Bible teacher Joyce Meyer shares timeless scriptural principles to show us how we can embrace the best God has for us each and every day of our lives.
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Joyce Meyer: Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer - How Faith Works (Part 1) | July 13, 2026
- >> joyce: god wants us to expect good things.
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- And boy, it makes the devil mad if you start doing that.
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- "i'm expecting something good to happen to me today."
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- You say, "well, what if it don't?"
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- "then i'm expecting something good to happen to me tomorrow!"
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- I'm joyce meyer,
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- And i believe that god can heal you everywhere you hurt.
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- >> joyce: well, thank you for joining me today on
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- "enjoying everyday life."
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- And i do believe that any time we hear the word of god,
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- It adds joy to our life.
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- And we can learn how to enjoy ordinary, everyday life--
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- Not have to have something special going on all the time.
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- I'm teaching on faith.
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- Today i'm going to talk about how faith works.
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- God spoke to me,
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- "release your faith and believe for miracles."
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- Are you beginning to see what i'm saying about how
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- There's miracles all around us, and we're just looking for
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- Something other than what we should be looking for?
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- And i want to encourage you, just watch some of the animal
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- Shows on tv or some of the--
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- Some of the scientific things.
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- I don't know how any scientist could be a scientist and
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- Disbelieve in god, and i'm not saying they do.
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- There's plenty that do believe in god, but
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- It just confirms faith.
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- It's like, wow,
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- How can--
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- Like i learned yesterday that an octopus has three hearts.
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- You say, "well, joyce, why does that increase your faith?"
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- "well, i didn't know anybody had three hearts."
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- It's just there's so many interesting and intriguing
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- Things that it just-- i always think of god and they make me
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- Feel closer to god.
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- That's why nature is so important.
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- It just bolsters our faith.
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- Isn't it?--
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- Isn't it amazing how every year in the winter everything dies?
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- And then in the spring, here, it all comes back again.
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- Well, first of all, i want to say that faith,
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- Is filled with expectation.
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- Real faith.
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- I mean, if you--if you had faith in me as a friend or
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- A minister and i said to you, "i'm going to--
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- I'll stop by your house and pick you up for church this week."
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- You would be ready,
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- Looking, expecting me to come.
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- Well, sometimes we put more expectation in people than we
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- Do in god.
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- And so when we ask god to do something, we need to be
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- Expecting it to happen, at any time.
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- Not have this wait-and-see attitude.
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- But this--yeah, wait and see it in your heart,
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- As being done.
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- Paul was in prison,
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- And he wrote to philemon and said, "prepare a guest room
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- [in expectation of extending your hospitality] to me,
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- For i am hoping through your prayers to be granted
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- [the gracious privilege of coming] to you."
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- So he's in prison writing to this guy,
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- Saying, "get ready for me to come and be a guest
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- At your house."
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- He wasn't planning to stay in prison.
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- See?
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- Be aggressive in your faith and your believing.
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- The bible says, "come boldly to the throne."
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- Not like a little mouse,
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- "oh, god, if you'll just do this one little thing."
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- God doesn't do little things. he does big things.
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- He does "exceedingly, abundantly above and beyond
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- All that we could ever dare to hope, ask, or think."
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- Isaiah 30:18 in the amplified bible is a very favorite
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- Scripture of mine.
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- It's a little bit long, so you have to focus.
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- "therefore, the lord, the lord [earnestly] waits,
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- [expecting, looking and longing]--"
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- That's what "waits" means--
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- "to be gracious to you--" which means good to you.
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- Everybody say, "god is waiting to be good to me."
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- >> audience: "god is waiting to be good to me."
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- "and therefore he lifts himself up, that he might have mercy on
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- You and show loving-kindness to you.
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- For the lord is a god of justice."
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- Now we're going to make a turn.
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- "blessed, (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) are all those
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- Who [earnestly] wait for him, who expect and look
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- And long for him."
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- So god's waiting to be good to somebody, but he can only be
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- Good to somebody that's waiting for him to be good to them.
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- "[for his victory--
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- Waiting for his victory, his favor, his love, his peace, his
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- Joy, and his matchless, unbroken companionship]!"
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- What can you make out of that and what it is?
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- God is waiting to find somebody to be good to, and he can only
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- Be good to those that are waiting for him
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- To be good to them.
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- I think sometimes we have gotten the idea that it would
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- Be wrong to expect god to do good things for us because
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- We're poor, miserable sinners
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- And don't deserve anything from god.
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- Well, "i don't deserve anything,
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- But jesus deserves everything and i'm a joint heir with him."
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- He's my big brother. takes care of me.
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- Amen?
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- And boy, have we got a good father.
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- Man, good, good father.
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- And then we have the privilege of having the holy spirit live
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- On the inside of us! wow!
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- Teaching us, guiding us, leading us.
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- Psalm 27:14 says, "wait and hope for
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- And expect the lord; be brave and of good courage
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- And let your heart be stout and enduring.
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- Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the lord."
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- And in verse 13, which i don't have printed here.
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- But david said, "[what, what would
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- Have become of me] had i not believed that i would
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- See the lord's goodness in the land of the living!"
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- What's going to happen to us if we're going to just have
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- Negative attitudes?
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- And, you know--
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- I mean, i remember a time in my life when i had so many bad
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- Things happen to me in my childhood,
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- I got to the point where i was negative and my attitude was,
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- "if you don't believe for anything good to happen,
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- Then you won't be disappointed when it don't."
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- And people can get like that.
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- You can have so many troubles that you just begin to expect
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- The next--
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- "when's the next shoe going to drop?"
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- So to speak.
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- But god wants us to expect good things.
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- And boy, it makes the devil mad if you start doing that.
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- "i'm expecting something good to happen to me today."
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- You say, "well, what if it don't?"
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- "then i'm expecting something good to happen to me tomorrow!"
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- >> [audience laughing]
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- >> joyce: it's not my job to make the good thing happen.
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- It's my job to expect and believe.
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- Amen.
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- At least then we're opening a door for god to be
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- Able to work.
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- Do you live with a joyful expectation?
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- Isaiah 40:31
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- "and they that wait upon the lord--"
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- I love this, every place where it says "wait," all those years,
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- I think i thought, i'm sure a lot of other people--
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- It just meant... "well, wait on god."
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- But every place--
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- That's why i love the amplified bible.
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- It brings things out that i wouldn't get otherwise.
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- But "wait, [expect, look for, and hope in him]--"
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- Every time you see "wait," that's what it means.
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- See, you're busy internally.
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- You're not running around in works of the flesh
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- Trying to make something happen.
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- You've prayed about it because you know
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- God's the only one that can make it happen.
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- And now you're expecting him and looking for him,
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- And you're confessing the word and meditating on the word
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- And studying the word and waiting for god
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- To show up.
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- You know, when i've prayed about something and it's been
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- A while and it hasn't happened, and the devil begins to say,
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- "well, nothing's happening,"
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- I will say out loud, "god is working
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- On this situation.
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- I prayed about it and god is working."
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- You know, god works, and then suddenly,
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- We see what he's been working on.
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- Especially if you are praying about something that
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- Involves other people.
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- You're already convinced. and he has to convince them,
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- And he's not going to bypass their free will to do it.
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- So sometimes he has to work with people.
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- "those that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength;
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- They shall mount up with wings as eagles;
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- They shall run and not be weary;
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- They shall walk and they shall not faint."
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- I read this just again in a book i'm reading.
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- I've shared this before, but a crow is the only
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- Bird dumb enough to pester an eagle.
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- And they will.
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- They'll even catch them in mid-flight and hop on their
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- Back and just try to irritate them.
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- The eagle doesn't fight with him at all.
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- He just keeps flying higher and higher and higher.
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- And there's a certain altitude at which the crow faints.
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- >> [audience laughing] >> joyce: because he doesn't--
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- He can't breathe in that altitude, but the eagle can.
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- He can go higher and higher.
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- So that's what it means, "you'll mount up with wings
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- As eagles, run and not be weary.
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- Walk and you shall not faint."
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- Amen.
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- There's only one thing that pleases god,
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- And that's faith.
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- "without faith it's impossible to please god
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- And be satisfactory to him.
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- For whoever would come near to god must [necessarily]
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- Believe that god exists, that he is,
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- And that he is a rewarder
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- Of those who earnestly and diligently seek him [out]."
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- "works done without faith are considered works of the flesh,
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- And they do not please god."
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- We really need to be able to discern when we're in works of
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- The flesh, and when god's grace
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- Is on us to do something.
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- Because when god's grace is with you to do something,
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- There's an ease to it.
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- I didn't say it makes it easy, but there's an ease to it.
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- And that's--you know, god wants us to live in that
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- Sabbath rest that he talks about in hebrews.
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- "there's a sabbath rest still awaiting
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- All you that are weary.
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- Come unto me, yoke yourself to me.
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- Learn how i do things."
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- And so we can have that rest if we learn how to do things
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- By god's grace.
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- Every single day, ask god for his grace.
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- It's by grace through faith.
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- And i can tell-- i'm sure many of you can too.
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- I can tell as soon as the grace is not on something anymore.
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- I can tell when--
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- You know, some people don't know when to quit,
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- And they'll just keep doing something.
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- You know, it's like pushing a dead horse uphill for 20 years.
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- It's like it just wears you out.
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- We shouldn't hear ourselves saying like,
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- "oh god, i am so tired of this. so tired of this."
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- Not if we're doing this thing the right way.
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- And--through your faith, you receive his grace,
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- Which is his power.
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- I say that grace is the power of the holy spirit to make
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- Easy, for me, what would be impossible without it.
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- Grace is power.
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- It's god's undeserved favor, but it's also the power
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- To do things, the power to accomplish things.
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- And the only way you get grace is through faith.
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- You put your faith in jesus.
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- "without faith, it's impossible to please god.
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- But whoever would come near to him must believe that he is,
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- And that he is the rewarder of those who earnestly
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- And diligently seek him [out]."
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- It's kind of interesting when you think about it.
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- God said, "you're not pleasing me without faith.
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- You must believe that i am,
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- And you must believe that i'm a rewarder."
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- See, god's got a good reputation.
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- He's a god who rewards. he's a god who does miracles.
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- He's a great god.
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- He's not a god that's just trying to keep every good
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- Thing from us. he wants us to have--
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- You know, i love where paul says in philippians 3 that
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- He wants to take hold of christ
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- For everything that christ took hold of him.
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- In other words, he's saying,
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- "jesus died not just so my name could be written in heaven,
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- But he died for us to enjoy life."
- 00:14:15.177 --> 00:14:17.680
- Jesus said, "i came that you might have and enjoy your life."
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- And then jesus said,
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- "i want my joy to be fulfilled in your hearts."
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- I wonder what kind of joy he had.
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- "i want my joy."
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- John 16:24 says, "ask and receive,
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- That your joy may be full."
- 00:14:36.231 --> 00:14:38.667
- You know how many times we struggle trying to make
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- Something happen, and all we need to do is ask.
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- Works done without faith are considered works of the flesh,
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- And they do not please god.
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- He knows we function best when we're filled with faith.
- 00:14:51.780 --> 00:14:54.783
- And here's a scripture that's a little bit ouchy.
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- Romans 14:23 says, "whatever is not of faith is sin."
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- That's-- that's a lot.
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- I'll read you the whole scripture.
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- "but the man who has doubts (misgivings, an uneasy
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- Conscience) about eating, and then eats--"
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- He's talking about, here, eating meat offered to idols.
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- That's not an issue for us, but it was a big issue for them.
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- "and then he eats [because of you],
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- Stands condemned [before god], because he is not true
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- To his convictions and he does not act from faith."
- 00:15:31.153 --> 00:15:34.890
- So, we apply that to everything.
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- I have to believe that what i'm doing is right.
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- Otherwise, i'm going to have a guilty conscience.
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- And so if i'm doing something and while i'm doing it,
- 00:15:45.501 --> 00:15:48.537
- I'm feeling like, "this isn't right."
- 00:15:48.537 --> 00:15:51.473
- This is where we get into trouble
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- If we're people pleasers.
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- Because a lot of times they'll talk us into doing things.
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- I don't know why everybody wants to run everybody else's life.
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- >> [audience laughing]
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- >> joyce: i mean, i'm busy enough with my own.
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- But they want us to do something and we don't want to
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- Lose their friendships.
- 00:16:18.300 --> 00:16:19.635
- So we do it, but we're not doing it by faith.
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- And this says that it's sin.
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- Faith has to be based on one thing and one thing only.
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- And that's god's word.
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- Don't try believing god for something that's not in here.
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- Every problem we have-- the answer to it, it's in here.
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- I believe that wholeheartedly.
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- You can't have a problem that you can't find the answer.
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- Maybe not, just-- "go do this."
- 00:16:44.026 --> 00:16:46.428
- But the heart of what you should do is in there.
- 00:16:46.428 --> 00:16:52.935
- "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god."
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- Romans 10:17.
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- And one of the things that can mean is--
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- Faith comes by hearing god, and hearing god comes from
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- Hearing the word.
- 00:17:09.551 --> 00:17:12.454
- See, when something really becomes real to you is when--
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- God makes it a revelation to you and not just information.
- 00:17:20.596 --> 00:17:25.000
- We're overloaded with information,
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- But we need revelation.
- 00:17:26.635 --> 00:17:29.004
- And one of the reasons why i think that is,
- 00:17:29.004 --> 00:17:31.206
- Is because we've got too many different things
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- Available to us, and we don't stick with any
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- One thing long enough for it to become a revelation.
- 00:17:36.678 --> 00:17:41.150
- So you can hear what i'm saying today, and i don't know--
- 00:17:41.150 --> 00:17:45.487
- Tonight or tomorrow night, maybe midweek church and you'll
- 00:17:45.487 --> 00:17:48.323
- Hear something different.
- 00:17:48.323 --> 00:17:49.758
- Sunday, you'll hear something else different, and then you'll
- 00:17:49.758 --> 00:17:52.561
- Watch 4 or 5 podcasts in the morning, you may watch me
- 00:17:52.561 --> 00:17:56.231
- And i'll be saying something different.
- 00:17:56.231 --> 00:17:58.333
- Do you understand what i'm saying?
- 00:17:58.333 --> 00:18:00.736
- And it's good to hear all the different words,
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- But if you know that you're struggling in an area,
- 00:18:03.071 --> 00:18:05.974
- You need to stick with that, maybe in your private studies,
- 00:18:05.974 --> 00:18:10.746
- You need to stick with that until you know
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- That it's a revelation to you, not just information
- 00:18:15.317 --> 00:18:19.121
- In your head that's not working.
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- Faith has a language.
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- Faith talks about what it's expecting,
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- Not the problems it has.
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- Faith is positive.
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- Fear is negative.
- 00:18:33.435 --> 00:18:36.738
- Hebrews 4:14: it says,
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- "inasmuch then as we have a great high priest who has
- 00:18:39.608 --> 00:18:43.145
- [already] ascended and passed through the heavens,
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- Jesus the son of god, let us hold fast
- 00:18:45.581 --> 00:18:48.283
- Our confession [of faith in him]."
- 00:18:48.283 --> 00:18:50.085
- "hold fast your confession of faith in him."
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- Especially confess your faith in him when
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- It looks like nothing's working and nothing's right.
- 00:18:58.894 --> 00:19:06.335
- Words are so powerful.
- 00:19:06.335 --> 00:19:09.338
- We could take just a minute or two and talk about words, right?
- 00:19:09.338 --> 00:19:14.243
- Proverbs 18:21.
- 00:19:14.243 --> 00:19:16.245
- "the power of life and death is in the tongue."
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- And those who speak those words have to eat them...
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- >> [audience laughing] >> joyce: "whether for
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- Life or death."
- 00:19:30.125 --> 00:19:32.928
- "well, you're going to eat those words someday."
- 00:19:36.198 --> 00:19:38.700
- Well, i think they came out of the bible.
- 00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:42.170
- There's a lot of things that people say that actually came--
- 00:19:42.170 --> 00:19:46.575
- They originated from the bible and people now they're just
- 00:19:46.575 --> 00:19:49.378
- Like slang words or comments.
- 00:19:49.378 --> 00:19:51.546
- "you're gonna eat those words."
- 00:19:51.546 --> 00:19:54.383
- That's not exactly god's tone when he says it to us.
- 00:19:54.383 --> 00:20:01.156
- But we do.
- 00:20:01.156 --> 00:20:04.092
- You know, people just get so-- some people, not all people.
- 00:20:04.092 --> 00:20:07.729
- But--
- 00:20:07.729 --> 00:20:09.531
- This thing about confessions, it just aggravates people.
- 00:20:09.531 --> 00:20:13.001
- "name it, claim it."
- 00:20:13.001 --> 00:20:13.902
- That is not what i am talking about.
- 00:20:13.902 --> 00:20:17.306
- And it's all over the bible.
- 00:20:17.306 --> 00:20:20.409
- "hold fast your confession of faith in him."
- 00:20:20.409 --> 00:20:23.912
- "call those things that be not as though they already existed."
- 00:20:23.912 --> 00:20:27.849
- We serve a god who calls things that be not.
- 00:20:27.849 --> 00:20:31.086
- He made everything we see out of something that you can't see.
- 00:20:31.086 --> 00:20:36.291
- Matthew 12 says, "make the tree sound (healthy and good),
- 00:20:39.728 --> 00:20:43.598
- And its fruit sound (healthy and good),
- 00:20:43.598 --> 00:20:45.567
- Or make the tree rotten (diseased and bad),
- 00:20:45.567 --> 00:20:47.803
- And its fruit will be rotten (diseased and bad)."
- 00:20:47.803 --> 00:20:50.439
- So it's basically saying that out of the heart,
- 00:20:50.439 --> 00:20:52.641
- The mouth speaks.
- 00:20:52.641 --> 00:20:54.910
- We can learn a lot about people by listening to them.
- 00:20:54.910 --> 00:20:59.581
- And i'll tell you when you can really learn a lot about people
- 00:20:59.581 --> 00:21:02.184
- And yourself; how you behave when you have trouble.
- 00:21:02.184 --> 00:21:07.055
- Sometimes you learn you're not the mountain of faith
- 00:21:10.292 --> 00:21:12.894
- You think you are.
- 00:21:12.894 --> 00:21:16.231
- "you offspring of vipers!
- 00:21:16.231 --> 00:21:19.768
- How can you speak good things when you're evil and (wicked)?
- 00:21:19.768 --> 00:21:23.004
- For out of the fullness (the overflow,
- 00:21:23.004 --> 00:21:25.006
- The superabundance of the heart),
- 00:21:25.006 --> 00:21:26.641
- The mouth speaks."
- 00:21:26.641 --> 00:21:28.310
- "oh, i didn't really mean it."
- 00:21:28.310 --> 00:21:31.346
- >> [audience laughing] >> joyce: that's what we say.
- 00:21:31.346 --> 00:21:34.483
- "i didn't really mean it. i didn't mean that."
- 00:21:34.483 --> 00:21:37.319
- Yeah, you did. it was somewhere in there.
- 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:43.458
- It wouldn't have come out.
- 00:21:43.458 --> 00:21:45.060
- "the good man from his inner
- 00:21:45.060 --> 00:21:46.528
- Good treasure flings forth good things,
- 00:21:46.528 --> 00:21:49.131
- And the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings
- 00:21:49.131 --> 00:21:52.901
- Forth evil things."
- 00:21:52.901 --> 00:21:54.269
- It's kind of like--poof. just, there it is.
- 00:21:54.269 --> 00:22:00.976
- You know, not only are we saved by faith,
- 00:22:00.976 --> 00:22:03.178
- But the bible says we're to "walk by faith."
- 00:22:03.178 --> 00:22:06.481
- I love what paul said.
- 00:22:06.481 --> 00:22:08.717
- He said, "it's no longer i that live.
- 00:22:08.717 --> 00:22:10.719
- I'm crucified with christ."
- 00:22:10.719 --> 00:22:13.088
- "it's no longer i that live, but the life i now live,
- 00:22:13.088 --> 00:22:16.958
- I live by faith,
- 00:22:16.958 --> 00:22:21.530
- In the son of god who died and gave himself up for me."
- 00:22:21.530 --> 00:22:24.800
- Do we live by faith or do we just
- 00:22:27.836 --> 00:22:31.706
- Enact our faith when we want something from god?
- 00:22:31.706 --> 00:22:36.878
- See, living by faith means you don't do things that go against
- 00:22:36.878 --> 00:22:39.881
- Your conscience.
- 00:22:39.881 --> 00:22:41.716
- And the scary thing is, is you can get a callous
- 00:22:41.716 --> 00:22:44.853
- And a hardened conscience if you continue
- 00:22:44.853 --> 00:22:48.657
- To purposely disobey god.
- 00:22:48.657 --> 00:22:50.859
- Something that you knew to be wrong in the beginning can get
- 00:22:50.859 --> 00:22:53.662
- To the point where it doesn't-- you don't feel it anymore.
- 00:22:53.662 --> 00:22:59.468
- 2 corinthians 5:7, "for we walk by faith
- 00:23:02.604 --> 00:23:05.173
- [we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our
- 00:23:05.173 --> 00:23:08.443
- Conviction or belief, respecting man's relationship
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- To god and divine things, with trust and holy fervor;
- 00:23:11.046 --> 00:23:14.483
- Thus we walk] not by sight or appearance."
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