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What are you worrying about? Ep 3429 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Dear Heavenly Gracious God, as we come before your holy presence,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you for who you are and who you
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  Speaker 1: continue to be in each of our lives. Forgive us
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  Speaker 1: for each and none sin, words, thoughts, or actions we've
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  Speaker 1: committed against you or anyone else. And we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for what Jesus Christ did at the cross of Calvary
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  Speaker 1: for each one of us. As we enter today's message,
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  Speaker 1: we ask you to allow your Holy Spirit to take
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  Speaker 1: it and make it real. Make it real unto the
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  Speaker 1: listener as you continue to make it real for my
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  Speaker 1: individual life. In Jesus' name we ask you and thank you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith radio program. I am
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  Speaker 1: Gary McKenzie. Let me ask you a question. You don't mind,
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  Speaker 1: do you? Do you have worry on your mind? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: come on now. You don't have to tell me. But
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  Speaker 1: do you? You got to remember now, we as humans,
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  Speaker 1: you are human, are you? Wait a minute now. You're
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  Speaker 1: not AI. You're not SI, are you? Oh, okay. But
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  Speaker 1: we as humans are always looking for the answer to confusion.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the moral sickness and spiritual emptiness that's oppressing
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  Speaker 1: global society as you look around globally. I know you are.
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  Speaker 1: You notice how As human women, I'm going to repeat
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  Speaker 1: this again, you're not, or ask it again, you're not
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  Speaker 1: super intelligence or AI, artificial, are you? Because we as humans,
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  Speaker 1: you notice how we cry out for guidance, for comfort,
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  Speaker 1: for peace. And what's sad, most people, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to be truthful about it, are looking in the wrong
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  Speaker 1: direction for the answers. And this is nothing new, like
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  Speaker 1: Solomon said, nothing new under the sun. And maybe you
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  Speaker 1: have that 24-hour news cycle that's been contributing to the
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  Speaker 1: awareness of the restlessness of the soul. You've heard that
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  Speaker 1: saying that the age of anxiety, you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: your biblical historians, you've got your secular ones, but you
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  Speaker 1: know the secular historians point out that there's been a
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  Speaker 1: few times In all of history, when humans have been
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  Speaker 1: subject to so much fear and uncertainty, let me ask
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  Speaker 1: you a question. You don't mind, do you? Are you
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  Speaker 1: afraid today? Think about it. We talk of peace, but
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  Speaker 1: you look around, you're confronted by conflict wars. And you
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  Speaker 1: come up with elaborate schemes for security, but you notice
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  Speaker 1: you haven't found it. We're grasping at every straw, every
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  Speaker 1: straw that's passing along, and even as we clutch at it,
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  Speaker 1: you know how it disappears. And God forbid you speak
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  Speaker 1: of political freedom, because you know it's precious. But even so,
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  Speaker 1: that alone can't give us the kind of society, the
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  Speaker 1: kind of world that you want. There are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people out there that are saying that political freedom
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  Speaker 1: along with education is going to accomplish the objective. Oh, okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But do you also notice how we're the most informed
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  Speaker 1: people in the history of civilization? I know you've done
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  Speaker 1: your research. And yet, walking around, the most confused. Think
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  Speaker 1: about our heads were filled with knowledge, but our hearts
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  Speaker 1: are empty. You know, the Word talks about how that
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  Speaker 1: ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of people, again, who claim that
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  Speaker 1: freedom of religion is going to solve our problems. And
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of them willing to give up
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  Speaker 1: some of the teachings of the Bible in order to
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  Speaker 1: harmonize Christianity with the other religions. You've got to remember now,
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  Speaker 1: Christianity is not a religion. It's a person, Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not about compromise. Are you compromising, pastor, behind
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  Speaker 1: the pulpit of those of you sitting in the pews?
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  Speaker 1: Who are you? Think about today. Many have now made S.I., superintelligence,
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  Speaker 1: or A.I., the little G. God. But you also got
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  Speaker 1: to remember that the answer to the age-old question about
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  Speaker 1: that anxious heart of yours is found, guess what, in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Because he's the only one who can bring
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  Speaker 1: peace and answer to the dilemma of anxiety and today's
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  Speaker 1: worries that you're worrying about. But you know what? My
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  Speaker 1: favorite scripture, one of them, over in Philippians chapter 4,
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  Speaker 1: verse 7, says, And the peace of God, which surpasses
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  Speaker 1: all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you another question. You don't mind, do you?
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't. Have you found peace today with
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  Speaker 1: the God of the Scriptures? What have you? You already
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  Speaker 1: know a lot can go wrong in this life that
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  Speaker 1: we're journeying through. And the Bible certainly doesn't tell us
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  Speaker 1: to close our eyes to its dangers, its conflicts. You
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  Speaker 1: notice how the Bible says over in Proverbs chapter 22
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  Speaker 1: verse 3. I know you wrote it down. A prudent man,
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  Speaker 1: also applicable to ladies, sees danger and takes refuge. But
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  Speaker 1: the simple, keep going and suffer for it. But you
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  Speaker 1: notice how the Bible also warns you and I against
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  Speaker 1: being filled with worry and anxiety over everything. Every single
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  Speaker 1: thing that might go wrong. And if you made a
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  Speaker 1: list of all the things you worried about in the
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  Speaker 1: last year, almost none of them actually happened. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: you've allowed your worries to rob you of your joy.
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  Speaker 1: And probably made those around you miserable as well. You
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  Speaker 1: know you did. Why don't you instead allow the Bible to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, enter your mind, your heart, and allow you
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  Speaker 1: to trust God for your future. Think about it, because
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  Speaker 1: when we allow words to overwhelm us, you already know
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing. We're actually saying to ourselves that God
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  Speaker 1: must not love us, and he must not be watching
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  Speaker 1: over us. But you know, that's not true. Because God
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  Speaker 1: loves you and I far more than you can ever imagine.
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  Speaker 1: And the proof is, the proof, the proof, the proof,
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  Speaker 1: praise God, is that he was willing to send his
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  Speaker 1: only son into the world to die for your sins,
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  Speaker 1: your sins, your sins, and mine. And he loves you
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  Speaker 1: so much that he wants you and you and you,
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  Speaker 1: irrespective of where you are around the globe, to spend
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  Speaker 1: eternity with him in heaven. Don't you want to see
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  Speaker 1: your loved ones? Maybe your friends or your enemies that
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  Speaker 1: was converted in heaven. The word of God says, do
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  Speaker 1: not be anxious about anything. But in everything, by prayer
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  Speaker 1: and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And
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  Speaker 1: the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard
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  Speaker 1: your hearts and your minds where the battleground takes place
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  Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus. You can find it in Philippians chapter 4,
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  Speaker 1: verse 6 through 7. Now, I challenge you to put
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  Speaker 1: these words into action. since you're on Challenges of Faith
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  Speaker 1: radio program. Because when you do, guess what? God's peace,
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  Speaker 1: not my peace, your peace, your pastor's peace, the pew
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  Speaker 1: member's peace, your friend's peace, the political person's peace, the
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement person's peace, the judge's peace, the psychologist's peace,
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  Speaker 1: the social service's peace, or your TikTok, or whatever device
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  Speaker 1: and Social network you're on to peace won't help you.
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  Speaker 1: God's peace will begin to overcome your worries. Your worries. So,
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you another question. You don't mind, do you?
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't. What are you worrying about today
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  Speaker 1: when you've turned it all over to God? The God
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  Speaker 1: of the Scriptures.