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Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #5: Trust Your Training (Part 2)

July 17, 2026 | 27:30

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #5: Trust Your Training (Part 2) | July 17, 2026

(triumphant music)
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From the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am 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
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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 5:
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Trust your training"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory".
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(pleasant music)
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(pleasant music)
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♪ the sun was darkened and the heavens thundered ♪
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♪ and for a moment death had thought it conquered ♪
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♪ but it wasn't over 'til you said, it's over ♪
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♪ your word is greater still ♪
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♪ the perfect sacrifice, your body broken ♪
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♪ as you restored to us what sin had stolen ♪
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♪ once and for all you tore the veil wide open ♪
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♪ your power is stronger still ♪
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♪ all praise, all praise ♪
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♪ to the name above all names ♪
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♪ jesus, you reign ♪
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♪ 'cause you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ yes, you are ♪
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♪ you turned the grave into a new beginning ♪
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♪ our god is risen, you're alive and breathing ♪
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♪ oh there's nothing ♪
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♪ there's nothing that can rise ♪
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♪ against your victory ♪
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♪ oh your name is higher still ♪
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♪ your name is higher ♪
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♪ your name is higher still ♪
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♪ and all praise, all praise ♪
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♪ to the name above all names ♪
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♪ that's jesus ♪
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♪ you reign, you reign ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ and the cross still stands ♪
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♪ the blood still flows ♪
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♪ the work is finished and hell still knows ♪
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♪ that the grave is still empty ♪
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♪ the stone is still rolled ♪
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♪ and you're still high and lifted up ♪
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♪ you're still seated on the throne ♪
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♪ the cross still stands ♪
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♪ the blood still flows ♪
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♪ the work is finished and hell still knows ♪
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♪ that the grave is still empty ♪
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♪ the stone is still rolled ♪
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♪ and you're still high and lifted up ♪
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♪ you're still seated on the throne ♪
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♪ and all praise, all praise ♪
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♪ to the name above all names ♪
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♪ jesus ♪
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♪ you reign, you reign ♪
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♪ 'cause you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ hallelujah ♪
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♪ every voice will proclaim ♪
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♪ there is no higher name ♪
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♪ hallelujah ♪
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♪ age to age we will sing ♪
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♪ there is no higher name ♪
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♪ hallelujah ♪
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♪ every voice will proclaim ♪
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♪ there is no higher name ♪
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♪ hallelujah ♪
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♪ age to age we will sing ♪
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♪ there is no higher name ♪
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♪ all praise, all praise ♪
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♪ to the name above all names ♪
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♪ jesus ♪
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♪ you reign ♪
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♪ 'cause you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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♪ you're the name above all names ♪
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If you've ever felt
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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
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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
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Biblical strategies for standing strong,
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Strategies that will give you fresh fire
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Request your copy of "courageous"
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Turn over to luke 4 for just a moment.
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Luke 4.
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He had just been baptized,
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Had a spiritual high moment in his life
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In the jordan river.
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The clouds parted and the lord himself,
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God jehovah said, "this is my beloved son
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In whom i am well pleased."
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And then, and then notice what happens.
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Luke 4 says,
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"and then the spirit led him in the wilderness
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And he was tempted by satan."
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Did you all see in the news this week
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About the pope wanting
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To change the lord's prayer?
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Did you all read about that?
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He has approved the changing
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Of the lord's prayer.
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Now, i'm going to surprise you by this.
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This is one of the few things the pope
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Has actually gotten right.
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You know, i've been a big critic of the pope
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And what he said about heaven and hell
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And a number of other things,
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But even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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And he happened to be right on this thing.
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You say, "how can he say?"
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What he wanted to change
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Was the translation that says,
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"lead us not into temptation,
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But delivers from evil."
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And he said, "you don't need to pray that
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Because god never leads us into temptation."
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That's what james 1 says,
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"let no man say when he is tempted,
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'i am tempted by god,'
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For god does not tempt anyone.
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He's not evil."
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God tests us, but he doesn't tempt us.
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A temptation is an enticement to do evil.
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God never entices us to do evil.
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A test is a difficult situation
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That strengthens our faith.
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God wants to strengthen our faith.
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Satan wants to destroy our faith.
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And many times we find ourselves
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In a difficult situation.
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And on one hand you have satan
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Who is rooting against us,
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Praying that this difficult situation
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Will destroy our faith.
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But you have god also looking at our situation,
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Rooting for us, cheering for us,
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Enabling us, hoping that this situation
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Will actually strengthen our faith.
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And that's exactly what was going on
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In the wilderness.
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Yes, the spirit had a reason for jesus
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To go and allow satan to tempt him,
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But god was rooting for his son knowing
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That a successful completion
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Of these difficulties would authenticate him
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As the savior who could take away the sin
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Of the world.
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Satan was hoping that these temptations
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Would break jesus and disqualify him
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As the messiah.
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Now, we've been through these temptations before.
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Let me just remind you of them briefly
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Without dwelling on them.
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The first temptation was an appeal
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To jesus' physical appetites.
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After 40 days of not eating, he was hungry.
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Satan came and said to him,
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"if you are the son of god,
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Tell this stone to become bread."
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There was nothing that was wrong with eating.
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That's part of god's plan.
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But the temptation was to act apart from god
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And jesus would have none of it.
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He said, quoting from deuteronomy 8:3,
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"man shall not live by bread alone,
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But on every word that proceeds out
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Of the mouth of god."
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So satan came with a second temptation,
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An appeal to power.
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He said to him, "come up here with me
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On this mountaintop and let me
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Show you the kingdoms of this world.
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They will all belong to you
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If you will simply bow down and worship me."
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Interestingly, the kingdoms of the world
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Already belonged to jesus.
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He had temporarily relinquished it
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While he was on earth,
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But he would one day be the king of kings
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To whom everyone would bow
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And confess that he is lord overall.
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But this was a temptation
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To ignore god's timing for that to have it
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Now instead of later.
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"just worship me now and you can have it all."
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Jesus quoted from deuteronomy 6:13,
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As it is written,
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"you shall worship the lord your god
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And serve him only."
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Finally the third temptation and appeal to glory.
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Remember in verse nine,
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He takes jesus to the pinnacle of the temple
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And says, "just jump down from here
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And the angels will take care of you."
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And he actually quotes scripture.
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Did you know satan knows scripture?
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He quoted psalm 91,
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"for he will give his angels charge
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Concerning you to guard you
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And on their hands they will bear you up
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Lest you strike your foot against a stone."
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What he was basically saying is,
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"jesus, you don't have to go to the cross.
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If you want everybody to worship you
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As lord right now,
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Just prove that you are the son of god
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And you can escape the cross."
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And he quoted scripture
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To supposedly back out that claim.
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But jesus quoted from deuteronomy 6:13 that says,
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"you shall not put the lord your god
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To the test."
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And after that final unsuccessful try,
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Luke says that the devil left.
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He departed until a more opportune time arose.
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Don't ever fall into the trap of thinking
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Once you've successfully resisted temptation,
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You're home free.
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If you're in a lull right now in your life
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And you say, "well, i don't know
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What all this about testing is.
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I've been through tests before,
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But i'm over it now."
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Remember, if you're experiencing that lull,
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All satan is doing is reloading,
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Getting ready to come at you again.
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How did jesus repel the temptation of satan?
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He did it, notice each of the three times,
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He did it by quoting scripture.
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Now, i'm going to confess to you, i was a preacher
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For a long time before i ever even picked
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Up on this truth.
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How is it that the word of god
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Repelled satan's temptations?
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I know i'm going to date myself
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By sharing this with you,
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But how many of you remember the old
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Tv commercials for raid?
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Remember raid?
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The stuff you're supposed
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To spray to get rid of insects?
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It was an animated cartoon
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And in the cartoon,
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The bugs were having a party
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In somebody's kitchen.
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You know they had taken over
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When all of a sudden the big can of raid appears
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And remember what the bugs do,
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They yell out, "raid,"
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And they run in the opposite direction
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As fast and as far as they can.
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And i thought to myself,
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"that's kind of like the bible."
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You know, here's satan and his demons
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Wreaking havoc in our lives
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And we take out the bible
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And we start quoting the bible
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And the devil puts his hands
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Over his little pointed ears.
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I guess he has pointed ears, i don't know.
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And the devil shouts out, "bible,"
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And he runs in the opposite direction.
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And so the idea, it doesn't matter,
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You know, what verses you quote,
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Just start quoting the bible
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And satan runs away from you.
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Is that how it works?
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No, satan's not afraid of the bible.
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He's not afraid of bible.
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He knows the bible.
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He knows it better than you do or even i do.
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He can quote the scripture.
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The power of god's word is not
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What it does to satan, it's what it does for us.
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That's why jesus quoted scripture
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Not to make satan run away,
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But to give jesus the insight, the clarity,
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The strength he needed
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To say yes to god and no to satan.
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That is the power of the word of god.
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I have to point out this truth as well.
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Notice that jesus quoted from the same book
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Of the bible in each of those three instances,
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What was the book?
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"deuteronomy."
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"deuteronomy."
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Most of us give up on our,
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"read the bible in a year" program
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By the time we get to deuteronomy,
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If not before.
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When's the last
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Time you read the "book of deuteronomy"?
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Now i think about my old seminary professor,
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Howard hendricks.
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He was teaching a group of us one time
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And he said, "men,
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If your spiritual survival depended
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On how well you knew the 'book of deuteronomy'
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And were able to quote from it,
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How well would you do?"
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He paused a moment and then he said,
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"maybe that's why you're not doing so well
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In your own spiritual life."
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If knowing god's word,
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Hiding it in his own heart
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Was essential for jesus' spiritual survival,
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The perfect son of god,
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How much more important is it for you and for me?
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What is it that scripture does for us?
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It shows us what to do,
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How to behave in every situation.
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Remember this simple formula.
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Memorize god's word.
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Recall god's word.
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Obey god's word.
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That's how you train in righteousness.
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Let me just close today
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By giving you four practical tips
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For how to engage in your own
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Training program in god's word.
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How do you develop your own training program?
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Number one, have a scheduled time
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And plan for memorizing the bible.
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Set a time and a place
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Where you're going to meet with god every day.
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Maybe it's five minutes, maybe it's 10 minutes
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And maybe in the morning and maybe at night.
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There's no better time.
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Some people are morning people,
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Some people are night people.
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The key is commit to a time and place
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Where you're going to spend a few moments
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Reading god's word.
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You say, "well, how do i know what to memorize?"
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Here's a very practical suggestion.
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When you get home this afternoon,
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Google "the navigators",
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Great christian organization, "the navigators".
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They have a system
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Called the "topical memory system".
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You get about 52 little cards
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With scripture verses on them for anger,
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For temptation, for worry,
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An appropriate scripture verse
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For these different topics.
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And if you'll take one of those
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And memorize a verse a week in a year's time,
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You'll have your arsenal complete
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Of everything you need to recall when you go
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Through these times in your own life.
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You know jeff bridges, hollywood actor,
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One of my favorite actors,
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His father was lloyd bridges.
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You may remember lloyd bridges.
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But he was interviewed by rolling stone magazine
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And this academy award-winning performer,
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Jeff bridges, was asked
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What advice he wished he would've received
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At age 20.
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And he said, "actually, i did get the advice,
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I just didn't take it.
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My dad would say, 'it's all about habit, jeff.
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You got to get into good habits.'
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And i would say, 'no dad,
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You got to live each moment.
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Live it as the first one and be fresh.'
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And he says, 'that's a wonderful thought,
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But that's not who we are.
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We are habitual creatures.
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It's about developing these grooves.'
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As i age, i can see my dad's point."
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What you practice is what you become.
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We all have to work to develop these grooves
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Of righteousness in our life
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So that when we are assaulted,
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Not by wild geese like sully sullenberger,
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But we're assaulted unexpectedly
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By anger, by lust, by greed, by worry,
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We default, we go into that groove
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Of right acting.
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Again, how do you do that?
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Memorize god's word.
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Recall god's word.
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Obey god's word.
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Secondly, to develop your own
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Scripture training program, start small.
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You know, if you had not eaten for a month
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And i stumbled upon you,
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I probably wouldn't give you a 32 ounce
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T-bone steak to try to digest.
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No.
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If you've not been eating for a while,
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You need to start
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With small portions of god's word.
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Now, there's some of you who are close
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To starving the death spiritually.
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It's been so long
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Since you've been reading god's word
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That you don't even have a hunger for it anymore.
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If that's true, you've got to sit down
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For some forced feeding of god's word,
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But in small parts.
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For example, did you know most of the books
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Of the new testament, two thirds of them
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Could be read in less than 20 minutes.
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Start with a small book
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Like "philippians" or "james".
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That's very, very practical.
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If you can't handle a whole book,
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Just take a chapter.
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Here's some chapters you might want to consider.
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If you're facing a crisis, read psalm 46.
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If you're facing temptation in your life,
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Read james 1.
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If you're worried or concerned about finances,
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Read matthew 6.
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Start small.
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Third, read the verses out loud.
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There's something about especially
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These verses you're trying to memorize,
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Read them out loud.
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As you do that, it will help hide god's word
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In your heart.
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Finally, and so important,
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Remember the value of god's word.
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I was doing some cleaning
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In my office the other day,
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And in my desk drawer i found an old bank book,
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I mean a really old bank book.
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You remember when you used go to the bank
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And you'd go up to the window
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And you'd give them a check or your money
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And they would take your bank book
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And they would stamp it
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With the amount and the date
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And so forth of your deposit and so forth?
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Well, i found one of these old bank books
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And i looked through it,
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All the deposits i had made
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Through the years and the last entry
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Was may 29th, 1975
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When i withdrew everything i had in that account.
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I can't tell you today
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What i did with that money,
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But i can assure you it's no longer around.
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It's gone.
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I can't remember what i did with it,
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But that account was shut down.
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But there's another kind of deposit i've made
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Through the years.
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Memorizing scripture.
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And i can't tell you the dividends
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That it's paid in my life.
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Now, some of you break out into a cold sweat
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When you hear the word memorize.
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"oh, pastor, you just don't know.
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I can't memorize anything.
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I'm too old.
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I can't memorize anything."
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Let me ask you a question.
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If i gave you an assignment today
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And i said i want you this week
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To memorize philippians 1,
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And if you're able to do it by next sunday,
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I'll give you a hundred thousand dollars,
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How many of you think
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You could memorize philippians 1?
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Yeah, it's not a question of ability,
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It's a question of motivation, isn't it?
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And i want to tell you as god as my witness,
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Some of those verses i have memorized 20
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And 30 years ago have come back
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At just the right time
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And saved me from disaster
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That would've cost me a lot
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More than a hundred thousand dollars.
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And it wouldn't have only affected me,
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It would've affected those closest to me as well.
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That's the value of god's word.
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Remember it.
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Moses said it this way in deuteronomy 32:46,
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"take to your heart all the words
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With which i'm warning you today,
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Which you shall command your sons
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To observe carefully,
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Even all the words of this law,
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For it is not an idle word for you.
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Indeed it is your life."
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This word, 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
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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
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Until you land safely.
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That is the value of the word of god.
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(triumphant music)
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In order to win the battle
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Against our sinful nature, 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
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In our arsenal is the word of god itself.
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Now in closing today, let me say thank you
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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, the opposition is fierce,
00:24:27.122 --> 00:24:30.358
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", you'll find
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10 biblical survival strategies drawn straight
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From scripture that will give you fresh fire
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And real hope 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
00:24:52.948 --> 00:24:55.283
And a different perspective on life.
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In "courageous", i'll give you 10
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Biblical strategies to develop both
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And come out stronger on the other side.
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To "pathway to victory",
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Plus the complete teaching series on cd and dvd.
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As christians, we are living
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In a threatening environment.
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We have an adversary, the devil, whose intent
00:25:33.054 --> 00:25:35.991
On destroying everything important to us.
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Thank you for partnering
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With "pathway to victory".
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Your generosity funds the proclamation
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Of god's word across television,
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Biblical hope right here
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At home and around the world.
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God's word is more than a collection
00:25:55.910 --> 00:25:57.846
Of ancient stories.
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It's a training manual for life.
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When crisis strikes, there's no time
00:26:02.117 --> 00:26:04.285
To start searching for answers.
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The preparation has to happen
00:26:06.388 --> 00:26:07.956
Before the pressure does,
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But even the best trained believer
00:26:10.492 --> 00:26:12.193
Will face opposition.
00:26:12.193 --> 00:26:13.895
And next time we'll look at how
00:26:13.895 --> 00:26:15.263
To stand firm without snapping
00:26:15.263 --> 00:26:17.599
Under the weight of a hostile world.
00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:20.101
Stay tuned for a preview
00:26:20.101 --> 00:26:21.236
Of what's coming up next
00:26:21.236 --> 00:26:22.404
In our series, "courageous".
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You know, there's an african proverb that says,
00:26:25.073 --> 00:26:28.043
"the wind doesn't break the tree that bends."
00:26:28.043 --> 00:26:33.348
The key is to have enough elasticity in it
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To bend without breaking.
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We have another word for that elasticity.
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We call it resiliency.
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Set your dvr and join us
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Next time for "survival tip number 6:
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Bend, don't break"
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Here on "pathway to victory".
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(triumphant music)
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The apostle paul sailed these waters,
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Walked these streets,
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And the church was never the same.
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I'm inviting you to follow
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In paul's footsteps
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On the "pathway to victory
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Journeys of paul cruise"
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Through the stunning greek islands
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And the ancient ephesus
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And many other destinations as well.
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This is purposeful travel at its finest.
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The early bird discount ends july 31st.
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So act now.
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Call 888-280-6747,
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Or visit ptv.org.
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Robert Jeffress - Survival Tip #5: Trust Your Training (Part 2)

July 17, 2026 | 27:30

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