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Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #5: Trust Your Training (Part 1)

July 16, 2026 | 27:30

Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #5: Trust Your Training (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #5: Trust Your Training (Part 1) | July 16, 2026
  • Ephesus, thessaloniki,
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  • The greek islands.
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  • The apostle paul didn't just write about these places,
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  • He lived in them,
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  • And this may so can you
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  • On the pathway to victory journeys of paul cruise.
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  • I've read the book of acts my entire life,
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  • But there's nothing like standing in ephesus,
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  • Walking where paul walked,
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  • And feeling the weight of what happened there.
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  • Nine unforgettable nights aboard celebrity infinity,
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  • Sailing round trip from athens with stops in mykonos,
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  • Rhodes, santorini, and more.
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  • And there's an optional pre-cruise extension in athens.
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  • Every port carries the fingerprints
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  • Of god's redemptive plan.
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  • Every ancient stone tells a story.
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  • This is truly the trip of a lifetime,
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  • And i promise you you'll never read the bible
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  • The same way again.
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  • (lively music)
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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  • Talk to any soldier or first responder
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  • And they'll tell you the same thing,
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  • When the moment of crisis arrives,
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  • There's no time to think,
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  • You simply act on what you already know.
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  • And that raises an important question for every christian,
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  • When life throws the unexpected your way,
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  • What will you fall back on?
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  • My message is titled survival tip number five:
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  • Trust your training
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory".
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  • (gentle music)
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  • If you've ever felt like your faith is under attack,
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  • Like the world is trying to wear you down,
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  • You're not imagining it.
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  • The cultural pressure and spiritual opposition is real,
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  • But you don't have to face it alone.
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  • In his powerful book "courageous",
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  • Dr. robert jeffress offers 10 practical biblical strategies
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  • For standing strong,
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  • Strategies that will give you fresh fire and real hope
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  • In a world hostile to your faith.
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  • When you give a generous ministry gift
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  • (lively music)
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  • He had no ambition to become famous,
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  • To be interviewed by journalists around the world,
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  • Receive honors and medals,
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  • Appear on the cover of magazines,
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  • And have a movie made about him.
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  • After more than 40 years as a pilot,
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  • His only ambition was retirement,
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  • And he was about one year away from that
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  • When the unimaginable happened,
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  • A complete loss of power
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  • While piloting a jetliner over manhattan.
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  • In about the same time it takes most men
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  • To comb their hair, floss and brush their teeth,
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  • The pilot of us airways flight 1549 had to decide
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  • Whether he could keep the plane in the air long enough
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  • To turn back to the airport
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  • Or risk the lives of all 155 people aboard
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  • With a hazardous water landing.
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  • Departing on the afternoon of january the 15th, 2009
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  • From new york, laguardia's airport
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  • Bound for charlotte, north carolina,
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  • Flight 1549 flew into a flock of canadian geese
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  • Just two minutes after takeoff.
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  • Some of the geese were sucked into the plane's engines.
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  • Almost immediately, the aircraft began to vibrate
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  • And the engines shut down.
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  • 21 seconds later,
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  • Captain chesley sully sullenberger
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  • Sent out a distress signal,
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  • "mayday, mayday, mayday."
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  • He notified the tower at laguardia
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  • That they had sustained multiple bird strikes
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  • And that his plane had become a dead stick.
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  • Descending at a rapid speed
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  • Like dropping two floors per second in an elevator,
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  • Captain sullenberger considered
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  • Gliding the airplane back to laguardia,
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  • But he would have to fly a dead plane
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  • Over densely populated areas in manhattan,
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  • Avoiding skyscrapers between his location and the airport.
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  • Laguardia was out of the question,
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  • Nor could he make it to teterboro airport in new jersey.
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  • Sullenberger radioed the tower,
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  • He was going to ditch in the hudson river.
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  • It was straight enough, long enough, wide enough,
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  • And smooth enough,
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  • And besides, it was right below him.
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  • According to aviation experts,
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  • Successful water landings are tricky maneuvers.
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  • Wings have to be perfectly level,
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  • If not, you could clip the water,
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  • Shearing off the wing, cartwheeling the aircraft,
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  • And sending the fuselage to the bottom.
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  • The angle of entry must be exactly right.
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  • If too steep, you can separate the tail section.
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  • If two flat, you could break the aircraft in half
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  • Or plow the nose into what would seem to be a concrete wall.
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  • You have to walk the plane into the water heel to toe
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  • With the tail section touching first
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  • And then lowering the nose as the aircraft slows down.
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  • The only control captain sullenberger had left
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  • In the aircraft was pitch,
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  • The ability to raise or lower the nose of the plane.
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  • To slow their speed and maintain a proper guide path,
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  • Sullenberger pitched the nose up.
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  • About 90 seconds before hitting the water,
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  • He pulled the nose fully aft and addressed the passenger,
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  • "this is the captain, brace for impact."
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  • Passengers described
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  • What felt like a gradual controlled descent
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  • As if the river were a tarmac.
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  • And though the plane made a tremendous splash,
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  • It remained intact and afloat.
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  • Once the aircraft became stable,
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  • Sullenberger and his crew
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  • Began emergency evacuation procedures,
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  • Instructing passengers about how to locate
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  • And wear life vests,
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  • Deploy emergency rafts,
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  • And open wing exits.
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  • Fortunately, the plane had landed
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  • Between two ferry terminals.
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  • Within minutes,
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  • Ferry boats were plucking passengers off the wings
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  • And out of the rafts,
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  • Saving all 155 people on board.
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  • Sullenberger, who had learned to fly at the age of 16,
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  • Graduated from the air force academy
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  • And flew fighter jets before turning to commercial aviation,
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  • Has been asked many times what he was thinking
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  • During the three and a half minutes that elapsed
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  • Between his engines cutting out
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  • And landing in the hudson river.
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  • His standard answer is that he wasn't so much thinking
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  • As he was acting,
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  • Going through the proper procedures
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  • To solve the problems that immediately confronted him.
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  • He said, "my training kicked in."
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  • When thrown into survival situations,
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  • First responders, firemen, policemen,
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  • Soldiers in the military,
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  • They often encourage one another with these three words,
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  • Trust your training.
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  • Trust your training.
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  • Even athletes, coach,
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  • Understand the importance of trusting their training.
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  • They practice, practice, practice.
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  • And when they get in the heat of the game,
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  • That's when their memory takes over
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  • And their memory tells their muscles exactly how to respond.
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  • Trusting your training.
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  • In our series courageous,
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  • We're talking about 10 survival steps
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  • For thriving in a hostile world.
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  • Whether you know it or not, if you're a christian,
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  • You're living in a hostile world
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  • And you have all kind of assaults coming at you.
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  • You face a culture that is hostile to the things of god.
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  • You face an adversary, the devil,
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  • Who has a detailed blueprint to take you out.
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  • And if those things were not enough,
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  • We all carry around with us at least the remnant
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  • Of a sin nature that is opposed to the will of god.
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  • How can we ever hope to survive
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  • That kind of threatening situation,
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  • Much less thrive in it?
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  • Well, we're talking about those 10 survival tips
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  • From god's word for surviving and thriving
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  • In this hostile environment.
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  • And interestingly,
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  • Sully sullenberger illustrates all the ones we've looked at
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  • And the ones we're going to look at today.
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  • Remember what survival tip number one is?
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  • Don't panic.
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  • Think about sully,
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  • He had only 210 seconds to save that airplane,
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  • 210 seconds,
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  • But he didn't lose control of his emotions,
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  • He kept his emotions in check.
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  • We need to do that.
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  • We need to remember, no matter what comes at us,
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  • God is in control.
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  • Don't panic.
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  • Secondly, gain situational awareness.
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  • If you're going to survive,
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  • You need to know exactly what's going around you.
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  • Sully did that,
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  • He looked around and he assessed the situation,
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  • Bird strike, loss of power,
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  • Too far to make it to the airport,
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  • Hudson river below.
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  • Survival tip number three,
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  • He took inventory of his available resources.
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  • Whenever we're facing a threatening situation,
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  • We need to see what has been provided for us.
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  • For sullenberger,
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  • He saw he had a copilot who was adequately trained.
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  • He knew that he had some pitch control,
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  • He could control the direction of the nose up or down.
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  • He was in a well-made aircraft.
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  • And then survival tip number four,
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  • Have a victor's, not a victim mindset.
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  • When he had that bird strike,
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  • He could have thought to himself,
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  • No plane in history has ever suffered
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  • The loss of both engines at the same time
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  • At such a low altitude.
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  • He could have thought, we're doomed,
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  • But he had a victor's mindset.
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  • The same with the apostle paul who said,
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  • "if god is for us,
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  • Who can be against us?"
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  • And finally, and the one we're going to look at today,
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  • Sullenberger illustrates the survival tip
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  • Trust your training,
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  • Trust your training.
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  • When you face a crisis,
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  • It's important that you already be trained in what to do
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  • So that your memory can take over.
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  • Had he not been trained over and over again
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  • About how to handle such a situation,
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  • It not only would've ended his life,
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  • But the 154 other passengers who were on board with him.
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  • And the same is true for you and me,
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  • We don't live our lives in isolation,
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  • We have a whole bunch of people who are riding with us
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  • Depending upon us,
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  • Our mate, our children, our grandchildren,
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  • The people we've influenced for christ.
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  • If we allow a crisis to take us out
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  • And send us crashing,
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  • We not only destroy our lives,
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  • But we destroy those of everyone around us.
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  • It is important that we learn to trust our training.
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  • If you don't hear anything else i say during this sermon,
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  • Hear this,
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  • The only way to survive spiritually
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  • Is to be adequately trained before the crisis hits
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  • And then trust our training when the crisis hits.
  • 00:11:46.262 --> 00:11:50.866
  • Where do we go to find that training
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  • That we need in times of crises in our life?
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  • We find it in god's word.
  • 00:11:56.739 --> 00:11:59.275
  • Turn back to 2 timothy 3,
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  • The passage we read aloud just a few moments ago,
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  • 2 timothy 3:16-17.
  • 00:12:04.847 --> 00:12:08.184
  • Paul said, "for all scripture is inspired by god."
  • 00:12:08.184 --> 00:12:13.122
  • You don't get to pick and choose
  • 00:12:13.122 --> 00:12:14.456
  • Which parts you think are inspired.
  • 00:12:14.456 --> 00:12:17.126
  • We have a culture today that wants to do that,
  • 00:12:17.126 --> 00:12:19.595
  • They want to leave out the difficult parts
  • 00:12:19.595 --> 00:12:21.597
  • Or the parts that don't coincide with the culture today.
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  • No, the bible says, "all scripture is inspired."
  • 00:12:24.934 --> 00:12:28.804
  • You know, that word inspired,
  • 00:12:28.804 --> 00:12:30.506
  • Theopneustos in greek,
  • 00:12:30.506 --> 00:12:32.208
  • Literally god-breathed.
  • 00:12:32.208 --> 00:12:34.877
  • All scripture is god-breathed
  • 00:12:34.877 --> 00:12:36.579
  • And it's profitable for teaching,
  • 00:12:36.579 --> 00:12:38.881
  • For reprove, for correction,
  • 00:12:38.881 --> 00:12:40.883
  • For, here it is, training in righteousness.
  • 00:12:40.883 --> 00:12:45.788
  • That the man of god may be adequate,
  • 00:12:45.788 --> 00:12:47.957
  • Equipped for every good work.
  • 00:12:47.957 --> 00:12:50.759
  • The bible is what we use as our flight manual, if you would,
  • 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.630
  • That tells us exactly what to do,
  • 00:12:54.630 --> 00:12:56.565
  • How to train for righteousness.
  • 00:12:56.565 --> 00:12:59.235
  • That word righteousness simply means
  • 00:12:59.235 --> 00:13:01.170
  • Right living before god.
  • 00:13:01.170 --> 00:13:04.974
  • Why is it so important that we be adequately trained
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  • Before the crisis hits?
  • 00:13:08.377 --> 00:13:10.946
  • Consider another aircraft in another threatening situation
  • 00:13:12.114 --> 00:13:16.085
  • That had a completely different outcome.
  • 00:13:16.085 --> 00:13:19.154
  • In october of 2018,
  • 00:13:19.154 --> 00:13:20.923
  • The pilots of lion air flight jt 610 took off from jakarta.
  • 00:13:20.923 --> 00:13:26.362
  • Two minutes after takeoff,
  • 00:13:26.929 --> 00:13:29.965
  • They noticed a sensation they had never experienced before,
  • 00:13:29.965 --> 00:13:33.903
  • The automatic pilot started pointing
  • 00:13:33.903 --> 00:13:37.006
  • The nose of the aircraft down.
  • 00:13:37.006 --> 00:13:39.909
  • The pilots struggled with it to bring it back up.
  • 00:13:39.909 --> 00:13:43.379
  • No matter how hard they tried,
  • 00:13:43.379 --> 00:13:45.014
  • The nose kept pointing down on this 737 aircraft.
  • 00:13:45.014 --> 00:13:50.352
  • They've searched frantically through the flight manual
  • 00:13:51.453 --> 00:13:53.589
  • To try to find what they were supposed to do
  • 00:13:53.589 --> 00:13:56.358
  • In that situation.
  • 00:13:56.358 --> 00:13:58.560
  • But while they were searching the flight manual,
  • 00:13:58.560 --> 00:14:01.463
  • The plane crashed, killing all 189 people aboard.
  • 00:14:01.463 --> 00:14:06.602
  • If you wait until a crisis hits your life
  • 00:14:07.503 --> 00:14:10.172
  • To decide to be trained for it,
  • 00:14:10.172 --> 00:14:12.041
  • You've waited too long.
  • 00:14:12.041 --> 00:14:14.276
  • You've waited too long
  • 00:14:14.276 --> 00:14:15.811
  • If you've waited until your employer tells you
  • 00:14:15.811 --> 00:14:19.315
  • That your services are no longer needed.
  • 00:14:19.315 --> 00:14:22.484
  • You've waited too long if you wait
  • 00:14:22.484 --> 00:14:24.720
  • Until your husband or wife tells you they're leaving.
  • 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:29.625
  • You've waited too long if you wait
  • 00:14:29.625 --> 00:14:31.260
  • Until the doctor tells you that the report is bad
  • 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:35.597
  • And that you have a couple of years
  • 00:14:35.597 --> 00:14:38.067
  • Or even a couple of months to live.
  • 00:14:38.067 --> 00:14:41.003
  • You've waited too long
  • 00:14:41.003 --> 00:14:42.771
  • If you've waited until the crisis comes
  • 00:14:42.771 --> 00:14:45.441
  • To train in righteousness.
  • 00:14:45.441 --> 00:14:47.576
  • You know, we have a good illustration of that.
  • 00:14:47.576 --> 00:14:49.845
  • In the character we looked at last week, joseph,
  • 00:14:49.845 --> 00:14:53.649
  • Remember what happened
  • 00:14:53.649 --> 00:14:55.150
  • When joseph found himself being assaulted with temptation?
  • 00:14:55.150 --> 00:14:59.888
  • Mrs. potiphar grabbed him by the shoulder
  • 00:15:00.789 --> 00:15:03.359
  • And said, "lie with me!"
  • 00:15:03.359 --> 00:15:05.928
  • Literally in hebrew, "have sex with me!"
  • 00:15:05.928 --> 00:15:09.598
  • Just imagine joseph had said,
  • 00:15:09.598 --> 00:15:11.600
  • Mrs. potiphar, would you wait just a moment?
  • 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.336
  • There is a verse somewhere.
  • 00:15:14.336 --> 00:15:16.171
  • (crowd laughing)
  • 00:15:16.171 --> 00:15:17.840
  • I know, i remember it's somewhere
  • 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:19.675
  • On what to do when the boss's wife makes a move on you,
  • 00:15:19.675 --> 00:15:22.544
  • But i can't find it, if you all hold on.
  • 00:15:22.544 --> 00:15:24.947
  • No, he would've been spiritual roadkill
  • 00:15:25.781 --> 00:15:28.517
  • If he had waited until that happened.
  • 00:15:28.517 --> 00:15:30.586
  • He had committed god's word to memory ahead of time
  • 00:15:30.586 --> 00:15:33.355
  • And knew exactly how to use it,
  • 00:15:33.355 --> 00:15:36.392
  • We need to do that as well.
  • 00:15:36.392 --> 00:15:38.994
  • The bible is our training manual
  • 00:15:39.628 --> 00:15:41.997
  • For how to act righteously.
  • 00:15:41.997 --> 00:15:45.367
  • Let me talk for just a moment about the benefits
  • 00:15:45.367 --> 00:15:48.003
  • Of the training that comes from god's word.
  • 00:15:48.003 --> 00:15:50.706
  • What is it that god's word does for us?
  • 00:15:50.706 --> 00:15:53.108
  • Psalm 119 is a beautiful chapter,
  • 00:15:53.108 --> 00:15:56.278
  • The longest chapter in the bible,
  • 00:15:56.278 --> 00:15:58.013
  • And it details the benefits of god's word in our life.
  • 00:15:58.013 --> 00:16:01.984
  • I want you to notice three of them.
  • 00:16:01.984 --> 00:16:03.552
  • First of all, god's word provides wise counsel
  • 00:16:03.552 --> 00:16:07.256
  • Throughout life.
  • 00:16:07.256 --> 00:16:08.690
  • In psalm 119:105,
  • 00:16:08.690 --> 00:16:11.860
  • God says, "your word is a lamp to my feet
  • 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:15.464
  • And a light to my path."
  • 00:16:15.464 --> 00:16:18.667
  • Interesting choice of words,
  • 00:16:18.667 --> 00:16:19.835
  • "it is a lamp."
  • 00:16:19.835 --> 00:16:22.171
  • Have you ever been out in the woods before at night,
  • 00:16:22.171 --> 00:16:25.674
  • No moon visible in the sky, no streetlights,
  • 00:16:25.674 --> 00:16:28.544
  • And you're trying to find your way along a path?
  • 00:16:28.544 --> 00:16:31.947
  • There's a difference between a flashlight and a floodlight.
  • 00:16:33.115 --> 00:16:35.818
  • A floodlight illuminates a large area,
  • 00:16:35.818 --> 00:16:39.154
  • Perhaps hundreds of feet ahead of you,
  • 00:16:39.154 --> 00:16:41.690
  • But most of us don't lug a floodlight around us,
  • 00:16:41.690 --> 00:16:45.094
  • But we can have a flashlight.
  • 00:16:45.094 --> 00:16:47.329
  • And a flashlight illuminates not every step we're going to take
  • 00:16:47.329 --> 00:16:51.266
  • Between here and our destination,
  • 00:16:51.266 --> 00:16:53.102
  • But it shows us the next step we need to take,
  • 00:16:53.102 --> 00:16:56.805
  • And that's what god does through his word.
  • 00:16:56.805 --> 00:16:59.341
  • He doesn't always lay out the whole plan for us,
  • 00:16:59.341 --> 00:17:02.478
  • But he showed you enough of what you need to do,
  • 00:17:02.478 --> 00:17:04.646
  • The next step and the next step and the next step.
  • 00:17:04.646 --> 00:17:07.816
  • That is the beauty of the direction
  • 00:17:07.816 --> 00:17:09.585
  • That comes from god's word.
  • 00:17:09.585 --> 00:17:11.653
  • Secondly, god's word is a faithful friend
  • 00:17:11.653 --> 00:17:15.190
  • During difficult days.
  • 00:17:15.190 --> 00:17:17.059
  • Look at psalm 119:92-93,
  • 00:17:17.059 --> 00:17:20.095
  • "if thy law had not been my delight,
  • 00:17:20.095 --> 00:17:23.866
  • Then i would've perished in my affliction.
  • 00:17:23.866 --> 00:17:26.935
  • I will never forget thy precepts,
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  • For by them thou hast revived me."
  • 00:17:28.971 --> 00:17:32.908
  • When i think about those verses,
  • 00:17:33.542 --> 00:17:35.277
  • I think about somebody who was literally revived
  • 00:17:35.277 --> 00:17:39.047
  • By the power of god's word,
  • 00:17:39.047 --> 00:17:41.683
  • Somebody who was saved from perishing in their affliction.
  • 00:17:41.683 --> 00:17:46.255
  • Darlene deibler rose was a christian missionary
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  • Who was captured by the japanese in world war ii.
  • 00:17:49.791 --> 00:17:53.996
  • She was thrown into a japanese prison,
  • 00:17:53.996 --> 00:17:57.699
  • Her bible was taken away from her,
  • 00:17:57.699 --> 00:18:00.169
  • She was beaten and tortured for four years.
  • 00:18:00.169 --> 00:18:03.539
  • But even though these japanese soldiers
  • 00:18:03.539 --> 00:18:05.541
  • Could take away her bible,
  • 00:18:05.541 --> 00:18:07.442
  • They couldn't take away the word of god
  • 00:18:07.442 --> 00:18:09.578
  • She had memorized and placed in her heart.
  • 00:18:09.578 --> 00:18:12.347
  • Listen to her testimony,
  • 00:18:12.347 --> 00:18:13.615
  • She said, "as a child and young person,
  • 00:18:13.615 --> 00:18:16.818
  • I had had a driving compulsion to memorize the written word.
  • 00:18:16.818 --> 00:18:22.090
  • In that cell,
  • 00:18:22.457 --> 00:18:24.026
  • I was grateful now for those days in vacation bible school
  • 00:18:24.026 --> 00:18:27.429
  • When i had memorized many single verses.
  • 00:18:27.429 --> 00:18:31.133
  • Complete chapters of the bible and psalms,
  • 00:18:31.133 --> 00:18:33.635
  • As well as whole books of the bible i had memorized.
  • 00:18:33.635 --> 00:18:36.772
  • In the years that followed,
  • 00:18:36.772 --> 00:18:38.307
  • I reviewed the scriptures often.
  • 00:18:38.307 --> 00:18:40.809
  • The lord fed me with the living bread
  • 00:18:40.809 --> 00:18:43.245
  • That had been stored against the day
  • 00:18:43.245 --> 00:18:45.581
  • When fresh supply was cut off by the loss of my bible.
  • 00:18:45.581 --> 00:18:49.651
  • He brought daily comfort and encouragement,
  • 00:18:49.651 --> 00:18:52.287
  • Yes, and joy to my heart through the knowledge of his word."
  • 00:18:52.287 --> 00:18:57.526
  • No matter where you are
  • 00:18:58.026 --> 00:18:59.428
  • Or what situation you're facing,
  • 00:18:59.428 --> 00:19:01.263
  • God's word is a faithful friend during times of affliction.
  • 00:19:01.263 --> 00:19:05.567
  • Thirdly, god's word serves as a sure defense
  • 00:19:05.567 --> 00:19:09.504
  • Against temptation,
  • 00:19:09.504 --> 00:19:11.807
  • It's the best defense we have against temptation.
  • 00:19:11.807 --> 00:19:14.409
  • Remember david's words in psalm 119:11?
  • 00:19:14.409 --> 00:19:17.913
  • "thy word have i treasured in my heart
  • 00:19:17.913 --> 00:19:21.516
  • That i might not sin against god."
  • 00:19:21.516 --> 00:19:25.887
  • You say, well, how is it that the bible
  • 00:19:25.887 --> 00:19:28.357
  • Is a defense against temptation?
  • 00:19:28.357 --> 00:19:29.958
  • Exactly how does that work?
  • 00:19:29.958 --> 00:19:33.128
  • You may not know this,
  • 00:19:33.629 --> 00:19:34.930
  • But the great protestant reformer martin luther
  • 00:19:34.930 --> 00:19:38.367
  • Said that the greatest battle,
  • 00:19:38.367 --> 00:19:40.002
  • Spiritual battle he faced in his life was with lust.
  • 00:19:40.002 --> 00:19:44.606
  • How many of you can identify?
  • 00:19:44.606 --> 00:19:46.408
  • No, you don't have to raise your hand.
  • 00:19:46.408 --> 00:19:47.743
  • (crowd laughing)
  • 00:19:47.743 --> 00:19:50.746
  • He had a hard time with lust
  • 00:19:50.746 --> 00:19:53.081
  • Probably because of the kind of lifestyle
  • 00:19:53.081 --> 00:19:55.217
  • He led before he became a christian.
  • 00:19:55.217 --> 00:19:58.120
  • And he felt terribly guilty about these horrible thoughts
  • 00:19:58.120 --> 00:20:01.290
  • That would come into his mind,
  • 00:20:01.290 --> 00:20:02.891
  • And he asked an older christian for advice about what to do.
  • 00:20:02.891 --> 00:20:07.529
  • The older christian said, "martin,
  • 00:20:07.529 --> 00:20:09.631
  • You can't stop the birds from flying over your head,
  • 00:20:10.699 --> 00:20:14.336
  • But you can stop them from building a nest in your hair."
  • 00:20:14.336 --> 00:20:19.141
  • Pretty good advice.
  • 00:20:19.608 --> 00:20:21.276
  • We can't control all the time
  • 00:20:21.276 --> 00:20:23.045
  • What thoughts come into our mind,
  • 00:20:23.045 --> 00:20:24.680
  • But we have a choice.
  • 00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:26.381
  • We can either hold on to those thoughts,
  • 00:20:26.381 --> 00:20:28.283
  • Embellish those thoughts,
  • 00:20:28.283 --> 00:20:30.252
  • Until they metastasize into full-blown immorality,
  • 00:20:30.252 --> 00:20:34.156
  • Or we can confront those wrong thoughts
  • 00:20:34.156 --> 00:20:37.526
  • With the truth of god's word and dismiss them.
  • 00:20:37.526 --> 00:20:41.296
  • And that's exactly what paul had in mind,
  • 00:20:41.296 --> 00:20:43.732
  • 2 corinthians 10:5, when he said,
  • 00:20:43.732 --> 00:20:45.734
  • "we are taking every thought,"
  • 00:20:45.734 --> 00:20:48.937
  • Every bird that flies over our head,
  • 00:20:48.937 --> 00:20:50.639
  • "we're taking every thought captive
  • 00:20:50.639 --> 00:20:52.841
  • To the obedience of jesus christ."
  • 00:20:52.841 --> 00:20:56.812
  • You know, we have a great illustration of that in the bible
  • 00:20:56.812 --> 00:20:59.848
  • Through the life of jesus himself.
  • 00:20:59.848 --> 00:21:01.983
  • We're talking about survival tips.
  • 00:21:01.983 --> 00:21:04.720
  • Jesus was in the wilderness,
  • 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:07.589
  • Going through his own survival experience
  • 00:21:07.589 --> 00:21:09.925
  • For 40 days and nights after his baptism.
  • 00:21:09.925 --> 00:21:13.829
  • How did he resist the temptation of satan?
  • 00:21:13.829 --> 00:21:16.131
  • Turn over to luke 4 for just a moment.
  • 00:21:16.131 --> 00:21:19.201
  • Luke 4.
  • 00:21:19.201 --> 00:21:20.836
  • He had just been baptized,
  • 00:21:20.836 --> 00:21:22.437
  • Had a spiritual high moment in his life in the jordan river.
  • 00:21:22.437 --> 00:21:26.108
  • The clouds parted and the lord himself, god, jehovah said,
  • 00:21:26.108 --> 00:21:31.113
  • 'this is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased.'
  • 00:21:31.113 --> 00:21:34.916
  • And then,"
  • 00:21:34.916 --> 00:21:36.084
  • And then notice what happens,
  • 00:21:36.084 --> 00:21:37.686
  • Luke 4 says,
  • 00:21:37.686 --> 00:21:38.987
  • "and then the spirit led him in the wilderness
  • 00:21:38.987 --> 00:21:43.392
  • And he was tempted by satan."
  • 00:21:43.392 --> 00:21:47.028
  • Did you all see in the news this week
  • 00:21:47.829 --> 00:21:49.331
  • About the pope wanting to change the lord's prayer?
  • 00:21:49.331 --> 00:21:52.367
  • Did you all read about that?
  • 00:21:52.367 --> 00:21:53.835
  • He has approved the changing of the lord's prayer.
  • 00:21:53.835 --> 00:21:56.338
  • Now, i'm going to surprise you by this,
  • 00:21:56.338 --> 00:21:58.306
  • This is one of the few things
  • 00:21:58.306 --> 00:21:59.541
  • The pope has actually gotten right.
  • 00:21:59.541 --> 00:22:01.376
  • You know, i've been a big critic of the pope
  • 00:22:02.310 --> 00:22:03.745
  • And what he said about heaven and hell
  • 00:22:03.745 --> 00:22:05.414
  • And a number of other things,
  • 00:22:05.414 --> 00:22:07.015
  • But even a broken clock is right twice a day.
  • 00:22:07.015 --> 00:22:09.918
  • And he happened to be right on this thing.
  • 00:22:09.918 --> 00:22:13.188
  • You say, how can you say?
  • 00:22:13.188 --> 00:22:14.689
  • What he wanted to change was the translation that says,
  • 00:22:14.689 --> 00:22:16.858
  • "lead us not into temptation, but delivers from evil."
  • 00:22:16.858 --> 00:22:21.496
  • And he said, "you don't need to pray that
  • 00:22:21.496 --> 00:22:23.098
  • Because god never leads us into temptation."
  • 00:22:23.098 --> 00:22:27.335
  • That's what james 1 says.
  • 00:22:27.335 --> 00:22:28.470
  • "let no man say when he is tempted,
  • 00:22:28.470 --> 00:22:30.405
  • I am tempted by god,
  • 00:22:30.405 --> 00:22:31.840
  • For god does not tempt anyone,
  • 00:22:31.840 --> 00:22:33.675
  • He's not evil."
  • 00:22:33.675 --> 00:22:35.677
  • God tests us, but he doesn't tempt us.
  • 00:22:35.677 --> 00:22:39.247
  • A temptation is an enticement to do evil.
  • 00:22:39.247 --> 00:22:42.884
  • God never entices us to do evil.
  • 00:22:42.884 --> 00:22:45.787
  • A test is a difficult situation that strengthens our faith.
  • 00:22:45.787 --> 00:22:50.525
  • God wants to strengthen our faith.
  • 00:22:50.525 --> 00:22:52.794
  • Satan wants to destroy our faith.
  • 00:22:52.794 --> 00:22:55.697
  • And many times we find ourselves in a difficult situation.
  • 00:22:55.697 --> 00:23:00.035
  • And on one hand, you have satan who is rooting against us,
  • 00:23:00.035 --> 00:23:04.873
  • Praying that this difficult situation
  • 00:23:04.873 --> 00:23:07.175
  • Will destroy our faith,
  • 00:23:07.175 --> 00:23:09.311
  • But you have god also looking at our situation,
  • 00:23:09.311 --> 00:23:12.514
  • Rooting for us, cheering for us,
  • 00:23:12.514 --> 00:23:15.083
  • Enabling us,
  • 00:23:15.083 --> 00:23:16.852
  • Hoping that this situation
  • 00:23:16.852 --> 00:23:18.520
  • Will actually strengthen our faith.
  • 00:23:18.520 --> 00:23:21.556
  • And that's exactly what was going on in the wilderness.
  • 00:23:21.556 --> 00:23:24.359
  • Yes, the spirit had a reason
  • 00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:26.228
  • For jesus to go and allow satan to tempt him,
  • 00:23:26.228 --> 00:23:30.599
  • But god was rooting for his son,
  • 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:33.068
  • Knowing that a successful completion of these difficulties
  • 00:23:33.068 --> 00:23:37.205
  • Would authenticate him as the savior
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  • Who could take away the sin of the world.
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  • Satan was hoping that these temptations would break jesus
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  • And disqualify him as the messiah.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • In order to win the battle against our sinful nature,
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  • A hostile culture,
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  • And our very powerful adversary,
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  • We must employ the tools god has given to us,
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  • And the most important tool in our arsenal
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  • Is the word of god itself.
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  • Now, in closing today,
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  • Let me say thank you for your personal investment
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  • In the ministry of "pathway to victory".
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  • God is expanding our impact across the country
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  • And around the world
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  • And it's because of pathway partners
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  • And other faithful friends
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  • Who give generously to this ministry.
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  • Thank you for partnering with us
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  • As together we pierce the darkness
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  • 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 "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • Christians today are living in hostile territory.
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  • The attacks are real,
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  • 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,
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  • But to stand strong and thrive.
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  • In "courageous",
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  • You'll find 10 biblical survival strategies
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  • 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",
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  • I'll give you 10 biblical strategies to develop both
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  • And come out stronger on the other side.
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  • Request your copy of "courageous"
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  • When you give a generous ministry gift
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  • To "pathway to victory"
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  • Or when you become a pathway partner.
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  • And when your ministry gift is $75 or more,
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  • We'll send you the courageous leadership kit
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  • Containing the "courageous" book,
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  • The personal and group study guidebook,
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  • 10 courageous encouragement cards,
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  • Plus the complete teaching series on cd and dvd.
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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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  • Thank you for partnering with "pathway to victory".
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  • Your generosity funds the proclamation
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  • Of god's word across television, radio, and online,
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  • Bringing bold, biblical hope right here at home
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  • And around the world.
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  • God's word is more than a collection
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  • Of the ancient stories,
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  • It's a training manual for life.
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  • When crisis strikes,
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  • There's no time to start searching for answers.
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  • The preparation has to happen before the pressure does,
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  • But even the best trained believer will face opposition.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next in our series courageous.
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  • This word,
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  • It's not just words on a page,
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  • This word is life to us.
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  • And the goal is not to memorize verses
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  • So you can master a certain number of verses,
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  • The goal is to memorize verses
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  • So you can be mastered by those verses,
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  • So that when you come to that time in your life,
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  • When you enter that unforeseen turbulence,
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  • You can trust your training until you land safely.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For part two of survival tip number five:
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  • Trust your training
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  • Here on "pathway to victory".
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