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Powerful Preaching CARE OF YOUR MIND- Minister Max Lucado · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate this opportunity that you give me each
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  Speaker 1: week to study the Bible and share ideas with you.
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  Speaker 1: And we're tackling this whole theme of anxiety because I
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  Speaker 1: really believe that we can win the war on worry.
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  Speaker 1: Anxiety has its place, It comes with life, but it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to run our lives. And God has a
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  Speaker 1: prescription for worry. He has a solution and antidote for anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: and it's in the Book of Philippians in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: We're dissecting it phrase by phrase. The words are about
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  Speaker 1: to appear on the screen. Many of you have memorized
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  Speaker 1: the passage. If you'd like to look at the screen
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  Speaker 1: for the words, you can. Let's all read it and
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  Speaker 1: cite it together. And I want you to sit up straight,
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  Speaker 1: put your shoulders back, and fill your lungs with hair
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  Speaker 1: and your hearts with hope. Let's say it like we
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  Speaker 1: mean it. Are you ready rejoice in the Lord always? Again?
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  Speaker 1: I say rejoice. Let your till this be known to
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  Speaker 1: all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for it,
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  Speaker 1: and the peace of God well guard your Finally, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: there is anything praiser. Meditate on these things, Yes, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: grant that we could do just this. Would you please
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  Speaker 1: take the anxiety out, replace it Lord, with meditation on
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  Speaker 1: good things. We would request this peace that passes understanding.
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  Speaker 1: We lift up to you all of our requests, but
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  Speaker 1: we do so with thanksgiving and gratitude for all the
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  Speaker 1: good that you have done for us. Forgive our speaker today,
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  Speaker 1: his sins are many. Help us to see Christ, just Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Through Christ, we pray and all the Church said. You
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  Speaker 1: might consider adding to your summer reading A wonderful book
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  Speaker 1: that just came out is called Called for Life, authored
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  Speaker 1: by Kent and Amber Brantley. You may remember their story
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  Speaker 1: this time last year, doctor Brantley's name was in the news.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it was on Wednesday evening July twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: twenty and fourteen, that doctor Brantley took a seat on
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  Speaker 1: his couch and he opened his journal. And he needed
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  Speaker 1: to collect his thoughts because he had spent the day
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  Speaker 1: feeling the effects of an illness that he knew would
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  Speaker 1: either be malaria or and he was praying for malaria.
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  Speaker 1: He was a medical missionary in Liberia waging a war
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  Speaker 1: on the cruelest of viruses, ebola. There was no sure
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  Speaker 1: cure the epidemic was killing people by the thousands, and
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  Speaker 1: as much as any person in the world, doctor Brantley
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  Speaker 1: knew the consequences of the disease. He had treated dozens
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  Speaker 1: and dozens of cases. He knew the symptoms, the soaring fevers,
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  Speaker 1: the severe diarrhea, the nausea. He had seen the results
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  Speaker 1: of the virus, and yet for the first time he
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  Speaker 1: was feeling them himself. His colleagues had drawn blood and
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  Speaker 1: begun the tests, yet it would be three days before
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  Speaker 1: anyone knew the results. Doctor Brantley quarantined himself in his
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  Speaker 1: cinder blockhouse and he waited. His wife and family were
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  Speaker 1: across the ocean, his colleagues were not permitted to enter
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  Speaker 1: the residence. Was quite literally alone with his thoughts, and
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  Speaker 1: in that moment he opened his Bible and he found
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  Speaker 1: a passage from the Book of Hebrews and began to
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  Speaker 1: meditate on it. The passage reads, the promise of entering
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  Speaker 1: his rest still stands, so let us never give up.
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  Speaker 1: Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest.
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  Speaker 1: Brantley called to mind that phrase, make every effort, and
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  Speaker 1: he circled it and decided, now, that's exactly what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to have to do. He kept reading. He paused
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  Speaker 1: in Hebrews, chapter four and verse sixteen, let us then
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  Speaker 1: approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we
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  Speaker 1: may receive mercy and grace to help us in our
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  Speaker 1: time of need. He wrote the verse word for word
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  Speaker 1: in his journal, and when he came to the word confidence,
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  Speaker 1: he wrote it in italics. Then he closed the journal
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  Speaker 1: and waited. The next three days brought unspeakable discomfort, and
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  Speaker 1: then brought the news that they feared he had indeed
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  Speaker 1: contracted ebola. Amber Kent's wife, was across the ocean in
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  Speaker 1: her hometown of Abilene, Texas. She received a call from
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  Speaker 1: Kent the following Saturday afternoon. When the phone rang, she
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  Speaker 1: stepped into her bedroom to receive it. She was actually
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  Speaker 1: at her parents' house, so she stepped into her former
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  Speaker 1: bedroom and there Kent went straight to the point over
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  Speaker 1: the phone. He said, the test results came back. It
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  Speaker 1: is positive. She began to cry and they talked for
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  Speaker 1: a few moments until Kent said he was too tired
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  Speaker 1: to talk anymore, but he would call soon. Now it
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  Speaker 1: was up to Amber to process the news. She told
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  Speaker 1: her parents. The three sat on the edge of her bed,
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  Speaker 1: and they wept for several minutes. After some time, Amber
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  Speaker 1: excused herself and she went outside, and she walked across
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  Speaker 1: a large field toward a mesquite tree that had a
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  Speaker 1: low hanging branch. She sat on the branch. She tried
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  Speaker 1: to pray, but she could. She found it difficult to
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  Speaker 1: put her concerns in words, so she began to sing
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  Speaker 1: hymns that she had learned as a young girl. She sang,
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  Speaker 1: there is no shadow of turning with THEE. Thou changest,
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  Speaker 1: not that compassions. They fail, not as thou hast been,
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  Speaker 1: Thou forever will be. That lifted her spirits, and so
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  Speaker 1: she sang even louder, I need THEE every hour, enjoy
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  Speaker 1: or pain, Come quickly and abide. Her life is in vain.
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  Speaker 1: I need THEE. Oh, I need THEE every hour. I
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  Speaker 1: need THEE. Come and bless me. Now, my Savior, I
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  Speaker 1: come to THEE. She later wrote these words, I thought
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  Speaker 1: my husband was going to die. I was in pain.
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  Speaker 1: I was afraid. Yet through those hymns I was able
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  Speaker 1: to connect with God in a meaningful way. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: remember this story. Maybe you remember watching the news reports
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  Speaker 1: of the Brantley family unfold. Maybe you remember the decision
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  Speaker 1: of the caregivers to give an untested treatment to Kent
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  Speaker 1: because they had no other option. Maybe you remember watching
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  Speaker 1: his transport from Africa to Atlanta, watching him as he
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  Speaker 1: climbed out of the back of the van and was
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  Speaker 1: carefully walked into the hospital. We celebrated at the news
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  Speaker 1: of his improved condition, and then we thank God when
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  Speaker 1: we heard the news that Kent was cured of ebola.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, I think we can celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: curing of yet another disease, a virus that is every
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  Speaker 1: bit as contagious and every bit as deadly, the unseen
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  Speaker 1: virus of anxiety. Kent in Amber were prime candidates for worry.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they reacted to the presence of anxiety with the
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  Speaker 1: same deliberate resolve that they reacted to the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Ebola virus. They went on the offensive. They took
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  Speaker 1: control of their thoughts. Kent opened his bible, Amber opened
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  Speaker 1: her heart. They pondered scriptures, They meditated on hymns before
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  Speaker 1: anxiety could get a hold of them. They got a
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  Speaker 1: hold of the anxiety and they marched it out. They
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  Speaker 1: did exactly what the Apostle prescribed in Philippians, chapter four
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  Speaker 1: and verse eight. Finally, Brethren, whatever things are true, whatever
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  Speaker 1: things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure,
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  Speaker 1: whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report.
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  Speaker 1: If there is any virtue, if there is anything praiseworth,
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  Speaker 1: they meditate on these things. If the Bible has a
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  Speaker 1: recommended diet for the mind, this is it. These are
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  Speaker 1: the green vegetables for the soul. My wife, Dinlon likes
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  Speaker 1: green vegetables. I don't, but she does, and she has
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  Speaker 1: a list of vegetables that are good for the body.
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  Speaker 1: It includes things like broccoli and asparagus and lettuce. As
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  Speaker 1: I read over the list, I don't see anything that
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  Speaker 1: I think is a health food. Donuts and barbecue, potato
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  Speaker 1: chips and Oreo cookies and ice cream. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: ask why. I know the answer. I've heard all the slogans.
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  Speaker 1: What tastes good on the lips does not look good
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  Speaker 1: on the How did you know that already? So if
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  Speaker 1: you want to feel good tomorrow, then eat good today.
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  Speaker 1: These are principles of a healthy diet, but they are
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  Speaker 1: also principles of a healthy mind. It is good to
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  Speaker 1: be a picky eater, it's equally good to be a
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  Speaker 1: picky thinker. In the Apostle, Paul sets himself up here
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  Speaker 1: as our thought dietitian, because just as not every food
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  Speaker 1: qualifies to be eaten, not every thought qualifies to be thought.
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  Speaker 1: It must meet a standard, and he gives us the
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  Speaker 1: nine standards. First of all, it must be true. It
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  Speaker 1: must be based on God's word. It must align itself
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  Speaker 1: with scripture. It must be noble. The word here means
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  Speaker 1: worthy of respect. Boy that eliminates everything that's immoral or inappropriate.
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  Speaker 1: It must be just. It advocates fairness to all parties involved.
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  Speaker 1: It must be pure. This is a call for high
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  Speaker 1: and lofty thoughts. Must be lovely. Lovely thoughts focus on
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  Speaker 1: whatever beauty can be found in any situation. It must
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  Speaker 1: be of good report, no need for slander or gossip.
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  Speaker 1: It must be of good report. It must be of
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  Speaker 1: good virtue. It must be praiseworthy. So we welcome any
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  Speaker 1: ideas that promote the best of life, hi ethics, lofty goodness.
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  Speaker 1: We meditate on these things, and as we turn our
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  Speaker 1: thoughts toward these things, a wonderful thing happens. We turn
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  Speaker 1: our backs on their opposites. As we fill our minds
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  Speaker 1: with veggies, we avoid a junk food diet of deceit,
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  Speaker 1: unsavory thoughts, ugly thoughts, dishonest thoughts where you tend to
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  Speaker 1: rose that this will cannot grow. We focus our thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on good things, so the weedy thoughts do not have room. So,
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  Speaker 1: just as some people are picky eaters, we choose on
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  Speaker 1: purpose to be picky thinkers. The big idea in this
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  Speaker 1: passage is simply this, meditate on good things. Meditate on
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  Speaker 1: good things. You want to treat anxiety. Turn your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: toward good things. This word in Greek. As you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible was written in New Testament was written in Greek.
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  Speaker 1: This word in Greek is a great word. Look at it. Logisomine, meditate,
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  Speaker 1: logismid Do you see an English word, the roots of
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  Speaker 1: an English word inside that? Anyone? Logic? Logic? We meditate
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  Speaker 1: on good things. We treat our anxiety with logical thinking,
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  Speaker 1: with clear thinking, with rational thinking. Easier said than done.
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  Speaker 1: The consequence of anxiety for many is muddled or unclear
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  Speaker 1: thinking if we think at all. In July nineteen forty three,
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  Speaker 1: a British Army officer by the name of Lionel Wygram
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  Speaker 1: studied the reaction of soldiers to intense battle. He noted
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  Speaker 1: a predictable pattern. He said, in a typical platoon of
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  Speaker 1: twenty two men, there will be a small number who
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  Speaker 1: respond and courage. There will be a small number who
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  Speaker 1: respond in penning. The vast number of the men will
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  Speaker 1: go into mental neutral He called them sheep, bewildered sheep.
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  Speaker 1: They will quit thinking. He writes, every platoon can be
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  Speaker 1: analyzed as follows six men who will go anywhere, twelve
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  Speaker 1: sheep who will follow a short distance behind, and four
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  Speaker 1: to six men who do not have what it takes.
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  Speaker 1: Another psychologist by the name of John Leech has spent
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of decades studying the human response to
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  Speaker 1: sudden stress like airplane turbulence or economic downfalls. According to
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  Speaker 1: his studies, about ten to twenty percent of us remain
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  Speaker 1: cool and composed under stress, another ten to fifteen percent
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  Speaker 1: freak out, but about seventy to eighty percent of us
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  Speaker 1: become what he calls mentally paralyzed. We stop thinking well.
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  Speaker 1: Long before this research, the apostle Paul was calling on
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  Speaker 1: us to mind our minds in times in which we're
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  Speaker 1: anxious to be careful. What we think our most valuable
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  Speaker 1: weapon against anxiety weighs two point seven pounds, and it
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  Speaker 1: sits right here between our ears. This was the point
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus and the most famous sermon ever preached on
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  Speaker 1: the topic of anxiety. He begins the sermon by telling us,
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  Speaker 1: quite bluntly, do not worry about your life what you
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  Speaker 1: will eat, or what you will drink, or about your
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  Speaker 1: body what you will put on. And then he gives
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  Speaker 1: us two commands with which to fulfill. The first, he says,
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  Speaker 1: look and consider. First of all, he says, look, look
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  Speaker 1: at the birds of the air. He invites us to
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  Speaker 1: go outside and just look at the ravens, or look
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  Speaker 1: at the at the cardinals, look at the birds. And
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  Speaker 1: when we do, we notice something. They're not grown, they
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  Speaker 1: don't frown if, they don't look sleep deprived. They're not lonely.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they appear just the opposite. They're quite happy.
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  Speaker 1: They sing, they soar, they whistle. And then Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: they don't sow or gather into barns. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: they don't work, they don't save money, they don't get
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  Speaker 1: stressed out and occupations. But they look happy. And then
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  Speaker 1: he tells us to lower our gaze from the birds
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  Speaker 1: and look out over the valley. He says, consider what
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  Speaker 1: the lilies. Consider the lilies. Remember, he's helping us treat anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: So he tells us to look at the birds, and
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  Speaker 1: now consider the lilies. Same point. If they don't look unhappy,
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  Speaker 1: they really are very beautiful. In fact, she's it says,
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  Speaker 1: even though their lifespan is short, they're here today and
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow they're going to be thrown into the fire. Even
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  Speaker 1: Solomon and all of his glory was not dressed up
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  Speaker 1: like one of these. He's the richest king in history.
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  Speaker 1: In the field of lilies is prettier than he was.
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  Speaker 1: The point we disarm anxiety by looking and by considering,
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  Speaker 1: by thinking, by processing. We look at the birds, we
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  Speaker 1: look at the lilies. We don't get lost in our
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  Speaker 1: negative downward spiral of thoughts, nor do we get frozen
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  Speaker 1: in no thinking. We stop, we collect ourselves, We look
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  Speaker 1: at the birds, We consider the lilies. We manage anxiety
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  Speaker 1: by managing our thoughts. We manage anxiety by managing our thoughts. Now,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you wanted something that was a little more mystical,
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  Speaker 1: a little more supernatural, a little more angelic, maybe some
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  Speaker 1: heavenly visitations or chariots of fire. Maybe you thought that
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  Speaker 1: God treated in anxiety through these supernatural visions. Paul and
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  Speaker 1: Jesus would tell you otherwise, the key to peace is
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  Speaker 1: not in the emotion you feel, but in the thoughts
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  Speaker 1: you think. The key to peace is not in the
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  Speaker 1: emotions you'll feel, but in the thoughts you think. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to feel peace tomorrow, then think godly thoughts today.
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  Speaker 1: Meditate on good things. And years ago a renowned British
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  Speaker 1: pastor by the name of d. Martin Lloyd Jones wrote
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  Speaker 1: these words about the passage in Matthew chapter six, that
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  Speaker 1: we just looked at faith, according to Our Lord's teaching
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  Speaker 1: in this paragraph, is primarily thinking. And the whole trouble
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  Speaker 1: with a man of little faith is that he forgets
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  Speaker 1: to think. He allows circumstances to bludgeon him. The way
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  Speaker 1: to avoid that, according to our Lord, is to think.
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  Speaker 1: To look at the birds, to think about them, to
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  Speaker 1: draw your deductions, to look at the grass, at the
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  Speaker 1: lilies of the field, consider them. The trouble with a
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  Speaker 1: person of little faith is that, instead of controlling his
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  Speaker 1: own thought, his thought is being controlled by something else,
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  Speaker 1: and he goes round and round in circles. This is
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  Speaker 1: the essence of worry. That is not thought. That is
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  Speaker 1: the absence of thought, that is a failure to think.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Elsewhere said, Kent, set your mind on things above,
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  Speaker 1: not on things of the earth. There is a time
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  Speaker 1: in which we intentionally and deliberately set our mind on
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  Speaker 1: things above. That's what Kent Brandy did when he was
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  Speaker 1: about to spend three days waiting on the results from
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  Speaker 1: the ebola tests. He set his mind on things above.
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  Speaker 1: That's what his wife Amber did when she got news
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  Speaker 1: of her husband's positive diagnosis. As she didn't panic. It
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  Speaker 1: was not easy, but she did deliberate things. She took
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  Speaker 1: deliberate steps to set her mind on good things. I
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  Speaker 1: did something like this once, and it had to do
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  Speaker 1: with a little lemon and a little phrase that was
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  Speaker 1: written on the lemon that I had attached to the
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  Speaker 1: dashboard of my car. One of the most difficult days
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  Speaker 1: of my life happened when I was nineteen years old
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  Speaker 1: and I was in a town called Dalton in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Georgia. I had never been to Dalton. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know anyone in Georgia. And I wondered what in
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  Speaker 1: the world had happened. I was nineteen years of age.
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  Speaker 1: This was the summer of my first year in college.
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  Speaker 1: I found myself sleeping in the Salvation Army because it
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  Speaker 1: was cheap, and the night before a person who had
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  Speaker 1: had too much to drink rolled over in his bunk
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  Speaker 1: up above mine and vomited right down on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: I was so homesick. If homesickness was water, I was soaked.
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  Speaker 1: What had I gotten myself into? Well? On the promise
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  Speaker 1: of some fast cash and some new science, I had
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  Speaker 1: joined up with two buddies and signed on to sell
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  Speaker 1: books door to door. We went to sales school. My
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  Speaker 1: friends went home during sales school left me to go
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  Speaker 1: to Georgia all by myself. I went to the field
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  Speaker 1: after sales school, and the first day I discovered something.
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  Speaker 1: People don't like door to door salesman. They don't, not
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  Speaker 1: even when they're a nice kid from West Texas. That
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  Speaker 1: first day was terrible. Hello, I'm Max Slam. Hello, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Max Slam. Hello, I'm Max Slam. The second day was
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  Speaker 1: just as bad. I didn't know if I was going
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  Speaker 1: to make it. I couldn't envision going through a whole
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  Speaker 1: summer like that. So I ended up at that diner
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  Speaker 1: for lunch and I ordered a hamburger and I treated
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  Speaker 1: my bruised ego. And as I was paying for my
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  Speaker 1: burger checking out at the cash register, I noticed that
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  Speaker 1: to the right of the cash register there was this display,
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  Speaker 1: And upon this display was a collection of rubberized magnetized truisms,
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  Speaker 1: the kind that you stick on a refrigerator door. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about? Little statements? And there
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  Speaker 1: was one of them that was shaped like a lemon,
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  Speaker 1: and on that rubberized lemon, these words appeared. I bet
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm about to say, when lie he
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  Speaker 1: gives you a lemon, make lemonade. Well it's old, it's
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  Speaker 1: a chop worn, it's corny. But I'd never heard that before,
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  Speaker 1: and that was exactly what I needed. That little slogan
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  Speaker 1: told me that my problem was not my problems. My
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  Speaker 1: problem was the way I was looking at my problems,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just enough to convince me to stay
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  Speaker 1: on the job. I bought that little thing and I
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  Speaker 1: took it out to my plymouth duster. My plymouth duster
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  Speaker 1: had a metal strip on the dashboard and I stuck
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  Speaker 1: that magnetized lemon on that metal strip, And every day,
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  Speaker 1: at least a dozen times I would reach up and
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  Speaker 1: I'd rubbed my thumb across that, and I think, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can either be miserable or I can make some lemonade.
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  Speaker 1: I survived the summer. That's been forty years. Much has happened,
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  Speaker 1: much has changed, but friends, this much has not. Life
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  Speaker 1: still gives lemons. It does in my prospects of a
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  Speaker 1: miserable summer are nothing compared to the lemons that some
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  Speaker 1: of you have received. Just a few days ago, I
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  Speaker 1: found myself in a conversation with an elderly lady whose
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  Speaker 1: husband has been diagnosed with dementia and she's gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to tell him he can no longer drive. And she
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  Speaker 1: was telling me how she was going to have to
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  Speaker 1: take the car keys away. Life has given her a lemon.
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  Speaker 1: I found myself in a conversation with a young mom.
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  Speaker 1: She already has one child, and now she has a
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  Speaker 1: new born. It seems like she can't remember the last
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  Speaker 1: time she had a good night sleep, and she's really
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  Speaker 1: worried if she'll be a good parent. I had lunch
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  Speaker 1: not too long ago with a fella who's trying to
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  Speaker 1: get through a very, very difficult divorce. He underestimated the
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  Speaker 1: damage it would do, and he's worried about his kids.
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  Speaker 1: He's worried about himself, if he'll ever be happy again.
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  Speaker 1: Life gives lemons, doesn't it has life given you a
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  Speaker 1: lemon lately? Life gives lemons to good people. Life gives
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  Speaker 1: lemons to bad people. Life gives lemons to old people.
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  Speaker 1: Life gives lemons to young people. Life gives lemons to
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  Speaker 1: medical missionaries. Life comes with lemons, but we don't have to.
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  Speaker 2: Suck on them.
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  Speaker 1: This is the point of the Apostle Paul. You can
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  Speaker 1: read your Bible from beginning to end. You can capitalize
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  Speaker 1: every letter in the epistles of Paul, and you will
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  Speaker 1: never find a promise that says fall of Christ, and
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  Speaker 1: you'll have no lemons. It's just not there. But there
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  Speaker 1: is this promise that when life gives you a lemon,
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  Speaker 1: God will show you how to respond to it, how
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  Speaker 1: to handle it. When life gives you a bucketful of anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: Christ will show you a way to respond to that
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  Speaker 1: anxiety so that that anxiety does not get to you.
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  Speaker 1: This is the promise that God gives that you can
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  Speaker 1: cast all your cares upon him, because He cares about you.
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  Speaker 1: That you can be anxious for nothing, but in everything,
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  Speaker 1: by prayer and supplication, you can make your request known
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  Speaker 1: to God. Life comes with a bushel full of lemits,
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  Speaker 1: but if you're sucking on them, they're gonna make you sour.
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  Speaker 1: But you can respond to them in a better way.
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  Speaker 1: Meditate on good things the passage one more time. Read
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  Speaker 1: it out loud with me as the words appear on
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  Speaker 1: the screen. 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, and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate
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  Speaker 1: on these things. Lord, would you grant us.
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  Speaker 2: To say at a back.
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  Speaker 3: And people, people, people start statutop.
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  Speaker 4: Loving you alone feels so beautiful, and yet it hurts
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  Speaker 4: the most.
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  Speaker 5: You became my quiet sunrise, the dream I never dared
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  Speaker 5: to say. Every smile you gave so freely took my
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  Speaker 5: breath a little away. I held this love like fragile glass,
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  Speaker 5: so precious, soft and true.
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  Speaker 1: But every being inside.
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  Speaker 4: My heart was only reaching out to you unspoken loud
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  Speaker 4: is sweet.
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  Speaker 6: And painful like honey mixed with rain, a tender whole
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  Speaker 6: by all so sadly while it slowly breaks me loving
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  Speaker 6: you from just one side, now leave my soul in
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  Speaker 6: silent blue, because the deeper that I.
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  Speaker 4: Fall along, the lonelier I do.
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  Speaker 5: I can't blame my heart for choosing someone it could
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  Speaker 5: never keep, so I smiled through hidden heartache.
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  Speaker 6: Hell love you quietly spoke in love is sweet and painful.
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  Speaker 3: Like hon e mixed with rain.
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  Speaker 1: That's end the whole.
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  Speaker 6: Bile so tightly Wally slowly breaks me loving you from
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  Speaker 6: just one side. Now leave my soul in silent bloom,
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  Speaker 6: because the deeper that I.
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  Speaker 2: Follow, the lonely I do.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe loving you in silence.
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  Speaker 6: It is the closest dar can'st thing, though, leaves behind
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  Speaker 6: the sorrow that may never.
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  Speaker 1: Fat away.
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  Speaker 6: Spoken love is sweet and painful, like honey mixed with rain,
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  Speaker 6: a tender whole bibles.
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  Speaker 5: So tightly Wald slowly breaks me.
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  Speaker 6: Loving you from just one side, now leaves my soul
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  Speaker 6: in silence, because the deeper that I follow love.
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  Speaker 2: The loly
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  Speaker 6: Her to