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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 
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We've got to start loving people
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And Frank once said, no one has 
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OK, so J is for Jesus, O is 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 
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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
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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 
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My strength fails because of my 
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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.