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Touching Lives with James Merritt | James Merritt - Prayer 301 | January 26, 2025
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- Male announcer: welcome to the international broadcast ministry
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- Of "touching lives" with dr. james merritt.
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- Here at "touching lives," our mission is to touch the lives of
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- The lost and enrich the faith of the found.
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- And now here is pastor, author, and speaker, dr. james merritt.
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- ♪♪♪
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- James merritt: if you google the word "list," and i'm a google
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- Guy, but if you google the word "list," you'll find the most
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- Popular list on google or what is called top 10 list.
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- And that really shouldn't surprise you in a way because in
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- A way if you think about it, 10 is kind of a, it's kind of a
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- Magical number.
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- So for example, go back to your childhood.
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- The first thing you learn to do as a child mathematically is you
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- Learn to count to 10.
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- Most humans have 10 fingers and 10 toes.
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- God in his wisdom gave us 10 commandments.
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- You count large numbers in multiples of 10.
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- If you are a football fan of which, as you know i am, you
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- Want your team to be one of the top 10 teams at the end of the
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- Season, you want your team to have a top 10 recruiting class.
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- If you want to gain a first down, you've got to go 10 yards.
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- So i don't know what it is, but there's just something kind of
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- Magical and different about the number 10.
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- Well, i'm gonna put a top 10 list up here right now.
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- I want you to read them, each one, and i want you to see
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- If you can figure out what is this list?
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- What is this top 10 list all about?
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- So just bear--
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- Well, i think most of you have figured it out.
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- First, inflation; number two, the affordability of
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- Health care.
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- Number three, the ability of democrats and republicans to
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- Work together.
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- Number four is drug addiction, which may be why we have drug
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- Addiction because they can't get along, gun violence.
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- Number five, violent crime, the federal budget deficit, the
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- State of moral values, illegal immigration and the quality of
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- Public k-12 schools.
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- What do you think that list comprised of?
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- It's what we're worried about.
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- Those are the top 10 things that americans are saying today,
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- "that's what worries us."
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- This is what keeps us awake at night.
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- This is what makes us walk the floor.
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- Now, if you're one of those rare birds and you're sitting there
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- And you're saying, "none of those things worry me."
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- No worries.
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- There are a lot of other things you can worry about.
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- Let me give you an example.
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- You like to be out in the sun?
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- Well, just a word of caution.
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- It does cause skin cancer.
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- You like working in a nice, plush office?
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- Did you know in most office buildings, there are vents that
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- Are blowing these lung clotting mold spores that can give
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- You cancer?
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- You like potato chips?
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- They got too many carbs.
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- You like vegetables, they got too many toxins.
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- I mean, without even--i mean, prime ribs got too much fat.
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- So without even trying, i mean, people will give you things to
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- Worry about.
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- Now, if you are one of those weirdos who say, "i don't worry
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- About anything."
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- You worry me, i'm worried about you.
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- I just don't understand people that don't ever worry
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- About anything.
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- As a matter of fact, if you say i'm not worried about anything,
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- You should be worried about yourself.
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- You need therapy, you need help.
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- Now, if you're like me and the vast majority of you are, i'll
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- Be honest.
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- Worry is a problem.
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- There's something pastors have trouble with and we have to work
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- On it.
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- I've got to work at all my ministry because, you know,
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- We--although i don't--i'm not clark kent, and i don't become
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- Superman on sunday.
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- I don't have a red phone next to my desk.
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- It's a hotline to god any more than you do.
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- I shop at walmart and go to kroger just like you do.
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- We do subliminally think we can't let our guard down.
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- We don't let people think there's any chink in our arm--
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- You know, after all i'm the pastor.
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- Well, i wanna be very transparent.
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- My achilles heel is worry.
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- That's my emotional achilles heel.
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- I've been a worrier all of my life.
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- My mom was a worrier.
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- I'm not saying it's hereditary.
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- My mom was a worrier.
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- I am a worrier.
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- As a matter of fact, there are times in my life that i get to a
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- Point when i'm not worried and then i'm worried that i'm
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- Not worried.
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- So, i mean, i'm just telling you, worry is a problem and as
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- You get older, it doesn't really get better.
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- So if you're one of those people that maybe you wake up worried
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- And during the day you walk in worry and then at night you go
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- To bed worried.
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- Don't worry because this message is for you and for me and i am
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- So grateful that jesus had a lot to say about worry.
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- As a matter of fact, in the greatest sermon that he
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- Ever preached--
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- If you're a guest of ours today, by the way, we've been in this
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- Series, i hope you've enjoyed as much as i have that we're
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- Calling "get used to different."
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- It is on the greatest sermon ever preached, which is the
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- Sermon on the mount.
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- And what's very interesting is you would have never
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- Thought this.
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- But before jesus preached this sermon, if you'd said to jesus,
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- "what portion of the message will be the longest portion?
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- What will you talk about the most in that message?"
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- It's worry.
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- This is the biggest portion of the sermon on the mount.
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- And evidently jesus knew that he--we're going to have an issue
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- With worry.
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- So if you brought your booklet, many of you bring your booklets.
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- Now, just turn to matthew chapter 6, and before we get
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- Into what jesus says about worry, let me clarify one
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- Difference because i don't want you to misunderstand what
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- Worry is.
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- Let me tell you what i'm not talking about, all right?
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- There's a difference between worry and concern.
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- For example, if you're a parent, you ought to be concerned if you
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- Have a prodigal child.
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- You ought to be concerned that your child is getting a
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- Quality education.
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- You ought to be concerned that your kids are hanging around
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- With the right kids.
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- You know, you ought to be.
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- If you're wanting to get married, if you're thinking
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- About getting married, you're single, you ought to be
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- Concerned about finding the right person, finding a godly
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- Husband, finding a godly wife.
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- So finding somebody that really means that when they say one
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- Day, "till death do us part sickness or in health or
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- Whatever, we're in this for the long haul."
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- If you desire to retire someday, you ought to be concerned about
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- Saving enough money so you can have an income in your
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- Twilight years.
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- So i want you to understand there's a difference between
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- Worry and concern.
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- So to really make it simple for you to understand, let me put it
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- To you this way, a worried person sees a problem.
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- A concerned person does something about it.
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- A worried person sees a problem but a concerned person solves
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- The problem.
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- And by the way, let me just before i get into anything else,
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- Let me just kinda skip ahead and just kind of get you
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- To think about something during this message.
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- There are really only two things you can worry about, not that
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- You should, but there's only two things you can; you can worry
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- About things you can't control and you can worry about things
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- You can.
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- Now just think about this for a minute.
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- If you're worried about something right now and you have
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- No control over it, why are you worried?
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- Can't do anything about it?
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- Now, if you're worried about something you can't control, why
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- Are you worried?
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- Don't do something about it.
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- So when you think about it, there's really nothing we should
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- Worry about.
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- And i know you know that and you know i know that but it's still
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- Difficult to overcome.
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- So as we listen to this advice from jesus, who, by the way, not
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- Only tells us why we shouldn't worry, but he is absolutely the
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- Greatest reason we should not worry.
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- I'll be the first to admit--i'm gonna be honest.
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- It's a lot easier to talk about overcoming worry than it is to
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- Overcome it.
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- Matter of fact, again, i'm gonna be very transparent.
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- I'm real worried right now.
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- What are you worried about?
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- I'm worried that my sermon won't help you quit worrying.
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- So i'm already worried.
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- I'm concerned.
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- I mean, i really am worried.
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- So i wanna start today with the simple truth that jesus is gonna
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- Teach us today.
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- Very simple.
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- Here's what jesus is gonna say.
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- "the trouble with worry is it's not worth the trouble."
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- That's the trouble.
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- The trouble with worry is it's not worth the trouble.
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- I wanna give you three very simple reasons why.
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- None of this is profound.
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- You probably have heard this somewhere before.
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- You probably know it before you need to say something more than
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- Once to really get it down.
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- So if you are a worry wart and, by the way, i don't want you to
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- Have to raise your hand because everybody'll look at you and
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- Wonder what are you worried about.
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- But if you are worried about something right now, i don't
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- Know what it is.
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- But you said, boy, you--i need this, okay?
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- You need to write these three things out and you need to
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- Remember these.
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- They will help you go to sleep tonight.
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- Number one, jesus said, worry is unreasonable.
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- Worry is unreasonable.
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- Now, i want you to notice something up front about
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- This passage.
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- Jesus repeats three words and he repeats it three times.
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- We're in matthew chapter 6 verse 25.
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- "therefore i tell you."
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- Everybody say that out loud.
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- "do not worry."
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- But then he says it again.
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- "so do not worry."
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- Third time.
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- Therefore--now three times, jesus says, "do not worry."
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- Now, i think you would agree that if jesus says something one
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- Time, you take it to the bank.
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- But now jesus says something three times, you better perk up,
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- You better pay attention, you better sit up and listen.
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- Now, why do you think jesus said three times, "do not worry, do
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- Not worry, do not worry?"
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- Again jesus is the brilliant psychologist, the
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- Master psychiatrist.
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- He knows exactly what he's doing.
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- The reason i believe why jesus said do not worry three times is
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- Because there are three days we worry about all the time.
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- We worry about yesterday, we worry about today and we worry
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- About tomorrow.
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- We worry about them all the time.
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- We worry about yesterday, we worry about today, we worry
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- About tomorrow.
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- For example, there's some of you right now, you're worried
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- About yesterday.
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- I just got a text just before i walked into this building.
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- I just got a text from a man who underwent cat scan and an mri on
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- His brain and he is worried about the results of that
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- Cat scan.
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- He's worried about something that actually took place
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- Yesterday, or actually, like, this past friday.
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- He had the mri of the cascade.
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- He's worried about yesterday.
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- The fender bender.
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- Maybe you got into a fender bender this past week.
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- You're worried about that fender bender.
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- Maybe you made a mistake at work or your boss got on to you.
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- So you're afraid you might lose your job.
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- It happened yesterday.
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- Well, let me just stop right there.
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- Let's just take yesterday for a moment.
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- I want you to consider how you can use yesterday to help you
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- Face today and tomorrow when it comes to worry, okay?
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- So here's the simple question i want to ask you--i want you to
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- Ask yourself right now.
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- I want you to ask yourself this question.
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- I'm here now, right?
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- I mean, you are here right now.
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- So, i mean up, to this moment yesterday has not taken you out.
- 00:11:36.945 --> 00:11:41.883
- And the point is if god could take care of you
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- Yesterday, don't you think god can take care of you today?
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- I mean, before you were born, think about this, before you
- 00:11:50.859 --> 00:11:55.563
- Were born god took care of you.
- 00:11:55.563 --> 00:11:59.601
- Every day you live, god is taking care of you.
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- When you come to the end of your life, god will still be taking
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- Care of you.
- 00:12:07.275 --> 00:12:08.610
- See, your life is kind of like two covers of a book and every
- 00:12:08.610 --> 00:12:12.547
- Page in between has god's name written on it.
- 00:12:12.547 --> 00:12:15.083
- So from the cradle to the grave, god was there, god is there and
- 00:12:15.083 --> 00:12:20.555
- God will always be there taking care of you.
- 00:12:20.555 --> 00:12:23.825
- Now, jesus knows--even he knows.
- 00:12:23.825 --> 00:12:26.127
- You know what, i can tell you till i'm blue in the face.
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- Do not worry, do not worry, do not worry.
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- Don't worry about yesterday, don't worry about today.
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- Don't worry about tomorrow.
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- Jesus knows i can tell you till
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- I'm blue in the face and "i'm jesus," but you're still going
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- To worry.
- 00:12:42.343 --> 00:12:43.678
- So jesus says, let me just give you a couple of practical
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- Examples why you should not worry.
- 00:12:46.815 --> 00:12:50.018
- Let me just show you how unnecessary worry is.
- 00:12:50.018 --> 00:12:53.755
- And then again, jesus is so brilliant.
- 00:12:53.755 --> 00:12:57.058
- Jesus says, let me tell you what i want you to if you were in his
- 00:12:57.058 --> 00:12:59.694
- Office right now and he was counseling you, he was trying to
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- Tell you how, you know, to get rid of worry.
- 00:13:02.497 --> 00:13:05.233
- Here's what he would do.
- 00:13:05.233 --> 00:13:06.768
- He would take you to a window and he'd say just look out
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- The window.
- 00:13:10.505 --> 00:13:11.840
- So here's what he says, "look at the birds of the air, they do
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- Not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly
- 00:13:15.410 --> 00:13:20.915
- Father feeds them.
- 00:13:20.915 --> 00:13:22.283
- Are you are not much more valuable than they?"
- 00:13:22.283 --> 00:13:26.855
- Now it's raining today and i understand that kind of dreary.
- 00:13:26.855 --> 00:13:30.525
- But maybe today when you get home and you're worried about
- 00:13:30.525 --> 00:13:32.760
- Something and when the sun comes back out, just look out at the
- 00:13:32.760 --> 00:13:37.198
- Trees and just look at the birds and then i want you to ask a
- 00:13:37.198 --> 00:13:41.870
- Question, do those birds look worried to you.
- 00:13:41.870 --> 00:13:46.774
- You know, i did my homework.
- 00:13:46.774 --> 00:13:48.109
- You know, that's what you pay me to do.
- 00:13:48.109 --> 00:13:49.444
- I study things that you would never know.
- 00:13:49.444 --> 00:13:51.713
- Did you know--this is a fact.
- 00:13:51.713 --> 00:13:53.381
- Did you know, there has never been a bird in medical history,
- 00:13:53.381 --> 00:13:57.085
- Treated for hypertension?
- 00:13:57.085 --> 00:14:00.421
- Never.
- 00:14:00.421 --> 00:14:01.956
- Did you know no bird has ever died of a stroke?
- 00:14:01.956 --> 00:14:05.426
- Never happened.
- 00:14:05.426 --> 00:14:06.794
- When you look at the birds, they don't have a care in the world.
- 00:14:06.794 --> 00:14:10.331
- No birds ever had a panic attack.
- 00:14:10.331 --> 00:14:12.867
- You know what jesus is saying?
- 00:14:12.867 --> 00:14:14.235
- Jesus is really saying, worry is so worthless.
- 00:14:14.235 --> 00:14:17.438
- It's not even for the birds.
- 00:14:17.438 --> 00:14:19.574
- Even they don't worry.
- 00:14:19.574 --> 00:14:21.142
- And so, you know, ornithologist, let me tell you how great a
- 00:14:21.142 --> 00:14:24.712
- Statement this is.
- 00:14:24.712 --> 00:14:26.047
- Now, they didn't know this when jesus said this, but you gotta
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- Know it.
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- Ornithologists now define there are at least 18,000 species of
- 00:14:29.350 --> 00:14:34.489
- Birds in the world, 18,000.
- 00:14:34.489 --> 00:14:37.692
- Do you know how many total different birds there are in the
- 00:14:37.692 --> 00:14:40.695
- World right now?
- 00:14:40.695 --> 00:14:42.063
- There are over 400 billion birds in the world.
- 00:14:42.063 --> 00:14:47.201
- Now, that amounts to between 40 to 60 birds a person.
- 00:14:47.201 --> 00:14:51.239
- Now, if you are a bird watcher-- by the way, if you're a bird
- 00:14:51.239 --> 00:14:55.043
- Watcher, don't tell anybody.
- 00:14:55.043 --> 00:14:56.711
- But if you are a birdwatcher, if you were to say, "you know what,
- 00:14:56.711 --> 00:15:01.249
- I'm gonna look at one new species of bird every single
- 00:15:01.249 --> 00:15:04.519
- Day," it would take you 50 years to see all of the birds that
- 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:08.990
- There are in existence right now.
- 00:15:08.990 --> 00:15:11.793
- And the point jesus is making is if god can take care of
- 00:15:11.793 --> 00:15:16.064
- 400,000--400 billion birds every day, don't you think he
- 00:15:16.064 --> 00:15:21.402
- Can take care of you?
- 00:15:21.402 --> 00:15:24.038
- So he says, "just look at the birds."
- 00:15:24.038 --> 00:15:27.075
- And then jesus says, "hey, just keep looking out the window.
- 00:15:27.075 --> 00:15:29.510
- I want you to move from, from the trees to the ground."
- 00:15:29.510 --> 00:15:33.348
- So he says this, "why do you worry about clothes?
- 00:15:33.348 --> 00:15:36.951
- See how the flowers of the field grow.
- 00:15:36.951 --> 00:15:39.187
- They do not labor or spin.
- 00:15:39.187 --> 00:15:40.755
- I tell you that not even solomon in all his splendor was dressed
- 00:15:40.755 --> 00:15:44.125
- Like one of these.
- 00:15:44.125 --> 00:15:45.493
- If that is how god clothes the grass of the field, which is
- 00:15:45.493 --> 00:15:48.663
- Here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he
- 00:15:48.663 --> 00:15:51.065
- Not much more clothe you--you of little faith?"
- 00:15:51.065 --> 00:15:57.071
- You ever seen a rose garden?
- 00:15:57.071 --> 00:15:59.640
- Sure you have.
- 00:15:59.640 --> 00:16:01.476
- I remember i was talking to my buddy.
- 00:16:01.476 --> 00:16:03.111
- I got my buddy with me, spent the week as a pastor in
- 00:16:03.111 --> 00:16:06.047
- New york city.
- 00:16:06.047 --> 00:16:07.715
- One of my best buddies in the world.
- 00:16:07.715 --> 00:16:09.083
- And we were talking about the--i was talking about visiting
- 00:16:09.083 --> 00:16:11.753
- President bush in the oval office back when i was
- 00:16:11.753 --> 00:16:14.022
- Sbc president.
- 00:16:14.022 --> 00:16:15.423
- And i was talking about how i went over to the desk and i was
- 00:16:15.423 --> 00:16:17.592
- Standing at the desk and i was looking out at the rose garden.
- 00:16:17.592 --> 00:16:19.961
- I let people get to do that and and i was looking at the rose
- 00:16:19.961 --> 00:16:22.864
- Garden and i was--as i was telling him that story
- 00:16:22.864 --> 00:16:24.799
- Yesterday, you know what hit me?
- 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:26.868
- I went back to that time that i was looking at that rose garden.
- 00:16:26.868 --> 00:16:31.172
- I didn't see one rose walking back and forth.
- 00:16:31.172 --> 00:16:34.842
- I didn't, i didn't see one drop of sweat falling off of one
- 00:16:34.842 --> 00:16:38.913
- Rose petal.
- 00:16:38.913 --> 00:16:40.314
- They were so serene, they were so quiet.
- 00:16:40.314 --> 00:16:43.284
- They were so peaceful because you will never see a rose worry.
- 00:16:43.284 --> 00:16:46.854
- Well, think about this.
- 00:16:46.854 --> 00:16:48.222
- There are 369,000 different specs of flowers all over the
- 00:16:48.222 --> 00:16:54.028
- World, 369,000.
- 00:16:54.028 --> 00:16:57.698
- And what jesus is saying is, if god makes sure that all the
- 00:16:57.698 --> 00:17:02.670
- Flowers on earth not only have all the clothes they need to
- 00:17:02.670 --> 00:17:06.240
- Wear, but, oh by the way, he makes sure they have the right
- 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:09.210
- Color and they match.
- 00:17:09.210 --> 00:17:12.346
- Why in the world are you worried about anything?
- 00:17:12.346 --> 00:17:16.451
- Jesus said when you add all these things up, when you just
- 00:17:16.451 --> 00:17:19.320
- Look at the birds of the-- in the tree and the flowers in
- 00:17:19.320 --> 00:17:22.924
- The ground, worry, it's unreasonable.
- 00:17:22.924 --> 00:17:27.528
- But then jesus says something else.
- 00:17:27.528 --> 00:17:30.465
- He says not only is worry unreasonable,
- 00:17:30.465 --> 00:17:33.501
- Worry's unnecessary.
- 00:17:33.501 --> 00:17:35.369
- So this is what he says in verse 34.
- 00:17:35.369 --> 00:17:37.605
- He says, "therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow
- 00:17:37.605 --> 00:17:42.877
- Will worry about itself.
- 00:17:42.877 --> 00:17:44.946
- Each day has enough trouble of its own."
- 00:17:44.946 --> 00:17:48.316
- Remember i told you earlier, there are three days that we
- 00:17:48.316 --> 00:17:50.818
- Worry about--we worry about yesterday, what we did, the
- 00:17:50.818 --> 00:17:53.087
- Mistake we made, we're worried about today.
- 00:17:53.087 --> 00:17:56.023
- You know, we're gonna get our test results back from the
- 00:17:56.023 --> 00:17:58.126
- Doctor today or we're worried about tomorrow.
- 00:17:58.126 --> 00:18:00.862
- You know, "will i still have a job, or whatever, tomorrow?"
- 00:18:00.862 --> 00:18:04.332
- Well, there's just something to remember about those three days
- 00:18:04.332 --> 00:18:07.034
- And always remember this, okay?
- 00:18:07.034 --> 00:18:08.469
- Number one, yesterday is gone.
- 00:18:08.469 --> 00:18:12.006
- You can't change it.
- 00:18:12.006 --> 00:18:14.575
- Tomorrow is not even here.
- 00:18:14.575 --> 00:18:17.345
- It's just a maybe, you may not even be here tomorrow.
- 00:18:17.345 --> 00:18:20.448
- So why worry about it?
- 00:18:20.448 --> 00:18:22.416
- Because all you can really do is live in the present and by the
- 00:18:22.416 --> 00:18:25.419
- Way, and i've done this so many times.
- 00:18:25.419 --> 00:18:30.091
- Why do we ruin today because of a yesterday that's already gone
- 00:18:30.091 --> 00:18:35.630
- And a tomorrow that may not come?
- 00:18:35.630 --> 00:18:37.398
- Why do you do that?
- 00:18:37.398 --> 00:18:39.400
- Why would you even--why would you even waste your time?
- 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:41.769
- It is so unnecessary.
- 00:18:41.769 --> 00:18:44.505
- I love this definition of worry.
- 00:18:44.505 --> 00:18:46.874
- "worry is the interest we pay in advance today for trouble that
- 00:18:46.874 --> 00:18:49.744
- May never come tomorrow."
- 00:18:49.744 --> 00:18:51.345
- Worry is the interest we pay in advance today for trouble that
- 00:18:51.345 --> 00:18:54.382
- May never come tomorrow.
- 00:18:54.382 --> 00:18:56.117
- See, most of the time we're worried about what might happen
- 00:18:56.117 --> 00:19:00.488
- Or what might not happen in the future.
- 00:19:00.488 --> 00:19:03.591
- So there's something you've got to do or you're gonna be a
- 00:19:03.591 --> 00:19:06.761
- Worry wart, the rest of your life, you're gonna ruin every
- 00:19:06.761 --> 00:19:09.063
- Day that you live.
- 00:19:09.063 --> 00:19:10.398
- And what you've gotta do is you've got to leave
- 00:19:10.398 --> 00:19:12.433
- Tomorrow alone.
- 00:19:12.433 --> 00:19:14.168
- You can't presume about tomorrow.
- 00:19:14.168 --> 00:19:16.804
- How many people went to bed last night, worried about today and
- 00:19:16.804 --> 00:19:22.944
- Died in their sleep, were killed in an automobile crash, had a
- 00:19:22.944 --> 00:19:27.215
- Fatal heart attack?
- 00:19:27.215 --> 00:19:28.616
- It may not even come.
- 00:19:28.616 --> 00:19:30.851
- See when it comes to god.
- 00:19:30.851 --> 00:19:32.186
- Here's what god does.
- 00:19:32.186 --> 00:19:33.554
- God's only made one promise.
- 00:19:33.554 --> 00:19:34.889
- God says, "i will give you the strength and i'll give you the
- 00:19:34.889 --> 00:19:38.192
- Grace that you need for today.
- 00:19:38.192 --> 00:19:42.563
- I will not give you grace for tomorrow.
- 00:19:42.563 --> 00:19:45.333
- I will not give you strength for tomorrow because the only day
- 00:19:45.333 --> 00:19:49.337
- I'm gonna give you is today."
- 00:19:49.337 --> 00:19:51.339
- Why do you think the bible says today is the day of salvation?
- 00:19:51.339 --> 00:19:54.508
- Because tomorrow may not come.
- 00:19:54.508 --> 00:19:57.044
- You can't get saved yesterday.
- 00:19:57.044 --> 00:19:58.646
- You may not even be here tomorrow.
- 00:19:58.646 --> 00:20:00.014
- You better be saved today.
- 00:20:00.014 --> 00:20:01.716
- Same thing is true about any worry that you might have.
- 00:20:01.716 --> 00:20:04.785
- By the way, the reason why--you ever thought about why the
- 00:20:04.785 --> 00:20:07.221
- Calendar gives every day its own number?
- 00:20:07.221 --> 00:20:10.124
- Because you're supposed to live in that order.
- 00:20:10.124 --> 00:20:13.027
- This is the 21st.
- 00:20:13.027 --> 00:20:14.395
- We live on the 21st, not the 22nd.
- 00:20:14.395 --> 00:20:17.064
- And so just as god arranged the days on the calendar, god has
- 00:20:17.064 --> 00:20:20.434
- Not called you to worry about tomorrow.
- 00:20:20.434 --> 00:20:22.670
- God has called you to live today.
- 00:20:22.670 --> 00:20:25.373
- Do you understand that we're on a planet that is rotating on its
- 00:20:25.373 --> 00:20:29.744
- Axis at 1,000 miles an hour?
- 00:20:29.744 --> 00:20:34.215
- Just like clockwork.
- 00:20:34.215 --> 00:20:35.549
- That planet makes one full revolution every 24 hours.
- 00:20:35.549 --> 00:20:41.055
- If that's not enough, planet earth is moving around the sun
- 00:20:41.055 --> 00:20:45.426
- At speeds approaching 67,000 miles an hour, almost as fast as
- 00:20:45.426 --> 00:20:52.300
- Interstate 85 on a monday morning.
- 00:20:52.300 --> 00:20:57.672
- So, you know what you're going to do today?
- 00:20:57.672 --> 00:20:59.540
- You think you're sitting still, you think you're standing still?
- 00:20:59.540 --> 00:21:03.344
- Today we will travel through space 1.5 million miles.
- 00:21:03.344 --> 00:21:13.287
- Say, what's the point?
- 00:21:13.287 --> 00:21:15.556
- Let me ask you this.
- 00:21:15.556 --> 00:21:19.593
- Did you go to bed worried last night that maybe god would go to
- 00:21:19.593 --> 00:21:22.730
- Sleep and let the world slip out of its orbit?
- 00:21:22.730 --> 00:21:27.802
- Did you go to bed last night tossing and turning because you
- 00:21:27.802 --> 00:21:30.137
- Worried that maybe the rotation of the earth would slow down,
- 00:21:30.137 --> 00:21:33.140
- Which would end all of life?
- 00:21:33.140 --> 00:21:35.810
- I said you go to bed last night
- 00:21:35.810 --> 00:21:37.178
- Worried that maybe we would make it all the way around the sun?
- 00:21:37.178 --> 00:21:42.183
- Well, of course not, and you shouldn't, because every single
- 00:21:42.183 --> 00:21:47.021
- Day of your life and every single day since the day you
- 00:21:47.021 --> 00:21:49.557
- Came into this planet, every single day as the world turns,
- 00:21:49.557 --> 00:21:55.563
- It's another day to be reminded, god is not only taking care of
- 00:21:55.563 --> 00:21:59.200
- Us, there's nothing that god can't handle.
- 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:03.237
- If god can spin a world on his finger at 1,000 miles an hour--
- 00:22:03.237 --> 00:22:09.310
- And while that world is spending, make it spin and
- 00:22:09.310 --> 00:22:12.880
- Rotate every 24 hours.
- 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:15.649
- And if god can take that planet and move it at 67,000 miles an
- 00:22:15.649 --> 00:22:21.021
- Hour, and if god can take all of us little peons on this planet
- 00:22:21.021 --> 00:22:25.559
- And he'll let us travel $1.5 million every single day and we
- 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:30.464
- Don't even know it, don't you think god can take care of you?
- 00:22:30.464 --> 00:22:36.604
- Don't you think god can handle every--yeah, give the lord a
- 00:22:36.604 --> 00:22:39.407
- Hand, don't you think?
- 00:22:39.407 --> 00:22:43.377
- But i haven't got to the best part yet.
- 00:22:43.377 --> 00:22:46.514
- If i still haven't convinced you, let me give it one
- 00:22:46.514 --> 00:22:50.751
- Last shot.
- 00:22:50.751 --> 00:22:52.086
- Because everything i've said pales in comparison to this.
- 00:22:52.086 --> 00:22:58.058
- There's a cross and there's an empty tomb that tells me that
- 00:22:58.058 --> 00:23:05.065
- God took care of the two greatest problems the human
- 00:23:05.065 --> 00:23:07.601
- Race faces.
- 00:23:07.601 --> 00:23:10.471
- At the cross, god took care of our sin.
- 00:23:10.471 --> 00:23:18.679
- At the empty tomb, god took care of death.
- 00:23:18.679 --> 00:23:22.950
- So you look at the sin, you look at the cross and you look at the
- 00:23:22.950 --> 00:23:25.986
- Empty tomb.
- 00:23:25.986 --> 00:23:28.355
- I don't go to bed at night worried about facing a holy god.
- 00:23:28.355 --> 00:23:31.559
- I don't go to bed at night worried about the sin that could
- 00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:34.495
- Condemn me, because i'll have no condemnation.
- 00:23:34.495 --> 00:23:37.131
- There is no condemnation to those who are in christ jesus.
- 00:23:37.131 --> 00:23:40.868
- I'm gonna face god not as my judge but as my father and as
- 00:23:40.868 --> 00:23:44.705
- My savior.
- 00:23:44.705 --> 00:23:47.808
- And i can tell you this right now, i do not fear death.
- 00:23:47.808 --> 00:23:51.612
- Matter of fact, the older i get in some ways, honestly, i look
- 00:23:51.612 --> 00:23:54.682
- Forward to it because i believe what the bible says--to be
- 00:23:54.682 --> 00:23:57.952
- Absent from the body is to be present with the lord.
- 00:23:57.952 --> 00:24:00.321
- So if my sin has been taken care of and my death has been taken
- 00:24:00.321 --> 00:24:04.158
- Care of,
- 00:24:04.158 --> 00:24:05.526
- You know what that means in the end?
- 00:24:05.526 --> 00:24:07.394
- Because of jesus, not just his words, but his work, not just
- 00:24:07.394 --> 00:24:12.166
- His life, but his death, not just his death, but his
- 00:24:12.166 --> 00:24:14.835
- Resurrection because of jesus, we have nothing to worry about.
- 00:24:14.835 --> 00:24:22.576
- So as you bow your heads, close your eyes just for a moment
- 00:24:22.576 --> 00:24:25.546
- Before--i don't anybody moved, nobody moved, stay still.
- 00:24:25.546 --> 00:24:28.682
- Just a minute. this is important.
- 00:24:28.682 --> 00:24:30.551
- I gotta tell you one last thing, i read this yesterday,
- 00:24:30.551 --> 00:24:33.354
- Just crushed me.
- 00:24:33.354 --> 00:24:34.922
- One out of three americans are worried about their money and
- 00:24:34.922 --> 00:24:38.325
- Their financial position.
- 00:24:38.325 --> 00:24:40.895
- Less than 10% are worried they might go to hell.
- 00:24:40.895 --> 00:24:45.332
- Let that sink in.
- 00:24:45.332 --> 00:24:47.635
- One out of three americans are worried about their money.
- 00:24:47.635 --> 00:24:52.139
- But less than 10% are so worried about going to hell.
- 00:24:52.139 --> 00:24:56.143
- I'm just gonna be honest, if you've never given your life to
- 00:24:56.143 --> 00:24:59.179
- Jesus, if you've never trusted jesus as your lord and savior,
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- You better be worried.
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- If you're facing death and you do not have the assurance of
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- Eternal life because of god's grace and your faith in jesus,
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- You better be worried.
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- You have even an ounce of a doubt that you're ready to
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- Meet god, you better be worried.
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- But i can help you get rid of that worry today.
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- You're watching me right now.
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- You're in this room.
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- If you'll just simply pray this prayer and mean it, "lord jesus
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- I'm a sinner.
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- I'm lost.
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- I need to be saved.
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- I cannot save myself.
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- I can't do it.
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- But i believe you died for my sins.
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- I believe god raised you from the dead.
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- I believe you're alive right now.
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- And i ask you to come into my heart.
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- I ask you to save me.
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- I ask you to forgive me of all of my sins.
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- I repent and turn away from my sinful ways.
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- I trust you as my savior.
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- I receive you as my lord.
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- Thank you, lord jesus, for hearing my prayer.
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- Thank you for saving me today.
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