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Put God First, Or You Will Notice These 3 Signs Will Take Place in Your Life · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  Imagine this scenario. There is an invisible cameraman,
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  and everywhere you've been in the last week, he's been there
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  too. He was there when you woke up,
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  he was there when you ate lunch, he was there when you relaxed in
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  the evening, and he was there when you went to bed.
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  He captured everything. And right now, he's about to
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  show the entire world the footage of your life.
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  As the people of the world watch this footage, what would they
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  see? Would they see your priority as
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  you put God first? God is everything to you?
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  Or would they see other priorities creeping up, other
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  things that are big in your life?
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  Well, I can promise you this. I know exactly what you live
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  for. I know exactly what you love by
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  watching what you do. And that is the question I want
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  to investigate today. What do you really love?
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  Well, I think there are three signs, 3 signs that show us that
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  we're not putting God first. OK guys, if today's your first
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  of Joe. All right, sign number one that
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  you are not putting God first is that you are constantly
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  worrying. I'm not going to lie to you.
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  This isn't easy for me to talk about because I am such a big
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  warrior. And I've been talking about this
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  on my channel on Off the Curb Ministries for years.
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  And I really thought at the age I am now, I'm not, I know I'm
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  not a donkey, but you know, I turned 34 just the other day.
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  But I really thought I'd be further on in this.
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  And actually, if anything, I feel like my worry has been like
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  a little snowball. You know, when it snows and you
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  get that little snowball and you push it down the hill and it
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  gets bigger and bigger and bigger until it's it's so big
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  you can't move it anymore. That's what I feel like worrying
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  is done to me. It started little and got bigger
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  and bigger and bigger, and some days I can't do anything.
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  I can't focus because I'm so concerned.
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  Well, what would Jesus say to me?
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  And if you're a warrior, what would he say to you?
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  If you've got a Bible there, turn to Matthew chapter 6.
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  Matthew 6, verse 31. Therefore do not worry saying,
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  what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or what shall we wear?
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  For after all these things the Gentiles seek.
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  For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things,
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  but seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and
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  all these things shall be added to you.
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  Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow we'll
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  worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is it's
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  own trouble. Hey, I think this is absolutely
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  fascinating because in the Greek, in the original Greek,
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  the word to worry, it translates to mean this being pulled in
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  different directions. And for those of you who are
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  watching this right now, that sounds very relatable.
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  If you are a warrior, that's exactly how it feels.
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  It feels like you're being OK. One part of you is being pulled
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  by the approval of others. You want to be liked.
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  The other part of you is being pulled by money, by worry.
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  How am I going to pay these bills?
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  The next part of you is being pulled by I'm worried about my
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  parents, I'm worried about my family.
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  I'm worried about my children. Then there's another party
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  that's being pulled and I'm so concerned about my health.
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  I'm I'm worried about this. I'm worried about the future.
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  I'm worried about my marriage. I'm worried and literally, in
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  other words, what are these worries doing to you?
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  What is it doing to you? It's tearing you apart because
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  you cannot focus, you cannot do anything because you're being
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  pulled in all of these different directions.
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  And that is exactly why Jesus has a word for you and I as
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  warriors in verse 33. But seek first the Kingdom of
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  God and his righteousness, and all of these things shall be
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  added unto you. What is Jesus saying here?
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  You're worrying, you're careful, you're anxious about many
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  different things. As He said to Martha, stop.
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  Stop being pulled in all these different directions and only be
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  pulled one way. Only be pulled towards God and
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  focus on Him and all these other things.
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  Your family, your money, what you're going to wear, everything
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  that's concerning, all of it will be dealt with because God
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  is there and He will look after you.
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  And that's exactly why it is actually an insult.
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  It's actually a sin to worry because when we worry, what are
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  we doing? We're showing that our heavenly
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  Father in heaven doesn't care about us.
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  If if your children went and spoke to another parent or
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  another adult and they said yes, you know, I'm so scared all the
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  time. I'm worried about this.
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  And I'm worried I'm not going to be able to wear clothes.
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  I'm worried I'm not going to be allowed to do this.
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  And I'm worried about this. I'm worried about that.
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  And they were just a wreck, you know, shaking.
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  You would be embarrassed, wouldn't you?
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  You'd be ashamed because it's a reflection on you as a parent
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  that you've not raised that child right.
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  And so when we sin, when when we are anxious, it's such a sin
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  because it's saying to God that, OK, we don't trust you.
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  Father, there was there was an American theologian, a man
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  called Donald Gray Barnhouse. Now, I love that name.
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  I don't know if there's any Americans watching right now, if
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  that's a common name. But over here we don't get names
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  like that anymore. Donald Gray Barnhouse.
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  And he said, fretting is the caressing of the old nature.
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  Isn't that interesting? Fretting is the caressing of the
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  old nature. Jesus puts it like this in verse
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  32. Some of you will have that
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  version that says after all that the pagans they run after these
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  things or the Gentiles. It says in my version, why, why
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  is why did Donald Barnow say that?
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  Because we're going back to the old nature, aren't we?
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  When we start worrying, we're living like we're an atheist.
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  We're living like the world. The world has no God.
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  The world has no belief that there is a heavenly Father who
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  cares for them. That that clothes the lilies of
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  the field, that that feeds the sparrows of the air.
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  That's what the the world doesn't believe in that.
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  But you and I, as Christians do. So when we're always fretting
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  them, we're always worried and concerned.
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  It's a reflection upon our Father that we're saying,
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  actually, we don't believe you're a good father.
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  We don't believe that you are sovereign.
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  We don't believe that you are watching over everything we do.
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  We are taking action into our own hands, living like a
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  practical atheist who believes there is no God.
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  Now here's the part many preachers, myself included, can
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  often skip over. We can point out the problem,
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  but do we give a solution? So how do we stop worrying?
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  Well, the honest answer is if you are given to that nature,
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  some people are very laid back and I envy you so much if you're
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  that person. But if you are given to a mind
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  of worry, it's not just a quick fix.
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  You can't just do 5 steps to quitting worrying.
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  It doesn't happen that easy. It's a constant battle every
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  day. You need to focus your mind back
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  to, to stop being pulled in all these directions and to fix your
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  mind on, on the Lord God. But how do we do it?
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  Well, there's one thing I think that's very, very helpful and
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  it's this. You need to remember this.
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  Can I ask you, are you aware 1st?
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  And then let me ask you this, do you have a good imagination?
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  Like when you're at school, were you seen as quite creative?
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  You see all the most creative people I know, all the people
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  who are artists who know how to make things, who maybe they can
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  do YouTube videos or all of those people who've got that
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  creative mind, they're very often also huge, massive
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  warriors. And that's literally what
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  worrying is. It's just a very, very active
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  imagination. That's who I am.
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  I I think scenarios that will never ever happen and I dwell on
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  them and even though they might never happen and the key 2 words
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  you need to remember if you're a warriors, they these two words.
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  What if that's your motto, isn't it?
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  As a warrior, what if I wake up and my spouse has left me?
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  What if I cannot pay the bills this month?
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  What if I lose my children and I never see them again?
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  What if no one likes me anymore? What if this friendship, What if
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  I get that horrible note from the doctor?
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  What if I get that thing I feared my whole life?
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  What if, what if, what if? So that's the first thing to
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  remember is very often these what ifs, they don't come true.
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  And actually, as Jesus says earlier in Matthew chapter 26,
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  you know which of you by worrying can add 1 cubit to your
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  stature. It doesn't add anything to your
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  life. In fact, it takes it away.
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  And if anything, we know that worrying shortens your life.
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  It doesn't expand it, does it? So remember that you've got an
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  overactive imagination. The next thing to remember is
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  this scripture and quotes are your best friend.
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  My wife is also a warrior, but she doesn't worry about the same
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  things. And the other day I was, I was
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  St. preaching in Manchester and one of my big, big worries hit
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  me straight in the face. You know, there it was.
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  I won't go into it because it's just too embarrassed to share it
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  with you. But I was, I was really
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  panicking. I didn't know what to do and
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  here I am. I'm due to preach the gospel and
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  I just wanted to run away, go home.
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  OK, So what, what happened? I text my wife and said this has
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  happened. I'm really concerned, what
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  should I do? Emma just wrote back be bold and
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  courageous and that just. I love my wife.
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  She really did me a massive favour and now whenever I'm
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  anxious I just think of those words.
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  It's scriptural but it also reminds me of Emma.
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  Be bold and be courageous. We're to be bold, aren't we?
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  We're to be courageous. That that helps me.
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  I don't know what might help you, but there must be a verse.
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  There must be a quote. There must be something that you
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  can remind yourself every time you come to that worry and you
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  just say it quickly and, and you know, you, you're teaching your
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  brain there that I'm not going to go down this rabbit trail.
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  No, I'm going to fix my mind on God.
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  I'm going to focus on God. I'm going to trust him.
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  And then the other thing is this prayer is there for a reason.
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  The Bible says cast all of your burdens, cast all of your care
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  on him for he careth for you. And Corrie Tamboom, you know the
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  that wonderful woman who has a tremendous testimony We've made
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  videos about before, but she's got, I won't go into detail.
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  If you've never heard of Corrie Tamboom, that's your homework.
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  Now go and watch some videos about her.
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  It will just encourage you greatly.
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  But Corrie Tamboom once said this, if a case is too small to
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  be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a
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  burden. So in other words, if you can't
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  be bothered praying for this thing, if you don't think it's
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  worth praying for, well, it's not worth worrying about either,
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  is it? But if it is something in your
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  mind, take it to the Lord in prayer and let him deal with it
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  as we did on our in our last video.
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  Leave it in God's hands. Trust him, your heavenly Father
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  that cares for you, that will not put anything in your path,
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  that will not give you anything that's too great.
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  Just trust Him to look after you and to watch your over you.
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  Shall we talk about the second sign that you are not putting
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  God first? It's very, very obvious.
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  Many of these signs, as you can tell, are obvious.
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  They're plain. But we need to think about them
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  because often we're still doing them, aren't we?
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  So what is it? It's this.
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  You are worldly. Colossians 3.
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  If you've got a Bible there, would you turn to Colossians 3?
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  And we're going to read verses 1 to 4 lotions 3 want to form.
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  If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which
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  are above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of
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  God. Set your mind on things above,
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  not on things on the earth, for you died and your life is hidden
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  with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life
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  appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
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  So what is the apostle Paul trying to say here?
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  Well, here he is. He's writing to the church at
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  Colossae, and he's saying to them, guys, listen, you now have
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  a new life. You're a believer, You've
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  trusted in Christ. So when Christ Jesus died, you
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  died with him. When Christ Jesus rose, ascended
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  on high, He's now at the right hand of God.
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  You were also raised with him to, to, to, to new life.
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  That's what baptism is all about.
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  When you know this already, I know you know this, but when we
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  go into the water, as we go beneath the water, it's a sign
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  that the old Joe Kirby, when I was baptized, I've been buried.
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  My old life is gone. All of Joe and his desires and
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  his sin and all the things he wants, loved, it's gone.
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  It's buried, it's dead. And then as I came out of the
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  water, I've been raised now to new life.
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  I've been raised with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  I have new desires. And what Paul is saying right
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  here is this, you have a new life.
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  Your life isn't the things of this world.
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  It's it's heavenly things. It's hidden with Christ in God.
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  You know, we can't see our life, our eternal life in heaven, but
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  it's there with Jesus Christ. So stop fixing your mind on all
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  of these earthly things and start putting heavenly things
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  first. Start putting God first.
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  Start thinking on those things now.
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  When I read a passage like that, am I the only one who thinks
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  this? Does that mean I can't enjoy
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  life? I think that's something that
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  can naturally come to us. All we say, you know, we're so
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  good at being wired up to thinking, well, I can't do this,
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  I can't do that. We get so religious, but that's
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  not the message here. God put us on this earth to
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  enjoy life. He wants us to have great fun.
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  He wants us to be happy. He wants us to rejoice.
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  That's exactly what Matthew 6 is all about.
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  Enjoy your life trusting God. He's given you this life for a
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  reason, to praise Him to, to bring worship to him.
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  But what I want to say is this is whatever this thing might be
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  in your life, ask yourself, is this a God thing or is this a
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  worldly thing? So a God thing.
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  Food is a God thing. We're there to enjoy food.
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  Family is a God-given gift. Enjoy your family.
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  These are good things. But then let's take something
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  like a nightclub partying, you know, all these these are
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  worldly things, you know, listening to to horrible wrong
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  music that's full of terrible lyrics.
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  These are worldly things. And I think Paul is, is straight
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  to the point here. He's saying put off these
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  earthly things and put and, and live your life, build your life
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  in heaven. Put your mind on eternal things.
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  Now I do want to know something. Just tell me, are you
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  appreciating these quotes? I thought I'd add a few quotes
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  in. It's something I used to do a
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  lot with my old preaching, but there's a quote here by a man
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  called John Blanchard. Now, if you don't know my story,
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  I didn't start out as a Christian.
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  YouTube. I started working as an
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  evangelist for several churches, but the main organization I
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  worked for was an organization called Young Life Campaign.
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  Now, it's different to the American Young Life.
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  This was one that's over here in the UK.
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  It's called National Young Life, and a man who worked for them
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  was a man called John Blanche Blanchard, who was a tremendous
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  preacher, tremendous evangelist, and he wrote many books.
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  Well, John Blanchard, there's a quote that I just think, I think
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  you need to write this down because I want to remember this
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  and I know you do too. So listen to this.
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  Jesus did not pray that his Father would take Christians out
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  of the world, but that he would take the world out of
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  Christians. I told you that was powerful.
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  So right now as I'm talking about this, I wonder has the
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  Holy Spirit taking his finger and as he laid it on an area in
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  your life and he's saying that's not the best, that's not what
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  God wants for you, You're not putting God first.
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  I want you to turn away from this sin and put it away.
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  I know that God has been dealing with me even in the last few
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  days with things saying, come on, if you want to be close to
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  Him, if you want to have that nearness, that fellowship, that
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  peace you want once had, these little things here and there, or
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  big things that they may even be, you need to put them off.
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  You need to turn from them. OK #3 #3 What is the third sign
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  that you are not putting God first?
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  Well, it's very simple. You love something more than
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  Jesus Christ. I told you these signs are
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  obvious, but you love something more than Jesus Christ.
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  So let's get to the bottom of it.
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  What is that thing? Let's get the Bibles out.
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  Let's flick across to John chapter 21.
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  John chapter 21. Now, some of you know that I
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  actually did cover this. I did an entire Bible study on
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  John 21. So if you missed that, I'll give
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  you a link in a moment where you can find it.
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  But just listen to this because I do think that this is very,
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  very important. OK, John chapter 21.
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  I'm going to read verse 15. So when they'd eaten breakfast,
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  Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love
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  me more than these? Now I find that tremendous,
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  tremendously interesting because he's saying he's not only saying
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  do you love me, but he's saying, do you love me more than these?
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  And theologians for centuries have argued about what are the
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  these that he's talking about? So here he is, Simon Peter.
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  He's gone out fishing. Is Jesus pointing to the fishing
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  boat, to the Nets behind him? Simon Peter, you've, you've, I
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  called you to be a minister. I called you to to be a Fisher
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  of men. And now you've gone back to
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  fishing for fish again. Do you love me more than your
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  recreation? Do you love me more than your
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  work than fishing, Peter? Or is he saying, do you love me
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  more than these? These are the disciples, you
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  know Peter's story well. At one time, Peter would have
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  puffed his chest out and said, even if all the other guys, even
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  if all of these deny you, I won't deny you.
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  I love you. I'm, I'm, I'm the one who will,
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  who will follow you? I'm, I'm the greatest disciple.
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  Peter, can you really say these kinds of things now?
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  Can you really exaggerate right now and say that you love me
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  more than these after you've just denied me three Times Now,
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  my friend, I want you to use your imagination again.
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  I want you to think of a sports * someone who is really at the
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  top of their game, really the best of it.
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  Now, if you're a football fan, if you're or soccer, you might
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  think of someone like Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi.
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  I can't think of any American footballers.
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  I'm not familiar with that sport.
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  Tim Tebow is the only one I know.
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  Or basketball. Maybe you think of Steve Nash.
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  Is he 1? Jason Robin.
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  Jason Robinson, was he one or am I thinking of a different sport?
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  You know, I know obviously Kobe Bryant, you've got Michael
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  Jordan, these kind of guys. There was another guy called
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  Carmelo some somebody as well. Anyway, think of a sports star,
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  whatever it is, get that sports star in your minds.
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  Tiger Woods right now. If we again took the camera and
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  we followed that person, what would we see them do?
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  Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo, I've seen him before, He wakes
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  up at like really early in the morning, five, 6:00 in the
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  morning. He has one of these cold
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  plunges. He goes and he studies the
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  sport. He watches football.
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  He then goes to the gym and he lifts all of these weights.
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  He's he. And then he goes back and has a
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  nap. He has something like 5 naps.
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  You know, you watch these different sports stars.
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  You'd see Tiger Woods swinging that Golf Club.
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  You'd watch them over and over again and even just a couple of
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  hours into the day it wouldn't be hard to realise what is it
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  that this man or this woman, what is it they live for?
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  And it's the same thing for you and I.
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  You know, it really has made me think, what would people think
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  if they watched me right now? My week?
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  What do I live for? What's the first thing I do when
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  I wake up? Yes, I read the Bible, but am I
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  doing it for long enough? Am I rushing it so I can get on
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  with other things? Do I love the Lord Jesus Christ
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  more than my hobbies, more than my work, my YouTube?
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  Do I love the Lord Jesus Christ more than my friends, more than
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  my wife, more than my children? That is a very, very, very
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  difficult. Do I love him more than my
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  children? Do I love him more than anything
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  else? Well, the Lord Jesus Christ, we
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  know with Peter, Peter's love wasn't perfect.
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  He did love him, but it wasn't perfect.
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  And actually I'm not very good at pronouncing Greek words, but
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  it was that Philly Philia love. It was a fond devotion he had
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  for him. It was a 60% love.
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  It wasn't, you know, I'm obsessed with you.
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  I'm totally smitten by you, Jesus.
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  But he had a fond affection for him.
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  And yet Jesus said that's enough, I'm going to give you
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  one of the greatest privileges. I'm going to make you one of my
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  shepherds. I'm going to take you and I'm
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  going to use you greatly. And my dear friends, let us just
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  check. Let's search our hearts and see.
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  Do we have the Lord God first? Because the reality is this, and
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  this is something again, I'm realizing you can't.
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  The man who chases 2 rabbits catches none.
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  And you and I, we can't think that we can invest into this.
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  Invest into sport, invest into money, invest into work, invest
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  into family, invest into friends.
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  We can't think we can have our finger in all of these different
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  pies and then somehow have a good relationship with God.
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  No, there's only enough room in our heart for one thing.
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  There's only enough love for for one thing.
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  And that is why we've got to put God first.
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  Yes, that love might not be perfect at times.
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  Yes, we might make a mess. But we need to do everything we
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  can to make sure that He is on the throne and that He must
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  increase and I must decrease. And all my desires and all the
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  things I want, they've just got to go lesser and lesser.
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  And it's all about putting Him first.
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  Guys, I know it's been a bit of a challenging one, but I have
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  enjoyed this. If you did for any reason miss
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  my study on John 21, it's quite a detailed one.
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  It's even more detailed than this.
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  I think you'll find it helpful. So please do click here,
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  especially if you've got some more coffee.
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  You, that's the sign. That's sign #4 that you need to
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  watch this video. God bless you all and thank you
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  for your friendship and love on this channel.