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Episode 232 - Do Not Worry · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help
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  Speaker 1: in the time of trouble. Therefore will we not fear.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
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  Speaker 1: makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads
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  Speaker 1: me beside the still waters. He restores my soul. He
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  Speaker 1: leads me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake.
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  Speaker 1: And yea, though I may go through the valley of
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  Speaker 1: the shadow of death, I fear no evil. Why? Because
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  Speaker 1: thou We welcome you once again to this and other
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  Speaker 1: edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am
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  Speaker 1: your host, Pastor Al Zachary. And again, we are privileged
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  Speaker 1: to be chosen by God to speak the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, speak it in love, speak it plainly, speak
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  Speaker 1: it boldly, speak it without compromise. Amen. Because the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord is right. It is a lamp to
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  Speaker 1: our feet. It is a light for our pathway. Wherewithal,
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  Speaker 1: the question is asked, shall a young man cleanse his
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  Speaker 1: way by taking heed to the word of God? The
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  Speaker 1: word of God is settled. Amen. His word has gone
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  Speaker 1: forth out of his mouth. It shall not return unto
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  Speaker 1: him void. And the command has gone forth that man
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  Speaker 1: shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
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  Speaker 1: that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. Again,
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  Speaker 1: so we are, amen, rejoicing. We are privileged. We are Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Excited about what God is doing, being a part of it. Amen. Again, amen.
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  Speaker 1: Privileged to be chosen by God to minister the word
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  Speaker 1: of God, which we do. Amen. Freely, freely we have received,
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  Speaker 1: freely we give. Amen. So again, we take not this, amen,
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  Speaker 1: ministry that we have received in vain. don't receive the
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  Speaker 1: grace of God in vain. So we endeavor to always
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  Speaker 1: be found faithful. Amen. With what God has entrusted to us.
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  Speaker 1: So again, we thank God for each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of you who pray for and or support the work
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  Speaker 1: If you have not shared this podcast with someone else,
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  Speaker 1: are here to disseminate the word of the Lord far
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  Speaker 1: and wide. And we trust the spirit of the living
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  Speaker 1: God to move within the hearts of men and women everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: People need to know truth, live by truth, be set
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  Speaker 1: free by truth. Amen. And that's what Jesus came to do.
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  Speaker 1: came into this world to bear witness to the truth.
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  Speaker 1: That is the only thing that sets men free. Truth.
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  Speaker 1: We live in a world of lies and deception, propaganda. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Under the sway and the influence of that wicked one. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: God's truth marches on. Amen. All right. Today we're again
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  Speaker 1: in the gospel of Matthew chapter number six. Amen. As
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  Speaker 1: we examine the words of Jesus, we're going to focus
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  Speaker 1: on this command that Jesus gives to us as his church. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: As his disciples, do not worry. That is a command.
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  Speaker 1: Do not worry. worry amen before we begin as always
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  Speaker 1: we want to take just a moment as we invoke
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the lord in prayer father we stretch
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  Speaker 1: our hands to thee no other help no other god
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  Speaker 1: no other source you are the creator you are the
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  Speaker 1: sustainer you are the keeper you are the savior you
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  Speaker 1: are the deliverer in you we live move and have
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  Speaker 1: our being and apart from you we can do nothing
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  Speaker 1: so we look now to you Lord help help help
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  Speaker 1: help help save save deliver deliver set free open blinded
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  Speaker 1: eyes deaf ears may they be unstopped and may people
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  Speaker 1: come to know that you are the true and the
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  Speaker 1: living God and the Savior of all them that believe
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  Speaker 1: be thou glorified in all that we say and do
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus the Christ of Calvary we
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  Speaker 1: pray and give thanks amen and amen do not Let
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  Speaker 1: me share a few quotes, three quotes in particular with
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  Speaker 1: you before I begin. Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with
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  Speaker 1: today's strength, carrying two days at once. It is moving
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  Speaker 1: into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of
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  Speaker 1: its sorrow alone. It empties today of its strength. Corrie
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  Speaker 1: ten Boom. Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives
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  Speaker 1: you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. Glenn Turner.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, Robert Frost. This quote is attributed to him.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why worry kills more people than work is
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  Speaker 1: that more people worry than work. The word of God
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  Speaker 1: is replete with admonitions for the people of God to
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  Speaker 1: not worry, to not be fearful, but to trust in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord implicitly. As a matter of fact, Proverbs 3
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  Speaker 1: and 5 tells us to trust in the Lord with
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  Speaker 1: all of your heart and lean not to your own understanding.
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  Speaker 1: We are called to trust in the Lord, trust in
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  Speaker 1: his promises that he has made known to us. For
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  Speaker 1: us to worry, for us to be anxious, for us
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  Speaker 1: to fret, for us to live in fear, for us
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  Speaker 1: to doubt is failure on our part. To believe God.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew's Gospel. Chapter number 6. Verse number 25. We begin
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  Speaker 1: reading there. From the New King James Version. These are
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  Speaker 1: the words of Jesus. Teaching. Therefore I say to you. Do. Not. Worry.
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  Speaker 1: About your life. Now the key words. Three words. Do
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  Speaker 1: not worry. Do not worry, Jesus says. Do not worry
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  Speaker 1: about your life, what you will eat or what you
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  Speaker 1: will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.
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  Speaker 1: Is not life more than food and the body more
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  Speaker 1: than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for
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  Speaker 1: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet
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  Speaker 1: your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you, brother, not of
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  Speaker 1: more value than they? Which of you, by worrying, can
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  Speaker 1: add one cubit to his stature? So why do you
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  Speaker 1: worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how
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  Speaker 1: they grow. They neither toil nor spin. And yet I
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  Speaker 1: say to you that even Solomon in all his glory
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  Speaker 1: was not arrayed like one of these. Now, if God
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  Speaker 1: so clothes the grass of the field, which today is
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  Speaker 1: and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not
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  Speaker 1: much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: do not worry. What shall we eat? Or what shall
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  Speaker 1: we drink? Or what shall we wear? For after all
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  Speaker 1: these things, the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows
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  Speaker 1: that you need all these things. Make no mistake about it.
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  Speaker 1: We live in a world of worrying. We live in
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  Speaker 1: a world of fretting. We live in a world of fear.
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  Speaker 1: We live in a world of uncertainty within the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of men. Men who do not believe the word that
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  Speaker 1: God has revealed to us in the scriptures. However, For
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  Speaker 1: the people of God, for those of us who are
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  Speaker 1: saints of the most high God, for those of us
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  Speaker 1: who are in the church of the living God, in
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  Speaker 1: these very same scriptures, we have promises. We have been
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  Speaker 1: provided protections. We have been given blessed assurance in order
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  Speaker 1: for us to trust in the Lord and to not
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  Speaker 1: live our lives fretting, living in terror of what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen today, what's going to happen tomorrow. What is
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  Speaker 1: your life? The Bible asked this question, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: What is your life? It's but a vapor. You're only
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  Speaker 1: here for a season. Why, why, why, why are we
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  Speaker 1: worried about tomorrow? Why do we fret over that which
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  Speaker 1: we have no control? So Jesus has issued a directive.
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  Speaker 1: He's issued a command to all of us who would
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  Speaker 1: come to be followers of his. Do not worry. We
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  Speaker 1: are not to worry very specifically about What is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen on the tomorrows? We have sufficient troubles. We
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  Speaker 1: have sufficiency in what's happening today than to be overly
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  Speaker 1: saturated with what may happen tomorrow. We are not to
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  Speaker 1: worry about our own mortal lives even. Jesus told us
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  Speaker 1: in this world, don't worry about your life. See, we've
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  Speaker 1: been called as people of God to have total trust
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  Speaker 1: and complete, full reliance upon Jesus, who is our Lord
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  Speaker 1: and Savior and good shepherd who cares for us. He
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  Speaker 1: is the one who will leave the 99 and go
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  Speaker 1: after the one that is astray, the one that is
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  Speaker 1: prey to the wolves. Amen. Jesus cares for, he said,
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  Speaker 1: not one hair. not one hair, not one sparrow falls
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. So do not worry. Do not worry
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  Speaker 1: about your life. Do not worry about what food you're
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  Speaker 1: going to eat. Do not worry about what you're going
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  Speaker 1: to drink. Don't even worry about your body. Don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about your clothing, what you're going to put on, what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to wear, how much time and energy, and
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  Speaker 1: effort is exhausted, even in the church, amongst the people
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  Speaker 1: of God, about worrying concerning food. Even though we have food,
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  Speaker 1: we have pantries full of food, we have refrigerators full
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  Speaker 1: of food, we have freezers full of food, and we
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  Speaker 1: have money to buy additional food, and yet we still
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  Speaker 1: worry about what we're going to eat, whether we have
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  Speaker 1: enough To sustain us. For three months. For six months.
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  Speaker 1: In case. Of a storm. Or a power outage. We worry.
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  Speaker 1: We worry. We worry. Do. Not. Worry. About the tomorrows.
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  Speaker 1: Don't even worry about your life. As a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 1: We are crucified with Christ. The life that we now
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  Speaker 1: live is no longer ours. We have become martyrs for Jesus. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Martyrs for the kingdom. Don't worry about your life. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: told his disciples, listen, don't worry about what men will
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  Speaker 1: do to you. Some of you will be killed. He
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  Speaker 1: told them. But don't worry. I'm reminded. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorites. One of my favorites in the book of
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  Speaker 1: the Acts of the Apostles, how Peter, after the death
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  Speaker 1: of James, by the way, who was killed, a man
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  Speaker 1: slain after the death of Stephen, who was the first
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  Speaker 1: recorded martyr of the church. Peter was apprehended because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy of our souls, the enemy of the church,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy of the people of God, that old serpent,
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  Speaker 1: the devil, A man was out to destroy the church.
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  Speaker 1: And so he always begins with, amen, intimidation tactics. And
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  Speaker 1: so he murdered. He murdered. Jesus called him out for
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  Speaker 1: what he is. He's a thief. He's a murderer. He's
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  Speaker 1: a liar. Amen. And so he has murdered at least
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  Speaker 1: two recorded martyrs so far in the book of the Acts.
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  Speaker 1: And now Peter has been apprehended. And put in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Awaiting execution. But before. The execution. Before the enemy. Could
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  Speaker 1: have his way. His desire. By the way Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: already told Peter. Satan desires to have you. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to sift you as wheat. But I prayed for you.
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  Speaker 1: That your faith will not fail. And by the way.
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  Speaker 1: The faith of Peter was so strong. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: what he was doing? On that fateful night. Supposedly. Before
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  Speaker 1: he was to be executed, read it in the book
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  Speaker 1: of the Acts chapter 12. If you're unfamiliar with the story,
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  Speaker 1: Peter was sleeping, chained between soldiers. He wasn't worried. He
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  Speaker 1: did not worry about his life. He wasn't worried about
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  Speaker 1: his future. He wasn't worried about where he was going.
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  Speaker 1: He knew he was assured that absent from the body,
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  Speaker 1: he would be present with the Lord. That's what Jesus
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  Speaker 1: told that thief on the cross. Today, you will be
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  Speaker 1: with me in paradise. Don't worry about your life. Don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about what you're going to eat. Don't worry about
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  Speaker 1: what you're going to do. Don't worry about your body.
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  Speaker 1: These are the words of Jesus. Don't worry about clothing.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the birds. Look at the birds, Jesus says.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the birds of the air. These birds are
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  Speaker 1: not sowing anything. They're not working and laboring in the fields.
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  Speaker 1: They're not planting crops. No. And they're not reaping anything.
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  Speaker 1: They don't store up anything. They don't have warehouses and
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  Speaker 1: barns and storage facilities stocked with worms. No. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: God takes care of them and you are of more
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  Speaker 1: value than the sparrow. And not one of them, Jesus again,
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  Speaker 1: reminds us, not one of them falls to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: It's your heavenly father. Doesn't know about. You are of
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  Speaker 1: more value. And then Jesus said, does worrying add anything?
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  Speaker 1: Can you increase your stature? Can you increase your standing?
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  Speaker 1: Can you increase your value? Can you increase your wealth,
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  Speaker 1: your potential? Can you increase anything by worrying? Well, you
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  Speaker 1: can increase the risk of dying. We know that. Medically,
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  Speaker 1: it's been proven how anxiety, worry, fear, amen, exacerbates, causes problems,
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  Speaker 1: with the internal organs. Not to mention the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the spirit man is troubled by worrying. It doesn't add anything.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't benefit us to worry. Why worry about that
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  Speaker 1: which we cannot control? Jesus says, consider, consider, consider. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the birds. Look at the birds. And then consider
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  Speaker 1: the flowers of the field. The flowers do not toil.
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  Speaker 1: They don't toss. They don't turn. Amen. And Solomon, who
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  Speaker 1: was immensely wealthy, in his finest apparel, Jesus said, at
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  Speaker 1: his finest, at his best, he was not arrayed like
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  Speaker 1: one of these. Solomon at his best was incomparable. to
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of what God created. And these things in nature,
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  Speaker 1: they don't worry. Now if God cares. To beautify the grass.
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  Speaker 1: Of the field. That will be mowed down. If God cares.
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  Speaker 1: To give. Majestic. Beauty to the wheat. Of the fields
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  Speaker 1: that will be harvested. And thrown into an oven. And.
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  Speaker 1: To make bread. Will he not. All the more. Care
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  Speaker 1: for what. We have need of. This is what Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is emphasizing here. Why. Are you worrying. Do not be
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  Speaker 1: of so little faith. This is what the Gentiles do.
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  Speaker 1: This is what those. Who are. Unlearned. about Jesus, who
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  Speaker 1: don't know their creator, who don't know the savior, the redeemer,
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  Speaker 1: who don't live in this hope that we have. Why
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  Speaker 1: worry like the Gentiles do? Why fret like those who
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  Speaker 1: live in fear, who live in doubt, who live in unbelief?
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  Speaker 1: Do not be of so little faith. This is what
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  Speaker 1: the Gentiles do. This is what the heathen does. This
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  Speaker 1: is what the unlearned man does. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus gives us these words. I'm reading again from Matthew's
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  Speaker 1: Gospel chapter 6 down at verse number 33 now. But
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  Speaker 1: seek first the kingdom of God. See, stop worrying. Stop fretting.
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  Speaker 1: Stop With the anxiety. Seeking. Tomorrow. Next week. Next month.
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  Speaker 1: Next year. James said what we ought to say is.
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  Speaker 1: If the Lord will. We will do this and do that.
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  Speaker 1: In other words. It's trust. We don't be presumptuous. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: We're not to live presumptuously. presuming on tomorrow. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: seek the kingdom first. Seek the things of heaven first.
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  Speaker 1: Lay up store. We have talked about this earlier. Your
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  Speaker 1: treasures in heaven, Jesus taught. Seek the kingdom first. It
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  Speaker 1: must be priority in our lives. The things of the kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: the intangible The invisibles. Amen. The immortal things. The eternal things.
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  Speaker 1: Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Seek
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  Speaker 1: to live holy. Seek to do right. To do good.
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  Speaker 1: To be pleasing. To live holy and godly in this
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  Speaker 1: present world. Seek that. Seek that. Seek to please God.
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  Speaker 1: Seek to be found faithful. Oh, yes. Seek that. Seek
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  Speaker 1: that first. And Jesus says, all these things shall be
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  Speaker 1: added to you. What things? Food. Your drink. Your body
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  Speaker 1: will be taken care of. Clothing. Housing. Your very life itself.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, I've come that you might have life and
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  Speaker 1: have it what? More abundantly. That's above, that's beyond what
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  Speaker 1: the Gentiles will have. That's above, that's beyond what the
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  Speaker 1: unbeliever will have. That's above, that's beyond what the agnostic,
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  Speaker 1: the atheist so-called will have. All these things will be
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  Speaker 1: added to you. Therefore, Jesus says, Do not, verse 34, again,
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  Speaker 1: do not worry. That's the key. Do not worry. Do
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  Speaker 1: not worry about tomorrow. For tomorrow will worry about its
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  Speaker 1: own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Do not worry, saints. Do not worry, church of the
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  Speaker 1: living God. Do not worry. Those of you who. Believe
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  Speaker 1: in God. That's what Jesus said. If you believe in God.
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  Speaker 1: Believe also in me. Don't let your heart be troubled.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let it be afraid. Amen. You will have trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told us. By the way. You will have trouble.
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  Speaker 1: In this world. You will have tribulation. But. At the
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  Speaker 1: same time. Church of the living God. People of God.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the midst of trouble. And tribulation. And persecution. Problems.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, be of good cheer. Be of good. Don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry. Let me close with these words of admonition.
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  Speaker 1: And again, the Bible is replete. And I could go
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  Speaker 1: on and on ad nauseum with all of the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: of not to fear, not to worry. Fret not yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 37. Oh, the beautiful Psalm. Read it, please. Fret
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  Speaker 1: not yourself because of evil doers. The one who bring
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  Speaker 1: his wicked devices to pass. The wicked will cease from troubling.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry. Philippians chapter 4 verses 6 and 7. We
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  Speaker 1: close with these words of admonition to the church, to
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  Speaker 1: the people of God. Listen to what the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: The Apostle Paul. Be anxious for nothing. But in everything
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  Speaker 1: by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. By the way, that's
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  Speaker 1: the key. Oh my God, that's the key. Learning how
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  Speaker 1: to be thankful. In all things. So. With prayer and supplication. Please.
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  Speaker 1: Always be thankful. And he says. Let your requests. Be
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  Speaker 1: made known to God. And then watch what happens. Verse 7.
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  Speaker 1: And the peace of God. Which surpasses. All understanding. Will
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  Speaker 1: guard you. your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. You
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  Speaker 1: will live a life above worry, anxiety, fear, fretting, doubt,
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  Speaker 1: and unbelief. When you trust God, when you cast all
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  Speaker 1: your cares upon Him, when you lean not to your
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  Speaker 1: own understandings, When you believe the report of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Do not worry, my brother, my sister. God takes care
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  Speaker 1: of his own.