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Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #4: Develop A Victor, Not A Victim, Mindset (Part 1)

July 14, 2026 | 27:30

Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #4: Develop A Victor, Not A Victim, Mindset (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #4: Develop A Victor, Not A Victim, Mindset (Part 1) | July 14, 2026
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress
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  • Today i'm going to show you three qualities
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  • That will help you stop just surviving and start overcoming.
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  • My message is titled, "survival tip number four:
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  • Develop a victor, not a victim mindset"
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  • The ship was doomed.
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  • Everybody knew it,
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  • But there was nothing they could do about it.
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  • For the past year,
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  • The endurance had been home to the captain
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  • And the 27 crew members
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  • On a voyage from england to antarctica.
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  • The vessel had sailed 12,000 miles
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  • And then pushed through pack ice
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  • For more than 1,000 more miles.
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  • But now it was entombed in antarctic ice,
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  • Less than 100 miles from its intended destination.
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  • The currents under the frozen sea
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  • Pushed and pulled against the wooden hull,
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  • Slowly crushing it.
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  • Everyone on board took what supplies they could
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  • And abandoned ship, casting their lot to the same ice
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  • That held the endurance in its frozen grip.
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  • As they watched the sides of their ship
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  • Cave in from the pressure, and heard the large timber snap,
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  • The men had become resigned to what they believed
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  • Was their inevitable fate, death,
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  • Either by exposure, starvation, or drowning.
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  • But their leader had a different mindset.
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  • "optimism," he would often say, "is true moral courage."
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  • And if there was one thing that was true
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  • About ernest shackleton, it was that he was an optimist.
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  • Shackleton had set out
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  • To be the first man to reach the south pole,
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  • But that honor went up going to a norwegian explorer
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  • Named roald amundsen in 1911.
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  • Undeterred, shackleton set his sights
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  • On being the first man to cross antarctica on foot.
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  • But finding supporters to fund his journey proved difficult.
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  • It took two years of asking, pleading, and lobbying
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  • Before shackleton finally raised enough money
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  • To supply his expedition
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  • And purchase the arctic vessel, polaris,
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  • Which he re-christened endurance
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  • After his family's motto, "by endurance we conquer."
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  • Finding crew members to accompany him was easy.
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  • Legend has it, that shackleton placed the following
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  • Advertisement in the london times.
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  • "men wanted for hazardous journey to south pole.
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  • Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness,
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  • Constant danger, safe return doubtful,
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  • Honor and recognition in case of success."
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  • Shackleton was inundated with more than 5,000 applicants.
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  • Fully equipped and with a crew of 27 adventurers,
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  • The endurance sailed from plymouth, england in august, 1914.
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  • By january of the following year, the ship was ice bound.
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  • The crew members built a galley and storehouse
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  • Out of the ship's timbers and braved six months on the ice,
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  • Surviving on salvaged rations until the ice thinned enough
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  • For them to reach elephant island and lifeboats
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  • That they had scavenged from the endurance.
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  • But when the frost-bitten men
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  • Finally reached elephant island,
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  • It turned out to be a frozen wasteland
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  • Without any sustainable food sources.
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  • To rescue his men from exposure and starvation
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  • And certain death,
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  • Shackleton with a small crew, boarded a lifeboat
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  • And sailed 870 miles to south georgia island
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  • Where there was a whaling station with supplies.
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  • The journey took 17 days
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  • And they landed under hurricane conditions.
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  • However, the whaling station
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  • Was on the other side of the island,
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  • So shackleton and his crew had to traverse 32 miles
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  • Over glacier-covered peaks.
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  • It took another four months
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  • Before shackleton finally reached his stranded men
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  • On elephant island with the supplies they needed
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  • To carry them back to england.
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  • Although shackleton did not succeed
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  • In his mission to cross antarctica on foot,
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  • He did save the lives of all 27 crew members.
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  • Years later, one of the men called him the greatest leader
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  • That has ever come on god's earth, bar none.
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  • He wrote, "when you are in a hopeless situation
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  • When there seems no way out,
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  • Get on your knees and pray for a shackleton."
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  • Ernest shackleton realized an important truth.
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  • Our attitude is key to our survival
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  • When faced with a threatening situation.
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  • And that's what we're going to talk about this morning.
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  • You know, ernest shackleton had a vocabulary
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  • That didn't have room for words like quit, give up,
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  • Fail, or surrender.
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  • No, he had developed the attitude of a victor
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  • Rather than a victim.
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  • Like the apostle paul who said in romans 8:31,
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  • "if god is for us, who can be against us?"
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  • That's the attitude of a victor.
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  • And today, as we continue our series, courageous,
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  • We're looking at the 10 survival tips
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  • That allow us not only to survive but to actually thrive
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  • In this hostile environment we are living in.
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  • And we're going to look at that fourth survival tip today.
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  • Those who are courageous learn how to develop
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  • A victor rather than a victim mindset.
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  • You know, there's an old saying that
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  • Musicians can't talk themselves into a good performance,
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  • But they can talk themselves out of one.
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  • Perhaps some of our orchestra members
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  • Understand that principle.
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  • I know i do.
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  • Many of you know i grew up playing the accordion.
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  • And i used my accordion playing
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  • To earn money in high school and college.
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  • And i would play for weddings and funerals and bar mitzvahs
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  • And october fests, beer bust, and everything else
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  • That people could come up with the money for.
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  • But many times i might be trying a new song out
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  • And i would hit a wrong note.
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  • And if i wasn't careful,
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  • I would start to obsess on that wrong note,
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  • And that wrong note would lead to another wrong note,
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  • And then another one
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  • Until the performance cascaded into an absolute disaster.
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  • My old accordion teacher, al trick,
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  • Gave me a good piece of advice
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  • I should have listened to all the time.
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  • He said, "robert, if you ever hit a wrong note,
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  • Just keep on smiling,
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  • And the audience won't know the difference."
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  • What he was saying was,
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  • Your attitude really counts on your success.
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  • It determines your success.
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  • If you think as a failure,
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  • You're going to act like a failure.
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  • Attitude is essential.
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  • You know, we saw that in our series,
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  • "choose your attitudes: change your life."
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  • We said that an attitude is your emotional
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  • And mental response to the circumstances of life.
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  • Remember, you can't always choose your circumstances,
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  • But you can choose your response to those circumstances.
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  • I think of chuck swindoll's words.
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  • He said, "i've come to understand that life
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  • Is 10% of what happens to you,
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  • 90% of how you respond to what happens to you."
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  • Attitude is key.
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  • And god's word says that we need to have the attitude
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  • Of a victor, not a victim.
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  • The bible has a word for a victor mindset.
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  • The bible calls it an overcomer.
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  • Because that word overcomer in greek
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  • Is a word that literally means "to come off as victorious."
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  • I want you to take your bibles
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  • And turn to 1 john 5 for just a moment.
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  • "the mark of an overcomer is obedience
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  • To our heavenly father."
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  • Look at 1 john 5.
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  • Remember when john wrote these words,
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  • The beloved apostle of the lord jesus was now an old man.
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  • He was pastor, many say, of the church at ephesus.
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  • And as he approached his latter years,
  • 00:11:06.655 --> 00:11:10.159
  • There was an empire-wide ban on christianity,
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  • A persecution of believers that was just beginning.
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  • It would intensify throughout john's latter years
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  • Until he was banished to the island of patmos
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  • Because he refused to bow down before domitian.
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  • And you remember it was on patmos
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  • That he received the revelation.
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  • This is the apostle john,
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  • But he writes these words as he senses
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  • That things are about to get more difficult for christians.
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  • Look at what he says in verse three.
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  • "for this is the love of god, that we keep his commandments,
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  • And his commandments are not burdensome."
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  • For whatever is born of god overcomes the world
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  • And this is the victory
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  • That has overcome the world, our faith.
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  • And who is the one who overcomes the world?
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  • But he who believes that jesus is the son of god.
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  • I want you to see several things about this passage.
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  • First of all, this idea of being an overcomer,
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  • An overcomer doesn't refer to a special class
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  • Of super spiritual christians that only some attain to.
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  • No.
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  • Overcomers should be the norm for every christian.
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  • Because he says in verse five,
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  • "who is the one who has success in overcoming the world?"
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  • It's the one who believes that jesus is the son of god.
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  • If you believe that jesus is the son of god,
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  • Then you have the power you need
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  • To overcome the negative situations you find yourself in.
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  • But notice in the bible, the word believed
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  • Doesn't mean just to agree to a certain set of facts
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  • About jesus christ.
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  • Belief, faith, is always linked with obedience.
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  • You know, faith means believing what god has said
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  • And acting accordingly.
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  • And that's why in verse three,
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  • He talks about the one who loves god,
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  • The one who believes in christ
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  • Is the one who keeps god's commandments.
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  • You want to know whether or not you're truly a believer?
  • 00:13:08.978 --> 00:13:11.046
  • Ask yourself, "are you keeping god's commandments?"
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  • That's the mark of a believer,
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  • And every believer has the promise of becoming an overcomer.
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  • And notice, he says,
  • 00:13:19.989 --> 00:13:21.257
  • "for god's commandments are not burdensome."
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  • Listen to me this morning, don't let satan deceive you.
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  • We are deceived so many times by the evil one into thinking,
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  • Oh, god's commandments are so hard to follow.
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  • And if i follow them, oh, it's going to be such a burden,
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  • And i'm going to be robbed of any fun and any joy in life
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  • By following god's commandments.
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  • No.
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  • God's commandments are not burdensome.
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  • Keeping them is the key to experiencing eternal life,
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  • The abundant life god has planned for us.
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  • I was reading this week the story of dominique,
  • 00:13:55.457 --> 00:13:59.028
  • An 8-year-old boy who went skiing with his dad.
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  • They were riding a new ski lift.
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  • Dominique got off that ski lift
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  • And started going down the mountain,
  • 00:14:06.835 --> 00:14:09.038
  • And he found himself on a ski slope
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  • That wasn't marked very well.
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  • And he ended up getting lost from his father.
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  • His father was panicked as he searched for him,
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  • They enlisted a search team of more than 90 people
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  • Who were looking for dominique.
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  • Night came and they couldn't search any longer,
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  • And they gave up the search.
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  • The next morning at daybreak, a helicopter was employed.
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  • As it scoured the mountain,
  • 00:14:32.361 --> 00:14:34.296
  • They looked down and they found footprints in the snow.
  • 00:14:34.296 --> 00:14:38.767
  • They followed those footprints and found dominique
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  • Huddled next to a large tree with branches covering him.
  • 00:14:42.371 --> 00:14:46.675
  • In an interview later on, the search and rescue coordinator
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  • Explained why the boy had survived
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  • And not succumbed to hypothermia.
  • 00:14:52.247 --> 00:14:54.984
  • His father had had enough foresight to tell him,
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  • "if you get lost, find a large tree, stay close to it,
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  • And cover yourself with the branches of that tree."
  • 00:15:02.691 --> 00:15:05.728
  • And because dominique followed his father's instructions,
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  • He was saved.
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  • You know that's true with god's commands.
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  • God's commands were not meant to restrict us from happiness
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  • Or to hurt us, but to keep us safe
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  • And allow us to become overcomers.
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  • God wants you and me to develop that overcomer,
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  • That victor mindset.
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  • And one of the best models of how to do that
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  • Is found in the old testament story of a man named joseph.
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  • I would say outside of jesus christ,
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  • There is no man who has overcome more adverse circumstances
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  • In his life than joseph.
  • 00:15:45.234 --> 00:15:47.536
  • Joseph could have maintained a victim mindset.
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  • He could have said, "woe is me."
  • 00:15:53.409 --> 00:15:55.344
  • But instead he always kept the attitude of a victor.
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  • We find his story beginning in genesis 37,
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  • And in the few minutes we have today,
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  • I want you to notice three sources of adversity
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  • That came into joseph's life
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  • That have probably, or will probably,
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  • Come into your life as well.
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  • First of all, joseph was faced
  • 00:16:15.964 --> 00:16:18.133
  • With overcoming the unloving actions from family members,
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  • The unloving actions from family members.
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  • We find his story beginning in genesis 37.
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  • Look at verses three and four.
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  • Now, israel, that is joseph's father jacob,
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  • Loved joseph more than all his sons
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  • Because he was the son of his old age.
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  • And so he made him a very colored tunic.
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  • And his brother saw that their father loved him
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  • More than all his brothers.
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  • And so they hated him
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  • And could not speak to him on friendly terms.
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  • Parents, right here we're going to see
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  • The dangers of showing favoritism toward children.
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  • You are sowing discord and unhappiness in your family
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  • That will go on for generation to generation.
  • 00:17:03.112 --> 00:17:06.915
  • Jacob, out of selfishness,
  • 00:17:07.483 --> 00:17:09.918
  • Decided to show favoritism toward his son joseph.
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  • And he demonstrated that favoritism
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  • By making him this multicolored garment to wear.
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  • Now, this garment was more than a fashion statement.
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  • And the reason it was so important
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  • Was it denoted a place of honor, a place of authority,
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  • That joseph, though one of the youngest,
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  • Would have over his older brothers.
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  • So every morning when they got up,
  • 00:17:35.544 --> 00:17:38.213
  • The older brothers put on their shepherd's clothes
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  • To go out and deal with the stinky sheep day after day.
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  • But joseph didn't put on the shepherd's clothes.
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  • He put on that multicolored garment
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  • And lounged around the house day in and day out.
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  • No wonder his brothers resented him.
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  • One day, and you remember this story,
  • 00:17:57.065 --> 00:17:59.334
  • Jacob told joseph he wanted him
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  • To go out and check on his brothers.
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  • And so when his brothers saw him coming
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  • In that garment they hated so much,
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  • They plotted to kill him.
  • 00:18:08.544 --> 00:18:10.512
  • But reuben intervened on his behalf, his brother.
  • 00:18:10.512 --> 00:18:13.582
  • And reuben said, "let's don't kill him.
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  • Let's just throw him in this pit over here."
  • 00:18:15.584 --> 00:18:18.220
  • So they threw him in a pit while they had lunch.
  • 00:18:18.220 --> 00:18:21.924
  • And behold, a group of ishmaelite traitors came, a caravan,
  • 00:18:21.924 --> 00:18:25.827
  • And one of the other brothers, judah said,
  • 00:18:25.827 --> 00:18:28.397
  • "we can make some shekels out of this."
  • 00:18:28.397 --> 00:18:30.332
  • And so they sold their brother for 20 pieces of silver.
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  • I want you to notice something about joseph,
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  • How quickly his life circumstance changed.
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  • That morning, had been in the place of privilege.
  • 00:18:42.344 --> 00:18:45.781
  • In an instant he found himself in a pit.
  • 00:18:45.781 --> 00:18:49.885
  • Have you ever noticed how quickly
  • 00:18:49.885 --> 00:18:51.587
  • Your life circumstances can change?
  • 00:18:51.587 --> 00:18:55.324
  • How out of nowhere adversity can come into your life?
  • 00:18:55.324 --> 00:18:59.628
  • You get up and you go to work like you do every day,
  • 00:18:59.628 --> 00:19:02.564
  • And there's a pink slip waiting for you
  • 00:19:02.564 --> 00:19:04.466
  • Telling you your services are no longer needed.
  • 00:19:04.466 --> 00:19:08.136
  • Or you go to the doctor's office
  • 00:19:08.136 --> 00:19:10.239
  • To get the results of your physical.
  • 00:19:10.239 --> 00:19:12.207
  • Routine, right?
  • 00:19:12.207 --> 00:19:13.675
  • The doctor isn't smiling,
  • 00:19:14.243 --> 00:19:15.644
  • He's frowning when he gives the bad news to you.
  • 00:19:15.644 --> 00:19:18.747
  • And yet in genesis 39:2 it says,
  • 00:19:19.381 --> 00:19:22.284
  • "and the lord was with joseph."
  • 00:19:22.284 --> 00:19:26.054
  • You find that continually throughout joseph's life.
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  • No matter what comes his way, the lord was with him.
  • 00:19:29.258 --> 00:19:33.629
  • There's something about unloving actions from family members
  • 00:19:33.629 --> 00:19:37.532
  • That cut us and cut us deeply.
  • 00:19:37.532 --> 00:19:40.402
  • But it doesn't undo joseph.
  • 00:19:40.402 --> 00:19:42.437
  • Next, we see him overcoming undeserved accusations
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  • From others, overcoming undeserved accusations from others.
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  • Joseph was sold as a slave.
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  • He ended up in egypt where he was sold to a man
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  • Whose name was potiphar.
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  • You remember potiphar was the captain
  • 00:19:57.986 --> 00:20:00.255
  • Of the bodyguard for pharaoh.
  • 00:20:00.255 --> 00:20:02.324
  • He had a very high position.
  • 00:20:02.324 --> 00:20:04.559
  • And joseph distinguished himself
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  • By his diligent work in potiphar's house.
  • 00:20:07.462 --> 00:20:10.065
  • Potiphar noticed it
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  • And he promoted him to be in charge
  • 00:20:11.266 --> 00:20:13.235
  • Of all of potiphar's household.
  • 00:20:13.235 --> 00:20:15.637
  • Everything was under joseph's control.
  • 00:20:15.637 --> 00:20:19.541
  • The only thing off limits to joseph was mrs. potiphar.
  • 00:20:19.541 --> 00:20:24.746
  • Unfortunately, mrs. potiphar never got the memo
  • 00:20:25.747 --> 00:20:28.550
  • 'cause she didn't realize joseph was off limits to her.
  • 00:20:28.550 --> 00:20:32.721
  • And so she immediately started to seduce joseph.
  • 00:20:32.721 --> 00:20:37.659
  • Day after day, she would try to seduce him.
  • 00:20:37.659 --> 00:20:41.163
  • On one occasion, she said to him, "lie with me,"
  • 00:20:41.163 --> 00:20:44.566
  • Which in hebrew means have sex with me.
  • 00:20:44.566 --> 00:20:47.402
  • And remember his reply in genesis 39:9?
  • 00:20:47.402 --> 00:20:50.305
  • "how could i do such an evil thing and sin against god?"
  • 00:20:50.305 --> 00:20:56.111
  • Whew, joseph made it out of that one.
  • 00:20:56.945 --> 00:21:00.349
  • He never had to suffer that again, right?
  • 00:21:01.216 --> 00:21:03.885
  • Wrong.
  • 00:21:03.885 --> 00:21:05.320
  • Don't ever think just because you've successfully
  • 00:21:05.320 --> 00:21:07.489
  • Battled temptation one time that it's over.
  • 00:21:07.489 --> 00:21:11.193
  • The bible says that mrs. potiphar came to joseph
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  • Day after day after day.
  • 00:21:14.629 --> 00:21:18.333
  • That's how temptation comes.
  • 00:21:18.333 --> 00:21:20.235
  • And finally on one day
  • 00:21:20.235 --> 00:21:21.770
  • When all the other servants were out of the house,
  • 00:21:21.770 --> 00:21:24.139
  • She was alone with joseph.
  • 00:21:24.139 --> 00:21:26.074
  • And she grabbed him by the shoulder and she said,
  • 00:21:26.074 --> 00:21:28.643
  • "lie with me."
  • 00:21:28.643 --> 00:21:30.445
  • How did joseph respond?
  • 00:21:30.946 --> 00:21:32.714
  • He said, "mrs. potiphar, i sense you have
  • 00:21:33.515 --> 00:21:34.950
  • Some great unmet need in your life
  • 00:21:34.950 --> 00:21:36.685
  • And i'd like to pray for you right now.
  • 00:21:36.685 --> 00:21:38.186
  • Can we just pray together here?"
  • 00:21:38.186 --> 00:21:39.888
  • (congregation laughing)
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  • No.
  • 00:21:40.789 --> 00:21:42.290
  • No, he knew that situation
  • 00:21:42.290 --> 00:21:44.226
  • Was too hot for his hebrew hormones to handle.
  • 00:21:44.226 --> 00:21:47.462
  • And so he did the most spiritual thing he could do.
  • 00:21:47.462 --> 00:21:49.965
  • He ran as fast as he could in the opposite direction.
  • 00:21:49.965 --> 00:21:54.503
  • In fact, he left so quickly
  • 00:21:54.503 --> 00:21:56.905
  • She was left with just a piece of his garment in her hand.
  • 00:21:56.905 --> 00:22:01.276
  • And then the time of reckoning came.
  • 00:22:01.276 --> 00:22:03.612
  • Mr. potiphar came home.
  • 00:22:03.612 --> 00:22:06.782
  • Notice what happened, verse 17 of genesis 39.
  • 00:22:06.782 --> 00:22:10.585
  • Then she spoke to potiphar with these words.
  • 00:22:10.585 --> 00:22:15.023
  • "the hebrew slave whom you brought to us
  • 00:22:15.023 --> 00:22:17.926
  • Came into me to make sport of me.
  • 00:22:17.926 --> 00:22:20.529
  • And it happened as i raised my voice and screamed
  • 00:22:20.529 --> 00:22:23.799
  • That he left his garment beside me and fled outside."
  • 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:28.170
  • Now, it came about when potiphar
  • 00:22:28.170 --> 00:22:29.738
  • Heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him saying,
  • 00:22:29.738 --> 00:22:33.141
  • "this is what your slave did to me."
  • 00:22:33.141 --> 00:22:36.578
  • That he refused to believe his wife
  • 00:22:36.578 --> 00:22:38.713
  • And believe joseph instead, and said,
  • 00:22:38.713 --> 00:22:41.483
  • "joseph, because you have not sinned against me
  • 00:22:41.483 --> 00:22:43.785
  • Or against god, i'm going to promote you
  • 00:22:43.785 --> 00:22:45.120
  • To the highest position in my whole household.
  • 00:22:45.120 --> 00:22:47.923
  • And half of my kingdom belongs to you."
  • 00:22:47.923 --> 00:22:50.625
  • Does your bible say that?
  • 00:22:51.193 --> 00:22:53.995
  • No.
  • 00:22:54.196 --> 00:22:55.464
  • When the accusation came,
  • 00:22:55.464 --> 00:22:57.732
  • "this is what your slave did to me,"
  • 00:22:57.732 --> 00:23:00.135
  • The bible says, "and potiphar's anger burned."
  • 00:23:00.135 --> 00:23:05.307
  • In fact, it burned so hot
  • 00:23:05.874 --> 00:23:08.343
  • That he ended up throwing joseph into prison.
  • 00:23:08.343 --> 00:23:13.682
  • You know, we have this strange idea
  • 00:23:14.483 --> 00:23:15.517
  • That if we do the right thing, we get rewarded.
  • 00:23:16.451 --> 00:23:20.088
  • And when we don't get rewarded for doing the right thing,
  • 00:23:21.223 --> 00:23:23.592
  • We begin to doubt god.
  • 00:23:23.592 --> 00:23:24.860
  • "god, i thought you said
  • 00:23:24.860 --> 00:23:26.228
  • You're a rewarder of those who do the right thing."
  • 00:23:26.228 --> 00:23:28.897
  • We get rewarded eventually, but not immediately.
  • 00:23:28.897 --> 00:23:33.168
  • In fact, many times, perhaps even most times,
  • 00:23:34.069 --> 00:23:37.572
  • Instead of being rewarded for doing the right thing,
  • 00:23:37.572 --> 00:23:40.742
  • We suffer for doing the right thing.
  • 00:23:40.742 --> 00:23:43.712
  • Doing the right thing many times
  • 00:23:44.346 --> 00:23:46.014
  • Has a cost associated with it.
  • 00:23:46.014 --> 00:23:49.351
  • The bible talks about that in 1 peter 2.
  • 00:23:49.351 --> 00:23:52.287
  • Peter said, "there is no reward for suffering
  • 00:23:53.221 --> 00:23:56.625
  • When you do the wrong thing."
  • 00:23:56.625 --> 00:23:58.593
  • We think if we're suffering, it must be for righteousness.
  • 00:23:59.761 --> 00:24:03.098
  • A lot of times our suffering isn't for righteousness,
  • 00:24:03.098 --> 00:24:06.167
  • It's for unrighteousness.
  • 00:24:06.167 --> 00:24:08.403
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  • 00:24:08.403 --> 00:24:12.874
  • Aside from jesus christ,
  • 00:24:13.375 --> 00:24:15.110
  • No man has overcome more challenges in his life than joseph.
  • 00:24:15.110 --> 00:24:19.548
  • Yet joseph emerged from his trials as a victor.
  • 00:24:19.548 --> 00:24:23.351
  • In closing today,
  • 00:24:23.351 --> 00:24:24.719
  • I want to share an encouraging comment for you
  • 00:24:24.719 --> 00:24:26.888
  • From someone who recently wrote to us saying,
  • 00:24:26.888 --> 00:24:29.624
  • "in this confusing time,
  • 00:24:29.624 --> 00:24:31.293
  • You are helping me decipher truth from untruth,
  • 00:24:31.293 --> 00:24:34.729
  • And teach others to know the truth as well.
  • 00:24:34.729 --> 00:24:37.666
  • I'm sharing with my husband and teenage sons.
  • 00:24:37.666 --> 00:24:41.369
  • Thank you for standing firm in god's word."
  • 00:24:41.369 --> 00:24:44.873
  • Comments like this one show us that lives are being changed
  • 00:24:44.873 --> 00:24:48.510
  • Through pathway to victory.
  • 00:24:48.510 --> 00:24:50.211
  • Thank you for partnering with us to pierce the darkness
  • 00:24:50.211 --> 00:24:53.515
  • With the light of god's word.
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  • Now, please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more in just a moment.
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  • Christians today are living in hostile territory.
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  • The attacks are real, the opposition is fierce,
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  • And the stakes couldn't be higher.
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  • That's why i wrote "courageous,"
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  • To give you the biblical tools you need,
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  • Not just to survive, but to stand strong and thrive.
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  • In "courageous," you'll find 10
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  • Biblical survival strategies drawn straight from scripture
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  • That will give you fresh fire and real hope
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  • No matter what you're facing.
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  • Survivors have two things in common,
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  • A different response to trouble,
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  • And a different perspective on life.
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  • In "courageous," i'll give you 10 biblical strategies
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  • To develop both, and come out stronger on the other side.
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  • As christians, we are living in a threatening environment.
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  • We have an adversary, the devil,
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  • Who is intent on destroying everything important to us.
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  • Joseph faced betrayal, false accusations,
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  • And years of neglect.
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  • And through all of it, he kept the attitude of a victor.
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  • That same overcomer mindset
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  • Is available to every believer today.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • In our series, courageous.
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  • You know, everything that's going on in your life
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  • Right now with your family, with your health,
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  • With your job, with your finances,
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  • God is using all of it for his purpose in your life.
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  • And that is to make you like jesus christ.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For part two of "survival tip number four:
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  • Develop a victor, not a victim mindset"
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  • Here on pathway to victory.
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