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Real Life presents the Jack Kibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Stop, listen, pull back from the brink and know something that God in your life until

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your life is finished by God's decree, you're invincible!

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you, here is Jack Hibs.

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Philippians 413 says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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Now I've got to tell you, that is probably one of the most famous Christian verses on

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T-shirts and bumper stickers and you may, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens

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me.

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And so, and I know, I know, but you know we see the application of that verse in all kinds

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of ways that's sweet but little out of context.

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Well before you ever read Philippians 413, it goes like this, Philippians 411 starts

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out by saying, not that I speak in regard to need, this is Paul speaking, in other words,

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he's telling them, I'm not telling you guys this because I didn't want anything from you.

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For I have learned in whatever state, including California, I'm in, to be content.

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I know how to be a based, stop right there, Paul the Apostle is saying, hey, as a believer,

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I know how to handle seasons of prosperity.

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That's what Paul is saying.

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There's been times when I had more than enough.

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How did he do that?

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He, Paul lived the same way if he had two denari or one widows might, he lived the same

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way.

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It's beautiful.

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I know how to be a based, that's without and I know how to abound, that's with.

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He says everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both

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to abound and to suffer need.

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Verse 13, now it says, I can do all things through Christ, you strengthen me.

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That verse means, listen, friends, grab this.

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It doesn't matter right now if in your life you are abounding or you are a based.

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If you can hardly rub two pennies together or this has been the most prosperous year of

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your life, listen, the bottom line is this, to walk with Jesus, understanding that God

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has us living and he works in the impossible, listen, that he's got this taken care of.

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He tells us in the Bible not to worry, that's just not a cool saying.

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When you and I worry we're doing something very, very wrong and to prove it because I know

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people who are big warriors, they get offended with what I just said.

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You mean worrying is wrong, that's ridiculous, I don't think it's wrong.

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Those people who say that, they're the warriors and they worry because they think they can

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control the situation and even when they can't, they'll fool themselves by worrying and

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convince themselves that somehow they had their hand in the mix.

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Worrying is assuming something to yourself that you were never supposed to be concerned

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with.

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We've just become accustomed to it.

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Stop and pull back and know that God moves in the impossible.

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He really does, that's how you know the word is because God exists, listen to this.

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I have a hard time, I'm going to read this to you, I can't even fathom, I actually almost

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hyperventilate when I think about this woman, this is terrifying.

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This is said by Helen Keller, do you know who Helen Keller is?

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Please say yes, even if you don't, please, just say yes.

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This is an end Sullivan, her teacher, both are miracles to me.

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I may be off, but I'll be close.

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Helen Keller had a severe fever when she was either 16 or 19 months old.

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She lost her sight and she lost her ability to hear.

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At 19 months old, you cannot hear and you cannot see.

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Think about that for a second.

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That is a living prison.

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Just the thought of it, I'm not kidding you, just the thought of it causes me to, okay?

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She said, because you know, an Sullivan taught her how to write, taught her how to communicate.

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She said, the best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard,

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but must be felt with the heart.

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A woman who's blind and deaf said that, and I think I got problems, I'm having troubles

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right now, my computer's not working right with my printer, they're not communicating.

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Of course it's not, because I updated my computer to the next, I think my computer has

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COVID now.

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Should have put a mask on it.

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Number three, we need to stop and know.

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And I love this one, we need to stop and know, friends, pull back from the edge, we just

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need to stop and be reminded and know that he's going with us, he's going with you, he's

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going with you.

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God told Jonah, go preach to Nineveh and Jonah said, I'm not going.

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If you knew Nineveh, the Ninevites, you would know why Jonah said that.

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He'd off Hitler and Eichmann and all of his teams studied the Ninevite tactics.

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You know, listen, you think making lampshades out of human skin was a Nazi idea?

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They studied that from the Ninevite empire because the Ninevites used to do that with Jews.

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So when God told Jonah, go tell the Ninevites, Jonah knew something, he knew something about

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the nature of God, you know what?

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Because the message was this, go tell Nineveh, 40 days, they're going to be destroyed.

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And Nineveh, that's the message God told them.

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You would think, with all the Ninevites had done to the Jews, that Jonah would have said,

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that's it, 40 days and they get fried by you.

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Okay, we would have ran straight there.

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Hey, guess what? You bunch of losers?

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40 days and you fry lights out.

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You know what, Jonah, listen, God said, go tell them, they're going to 40 days and it's over.

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Jonah, it's not even sad.

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It's not even sad in the text, Jonah, I'm not going.

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You know why he said I'm not going to go?

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Because he knew the nature of God.

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There's a chance he knew if they repent, God's going to give him mercy.

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I'm not going.

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So what does he do?

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He gets on a boat and he heads to Tarsha, he heads to Europe, he heads to Spain.

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That was the end of the world in those days.

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That was it.

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I'm going to go to the ends of the earth to flee from God.

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That's what he's thinking.

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And the Bible says, God prepared a great storm and the poorest sailors, they're trying

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to spare Jonah's life and finally, Jonah says, look, this whole thing, this whole storm,

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we're going to go down, we're going to sink because I'm running from my God.

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And they said, man, that's some God you've got.

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So we've got to save our lives, so off you go, over, over you go.

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And Jonah goes over and the Bible says, God prepared a great fish.

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It wasn't a whale, my friends, don't tell your kids that, but it wasn't a whale.

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The word in Hebrew is a fish, it was a big fish, not a whale.

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That's a scary fish.

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It says God prepared it.

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Can you imagine?

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I need a big fish.

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Swallows Jonah.

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Listen, all because he didn't want to do what God said, listen, all along the way, Jonah

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was trying to run from God, Jonah was with him the entire way.

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God was with Jonah the entire time.

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Jonah's underwater in this belly of a big fish and God is totally aware of it and Jonah's

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totally aware of that God is aware of it.

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He's with you.

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He's with you.

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Pull back.

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Pull back from the edge of despair.

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He's with you.

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Slow down your breath, take a deep breath, relax, understand, God can't leave me and he's

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even with me right now.

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It's not like you ran away and you out ran, God, while you're running, you ran right

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into him.

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Listen, he's going with you.

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Deuteronomy 31 verse 6 says, be strong and have good courage.

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Do not fear or be afraid of them for the Lord your God.

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He is the one who goes with you.

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He will not leave you nor forsake you.

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God says this throughout the Bible, throughout the Scripture, he says this.

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I'm going to give you another quote.

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I got a couple of them tonight.

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The Christian life is not a constant high.

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I have my moments of deep discouragement.

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I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes and say, oh God, forgive me or help

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me.

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Sid Billy Graham, that's an honest prayer.

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I love that.

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Number four, stop to know he will make you.

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Listen, what's the word?

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Invincible.

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See, come on.

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No, it's true.

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Listen, now look, when I say invincible, I like what George Whitfield says in his writings.

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George Whitfield said, we are immortal until our work on earth is done.

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I believe that, by the way, with all my heart.

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I read that decades ago and I believe it's still now, I believe it now more than ever.

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George Whitfield said that.

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I believe it.

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Here's the thing.

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Stop.

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Listen, pull back from the brink and know something that God in your life, your life is

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absolutely invincible until it's time for you to go home to heaven.

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Think of it.

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It says, oh, it's real.

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It's real.

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Jesus is our perfect example.

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In fact, Satan tried to use the scripture against him.

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Satan tried to quote the Psalms and messed it up, intentionally.

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Do you remember when Satan told Jesus to throw yourself down from the pinnacle of the temple?

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Because the Bible says that his angels will charge over the less than bare thy toe or

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hit or stubbed thy toe on a stone, Satan was misquoting scripture, but listen, Jesus

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was exactly living out the power of that psalm in life.

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And so should we, he is our prototype.

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He's the one that we should walk after and like, and it's this way, until your life is

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finished by God's decree, you're invincible.

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Read the writings of George Washington.

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He understood that perfectly well.

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Listen, right now more than ever, we should probably end right here because this is so

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important.

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Our world is crippled and the church at large in America is crippled by fear.

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We do not believe that God has got this.

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We don't believe it.

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We really don't buy our actions.

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We don't believe that God really knows exactly what he's doing because this whole thing

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caught us way off guard.

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You say I would never say that good, but as a nation or I should say as a church in America,

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the church at large, it's acting like that.

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Oh my goodness, this is so big.

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Throw your Bible out the window.

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This is huge.

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This is nothing.

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This is nothing.

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This is warm up.

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Think of it.

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What are we going to do?

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We're going to do what we've been trained to do and that is stay in the word.

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Oh, it's so simplistic.

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It's not simplistic.

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It's simple, but it's not simple.

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The bombs are going off around you and everything's exploding, and the temptation to grow weary.

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And you realize, wait a minute, I'm going to pull that from the edge.

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I would love, especially if the younger generation would actually believe that when the Scripture

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says in Joshua chapter 1 verses 5 through 6, listen to this.

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If you're young tonight and you're crippled by fear, and by the way, don't you think people

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that we've watched and then entire young generation be hit so hard by fear, they're crippled,

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they're terrified.

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They're terrified and they're fall because this fear makes you believe things.

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This breaks my heart to say because it's so true, and yet the people I wanted to hear

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at the most won't hear it.

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That when fear gets inside of you, the paranoia sets in, and it doesn't matter what anyone

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says, including God, this is overwhelming, it's over, I could go outside of my bedroom,

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make it killed.

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No, no, really people are living like this.

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Well, they're not living.

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Strengthen yourself in the Lord.

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Take up his word and when he says something that jumps off the page that you grab it, you

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grab it, you write it down, remember, well, no, you don't remember, but in the olden days,

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when we got in trouble in school, we would have to write out what we did 100 times.

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That's crippling today, you could probably get a lawsuit for that now, bro.

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But you grab that Bible first and you print it out, write it out if you want to, but print

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it out, put a stick at places, when you shave in the morning, it's right there, or when

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you get on your skateboard to your car, it doesn't, it's right there, really, it's right

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there.

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Print it in reverse, put it on your mask, look in the mirror, you can read it.

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Fear not, fear not.

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Joshua 15 says, no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life as I was

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with Moses so I will be with you.

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I will not leave you nor forsake you, be strong and of good courage, stop standing at

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the edge and looking over.

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Pull back.

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He is with you, he's not going to leave you, don't let your heart be troubled, he will

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bring you comfort, make sure you're focusing on him.

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