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How can we retain our joy when everything seems to be going wrong? Tune in for the answer.

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00:00:00 --> 00:00:05 How can we retain our joy when everything seems to be going wrong?

00:00:06 --> 00:00:07 Tune in for the answer.

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00:00:43 --> 00:00:47 So often in the Bible we read about joy or rejoicing.

00:00:48 --> 00:00:53 Yet many of the writers of those words were facing trials and persecutions.

00:00:54 --> 00:00:56 David was being pursued by Saul.

00:00:57 --> 00:00:58 Paul was in prison.

00:00:59 --> 00:01:03 James, the brother of Jesus, was later martyred.

00:01:04 --> 00:01:10 Yet in these dire circumstances, their message is joy and peace.

00:01:11 --> 00:01:13 How can this paradox exist?

00:01:15 --> 00:01:16 In an earlier episode,

00:01:17 --> 00:01:20 I mentioned a preacher long ago who gave a lesson on the

00:01:20 --> 00:01:21 difference between a

00:01:21 --> 00:01:23 thermometer and a thermostat.

00:01:25 --> 00:01:29 A thermometer measures temperature generally against outside variables.

00:01:31 --> 00:01:34 A thermostat sets the core temperature.

00:01:35 --> 00:01:39 If you have obeyed God's commands and been saved by the blood

00:01:39 --> 00:01:40 of the Lamb,

00:01:40 --> 00:01:42 redeemed and clean,

00:01:43 --> 00:01:46 you can have a peace that is a thermostat.

00:01:47 --> 00:01:50 It's set to the internal knowledge that you've been bought with

00:01:50 --> 00:01:52 a price and belong

00:01:52 --> 00:01:52 to the Lord,

00:01:53 --> 00:01:53 and nothing,

00:01:54 --> 00:01:55 nor anyone,

00:01:56 --> 00:02:00 can take that away unless you willingly choose to go back to

00:02:00 --> 00:02:02 your former life of sin.

00:02:03 --> 00:02:06 Whatever your current financial status is,

00:02:06 --> 00:02:07 your health situation,

00:02:08 --> 00:02:10 whatever is going on around you,

00:02:11 --> 00:02:15 those are all the external variables that contribute to the

00:02:15 --> 00:02:16 readout on the thermometer.

00:02:17 --> 00:02:19 Those things may change.

00:02:20 --> 00:02:21 When and if they do,

00:02:22 --> 00:02:25 that may set off other dominoes that can help or hinder.

00:02:27 --> 00:02:30 However, they cannot snatch your soul from God's hands.

00:02:31 --> 00:02:36 That is a fact you can bank on and the reason these writers

00:02:36 --> 00:02:37 could trust in the

00:02:38 --> 00:02:40 unfailing love of a sovereign God.

00:02:42 --> 00:02:42 Hebrews 13.8 tells us,

00:02:44 --> 00:02:50 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

00:02:51 --> 00:02:57 And Romans 8.35-39 says, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

00:02:58 --> 00:03:03 Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness

00:03:03 --> 00:03:04 or danger or sword?

00:03:05 --> 00:03:10 As it is written, For your sake we face death all day long.

00:03:11 --> 00:03:14 We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

00:03:15 --> 00:03:15 No,

00:03:15 --> 00:03:20 in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who

00:03:20 --> 00:03:20 loved us.

00:03:20 --> 00:03:24 For I am convinced that neither death nor life,

00:03:24 --> 00:03:26 neither angels nor principalities,

00:03:27 --> 00:03:28 neither the present nor the future,

00:03:29 --> 00:03:30 nor any powers,

00:03:30 --> 00:03:32 neither height nor depth,

00:03:32 --> 00:03:35 nor anything else in all creation,

00:03:35 --> 00:03:40 will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in

00:03:40 --> 00:03:42 Christ Jesus our Lord.

00:03:42 --> 00:03:45 Philippians 4,

00:03:45 --> 00:03:46 7 says,

00:03:46 --> 00:03:47 And the peace of God,

00:03:48 --> 00:03:50 which surpasses all understanding,

00:03:51 --> 00:03:55 will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

00:03:56 --> 00:04:00 When external forces look dire, remember these words.

00:04:01 --> 00:04:02 They are unchanging.

00:04:04 --> 00:04:05 Our meme for today says,

00:04:06 --> 00:04:07 Our circumstances may fluctuate,

00:04:08 --> 00:04:11 but God's love never does.

00:04:12 --> 00:04:16 How has this knowledge helped you overcome external setbacks?

00:04:16 --> 00:04:18 Chime in below.

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