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Awesome Message - Calmness is VERY contagious- Minister Max Lucado · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Past, we believe that God is writing a new chapter
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  Speaker 1: in your life and in mine in which anxiety is
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  Speaker 1: steadily diminishing and peace is constantly increasing. God has a
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  Speaker 1: remedy for our anxiety, a prescription, and that prescription is
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  Speaker 1: found in the book of Philippians chapter 4. The words
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  Speaker 1: are going to appear on the screen. Some of you
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  Speaker 1: have the passage memorized. I invite you to say the
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  Speaker 1: passage out loud with me. We're working through it phrase
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  Speaker 1: by phrase during the summer. I hope that these words
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  Speaker 1: are helping you understand God's solution for anxiety.
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  Speaker 2: You ready? Sit up straight.
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  Speaker 1: Fill your lungs with air. Fill your hearts with hope.
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  Speaker 1: Say the words like you mean it. If you know
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  Speaker 1: it by memory, close your eyes and see how you do.
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  Speaker 3: Ready?
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  Speaker 2: Rejoice in the Lord always.
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  Speaker 1: Make your requests known to God. And the peace of God,
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  Speaker 1: which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts.
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  Speaker 2: And minds through Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble,
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  Speaker 1: whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things
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  Speaker 1: are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there
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  Speaker 1: is any virtue, Lord, let these words sink into our
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  Speaker 1: hearts like summer rain on a dry soil, bringing life.
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  Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, grant us us the skill, the spiritual skill
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  Speaker 1: to deal with anxiety. We'd know, Lord, that anxiety comes
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  Speaker 1: with life, but it doesn't have to take our lives.
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  Speaker 1: And so, Heavenly Father, we pray that we could rejoice
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  Speaker 1: in you, that our gentleness could be evident to everybody,
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  Speaker 1: we could be aware of your presence, that we could
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  Speaker 1: make all our requests known to you through prayer and
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  Speaker 1: supplication with thanksgiving in our hearts, and that we could
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  Speaker 1: anticipate the peace of God That surpasses all understanding. And
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  Speaker 1: that we would meditate upon the things. Upon which you
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  Speaker 1: want us to meditate. Thank you Lord. Forgive our speaker.
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  Speaker 1: His sins are many. And help us to see Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Just Jesus. Through Christ we pray. And all the church said. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Well the next time you find yourselves. Discussing the unsung heroes.
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  Speaker 1: Who have saved the world. Put this name on your list.
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  Speaker 1: Vasili Arkhipov. In 1962, Varsily Arkhipov was the chief of
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  Speaker 1: staff for four Russian submarines that came within a trigger
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  Speaker 1: squeeze of destroying the world. The four vessels were a
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  Speaker 1: part of the Soviet Northern Fleet. And they set sail
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  Speaker 1: in 1962 under the cloak of secrecy. The Soviet commanders
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  Speaker 1: gave each submarine captain a set of secret instructions that
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  Speaker 1: he was to open up only at sea. The crews
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  Speaker 1: assumed that they were being sent on a training mission
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  Speaker 1: off the Siberian coast. They were to learn that they
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  Speaker 1: were actually directed to race 5,000 miles to the southwest
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  Speaker 1: to protect the city of Havana, Cuba. The next three
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  Speaker 1: weeks tested the resolve of the saltiest of the sailors.
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  Speaker 1: In order to move quickly, the subs traveled on the
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  Speaker 1: surface of the water and they sailed right into Hurricane Daisy.
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  Speaker 1: 50-foot waves left the men nauseated and the operating systems compromised.
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  Speaker 1: Then came the warm water. These subs were designed for
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  Speaker 1: the polar waters off the coast of Russia. They were
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  Speaker 1: not prepared for these tropical climates. They did not have
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  Speaker 1: cooling systems adequate to maintain a comfortable temperature. Consequently, some
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  Speaker 1: of the subs reached temperatures inside of 120 degrees. Crewmen
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  Speaker 1: battled the heat, claustrophobia. And by the time they drew
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  Speaker 1: near to the coast of Cuba, you could say they
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  Speaker 1: were anxious. They were troubled. There was stress everywhere. Then
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  Speaker 1: came the unexplained and cryptic instructions from Moscow, not to
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  Speaker 1: protect the city of Havana, but to patrol, of all things,
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  Speaker 1: the coast of Florida. They entered American waters, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they did, the American fleet came down upon them.
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  Speaker 1: On October 27th, they realized they were surrounded by a
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  Speaker 1: dozen American ships, and they had to make a decision.
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  Speaker 1: the Americans began setting off depth charges. The Russians thought
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  Speaker 1: they were under attack.
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  Speaker 2: This is when the captain lost his control.
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  Speaker 1: The Soviet captain of the four submarines gathered his officers
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  Speaker 1: in his quarters and he made an announcement that went
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  Speaker 1: like this. We are going to blast them now. We
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  Speaker 1: will not disgrace our Navy. What the Americans did not
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  Speaker 1: know about these four submarines, and what I have not
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  Speaker 1: told you, I've been saving it for now, is that
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  Speaker 1: each of these four submarines carried a nuclear warhead. Each
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  Speaker 1: warhead sufficient enough to blow up an American city. The
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  Speaker 1: captain gave the command to launch the warheads just miles
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  Speaker 1: from the Florida coast Had it not been for Vasily Arkhipov,
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  Speaker 1: who knows what would have happened. But he spoke up. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: he was the chief of staff. He invited the captain
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  Speaker 1: to step to the side. Vasily Arkhipov is remembered as
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  Speaker 1: a slightly older man, soft-spoken, well-respected. He asked for a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes with his superior. And with all respect, he
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  Speaker 1: asked him to reconsider the command that he had just given.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be wise for us to see what the
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  Speaker 1: Americans have in mind. And he convinced the superior to
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  Speaker 1: allow the ships, the submarines to come to the surface.
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  Speaker 1: And there they were greeted by the Americans. They weren't
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  Speaker 1: taken captive. In fact, we will never know what the
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  Speaker 1: Americans intended to do because within a few hours the
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  Speaker 1: submarines dove and were able to slip back out and
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  Speaker 1: go all the way back to Russia where this story
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  Speaker 1: was kept under wraps until 2002. And more than one
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  Speaker 1: historian has hailed our keep off as an unsung hero.
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  Speaker 1: the director of the National Security Archives said, the lesson
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  Speaker 1: from this event is that a guy named Vasily Arkhipov
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  Speaker 1: saved the world. Now, why do I tell you this story?
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to spend three weeks in a sweltering
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  Speaker 1: Russian sub, but you may spend three months carrying a
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  Speaker 1: heavy load in a semester. You may spend a difficult
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  Speaker 1: year sailing into the Difficult winds of a difficult economic
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  Speaker 1: situation you may spend months at the bedside of a
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  Speaker 1: sick child or an aging parent you may spend a
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  Speaker 1: series of weeks battling the sense of anxiety and You
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  Speaker 1: will be tempted to press the button Not on a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear warhead but.
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  Speaker 2: On your anger.
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  Speaker 1: On your emotions You will be tempted to release into
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere a series of accusations or bitterness or anger.
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  Speaker 1: And you could possibly do harm to others as a
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  Speaker 1: result of your anxiety that has gone unchecked. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: how many of you have suffered at the hands of
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  Speaker 1: someone's unbridled.
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  Speaker 2: Anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: And I wonder how many disasters have been averted because
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  Speaker 1: somebody like this unsung hero was able to keep their
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  Speaker 1: calm while the rest of the world was losing theirs.
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  Speaker 1: The apostle Paul has a phrase for this ability. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like to fill in the blanks, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to look at the.
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  Speaker 2: Exhortation of Paul.
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  Speaker 1: He urges us to be Contagiously calm, contagiously calm. Let
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  Speaker 1: your gentleness be made evident to all. This word gentle
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  Speaker 1: literally means level-headedness, clear thinking, under control. not a person
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  Speaker 1: of panic. The opposite would be the one who overreacts,
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  Speaker 1: who flies off the handle. The idea here is of
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  Speaker 1: a person who reacts in a calm fashion in a
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  Speaker 1: difficult season.
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  Speaker 2: It's a calmness, a tranquility.
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  Speaker 1: And the apostle says, let your gentleness be made evident
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  Speaker 1: to all. In other words, let your life issue a
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  Speaker 1: calm spirit that people notice. Don't we love the person
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  Speaker 1: who is contagiously calm? Just as fear is contagious, so
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  Speaker 1: is tranquility. And you love that person at work who
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  Speaker 1: always keeps a cool head while everybody's losing theirs. You
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  Speaker 1: love that person in the football huddle who says, now.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just settle down, guys. We'll be okay.
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  Speaker 1: You love that person at school who says, I know
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  Speaker 1: the principal's in a bad mood, but we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be all right. You love that person who steadies the ship,
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  Speaker 1: who calms everything down, who settles the family down, who
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  Speaker 1: settles the company down. This is the person who carries
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  Speaker 1: a spirit of contagious calm. Just as fear is contagious,
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  Speaker 1: so is faith. So I'm hoping that you'll catch a
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  Speaker 1: case of faith and that you'll spread it everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 1: this contagious calm. So where do you catch a case
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  Speaker 1: of calmness? Well, the apostle says you catch it as
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  Speaker 1: you come to understand that the Lord is near. These
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  Speaker 1: two phrases work hand in hand, right? Let your gentleness
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  Speaker 1: be made evident to all.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord is near.
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  Speaker 1: So as we come to an understanding of the presence
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  Speaker 1: of God, there is a calmness that happens. Oftentimes, when
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  Speaker 1: we find ourselves in seasons of anxiety, we assume that
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  Speaker 1: God is not near. Or if God is near, He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't care. We interpret the presence of problems as the
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  Speaker 1: absence of God. That's mistake number one. It's the most
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  Speaker 1: common mistake. When you're lying in a hospital room, when
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  Speaker 1: you're walking into a divorce court, when you're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: a season of stress, you're assuming that God is not near.
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  Speaker 1: that creates then a cycle of anxiety. Because number one,
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  Speaker 1: you have the problem. And then number two, you got
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  Speaker 1: to face it by yourself. It's one thing to have
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  Speaker 1: the problem, but to be all alone with the problem,
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  Speaker 1: that makes things worse. And so a cycle, a downward spiral.
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  Speaker 1: of anxiety is created where I've got a problem, I
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  Speaker 1: got to fix it. I got a problem, I got
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  Speaker 1: to fix it. And down and down and down you go.
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  Speaker 1: So the apostle anticipating this says, now you be the
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  Speaker 1: person who has this tranquility that others notice. Let your
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  Speaker 1: gentleness be made evident to all because the Lord is near.
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  Speaker 1: You're the one who says, well, God's with us. God's
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  Speaker 1: still here. My friends have left, my health has left,
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  Speaker 1: my youth has left, but my God has not left.
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  Speaker 1: It's this resolve, this belief that I'm going to trust
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God. I think this is why that
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  Speaker 1: theme of God's presence is so pervasive in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're barely into the book of Genesis and
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing God come and walk in the garden with
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  Speaker 1: Adam and Eve and We're hearing comments like this from
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  Speaker 1: God to Abraham. God said, do not be afraid, Abram.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your shield, your exceedingly great reward. When Hagar and
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  Speaker 1: her son Ishmael were banished from Abraham's land, an angel
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  Speaker 1: told her, don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 2: God has heard.
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  Speaker 1: When Isaac was expelled, God said, don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 2: I am with you.
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  Speaker 1: When Jacob was afraid, God said, don't be afraid to
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  Speaker 1: go to Egypt. I will make you a great nation there.
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  Speaker 1: Over and over we see this theme. Don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 2: I am with you.
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  Speaker 1: To Joshua, God said, do not be afraid. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you
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  Speaker 1: wherever you go. This is the recurring theme. And isn't
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  Speaker 1: this the announcement of Bethlehem where God became flesh and
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  Speaker 1: He took on the name Jesus Christ, but he also said,
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  Speaker 1: and you can call me Emmanuel, which means God with us.
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  Speaker 1: His nickname is God's in the neighborhood. God is with us.
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  Speaker 1: God is next door. And then before his crucifixion, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I must leave so that the Holy Spirit can come.
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  Speaker 1: And the Holy Spirit will not only be near you,
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  Speaker 1: he will be where? In you for all time. So
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  Speaker 1: central to the promise of God is this theme that
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  Speaker 1: you will never be where God is not. Would you
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  Speaker 1: receive that right now, please? Just let that sink down
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  Speaker 1: in your heart and tell yourself, I'll never be where
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  Speaker 1: God is not, no matter where I go.
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  Speaker 2: No matter how frightening the flight might be.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how dark the hospital room might be, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how quiet the.
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  Speaker 2: Room might be, I am never where God is not.
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  Speaker 2: God is there.
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  Speaker 1: Now you just kind of let that sink in. Let
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  Speaker 1: that become a defining part of who you are. The
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  Speaker 1: psalmist said, the Lord is with me. I will not
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  Speaker 1: be afraid. What can mere.
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  Speaker 2: Mortals do to me?
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  Speaker 1: Once you realize that the Lord is with you, that's
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  Speaker 1: a game changer, right? That changes everything. God's message is
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  Speaker 1: the same. It's not up to you. Now, what's interesting
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  Speaker 1: is how easy it is for us to miss this message.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that is the point of one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite stories in the Bible. And that is the
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  Speaker 1: story of Philip. So we're moving from Paul's exhortation to
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  Speaker 1: Philip's exhortation.
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  Speaker 2: Calculation. Calculation.
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  Speaker 1: Philip is the fellow in the Bible who counted the coins,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't count on Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Here's his story.
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  Speaker 1: He was there the day that Jesus told the disciples
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  Speaker 1: to feed thousands of people.
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  Speaker 2: It's in the book of John.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus lifted up his eyes and seeing a great multitude
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  Speaker 1: coming toward him, he said to Philip, where shall we
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  Speaker 1: buy bread that these may eat? But he said this
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  Speaker 1: to test him for he himself already knew what he
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  Speaker 1: would do.
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  Speaker 2: This was a crowd, we're later to.
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  Speaker 1: Read, of 5,000 men plus women and children. If you're
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  Speaker 1: watching the game tonight that has teams that don't include
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  Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs, but look around, you'll see 15,000
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  Speaker 1: people in that arena. That's about how many people were
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  Speaker 1: standing before the disciples.
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  Speaker 2: They had anxious faces. They had growling stomachs.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus turned to the disciples and said, Where are
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  Speaker 1: we going to get food to feed these people? He
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  Speaker 1: specifically spoke to Philip. And he did this to test Philip.
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  Speaker 1: To develop a skill within Philip. To reveal something to
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  Speaker 1: Philip about Philip.
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  Speaker 2: Why Philip?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Philip seems to be the calculating guy. He's the
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  Speaker 1: bottom line pragmatist. He's the fellow who always consulted the
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  Speaker 1: resources and made the decisions. Because we know this because
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  Speaker 1: of what he said. Philip answered him, 200 denarii worth
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  Speaker 1: of bread is not sufficient for them that everyone may
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  Speaker 1: have a little. 200 denarii. One coin was called a denarius.
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  Speaker 1: So this is plural for denarius. So 200 denarii is
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  Speaker 1: not enough. Where did he get that number?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Could be he just pulled it out
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  Speaker 2: of the air. Or it could very well be that's
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  Speaker 2: how much money they had.
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  Speaker 1: That he went and he looked in the purse and
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  Speaker 1: he said, well, okay, we got 200 coins.
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  Speaker 2: That's not going to get us very far.
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  Speaker 1: And so when Jesus says, now where are we going
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  Speaker 1: to get the food to feed all these people? Philip,
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  Speaker 1: the pragmatist, goes and he looks in the bank account.
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  Speaker 1: He opens the purse. He opens the wallet and he
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  Speaker 1: counts the money. He looks to the resources that they
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  Speaker 1: have and he says, we don't have enough. His friends
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  Speaker 1: agreed with him. Because according to Matthew. All of the
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  Speaker 1: disciples got together. And they came to Jesus. And they
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  Speaker 1: said this. Now send the crowds away. Send them away.
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  Speaker 2: So that they can go to the villages.
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  Speaker 1: And buy themselves food. Tell them just to leave. We
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  Speaker 1: can't solve this problem. Send them away. How respectful does
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  Speaker 1: that sound to you? They don't say master. They don't
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  Speaker 1: say we have a suggestion. No. They don't say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we discussed it. We do have one idea. They come
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  Speaker 1: to him in mass with a very grumpy spirit. At
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  Speaker 1: least it seems to me. And they say, now here's
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  Speaker 1: what you need to do, Jesus. And they tell the
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  Speaker 1: Son of God how to handle a problem. Send them away.
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  Speaker 1: Tell them to get lost. We've looked at our provisions.
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  Speaker 1: We've looked at the problem. There aren't enough provisions to
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  Speaker 1: handle the problem. So take this problem and tell them
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  Speaker 1: to leave. If we could interview Philip, I would like
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  Speaker 1: to ask him one question. I would say, Philip, on
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  Speaker 1: that day in which you were responding to this question
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  Speaker 1: from Jesus, did it ever occur to you to ask
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to help? Did it ever occur to you to say, well, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: where shall we get food?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I bet you do. I bet
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  Speaker 2: this isn't a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Did it occur to you to take this problem and
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  Speaker 1: give it back to Christ? And just say, would you
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  Speaker 1: mind helping us solve this? Because by this point in
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  Speaker 1: their history with Jesus, they had seen him do some
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  Speaker 1: remarkable things. I made a list of what they have seen.
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  Speaker 1: By this point, they have seen Jesus heal lepers, heal
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  Speaker 1: the centurion's servant. heal Peter's mother-in-law, calm a violent sea,
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  Speaker 1: heal a paralytic, heal a woman who had been sick
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  Speaker 1: for 12 years, raise a girl from the dead, drive
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  Speaker 1: out an evil spirit, heal a demon-possessed man in a cemetery,
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  Speaker 1: cast an evil spirit out of a boy, change water
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  Speaker 1: into wine, heal a man who had been an invalid
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  Speaker 1: for 38 years. And these are just the things we're told.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that would be a reasonable question to
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  Speaker 1: ask Philip? Philip, you've seen all of these things. Did
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  Speaker 1: it occur to you or any of the apostles to say, well, hmm,
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  Speaker 1: what if we go.
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  Speaker 2: Ask Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: To handle these people? Maybe he has a solution that
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  Speaker 1: we have not seen. The stunning answer is that not
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  Speaker 1: one of the disciples asked Jesus for help. He was
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  Speaker 1: standing right there. They could reach out and touch him.
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  Speaker 1: They could talk to him. They could kneel before him.
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  Speaker 1: They could ask him questions. But not a single one
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  Speaker 1: of them asked Jesus for help. Instead, when they had
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  Speaker 1: a problem, they, instead of consulting Christ, counted their coins.
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  Speaker 1: And they counted one, two, three, four. We've got 200
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  Speaker 1: of them here.
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  Speaker 2: That's not enough.
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  Speaker 1: This problem cannot be solved. The maker of the heavens
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  Speaker 1: and earth is standing right here. And yet they're counting
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  Speaker 1: their coins.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you.
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  Speaker 1: Just got to think Jesus, it was all he could
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  Speaker 1: do to control himself. Well, a boy shows up with
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  Speaker 1: a basket of food. And so Jesus just takes over.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, have the people sit down. There was plenty
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  Speaker 1: of grass in that place, and they sat. About 5,000
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  Speaker 1: men were there, and they took the loaves, gave thanks,
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  Speaker 1: and distributed to those who were seated as much as
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  Speaker 1: they wanted.
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  Speaker 2: He did the same with the fish.
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  Speaker 1: When they all had enough to eat, he said to
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  Speaker 1: his disciples, Gather the pieces that are left over. Let
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  Speaker 1: nothing be wasted. So they gathered them, and they filled
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  Speaker 1: how many baskets?
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  Speaker 2: Twelve baskets. How many apostles were there, by the way? Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: With pieces of the five barley loaves left over by
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  Speaker 1: those who had eaten. I wonder if every apostle got
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  Speaker 1: a souvenir basket that day to take home.
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  Speaker 2: A basket full of the food they said they did
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  Speaker 2: not have.
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  Speaker 1: Not one penny was spent. They started the day with
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  Speaker 1: 200 coins, ended the day with 200 coins. Turns out
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  Speaker 1: that Philip's formula was inaccurate. Turns out that Philip forgot
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  Speaker 1: the first thing that Philip should have done. But we
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  Speaker 1: learn a lesson as a result. And that is your
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  Speaker 1: first step when you have a problem that's bigger than you.
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  Speaker 2: Consult Christ. Consult Christ. Here's the application. Begin with God.
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  Speaker 2: Begin with God.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're not You're not feeding 15,000 people, but you
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  Speaker 1: may have a deadline in about two days that's got
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  Speaker 1: you sucked under. You're not feeding 15,000 people, but you
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  Speaker 1: may be dealing with a cranky boss or a job
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  Speaker 1: situation that's impossible. You're not feeding 15,000 people, but you
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  Speaker 1: may be married to someone who's in hormonal free fall
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  Speaker 1: or to a man who can't resist temptation. You may
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  Speaker 1: be dealing with an issue in your family that you
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  Speaker 1: cannot solve. Some of you have been carrying and facing
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  Speaker 1: a problem all your life. And right now, please hear
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  Speaker 1: me right now. The Holy Spirit is saying, I will
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  Speaker 1: carry that if you'll bring it to me.
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  Speaker 2: I will help you deal with that.
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  Speaker 1: You were not made to carry that problem by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You were not made to bear that burden by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I will help you carry it if you will give
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  Speaker 1: it to me. I can think of only one possible
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  Speaker 1: way that Philip could have correctly answered that question from Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Where are we going to get food for all these people?
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  Speaker 2: And that is, I don't know. I really don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But I know this. I know you can. I have
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  Speaker 1: seen what you can do. I have seen what you
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  Speaker 1: can create. I have seen the way you can talk
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  Speaker 1: to a storm and call forth the dead. I have
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  Speaker 1: seen you at work and I'm going to trust you.
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  Speaker 1: You tell me what to do, Jesus, I'll do it.
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  Speaker 1: There is a bakery down the street. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they can do something. You send me there, do
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  Speaker 1: the work, I'll collect it. But I'm going to trust
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  Speaker 1: you because I don't think you would give me a
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  Speaker 1: job without giving me capacity to do it. You tell
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  Speaker 1: me to do it, then I believe you're going to
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  Speaker 1: make provisions and I'm going to trust you for those provisions.
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  Speaker 1: I think had Philip said that, he would have passed
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  Speaker 1: the test. Is God testing you? What's your problem? What
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  Speaker 1: are your provisions? Do you have a problem that is
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  Speaker 1: greater than your provisions? If you do, now you know
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  Speaker 1: what to do. Rather than say, I don't have the
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  Speaker 1: provisions for the problem. I don't have patience for the people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have wisdom for the question. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a solution for the challenge. Rather than focus on what
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  Speaker 1: you don't have, turn your attention to the one person
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  Speaker 1: who is near. And let your gentleness be made evident
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  Speaker 1: to all because God is near. Our first response in
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  Speaker 1: a season of anxiety is to say, Lord, make me
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  Speaker 1: aware of your presence and I trust you. And when
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  Speaker 1: we do that, who knows, we may go home with
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  Speaker 1: 12 baskets of blessings that we didn't know existed.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, would you please help us to receive your teaching
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  Speaker 1: today in such a way Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: For watching.
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  Speaker 1: You Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to stay close. As long as you're
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  Speaker 3: somewhere out there, that's enough for me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't need to hold you near me.
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  Speaker 3: Don't need promises to keep. Just the thought that you
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  Speaker 3: are breathing Somewhere in this world I see Even if
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  Speaker 3: I'm not beside you Even if you never know There's
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  Speaker 3: a quiet kind of comfort Just in knowing you still
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  Speaker 3: glow I don't need forever I just need you to exist.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to stay with me.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to feel the same.
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  Speaker 4: Just as long as you're still out there.
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  Speaker 3: Calling softly through my days.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to look my way.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to be my home. It's enough to
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  Speaker 3: know you're living in a world I'm not alone. I
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  Speaker 3: won't chase you through the distance. Won't disturb your chosen life.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just keep you in my silence like a star
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  Speaker 3: that shines at night. Through the dark and through the blue.
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  Speaker 5: I still think of you. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 5: my home. It's enough to know you're living in a
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  Speaker 5: world I'm not alone. Still alive.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to stay with me You don't have
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  Speaker 4: to feel the same Just as long as you're still
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  Speaker 4: out there Calling softly through my days You don't have
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  Speaker 4: to look my way You don't have to be my
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  Speaker 4: home It's enough to know you're living
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  Speaker 3: In a world I'm not alone