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And it's just so encouraging. 
I'm so thankful for the live 

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stream when I'm in college 
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I'll try the best I can to 
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watch it after it's over. 
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it was in September, maybe late 
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And that's amazing. 
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doesn't save you, but I believe 
it is a symbol and a picture of 

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what God is doing here in your 
lives. 

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And and y'all have been such an 
encouragement to me over my time

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here. 
I'm just thankful for the summer

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that I got to spend here and 
just being back. 

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It's really special to me. 
So I'm praying for y'all and I'm

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just ready for the future and 
thankful to see what God's been 

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doing through you all. 
So let's get right in the 

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message tonight. 
Turn your Bibles to the book of 

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Luke. 
Luke chapter #8 is where we're 

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going to be tonight. 
Familiar story. 

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I believe many of you will at 
some point in your Bible reading

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or in time in church either 
heard a message preached on this

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or just read it yourself. 
But we're going to pick up in 

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Luke chapter 8 and verse #41 
Luke 841. 

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And it says, And behold, there 
came a man named Gyrus, and he 

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was a ruler of the synagogue, 
And he fell down at Jesus's 

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feet, and besought him that he 
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he had one only daughter above 
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dying. 
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thronged him. 
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Luke 849. 
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there cometh one from the ruler 
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saying, saying, To him, Thy 
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the Master. 
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answered him, saying, Fear not, 
believe only, and she shall be 

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made whole. 
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he suffered no man to go in, and
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and the Father, and the mother 
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bewailed her. 
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not dead, but sleepeth. 
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scorn, knowing that she was 
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and took her by the hand, and 
called, saying, Maid arise. 

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And her spirit came again, and 
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commanded to give her meat. 
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but he charged them that they 
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done. 
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small phrase in verse #50 but I 
believe a very important phrase 

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and very important words of 
Jesus and verse #50 Jesus says 

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fear not, believe only. 
Let's pray. 

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Dear my Father, I think we're 
for this church. 

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Dear God, I think we're for this
place that we can come and 

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worship you. 
I think we're for the people to 

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make up this body. 
Or I pray that you would just be

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with each and every person 
that's here tonight, pray with 

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you and meet their needs, be 
with each situation. 

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I pray with you would speak to 
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Father, do it only you can. 
In Jesus name I pray, Amen. 

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So the phrase that we're looking
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not, believe only. 
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in our society, there's a lot of
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It, it just seems to be this 
culture going around a fear from

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every single direction. 
Everywhere you look, people are 

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scared out of their minds. 
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especially in some Christian 
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when Charlie Kirk was 
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fear. 
A lot of fear. 

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Talk was going around. 
A lot of people were saying, oh,

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well, they're coming after us 
now. 

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I don't know if I feel safe to 
go to church anymore. 

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I don't know if I feel safe to 
go out and door knock. 

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I don't know this or I don't 
know that there's a lot of fear 

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brewing around. 
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as Christians, we have no reason
to fear because we have the 

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promises of God that He can say 
fear, not believe only. 

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And that's exactly what we need 
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And I believe a lot of times 
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Christians from not witnessing 
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I remember one time when I was 
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older teenagers in the youth 
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visitation on Wednesday 
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older up with the younger. 
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teens and we were walking down 
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neighborhood where we were 
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And there was this, I'm not 
going to lie, he was a scary 

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looking guy. 
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street. 
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or lived in the area, but from 
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own any of the houses in the 
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So he had tattoos up and down 
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I mean, long, scraggly beard. 
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what they're called, the 
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holes in your earlobe, whatever 
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Yeah, and he had those and the 
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he didn't know any better. 
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goes we should give a track to 
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And you know, I in the five 
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and us passing the guy, I had a 
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I was thinking in my head, I was
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talk to this person. 
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going to take my wallet, which 
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I don't know why I was scared of
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us. 
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But this, it convicted me when 
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track to that guy. 
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And when we were talking to that
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cuss us out. 
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He didn't try to argue with us. 
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He said, thank you very much. 
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And I was thinking to myself, if
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that moment, if I had to let my 
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my actions, I would have never 
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Now, I don't know what he did 
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I don't know if he took it and 
read it or if he just took it 

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and shoved it in his backpack, 
never saw it again. 

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trusted Christ as Savior. 
We'll never know until we get to

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heaven. 
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We as Christians cannot let fear
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We cannot let fear control our 
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control what we do and why we do
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That we cannot have a spirit of 
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And you know the funny part is 
all that these people had to do 

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for their daughter to be made 
whole is fear not and believe 

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only. 
And I wonder if the same is true

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of our world today. 
I wonder if the same is true of 

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our country today is if God's 
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Jesus to fear not and believe 
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I wonder if our nation could be 
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I wonder if our churches could 
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get it out of their minds that 
we need to be quiet people, we 

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need to be scared people and 
just hideaway in a corner 

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somewhere. 
No, God's people need to be 

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bold. 
And God's people need to go out 

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with the good news of the gospel
and get as many people in church

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and as many people saved as we 
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So fear not and believe only. 
So why should the believer be 

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able to set aside their fear and
trust Christ? 

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You say, Justin, you said a lot 
that Christians need to be these

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bold people that don't need to 
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But why? 
Well #1 let's get right into our

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points. 
Christ has always been the 

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solution to the problem. 
He was the answer to Gyrus's 

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problem here. 
Gyrus had a problem and he knew 

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just where to go. 
He went to Jesus. 

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Gyrus probably said, my daughter
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I don't know, she could be dead 
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I don't know. 
Jesus, can you come and just 

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take a look at her, please? 
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but Jesus said, yes, I'm going 
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look at your daughter. 
But Gyrus knew where to go for 

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his problems. 
And I wonder, is the same true 

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for us? 
Do you know where to go in your 

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many, many times we know where 
we should go in our problems, 

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but do we go there in our 
problems, in our tough times, We

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need to run to the feet of 
Jesus. 

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And I remember this may be a 
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but in elementary school, my 
best friend was sitting right 

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beside me. 
And I remember we had a test 

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that day. 
I didn't study too well, but I 

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knew we had a test. 
And so I was in there. 

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I was a little nervous. 
I really, I mean, it was 

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science, so I really didn't care
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But I was in there and I was 
sitting around and ready for the

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test. 
And my friend walks in and I 

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mean, he's, you could tell he 
was stressed out and he was 

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nervous. 
And I look at him like, you OK. 

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And he says, I forgot about the 
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If I'm telling you, I've never 
seen this kid pray more 

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fervently in his life. 
He was sitting beside me in his 

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desk. 
I look over as the teacher's 

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passing out the desk and he has 
his hands folded like this and 

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he's sitting in his desk. 
But you know what I was thinking

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when I was preparing this 
message and that illustration 

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popped up in my mind. 
I was thinking he know where to 

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go in his problems. 
He had that, although it may 

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have been a silly example, a 
silly reason. 

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He knew exactly where to run to 
and his time of need. 

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He knew exactly where to go to 
and his time of difficulty. 

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And the same should be true of 
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We know where to go. 
We have the answers in this book

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and in Jesus Christ. 
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Jesus has always been the 
solution to our problems. 

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We as humans had and still have 
a big problem now, don't we? 

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It's called sin. 
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Christ was the answer to that 
problem for us? 

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He came and sent His Son, died 
on a cross three days later. 

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Rose again was beaten for you, 
was mocked for you, was 

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ridiculed for you and for me, 
and then he rose again, defeated

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death, hell and the grave, and 
took care of our sin problem and

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all we have to do is accept Him 
into our hearts and trust Him 

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that He'll take us to heaven one
day. 

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Christ has defeated and was the 
solution to our sin problem, 

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which is inevitably our biggest 
problem and our world's problems

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today. 
Many people in the Bible all 

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throughout Scripture, Jesus is 
proven to be the solution and 

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you don't have to look far to 
find this point proven. 

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Look at Luke chapter 8 verse #43
Luke 843 same chapter. 

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This is actually Jesus is on his
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happens to him and says and a 
woman having an issue of blood 

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12 years which has spent all of 
her living upon physicians. 

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Aren't you thankful that our 
hope is not in the doctor. 

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I will say that neither could be
healed of any came behind him 

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and touched the border of His 
garment and immediately her 

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issue of blood was stenched. 
This this lady who had an issue 

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of blood for 12 years, she was 
dealing with this problem with 

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blood for 12 years and as soon 
as she went to Jesus and touched

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His garment, her issue of blood 
was stopped, as though that word

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stenched means it was completely
stopped. 

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It was gone. 
Why? 

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She knew where to go with her 
problems. 

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She had faith enough in Jesus 
Christ and belief enough in 

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Jesus to go to her with her 
problems. 

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Look at Luke 8 verse #22 Luke 
822. 

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A lot of examples of belief in 
Christ in this chapter. 

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Luke 822 says, Now it came to 
pass on a certain day that he 

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went into a ship with his 
disciples, and he said unto 

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them, Let us go over onto the 
other side of the lake, and they

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launched forth. 
But as they sailed, he fell 

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asleep and there came down a 
storm of wind on the lake, and 

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they were filled with water and 
were in jeopardy. 

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And they came to him and awoke 
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perish. 
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wind and the raging of the 
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ceased and there was a calm. 
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on the boat with Jesus, and the 
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blowing, and Jesus is sleeping, 
where did they go in their time 

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of need? 
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boat and say, oh we can handle 
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make it out of this storm by 
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They went straight to Jesus 
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their only hope in their time of
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He was their only solution to 
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Jesus Christ has always been the
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Go back to Luke 7, Luke 7. 
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to find these illustrations and 
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is because I believe Jesus is 
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point in this part of the book 
of Luke that if we will just 

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believe Him, that's when our 
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That's when our problems will be
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Luke 7, verse 11. 
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it came to pass that day after 
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Nain, and many of his disciples 
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Now when He came nigh to the 
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was a certain there was a dead 
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his mother, and she was a widow,
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with her. 
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had, He had compassion on her, 
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And He came and touched the 
beer. 

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And they that bare him stood 
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And he said, Young man, I say 
unto thee, arise this man. 

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He had faith enough to go to 
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If we as Christians today could 
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is the answer, then and only 
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our problems. 
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in the Bible. 
The man that was lowered into 

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the house when he was sick, when
he had problems, the his poor 

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friends that lowered him into 
that house, his four friends had

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faith enough to go to Jesus with
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be made whole, and he was. 
But we have to have faith enough

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and belief enough in Jesus 
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Get all the fear out of our 
minds and believe only in Jesus 

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Christ that He is the solution 
to our problems. 

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Don't go to the world to solve 
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Our hope is not in some 
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Our hope is not in the doctor. 
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physicians or the psychiatrist 
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Our hope is in Jesus Christ and 
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only solution to our problems. 
So #2 we, why should we be able 

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to cast fear out of our lives? 
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fear aside? 
We can believe God because he 

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has always been faithful. 
I don't think there's a person 

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in here that could raise their 
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been faithful to me. 
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me in my time of need, when I've
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when I've been in trouble, when 
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whatever it may be, Jesus has 
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I don't think there's anybody in
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Why? 
Because Jesus has always been 

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faithful from day one. 
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Bible who Jesus was faithful to,
Joseph immediately pops into my 

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mind. 
Let's take a look at the story 

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of Joseph in Genesis chapter 37.
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We'll look at the story of 
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Joseph was sold into slavery by 
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And then you know the story. 
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#23 of Genesis 37. 
And it came to pass, when Joseph

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was come unto his brother, and 
that they stripped Joseph of his

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coat, his coat of many colors 
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And they took him and cast him 
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And the pit was empty. 
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And they sat down to eat bread. 
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and looked. 
And behold, a company of 

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Ishmaelites came from Gilead 
with their camels bearing 

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spicery and balm and myrrh, 
going to carry it down to Egypt.

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Genesis chapter #50 This is 50 
verse 18 closing verses of the 

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chapter or the book of Genesis. 
And it says, And his brethren 

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also went and fell down before 
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This is Joseph's brethren 
falling down before Joseph. 

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And they said, Behold, we be thy
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And Joseph said unto them, Fear 
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God, but As for you, ye thought 
evil against me, but God meant 

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it unto good to bring to pass as
it is this day, to save much 

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people alive. 
I can imagine when Joseph was 

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thrown into the pit by his 
brothers, when he was taken and 

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sold into slavery by his own 
kin, I can imagine what was 

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going through his head. 
He was probably doubting God. 

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He was probably questioning God.
I don't know what was going 

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through his mind. 
I can imagine the questions I 

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would be asking of God. 
Why are you letting this happen 

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to me? 
God, what are you doing? 

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But you know what? 
Only God can take a situation 

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that bad and turn it out into so
much good like you did for 

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Joseph. 
He turned Joseph's situation 

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better than it could have ever 
turned out if if man would have 

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gotten a hold of it should. 
God was faithful in Joseph's 

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life and he will be faithful in 
your life as well. 

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You may think your situation is 
too far gone or your situation 

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is hopeless, but God is always 
the solution to our problems and

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He will always be faithful. 
Now you may not always get the 

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results you were hoping for, but
you know what, God is still 

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faithful. 
You may be thinking to yourself,

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well why did God give me this 
answer to my problems? 

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Why? 
You may be praying for a prayer 

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request for many times and you 
may be thinking to yourself, I 

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don't know why this came into my
life. 

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I don't know why God gave me 
this answer to my problem, but 

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God is always faithful and He 
always takes our problems and 

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turns them into good. 
If you will simply set your fear

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aside and keep believing in 
Christ, you will find that He is

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always faithful. 
And you know, there's a lot that

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college has taught me over my 
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believe one of the main things 
that God's really taught me 

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since high school is that He is 
always faithful. 

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I remember when I first got to 
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this story before, but I didn't 
know a soul. 

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I didn't even know why I was 
there, to be totally honest with

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you. 
I was sitting in my dorm and I 

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was thinking to myself, I don't 
know anybody. 

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I'm not friends with anybody. 
I'm sitting here all alone. 

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I don't know where to turn to. 
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was praying and all of a sudden,
as soon as I prayed for a 

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friend, my friend who I've been 
best friends with for four 

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years, walked right around the 
corner and we started talking 

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and we were best friends. 
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That was God saying to me, I'm 
going to take care of you. 

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I'm going to be faithful to you.
And he has been ever since. 

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So #2 we can believe God because
he has always been faithful #3 

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Do not let unbelief have the 
victory over you. 

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If God tells us to fear not and 
believe only, then we better not

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as Christians let unbelief get 
the victory over us. 

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And no doubt, many times when a 
big, like when a team is playing

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another sports team, many times 
before that game, both coaches 

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will tell their teams, Believe 
in yourself. 

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You better believe that you can 
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Why? 
Because they know if their team 

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has any doubt at all in their 
mind that they can win this 

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game, they know if their team 
has any unbelief in themselves 

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at all, then they're at a huge 
disadvantage. 

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I am a huge Virginia basketball 
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And some of you know that and 
some of you don't. 

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Some of you don't care about 
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But in 2018, the Virginia 
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team in college basketball. 
They were by far the number one 

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seed undisputed, and they were 
playing the number 16 seed in 

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the March Madness tournament, 
the 16 seed being the lowest 

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seed you can possibly play. 
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nation against one of the worst 
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But if you watch the game, you 
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The team was UMBC and they go 
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confident. 
You could tell right off the bat

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that they knew what they were 
doing. 

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They executed well. 
They were confident. 

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And you can see their confidence
over time just building as 

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throughout the game, they 
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They started getting up by 
10:15. 

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Before you knew it, they were up
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nation. 
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Because as their confidence 
grew, as they started seeing 

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victory, as they started seeing 
the results they wanted, their 

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confidence got greater and 
greater and greater. 

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And the same is true of our 
spiritual life. 

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If we will simply just put our 
faith in the Lord, if we will 

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simply believe God and take Him 
in His Word, then over time we 

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will start seeing victory. 
We will start seeing victories 

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won here, victories won there. 
And over time, our faith will 

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start to grow. 
Our confidence in God and our 

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faith in Christ will begin to 
grow. 

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Just as that team that had no 
business beating Virginia was 

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able to beat Virginia, we and 
our confidence that God will be 

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able to grow over time as well. 
Do not let unnecessary, 

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unnecessary fear and unbelief be
a burden to you. 

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Don't ever let unnecessary fear 
and belief be a burden to you. 

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Turn over to Hebrews chapter 12,
Hebrews 12, the very familiar 

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verse. 
It says, Wherefore, seeing we 

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also are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses, let 

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us lay aside every weight in the
sin which does so easily beset 

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us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us. 

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Unbelief and fear in the life of
a believer will be such an 

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unnecessary burden. 
Now you have to bear with me on 

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this, because I'm not the 
strongest guy. 

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I have here with me weights and 
I want one to represent fear and

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I want the other to represent 
unbelief. 

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And as a Christian, if you walk 
through your life with unbelief 

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and fear and you're holding them
in your hands, you're keeping 

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those weight on your back, 
you'll be able to walk for a 

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little while, But what's going 
to start to happen? 

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You're going to start to get 
tired. 

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You're going to start to get 
weighed down. 

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Your hands are going to start to
get tired. 

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If you hold on to that 
unnecessary unbelief and fear, 

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you may say, I don't know how I 
can pay my taxes this year. 

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I don't know how God's going to 
take care of this or how God's 

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going to take care of that. 
But you know what? 

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If we will just set aside 
unbelief and we will set aside 

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our fear and just put them at 
the foot of the cross and at the

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feet of Jesus, what happens? 
I can walk around so much 

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easier. 
I can walk around, not always 

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stress free, but I can walk 
around pretty confident in God 

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that He's going to take care of 
those burdens because He has in 

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the past. 
Everything gets twice so much 

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more easy. 
If we would just take our 

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burdens. 
We'll take our unbelief and 

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we'll take our fear and we'll 
cast them at the foot of the 

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cross and allow Jesus to take 
those burdens and He will. 

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And He's done it time and time 
again. 

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So as I said before, unbelief is
a total and unnecessary burden 

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that you just need to put at the
foot of Jesus. 

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You cannot keep all of those 
worries and burdens in your life

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and expect to live the 
victorious Christian life. 

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You cannot do it. 
And many times it makes me laugh

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sometimes we as Christians will 
trust Jesus Christ with our 

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soul, will trust Jesus Christ to
take us to heaven and forgive us

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for our sins and take us to 
spend an eternity with Him. 

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We'll trust Him with our 
eternity, but we won't trust Him

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with our finances. 
We won't trust Him with that 

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person that we're going to date.
We won't trust Him with sickness

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that may have come into our life
or some bad situation. 

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We won't trust Him. 
You know why? 

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Because Satan wants nothing more
than to put that fear and to put

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that unbelief in the heart of a 
believer. 

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If you're going to trust Jesus 
Christ with your soul, it should

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be so much easier to trust Him 
with the small problems of life.

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So let's move on to our 4th and 
final point. 

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Tonight. 
Let's review the points that 

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we've gone through so far. 
Christ has always been the 

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solution to the problem. 
We can believe God because He's 

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always been faithful. 
We cannot let unbelief have the 

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victory over us. 
And our 4th and final point, we 

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can believe God because of the 
promises and His holy word. 

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Turn in your Bibles to Isaiah 
chapter 43, Isaiah 43. 

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I love these verses. 
I've been reading them for as 

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long as I can remember, and I go
to these verses whenever I'm 

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have something big coming up in 
my life, or if I have problems 

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that I'm trying to get through. 
And I hope you can do the same. 

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Isaiah 43. 
Let's start reading in verse #1.

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But now thus saith the Lord that
created thee, O Jacob, and he 

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that hath formed thee, O Israel,
fear not, for I have redeemed 

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thee. 
I have called thee by thy name. 

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Thou art mine. 
When thou pass this through the 

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waters, I will be with thee, and
through the rivers they shall 

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not overflow thee. 
When thou walkest through the 

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fire, thou shall not be burned, 
neither shall the flame kindle 

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upon thee. 
Now, I don't know about you, but

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those verses, they just 
encourage me. 

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They strengthen me. 
They lift me up. 

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Whatever I'm about to go into or
whatever problem I'm about to 

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face, I always like to go to 
these verses because it's just a

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reminder that no matter how low 
I may get in life, no matter how

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bad my problems may be in this 
world, they're only going to be 

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temporary. 
Number one, you notice it says 

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when thou passes through the 
fire, we're always going through

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our problems, aren't we were 
never just sitting in the fire. 

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We're never just sitting in the 
fire. 

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Jesus Christ is always going 
through the problems with us 

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just when we're passing through 
the fire. 

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But these verses are such an 
encouragement, so many more that

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we can find in the Bible and I 
just want to read a couple that 

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I have written down here. 
Deuteronomy 31 eight, you don't 

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have to turn there. 
You can just listen. 

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Deuteronomy 31 eight it says, 
And the Lord He, it is the 

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death, go before thee, He will 
be with thee. 

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He will not fail thee, neither 
forsake thee. 

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Fear not, neither be dismayed. 
Joshua 119 Have I not commanded 

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thee? 
Be strong, and of a good 

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courage? 
Be not afraid, neither be thou 

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dismayed. 
For the Lord thy God is with 

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thee whithersoever thou goest. 
And then Matthew 2820, The Great

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Commission, the command given to
all believers ever since the day

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that Christ descended into 
heaven, and until He comes back 

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and gets us, this is our 
command. 

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It says, teaching them to 
observe all things whatsoever 

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I've commanded you. 
And he doesn't just stop there. 

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And he says, and lo, I am with 
you always, even unto the end of

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the world. 
Amen. 

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In these verses that I just 
read, you'll find a common theme

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in Deuteronomy 31. 
Eight It says, fear not, neither

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be dismayed. 
Joshua 19 It says, Be strong and

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of a good courage, be not 
afraid, neither be thou 

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dismayed. 
And in Matthew 2820, Jesus, the 

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Lord of all creations, says, Lo,
I am with you always, even unto 

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the end of the world. 
Amen. 

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Whenever we as Christians go out
into the world, whenever we go 

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to make a difference for Christ,
to help a fellow believer in 

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their tough times, whatever we 
may be doing, Jesus says, I am 

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with you always, even unto the 
end of the world. 

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And that is the greatest promise
that any of us could ever 

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receive outside of heaven, I 
believe, is the fact that Jesus 

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Christ is with us, that He's 
helping us. 

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He's passing through the fire 
with me and He's going to help 

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us take care of our problems, 
whatever it may be. 

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Jesus Christ gives us promises 
in his Word that He is always 

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going to be there with us in the
tough times. 

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We can set fear aside, we can 
set unbelief aside, and we can 

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trust Jesus Christ and that's 
the greatest promise outside of 

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salvation. 
I believe that we're given and 

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all we have to do is trust him. 
All Gyrus had to do for his 

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daughter to be healed was trust 
Jesus. 

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Jesus Christ said fear not, 
believe only, and your daughter 

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will be made whole. 
And I think if we as Christians 

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could get that through our 
heads, that if we'll fear not 

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and believe only, maybe our 
world could be made whole. 

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Maybe our churches could be made
whole. 

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Maybe so and so who may be sick 
in the hospital could be made 

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whole. 
It will just set aside our fear 

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and our unbelief. 
And I want to close tonight by 

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reading you the lyrics to a 
hymn. 

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I was at college when I was 
working on this message, just 

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last week actually. 
And I worked on the message. 

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I finished it up for the most 
part outside of review before I 

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came here. 
And I went to church on 

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Wednesday night and I heard this
song, How Firm a foundation. 

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And I wrote down the lyrics to 
the song on my way to church 

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tonight because I figured they 
would be a help because I know 

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they spoke to me and I think 
they go along with the message 

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tonight. 
And it goes along with our theme

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of why can we set aside fear and
unbelief? 

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Because Jesus Christ is our firm
foundation. 

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So some of the I didn't write 
down every verse. 

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I only wrote down a couple. 
But it says in every condition, 

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in sickness and health and 
poverty's veil or abounding in 

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wealth at home and abroad, on 
the land or the sea, the Lord, 

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the Almighty, your strength 
there shall be. 

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And then another verse of the 
song says, fear not, I am with 

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you, O be not dismayed, for I am
your God and will still give you

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aid. 
I'll strengthen you, help you 

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and cause you to stand upheld by
my righteous omnipotent hand. 

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And when the songs, when that 
song was sung, I was a Temple 

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Baptist Church in Powell, TN 
where Crown College is, and the 

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song was sung and I was thinking
to myself as I was singing it. 

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You know, that goes right along 
with what I was just studying 

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about. 
Be not afraid, be neither, be 

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that dismayed. 
And I was saying to myself, 

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well, why can I set aside the 
fear and the unbelief? 

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Because Jesus Christ is the 
firmest foundation that we could

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ever have. 
And so if I could just leave you

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with one thing tonight, it would
just be set aside, the fear and 

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the unbelief. 
And as the words of Jesus say, 

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fear not, believe only. 
Let's pray, dear. 

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Only Father, I think we're for 
this time that we've been given 

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in your house tonight. 
I think we're for this church 

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Father and all that it means to 
me thing were for the people 

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here. 
I pray we're now that you would 

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just be with each and every 
person that's here tonight. 

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I pray with you. 
Help us to set aside the fear in

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our life. 
Help us or to set aside all of 

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our unbelief and help us or to 
believe only in you because we 

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know you can take care of every 
problem that's ever have that's 

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ever been and that ever will be 
and I pray with you. 

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Just give us great rest of the 
night. 

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Help us or to set aside the fear
and unbelief in our lives in 

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Jesus and I pray. 
Amen.