.942
  • Or doubt.
  • 00:18:06.942 --> 00:18:08.277
  • You know somebody has said that the two greatest days of a
  • 00:18:08.277 --> 00:18:11.013
  • Person's life are the day they were born, and second, the day
  • 00:18:11.013 --> 00:18:15.450
  • They discover why they were born.
  • 00:18:15.450 --> 00:18:18.820
  • Esther discovered why she was born through her cousin's words.
  • 00:18:18.820 --> 00:18:23.892
  • "who knows that you've come to the kingdom for such a time
  • 00:18:23.892 --> 00:18:26.962
  • As this?"
  • 00:18:26.962 --> 00:18:28.330
  • Esther knew she had to take a stand.
  • 00:18:28.330 --> 00:18:30.966
  • And she was willing to do so, even though she didn't know how
  • 00:18:30.966 --> 00:18:35.237
  • It would turn out.
  • 00:18:35.237 --> 00:18:37.039
  • Determined to take action in spite of danger or doubt.
  • 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.909
  • Secondly, enlist others in your action plan.
  • 00:18:40.909 --> 00:18:44.613
  • You know, esther didn't try to do this by herself.
  • 00:18:44.613 --> 00:18:47.082
  • She asked people to pray for her.
  • 00:18:47.082 --> 00:18:49.251
  • I think she probably asked for advice on how to best approach
  • 00:18:49.251 --> 00:18:52.487
  • The king with her request.
  • 00:18:52.487 --> 00:18:54.923
  • Proverbs 15:22 says, "without consultation, plans are
  • 00:18:54.923 --> 00:18:59.161
  • Frustrated, but with many counselors they succeed."
  • 00:18:59.161 --> 00:19:04.032
  • Thirdly, take deliberate action.
  • 00:19:04.032 --> 00:19:08.537
  • Once you know what the next right thing to do is, do it.
  • 00:19:08.537 --> 00:19:14.042
  • Don't wait, don't ask for another sign.
  • 00:19:14.042 --> 00:19:17.579
  • If god has spoken to you and shown you what the next right
  • 00:19:17.579 --> 00:19:20.849
  • Thing to do is, do it.
  • 00:19:20.849 --> 00:19:22.918
  • You know, somebody has rightly said, "the amount of time you
  • 00:19:22.918 --> 00:19:27.889
  • Allow between knowing what to do and doing what you should do,
  • 00:19:27.889 --> 00:19:34.363
  • That interval of time is the time that satan speaks to you.
  • 00:19:34.363 --> 00:19:39.568
  • And the longer the time is between when you know what to do
  • 00:19:39.568 --> 00:19:42.838
  • And you do it, the longer satan has to talk you out of it."
  • 00:19:42.838 --> 00:19:47.276
  • That's why it's important to take deliberate action when you
  • 00:19:47.276 --> 00:19:51.079
  • Know what the right thing to do is.
  • 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:53.448
  • Take deliberate action now.
  • 00:19:53.448 --> 00:19:55.250
  • Daniel 11:32 says, "the people who know their god shall stand
  • 00:19:55.250 --> 00:20:00.255
  • Firm and take action."
  • 00:20:00.255 --> 00:20:03.392
  • Take deliberate action.
  • 00:20:03.392 --> 00:20:05.527
  • And fourth, leave the results of your action to god.
  • 00:20:05.527 --> 00:20:10.766
  • Leave the results of your action to god.
  • 00:20:10.766 --> 00:20:13.402
  • You may not know what the outcome of your obedience is.
  • 00:20:13.402 --> 00:20:17.239
  • Leave that up to god.
  • 00:20:17.239 --> 00:20:18.607
  • That's what esther did.
  • 00:20:18.607 --> 00:20:20.208
  • When she said, "i'm going in there, mordecai, to see
  • 00:20:20.208 --> 00:20:23.045
  • The king.
  • 00:20:23.045 --> 00:20:24.379
  • If i perish, i perish."
  • 00:20:24.379 --> 00:20:26.748
  • She wasn't being morbid or fatalistic.
  • 00:20:26.748 --> 00:20:30.319
  • I think she said that with happiness in her voice.
  • 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.088
  • You know what?
  • 00:20:33.088 --> 00:20:34.423
  • "i'm gonna do the right thing.
  • 00:20:34.423 --> 00:20:35.757
  • If i die, he kills me, that just means i get to see god that
  • 00:20:35.757 --> 00:20:38.360
  • Much sooner.
  • 00:20:38.360 --> 00:20:40.529
  • If i don't die, i don't die, and i get to live.
  • 00:20:40.529 --> 00:20:42.698
  • I win either way."
  • 00:20:42.698 --> 00:20:44.800
  • And the same is true for you.
  • 00:20:44.800 --> 00:20:46.168
  • Just ask yourself, if you're fearful about taking that next
  • 00:20:46.168 --> 00:20:48.837
  • Step, ask yourself, what's the worst thing that could happen
  • 00:20:48.837 --> 00:20:51.807
  • To you?
  • 00:20:51.807 --> 00:20:53.141
  • Well, i guess the worst thing that could happen to you is you
  • 00:20:53.141 --> 00:20:54.976
  • Die doing the right thing.
  • 00:20:54.976 --> 00:20:57.279
  • That's probably not gonna happen, whatever you're being
  • 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:59.848
  • Called to do.
  • 00:20:59.848 --> 00:21:01.183
  • It's not gonna cost you your life.
  • 00:21:01.183 --> 00:21:02.551
  • There's no reason to be afraid.
  • 00:21:02.551 --> 00:21:05.287
  • You know, when i think about somebody who did the right thing
  • 00:21:05.287 --> 00:21:08.323
  • Without knowing the outcome, i think about another woman.
  • 00:21:08.323 --> 00:21:14.396
  • And she decided that for her, the next right thing was to
  • 00:21:14.396 --> 00:21:18.867
  • Teach a sunday school class for underprivileged boys in
  • 00:21:18.867 --> 00:21:22.871
  • Her church.
  • 00:21:22.871 --> 00:21:24.539
  • And so, she told the sunday school superintendent, god was
  • 00:21:24.539 --> 00:21:27.376
  • Telling her to teach this class, and so she taught the class.
  • 00:21:27.376 --> 00:21:29.878
  • And the church had a policy of buying a new suit of clothes for
  • 00:21:29.878 --> 00:21:34.049
  • Every one of those little boys that were in the sunday school
  • 00:21:34.049 --> 00:21:36.518
  • Class to encourage them to come.
  • 00:21:36.518 --> 00:21:38.754
  • There's a particular boy in the class, bob rowdy,
  • 00:21:38.754 --> 00:21:42.858
  • Always interrupting.
  • 00:21:42.858 --> 00:21:45.093
  • After a couple of weeks, he quit coming, so the teacher went to
  • 00:21:45.093 --> 00:21:47.963
  • See him, and found that he had ruined that suit of
  • 00:21:47.963 --> 00:21:51.166
  • Clothes--torn the suit.
  • 00:21:51.166 --> 00:21:53.368
  • So, she arranged for him to have a second suit.
  • 00:21:53.368 --> 00:21:55.537
  • He came back, kept disrupting the class, dropped off the
  • 00:21:55.537 --> 00:21:59.174
  • Radar, and she went by to see him, and he ruined a
  • 00:21:59.174 --> 00:22:04.146
  • Second suit.
  • 00:22:04.146 --> 00:22:05.781
  • She invites him back, arranges for another suit.
  • 00:22:05.781 --> 00:22:09.184
  • Finally, a third time, he's in the class for a couple of weeks.
  • 00:22:09.184 --> 00:22:13.789
  • She doesn't see him again.
  • 00:22:13.789 --> 00:22:15.157
  • She goes to the sunday school superintendent.
  • 00:22:15.157 --> 00:22:16.925
  • She said, "i'm ready to give up.
  • 00:22:16.925 --> 00:22:19.094
  • I just don't know what to do."
  • 00:22:19.094 --> 00:22:21.229
  • The superintendent said, "let's give him one more chance.
  • 00:22:21.229 --> 00:22:24.900
  • I'll give you a suit to take to him."
  • 00:22:24.900 --> 00:22:26.968
  • So, she did that.
  • 00:22:26.968 --> 00:22:28.403
  • He came back to the class and this time he stayed.
  • 00:22:28.403 --> 00:22:31.973
  • And after a few weeks he was saved in that sunday
  • 00:22:31.973 --> 00:22:37.078
  • School class.
  • 00:22:37.078 --> 00:22:38.847
  • After that, he began teaching the class as a young man.
  • 00:22:38.847 --> 00:22:43.552
  • And that boy named bob, his actual name was robert morrison.
  • 00:22:43.552 --> 00:22:49.591
  • He became the first protestant missionary to china.
  • 00:22:49.591 --> 00:22:54.429
  • He's the first one to translate the bible into chinese.
  • 00:22:54.429 --> 00:22:59.668
  • And today there are literally hundreds of millions of
  • 00:22:59.668 --> 00:23:04.272
  • Christians in china because of that one woman, that sunday
  • 00:23:04.272 --> 00:23:09.878
  • School teacher who was ready to do the next right thing, even
  • 00:23:09.878 --> 00:23:15.450
  • When she didn't know the outcome.
  • 00:23:15.450 --> 00:23:18.553
  • That's why the apostle paul says, "don't lose heart in doing
  • 00:23:18.553 --> 00:23:24.159
  • Good, for in good season, we shall reap if we do not
  • 00:23:24.159 --> 00:23:29.331
  • Grow weary."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: an entire nation was saved all because of one woman
  • 00:23:35.437 --> 00:23:39.441
  • Who had the courage to do the next right thing.
  • 00:23:39.441 --> 00:23:43.044
  • I hope these four principles from esther's story will inspire
  • 00:23:43.044 --> 00:23:46.715
  • You to do the same.
  • 00:23:46.715 --> 00:23:48.550
  • You know, i believe god has positioned "pathway to victory"
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  • For such a time as this to engage our culture and pierce
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  • Jeffress: christians today are living in hostile territory.
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  • The attacks are real, the opposition is fierce, and the
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  • Stakes couldn't be higher.
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  • That's why i wrote "courageous"--to give you the
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  • Biblical tools you need not just to survive, but to stand strong
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  • Jeffress: survivors have two things in common: a different
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  • Response to trouble, and a different perspective on life.
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  • In "courageous," i'll give you ten biblical strategies to
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  • Courageous leadership kit containing the "courageous"
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  • Encouragement cards, plus the complete teaching series on cd
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  • And dvd.
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  • Jeffress: as christians, we're living in a
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  • Threatening environment.
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  • We have an adversary, the devil, who is intent on destroying
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  • Everything important to us.
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  • Announcer: thank you for partnering with "pathway
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  • To victory."
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  • Your generosity funds the proclamation of god's word
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  • Hope right here at home, and around the world.
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  • Jeffress: doing the next right thing is rarely easy, but as
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  • We've seen today, when you take action in obedience to god, you
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  • Can trust him with the results.
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  • Well, today concludes our series, "courageous," and next
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  • Time we're beginning a series called, "america and the bible."
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  • As our nation celebrates 250 years of god's blessings, we're
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  • Going to explore america's christian roots, and what they
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  • Mean for us today.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of our new series, "america and
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  • The bible."
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  • Jeffress: you know, i'm convinced, ladies and gentlemen,
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  • That one reason so many christians are discouraged about
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  • The condition of our country right now is that they have a
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  • Wrong focus in their life.
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  • They're focused on the three p's--on pleasure, on prosperity,
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  • On peace.
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  • No wonder they're frightened by the news.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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  • "the beginning of the end," part of the series, "america and the
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  • Bible" here on "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: the apostle paul sailed these waters, walked
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  • These streets, and the church was never the same.
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  • Jeffress: i'm inviting you to follow in paul's footsteps on
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  • The pathway to victory journeys of paul cruise through the
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  • Stunning greek islands into ancient ephesus and many other
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  • Destinations as well.
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  • This is purposeful travel at its finest.
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  • Announcer: set sail may 14, 2027.
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  • Call ...
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  • Or visit ptv.org.
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