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Worry Class #3 · Wetumpka Church of Christ Online

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All right. All right.
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Where the cliff much better? Thank you.
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Good to see you. We did.
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Yes, sir. I never lost one symptom.
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We didn't have to deal with. Yeah, how you do brother?
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Good to see you. Do I hear that your
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father-in-law has it now? What are his symptoms?
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How is well, I don't know. That was our worst.
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Both first time we had we both ran fever.
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Wendy. I think ran fever couple days.
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More than idea. I ran fever for about three days
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for the Jimmy. Good to see you.
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Brother Perry Baker. Sounds good.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Good to see you brother. But we, yeah, we had hot cold,
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just did it with the fever. We went back and forth between
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those two extremes for about 3 days.
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I don't know. There were times where I could,
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yeah. Call fever and T.
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Wendy had a little bit of stomach issue.
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Three days without without Tylenol and call mainly as a
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fever and call for him. But he's doing a lot better.
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Yeah, thank you. Good to see you.
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All right, good evening to everyone but the Howard good to
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see you brother. Good to see you.
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I know it much better, much better.
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We are back among the living. Yes.
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Thank you. It's good to see.
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Alright, great to see everybody this evening.
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Oh, thank y'all so much for the prayers and calls texts food.
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We just appreciate that. So, very much what we were doing
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with covid last week and feeling a lot better.
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Just a little bit of a lingering cough and, and the energy level,
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not quite back to, you know, where we'd like it to be, but
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otherwise just doing so much better and we're so, so thankful
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for that and appreciate so much y'all's prayers and love and
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concern. Brother, David bass is tested
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positive for covid, so he is home sick.
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So we'll be praying for him and that it doesn't make its run
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through the entire family. Hope, I hope it won't.
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And then sister Vani, she there's been a couple more
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things detected, and she is going to have a lumpectomy.
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And so we need to be praying for her with breast cancer that
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she's dealing with, and she had a really horrible incident
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yesterday. Her next door neighbor.
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Apparently, they raised, and eight point buck from birth to
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adulthood. Good and they keep it on their
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property and it jumped the fence into Von.
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He's yard while she was out in the yard and attacked her.
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It took her about 20 minutes to be able to get the away, from
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the deer to get back into her house.
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She's a little cut up, bruised up.
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She just she's not here tonight. I mean, she was just so shaken
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up by the whole thing. She did not think she was going
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to get away from this deer before it just gourd her to
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death. So it was just a really scary
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thing for her. And so she would love to be here
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tonight. Otherwise, but is her nerves are
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a little shaken by that experience from yesterday.
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So we want to make sure we keep her in our prayers as well.
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So Benjamin, I think you're being asked to do the
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announcements tonight. So if you wouldn't mind,
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remembering those, sister Vani and Brother, David bass in and
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those announcements, anybody else or anything else?
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Need to be made aware of yes, sir were there.
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Is it if it's not it was about to be.
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According to watch this, revani says she said that that she will
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be armed the next time. She's in her yard and she's
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already. Let the neighbor know if it
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comes over again. Yeah, it's it won't live to jump
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the fence the second time. Yes, sir.
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Yes. Yes, thank you, brother.
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Dwayne for that information. So, yeah, that Scott Strauss is
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brother Mark. So, how he had a car accident
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while he's out having some things done with his heart in
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Texas. I think the passenger that it
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was in the car with him was injured and just he's going
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through a real tough time with all that.
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Scott's not feeling too well. So he said that he would not be
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able to be here tonight either. So we'll be praying for him and
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brother, Jimmy. Okay, so you're going in a 5:45
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in the morning to Jackson? Okay.
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Well, we'll be checking on you and praying about that this
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evening as well, brother. Ray that goes very well.
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JP. Yeah, I'm so sorry.
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So yeah, we sure will be. Okay, so to some positive news
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about the potential for the success of this surgery, so we
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will be praying if that's the route that she goes and gives
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her some relief. I know she has had a really
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tough time with all of that. We hate that she deals with all
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that. But let her know we miss her.
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Yes, Melissa. Absolutely.
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Yes, that's Nathan's dad. Some spot showed up after a CT
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scan. So we sure will.
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Add him to our prayer list. Randy gets some better news.
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Anything else? All rice, we have a lot to be
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praying about Premier. Let's go ahead and go to the
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father at this time. Your father, thank you so much
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for the blessing of gathering together as your children, for
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the encouragement that opportunities like this provide
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for us to be able to just encourage one another and love
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on each other and build each other up.
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Father to pursue a continued relationship with you and we
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just pray father that as we enter into a study tonight, that
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it will be beneficial, that it will be glorified.
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Lying to you as far as doing honor to your word and to this
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topic that we're discussing together father.
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We've got several on our heart and mind for the David bass
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who's dealing with covid right? Now.
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We pray that he'll get to feeling much better very soon
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and that the rest of the family will not get it.
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Her sister Vani, the issues that she's dealing with with the
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breast cancer. We want to pray for her, the
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incident that she endured yesterday were just praying that
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you will. Help her have a full healing
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from wounds that she suffered and father, that there will be a
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resolution to that situation that she'll not have to deal
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with anything like that. Going forward, father for
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brother Jimmy. He's having a procedure in the
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morning. We pray for the success of that
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procedure. We do.
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Pray, the your will that it can be outpatient.
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He can get back home quickly and, and fully recover soon for
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Alicia and the Potential surgery that she has coming.
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We just pray that father will be exactly what she needs to get
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some relief from the pain and the discomfort in the things
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that she's been dealing with for quite a while.
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Father, for Nathan Bridges, father.
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We want to pray for him as some concerns after a CT scan.
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We just want to pray that he'll get some good news going
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forward. And if there's anything that
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needs to be done, it could be done quickly and effectively and
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he can enjoy Better Health, father for Randy, the things
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he's having going on with his cancer.
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And with his heart. We just pray, you be with him
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with those that are providing his medical care, that
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everything will work out in accordance with your will, and
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he can get to feeling much better.
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Father from Mark Stowell. Ouch, who is dealing with some
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issues with his heart and also the car accident.
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We're just praying that she'll be with him, helped him to fully
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recover, to get the treatment that he needs for his heart as
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well. And for Scott who's homesick and
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any others, we know of that. Are not able to be here with us
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tonight, due to sickness. We just pray that you'll be with
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each of them as only you can father for brother.
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Terry Sister. Kim, the group that is in Italy.
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Now, we're so thankful for the safety, that you blessed, all of
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that group within their travels there.
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We just pray that you bless them with a wonderful experience and
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safe weeks while there and then a safe return back home.
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When that study abroad experience comes to an end.
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We just pray your blessings to be upon that.
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Good effort, watch over. Is only you can father forgives
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our sins in Jesus name. Amen.
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I was reminded just today of one of the, the motivations that I
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had for entering into this. Series of classes on worry and
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anxiety and depression. And one of those is to hopefully
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if there is any stigma or any taboo attached to us, being open
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and our discussion of this with one another or acknowledgement
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of it when we're dealing with it and our sympathy for one
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another. If we have a brother or sister
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in Christ, that is that is dealing with these issues to be
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able to Feel comfortable in Sharing because there are so
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many who try to battle these issues by themselves and they
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don't reach out for help. And I was reminded of it just
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just with a news article that I came across today.
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I'll share with you the headline, Miss USA, Chesley
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Crist mom posts, emotional message saying, she her daughter
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battled quote, high functioning depression.
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Which she hid from everyone unquote before jumping to her
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death, from a New York City, apartment building.
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You may have heard this story, the former Miss USA, 30 years
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old jump. I think, out of a 60-story
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window of an apartment complex in New York, just a few days
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ago, committing suicide that she was one of those that just to
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look at her. The way, her mom described her,
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you think she The world was hurt, waster and everything was
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just wonderful in her life. She had a very successful.
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I think two or three jobs and sources of income money was not
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a problem for her an issue. She apparently had a lot of
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friends good relationships, and as her mother described her as a
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high as suffering from high functioning depression.
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She went on to say, Her mom revealed that her daughter
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seemingly bubbly and vivacious struggled from high functioning
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depression. Her mother said, quote.
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She led both a public and a private life in her private
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life. She was dealing with
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high-functioning depression, her mental health struggles.
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She kept from everyone, including me, her closest
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confidante until very shortly before her death.
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So this is someone that looked like everything was going
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wonderfully, but was Battling anxiety depression and hid it
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from everyone including her mother and then decided to take
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her life just a few days ago. I'm afraid that story could,
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probably be told over and over again of people who struggle
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with these things. And try to fight the battle all
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by themselves and do not reach out for that encouragement.
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And part of that is sometimes people worry about the reaction.
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Particularly, if it's a Christian and they've heard
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someone say in response to it. Well, maybe you're not living
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right or praying enough for reading your Bible enough.
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And in fact, I have had since starting this class.
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I've had a couple of people that are members here who have said
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not not from someone who's a member here.
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Thankfully. This was someone else, but was a
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Christian, and talking about struggling with chronic anxiety.
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Someone shared with me. The person said, well, then
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you're obviously doing something wrong in your, in your spiritual
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life and was just devastating to this person who is sharing it
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with me. Because, you know, this person
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said I was Trying to do everything to the best of my
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ability. As far as my Christian walk is
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concerned. And to be told that it's
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obviously some deficiency in my spiritual walk as to why I'm
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dealing with. This was was extremely hurtful
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and devastating to her. So, hopefully as we go through
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this, for for a couple more classes will Will have on the
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tip of our tongue. Something.
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Other than that to say, if someone comes to us and shares
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that they are dealing with habitual worry, or anxiety or
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depression, that will have something.
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We're sympathetic something more understanding something more
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loving to be able to offer in response to those that are
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struggling with these things. You may remember that that I
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referred to worry depression anxiety as a gang of Thieves and
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And they robbed us of various things.
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And when I was putting together, the list of things that these
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three emotions are mental States robbed us of one that came to my
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mind, when I was reading that article that I don't think I've
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shared yet in this class is they rob us of our willingness, to
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seek help from Godly friends. You remember, we talked about a
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couple of wins days ago. One of the things That worry
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stress. Our worry, anxiety, depression.
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Robbed us of is Hope. And when you start feeling
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hopeless, then you feel like, well, it's not going to be any
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point for me, to share this with anyone else because there's
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nothing there going to be able to say or do about it.
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That's so when we are robbed of hope.
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We are robbed of seeing any end. In sight to this, this struggle
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to this battle. We don't see any Victory on the
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horizon. We don't see any way of better
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days being in the future and that It's one of the things that
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anxiety and depression in particular.
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So good at is robbing us of that hope.
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And then one of the byproducts of that then is I'm not going to
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share this issue with anyone because what's the point?
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Yeah. That that's that's the mentality
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of hopelessness. Why shared while burden,
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somebody else with what I'm going through because they're
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not going to be able to say or do anything to help me out of
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this situation. So that's one of the things that
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Anxiety depression. Robs us of Proverbs 12:25 says
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anxiety, in a man's heart, weighs him down, but a good word
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makes him glad. And so that one of the primary
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takeaways for this class. I hope will be is if this is a
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struggle for any of us that we will not hold onto it as this
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deep dark secret that we just have to live with.
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And struggle through on a daily basis that we can feel bold in
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sharing it with one another and then we can have the sympathy
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and for some of us that empathy in, in having that good word of
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response that good word of encouragement in response.
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And then one more, and then I'll open the floor for anybody that
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has a thought or comment. Another thing that anxiety and
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depression. Have a tendency to Rob us of is
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an awareness of God's presence and that's what hopelessness
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does. You know, when you're feeling
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hopeless because the Christian faith is predicated upon hope
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right? Isn't that not one of the
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remember a couple of Wednesday's ago we were talking about those
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three things that abide after prophecy, cease after tongue,
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cease after knowledge vanishes away.
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They're in First Corinthians chapter 13, you get to the end
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and yet there are three. Is that a bad?
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What are those three things? Faith, hope and love.
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So hope is one of those, one of those three 10, those three
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pillars, that that our Christian walk is built upon that is
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predicated upon. And so, when we are robbed of
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hope, we are robbed of that. That anchor, that anchor, that
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keeps us grounded in our relationship with Christ.
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In fact, turn with me, if you will to Hebrews chapter 9, so he
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was chapter 6. The Hebrew writer and just a
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beautiful way talks about Hope and how it is an anchor for the
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soul. Of course, we know a significant
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portion of the first, several chapters of Hebrews is the the
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preeminence of Christ, the superiority of the New Covenant
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over the old and how this knowledge of Christ.
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This relationship with him is supposed to empower us in a way
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that the Old Law was not capable of doing and the promises that
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we have in the New Covenant are superior to the promises that
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When Abraham and his descendants experienced in the old Covenant,
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so, that's kind of a little bit of the comparison contrast is
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going on in Hebrews chapter 6 before you get down to verses 13
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through 19. Brandon.
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Are you there? I'll ask you, if you will to
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read for us verses 13 through 19.
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Yes, sir. All right.
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Thank you, Brandon. So you've got that.
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Just beautiful description of these new and better promises
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that come with being part of the New Covenant and living in this
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Christian. Dispensation.
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And he talks about how these promises provide for us this
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this what should be unwavering hope and it anchors us, it
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anchors our soul, that sustains us provides for us this Refuge.
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So you just got that Beautiful description.
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Well, what anxiety and depression do is they robbed us
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of that awareness, that awareness of those promises that
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awareness of God's care. His love his concern.
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His ability to provide for us a refuge is ability and
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willingness to provide for us this anchor of steadfast hope
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and so when we're being robbed of Hope in a, again, another
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thing that comes from that is we're being robbed of this.
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Conscious awareness of God's presence, his care, his love,
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and his ability to get us through whatever storm of life.
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It is, that that may be causing this this anxiety, this
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depression. A lot of times what we feel and
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what we know are two different things.
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And we've talked about this before feelings, are are real.
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But feelings are not always true.
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Are they did Jacob feel real? Just inconsolable grief and
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sorrow when he believed his son. Joseph was dead.
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Was his son, Joseph, Dad. No, but his feelings.
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He was experiencing emotions based on what he thought was
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knowledge of his son. Having been killed, the feelings
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were real, but they were not based on fact.
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And a lot of times what we feel and what we know are are two
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different things, David probably experienced.
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That in a way that few others have the feeling a closeness to
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God's Presence at certain times in his life and feeling a great
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distance from God at other times in his life, when he had allowed
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now, and David's case. Yeah, there were times where it
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was his fault. Sometimes anxiety is brought on
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by things that we've not brought upon our self.
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It's not based on bad choices that we've made bad things that
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we have done. Sometimes.
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Yes, anxiety comes from From those things.
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But a lot of times, it does not. And so David at times
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experienced anxiety, bit was based on ramifications of bad
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choices that he had made. So he understood the extremes of
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feeling like God was not there and feeling like he was right
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there next to him. Turn with me to Psalm 34, and
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this is just a beautiful example.
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Of. The relationship that God wants
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us to have with him. When it comes to an awareness of
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an acknowledgement of and a belief in his presence and his
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ability to deliver us when we're just feeling like life is is
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almost too much to bear. Psalm 34 and let's look at
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verses 1 through 8. For the Daniel, you there?
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You'll go ahead and read that for Psalm 34 1 through 8.
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It's rather ironic the setting for this beautiful Psalm, isn't
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it? When did it say that?
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What was going on in David's life?
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When he pinned these really beautiful words about God's
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presence, his protection his ability to deliver us.
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His ability to here to answer all these things that he says,
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About the beauty of a relationship with the Lord.
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What's going on in his life? He is going to extremes to get
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himself of what he saw as a very dangerous situation.
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So I don't know that you know, pretending to be a mad man.
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You remember has described him. He's just letting the spit and
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the drool just fly out of his mouth down into his beard.
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He's just acting like a lunatic that doesn't sound like a guy
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who man the Lord's. Got my back.
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I just he's going to get me out of this that David how he's
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acting what he knows and See how he's feeling at this time, that
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those seem to be very contrasting.
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Things that are going on here in the setting in which as I kind
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of pictured. This the writing of this Psalm
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is David when he he gets away from a Biblical.
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Did I really just that? I really just do that to get out
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as did. I really really Was God really
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gonna make sure that I was done in at that point?
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Was that was that the end of the road for me or did God have my
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back all along? And I'm sure David is thinking
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that that really, man. That was a lack of faith.
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That was a lack of trust, ready to go to this, kind of to take
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that matters into my own hands to this extreme to try to get
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myself out of this, predicament out of this situation.
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And so one of the things that that anxiety depression in
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particular do is, is they robbed us that Awareness of God's
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presence and they robbed us of that.
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That hope and trust that he has the ability to help us through
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whatever it is that is contributing to this emotional
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state. What we'll get more into that
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here in just a minute. JP, what you got?
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Yes, giving and receiving, right?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Salman. Yeah, exactly.
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Great. Great Point, JP.
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It's it's one of those things where branded I really
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appreciated your lesson Sunday and I loved your reference to
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the father in Mark chapter 9 and you mentioned how he so
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relatable to probably most of us maybe at times all of us.
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If we're honest completely honest with ourselves, you know,
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this is the father who has the the demon Afflicted son.
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Yeah, the the the demon that has caused him to be me.
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You'd and when the demon comes over his son, he makes him
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convulse and foam at the mouth and go stiff as a board and all
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these things that that his son is experiencing when the demon
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overpowers him and and you can imagine the hopelessness because
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you remember first what had he done?
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He gone to the the apostles. He said I I tried to get them to
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do something and they couldn't they couldn't do anything with
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him. And, and he's you remember,
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Jesus asking the question. How long is this going on?
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He said, well since he was little, I mean, he's been
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watching this happen for years to this son.
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And I'm you. Can you imagine that the
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helplessness the hopelessness? And he's probably heard stories
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about these men who have been traveling with Jesus.
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Not only Jesus has the ability to cast out demons, but he's
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probably heard the stories about them doing it as well because
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Jesus has empowered them with the ability.
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But in this particular case, I don't know if it was a lapse.
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The faith or what? It is, the disciples.
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They couldn't cast The Demon out of this Father's son.
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And and so he's coming to Jesus. He's at the end of his rope and
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Jesus asks, him about his, his level of belief.
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And it's one of my favorite responses in all of scripture.
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But because it is so bluntly honest and it, oh, I believe,
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help my unbelief. Yeah, in essence, I believe.
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I'm I want to believe so bad, but It's like he heard the
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words. I Believe come out of his mouth
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and no, please help my unbelief. And I mean, he is just at the
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end of his rope. And you can you can understand
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that that mentality where this has been an issue that has
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affected him. I mean, there's no there's no
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level of hurt like when we see our children hurt, right?
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And so he's been watching this. This son deal with this issue
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and nothing's been able to be done and no one's been able to
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help and so you can just understand why he would worried
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that response the way that he did and I think maybe sometimes
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for those I've struggled with these issues, especially if it's
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been of a chronic nature. And it's been years and maybe
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you've tried all kinds of things, and you've seen the
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relief, you maybe have that same mindset or die.
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I know you're there. I believe you there, but help
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me. Help me feel confident in your
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presence, in your awareness and your ability to, to get me
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through this. We'll talk more about that in
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just a second Peyton. What you got brother?
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Right. Yeah.
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Yes. Absolutely Peyton, sometimes,
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you know, I have to chart every hospice visit that I do, you
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know, it's the all the government, you know, red tape
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and regulations that you're always dealing with and when you
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are charting what it is that you did on a particular visits, one
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of the options that I can put in that I did is provided nonverbal
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presence and support. In other words.
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I didn't provide one single word.
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Heard of solution to your problem or it's all going to be
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better or just have you taken your meds, or, you know, there's
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been in sometimes. It's just, you're there.
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You're listening with the intention of understanding not,
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not of providing some, some answer to this and for people
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who are dealing with anxiety depression.
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Sometimes is I just need another human being to show.
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Genuine love care. Concerning interest in me.
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And just let me In an non-threatening non 0.
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Here's what you need to do. Here's what you're doing wrong.
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Here's what you need. No just just provide me a an
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opportunity to to air it out. And sometimes that's that's the
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best thing that we can. We can provide to a person.
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This is going through it. Yes.
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Absolutely. A lot of people appreciate that
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because then they go go ahead and say, yeah, I'll go ahead and
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let you know exactly what I need right now.
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Either. I'm looking for an answer or no.
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I just need to need to vent brother Danny.
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Period. Fisheries.
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Look like got it all together. And so that makes us seem
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unapproachable those who are struggling. see, that is
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something wrong with me. They have the protein.
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And I think that's one reason we don't have more.
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Oh, Lord. Kim because I want admit.
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They have a weakness. That's it.
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All of that works together. I was a bear one another's
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burdens and so fulfill the law. Hi.
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Nope. sometimes I've found this to be true, you guys people how
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they're doing, look at him and you know, good whether or not
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but Absolutely. Absolutely brother dangerous.
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Great. Great points and exactly, right?
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Yes, Brandon. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yes, they were great friends for
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the first seven days. Oh my goodness.
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Yes. That's right.
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Yeah. Yes.
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So true Brandon, it's a right at the beginning of your comment
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there. When you talk about this
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Obsession that, that our culture in particular, has with youth
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and and health and success as as its defined, an Earthly terms is
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very interesting. Another article that I had read
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about the Miss u.s.a. Winner, who committed suicide
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that we open class night talking about She wrote and it was, it
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was in an article. She had a fear and dread of
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turning 30. She believed that there was and
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she had completely bought into the idea that success happiness.
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Everything is fueled by youth by Earthly success.
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And she looked at turning 30 as just the beginning of the end of
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her life, because she had put so much emphasis on her, physical
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attractiveness, or physical Beauty.
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And, and a lot of her life had been focused on on those types
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of things. And she she it drove her crazy
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that she allowed herself to be so consumed by that mindset.
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And she wish you didn't feel that way.
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She wish she did not dread the aging process.
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The way that she did was very, very interesting, very
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enlightening. The way that she and this was, I
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think months before she made the tragic decision to take her own
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life, but it shows some of the things that contributed to this.
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This depression that she was into this anxiety that she
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suffered from for so long leading up to her death.
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One of the things that we talked about just to kind of recap
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briefly, because our time is almost up, the emotions that God
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has given us in and of themselves, most of them.
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If not, all of them are benign, they become sinful.
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When we start acting on them in ways that are not pleasing to
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God, anger is a God Of an emotion.
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God experiences anger. We experience anger.
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The sin comes. When we allow that emotion to
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contribute to acting in such a way, that, that is sinful,
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either in the way that we speak to someone, or the way that we
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act out against someone in expressing this emotion.
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And so worried concern, we talked about how, you know,
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Jesus experienced worry concern. Anxiousness at times.
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Paul talked about the fact that that he daily dealt with his
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anxiety for his concern for the church has.
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He talked about Timothy, remember can complimenting him
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because of the level of concern that he had, for the, for the
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church in Philippi in particular.
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He said, there's no, there's no one like Timothy in that he
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shares with me my feeling of genuine concern for you.
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And so There, there's a natural component to this emotion when
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it becomes sinful. And displeasing to God, is when
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we allow it to Rob us of the trust that God wants us to have
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in him to help us navigate these difficult things in life.
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Matthew chapter 11, you remember, this is we've talked
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about this before and now our time has just about.
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But this is when John is in prison, he sent the two
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disciples to Jesus with the question.
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Are you the coming one or should we look for another and the
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Jesus responds to them, to take back to John and Matthew chapter
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11 verse 6 is blessed, is he who is not offended because of me,
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that's the way is translated in the King.
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James new King James. It's translated in other ways
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and other translations made to stumble or made to fall away
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depending on the translation that you're reading from the
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Greek word that is translated as offend or made to Fall Away made
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to stumble. It means a 10-8 desire or an
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urge to Desert, or abandon, the one that you should trust and
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obey. And that was just so interesting
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to me when I kind of spent some time meditating upon what it is,
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that Jesus was saying, the message that he was sending back
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to. John blessed are those who are
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not offended by me. In other words, blessed are
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those? That no matter what life throws
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at them? No matter what circumstance,
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they are faced with, no matter how much they may misunderstand
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at times my who I am and how I work, and how I operate, you
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know, as the heavens are higher than the earth.
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So are God's ways, and his thoughts are higher than ours.
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The we can't begin to Fathom his workings and at times that
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causes frustration and confusion for us, and it may cause, and it
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may be that John at this point in time in his life as good of a
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man as he was, you remember before after the Disciples of
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John leave. Jesus says to the crowd
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gathered, you know, those born of woman.
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There's none greater than John, the Baptist he gives him as good
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of a compliment as can be given to a human being and and yet
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maybe Jesus is seeing In this question that John has sent
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these disciples to Jesus with is, is John is feeling a
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temptation to just give up on this whole belief that he has
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had in who Jesus is all. During the course of his Earthly
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Ministry. And so Jesus saying listen, no
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matter what your life circumstances are, no matter how
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much you may not understand why you're going through, what
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you're going through or what you're going through.
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Do not allow those feelings. Do not allow those emotions to
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take you to the point of now, deserting and abandoning the one
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that you should trust and obey. And so that's when these
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emotions can become sinful and displeasing to God is that these
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are natural emotions if they are kept in their proper place.
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But when we allow worry to run amuck, it becomes anxiety.
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And then when anxiety chooses to camp out, it becomes depression.
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And in that sometimes there's a Temptation for us if we're going
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through that is in that hopelessness Lord.
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I don't, I don't feel your presence.
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I don't really think you're there for me.
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I don't anymore trust in your promises that you've revealed in
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Scripture. That's when these emotions take
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us Beyond where they're, they're natural and they're benign, and
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they become now where they are harming us and harming.
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Our relationship with the Lord. We'll get more into some
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solutions. Lord willing.
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Next Wednesday. We've been talking about the
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problem a lot, but we don't want to be just talk about.
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The problem is say well, you know, good luck to all of us.
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We're going to start talking about some solutions and some
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ways to help us through this next Wednesday.
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We're going to thank you so much for good comments and and
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attentions not