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Max Lucado – Yes, You Can: Trust God to Help You Through · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: God is the God of fresh starts and new beginnings
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  Speaker 1: and second chances. God is the God of glory days.
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  Speaker 1: And if you could use some glory days, then welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the study of the book and life of Joshua.
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  Speaker 1: God gave him and the children of Israel a second
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  Speaker 1: shot at the promised land. They took it and they
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  Speaker 1: were never the same again. And if you're interested in
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  Speaker 1: taking a shot at the promised land, You'll love this story.
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  Speaker 1: You were given an outline as you came in. This
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  Speaker 1: is section number two, our lesson number two. We began
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  Speaker 1: last week. We'll continue through the end of June. A
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  Speaker 1: study of glory days. Let's pray together and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to work. We thank you, Lord, for calling us
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  Speaker 1: together today. We ask that you'd please have mercy upon
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  Speaker 1: the speaker. His sins are many. Grant us to see Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Through Christ we pray. Amen. The time has come to
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  Speaker 1: attack the disease. It has raged untouched too long. It
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  Speaker 1: has infected unhindered too many. Misery bobs in its wake,
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  Speaker 1: abandoned dreams, ravaged marriages, and truncated hopes. Hasn't the malady
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  Speaker 1: of contaminated enough lives. It's time to declare war on
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  Speaker 1: the pestilence that goes by the name, I can't. It
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  Speaker 1: attacks our careers. I can't keep a job. Self-control, I
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  Speaker 1: can't resist the bottle. Our marriages, I can't forgive. Our faith,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe that God cares for me. I can't
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  Speaker 1: The phrase loiters at the corner of discouragement and despair.
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  Speaker 1: Had Joshua mumbled the phrase, who would have doubted him?
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a minute and look at Joshua's difficulties. Beginning
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  Speaker 1: in chapter 1, in verse 1 of this Old Testament book,
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  Speaker 1: after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: We're only words into the book and already someone dies.
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  Speaker 1: The story of Joshua begins with a funeral, the funeral
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  Speaker 1: of Moses, not just anyone, Moses. Moses was everybody to
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew people. When the people were enslaved, Moses was
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  Speaker 1: the one who confronted Pharaoh. When the Red Sea raged,
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  Speaker 1: Moses was the one who prayed for help. When the
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  Speaker 1: slaves were hungry or thirsty or confused, Moses was the
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  Speaker 1: one who prayed and God responded. God answered his prayers.
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  Speaker 1: Moses was Mandela to the Hebrew people. So to lose
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  Speaker 1: Moses was to lose the cause. Imagine the dismay. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: the fear. Imagine the grief. But the grass had yet
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  Speaker 1: to grow over Moses' grave, and God told Joshua, Moses
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  Speaker 1: is dead now, therefore what?
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  Speaker 2: Arise.
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  Speaker 1: We would have expected him to say, Moses is dead now,
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  Speaker 1: therefore grieve, retreat, reorganize, find a therapist. Instead, he says,
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  Speaker 1: now therefore arise. And already just one verse into the
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  Speaker 1: book and we're getting hints as to a major theme
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  Speaker 1: in the book of Joshua. And that is God's strength
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  Speaker 1: is the strength that matters. Moses may be dead, but
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  Speaker 1: God is alive. The leader may be gone, but the
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  Speaker 1: leader is present. Even so, Joshua could have said, I can't,
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  Speaker 1: I can't do this. He had several reasons not to.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he had about two million reasons not to.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the census recorded in the book
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  Speaker 1: of Numbers, chapter 26, an interesting detail surfaces. And that
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  Speaker 1: is Joshua led into Canaan 601,738 men aged 20 and over.
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  Speaker 1: Assuming that two-thirds of those men each had one wife,
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  Speaker 1: and assuming that that man and wife had, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of kids, the number of this population swells
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  Speaker 1: quickly to over two million people. Keep that in mind
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  Speaker 1: as you're reading through the book of Joshua. Joshua is
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  Speaker 1: not leading a Boy Scout troop through Canaan. This is
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  Speaker 1: a city the size of San Antonio or San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: Two million people, two million inexperienced people, they've never been
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  Speaker 1: to Canaan. They've been out in the wilderness. They've never
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  Speaker 1: seen a fortified city like Jericho or trained fighters like
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  Speaker 1: the fighters of Ahi. They can fight snakes. They can
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  Speaker 1: handle the desert. But do they have any response to
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  Speaker 1: the iron-wheeled chariots of the Canaanites? And speaking of the Canaanites,
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  Speaker 1: what about all these enemies? The Amalekites, the Hittites, the Canaanites,
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  Speaker 1: the Amorites, the Jerichoites, the Selulites. Odd names to us,
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  Speaker 1: but these names struck fear in the hearts of the
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew people. You need to understand, for 400 years, these
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  Speaker 1: people had a stronghold on this land. They were referred
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  Speaker 1: to as early as in the days of Abraham in
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  Speaker 1: the book of Genesis, when God told then Abram, Know
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  Speaker 1: certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land
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  Speaker 1: that is not theirs and will serve them and they
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  Speaker 1: will afflict them 400 years. But they shall return here
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  Speaker 1: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
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  Speaker 1: God foreseeing the evil hold that the Amorites would have
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  Speaker 1: on this land. That it would continue for 400 years.
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  Speaker 1: For 400 years these people had contaminated this land that
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  Speaker 1: God had given to Abraham. Historians tell us that they
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed babies in worship. That they practiced orgies. They dedicated
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  Speaker 1: themselves to witchcraft and idolatry. The Talmud, which is the
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  Speaker 1: ancient commentary on the Bible from the Jewish culture, called
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  Speaker 1: the Amorites an evil and sinful people whose wickedness surpasses
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  Speaker 1: that of any other. Whose life will be cut short
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  Speaker 1: on earth. Yet another reason for Joshua to say, I
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  Speaker 1: can't do this. I can't. Moses is dead. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of inexperienced tenderfoots. Two million of them.
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  Speaker 1: I can't. Have you seen the people on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the Jordan River? They eat folks like us
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  Speaker 1: for breakfast. But Joshua never had a chance to declare defeat.
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  Speaker 1: He was still reeling from the death of Moses and
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  Speaker 1: then the invitation of God when God gave them this declaration.
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  Speaker 1: Look at it. Arise and go over this Jordan, you
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  Speaker 1: and all this people, to the land which what? I
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  Speaker 1: am giving them. Underline that phrase. I am giving them.
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  Speaker 1: Not the land I might give them. not the land
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  Speaker 1: you must conquer, not the land of which you must
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  Speaker 1: prove worthy, not the land you must earn, confiscate, conquer,
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  Speaker 1: or purchase, but you must go to the land I
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  Speaker 1: am giving them. A transaction had already happened. God was
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  Speaker 1: giving them the land. The victory had already been won.
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  Speaker 1: The decision had already been made. So victory was certain
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  Speaker 1: because victory was God's. When I was 16 years old,
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  Speaker 1: something remotely similar happened to me. One night at the
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  Speaker 1: Locato dinner table, somewhere between the passing of the beans
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  Speaker 1: and the passing of the peas, a set of keys
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  Speaker 1: appeared on the table next to my plate. I looked
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  Speaker 1: at the keys, and the ensuing dialogue went something like this, Max,
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  Speaker 1: What are these keys? Dead. Keys to a Plymouth sedan
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  Speaker 1: that's parked out in the driveway in front of the house. Max,
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  Speaker 1: whose car is it? Dead.
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  Speaker 2: Yours?
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  Speaker 1: Max, are you serious? Dead. Serious is a heart attack. Max, gulp.
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  Speaker 1: I had asked my dad for a car every single
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  Speaker 1: day of my life. In my sonogram picture, I am
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  Speaker 1: holding a sign that says, car, please. Other babies, when
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  Speaker 1: they say their first word, say, mama. I said, Mustang.
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  Speaker 1: But my father's stock reply to my daily pleadings was, Max, please.
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  Speaker 1: You will have a car once you, and then fill
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  Speaker 1: in the blank. Earn it, buy it, save up for it,
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  Speaker 1: qualify for government subsidy. He made it clear car acquisition
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  Speaker 1: was my job. But then came this wonderful, glorious event.
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  Speaker 1: This change of course in which he handed me the keys.
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  Speaker 1: In a moment of weakness, he didn't hand me payment vouchers.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't hand me car payment requirements. It turned out
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  Speaker 1: the company for which he worked, Exxon, called Humble in
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  Speaker 1: those days, was auctioning off a bunch of company cars,
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  Speaker 1: dirt cheap. And in a moment of weakness, he bought
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  Speaker 1: me one. Here's an old... sedan, four-door company car, but hey,
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  Speaker 1: who's picky? I had a car. He handed it to me.
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  Speaker 1: I had a car because he decided to give it
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  Speaker 1: to me. Simple as that. The Hebrews had this land
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  Speaker 1: because God determined that it would be theirs. Simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: About the time Joshua lifted his jaw off the ground,
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  Speaker 1: God gave him the specks of a land. He said,
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  Speaker 1: every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I,
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  Speaker 1: there it is again, have given you. As I said
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  Speaker 1: to Moses, from the wilderness of this, in this Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: as far out as the great river, the river Euphrates,
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  Speaker 1: and all the land of the Hittites, And to the
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  Speaker 1: great sea toward the going down of the sun, this
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  Speaker 1: shall be your territory. Now these were gypsies. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: own a sandlot. They didn't have anything. Yet in one
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  Speaker 1: grand divine fiat, they were given the land of their dreams.
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  Speaker 1: Really the choice property on the planet. God handed Joshua
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  Speaker 1: the keys. And Joshua, in a great moment of faith,
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  Speaker 1: took the keys and said, I accept it. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: wondering if it is time for you to do the same.
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  Speaker 1: If you have given your heart to Christ, God has
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  Speaker 1: given Canaan to you. If you have given your heart
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  Speaker 1: to Christ, then God already has given you a promised land.
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  Speaker 1: The book of Ephesians in many ways is a New
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  Speaker 1: Testament version of the book of Joshua. And in Ephesians
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  Speaker 1: chapter 1 and verse 3, Paul says, God has blessed
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  Speaker 1: us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. What's the tense here?
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  Speaker 2: Past.
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  Speaker 1: This is past tense. He has blessed us. Not he
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  Speaker 1: will bless. Might bless. Someday could bless. There's no conditional
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  Speaker 1: language here. There's no secret, hidden. This is a statement
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  Speaker 1: of something that has happened. The promised land property has
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  Speaker 1: been placed in your name. Canaan has already been given
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  Speaker 1: to you. A transaction has happened in the heavenly courtroom
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  Speaker 1: in which your name has been written at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the deed that says promised land. You already have
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  Speaker 1: access to every spiritual blessing that God can give. Stated
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  Speaker 1: another way, you already have everything you need to be
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  Speaker 1: everything God desires. You already, and I do too, have
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  Speaker 1: everything you need to be everything God desires. This very
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  Speaker 1: well may be the greatest secret of Christendom. We underestimate,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, what happened to us and what happens to
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  Speaker 1: others upon conversion. Most people, when asked, what happened when
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  Speaker 1: you became a Christian, will say something like, well, my
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  Speaker 1: sins were washed away. I was forgiven. I was cleansed.
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  Speaker 1: And indeed you were. Cleansing happens upon conversion. But most
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  Speaker 1: people limit it to a cleansing, an act of forgiveness,
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  Speaker 1: a washing away of the past. As one man said,
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  Speaker 1: you go in an old clunker and you go through
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  Speaker 1: the car wash and you come out a clean clunker.
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  Speaker 1: Most of us assume that conversion is simply a matter
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  Speaker 1: of cleansing of sin, which it is. But oh, there
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  Speaker 1: is so much more. You see, in God's plan, you
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  Speaker 1: go in a dirty clunker, but you come out a clean,
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  Speaker 1: sleek Maserati. He removes the old engine, caked and cracked
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  Speaker 1: and broken as it is with rebellion and evil. And
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  Speaker 1: he places within it a humming, roaring version of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. He embeds within you. He embeds. Don't look
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  Speaker 1: at me like I'm making this up. He embedded within
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  Speaker 1: you the very presence of himself. He has blessed you
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  Speaker 1: with every spiritual benefit, every heavenly blessing. That's why the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul said, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he
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  Speaker 1: is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: all things have become new. All things, all things new.
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  Speaker 1: Potential for a new attitude. Potential for a new self-control.
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  Speaker 1: Potential for a new faith. Potential for a new compassion.
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  Speaker 1: All things have become new. For Joshua, glory days began
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  Speaker 1: with a paradigm shift. Joshua 101 says, see life differently.
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  Speaker 1: You need a new paradigm shift. The old paradigm said,
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  Speaker 1: if I work hard enough, I can achieve the promised land.
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  Speaker 1: The new paradigm says, you have the promised land, now
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  Speaker 1: receive it. The old paradigm says, earn God's favor and
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  Speaker 1: he will bless me. The new paradigm says, I have
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  Speaker 1: God's favor. Now I'm going to learn to receive the
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  Speaker 1: blessings of God. The old paradigm said, if I save
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  Speaker 1: up enough money, I can get a Plymouth. The new
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  Speaker 1: paradigm said, hey, I got a Plymouth. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to drive it. I'm going to take good
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  Speaker 1: care of it. Thanks, Dad. See the difference? One is
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness. One is in Canaan. God wants to
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  Speaker 1: move us into Canaan. In Canaan, we do not fight
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  Speaker 1: for victory. We fight from victory. In Canaan, we do
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  Speaker 1: not fight for victory. We fight from victory. In the
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  Speaker 1: wilderness you strive. In Canaan you trust. In the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: you seek God's attention. In Canaan you have God's favor.
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  Speaker 1: In the wilderness you seek to be saved. In Canaan
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  Speaker 1: you know you are saved. You move from wanting to
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  Speaker 1: be to believing you already have. God has given us
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  Speaker 1: everything we need for living a godly life. Everything.
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  Speaker 2: Everything.
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  Speaker 1: God will equip you with all you need for doing
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  Speaker 1: His will. You see, when you were born into Christ,
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  Speaker 1: you were placed in Christ's royal family. As many as
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  Speaker 1: received Him, He gave the right to become children of God.
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  Speaker 1: And since you're a part of the family, you have
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  Speaker 1: access to the family blessings, all of them. In him,
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  Speaker 1: we also have obtained an inheritance. The will has been executed.
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  Speaker 1: The courts have been satisfied and your spiritual account has
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  Speaker 1: been funded. You are no longer a slave, but God's child.
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  Speaker 1: And since you are his child, he has also made
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  Speaker 1: you and what? An heir. Are you surprised? You ain't
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  Speaker 1: heard nothing yet. In another passage, the Apostle Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit Himself bears witness that we are children of God.
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  Speaker 1: And if children, then heirs. Look at this. Heirs of
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  Speaker 1: God and joint heirs with Peter, Paul, Moses.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: We are joint heirs with Christ. Whatever Christ has access to,
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  Speaker 1: we have access to. Don't look at me like that.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever Christ has access to, we have access to. As
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle John said in 1 John 4 17, our
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  Speaker 1: standing in the world is identical with Christ's. This means
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  Speaker 1: that God has placed on this planet right now people
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  Speaker 1: in whom he dwells they are a chosen people empowered
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  Speaker 1: people they have something that others do not They have
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  Speaker 1: the living presence of Christ within them. They have access
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  Speaker 1: to power that others do not have. And if you
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  Speaker 1: have said yes to Christ, then Christ has handed the
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  Speaker 1: keys to Canaan to you. Astounding, isn't it? Which raises
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  Speaker 1: this question. How then do we explain the disconnect? How
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  Speaker 1: do we explain it? If we're coyers with Christ, why
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  Speaker 1: do we struggle so in life? If our inheritance is
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  Speaker 1: perfect peace, why do we feel like a perfect mess?
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  Speaker 1: We have access to the joy level of Jesus, yet
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  Speaker 1: we plod along like dyspeptic donkeys. God has given us
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  Speaker 1: the trust fund that makes Bill Gates look like a pauper,
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  Speaker 1: and yet we still worry, we still fret, we're still anxious.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why? I can think of a couple of reasons. One,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know about our inheritance. I have a hunch
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  Speaker 1: that vast numbers, thousands of Christians just don't know this.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know the exceeding greatness of his power toward
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  Speaker 1: us who believe. No one ever told us that we
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  Speaker 1: fight from victory, not for victory. Some Christians never live
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  Speaker 1: out of their inheritance because they just simply didn't know
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  Speaker 1: they had one. They thought wilderness was where we're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be. There's a Native American fable about a brave
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  Speaker 1: who happened upon a nest of eagle eggs. Deciding to
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  Speaker 1: have some fun, he took one of the eagle eggs
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  Speaker 1: and he placed it in a nest with some prairie chickens.
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  Speaker 1: The eggs hatched and the changeling eagle believed himself to
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  Speaker 1: be a prairie chicken. So he spent his life clucking
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  Speaker 1: and cackling and scurrying. He never tried to fly much
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  Speaker 1: more than a few feet off the ground. He thought
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  Speaker 1: he was destined to be a chicken. Then one day
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  Speaker 1: an eagle soared through the sky and something within him leapt.
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  Speaker 1: And he looked up and he said, oh, what a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful bird. What is that? And one of the chickens said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's an eagle. You can never be one of those.
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  Speaker 1: And he believed the chicken. And he went about his
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  Speaker 1: task of dirt scratching, bug eating, and clucking. When you
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  Speaker 1: read the story of Jesus Christ in the gospel, something
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  Speaker 1: within you leaps. He was never anxious. He always seemed
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  Speaker 1: to have wisdom. He was also compassionate. He respected the
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  Speaker 1: beauty of every person. There was just something about him.
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  Speaker 1: The most perfect person to ever live. Something inside you says,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be like him. But Satan has turned
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  Speaker 1: millions of demons loose on this planet like chickens. And
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  Speaker 1: they whisper to us, oh, you can never do that.
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  Speaker 1: You were born the wrong era. You come from the
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  Speaker 1: wrong generation. You don't have the right gender. You're not
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  Speaker 1: educated enough. Look at your past. And so the eagle
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  Speaker 1: flies and we cluck, cluck, cluck. But every so often,
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  Speaker 1: someone defies the voices of I can't and hears the
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  Speaker 1: voice that says, with Christ I can. And they begin
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  Speaker 1: to soar. Because they realized that they had been given
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  Speaker 1: an inheritance. Moses, when he spoke to the children of
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  Speaker 1: Israel in the wilderness days, he had to remind them,
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  Speaker 1: God brought us out of Egypt so he could give
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  Speaker 1: us the land he had sworn to our ancestors. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, God brought you out of Egypt so he
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  Speaker 1: could take you in. He brought you out so he
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  Speaker 1: could take you in. They were happy for the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: God says the same to us. I brought you out
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  Speaker 1: of sin so I could take you into power. I
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  Speaker 1: brought you out of fear so I could take you
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  Speaker 1: into courage. He didn't bring us out just to clean
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  Speaker 1: us up and leave us there. He brought us out
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  Speaker 1: to turn us from old clunkers into powerful forces. He
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  Speaker 1: needed to remind the children of Israel of this. I
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  Speaker 1: think we need the reminder as well. Maybe you didn't
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  Speaker 1: know this. Now you do. Which brings the second question.
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  Speaker 1: Will you trust it? Will you trust it? This is
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  Speaker 1: the second explanation for our weakness. We simply don't believe
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  Speaker 1: our inheritance. I had trouble believing my dad would give
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  Speaker 1: me a car. But you can bet your sweet September
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't long until I was putting that promise to test.
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  Speaker 1: Joshua believed. Will you believe? Will you begin to live
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  Speaker 1: like a child of inheritance? God told Joshua, every place
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  Speaker 1: that the sole of your foot will tread upon I
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  Speaker 1: have given you. As I said to Moses, implied in
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  Speaker 1: that statement is, I made this promise 40 years ago
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't take me up on it. Glory Days
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  Speaker 1: could have begun 40 years ago, but the people didn't
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  Speaker 1: believe me. Much to Joshua's credit, he believed. And he
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  Speaker 1: said about the task of inheriting the land. What about you?
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe that you are embedded with the very
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  Speaker 1: presence of God? Do you believe... that you are embedded
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  Speaker 1: with the very presence of God? Do you believe that
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  Speaker 1: when you walk into a room, the presence of God
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  Speaker 1: is in that room? Do you believe that even though
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  Speaker 1: you can't forgive someone, God can, and since He can,
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  Speaker 1: you can. And even though you can't quit drinking, God can,
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  Speaker 1: and since He's in you, you can. And even though
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  Speaker 1: you can't control your temper, control your tongue, control your
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  Speaker 1: sexual urges, God can. And with His help, He can
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  Speaker 1: change you. Day by day, you have access to the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual power. Every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies is yours.
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  Speaker 1: And it's simply a matter of learning to drive the Plymouth.
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  Speaker 1: learning to live in the new land, learning to live
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  Speaker 1: with your new identity. You see, wilderness people and Canaan
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  Speaker 1: people have two different outlooks. Wilderness people say, I'm weak
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  Speaker 1: and I'll always be weak. Canaan people say, well, I
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  Speaker 1: was weak, but I'm getting stronger. Wilderness people say, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a victim of my environment. Promised land people say, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a victor in spite of my environment. Wilderness people say,
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  Speaker 1: no one in my family has ever amounted to much.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I won't either. God's people say, doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: what my family did because I am now born into
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  Speaker 1: the family of God. We can only imagine what would
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  Speaker 1: happen if a generation of Christians lived out of their inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: What would happen if God's people really lived like God's people?
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  Speaker 1: Men would turn off internet porn. Lonely women would find
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  Speaker 1: comfort in God, not in the arms of strangers. Struggling
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  Speaker 1: marriages would spend more time in prayer, less time in anger.
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  Speaker 1: Children would consider it a blessing to care for their
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  Speaker 1: aging parents. A chicken coop full of Christian eagles would
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  Speaker 1: vacate the barnyard. Let's say, I can't less. Let's begin saying,
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  Speaker 1: I can more. God's power is very great for those
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  Speaker 1: of us who believe. That power is the same strength
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  Speaker 1: God used to raise Christ from the dead. I want
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  Speaker 1: to encourage you. Turn your I can'ts into I can's.
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  Speaker 1: With Christ I can. I can do all things through Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Because he gives me the strength. A new day awaits
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  Speaker 1: you my friend. A new day of discovery. A new
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  Speaker 1: day of hope. A new day of power. You are
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  Speaker 1: no longer the person you used to be. And you're
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  Speaker 1: just a fraction of the person you're going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Because by God's power, we're going to all learn what
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  Speaker 1: it's like to be children of the promise. Inherit God's
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  Speaker 1: promised land.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Good days are ahead. Let's all be standing. Let's make
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  Speaker 1: this declaration. The words will appear on the screen. Fill
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  Speaker 1: your lungs with air, your hearts with hope, and say
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  Speaker 1: it like you mean it. These days are glory days.
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  Speaker 1: My past is past. My future is bright. God's promises
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  Speaker 1: are true and his word is sure. With God as
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  Speaker 1: my helper, I will be all he wants me to be,
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  Speaker 1: do all he wants me to do and receive all
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  Speaker 1: he wants me to receive. These days are glory days. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We try our best, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We have to have your help because even as we
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  Speaker 1: seek to be people of the promise, we fall back
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  Speaker 1: and become people of the curse. Today, Lord, though, we're
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  Speaker 1: stepping forward in faith, stepping into the promised land, asking you, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: to help us be the people you want us to be.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for the gift. Thank you for your love.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your favor. Thank you for your devotion
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  Speaker 1: to us. Through Jesus we pray. And all the church said?
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  Speaker 4: So so.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be all right. You don't have to stay. If
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  Speaker 2: you've already chosen, I.
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  Speaker 3: Won't stand in your way. I can feel it in
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  Speaker 3: your distance, in the way you barely speak. Like your
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  Speaker 3: heart is somewhere else now, somewhere I can't reach. I
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  Speaker 3: was trying just to hold us While you slowly slipped
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  Speaker 3: away Now I'm left with all the silence.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't want to say Maybe I just held on
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  Speaker 5: To something.
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  Speaker 1: Already gone.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be fine, you can.
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  Speaker 5: Leave You don't owe me anything If your heart is
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  Speaker 5: found away Out of.
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  Speaker 3: What we used to be I'll be fine, don't.
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  Speaker 4: Look back I'll survive this empty space Not tonight, maybe
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  Speaker 4: not soon But I'll.
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  Speaker 2: Learn To be okay We don't need to fake the
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  Speaker 2: feeling I can see it in your eyes There's no
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  Speaker 2: reason left for staying When.
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  Speaker 4: The love already died.
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  Speaker 2: Through the quiet in your voice.
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  Speaker 4: I can hear your choice. I'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: You can leave. You don't owe me anything.
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  Speaker 5: If your heart has found a way. Out of what
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  Speaker 5: we used to be.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be fine. Don't look back.
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  Speaker 4: I'll survive this empty space. Not tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not soon.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll learn to be okay.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need a reason why.
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  Speaker 4: I can see it in goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: And it breaks me, it does.
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  Speaker 4: But I won't ask you to stay. I'll be fine.
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  Speaker 4: You can't leave.
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  Speaker 5: You don't owe me anything.
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  Speaker 1: If your heart is found away.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be fine, don't look back I'll survive this empty
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  Speaker 4: space Not tonight, maybe not soon But I'll learn I'll
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  Speaker 4: be all right.