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If You Feel Totally Isolated as a Christian - Listen To This · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  So I heard it was your birthday and I thought I'd get you a
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  little gift. Would you like me to open it for
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  you? So come on now, be totally
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  honest with me. Do you like it?
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  Is it a good present? I know exactly what you're
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  thinking. You're thinking, Joe, It's a
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  broken piece of pottery. It's a broken vessel.
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  In Psalm 31, verse 12, a powerful king called David once
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  wrote this about himself. I am forgotten like a dead man
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  out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
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  So let's rewind right back to the beginning now.
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  And all those things that you were thinking about, your
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  birthday present, That's how King David felt about himself,
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  that he was just a failure. He was so broken, he was so
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  alone that he was nothing but a smashed piece of pottery.
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  I believe one of the greatest myths of the 21st century is
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  this. Real men don't cry.
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  OK, do me a favour now. I want you to think of the
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  toughest man who's alive right now.
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  Perhaps you're thinking of Conor McGregor.
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  Maybe you're thinking of Mike Tyson or Tyson Fury.
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  Who've you got in your mind? Well, whoever you have in your
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  mind, I tell you, if any of those men challenged King David
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  to a fight, they would be terrified.
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  And here we are. We have one of the most
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  dangerous men that ever lived, and it's written about King
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  David, that his eye was wasting away with grief, that he spent
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  his years sighing. King David was crying.
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  He was crying because he had pain in his heart.
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  May I ask you a personal question?
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  Have you ever felt like King David, like a broken vessel?
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  If I'm being totally transparent with you right now, I felt like
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  that many, many times before, like I'm useless, like I'm
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  nothing, like I'm a waste of space, like everything that I
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  touch, it just gets ruined. It gets damaged.
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  Now I don't tell you that. So you feel sorry for me.
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  I don't want anyone to leave this video and feel sorry for
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  me. I tell you it because we do not
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  know what is going on in the inside.
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  We look at each other and we wear nice clothes, we smile our
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  neighbour across the road, we put on beautiful pictures of our
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  family on Facebook, on Instagram and we look like everything is
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  going well. When someone asks me how are you
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  doing, I say I'm great, but deep down I'm not great.
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  I'm not doing OK. And I want to tell people today
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  it's OK to not be OK. It's OK to tell people that
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  actually I'm struggling. Actually I'm a broken, wretched,
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  sin, damaged Sinner and I need help and I need a saviour.
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  There's a type of Christianity where we put on our suits, we
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  put on our ties, we have big smiles across our faces and we
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  pretend that we never, ever struggle with sin.
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  We pretend that we never, ever have any problems and
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  everything's cushy, everything's nice, everything, it's perfect.
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  But the fact of the matter is, we are struggling, right?
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  Let's go even deeper. Now, I can't promise you that if
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  you become a Christian, you won't have any problems.
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  In fact, actually, the Bible promises us that we will have a
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  tough Rd. if we walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Even though we're in God's hands, we're not immune from
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  life's troubles. Problems will come.
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  But I can tell you about a secret, and this secret is
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  called joy. Firstly and most important, joy
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  starts with Jesus. If you take one thing, one thing
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  from all of the hundreds of videos I've made, take this one
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  thing. Remember, there is nothing more
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  important than setting aside a daily quiet time.
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  Every day, every single day, you need to spend time alone with
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  the Lord God. You need to read the scriptures,
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  you need to sing praises. But above all, you need to pray.
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  I cannot emphasize how you need to just pour out your heart.
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  You need to draw closer to God every morning and take in the
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  truths of the gospel into your heart before you do anything
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  else. Number two others.
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  At the very heart, at the very epicenter of the Christian
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  message is this message that God says, I've made all of you
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  people, I love you now I want you to go out and I want you to
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  love others as I've loved you. My dear brother, my dear sister,
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  we've got to do better, haven't we?
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  We've got to start loving people and making time for people.
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  And Frank once said, no one has ever become poor by giving.
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  OK, so J is for Jesus, O is for others, and Y stands for
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  yourself. The secret to joy is to put
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  yourself last. When I was 25, I wrote out three
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  goals that I wanted to achieve before the age of 30.
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  Number one, I wanted to preach the gospel to a million people
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  around the world and see souls saved #2 I wanted to have two
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  children before the age of 30 and #3 I wanted to see 100,000
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  people subscribe to Off the Curb Ministries.
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  Now the last one, number three, partly I wanted to see so many
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  people subscribe is because I wanted the Word of God to go
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  out. But again, if I'm completely
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  honest with you, a big part of it also is I wanted people to
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  like me because I thought if I can get enough people to like
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  Joe Kirby, well then maybe I'll like Joe Kirby.
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  But as you know, the heart is deceitful above all things and
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  desperately wicked. And we were not designed to
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  build up self. We were not designed to build
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  ourselves up. We were designed to build Christ
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  up, to give praise and glory to Him.
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  So here I am, nearly got 300,000 subscribers.
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  Has it made me any happier? No, I've still got the same
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  insecurities. I'm still the same Joe Kirby I
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  always was. Now, if you're watching this
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  video and you have not yet given your life to the Lord Jesus
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  Christ, I want to tell you something.
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  You might be a broken vessel, but God can glue all of these
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  broken vessels. You, me, the person next door,
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  He can glue them all together and make them into a beautiful
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  vase. Why?
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  Because he sent his Son the Lord Jesus Christ, and his blood is
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  the glue which binds us all together in love.
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  That blood which was shed on the cross can cleanses and washes
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  whites and snow. And when you know forgiveness of
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  sins, when you know peace with God, suddenly you realize
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  actually I have got something to smile about.
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  I have got a new song that I can sing that Jesus is the savior of
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  the world. He loved me, He died for me.
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  And one day he's coming again. And the Bible actually also says
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  this, that in the new heaven, in the new creation, God himself
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  will wipe away every tear from our eye.
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  So if you're a man like me that's cried quite a few tears
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  on this earth, one day the Father himself will wipe away
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  our tears and he'll put a new song in our mouth, a new joy in
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  our hearts, and we'll see him forever and ever, but there'll
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  be no pain, no suffering, no depression, and no low thoughts.
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  In Psalm 31, David also writes this.
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  My strength fails because of my iniquity.
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  So in other words, David's admitting that his sin is one of
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  the reasons why he feels so depressed, why he's so
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  distressed, and I think that's why many of us get low.
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  If you'd like to find out about how you can overcome repetitive
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  sin, I've made a whole bunch of videos.
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  Please go and watch that, I think they'll help you now.