A Life of Endurance
November 25, 2020
27:29
During this message Dr. Jeremiah explains six ways to build up the power of our spiritual endurance.
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- about to see is a partof our amazing conversation.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Dr. Jeremiah: I wannathank you for joining me today.
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- I like to tell peoplethe hard thing about being
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- a Christian is it's so daily.
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- You know, you wake upevery morning and it's there
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- for you to live and it's nota 100-yard dash.
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- It's a marathon run.
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- And in Hebrews 10 it says:"You have need of endurance,"
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- and I go, "Amen, we do."
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- Endurance or patience is beingable to hang in there when the
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- going gets tough and not give upand keep working toward the goal
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- that God has put towards you,and one of the problems of
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- developing endurance in yourlife is that one of God's tools
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- for developing it is adversity.
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- And you have to learn howto embrace your adversity
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- because the Bible says that"tribulation works patience."
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- And so if you want to haveendurance,
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- you have to go through stuff.
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- How do we keep goingwhen we don't want
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- to keep going anymore?
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- Now, let's talk about it.
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- Kirk, how do you do that?
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- Kirk Cousins: Well,it is a challenge.
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- As an athlete, we know all aboutendurance and you get winded
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- and you literally, you know,are tired, physically tired.
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- And then not to mention how acareer can drag on and you have
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- to keep going out there on thedays your body doesn't feel like
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- it and the days that you wishyou could sleep in or that you
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- wish you could have a bye week,you know?
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- Those aren't thereand you have to keep pushing.
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- But the same is true inour spiritual walk and it all
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- is connected in the sense thatwhen you're spiritually healthy
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- and you have endurance froma spiritual standpoint then,
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- typically, I've found,you tend to have endurance
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- in your career, you tend to haveendurance in your relationships,
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- you tend to have endurance inevery area of your life because
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- the spiritual qualities that youtalked about before, when those
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- are intact, you're ableto handle the adversity
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- that comes your way.
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- But I think all of us have thoseadversity stories and the
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- challenges and I've read hisbooks and heard of some moments
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- where he's been under his desk,you know, praying, "Lord,"
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- you know, "I'm facing adversity,what are you gonna do?"
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- And the Lord has brought himout of it and it's developed
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- character and it's provideda testimony for a guy like me
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- to learn from, so.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: David,I don't think I read that part
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- in your book about youbeing under the desk.
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- Maybe you should tell usabout that.
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- David Green: Well, in 1985,the banks were threatening to
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- foreclose on us and it was very,
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- very, very difficult times,like we all go through
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- at some time or another.
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- And so I found myself undermy desk, you know,
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- month in, month out,it seemed like it was year in,
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- year out, you know, just tryingto cry out to God and find out,
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- you know, what I needed to do
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- and what I needed to changebecause I really felt like
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- it was a test for me personallyand God wanted to take me
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- to another level.
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- At the time,we only had 12 stores
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- and I think God wanted meto have 1200 stores
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- but I had almost too much pridefor 12 stores.
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- And so I think it was reallya thing God was speaking
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- to me about my pride.
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- And so it was a good thing.
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- It was the worst time of my lifebut also the best times
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- in my life.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: So you lookback on it now and you realize
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- that that was a building blockthat God was putting together
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- for you?
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- David: We have to, every day,work to make sure that we give
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- God the glory for everythinghe does in our life.
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- Bobby Schuller:Stress helps us understand:
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- "This is what matters."
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- I think one of the moststressful experiences
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- in my life was my son.
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- He's had epilepsyso why is my son sick?
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- I need to do ministry, like,and he needs to live a good life
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- and I don't--we don't--my wife is crying at night and,
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- like, how can this befor your glory?
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- But we watched--and so, we invited Christ
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- in the midst of all thosedifficult situations.
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- He builds us deeperwith each other so I grow
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- in my relationship with my son,
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- with my wife,and the stress of life
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- actually makes us strongerjust like the stress of a gym
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- makes your body stronger.
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- You look at Paul, I mean,that guy was under
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- a lot of stress.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: You knowwhat's really true?
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- And now, David, you said itand you all have agreed to it.
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- Prosperity is nota very good teacher.
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- But adversity isa very good teacher.
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- And most of the people whoselives I've read in books that
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- have succeeded have said thatthey learned the most important
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- things about life and how itworks and how it's supposed
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- to work when they went throughthe dark times, not through
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- the successful times.
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- Endurance is a very importantissue and I think more important
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- now than maybe ever before.
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- We gotta make surethat we don't quit.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: As I sat withmy friends and reflected on what
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- was shared, I was once againreminded that endurance
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- is a decision, a decision thattransforms one's life and in the
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- next few minutes I will sharewith you how a life of endurance
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- is necessary to livea life beyond amazing.
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- ♪♪♪
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- of a life beyond amazing?
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- Among them, joy that is notdependent on circumstance,
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- integrity that settlesfor no exceptions,
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- and self-disciplinethat stands firm.
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- But how do you get theminto your life?
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- It takes a decision; actually,nine decisions each day
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- to commit these into your heartand actions.
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- "A Life of Endurance."
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- Dr. Jeremiah: Almostevery day when I'm in San Diego,
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- I go to a gymto work out with a trainer.
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- I know you think it should bemore obvious, but I do.
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- My trainer is a guy namedTodd Durkin.
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- He's one of the best trainersin the country, one of
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- the best things that happenedto me in recent years.
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- Turned out to be a great friend.
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- Beside the fact that he'san incredible physical fitness
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- expert and a dynamic motivator,Todd Durkin is also
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- a Christ follower.
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- And we often talk aboutthe similarities
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- of physical trainingand spiritual training.
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- Recently, we were talkingabout weight lifting
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- and the two approachesthat athletes adopt
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- when they're in training.
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- And here's what I learned.
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- Heavy weights lifted fewer timesin succession produce
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- greater strength.
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- Lighter weights liftedwith more repetitions produce
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- greater endurance.
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- When it comes to life,most of us can lift
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- a heavy weight now and then.
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- We only have to do itonce or twice.
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- In other words, major problemsthat come and then go away
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- quickly, we can deal with that.
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- But for me,for me it's not the big problems
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- that are the hardest.
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- For me, the problems that arethe toughest to overcome
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- are the problems that never seemto get solved, the ones
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- that keep coming back.
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- And I believe that God wantsyou and me to be strong men
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- and women of faith.
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- And to achieve that, we haveto become men and women
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- of resilience and endurance.
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- If I cannot stand strong underthe adversity of unrelenting
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- pressure, I will lose the joyof my journey and be not
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- very valuable as a warriorof the faith.
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- There's a verse in the Biblethat never ceases
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- to challenge me.
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- It's Hebrews 10:36,
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- and I want you to read itwith me out loud.
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- It's real short.
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- Are you ready?Here we go.
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- "You have need of endurance."
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- You also have needof a little volume.
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- Let's try that again.
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- All right, here we go.
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- "You have need of endurance."
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- And now, just to make sure yougot it, turn to your neighbor
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- and say to your neighbor:"You have need of endurance."
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- All right, for me,endurance is needed because,
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- as someone once told me,the Christian life is so daily.
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- It requiresa sustained determination.
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- And that's why God wantsto infuse in you and in me this
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- can-do attitude of supernaturalendurance and perseverance.
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- We cannot give upin the midst of the stress.
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- Stress we will have; what we dowith it's our decision.
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- "Therefore do not cast awayyour confidence,
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- which has great reward.
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- For you have need of endurance,so that after you have done
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- the will of God,you may receive the promise."
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- We have need of endurance.
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- We need to remember, all of us,that the Christian life
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- is not a 100-yard dash.
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- It's a marathon run.
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- As we mentioned already,it's so daily.
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- You get up every morning andthere it is, the Christian life
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- staring you right in the face.
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- What are you gonna do with ittoday?
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- How are you gonna respond whenyou go through the trouble that
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- always accompanies life for us?
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- So here,from the 58th book of the Bible,
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- here from the book of Hebrews,are some strategies to help you
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- develop this qualityof endurance in your life.
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- And let me just take themone by one,
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- and we'll explore themfrom this book.
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- First of all,embrace your adversity.
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- You say, "Pastor, I have heardyou say a lot of things.
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- That's the most counterintuitivething I have ever heard
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- in my life.
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- Whoever in the world embracestheir adversity?"
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- But the Bible is very clear thatthe way God teaches his children
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- endurance is through adversity.
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- So often when stuff happensto me that I wasn't expecting,
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- had a few of those thingsrecently,
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- I'm tempted first of allto ask why.
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- And I've told you before,you can ask God why
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- all you want.
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- He's just not obligatedto answer.
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- But I think our question oughtnot to be why all the time.
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- Perhaps it ought to be what.
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- "Well, God, what do you wanna dowith my life during this time?
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- What do you want me to learn?
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- How can I embrace my adversityto become a more enduring
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- follower of Christ?"
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- Here's the second thing.
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- Surround yourselfwith champions.
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- Once again fromthe book of Hebrews,
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- this time from the 12th chapter.
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- The 12th chapter of Hebrews,as you know,
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- begins with the word"Therefore."
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- In order to understandthe "therefore" of Hebrews 12,
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- you have to understandthe content of Hebrews 11
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- and most of you already do.
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- You may not remember that it'sHebrews 11 but you know there's
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- a chapter in the Bible whereall of the Old Testament saints
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- are listed and they're givenaccolades for their faith and
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- for their faithfulness to Godand for their endurance
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- and they're champions.
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- Hebrews 11 is often calledthe Hall of Fame of the Bible,
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- or the Hall of Faithof the Bible.
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- Hebrews 12, verse 1,
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- makes sure we understandhow important that chapter is
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- because here's what it says.
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- Now let me finish the verse:"Therefore we also, since we are
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- surrounded by so greata cloud of witnesses, let us run
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- with endurance the racethat is set before us."
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- I need you to understand thatyou will never know the value of
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- Hebrews 11 unless you understandthat the witnesses of Hebrews 11
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- are not seeing witnesses;they're saying witnesses.
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- They're speaking to us outof history about their victories
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- and we learn about themthrough studying their lives and
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- following their faith journeyand watching how God
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- used them in a mighty way.
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- When you're going throughsomething,
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- call up one of the witnessesand let them speak to your life.
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- That's why we studythe Old Testament.
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- That's why I love the stories ofthe Bible, because these stories
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- are witnesses to us,"You can make it."
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- Why do we know that?
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- Because they did andthey're gonna tell you about
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- what happened in their life.
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- And as you study their faithjourney, you're gonna be blessed
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- and encouragedlike you wouldn't believe.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,you have to gather around you
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- some championsif you're gonna make it.
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- One of the best and mostenjoyable things we can do to
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- develop endurance in our livesis to learn how it was achieved
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- in the lives of others.
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- Read the stories of thechampions and see if it doesn't
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- bring energy and determinationto your own heart.
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- And the Bible is one of thegreat sources for these stories.
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- Some people say,"Well, you should only read
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- the Bible."
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- No, no, no.
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- Even people who don't know Godand don't know Jesus
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- can help you with their life.
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- You say,"Well, they're not Christians.
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- How could they help me?"
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- Watch what they do.
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- You know inthe book of Philippians
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- when Paul is giving usthe story of how we're to deal
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- with anxiety, he gets all donewith the prayer section and
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- he says then, "By the way,think on these things."
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- And then he listsall these qualities of things
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- we should think on.
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- Not any of them are necessarilyspiritual qualities,
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- things that are good,things that are truthful.
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- They're kind ofgeneral qualities.
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- And I think that gives us somepermission to realize that while
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- not everyone in our world isa Christian, most people have
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- something to contribute and,even if they get it,
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- their truth, their truthultimately came from God
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- 'cause all truth is from God.
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- So embrace your adversityand then surround yourself
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- with champions.
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- Could I just say a word here.
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- I don't have timeto say much about it.
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- There are some people inyour life who aren't champions.
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- In fact,they're tearing you down.
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- I wanna tell you, you can'tafford to have too many
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- of those speaking into your lifeif you're gonna keep going.
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- You need championsto speak into your life.
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- You say, "Well, I'm supposedto be their friend."
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- Yeah, you can be their friendbut here's the key.
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- If they're tearing you down morethan you're lifting them up,
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- you might wanna think aboutnot doing that anymore.
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- So embrace your adversity andsurround yourself with champions
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- and then find your passionand pursue it.
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- If you get a chance, go backand read Philippians chapter 3
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- and Paul's discussion of howhe pressed forward to the goal
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- and he wouldn't look either way,forgot those things which
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- were behind and pressed towardthose things which are before.
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- So if you're gonna buildendurance in your life you have
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- to embrace your adversity,surround yourself with
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- champions, find your passionand pursue it, and get rid
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- of what's holding you back.
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- Here's what Hebrews says:"Let us lay aside every weight,
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- and the sin whichso easily ensnares us."
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- The writer of Hebrews saysthat the Christian life is like
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- running a race and nobody runsa race in an overcoat and boots.
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- No, you've noticed they justhave on enough clothing to be
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- less than indecentand they run the race.
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- We all know from painfulexperience that unbelief erodes
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- our confidence in God andI believe that was the sin that
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- was holding back the Hebrews.
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- They had once believed that Godwas sufficient but now they had
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- lost that confidence andthey were afraid to go forward
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- because they had forgottenthat God who had helped them
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- then would help them now.
- 00:17:02.905 --> 00:17:05.607
- It's particular form of unbeliefthat's very damaging.
- 00:17:05.641 --> 00:17:09.878
- They started feeling sorryfor themselves and this became
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- a weight around them.
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- I'm not gonna spend much timehere this morning, identifying
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- what weight is holding you back.
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- The reason I don't have to dothat is because you already
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- know what that is.
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- You know.
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- It's the thing that gets inyour way over and over again.
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- You're trying to have somemomentum for God.
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- You're trying to move forward,men, and serve him but
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- every time you turn around,this weight gets in the way.
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- I'm challenging you todayin the words of Hebrews
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- to get rid of that weight.
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- Get rid of it.
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- Don't just put it to the side.
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- Destroy it.
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- Get it completelyout of your experience.
- 00:17:49.318 --> 00:17:51.954
- Don't let that weight hold youback from serving God
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- and knowing the joythat he wants you to have.
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- Number five: don't even thinkabout quitting.
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- Oh, do I wanna preachon this one.
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- Hebrews 12:1 says: "Let us runwith endurance the race
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- that is set before us."
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- Did you know thatin the book of Hebrews
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- the little phrase "Let us"occurs 13 times
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- in the book of Hebrewsand it speaks to us every time.
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- Yes, God helps us and we cannever do it without his grace
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- but we have a part, too.
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- Let us go forward.
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- Let's us get in this race.
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- Let's don't sit back andpassively watch life go by
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- when there's somethingGod has called us to do.
- 00:18:30.692 --> 00:18:34.296
- Here's a secular bookthat spoke to my life this year.
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- And the book hasan interesting name.
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- It's called, "Grit."
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- That's the title of the book.
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- Written by Angela Duckworth.
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- And in this bookshe does a study on what
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- makes people succeed.
- 00:18:47.042 --> 00:18:48.377
- And she's trying to play offtwo different ideas of success.
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- One idea of success says yousucceed because you were born
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- with the right genes,you have great parenting,
- 00:18:53.282 --> 00:18:56.618
- and you grew upin a good home, and had all
- 00:18:56.652 --> 00:18:58.453
- the advantages so you succeed.
- 00:18:58.487 --> 00:19:01.290
- The other model says, no,success has a little to do
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- with that but not very much.
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- Success is about your passionand your perseverance
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- in going after a goal.
- 00:19:09.965 --> 00:19:12.334
- She determined that grit--that was the term she gave it--
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- was the key to succeed.
- 00:19:15.204 --> 00:19:18.140
- And here's how she defines grit.
- 00:19:18.173 --> 00:19:20.175
- She said, "To be grittyis to keep putting one foot
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- in front of the other.
- 00:19:22.844 --> 00:19:24.446
- To be gritty is to hold fastto an interesting
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- and purposeful goal.
- 00:19:26.848 --> 00:19:28.317
- To be gritty is to investday after week after year
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- in challenging practice.
- 00:19:31.453 --> 00:19:33.555
- To be gritty is to fall downseven times
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- and get back up eight."
- 00:19:36.191 --> 00:19:38.894
- And she shares so many storiesin this book about people
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- who have been through that.
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- One of my favorites is aboutactor Will Smith who explains
- 00:19:43.265 --> 00:19:47.336
- his success in theentertainment industry this way.
- 00:19:47.369 --> 00:19:50.939
- He said, "The only thingthat I see that's distinctively
- 00:19:50.973 --> 00:19:52.941
- different about me is I'm notafraid to die on the treadmill.
- 00:19:52.975 --> 00:19:57.713
- I will not be outworked, period.
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- You might have more talentthan me,
- 00:19:59.581 --> 00:20:01.283
- you might be smarter than me,you might be
- 00:20:01.316 --> 00:20:03.385
- all of those things,you've got it on me
- 00:20:03.418 --> 00:20:05.387
- in nine categories,but if we get on the treadmill
- 00:20:05.420 --> 00:20:08.991
- together there's two things.
- 00:20:09.024 --> 00:20:10.325
- You're either getting offfirst or I'm gonna die.
- 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:13.195
- It's really that simple."
- 00:20:13.228 --> 00:20:16.465
- What he was saying ishe wasn't gonna quit.
- 00:20:16.498 --> 00:20:19.768
- What he was saying ishe was gonna stay after it.
- 00:20:19.801 --> 00:20:22.237
- The Bible says we must runwith perseverance the race
- 00:20:22.271 --> 00:20:25.107
- that is set before us.
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- We must not give up.
- 00:20:26.475 --> 00:20:29.745
- You may rememberI told the story of a guy
- 00:20:31.280 --> 00:20:33.882
- named Erik Weihenmayer,the first blind man
- 00:20:33.915 --> 00:20:38.787
- to successfully climbto the top of Mount Everest,
- 00:20:38.820 --> 00:20:42.157
- the highest point on the earth.
- 00:20:42.190 --> 00:20:45.060
- The story of thatherculean accomplishment
- 00:20:45.093 --> 00:20:46.862
- was told in the book,"Touch the Top of the World,"
- 00:20:46.895 --> 00:20:49.531
- and shortly after that,I got a letter from Erik's
- 00:20:49.564 --> 00:20:52.034
- father who saw the programand he wrote me this letter.
- 00:20:52.067 --> 00:20:55.604
- It was really interestingbut part of the letter,
- 00:20:55.637 --> 00:20:58.040
- he told me what happened nextafter Mount Everest.
- 00:20:58.073 --> 00:21:02.144
- He said, "As Erik was completinghis Everest descent, his team
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- leader spoke these wordsto him which profoundly affected
- 00:21:06.481 --> 00:21:09.318
- the next chapter in his life.
- 00:21:09.351 --> 00:21:11.887
- He said to him,'Don't let Everest
- 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:13.655
- be the greatest thingyou ever do,' meaning
- 00:21:13.689 --> 00:21:16.925
- do not create a mausoleumof your trophies
- 00:21:16.958 --> 00:21:19.561
- and retire on your laurels.
- 00:21:19.594 --> 00:21:21.963
- And many years later,after 6 full years
- 00:21:21.997 --> 00:21:24.499
- of intense training,Erik solo kayaked the mighty
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- rapids of the Grand Canyon,277 miles, blind, a feat way
- 00:21:29.271 --> 00:21:35.644
- more difficult than Everest."
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- What did he do?
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- He would not stop.
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- He would not quit.
- 00:21:40.916 --> 00:21:41.950
- He would not say back,"This is what I've done."
- 00:21:41.983 --> 00:21:43.985
- For this man, his dreams wereway more important than his
- 00:21:44.019 --> 00:21:46.455
- memories and he kept fighting.
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- I would be so, so honored tomeet a man of such endurance.
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- And then the Bible also remindsus that we have to stay focused
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- on our goal.
- 00:21:58.467 --> 00:22:00.535
- Read what happened to Jesusand what he went through so that
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- he can accomplish his goal.
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- He endured the cross.
- 00:22:06.308 --> 00:22:07.743
- He anticipated the joythat would follow.
- 00:22:07.776 --> 00:22:10.645
- We endure because he endured.
- 00:22:10.679 --> 00:22:12.681
- And he endures still,both now and forever.
- 00:22:12.714 --> 00:22:15.617
- In fact, it is no overstatementto say that our ability
- 00:22:15.650 --> 00:22:18.587
- to endure whatever life throwsat us is rooted and grounded
- 00:22:18.620 --> 00:22:24.126
- in the enduring quality of God.
- 00:22:24.159 --> 00:22:26.695
- Colossians 1, verse 11,is a key text
- 00:22:26.728 --> 00:22:30.932
- and it reminds usof this divine cooperative that
- 00:22:30.966 --> 00:22:33.535
- we've been talking about today.
- 00:22:33.568 --> 00:22:36.738
- Paul wrote to the Colossiansand he said,
- 00:22:36.772 --> 00:22:38.907
- "Strengthened with all might,according to
- 00:22:38.940 --> 00:22:43.512
- God's glorious power."
- 00:22:43.545 --> 00:22:45.881
- Why do you need to bestrengthened with all might,
- 00:22:45.914 --> 00:22:48.049
- according toGod's glorious power?
- 00:22:48.083 --> 00:22:50.285
- "For all patience andlongsuffering with joy."
- 00:22:50.318 --> 00:22:55.090
- For endurance.
- 00:22:55.123 --> 00:22:56.324
- The Bible says that when we seekendurance and we follow God's
- 00:22:56.358 --> 00:22:59.194
- command and we get in the streamof what God wants to do in our
- 00:22:59.227 --> 00:23:02.063
- life, you can be sure that hismight and his glorious power
- 00:23:02.097 --> 00:23:06.902
- will be the core of your lifeand you're gonna need it to be
- 00:23:06.935 --> 00:23:14.176
- enduring and resilient in life.
- 00:23:14.209 --> 00:23:15.577
- I want to be an enduringfollower of Jesus Christ.
- 00:23:15.610 --> 00:23:19.548
- I don't want to be a drop-out.
- 00:23:19.581 --> 00:23:21.116
- I don't want to be a casualtyand I am not going to quit.
- 00:23:21.149 --> 00:23:25.053
- And I don't want you to quit.
- 00:23:25.086 --> 00:23:26.455
- I don't want you to quit on God.
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- I don't want you to quiton Jesus Christ.
- 00:23:28.023 --> 00:23:30.158
- I don't want you to quiton the Scriptures.
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- I don't want you to quiton your wife or your husband
- 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:34.529
- or your children.
- 00:23:34.563 --> 00:23:36.097
- I don't want you to quiton your neighbors.
- 00:23:36.131 --> 00:23:38.300
- I don't want you to quiton life.
- 00:23:38.333 --> 00:23:41.102
- Quitters every time look backwith regret.
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- So don't quit.
- 00:23:45.407 --> 00:23:46.842
- Let's go on.
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- Let's become God's people.
- 00:23:48.376 --> 00:23:50.378
- Let's do God's work together.
- 00:23:50.412 --> 00:23:52.280
- Let's strengthen one another andwhen we're going through stuff,
- 00:23:52.314 --> 00:23:55.851
- let's remember that's notalways a negative thing.
- 00:23:55.884 --> 00:23:57.953
- God's just getting you readyfor something special.
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- And you're going to bea champion.
- 00:24:01.223 --> 00:24:03.124
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- announcer: And now,with one last word
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- for today's program,here is Dr. Jeremiah.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: Are youstruggling with a trial
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- that seems to be unending?
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- Might be a chronic illnessor a family issue
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- As we learnedin today's message,
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- God provides his strengthduring adversity that not only
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- allows us to endurebut to have his peace
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- on the journey.
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- He provides comfort, counsel,and courage that we cannot gain
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- from any other source.
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- announcer: Next time on"Turning Point."
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- announcer: Dr. Jeremiahcontinues his conversation
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- with Bobby Schuller, Mandisa,David Green, and Kirk Cousins.
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- And he teaches howwe can make the decision to live
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- a life of compassion.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: Compassionis not academic.
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- You don't learn to becompassionate in a book
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- or even in the Bible.
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- It's not something that happensup here; it's something
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- that happens down here.
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- announcer: Thank youfor being with us today for
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- Dr. Jeremiah's series,"A Life Beyond Amazing."
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- Join us next time forDr. Jeremiah's message,
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- "A Life of Compassion,"here on "Turning Point."
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