Welcome to Anchors Of Truth live
from the 3ABN worship center.
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Thriving Faith In Difficult
Times, with Jim Gilley.
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When I pastored in
New York City, I had a
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member of my church who lived in
a building with 3000 apartments.
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She lived in a building
that had several sections.
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An A section, a B section,
a C section, a D section,
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an E section, and an F section.
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Each section had 27 floors.
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And she lived in B27D.
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3000 apartments in one building.
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There are how many
people in Thompsonville?
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Six hundred?
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3000 apartments in one building.
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And she told me,
"Pastor, you know, I use to live
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in the country all by myself.
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But I got scared and nervous
and worried in the country.
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So I moved to the city.
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Now I live in a
building with 3000 apartments
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and I'm worried.
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I wish I was
back in the country."
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She said, "In the
morning, I wish it was night.
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At night, I wish it was morning.
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When I get on the
subway, there's 10,000 people
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on the subway and I
don't know any of them.
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I wish I had my own car.
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But when I had my own
car, I was afraid to drive
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in New York City,
so I gave up my car to
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get on the subway."
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She said, "I'm afraid of
my neighbors who I don't know.
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I'm afraid of my
family who I rarely see.
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I'm afraid to go to the store.
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I'm afraid to eat things that
I don't know what's in them."
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She said, "I'm just
afraid all the time."
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And you know, she's not alone.
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There's a lot of
fear in this world.
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And we learned about fear as
Pastor Gilley talked about fear
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on last evening.
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But we also learned that
wonderful text in 1 John 4:18,
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that perfect love
does what to fear?
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It casts out fear.
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Perfect love gives us
trust in Jesus, who we know
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controls this world of ours.
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My name is C.A. Murray and it
is my privilege and pleasure to
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welcome to you night number two
in our Anchors Of Faith series.
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Tonight, Jim Gilley is
going to talk about worry;
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how not to worry,
how to trust in God.
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And as we said before,
this is not the 2300 days,
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this is not Bible prophecy,
this is not Revelation 13.
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What this is, it's practical
religion and godliness.
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This is putting
feet on your faith.
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This is how to deal with those
things that we as Christians
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deal with every
single day of our lives;
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worry, fear,
anger, disappointment.
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How do we do that?
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How do we face these kinds
of issues and remain Christian
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and keep our
faith strong in Jesus?
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And so Jim Gilley, as a preacher
of the Word, as an Evangelist,
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as a conference president,
as a North American Division
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executive, has
had much experience in
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talking about these issues.
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And we are quite sure
that God will bless him this
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very night as he talks about and
tells us about how not to worry,
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but rather how to trust in God.
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I didn't mention on
last evening, his wife is
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right here by his side.
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Camille Gilley is with
us, always stands by his side.
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He is the father of four,
grandfather of nine, I am told.
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And a proud grandfather indeed.
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But for tonight, he is
not husband, he is not father,
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he is not grandfather.
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He is preacher and
teacher of the Word.
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He is the one that Christ
will use to bring us the Word.
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And I ask for him
from you, your prayerful
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and undivided attention.
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Before he speaks, Yvonne
Lewis will bring us the music.
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And before she sings, we
will go to the Lord in prayer.
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Shall we pray.
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Father God, we thank
You so very much for the
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privilege of prayer.
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We thank Thee that on
the other side of our prayers
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is a God who listens, who
hears, who is ready, willing,
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and able to answer.
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And Lord, this night we
ask from You for Jim Gilley
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heavens very best.
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We know that he has
spent time with You.
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We know that he
has a word from You.
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And so we ask that You
will empower him, embolden him,
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anoint him to speak
that word with power.
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And give us who listen,
here in this house and those
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around the world, listening
ears, attentive hearts,
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open minds, that we may
hear, receive, and do Your will
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for our lives as together
we take just one more step
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along the road
that leads to glory.
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We love You, praise You,
and thank You for Your promise
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to hear and answer
the prayer of faith.
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In Jesus' name.
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And now, Jim Gilley.
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But before him, Yvonne Lewis.
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In Christ alone my hope is found
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He is my light,
my strength, my song
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This
Cornerstone, this solid ground
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Firm through the
fiercest drought and storm
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What heights of
love, what depths of peace
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When fears are
stilled, when strivings cease
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My Comforter, my All in All
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Here in the love
of Christ I stand
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In Christ alone,
who took on flesh
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Fullness of God in helpless Babe
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This gift of
love and righteousness
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Scorned by the
ones He came to save
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Till on that cross as Jesus died
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The wrath of God was satisfied
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For every sin on Him was laid
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Here in the
death of Christ I live
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There in the ground His body lay
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Light of the
world by darkness slain
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Then bursting
forth in glorious Day
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Up from the grave He rose again
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And as He stands in victory
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Sin's curse has
lost its grip on me
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For I am His and He is mine
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Bought with the
precious blood of Christ
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No guilt in
life, no fear in death
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This is the
power of Christ in me
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From a life's
first cry to final breath
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Jesus commands my destiny
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No power of
hell, no scheme of man
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Could ever
pluck me from His hand
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Till He returns to take me home
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Here in the
power of Christ I stand
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No power of
hell, no scheme of man
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Can ever pluck me from His hand
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Here in the power
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of Christ I stand
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Here in the power
of Christ I stand.
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No other way, only in Jesus.
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Only through Him.
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Let us pray.
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Father in heaven,
tonight we pray that as we
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look at this subject,
that we will focus on Jesus.
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He is the way, He is
the truth, He is the life.
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Oh Father, speak, we
pray, through us to Your people.
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Thank You for
hearing this prayer.
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In Jesus' wonderful and
powerful and loving name, amen.
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You know, the
Bible talks about worry.
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This is not a subject
that is only for our day.
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It has always been there.
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It is something that all
of us have struggled with
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from time to time.
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There is absolutely
no question about that.
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Sometimes we come to
some of these subjects,
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as I mentioned last night,
and people get the idea that
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we're talking about psychology
or we're talking about that.
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No, we are looking
at a Biblical subject
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from a Biblical standpoint
that applies to our lives today.
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We're living in difficult times.
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As we watch the news and...
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I have to confess that I
am a bit of a news junkie
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and I watch a lot of news.
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I don't really watch much
else, but I do watch the news.
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And I will tell you right now,
when you see the US Senators
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of this country that
are exasperated to the point
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where they say they do
not see an answer to this,
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that our debt
situation continues to grow,
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that in a very few
years, about seven years,
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it will come to the
place where it equals our whole
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national gross product.
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I mean, this is a
total bankrupt situation.
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And it has to be turned around.
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And there seems to be
no way to turn it around.
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You see, that makes
it a serious situation.
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When we look at the end times,
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and I believe that
we're in the end times,
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I think we're right at the
beginning of the end times,
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the question comes,
how do I make it through?
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We look at the prophecies of
Revelation and we believe that
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we're living right in
the beginning aspects of the
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fulfillment of some of
those prophecies and right at
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the end of the fulfillment
of some of the others.
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So where does this
put us as individuals?
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You see, I can look in
the prophecy and I can tell
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where I am, but if I'm
not prepared spiritually
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to trust God in carrying
me through, then it really
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doesn't do me a whole
lot of good to understand
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what's going to be
happening, if I'm not applying a
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spiritual aspect to my life
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so that I can
live and go through
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these very serious times.
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Tonight, we're going
to be talking about worry.
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Worry is something
that, really as I said,
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it's a Biblical subject.
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Christ talks about it.
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He talks about it in
Matthew the 6th chapter
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and beginning with verse 25.
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A pretty long passage,
but I'm going to read it.
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It says, "Therefore I
say to you, do not worry."
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I mean, how more
direct can you be than that?
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"Do not worry about
your life, what you will eat
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or what you will
drink; nor about your body,
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what you will put on.
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Is not life more than food
and the body more than clothing?
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Look at the birds of the air,
for they neither sow nor reap
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nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feeds them.
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Are you not of
more value than they?"
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Then it says, "Which of
you by worrying can add one
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cubit to his stature?
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So why do you
worry about clothing?
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Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow:
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they neither toil nor spin.
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And yet I say to you than
even Solomon in all of his glory
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was not arrayed
like one of these.
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Now if God so clothes the grass
of the field, which today is,
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and tomorrow is thrown
into the oven, will He not
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much more clothe you,
O you of little faith?"
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"Therefore," Jesus
says, "do not worry,
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saying, 'What shall we
eat?' or 'What shall we drink?'
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or 'What shall we wear?'
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For after all these
things the Gentiles seek.
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For your heavenly Father knows
that you need all these things.
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But seek first
the kingdom of God."
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You make this your all
consuming worry, so to speak;
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the pursuing of
the kingdom of God,
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pursuing righteousness, pursuing
an understanding and love
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for Jesus Christ.
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And He says, "Seek
first the kingdom of God and
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His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added to you.
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Therefore do not worry
about tomorrow, for tomorrow
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will worry about its own things.
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Sufficient for the
day is its own trouble."
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Got enough trouble
without coming up with more.
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And you know, so many times
we will worry about things that
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really we have no
business worrying about.
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We will add on to
some of our concerns.
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And I remember a
magazine that came out in 1952.
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And some of you were born then.
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And it became very popular.
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First it was a comic
book called, Mad Magazine.
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When it quit being a
comic book, I quit reading it
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because it got to deep for me.
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But on the front of the
cover, there was a fellow by the
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name of Alfred E. Neuman.
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That's what they...
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And he was quite a character.
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His ears stuck out and
he had this funny grin.
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And it always
said, "What, me worry?"
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Now that's an extreme situation.
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There are things to worry about.
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I was pastoring in a church
and a lady came to me one time.
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She said, "I use to
worry about everything."
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"Now," she said, "I
don't worry about anything."
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You see, those are
two extremes though.
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Going from
worrying about everything
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to not worrying about anything.
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That's not the kind of
extreme that we're looking for.
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There are certain things that
we need to be concerned about.
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There are things that we
need to handle that we shouldn't
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be concerned about.
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And we need to know the
difference of these two.
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Thomas Carlyle was an
intellectual that lived
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in London in the past century.
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And he was a great student.
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And he would study at
night, he would start some time
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after midnight, and he would
study all night long into the
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early morning hours because
he wanted it absolutely quiet.
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He lived just out
at the edge of London.
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And he was so particular
about being able to focus,
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wanting it quiet, that he built
a sound proof room to study in.
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But somehow, his
neighbor's rooster
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would crow and he would hear it.
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And finally, he went
over to the farmer who was
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just a little farmer.
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It wasn't a real farm, it
was right at the edge of London.
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But you know, people sometimes
even have chickens in town now.
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I understand most ordinances
won't let you have a rooster
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in town, but you can
have chickens in town.
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And it's understandable why they
won't let you have a rooster
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because he goes
crowing about things and he
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makes a little noise.
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And he went o the farmer
and he said, "Look, that rooster
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crowing disturbs me so badly.
00:17:15.87\00:17:19.74
I will buy the rooster, I
will pay you for the rooster.
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Just give me a
price for the rooster."
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And the farmer
said, "Well listen."
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He said, "I kind
of like my rooster."
00:17:27.95\00:17:30.25
And he said, "He
only crows three times."
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And Thomas Carlyle said, "Yea,
but just waiting for him to crow
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every time is
what drives me nuts."
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And you know, sometimes waiting
for the other shoe to drop or
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waiting for something
to happen actually causes
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more grief to us, more
stress to us, than if we knew
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when something
was going to happen.
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I read some stats the other day.
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It said that 40% of all worries
never actually take place.
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So the 40% of the things
that you worry about that are
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going to happen, never happen.
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They said that 30% of the
things that people worry about
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are in the past.
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And we worry about
whether somehow the consequences
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of them, or
something of that nature.
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And then the next
figure was 12% of all worries
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are health worries.
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We're going to talk a
little bit about health worries
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in a little bit.
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Then it said 10%
were petty worries.
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And that it really came
down to there were only,
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that adds up to 92%,
there were only 8% of the things
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that were legitimate
worries that we worry about.
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Now that was
according to that study.
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And if you accept and believe
studies, then you can have some
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confidence in that study.
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And I just about was ready
to believe that, then a friend
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of mine told me, his name
is Carl Phipps, he said that
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42.7% of all statistics
are made up on the spot.
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So now that gives you
something more to worry about;
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whether these stats are
actually accurate or not.
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But things that come to use,
in most cases, we should not
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at all be concerned about.
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Because the Lord promises
us in Hebrews the 13th chapter
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verse 5, "I will never
leave you nor forsake you."
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"I'll never leave you."
00:19:45.73\00:19:47.17
Now this is
quoting Deuteronomy 31 and
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also quoting the
1st chapter of Joshua.
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So three times, God says to
us in three different places
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in scripture, "I'll never leave
you, I'll never forsake you."
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Think about that.
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He says He will never leave us.
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If that doesn't help us, then my
friend, I don't know what will.
00:20:08.92\00:20:14.81
You see, He is always
there to do one of three things:
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It's trusting in Him, relying
upon Him, that is so important.
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Now there are five
basic groups of worries.
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The first is
worry about the past.
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You know that more
people worry about the past
00:20:56.36\00:20:58.24
than you would ever think.
00:20:58.27\00:20:59.53
I visited with a business
man once that was very concerned
00:21:00.19\00:21:04.05
because he had been cheating,
in years past, the IRS.
00:21:04.08\00:21:10.05
But it was a very
complicated situation.
00:21:10.96\00:21:13.86
And so there was no
way, when we talked about it
00:21:14.94\00:21:17.86
and we prayed about it,
can you go and make it right.
00:21:17.89\00:21:20.38
As he explained the
reasons why he could not go and
00:21:20.41\00:21:24.47
make it right, it made sense.
00:21:24.50\00:21:26.79
Because in going to make
it right, and some people are
00:21:26.82\00:21:29.31
going to disagree with this, he
was going to make it extremely
00:21:29.34\00:21:32.84
hard on some other people.
00:21:32.87\00:21:34.59
Now he had given money to
the government in what they call
00:21:35.31\00:21:40.06
a conscience fund.
00:21:40.09\00:21:41.34
And he felt like he had paid
enough into the conscience fund
00:21:41.95\00:21:47.26
to make up for what he had done.
00:21:47.29\00:21:49.38
But he still felt so
guilty about what he had done.
00:21:49.39\00:21:54.05
It was just
failure to report income.
00:21:54.08\00:21:56.70
I mean, he was doing a
lot of cash business and
00:21:56.73\00:21:59.76
he just did not report it.
00:21:59.79\00:22:01.48
But then if he began...
00:22:01.78\00:22:03.02
You see what I'm saying?
00:22:03.03\00:22:04.21
If he actually went
back and detailed everything,
00:22:04.24\00:22:06.79
now it would involve
a lot of other people.
00:22:06.82\00:22:08.84
And so he felt that the Lord
was not asking him to do that.
00:22:09.24\00:22:13.33
But it was a sin of the past.
00:22:13.34\00:22:15.79
We had to lay it on the
altar, give it to the Lord.
00:22:16.75\00:22:20.12
Some of these things are
so complicated, so mixed up,
00:22:20.15\00:22:23.02
that there's no way on
earth you can every unravel
00:22:23.03\00:22:26.53
all of those things.
00:22:26.56\00:22:27.65
And sometimes, you have
to say, "Lord, here it is.
00:22:27.68\00:22:31.04
I lay it on You,
I give it to You.
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Please take it away from me.
00:22:33.44\00:22:35.42
It's something in the
past and I want to lay it
00:22:35.45\00:22:38.61
before the altar and let it go."
00:22:38.64\00:22:41.66
And I believe that God
forgives us when we do that.
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I really do.
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Sins of the past.
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When I was pastoring,
I had a lady come to me.
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And this lady just
poured out her heart.
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Now she was one of
the leaders in our church.
00:22:51.54\00:22:54.21
But she said there had
been a time in her past
00:22:55.20\00:22:58.87
where she had a
leave of her senses;
00:22:59.41\00:23:03.00
her spiritual
senses and everything else.
00:23:03.30\00:23:06.20
And she had done
something that was wrong.
00:23:06.23\00:23:09.37
She had been
unfaithful to her husband.
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Later, she got
things back together.
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Later, she had a family.
00:23:16.23\00:23:19.00
Now as those children were
getting older, she was afraid
00:23:19.85\00:23:24.01
that they were going to find out
00:23:24.04\00:23:26.96
what their mother
had done in the past.
00:23:27.58\00:23:30.85
And she carried this
fear, this worry about the past.
00:23:31.59\00:23:35.54
And so we prayed together.
00:23:36.56\00:23:38.45
And I said, "Ok, let's
look at the worst scenario.
00:23:38.75\00:23:42.04
Let's look at it.
00:23:42.58\00:23:43.56
Let's say they do find out.
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I really don't believe
they're going to find out.
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I believe the Lord covers."
00:23:47.91\00:23:49.10
I've seen Him do
it so many times.
00:23:49.13\00:23:51.21
You know, every thing
that you've done in the past
00:23:51.24\00:23:53.62
is not always going to come up.
00:23:53.65\00:23:55.14
It's not. The Lord covers.
00:23:55.94\00:23:58.17
And when you repent, if
it comes up later on, then
00:23:58.68\00:24:03.34
there's some reason that God's
going to be using that to help
00:24:03.37\00:24:05.79
perfect your character.
00:24:05.82\00:24:07.31
But I believe that
those things are buried,
00:24:07.34\00:24:10.19
and I believe they're
buried in the bottom of the sea.
00:24:10.22\00:24:12.63
And I don't think they're
going to come up, in most cases.
00:24:12.66\00:24:15.06
But I said, "Let's
say that this comes up.
00:24:15.09\00:24:17.27
And your children
who are now teenagers,
00:24:18.22\00:24:20.80
at least they'll be that
old because they already are,
00:24:21.91\00:24:25.45
let's say they're
going to be older.
00:24:25.48\00:24:26.59
Let's say it comes up
and they find out that their
00:24:26.62\00:24:30.69
mother was human."
00:24:30.72\00:24:32.50
I said, "Let me tell you.
00:24:33.89\00:24:35.06
Those kids will forgive you.
00:24:36.40\00:24:38.22
They will forgive
their mother for being human,
00:24:39.19\00:24:44.52
for making a mistake."
00:24:44.55\00:24:47.50
And I said, "Furthermore,
it may come at a time,
00:24:47.53\00:24:52.16
it may come at a time when they
themselves need encouragement.
00:24:52.66\00:24:59.55
And they see the godly
life you're living now,
00:24:59.58\00:25:02.47
and okay, you've
made a mistake here.
00:25:02.50\00:25:05.50
But they see how
Christ has come into your life
00:25:05.53\00:25:08.40
and how you have changed.
00:25:08.41\00:25:09.71
And they have seen
your example as a mother."
00:25:09.74\00:25:14.06
Now I said, "My
friend, that may actually be
00:25:14.59\00:25:18.03
an encouragement to them."
00:25:18.06\00:25:20.06
I visited one time with a
lady who had a granddaughter who
00:25:20.67\00:25:24.67
was getting out into the world
and being a little bit wild.
00:25:24.70\00:25:28.66
And that grandmother
shared with that granddaughter
00:25:28.69\00:25:33.82
how she had made
the same mistakes.
00:25:34.42\00:25:37.53
What did it do?
00:25:38.48\00:25:39.76
It encouraged that
girl. That girl found courage.
00:25:40.59\00:25:43.65
If her grandmother
who, she saw her as a saint.
00:25:43.66\00:25:47.85
"If grandmother can
make a mistake like this
00:25:47.88\00:25:50.85
and her life be restored,
then that means that I don't
00:25:50.88\00:25:54.98
have to stay like I am,
I don't have to continue
00:25:55.01\00:25:57.99
in the way that I've gone.
00:25:58.02\00:25:59.54
I can be restored."
00:25:59.57\00:26:01.50
And she was.
00:26:01.80\00:26:03.54
Because grandmother shared
that she too had been human.
00:26:04.35\00:26:10.47
Worries of the past.
00:26:10.50\00:26:12.37
These are things
that we need to forget.
00:26:12.40\00:26:14.97
The apostle Paul, you
remember he had done some things
00:26:15.00\00:26:17.50
in the past that he
was certainly not proud of.
00:26:17.53\00:26:20.15
He more than just
held the coats, folks.
00:26:21.15\00:26:23.64
He organized that
stoning of Stephen.
00:26:23.67\00:26:26.24
He never could
quite get over it.
00:26:26.27\00:26:27.85
If you go to Jerusalem,
Biblically, and you look at
00:26:27.88\00:26:33.33
all the things that the Jewish
people there in Jerusalem;
00:26:33.34\00:26:37.14
they still held it
against Paul what had happened.
00:26:37.17\00:26:40.94
They just somehow
couldn't let it go.
00:26:40.97\00:26:43.16
And Paul had to
talk about the past.
00:26:44.37\00:26:46.49
And he said in Philippians
the 3rd chapter verse 13,
00:26:46.52\00:26:49.34
"Forgetting those
things which are behind."
00:26:49.37\00:26:52.92
Forgetting those things.
00:26:53.40\00:26:54.79
You see, there are people that
always want to bring things up.
00:26:54.82\00:26:57.30
They'll want to brings things
up that happened 50 years ago
00:26:57.33\00:27:00.65
as if it happened last week.
00:27:00.68\00:27:03.24
I know some people like that.
00:27:03.54\00:27:05.47
And they will bring it up
and throw it in your face.
00:27:06.23\00:27:09.36
And that's going to happen,
but that's not God's way.
00:27:10.11\00:27:12.47
The Bible says, "Forgetting
those things which are behind."
00:27:13.59\00:27:16.97
Forgetting them,
pressing forward.
00:27:17.80\00:27:20.93
Because the Lord has forgiven
and the Lord has restored.
00:27:21.37\00:27:27.37
Now the second group of
worries are, the future.
00:27:27.40\00:27:30.66
You know, the Bible
says that the day is coming
00:27:31.09\00:27:35.48
when there are going to
be some real difficult times.
00:27:35.51\00:27:39.69
We know that this
is going to happen.
00:27:40.31\00:27:42.19
There's no getting
around it, but what do you do?
00:27:42.80\00:27:44.64
Do you sit and worry
about that all this time?
00:27:44.67\00:27:46.60
About 35 to 40 years
ago, a lady came to me,
00:27:46.63\00:27:49.71
and I was holding meetings,
and she said, "I am so worried."
00:27:49.74\00:27:54.66
She said, "I've been
worried about this for years."
00:27:54.69\00:27:56.32
And I said, "What
are you worried about?"
00:27:56.35\00:27:57.74
She said, "I'm so worried that
I will not be able to go through
00:27:57.75\00:28:01.79
the time of trouble."
00:28:01.82\00:28:02.95
Now that was 35 years ago.
00:28:04.00\00:28:05.80
I saw her not long
ago, she's still worried.
00:28:06.53\00:28:08.94
But she has wasted at least
35 years of her life worrying.
00:28:09.42\00:28:15.44
The Lord says don't
be anxious about that.
00:28:15.47\00:28:20.14
He even tells you,
don't even worry about
00:28:20.17\00:28:22.67
what you're going to say.
00:28:22.70\00:28:23.90
In Mark the 13th chapter
verse 11, "When they arrest you
00:28:23.93\00:28:27.55
and deliver you
up, do not worry."
00:28:27.58\00:28:31.85
"Don't worry
beforehand," He says.
00:28:31.88\00:28:34.52
So that means, don't
worry about what's going to be
00:28:34.55\00:28:37.51
taking place in the future.
00:28:37.54\00:28:38.84
This is what Jesus is
telling us, not what just some
00:28:38.87\00:28:44.02
philosopher is saying.
00:28:44.05\00:28:45.74
He says, "Don't even premeditate
what you will speak."
00:28:45.77\00:28:50.15
Don't worry about it.
00:28:50.77\00:28:51.80
He says, "But whatever is given
you in that hour, speak that;
00:28:51.83\00:28:55.54
for it is not you who
speak, but the Holy Spirit."
00:28:55.57\00:29:01.20
He says, "Do not be
worried beforehand."
00:29:01.23\00:29:04.92
And then Luke 21 verse
18, He says, "But not a hair
00:29:04.95\00:29:09.08
of your head shall be lost."
00:29:09.11\00:29:11.92
Now that would be good
news for John Lomacang because
00:29:12.98\00:29:15.32
he's got quite a bit of hair.
00:29:15.33\00:29:17.87
And, John, I tell
you, we admire your hair.
00:29:18.30\00:29:22.20
You've got a good head of hair.
00:29:22.23\00:29:24.16
And I've got a good head
of hair up here, but I have to
00:29:24.17\00:29:27.18
comb it way back and let
my eyebrows grow and then
00:29:27.21\00:29:30.36
comb them back over almost to
cover the back part of my head.
00:29:30.39\00:29:34.60
But that's
better news for you than
00:29:35.27\00:29:37.88
brother C.A. Murray over there.
00:29:37.91\00:29:39.47
Brother Murray, he's
not too much worried about
00:29:39.50\00:29:44.12
the hair on his head.
00:29:44.15\00:29:45.94
But that is a promise
that God has given us.
00:29:45.97\00:29:51.34
"Not one hair of
your head shall be lost."
00:29:51.37\00:29:57.37
He has promised that
He will carry us through.
00:29:57.40\00:30:02.16
We are not to
worry about the future.
00:30:02.19\00:30:05.87
You know, worry and trust
cannot live in the same place.
00:30:05.90\00:30:09.16
Some of you have
heard of R.G. LeTourneau.
00:30:10.14\00:30:12.98
R.G. LeTourneau was a
very successful business man.
00:30:13.01\00:30:16.69
He built heavy
equipment, enormous, gigantic
00:30:16.72\00:30:20.93
earth movers you see out there.
00:30:20.96\00:30:23.26
Not just some ordinary
caterpillar or bulldozer.
00:30:23.29\00:30:26.57
These gigantic pieces.
00:30:26.60\00:30:28.26
Some of these were
his invention, his design,
00:30:28.29\00:30:31.33
and he made an
awful lot of money.
00:30:31.36\00:30:34.07
He started off tithing
10% that he gave to the Lord.
00:30:34.10\00:30:42.03
And then he increased it to
20% and then 30% and then 40%.
00:30:42.06\00:30:46.24
God kept blessing him to
where at the end of his life,
00:30:46.27\00:30:49.44
he was giving 90% of
his income to the Lord.
00:30:49.47\00:30:53.76
He tithed himself 10%.
00:30:53.79\00:30:56.94
He kept 10%, 90% to the Lord.
00:30:56.95\00:31:00.63
He lived very simply.
00:31:00.64\00:31:01.84
But he just
believed in God's word.
00:31:02.49\00:31:05.30
He built a college that's
over there in Kilgore, Texas
00:31:05.31\00:31:08.86
and was a man
that loved the Lord.
00:31:08.89\00:31:12.03
But he made a statement
that I thought was very good.
00:31:12.06\00:31:15.00
LeTourneau said,
"Worry and trust cannot live
00:31:15.82\00:31:19.74
in the same house."
00:31:19.75\00:31:20.90
Like some people.
00:31:21.45\00:31:23.01
"Worry and trust
cannot live in the same house.
00:31:23.55\00:31:26.49
When worry is
allowed to come in the door,
00:31:26.52\00:31:29.43
trust walks out the other door.
00:31:29.83\00:31:32.92
Worry stays until
trust is invited in again,
00:31:33.81\00:31:36.64
where upon," he
said, "worry walks out."
00:31:36.67\00:31:40.83
Worry and trust won't
live in the same house.
00:31:40.86\00:31:45.71
You trust in the Lord Jesus
Christ, you are not going to
00:31:46.27\00:31:50.23
have a problem with worry.
00:31:50.26\00:31:53.73
And you know, another thing
that we worry about often is,
00:31:54.33\00:31:57.46
what others think.
00:31:57.49\00:31:59.84
What others think.
00:32:00.48\00:32:01.84
Too much what others think.
00:32:01.87\00:32:05.86
C.S. Lewis wrote in one
of his books and he said,
00:32:06.16\00:32:09.89
he talked about a character
named Mark and he said,
00:32:09.92\00:32:12.63
"Mark had a lot of
Cocker Spaniel in him."
00:32:12.66\00:32:15.35
You know how
Cocker Spaniels are.
00:32:16.18\00:32:17.78
They always want your love.
00:32:17.81\00:32:19.64
They'll run up to you, they
want you to appreciate them.
00:32:19.67\00:32:22.65
They're friendly dogs.
00:32:22.68\00:32:23.81
I love Cocker Spaniels,
I'm not putting them down.
00:32:23.84\00:32:26.91
But they're
always trying to please.
00:32:26.94\00:32:29.79
Sometimes we've got a little
too much Cocker Spaniel in us.
00:32:29.82\00:32:33.17
We want to please
everybody too much.
00:32:33.64\00:32:36.48
It would be wonderful
to have everybody like us,
00:32:36.51\00:32:39.45
everybody love us.
00:32:39.48\00:32:41.04
But you know something, in
the world in which we live,
00:32:41.54\00:32:44.01
if you stand for anything,
there are going to be people
00:32:44.04\00:32:47.17
that are not going to
necessarily appreciate
00:32:47.20\00:32:48.98
what you stand for.
00:32:49.01\00:32:50.28
And so you cannot always be
concerned totally about others.
00:32:50.31\00:32:56.29
Then there are those that
worry about, not just what
00:32:56.32\00:32:59.38
others think, but
maybe the safety of others.
00:32:59.41\00:33:02.57
I'm getting ready in
November to take my 21st trip,
00:33:04.00\00:33:07.76
Lord willing, to Israel there
during the Thanksgiving week.
00:33:07.79\00:33:12.89
Any of you want
to go, let me know.
00:33:12.92\00:33:14.97
I've still got a few seats left.
00:33:15.00\00:33:17.52
But it's amazing, every
time I've gone to Israel,
00:33:17.55\00:33:21.38
people will say, "We
worried about you the whole time
00:33:22.18\00:33:25.11
you were gone."
00:33:25.12\00:33:26.12
I said, "I don't know
why, I wasn't worried a bit."
00:33:27.40\00:33:29.95
In fact, I want
to tell you this.
00:33:31.55\00:33:34.38
That as far as the stats
are concerned, you are safer
00:33:34.41\00:33:38.93
in Israel than you
are in this country.
00:33:38.96\00:33:41.32
Now that is statistically true.
00:33:41.35\00:33:43.62
For instance, there are
16 to 17 murders per year
00:33:44.03\00:33:49.78
in all of Israel, which
is about 5 million people.
00:33:49.81\00:33:53.46
There are that many,
about the same number of people,
00:33:54.16\00:33:56.89
in the greater Dallas Fort
Worth area, metroplex area,
00:33:56.92\00:34:00.69
and Yvonne, there are
more than 16 murders a weekend
00:34:00.72\00:34:05.37
in that place.
00:34:05.40\00:34:06.75
So in a weekend, there
are more murders in the
00:34:06.78\00:34:09.75
Dallas Fort Worth area than
there are in Israel in a year.
00:34:09.78\00:34:13.39
That is the truth.
00:34:14.31\00:34:16.48
You can look up those stats.
00:34:16.51\00:34:18.43
And they won't vary
much from what I just said.
00:34:19.09\00:34:21.93
And it's safe there.
00:34:21.96\00:34:24.93
But I will tell you one thing.
00:34:25.33\00:34:27.18
That people have the reputation,
in fact, if some little incident
00:34:27.21\00:34:33.50
of any kind happens,
you know that CNN and Fox,
00:34:33.53\00:34:36.55
and everybody else, is
there with their cameras going.
00:34:36.58\00:34:39.31
There was a situation
one time I saw in Israel,
00:34:39.43\00:34:42.49
where one person
was killed on a bus.
00:34:42.50\00:34:47.35
Some kind of an, it
was just an altercation
00:34:47.38\00:34:50.37
that a person killed another.
00:34:50.38\00:34:51.38
They had all the news
in this country going.
00:34:51.39\00:34:54.88
There was a robbery
in Fort Worth Texas.
00:34:54.91\00:34:58.57
The robber shot
several people at the bank,
00:34:59.47\00:35:02.78
killed several officers.
00:35:02.81\00:35:04.27
And when it was all through
and the robber himself had
00:35:04.31\00:35:07.45
been killed, I think there were
actually two robbers killed,
00:35:07.48\00:35:09.86
there was a total
of eight people killed.
00:35:09.89\00:35:12.39
And it didn't even
make national news.
00:35:12.42\00:35:14.82
That was in Fort Worth.
00:35:15.49\00:35:17.21
But this one person, they
even went live with reports
00:35:18.04\00:35:23.45
because it was
happening in Israel.
00:35:23.48\00:35:25.61
The focus on the
Middle East is unbelievable.
00:35:25.64\00:35:29.46
But when you really get
down to it, it's not always
00:35:29.49\00:35:32.69
as dangerous as the
news likes to make it
00:35:32.72\00:35:36.15
sound like that it is.
00:35:36.18\00:35:37.81
But worrying about
others, people worry
00:35:37.91\00:35:40.16
too much about others.
00:35:40.19\00:35:41.45
Then there's the health worry.
00:35:41.48\00:35:43.23
One of the greatest things
that you can do with health
00:35:44.42\00:35:48.65
is take care of your
body through good eating.
00:35:48.66\00:35:54.06
I like the NEWSTART idea.
00:35:54.09\00:35:56.57
It talks about nutrition,
it talks about exercise,
00:35:56.60\00:36:01.23
water, sunlight, temperance,
air, rest, and trust in God.
00:36:01.83\00:36:09.53
The acronym is NEWSTART.
00:36:10.21\00:36:12.76
You get the right foods,
you get the right exercise.
00:36:12.79\00:36:16.28
Now many years ago,
1980, I went to Weimar.
00:36:16.31\00:36:21.50
And I don't believe I'd
be alive today if I hadn't,
00:36:21.97\00:36:24.19
because Camille began to put
these principles into our diet.
00:36:24.22\00:36:29.93
We haven't has a gravy with
flour in it since those days.
00:36:29.94\00:36:34.95
She makes a cashew gravy or some
type of a very healthy gravy,
00:36:34.98\00:36:39.29
things of that nature
that changed in our diet.
00:36:39.30\00:36:43.08
Now I want to tell you
that I don't always follow
00:36:43.11\00:36:46.73
everything that's there.
00:36:46.76\00:36:48.07
The biggest problem that
I have is lack of exercise.
00:36:48.10\00:36:51.17
But sometimes people say, "Well,
Jim, you need to lose weight."
00:36:51.81\00:36:54.41
Well I do.
00:36:54.44\00:36:55.45
But I'm 70 pounds
lighter than I was at my high.
00:36:55.48\00:36:59.74
See, they don't see where I was.
00:37:00.14\00:37:03.47
It's like, hey, I'm not where
I want to be, but I sure am
00:37:03.50\00:37:06.77
not where I was either.
00:37:06.80\00:37:08.35
And the Lord keeps
helping me gradually get these
00:37:08.65\00:37:12.49
things under control.
00:37:12.52\00:37:14.13
But if you take care of your
health, it will be something
00:37:14.14\00:37:18.91
that you'll be
very happy that you did.
00:37:18.92\00:37:20.78
Drink lots of water.
00:37:20.79\00:37:21.91
Now I do that.
00:37:21.94\00:37:23.05
Get the sunlight.
00:37:23.26\00:37:24.30
I don't get quite
as much as I should.
00:37:24.33\00:37:26.22
Temperance, yes I am
very temperate in things.
00:37:26.25\00:37:29.59
And my wife
will testify to that.
00:37:29.62\00:37:31.17
Air, don't get
as much as I should.
00:37:31.20\00:37:34.05
Rest, I don't do too bad there.
00:37:34.08\00:37:36.62
But I do trust in God.
00:37:36.65\00:37:38.86
And so, I may not be 100%
on all of these, but I keep
00:37:39.80\00:37:44.83
working to try to help.
00:37:44.86\00:37:47.04
Health is so important.
00:37:47.07\00:37:48.45
And how you approach health is
so important because sometimes
00:37:48.48\00:37:53.02
we can actually think
ourselves into illness.
00:37:53.05\00:37:57.13
In fact, they tell us that a
great number, high percentage
00:37:57.72\00:38:03.29
of illness is brought about
by emotionally induced illness.
00:38:03.32\00:38:08.22
Now that doesn't mean
you're imagining the illness.
00:38:08.72\00:38:10.82
Although sometimes
that can be the case.
00:38:10.85\00:38:13.00
But it means that through
your emotions and being upset,
00:38:13.40\00:38:17.36
that your body becomes ill.
00:38:17.39\00:38:21.17
And sometimes,
illness can be imagined.
00:38:21.81\00:38:26.49
There's no question about that.
00:38:26.79\00:38:27.91
I have a good friend,
very good friend; Gary Grimes.
00:38:27.94\00:38:31.25
In fact, I called him tonight
and said, "Gary, I may tell
00:38:31.76\00:38:33.93
this story if I get enough time.
00:38:33.96\00:38:35.49
And will you be mad
if I use your name?"
00:38:35.52\00:38:38.30
He said, "I'll be
mad if you don't."
00:38:38.33\00:38:40.20
So I'm using his name tonight.
00:38:40.23\00:38:43.50
He's a lifelong friend.
00:38:43.53\00:38:45.59
We met when I was in academy.
00:38:45.60\00:38:48.32
So he was bragging
about how good he felt,
00:38:49.06\00:38:53.45
"Man, I feel so good."
00:38:53.95\00:38:55.35
Gary is a strong
guy, very athletic guy,
00:38:55.38\00:38:57.85
and was a very good athlete.
00:38:57.88\00:39:00.36
Great basketball
player, great football player,
00:39:00.37\00:39:03.20
baseball player, everything.
00:39:03.23\00:39:04.92
But his roommate, Bill
Lingo, and several of us,
00:39:05.32\00:39:09.69
decided that we would
try something with Gary.
00:39:09.72\00:39:13.56
Because we thought we could
influence the way Gary thought
00:39:13.59\00:39:17.14
about things by
saying things to him.
00:39:17.17\00:39:20.55
And we decided that the
next morning at breakfast
00:39:21.13\00:39:25.43
we would tell Gary
that we didn't think
00:39:25.46\00:39:28.17
he looked very good.
00:39:28.20\00:39:29.42
And see if we could
actually make him sick.
00:39:30.18\00:39:33.50
Now I will have to confess,
I was part of this conspiracy.
00:39:34.49\00:39:39.03
But I was the last one to
leave the dorm that morning.
00:39:40.20\00:39:44.44
The others had already
seen Gary over at the cafeteria.
00:39:44.47\00:39:49.21
And they had
started off by saying,
00:39:49.97\00:39:52.09
"Grimes, you feel
alright? You okay?
00:39:52.12\00:39:55.72
You don't look
like you feel too good."
00:39:55.75\00:39:57.54
Two or three people
salted to say that to him.
00:39:57.57\00:40:00.69
Now when I came out of the
dorm and was headed towards
00:40:01.39\00:40:03.60
the cafeteria, I met Gary.
00:40:03.61\00:40:06.15
He's going like this
towards the dormitory.
00:40:06.80\00:40:09.64
I said, "Gary,
you don't look..."
00:40:09.65\00:40:11.62
He said, "I know, I know."
00:40:11.65\00:40:13.45
He didn't even
let me get it out.
00:40:13.85\00:40:15.60
And he was headed to the dorm.
00:40:17.09\00:40:18.38
He was sick for several days.
00:40:18.41\00:40:20.20
And we only in the last
few years confessed our sins
00:40:22.92\00:40:26.71
that we had
disturbed him physically.
00:40:27.50\00:40:30.92
I told him, I said...
00:40:30.95\00:40:32.27
Now I mentioned him
in the book I wrote,
00:40:32.30\00:40:33.88
The Battle Is The Lord's.
00:40:33.91\00:40:35.25
Which they're
offering here with this series.
00:40:35.28\00:40:38.19
But I said, "Gary, now
you're not going to sue me
00:40:38.58\00:40:42.35
if I use your name?"
00:40:42.38\00:40:43.77
He said, "Yea, I'm
going to sue you anyway."
00:40:43.80\00:40:45.85
So he said, "You might
as well go ahead and use it
00:40:45.88\00:40:48.48
because it's in the book."
00:40:48.51\00:40:49.80
I know he's teasing.
00:40:49.83\00:40:50.84
Gary, I know you won't do that.
00:40:50.85\00:40:52.37
We're too good a friends.
00:40:52.40\00:40:53.59
But we've always
had a good time teasing.
00:40:53.62\00:40:56.65
By the way, the Lord
has given him good health.
00:40:56.68\00:40:59.51
Because he walks every
day, he drinks his water,
00:41:00.11\00:41:03.31
he watches all these
different things with diet.
00:41:03.34\00:41:06.93
And he's had a
good long healthy life.
00:41:06.94\00:41:11.14
It pays to do it.
00:41:11.15\00:41:13.09
I guarantee you.
00:41:13.12\00:41:15.10
It pays to watch your health.
00:41:15.13\00:41:19.10
And then the 5th set
of problems are finances.
00:41:19.22\00:41:25.29
I could tell you all
kinds of things about finances.
00:41:25.94\00:41:29.21
It's amazing how
these things will happen,
00:41:29.74\00:41:34.79
and we will
sometimes lose money,
00:41:34.82\00:41:42.34
or let ourselves get into debt,
or have a very difficult time.
00:41:42.37\00:41:48.46
But I'll tell you this, that
the Lord will see you through.
00:41:48.48\00:41:51.11
Every time, He
will see you through.
00:41:51.56\00:41:53.67
I remember one time, we
were just in the ministry.
00:41:53.68\00:41:57.27
And Camille and I had our son
Jimmy and he was just a baby.
00:41:57.86\00:42:02.90
And we had formula
and so forth for him.
00:42:03.84\00:42:08.21
And we sat down and
wrote all of our bills,
00:42:08.61\00:42:13.27
wrote our tithe check
first, wrote all of our bills.
00:42:13.30\00:42:16.85
And we had eleven dollars
left over to make the month.
00:42:16.88\00:42:22.43
And now, we had to buy
groceries, we had to buy gas.
00:42:23.25\00:42:27.66
We had to buy everything
that we needed for a full month.
00:42:27.69\00:42:32.75
And you know, sometimes, when
you're supposed to be the one
00:42:33.49\00:42:37.38
that's providing the bread,
the pressure all of a sudden
00:42:37.41\00:42:42.08
comes on you, and I was tempted
to hold that tithe check until
00:42:42.11\00:42:47.31
somehow I got my finances up.
00:42:47.34\00:42:50.87
You know, I was talking to a
fellow one time that did that.
00:42:51.39\00:42:53.97
And I said,
"How can you do that?
00:42:54.17\00:42:56.28
You know you
shouldn't be doing that.
00:42:56.29\00:42:57.29
It's robbing God."
00:42:57.32\00:42:58.49
He said, "If I can't borrow from
God, who can I borrow from?"
00:42:58.52\00:43:01.30
And he kind of
puzzled me there for a minute.
00:43:01.70\00:43:05.20
But that's not
exactly what the Lord said.
00:43:05.23\00:43:07.81
He says, "Trust Me."
00:43:07.84\00:43:09.50
So I said to Camille, I
said, "Do you think the Lord
00:43:10.35\00:43:14.25
really expects us to turn this
tithe in when we've got a..."
00:43:14.28\00:43:18.82
And I was hoping that
she would say what she said.
00:43:18.83\00:43:21.64
But I had to ask.
00:43:22.42\00:43:24.21
Because you've got eleven
dollars to make the month.
00:43:24.85\00:43:27.31
You know that's
going to be a long month.
00:43:27.88\00:43:29.40
And we were on
the envelope method.
00:43:29.43\00:43:31.02
There was no credit card.
00:43:31.03\00:43:32.45
We didn't have any credit cards.
00:43:32.46\00:43:33.95
Whatever money we had,
we had it in an envelope.
00:43:33.98\00:43:36.82
We had one for this
expense and that expense.
00:43:36.85\00:43:39.66
And they were all gone,
there was nothing in them.
00:43:39.67\00:43:42.69
One just
general; eleven dollars.
00:43:42.72\00:43:45.46
And she looked at me and
she said, "We don't rob God."
00:43:46.91\00:43:50.41
And I felt
ashamed, very much ashamed.
00:43:51.84\00:43:55.22
You know, when you're depressed,
sometimes you just want to
00:43:55.79\00:43:57.76
get out, you
want to go somewhere.
00:43:57.79\00:43:58.91
I said, "Come on,
let's go for a drive."
00:43:58.94\00:44:01.94
Here we've got eleven
dollars to make the month,
00:44:02.64\00:44:05.26
and we're going out and driving
up all our gasoline in the car.
00:44:05.29\00:44:09.20
You don't have a lot of
sense sometimes, you know.
00:44:10.37\00:44:12.98
When we got back,
there was a car out in front.
00:44:13.70\00:44:18.06
And in that car was a friend
that we'd known when I was
00:44:19.77\00:44:24.81
Assistant Pastor
in South Lancaster.
00:44:24.84\00:44:27.87
His name was Howard Lee,
worked for Worthington Foods.
00:44:27.90\00:44:31.45
He was the rep for Worthington
for that part of the world.
00:44:31.48\00:44:35.28
Howard said, "I came by
here and you weren't here.
00:44:36.61\00:44:39.20
I went over to the church
and thought you might be there."
00:44:39.21\00:44:41.70
Now if you knew Howard,
just the fact that he stopped.
00:44:41.73\00:44:44.69
He was going from South
Lancaster to New York City.
00:44:44.72\00:44:47.28
Just the fact that we
would stop was a miracle.
00:44:47.31\00:44:50.73
Period.
00:44:51.56\00:44:52.81
He's a very impatient guy.
00:44:53.31\00:44:55.98
Howard, if you're
watching, I hate to say this,
00:44:56.08\00:44:57.97
but you are a
very impatient person.
00:44:58.00\00:45:00.03
And your wife
will testify to that.
00:45:00.06\00:45:04.53
But he's a very impatient guy.
00:45:04.56\00:45:06.44
And he went to our
house and we weren't there,
00:45:06.47\00:45:08.94
went to the church
and we weren't there,
00:45:08.97\00:45:10.19
came back to the
house and waited on us.
00:45:10.22\00:45:13.15
And he said, "I just wondered,
could you all use some food?"
00:45:14.76\00:45:20.21
Our cupboards were bare.
00:45:21.02\00:45:22.66
We opened up the
cupboards to show him.
00:45:22.69\00:45:24.77
Could we use some food?
00:45:25.24\00:45:26.58
Yeah, we could use some food.
00:45:26.61\00:45:29.33
He said, "I've got some samples,
a lot of new products and stuff
00:45:29.44\00:45:33.01
that Worthington wants
me to have somebody try."
00:45:33.04\00:45:35.95
And he said, "I'd like for
you and Camille to try these."
00:45:35.98\00:45:38.84
Some of them were some
of the new frozen foods.
00:45:38.87\00:45:40.56
We'd never even
eaten some of those before.
00:45:40.59\00:45:43.13
And he brought some of those
and he had some canned goods.
00:45:43.16\00:45:45.82
When he left there, we knew
we would not starve that month.
00:45:45.85\00:45:51.63
We would make it
somehow that month.
00:45:52.20\00:45:54.86
One after another during
that month, miracles took place.
00:45:54.87\00:46:00.47
We started the
month with eleven dollars,
00:46:00.50\00:46:02.96
never asked
anybody for anything.
00:46:02.97\00:46:05.66
Never.
00:46:06.06\00:46:07.24
A refund check came
from where we lived before
00:46:08.02\00:46:11.15
that was from the electrical
company and they had finally
00:46:11.18\00:46:14.59
sent us our deposit back.
00:46:14.62\00:46:16.39
Well there it was.
00:46:16.42\00:46:17.66
We ended the month, we
had everything we needed
00:46:17.69\00:46:21.21
all month long, able to buy our
fuel, able to buy our gasoline,
00:46:21.24\00:46:25.49
able to buy our
food, and ended the month
00:46:25.52\00:46:28.23
with something like 40 dollars.
00:46:28.26\00:46:30.48
And the Lord supplied it all.
00:46:32.06\00:46:37.70
I will tell you
that He will help you.
00:46:38.32\00:46:42.05
Years later, I was in Dallas
Texas and I had just started
00:46:42.08\00:46:46.09
a business and
things were really rough.
00:46:46.12\00:46:49.25
And I was so tense, I
could not figure out what to do.
00:46:50.01\00:46:54.28
And things were so difficult.
00:46:54.31\00:46:56.51
And it seemed like
I could not make it.
00:46:56.54\00:46:59.50
And it looked like things
were really going to be rough.
00:47:00.38\00:47:03.59
I mean, real rough.
They already were rough.
00:47:03.62\00:47:05.65
I went out and I
bought 100 pounds of beans
00:47:06.74\00:47:10.31
and 100 pounds of rice
and put them in a room.
00:47:11.25\00:47:15.33
And I told Camille, "If
things get tough, we will only
00:47:16.47\00:47:21.12
eat out of this,
we will not starve.
00:47:21.15\00:47:23.29
We'll have
something for our family.
00:47:23.30\00:47:24.67
It's just beans and rice,
but we will have something
00:47:24.70\00:47:27.41
for our family.
00:47:27.44\00:47:28.51
We will make it through."
00:47:28.54\00:47:29.98
And then I did
something absolutely insane.
00:47:31.71\00:47:35.31
To show you how insane I was,
00:47:35.34\00:47:37.80
I bought a swimming pool
and put it in the back yard.
00:47:38.89\00:47:41.75
Can you imagine
how foolish that was?
00:47:43.58\00:47:46.68
And then I put a heater in it.
00:47:48.16\00:47:50.84
And I heated that pool to
where it was like a bath tub.
00:47:52.93\00:47:56.33
One of my friends
said, "You've got the biggest
00:47:56.36\00:47:58.00
bath tub in town."
00:47:58.03\00:47:59.33
And every night when I came
home, right after we would eat,
00:47:59.91\00:48:05.01
I would go out and get in
the pool and I would pray,
00:48:05.02\00:48:08.44
in that pool, and ask
the Lord to give me wisdom
00:48:09.89\00:48:15.19
to meet the
problems that we were having,
00:48:15.22\00:48:18.44
and to somehow make things go.
00:48:18.47\00:48:22.38
And I want to
tell you something.
00:48:23.27\00:48:24.88
He did.
00:48:25.56\00:48:26.74
He gave me solutions.
00:48:27.52\00:48:29.15
During that time, one of
the things that I decided was...
00:48:29.16\00:48:33.12
I was losing
money, I was losing money.
00:48:33.15\00:48:36.09
And people said, "How
can you lose money and live?"
00:48:36.12\00:48:39.14
We were taking just a
draw of 1000 dollars a month.
00:48:39.17\00:48:42.42
But the company was
losing, that I owned 100%.
00:48:42.45\00:48:48.49
I was eating into my capital,
eating into borrowed money,
00:48:48.52\00:48:52.97
I was not making any money.
00:48:53.00\00:48:54.75
And so, we decided by
faith we were going to tithe
00:48:56.06\00:49:01.60
even that 1000 dollar draw.
00:49:01.63\00:49:04.21
So we started
paying 100 dollars tithe.
00:49:05.24\00:49:07.59
You know how much
money we had left over at the
00:49:08.00\00:49:09.89
end of the month?
00:49:09.92\00:49:10.92
The same as we did when we
had the whole $1000, nothing.
00:49:10.95\00:49:13.81
But we were giving 100 dollars.
00:49:14.42\00:49:16.77
So out there in that swimming
pool, I just felt the Lord
00:49:16.80\00:49:22.07
encourage me to up it to $200.
00:49:22.10\00:49:24.06
So we upped it to
200 dollars a month.
00:49:24.09\00:49:27.16
How much money did we have at
the end of the month? Nothing.
00:49:28.19\00:49:30.92
We didn't have anything
at the end of the month,
00:49:30.95\00:49:32.38
but we were able to pay that
tithe and still able to make
00:49:32.41\00:49:36.45
all of our bills somehow.
00:49:36.48\00:49:38.44
And then at the end
of about several months,
00:49:39.75\00:49:43.77
I said, "We're going
to go to a third tithe."
00:49:44.17\00:49:46.17
And we went to
300 dollars a month.
00:49:46.20\00:49:49.36
And that time, I backed out
with my car, put it into gear,
00:49:50.37\00:49:57.23
and it wouldn't go.
00:49:57.26\00:49:58.31
My transmission
had just gone kerplunk.
00:49:59.76\00:50:03.46
And I sat there and I
said, "Lord, you know by faith
00:50:04.61\00:50:08.24
we're reaching
out here, by faith.
00:50:08.27\00:50:11.00
There's just no way that we're
going to be able to continue
00:50:11.03\00:50:17.26
tithing if I've
got to do something
00:50:17.29\00:50:18.71
about this transmission."
00:50:18.74\00:50:20.07
So I got it down into one of
the lower gears that would work.
00:50:21.20\00:50:25.14
Nothing else would work.
00:50:26.11\00:50:27.59
And I crept to a
transmission place.
00:50:27.62\00:50:31.72
I got out and I told the man...
00:50:32.59\00:50:35.82
I only had about
70,000 miles on that car, but
00:50:36.32\00:50:39.37
that transmission
was gone, gone, gone.
00:50:39.40\00:50:44.40
I told him, I said, "I
can't afford to do anything."
00:50:45.51\00:50:48.73
He said, "Well, I'll
tell you what I'll do."
00:50:49.46\00:50:51.18
He said, "I can drain
that transmission fluid
00:50:51.60\00:50:54.40
and I will help you the
best I can, and you'll get maybe
00:50:54.81\00:51:00.39
3000 miles out
of this at the most.
00:51:00.42\00:51:04.13
But this transmission
is gone, it's burned up."
00:51:04.16\00:51:06.29
But he said, "I'll drain
it, take all the pieces of
00:51:06.93\00:51:10.24
stuff that's in there
out, and we'll flush it.
00:51:10.27\00:51:15.24
And I think I can get
you a few more miles."
00:51:15.25\00:51:17.59
I said, "Lord, if you'll
just give me 5000 more miles,
00:51:17.62\00:51:22.08
I'll save, I'll do
whatever I can to make it."
00:51:22.63\00:51:26.08
5000 miles.
00:51:26.85\00:51:28.36
I got 5, I got 10,
I got 15, I got 20,
00:51:28.39\00:51:33.65
I got 25, I got
30, I got 35, 40, 45,
00:51:33.68\00:51:38.63
over 50,000 miles
on that transmission.
00:51:38.66\00:51:42.30
The Lord did it.
00:51:42.33\00:51:44.13
He did it because He
will see you through these
00:51:45.17\00:51:48.33
financial difficulties.
00:51:48.36\00:51:49.86
There's just no way that
He is not concerned about you
00:51:49.96\00:51:54.77
and that He will
not bring you through.
00:51:55.42\00:51:59.33
You know, I've mentioned
sometimes to some of you that
00:51:59.85\00:52:07.20
there have been times
when I worried about my family;
00:52:07.61\00:52:11.15
worried about my children.
00:52:11.18\00:52:12.83
Let me tell you
how that got started.
00:52:13.53\00:52:15.45
When I was seven years
old, I remember one night.
00:52:16.45\00:52:21.79
I remember that night just
better than I do some things
00:52:21.82\00:52:25.17
that happened last week.
00:52:25.20\00:52:26.40
We went ingathering,
and what a night I had.
00:52:28.46\00:52:33.07
Biggest night I've ever
had, one of those little cans
00:52:33.58\00:52:36.23
sticking it out
in front of people,
00:52:36.26\00:52:38.02
"I'm a junior missionary
volunteer out working for Jesus.
00:52:38.81\00:52:41.65
Would you like to help?"
00:52:41.66\00:52:43.00
And that had been the
best night that I'd ever had.
00:52:43.85\00:52:47.42
And there were about ten
teams and I was number one.
00:52:47.45\00:52:52.39
I'd never been
number one before.
00:52:52.42\00:52:54.29
And we went home, went to bed.
00:52:54.89\00:52:58.74
In the middle of the
night, the phone rings.
00:52:59.41\00:53:02.40
I remember, my
father, he was standing there
00:53:03.17\00:53:07.46
and he said, "Oh no, no."
00:53:07.49\00:53:10.07
And he hung up, called back.
00:53:10.10\00:53:12.14
My brothers were now in the
hall standing there next to dad.
00:53:12.17\00:53:15.74
Mother was weeping in bed.
00:53:15.77\00:53:17.84
I knew something
was really wrong, but I
00:53:18.34\00:53:20.44
didn't know what it was.
00:53:20.47\00:53:21.47
Then I heard my dad, "Is
this the highway patrol?"
00:53:21.48\00:53:25.10
"Yes, it is."
00:53:25.13\00:53:26.14
Did you just call my home and
tell me that my daughter, Mary,
00:53:26.17\00:53:31.64
was killed in an
automobile accident tonight?"
00:53:31.67\00:53:34.11
And then I heard my dad
say, "Oh, so it's true?"
00:53:36.68\00:53:40.99
Then he hung up.
00:53:41.97\00:53:43.10
Now my brother and I
didn't have our own room.
00:53:43.85\00:53:46.18
In the summer time, we
slept in a corner of my
00:53:46.62\00:53:49.50
mom and dad's room.
00:53:49.53\00:53:50.98
In the front
part of the house...
00:53:51.50\00:53:53.10
We lived in a two bedroom
house with five children.
00:53:53.13\00:53:56.07
In the front part of the
house, my two brother's slept
00:53:56.47\00:53:59.62
just at the edge
of the living room.
00:53:59.65\00:54:01.77
And then my sister
had the other bedroom.
00:54:02.45\00:54:05.99
Four boys, one girl.
00:54:06.53\00:54:07.94
She was the queen of our family.
00:54:07.97\00:54:09.92
Beautiful girl.
00:54:10.66\00:54:11.87
Active girl.
00:54:12.49\00:54:13.63
She'd gone off to school,
gone off to Southwestern.
00:54:13.66\00:54:16.27
And financially we couldn't
make it so she'd come home.
00:54:16.30\00:54:19.96
And so when she came home,
Elder Johnson came to our home.
00:54:20.64\00:54:29.00
The youth
leader, Kimber Johnson.
00:54:29.03\00:54:31.80
Many of you knew him.
00:54:31.83\00:54:33.25
He came to our home to
visit because anytime a kid
00:54:33.72\00:54:37.62
left school, he
would go see them.
00:54:37.65\00:54:39.05
We were so excited.
00:54:40.30\00:54:41.66
My brother Paul and I,
I was seven and Paul was
00:54:41.69\00:54:44.44
four years old,
but we were so active.
00:54:44.47\00:54:47.33
Elder Johnson didn't realize,
to us he was a celebrity.
00:54:48.28\00:54:53.24
We had never seen anybody
from the conference office
00:54:53.27\00:54:55.71
come to our house.
00:54:55.74\00:54:56.93
I mean, this was unbelievable.
00:54:56.96\00:54:58.73
And when he left, my
sister said to my mom,
00:54:59.50\00:55:03.53
"You know, mother, if
anything ever happens to me,
00:55:03.56\00:55:06.28
I want him to have my funeral."
00:55:06.31\00:55:08.98
My mother laughed and
she said, "Honey, you're only
00:55:09.96\00:55:12.24
18 years old.
00:55:12.25\00:55:13.47
Nothing is going
to happen to you."
00:55:13.50\00:55:15.27
And Saturday
night, she was killed.
00:55:16.10\00:55:18.29
Hit by a drunk driver.
00:55:18.32\00:55:19.87
They were in a car and she
and the young man she was with
00:55:20.67\00:55:24.74
were both killed.
00:55:24.77\00:55:25.97
The two in the
front seat survived.
00:55:26.40\00:55:28.62
And now we would
have her funeral.
00:55:29.28\00:55:32.69
I remember that they called
Kimber Johnson to come back,
00:55:33.15\00:55:35.99
but he misunderstood
because the person who called
00:55:36.02\00:55:38.84
was my grandmother.
00:55:38.87\00:55:40.09
And somehow in the connection,
he thought he was coming
00:55:40.12\00:55:43.50
to hold Mary's
grandmother's funeral.
00:55:43.53\00:55:46.75
And when he arrived, he
was late for the funeral.
00:55:47.26\00:55:51.00
He came right to the platform,
had no chance to talk to anyone.
00:55:51.53\00:55:54.75
And when he stepped up to speak,
he looked into the casket.
00:55:54.78\00:55:58.04
And he said
later, "I nearly fainted.
00:55:58.07\00:56:00.44
There was the young
girl I had visited with
00:56:01.05\00:56:03.25
just a few nights before.
00:56:03.28\00:56:05.13
And now she was dead."
00:56:06.44\00:56:07.64
I was young.
00:56:08.31\00:56:09.31
I kept saying to myself,
"When all these people are gone,
00:56:09.94\00:56:14.18
I know the Lord's
going to resurrect her."
00:56:15.03\00:56:17.70
I had studied about
Jairus' daughter in the Bible
00:56:17.73\00:56:20.60
and I just knew
this was going to happen.
00:56:20.63\00:56:22.71
And I kept
waiting for it to happen.
00:56:22.74\00:56:24.53
And finally, it came
time for the family to go.
00:56:25.06\00:56:31.83
My dad lifted me
so I could see her.
00:56:31.86\00:56:34.98
And I was waiting
for this to happen.
00:56:35.80\00:56:38.81
I knew then all of our
family would accept Christ
00:56:38.84\00:56:41.48
if this happened.
00:56:41.51\00:56:42.64
And I knew it was
going to take place.
00:56:42.65\00:56:44.70
And I waited.
00:56:45.19\00:56:46.52
And then they started to close
and I said, "Oh no, don't."
00:56:47.85\00:56:50.51
And then all of a
sudden, I had not cried a bit,
00:56:51.92\00:56:55.14
but at that time, hot
tears shot from my eyes.
00:56:55.54\00:56:58.69
I'll never forget
it as long as I live.
00:56:58.72\00:57:01.44
And I knew what death was.
00:57:02.47\00:57:06.10
And I knew that I
wouldn't see my sister
00:57:06.62\00:57:10.20
until the resurrection.
00:57:10.23\00:57:11.92
That brought a worry that stayed
with me with our children.
00:57:12.56\00:57:17.02
But I've given
that to the Lord now.
00:57:17.75\00:57:20.21
I trust in Him.
00:57:20.48\00:57:21.90
And I know that He's coming back
00:57:22.72\00:57:25.90
and we will have no
worries, no complaints.
00:57:26.51\00:57:30.92