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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Success is realizing and completing your divinely ordained purpose in life.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Obviously, that's not as easy as it sounds, but doctor
Tony Evans says, we're not intended to make the journey alone.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
He's already worked it up. All you doing is walking
on what's being work outs.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the Alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. Doctor Evans believes
every Christian has the power and potential to succeed. Today,
he'll explain what the doorway to success looks like and
how to use the keys Guy's given you to unlock it.
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You'll want to turn to Joshua chapter one as we
join him.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It came about Verse one says, after the death of Moses,
the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Joshua,
the son of None.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Moses, my servant is dead.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Now therefore, arise cross this Jordan, you and all the
people to the land which I am giving to them,
to the sons of Israel. Every place on which the
soul of your foot treads, I have given it to you,
just as I spoke to Moses from the wilderness of
this Lebanon, even as far as the great River, the
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River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, as far
as the Great Sie toward the setting of the sun,
will be your territory. No man will be able to
stand before you all the days of your life. Just
as I have been with Moses, I will be with you.
I will not fail you or forsake you. Be strong
and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of
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the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
Only be strong and courageous, Be careful to do according
to the law which Moses, my servant commanded. You do
not turn from it to the right or to the left,
so that you may have success wherever you go. Everybody
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in here, I'm sure wants to be successful. Nobody in here,
I'm sure wants to be a failure. But before we
can talk about how to be successful, we've got to
know what success is. For many people's success is having
a lot of money. For other people as having a
certain position or a certain amount of notoriety. We talk
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about people being successful because they become well known as
an actor or an actress, or as a superstar sport.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That is accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It certainly is accomplishment, but it's not necessarily success.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
We've seen people at the top of their game.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Who wind up being failures, even though their bank accounts
may be full and everybody may know their name. When
we say when God says success, he's talking to Joshua
about getting the promised land. That's what he's talking about
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that he promised to God's people Israel. He says, I
will make your way success full. But what the success
mean to Joshua, It meant him realizing the promises of
God to him and to the nation is real. Jesus
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defines success very nicely in Saint John chapter seventeen when
he said, I have finished the work you have sent
me here to do. Success is realizing and completing your
divinely ordained purpose in life. That's success, realizing and completing
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your divinely ordained purpose in life. I don't care what
you accomplished in life. If you don't get realize and
complete God's reason for putting you here, you are a failure.
Regardless of how much money is in the bank, how
many people know your name, how popular you are, what
position you hold. Paul was successful when he says, I
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fought a good fight, I finished my course. I've kept
the faith, he says, Now it's laid up for me
a crown of righteousness.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Two Timothy four.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
He says he's successful because he finished when he would
send here to do that. Success. Now, with that can
come a lot of other great things. Nothing wrong with
having the money, or the position, or the notoriety or
whatever else may come with that. But if you have that,
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without that accomplishment, you don't have much.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You don't have much.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's why it's almost impossible in any meaningful way to
define success apart from a sense of calling or a
sense of divine designation, a sense of anointing. And remember
first John two says, you all have the anointing. All
of us have the anointing. That is, if you're a
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believer in Jesus Christ, you have the Holy Spirit who
is in you, and one of his jobs is to
lead you to your appointment. One of the Holy Spirit's
jobs is to lead you to your designation. I had
a young lady coming to my office at five thirty
today and her opening line was I have found my calling.
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Ask her how old she was, she said, I'm thirty
one years old, and she said, I have found my calling.
That's a great thing in thirty one, to find your calling.
There are a lot of folks are seventy five who don't
have a clue. So success is tied to divine purpose,
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divine designation. He says to Joshua, Moses my servant is
what did Joshua had been Moses's understudy, He had been
his ministerial aid, if you will.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
He was learning the ropes. He was the apprentice of Moses.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Moses had brought the people up to the Jordan, but
that was as far as God would allow Moses to
take them. Moses died. Moses, my servant is dead. That's
very important for you to know. That's very important for
Joshua to know, and it's very important for you and
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I to know. If you're going to move forward, you
got to kill the past. Moses, my servant is dead.
You can't look to Moses anymore. Moses was yesterday. Okay,
that's over. I'm taking you forward. One of the things
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that hinders out Tomorrow's is our link to yesterday. And
I don't mean just bad stuff, even good stuff. If
you hold on to it too long, you're gonna miss
where you're going. Yesterday is fine, no matter if it's
got great stuff, and maybe it's got some bad stuff
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that you rather than I think about. Okay, but as
long as you're locked into yesterday, you hinder your movement
towards success, because success is where you're going. Okay, you
made a mistake yesterday. There were consequences for your mistake yesterday.
Learn from those consequences. I love the way coach Dungee
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put it, he says, he tells my players, no more excuses,
just execution. Okay, don't come and tell me why you
didn't get it done right. To tell me you didn't
get it right, and this is what I'm going to
do so that it's right the next time, so that
you are not living in the past. Satan loves to
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keep you in the past, because if he can keep
you looking backwards, he can keep you from moving forward.
A rare person that doesn't have something over their shoulder
that they can't shake.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It will never go away in terms of it happening.
But you need to have a funeral. Is there anything
you need to bury because it's still too alive in
your life. It really needs to be dead, Joshua. I'm
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geting ready to take you somewhere. Moses is not part
of this. Moses is dead.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It's over. He's done his job. He's fulfilled his task.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So now he recites to Joshua his plan for Joshua.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Here's what I want you to do. Verse two.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Arise, go across to Jordan, you and all the people
to the land which I am giving to them, to
the sons of Israel. He says, I want you to
cross over to this land, which is my land of promise.
And when you do that, when you cross over, watch
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this now you will be entering in verse four, to
the land of the Hittites, of the great Sea, of
the setting the son of your territory, every place. Going
back to verse three, that the soul of your foot
tre I have given it to you. Please don't miss this.
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Success is completing what God has called you to do.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's success. But success doesn't just happen. He says.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
You've got across the Jordan every Please your foot treads.
I have given it to you, but it is the
land that hit tights. In other words, you've got to
exercise responsibility.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
There are things you're gonna have to do.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You can't sit on this side of the Jordan and
just wait for it to drop from heaven. The Bible
talks about the Lord providing for the birds, But you've
never seen a bird sitting on a branch with its
beak open toward Heaven waiting for worms to just drop in. Now,
it says God provides, But every bird that eats worms
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goes worm honting. It's just that they know God will provide.
And because they know God will provide, they assume there's
a worm with their name written on it somewhere today,
all right. In other words, they assume God has watched,
this has already provided. See, they don't worry about it.
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And they don't have worm refrigerators. They don't have worm freezers.
They don't store worm up for days, weeks, months, and years. Okay,
we store food up and are still worried. Birds, It says,
they don't worry. Matthew six says, they don't worry, and
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they know that Heaven their father's gonna provide. No, it says,
your father provides for them. So now if your father
got the birds covered, it says me, the birds should
be worried. They should have alsters because they don't have
a father and a relational sense of the word. So
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he says, I have a promise for you, but you
have to go get it. You have to go get it.
There is responsibility tied to blessing. I'm waiting for my
blessing to come. You better get up. It's only one
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time when you wait. The only time you wait is
when God has given you no options.
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Well, then you have to wait. But you know it's just.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Like the Lord give me a job. You're sitting by
the phone at home. You know you ain't applied nowhere.
You haven't met every resume, you haven't sent it nowhere.
But you know he's able. There's responsibility tithe the blessing.
There's responsibility tied to success. You must cross the Jordan,
lead the people across the Jordan. And every place your
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foot trods, well that means you got the walk somewhere.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You got to go somewhere if your foot has got
a try.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But the beauty is every place where your foot have tried.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I have given it to you.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
In other words, I've already gone in front of you
and I've worked it out. But you won't see that
I've worked it out until you cross.
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Over, and we'll own it.
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If you've got a river in life you need to cross,
stay tuned. Doctor Evans will return in a moment with
more encouragement about what's waiting for you on the other side. First, though,
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of today's lesson here's doctor Evans once again.
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Do you know God has already worked it out? See
that's a sermon right there. He has already worked it out.
That's a sermon right there. He has already gone ahead
of you. He's already in front of you related to
your calling, you purpose, your success. He's already worked it out.
All you're doing is walking on what's ren worked out.
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But if you don't cross the Jordan, you will never
see he's worked it out.
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You'll never see.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
He's already gone ahead of you to put things in
place for you so that when you arrive there, it's
worked out. I wonder if if anybody here who's arrived
at a destination and when you got there you saw
guard it already worked it out. He'd already set it up,
gone ahead for you. And the beautiful thing about this
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is that he's done that for everybody here. You all
have the anointing, you all have the appointment, you all
have the purpose, you all have the calling, you all
have the success.
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Well why am I realizing it yet? Well?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
There may be a couple of Reason's one, it may
be a timing issue, Okay, it's one. Or it may
be a responsibility issue. You still on the other side
of the Jordan, waiting for him to work it out,
waiting for your change to come, looking for it to happen.
Or it may be the delay that Israel had. Israel
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should have been in the Promised Land forty years earlier.
The reason why they weren't in the Promise Land forty
years earlier is they did not have faith.
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That is, faith enough to act, faith enough to obey.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
They were in rebellion and in disobedience. So every place
on which your soul of your foot treads, I have
given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses.
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So it's already been taken care of.
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Now, remember how God worked in the Old Testament and
how he still works today.
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There are three things.
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There is deliverance from Egypt, development in the wilderness, and
destiny where He's taking you. Every everybody goes through those
three specific there is nowhere around them. You start off
with deliverance, salvation, wilderness, spiritual development, destiny arriving at your
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place of calling or appointment. You cannot skip the wilderness.
You can't jump from deliverance to destiny. All I gotta
do is read Deuteronomy chapter eight. He tells you. I
have taken you through this wilderness to humble you, to
test you, to develop you, to develop you spiritually, develop
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your faith. Now, many of us here are wondering in
the wilderness. You know, we're in circles. We're stuck in
the wilderness, like Israel, within the wilderness. Why because faith
has not been developed? And like Israel, we're complaining every day.
We're complaining, why me, why now? Why you're not doing this?
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Why is the taking on? Why nothing else?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Why blah blah blah wah wahlahlah blah blah whah. And
God is looking for a faith that acts. So I
have already done it for you.
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It's already covered for you, but you don't get to
realize it till you walk on it. So what does
the New Testament call it? Walking by fame? Every believer
has an inheritance, the Bible says. Some of that inheritance
is in the bye and by heaven. Some of that
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inheritance is earthly. Some God gives in history, some God
gives in heaven. All believers have both.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
But you do not realize it unless you are moving.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
If you are not moving, then you will live your
life and you'll never know why you are here as
a believer.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Verse five.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
No man will be able to stand before you all
the day of your life. Just as I have been
with Moses, I will be with you. I will not
fail you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for
you shall give this people possession of the land, which
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I swore to their fathers to give them.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Verse nine.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous. Do
not tremble or be dismayed, For the Lord your God
is with you. Verse eighteen. Anyone who rebels against your
command and does not obey your words and all that
you command him, shall we put to death. Only be
strong and courageous. He tells him three times in this
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chapter to be strong and courageous. Why because he's getting
ready to face opposition to his calling. He's getting ready
to go go up, Jericho AI, I mean he getting
ready to go up, and there's gonna be resistance to
his calling. Remember, Destiny is not heaven here, because in
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heaven and Canaanites, Hittites, Amrites, jeb Tights, there's no resistance
in heaven. He's talking about an earthly calling. There is
no resistance. In heaven, but there is resistance to you
getting your calling on earth. Only be strong and courageous.
Why because he says in verse five, no man will
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be able to stand before you. In other words, I'm
not gonna let human beings stop you from getting what
I have designed for you.
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Now, I know some of you think that you're not.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Gonna make it because people keep getting in the way.
If it wasn't for folk who blocking you, who getting
in the way. See, if you've never seeing God move people,
you miss it out all suthing. If you've never seen
God stop folk from stopping you. One of the great
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manifestations of God is when folk who in the way
get moved by God.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Doctor Evans will return in a moment with a real
life example to wrap up our program for today. In
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is the final message we'll be presenting on the broadcast
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Team members are standing by to help any time of
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hundred three two two two. When you're searching for answers,
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too many voices can leave you more confused than when
you started. Well, Tomorrow, doctor Evans clears up spiritual confusion
as he begins a powerful study of Galatians that reveals
the liberating truth of the Gospel. Right now, though he's
back with his final comment for today.
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I know most you've heard it, but one of the
great stories of our church is when we were in
a Delturne elementary school and the school told us we
couldn't meet there anymore, and we didn't have any place
to go, and so we needed to buy some more time.
But there were some hardliners on the school board and
they said, we are not gonna let you stay there anymore.
So you you know, separation, churches, state all that, so
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get out. And we got the votes to get you out.
The board was going to vote on this particular day,
and we waited. We waited, we waited, we waited, we waited.
We were sitting out there for like two hours waiting.
They finally came out the room and this is what
they said. They said, we have good news for you.
You will be able to remain in the school. And
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the reason you're going to be able to remain in
the school is that the two people who were against
you were riding here together from downtown, but there was
an accident on the highway that blocked them from getting here.
And we can't wait for them any longer, so we
voted with who we had, and so we voted for you.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Right after they came out to give us the good news,
the two.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Guys came in huffing and puffin Russian.
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To give their vote.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Today we saw God intervene and black man he says,
there will be no man. I don't care how powerful
they are, how big they are, how much money they have,
how much power they have, how many folks? No of them.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I don't care about their position. I got showed back,
all right.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
The beautiful thing about your success is you can stop it,
but no man can stop it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That's good news.
Success is realizing and completing your divinely ordained purpose in life.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Obviously, that's not as easy as it sounds, but doctor
Tony Evans says, we're not intended to make the journey alone.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
He's already worked it up. All you doing is walking
on what's being work outs.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the Alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. Doctor Evans believes
every Christian has the power and potential to succeed. Today,
he'll explain what the doorway to success looks like and
how to use the keys Guy's given you to unlock it.
(00:38):
You'll want to turn to Joshua chapter one as we
join him.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It came about Verse one says, after the death of Moses,
the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Joshua,
the son of None.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Moses, my servant is dead.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Now therefore, arise cross this Jordan, you and all the
people to the land which I am giving to them,
to the sons of Israel. Every place on which the
soul of your foot treads, I have given it to you,
just as I spoke to Moses from the wilderness of
this Lebanon, even as far as the great River, the
(01:18):
River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, as far
as the Great Sie toward the setting of the sun,
will be your territory. No man will be able to
stand before you all the days of your life. Just
as I have been with Moses, I will be with you.
I will not fail you or forsake you. Be strong
and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of
(01:41):
the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
Only be strong and courageous, Be careful to do according
to the law which Moses, my servant commanded. You do
not turn from it to the right or to the left,
so that you may have success wherever you go. Everybody
(02:02):
in here, I'm sure wants to be successful. Nobody in here,
I'm sure wants to be a failure. But before we
can talk about how to be successful, we've got to
know what success is. For many people's success is having
a lot of money. For other people as having a
certain position or a certain amount of notoriety. We talk
(02:26):
about people being successful because they become well known as
an actor or an actress, or as a superstar sport.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That is accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It certainly is accomplishment, but it's not necessarily success.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
We've seen people at the top of their game.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Who wind up being failures, even though their bank accounts
may be full and everybody may know their name. When
we say when God says success, he's talking to Joshua
about getting the promised land. That's what he's talking about
(03:09):
that he promised to God's people Israel. He says, I
will make your way success full. But what the success
mean to Joshua, It meant him realizing the promises of
God to him and to the nation is real. Jesus
(03:31):
defines success very nicely in Saint John chapter seventeen when
he said, I have finished the work you have sent
me here to do. Success is realizing and completing your
divinely ordained purpose in life. That's success, realizing and completing
(03:52):
your divinely ordained purpose in life. I don't care what
you accomplished in life. If you don't get realize and
complete God's reason for putting you here, you are a failure.
Regardless of how much money is in the bank, how
many people know your name, how popular you are, what
position you hold. Paul was successful when he says, I
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fought a good fight, I finished my course. I've kept
the faith, he says, Now it's laid up for me
a crown of righteousness.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Two Timothy four.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
He says he's successful because he finished when he would
send here to do that. Success. Now, with that can
come a lot of other great things. Nothing wrong with
having the money, or the position, or the notoriety or
whatever else may come with that. But if you have that,
(04:47):
without that accomplishment, you don't have much.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You don't have much.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's why it's almost impossible in any meaningful way to
define success apart from a sense of calling or a
sense of divine designation, a sense of anointing. And remember
first John two says, you all have the anointing. All
of us have the anointing. That is, if you're a
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believer in Jesus Christ, you have the Holy Spirit who
is in you, and one of his jobs is to
lead you to your appointment. One of the Holy Spirit's
jobs is to lead you to your designation. I had
a young lady coming to my office at five thirty
today and her opening line was I have found my calling.
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Ask her how old she was, she said, I'm thirty
one years old, and she said, I have found my calling.
That's a great thing in thirty one, to find your calling.
There are a lot of folks are seventy five who don't
have a clue. So success is tied to divine purpose,
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divine designation. He says to Joshua, Moses my servant is
what did Joshua had been Moses's understudy, He had been
his ministerial aid, if you will.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
He was learning the ropes. He was the apprentice of Moses.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Moses had brought the people up to the Jordan, but
that was as far as God would allow Moses to
take them. Moses died. Moses, my servant is dead. That's
very important for you to know. That's very important for
Joshua to know, and it's very important for you and
(06:47):
I to know. If you're going to move forward, you
got to kill the past. Moses, my servant is dead.
You can't look to Moses anymore. Moses was yesterday. Okay,
that's over. I'm taking you forward. One of the things
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that hinders out Tomorrow's is our link to yesterday. And
I don't mean just bad stuff, even good stuff. If
you hold on to it too long, you're gonna miss
where you're going. Yesterday is fine, no matter if it's
got great stuff, and maybe it's got some bad stuff
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that you rather than I think about. Okay, but as
long as you're locked into yesterday, you hinder your movement
towards success, because success is where you're going. Okay, you
made a mistake yesterday. There were consequences for your mistake yesterday.
Learn from those consequences. I love the way coach Dungee
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put it, he says, he tells my players, no more excuses,
just execution. Okay, don't come and tell me why you
didn't get it done right. To tell me you didn't
get it right, and this is what I'm going to
do so that it's right the next time, so that
you are not living in the past. Satan loves to
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keep you in the past, because if he can keep
you looking backwards, he can keep you from moving forward.
A rare person that doesn't have something over their shoulder
that they can't shake.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It will never go away in terms of it happening.
But you need to have a funeral. Is there anything
you need to bury because it's still too alive in
your life. It really needs to be dead, Joshua. I'm
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geting ready to take you somewhere. Moses is not part
of this. Moses is dead.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It's over. He's done his job. He's fulfilled his task.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So now he recites to Joshua his plan for Joshua.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Here's what I want you to do. Verse two.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Arise, go across to Jordan, you and all the people
to the land which I am giving to them, to
the sons of Israel. He says, I want you to
cross over to this land, which is my land of promise.
And when you do that, when you cross over, watch
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this now you will be entering in verse four, to
the land of the Hittites, of the great Sea, of
the setting the son of your territory, every place. Going
back to verse three, that the soul of your foot
tre I have given it to you. Please don't miss this.
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Success is completing what God has called you to do.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's success. But success doesn't just happen. He says.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
You've got across the Jordan every Please your foot treads.
I have given it to you, but it is the
land that hit tights. In other words, you've got to
exercise responsibility.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
There are things you're gonna have to do.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You can't sit on this side of the Jordan and
just wait for it to drop from heaven. The Bible
talks about the Lord providing for the birds, But you've
never seen a bird sitting on a branch with its
beak open toward Heaven waiting for worms to just drop in. Now,
it says God provides, But every bird that eats worms
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goes worm honting. It's just that they know God will provide.
And because they know God will provide, they assume there's
a worm with their name written on it somewhere today,
all right. In other words, they assume God has watched,
this has already provided. See, they don't worry about it.
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And they don't have worm refrigerators. They don't have worm freezers.
They don't store worm up for days, weeks, months, and years. Okay,
we store food up and are still worried. Birds, It says,
they don't worry. Matthew six says, they don't worry, and
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they know that Heaven their father's gonna provide. No, it says,
your father provides for them. So now if your father
got the birds covered, it says me, the birds should
be worried. They should have alsters because they don't have
a father and a relational sense of the word. So
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he says, I have a promise for you, but you
have to go get it. You have to go get it.
There is responsibility tied to blessing. I'm waiting for my
blessing to come. You better get up. It's only one
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time when you wait. The only time you wait is
when God has given you no options.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Well, then you have to wait. But you know it's just.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Like the Lord give me a job. You're sitting by
the phone at home. You know you ain't applied nowhere.
You haven't met every resume, you haven't sent it nowhere.
But you know he's able. There's responsibility tithe the blessing.
There's responsibility tied to success. You must cross the Jordan,
lead the people across the Jordan. And every place your
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foot trods, well that means you got the walk somewhere.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You got to go somewhere if your foot has got
a try.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But the beauty is every place where your foot have tried.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I have given it to you.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
In other words, I've already gone in front of you
and I've worked it out. But you won't see that
I've worked it out until you cross.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Over, and we'll own it.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
If you've got a river in life you need to cross,
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more encouragement about what's waiting for you on the other side. First, though,
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of today's lesson here's doctor Evans once again.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Do you know God has already worked it out? See
that's a sermon right there. He has already worked it out.
That's a sermon right there. He has already gone ahead
of you. He's already in front of you related to
your calling, you purpose, your success. He's already worked it out.
All you're doing is walking on what's ren worked out.
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But if you don't cross the Jordan, you will never
see he's worked it out.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
You'll never see.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
He's already gone ahead of you to put things in
place for you so that when you arrive there, it's
worked out. I wonder if if anybody here who's arrived
at a destination and when you got there you saw
guard it already worked it out. He'd already set it up,
gone ahead for you. And the beautiful thing about this
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is that he's done that for everybody here. You all
have the anointing, you all have the appointment, you all
have the purpose, you all have the calling, you all
have the success.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Well why am I realizing it yet? Well?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
There may be a couple of Reason's one, it may
be a timing issue, Okay, it's one. Or it may
be a responsibility issue. You still on the other side
of the Jordan, waiting for him to work it out,
waiting for your change to come, looking for it to happen.
Or it may be the delay that Israel had. Israel
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should have been in the Promised Land forty years earlier.
The reason why they weren't in the Promise Land forty
years earlier is they did not have faith.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
That is, faith enough to act, faith enough to obey.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
They were in rebellion and in disobedience. So every place
on which your soul of your foot treads, I have
given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
So it's already been taken care of.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Now, remember how God worked in the Old Testament and
how he still works today.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
There are three things.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
There is deliverance from Egypt, development in the wilderness, and
destiny where He's taking you. Every everybody goes through those
three specific there is nowhere around them. You start off
with deliverance, salvation, wilderness, spiritual development, destiny arriving at your
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place of calling or appointment. You cannot skip the wilderness.
You can't jump from deliverance to destiny. All I gotta
do is read Deuteronomy chapter eight. He tells you. I
have taken you through this wilderness to humble you, to
test you, to develop you, to develop you spiritually, develop
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your faith. Now, many of us here are wondering in
the wilderness. You know, we're in circles. We're stuck in
the wilderness, like Israel, within the wilderness. Why because faith
has not been developed? And like Israel, we're complaining every day.
We're complaining, why me, why now? Why you're not doing this?
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Why is the taking on? Why nothing else?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Why blah blah blah wah wahlahlah blah blah whah. And
God is looking for a faith that acts. So I
have already done it for you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
It's already covered for you, but you don't get to
realize it till you walk on it. So what does
the New Testament call it? Walking by fame? Every believer
has an inheritance, the Bible says. Some of that inheritance
is in the bye and by heaven. Some of that
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inheritance is earthly. Some God gives in history, some God
gives in heaven. All believers have both.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
But you do not realize it unless you are moving.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
If you are not moving, then you will live your
life and you'll never know why you are here as
a believer.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Verse five.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
No man will be able to stand before you all
the day of your life. Just as I have been
with Moses, I will be with you. I will not
fail you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for
you shall give this people possession of the land, which
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I swore to their fathers to give them.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Verse nine.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous. Do
not tremble or be dismayed, For the Lord your God
is with you. Verse eighteen. Anyone who rebels against your
command and does not obey your words and all that
you command him, shall we put to death. Only be
strong and courageous. He tells him three times in this
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chapter to be strong and courageous. Why because he's getting
ready to face opposition to his calling. He's getting ready
to go go up, Jericho AI, I mean he getting
ready to go up, and there's gonna be resistance to
his calling. Remember, Destiny is not heaven here, because in
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heaven and Canaanites, Hittites, Amrites, jeb Tights, there's no resistance
in heaven. He's talking about an earthly calling. There is
no resistance. In heaven, but there is resistance to you
getting your calling on earth. Only be strong and courageous.
Why because he says in verse five, no man will
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be able to stand before you. In other words, I'm
not gonna let human beings stop you from getting what
I have designed for you.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Now, I know some of you think that you're not.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Gonna make it because people keep getting in the way.
If it wasn't for folk who blocking you, who getting
in the way. See, if you've never seeing God move people,
you miss it out all suthing. If you've never seen
God stop folk from stopping you. One of the great
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manifestations of God is when folk who in the way
get moved by God.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Doctor Evans will return in a moment with a real
life example to wrap up our program for today. In
the meantime, I want to let you know that this
is the final message we'll be presenting on the broadcast
from Tony's Spiritual Toolkit series. This ten part audio collection
is designed to help you focus on God's plan for
your life, helping equip you with strategies for living it
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hundred three two two two. When you're searching for answers,
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too many voices can leave you more confused than when
you started. Well, Tomorrow, doctor Evans clears up spiritual confusion
as he begins a powerful study of Galatians that reveals
the liberating truth of the Gospel. Right now, though he's
back with his final comment for today.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I know most you've heard it, but one of the
great stories of our church is when we were in
a Delturne elementary school and the school told us we
couldn't meet there anymore, and we didn't have any place
to go, and so we needed to buy some more time.
But there were some hardliners on the school board and
they said, we are not gonna let you stay there anymore.
So you you know, separation, churches, state all that, so
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get out. And we got the votes to get you out.
The board was going to vote on this particular day,
and we waited. We waited, we waited, we waited, we waited.
We were sitting out there for like two hours waiting.
They finally came out the room and this is what
they said. They said, we have good news for you.
You will be able to remain in the school. And
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the reason you're going to be able to remain in
the school is that the two people who were against
you were riding here together from downtown, but there was
an accident on the highway that blocked them from getting here.
And we can't wait for them any longer, so we
voted with who we had, and so we voted for you.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Right after they came out to give us the good news,
the two.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Guys came in huffing and puffin Russian.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
To give their vote.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Today we saw God intervene and black man he says,
there will be no man. I don't care how powerful
they are, how big they are, how much money they have,
how much power they have, how many folks? No of them.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I don't care about their position. I got showed back,
all right.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
The beautiful thing about your success is you can stop it,
but no man can stop it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That's good news.
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