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Robert Jeffress - These Boots Were Made For Walking (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - These Boots Were Made For Walking (Part 2) | March 13, 2026

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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Dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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Every day you face choices that can either advance god's kingdom
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Or leave you vulnerable to satan's attacks.
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So how can you make the right decisions when temptation comes
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Your way?
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Today, i'm gonna to show you how understanding your god-given
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Purpose gives you the power to choose purity over immorality,
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Generosity over greed, and diligence over aimlessness.
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My message is titled, "these boots were made for walking" on
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Today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪♪♪
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♪ i waited patiently, waited upon the lord and then ♪
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♪ he turned to me for he heard every cry. ♪
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♪ my god lifted me out of the darkened pit, and set ♪
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♪ me on a rock where i have built my life. ♪
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♪ blessed are the ones who trust, who trust upon the ♪
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♪ lord and never turn away to any other god. ♪
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♪ no other one compares to all our god has done ♪
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♪ and all his plans for us. ♪
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♪ his love and faithfulness i'll share with every breath. ♪
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♪ i will not hide his name or righteousness within, ♪
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♪ though many troubles come my feet are on his word, ♪
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♪ so i will rest in him. ♪
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♪ he put a new song of praise in my mouth so i lift ♪
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♪ my hands as i am shouting it out. ♪
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♪ you are my help and my defender, ♪
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♪ you are my god and you are great. ♪
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♪ i will declare the lord's salvation, ♪
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♪ worthy is your name. ♪
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♪ may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you, ♪
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♪ may those who love your salvation ♪
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♪ continuously say, great is the lord. ♪
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♪ rejoice and be glad for the lord is great. ♪
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♪ rejoice and be glad for the lord is great. ♪
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♪ rejoice and be glad for the lord is great. ♪
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♪ you are my help and my defender, you are my god ♪
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♪ and you are great. ♪
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♪ i will declare the lord's salvation worthy is your name. ♪
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♪ you are my help and my defender, you are my god ♪
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♪ and you are great. ♪
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♪ i will declare the lord's salvation worthy is your name. ♪
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♪ worthy is your name. ♪
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♪ worthy, worthy, worthy, you are worthy, worthy, ♪
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♪ worthy you are worthy, worthy is your name, your name. ♪
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♪ worthy you are worthy, worthy is your name, your name. ♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Announcer: whether you know it or not, you're in a battle.
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Satan has a strategy to attack your faith, disrupt your family,
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And derail your future.
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But god has given you everything you need to fight back and win.
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In "the divine defense," dr. robert jeffress reveals
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Six practical strategies from ephesians chapter 6 to defeat
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Satan's destructive plan.
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When you put on the full armor of god, satan doesn't have
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A prayer.
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Request "the divine defense" when you give a generous
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Ministry gift to "pathway to victory."
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Jeffress: understanding your life purpose
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Is a great deterrent to immorality.
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It helps you make the daily choice to choose purity
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Over immorality.
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But that's not the only trap that a christian has to avoid.
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Choosing to make evangelism, sharing christ your priority
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Helps you in choosing generosity over greed.
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You know, the bible uses the word snare as something
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A christian ought to avoid.
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It's a trap set for an animal.
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And different bait is used to attract different kinds
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Of animals.
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They're not all attracted by the same thing.
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For some people, immorality isn't that big of a temptation.
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But greed is an obsession with material possession, a
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Preoccupation with money, and it's just as dangerous of a
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Snare as immorality.
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You know, the bible says there are a number of reasons people
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Become preoccupied with money.
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Sometimes they become fixated on money because they appreciate
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The luxuries that money can purchase.
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A fine house, a fine car, fine clothes.
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Other people become enamored with money because they think
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It's their passport to independence.
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They can do what they want to, when they want to, when they
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Have a pile of money.
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Landrum lovell was the president of new orleans seminary for
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Many years.
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He was a great friend of mine and our family, and i remember
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He told me one time about a preacher friend of his who had a
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Goal of accumulating $1 million.
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That's all he could think about was having $1 million.
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And one day, landrum asked him, "bill, why are you so fixated on
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Having a million dollars?"
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He said, "because landrum, as soon as i get that million
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Dollars, i'll be able to tell my deacons to go straight to hell."
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Now, god usually doesn't bless that kind of a goal.
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But that was his idea.
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Money could give him independence.
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Maybe you had the thought that if i can just get this amount of
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Money, i can tell my employer to take my job, and you know how
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The rest of the song goes.
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Some people worship money because of the independence it
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Gives them.
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Other people become enamored with money because they believe
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It's the key to protection from adversity in their life.
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They think a lot of money can spare them from illness or spare
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Them from unemployment.
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That's only in their imagination.
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You know, proverbs 18, verse 11 is a great verse to memorize for
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Those who are inclined to worship money.
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Solomon said, "a rich person's wealth is his strong city and
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Like a high wall in his own imagination."
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You're under an illusion if you think money can protect you from
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Every adversity.
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No amount of money can protect you against a single cell in
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Your body that begins to multiply and metastasize.
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No amount of money can protect you from a lawsuit that wipes
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Out everything you have.
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And money certainly can't protect you from the greatest
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Crisis we all face one day, and that is death.
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That's why paul said in 1 timothy 6, verses 9 and 10, "but
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Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare,"
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There's that word, a trap, "and many foolish and harmful desires
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Which plunge men into ruin and destruction.
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For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and
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Some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and
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Pierced themselves with many griefs."
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A focus on material possessions destroys our desire for god, our
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Dependence on god, our trust in god.
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How do you break that fixation with money that some
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People have?
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Many of you may know the name of bob buford.
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He was a very successful cable tv executive in east texas, made
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Millions and millions of dollars, but halfway through his
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Life, he decided god was leading him to make a change.
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He wanted to move from a life of success to a life
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Of significance.
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And out of that journey, he wrote the book "halftime" that
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Many of you have read, and he describes that journey from
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Success to significance.
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The first thing he did was hire a consultant who had worked for
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Coca-cola and the xerox to help him map out the second half of
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His life.
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And after a few hours, this consultant said to bob, "bob,
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You've been talking for a couple of hours now, and i still can't
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Decide what your real focus in life is.
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Is your focus money or is it jesus christ?
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I can't decide which it is.
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The fact is, if you will tell me which one is your focus, i can
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Help you develop a plan to meet that purpose.
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But as long as you're oscillating between the two,
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You're going to be confused."
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That's exactly what jesus said in matthew chapter 6.
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You can't have more than one focus in life.
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You can't have more than one priority.
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Did you know the word priority technically can't be in the
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Plural form?
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It can only be singular.
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You can only have one priority.
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You can't have priorities.
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You can have different interests, but there is
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One priority.
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Jesus said the same thing in matthew 6.
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He said, "do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
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Where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in
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And steal.
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But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
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Neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break
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In and steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart
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Will be also."
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Star that in your bible.
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Verse 24, he goes on to say so "no one can serve two masters;
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For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will
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Be devoted to one and despise the other.
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You cannot serve god and wealth."
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What's the antidote to becoming fixated on money?
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Verse 33 of matthew 6, jesus said, "but seek first god's
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Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be
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Added to you."
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Connecting yourself to god's kingdom's purpose will
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Dramatically change your attitude about money.
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In the previous church i served in, we got involved in a
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Building program to build a new worship center, and we had the
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Campaign and encourage people to give.
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One of the men who was in that campaign, one of the leaders in
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The church, gave a significant portion of his net worth to the
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Building of that new worship center.
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About a year into the construction project, he told me
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One day, he was laughing when he said it.
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He said, "you know, pastor, i used to have a morning routine.
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I would get up and drink a cup of coffee, then i would open up
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The newspaper and read the stock market report."
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He said, "but now, since this building project, my new routine
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Is, i get up, i have a cup of coffee, and i drive down to the
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Church and watch those bulldozers working in that
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Construction pit, because that's where my money is now."
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You know, it was mark twain who said, "put all your eggs in one
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Basket and then watch the basket."
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Now, that's a humorous comment, but it's really unnecessary
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Because the fact is, wherever we put our eggs, that's where our
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Attention is going to be.
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We put our affections wherever our treasure is.
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That's what jesus said, "for where your treasure is, there
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Your heart will be also."
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He didn't say "where your heart is, your treasure will be."
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That's kind of understood.
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But where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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If your treasure is invested mainly in your home, guess what
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You're gonna be focused on.
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You're gonna be focused on the housing market.
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Is it up? is it down?
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How's my investment doing?
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If the majority of your investment is in the stock
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Market, you're gonna be watching the dow jones industrial average
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Every day.
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If you play it safe and you put it in the bond market, you're
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Gonna be watching interest rates, whether they're up
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Or down.
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But when you invest in god's kingdom, that's where your
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Attention is, that's where your heart is.
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I gave you a little chart there to help you understand how
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That works.
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Your purpose determines your investments, and your
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Investments determine your affections.
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Our purpose ought to seek first god's kingdom and
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His righteousness.
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If that's your real purpose, then your investment will be
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Laying up for yourself treasures in heaven.
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And when you make that investment, your affections
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Follow, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be
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As well.
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Now, understand what we're saying.
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When you understand your life purpose to spread the gospel to
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As many people as possible, then it helps you make
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Important decisions.
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It makes you, it makes easier the decision to choose purity
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Over immorality.
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It makes it easier to choose generosity over greed, and
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Thirdly, it helps you make the choice of diligence
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Over aimlessness.
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You know, purpose is to our life what a skeleton is to our body.
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You have to have a skeleton on which to shape and hang every
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Other vital organ in the body.
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So it is with your purpose.
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Having a clearly defined purpose helps you determine every area
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Of your life, including how you spend your time.
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One popular writer expresses it this way.
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He said, "for years, all my daily energy was spent trying to
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Beat the trials in my life and arrange for a little pleasure.
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My weeks were wasted away either striving or indulging.
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I was a mercenary.
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A mercenary is a soldier who fights for pay for his
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Own benefit.
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His life is devoted to himself, but the quality of a true
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Warrior is that he is in service to a purpose greater than
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Himself, that is, to a transcendent cause."
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Ladies and gentlemen, when you grasp, i mean you really grasp
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That god has not just saved you, he's enlisted you in his service
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For the greatest purpose in the world, it will determine how you
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Spend your time, what you eat, where you invest your money, it
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Impacts every part of your life.
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And just as a soldier in battle or an athlete in a competition
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Trains his body to maximum performance, the christian who
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Understands his purpose in life will discipline his body to be
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His slave rather than his master.
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Now think about this.
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Your physical body can either be your greatest asset or your
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Greatest liability in fulfilling your great purpose in life.
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Paul understood that.
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Listen to his words in romans 6, verses 15 to 19.
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"what then?
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Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?
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May it never be!
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Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as
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Slaves for obedience, you are slaves to the one whom
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You obey."
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If you wanna know what you're a slave to, just ask yourself,
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What am i doing?
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What am i obeying?
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Whom am i following?
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"we are slaves of the one we obey, either of sin resulting in
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Death or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
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But thanks be to god that though you were once slaves of sin, you
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Have become obedient from the heart to that form of teaching
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To which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you
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Are now slaves of righteousness."
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Paul says verse 19, "i'm speaking in human terms because
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Of the weakness of your flesh.
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But just as you presented your members," the parts of your
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Bodies, "as slaves to iniquity, and purity, and the lawlessness,
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Resulting in further lawlessness, so present your
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Members as slaves to righteousness, resulting
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In sanctification."
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Here's the jeffress's paraphrase: your body is either
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A slave to sin or it's a slave to righteousness.
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You decide.
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Everyday you decide how you're gonna use your body.
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Your body can be the greatest asset or the greatest liability
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In achieving your life purpose, your god-given purpose.
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Think about your voice for a moment, your voice box.
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You can use it however you want to.
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Your voice can be a tool that god uses to lead people to faith
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In jesus christ, or your voice can be an instrument that is
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Used to tear down, discourage another person.
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Your hands can be used in a number of ways.
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Your hands can be used to open the word of god, to give you the
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Spiritual nourishment you need.
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Or your same hands can be used to access an internet site that
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Will destroy, quench your love for god.
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Your feet, your feet can take you to all kinds of places.
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Your feet can be used to take you to the front lines of
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Christian ministry or they can take you deep into the enemy's
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Camp, where you're seduced and destroyed.
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It was that realization that his body could be his greatest asset
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Or his greatest liability in serving god.
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It's that realization that caused paul to write these words
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In 1 corinthians 9:26-27.
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"therefore, i run in such a way as not without aim; i box in
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Such a way, as not beating the air; but i discipline my body
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And make it my slave, so that, after i've preached to others,
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I myself might not be disqualified."
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You know what paul's greatest fear was?
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That after all of his sacrifice, after all his time and energy in
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Spreading the gospel, that the end of his life he would make
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One mistake.
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One stumble, one fall that would discredit his witness forever.
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And paul knew that was a possibility.
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He knew that he had an old nature, though defeated at the
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Cross, was still active.
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He had that old nature that pulled him towards sin
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Continually, and the only way he could have victory over his body
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Was to remind his body constantly who's in charge.
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Sacrificing to discipline his body for the purpose of
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Godliness and not godlessness.
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We have to discipline ourselves.
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We have to remind our body who is in control.
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One of my favorite seminary professors used to say to us
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Regularly, he said, "man, make it a habit to say no to at least
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One thing every day just to remind your body who's
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In charge."
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We need to learn to do that.
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We need to remind our body constantly who's in charge.
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That saying no to something may be saying no to a second piece
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Of dessert you'd like to have.
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Not because it's sinful, but just to remind your body who's
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In control.
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It may be turning off the television to spend time in
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God's word, not that there's anything sinful about watching
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Television, but occasionally to remind your body who's
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In charge.
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It may mean closing that "sports illustrated" magazine or
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Shutting down that website, not because you're reading anything
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Wrong, not because you're looking at the swimsuit edition,
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But because you were interested in sports.
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Nothing wrong with that, but now occasionally you just have to
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Turn it off, close the pages to remind your body who is
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In charge.
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And here's the main point paul is making.
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You will never have the motivation to discipline
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Yourself for godliness unless you have your purpose clearly
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In mind.
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Otherwise you're boxing in the air, you're like an athlete
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Who's training with no game in sight or a soldier who's
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Disciplined himself when there's no enemy in sight.
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You know, an athlete can only keep that up for so long.
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An athlete will only train for so long without a game
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Coming up.
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A soldier won't discipline himself forever unless
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Eventually he becomes engaged in a battle or sees one on
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The horizon.
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So it is with us and our life purpose.
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We will never discipline ourselves for godliness until we
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Understand our purpose in life.
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Eventually, if we don't understand our purpose in life,
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We'll give up on discipline and we'll give in to sin.
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Paul's point is a very clear one.
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Knowing your life purpose is the key not only to spreading the
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Gospel, but protecting yourself from the attacks of the
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Evil one.
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I love the way the phillips paraphrase renders ephesians
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5:15 through 17.
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Listen to this.
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Paul said, "live life, then, with a due sense of
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Responsibility, not as people who don't know the meaning and
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Purpose of life, but as those who do.
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Make the best use of your time, despite all the evils of
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These days.
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Don't be vague but grasp firmly what you know to be
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The will of god."
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Jeffress: understanding your life purpose will transform how
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You live every single day.
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When you truly grasp that god created you for an eternal
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Purpose, you'll find that daily temptations and distractions
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Lose their power over you.
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Now, before we wrap up today's program, i want to express my
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It is a battle that seeks to destroy your faith, your family,
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Jeffress: when you grasp that god has created you for an
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Eternal purpose, the daily battle against temptation
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Becomes much easier to win.
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Your purpose gives you the resolve to say no to sin and yes
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To what matters most.
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Well, understanding your purpose is essential, but how do you
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Actually live it out in your everyday life?
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Next time, we're going to get practical.
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Help you make god's business your business in everyday life.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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Series, "the divine defense."
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Jeffress: how does making god's business, your business, help
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You defeat satan's attack to destroy you?
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Well, it gives us an incentive to choose purity
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Over immorality.
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It helps us choose generosity over greed.
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It helps us choose discipline over aimlessness.
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"well, pastor, how do you exactly go about that?
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How can you make god's purpose, god's business, your business?"
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Set your dvr and join us next time for the message, "booting
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Robert Jeffress - These Boots Were Made For Walking (Part 2)

March 13, 2026 | 27:29

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