1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Oh my God, you have put my trust in you. 2 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Oh my God, you have put my hope in you. 3 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Oh my God, you have put my trust in you. 4 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Oh my God, you have put my hope in you. 5 00:00:42,000 --> 00:01:00,000 In you, in you I find my peace. In you, in you I find my strength. 6 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:12,000 In you, I feel the hope and peace. In you, in you I find my peace. 7 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:20,000 In you, in you I find my strength. In you, in you I find my strength. 8 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Oh Lord my God, to you I give my hand. Oh Lord my God, to you I give my feet. 9 00:01:50,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Oh Lord my God, to you I give my hand. 10 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Oh Lord my God, to you I give my hand. 11 00:02:50,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Amen. 12 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Just a short video. Just minimize the PowerPoint. 13 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:44,000 There we go. 14 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Ouch! 15 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Ouch! 16 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Ouch! 17 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Ouch! 18 00:04:46,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Ouch! 19 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Ouch! 20 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Ouch! 21 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Ouch! 22 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Ouch! 23 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Ouch! 24 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Ouch! 25 00:06:46,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Ouch! 26 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Ouch! 27 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Ouch! 28 00:07:46,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Ouch! 29 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Ouch! 30 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Ouch! 31 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Ouch! 32 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Ouch! 33 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Ouch! 34 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Ouch! 35 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Ouch! 36 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Ouch! 37 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Ouch! 38 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Alright, if you would stand with us. The words are up there. It's a very simple song to sing along with. Here we go. 39 00:11:32,000 --> 00:12:00,000 This was God above the heavens. Hallelujah! Son of God, and Son of Man. Hallelujah! Glory be to God on high. Hallelujah! Glory be to God on high. 40 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Hallelujah! 41 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:32,000 In your life an earthly child. Hallelujah! In your life a divine. Hallelujah! Jesus died a Calvary. Hallelujah! In your life's triumphantly. Hallelujah! 42 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Glory be to God on high. Hallelujah! Glory be to God on high. Hallelujah! 43 00:12:46,000 --> 00:13:14,000 He will touch from our sin. Hallelujah! If we would have trusted Him. Hallelujah! We would live from Him our sin. Hallelujah! And forever with Him say, Hallelujah! 44 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Glory be to God on high. Hallelujah! Glory be to God on high. Hallelujah! Glory be to God on high. Hallelujah! 45 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Got it despite the technology difficulties. Alright children, and their leaders. 46 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Walk on feet, forever with us. And every knee you set, smile with me. With your love, and all I have in you, is more than enough. 47 00:14:36,000 --> 00:15:00,000 You are my supply, my breath and life. You are my awesome, and I know. You are my everyone, my living blood. 48 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:10,000 You are my awesome, and I know. God love you, is more than enough for. 49 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Walk on feet, forever with us. And every knee you set, smile with me. With your love, and all I have in you, is more than enough. 50 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:57,000 You are my sacrifice, my greatest prize. You are my awesome, and I know. You are my coming King, you are everything. 51 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:07,000 You are my awesome, and I know. God love you, is more than enough for. 52 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Walk on feet, forever with us. And every knee you set, smile with me. With your love, and all I have in you, is more than enough. 53 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:43,000 You are my everything, and I know. You are my awesome, and I know. God love you, is more than enough for. 54 00:16:43,000 --> 00:17:00,000 More than all I can see. You are more than enough. More than all I want, more than all I need. 55 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:18,000 You are more than enough for me, more than all I know, more than all I can see. You are more than enough, is all that we are. 56 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Is more than enough for all of me, forever with us. And every knee you set, smile with me. With your love, and all I have in you, is more than enough. 57 00:17:45,000 --> 00:18:00,000 All I can see. Is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I have in me, is more than enough. 58 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:15,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 59 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:30,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 60 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:45,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 61 00:18:45,000 --> 00:19:00,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 62 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:15,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 63 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:30,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 64 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:45,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 65 00:19:45,000 --> 00:20:00,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 66 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:15,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 67 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:30,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 68 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:45,000 God love you, is more than enough for me, more than all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. With your love, and all I can see. 69 00:20:45,000 --> 00:21:01,000 So careful and possibly extensive counseling is needed to deal with unresolved motions that have been turned inward once it's out of control. So when you know what you're doing, you're turning it in on yourself, you're going to go to a place of depression, and that's not what you want. 70 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:15,000 So better learn to deal with it constructively. If you realize over the last five years you've been doing that to yourself, if you can arrest it tonight, great. If you can't, seek help. Get the help that you need to get past it. 71 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Basically, experts believe anger is probably the number one cause. So wherever you read, you're going to find that they think anger turned inward is the number one cause of depression. 72 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Then when people start to get over it, now this is the good news. So you've got depression, people start to get over it, the first step is always to commit to action. That's why going to counseling appointments once a week, or changing your diet, changing your sleep habits. 73 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:52,000 The first thing to do is start with some kind of commitment to action. That's always the first and necessary part of recovery. Why? Because depressed people feel like they really can't do anything. 74 00:21:52,000 --> 00:22:04,000 When I was depressed back in 2001, I remember having feelings where I was sitting on the couch and I would look at my arm and I would will my arm to move to reach for my drink and it would not move. 75 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Like I would go, I'm going to get my drink now. And I would go, oh, nothing's happening. And a few seconds later, then I would get moving. It was like getting started was hard. And that's it. 76 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:26,000 So that first commitment to action is always necessary. Actions taken to revitalize one's spirit life is always a good first step. 77 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:34,000 So if you can't go see a counselor, think about what it is that you're supposed to be, if you're a Christian, think about what it is that you're supposed to be doing in God. 78 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:40,000 I'm supposed to be reading my Bible. So make a commitment to read your Bible in an orderly fashion. Or I'm supposed to be praying. I know I'm not doing that enough. 79 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Plan to pray. Remember those are the spiritual disciplines that we talk about. Committing yourself to take steps in those areas, again, would be that first action step. 80 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:55,000 There's a thing called the therapy of thanksgiving. You can sit down and make a list of all the things that you're grateful for. 81 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:04,000 And thinking about what you're grateful for will increase the serotonin, the endorphins and positive endorphins in your brain, not just serotonin, but others that are in your brain. 82 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:13,000 And you'll go like, oh, I feel better. You ever sit and reminisce, like you haven't seen somebody for a while, or you haven't really had a good conversation with them for a while, and you sit and talk to them, 83 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:24,000 remember when we did this, remember when we did that, remember when we went to camp, or we went canoeing, or remember when Sally fell off the boat, or you know, talk about it, and you laugh, and you feel, that's what that's all about. 84 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:30,000 So you're releasing those positive chemicals by having positive emotions about things that already happened in the past. 85 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:35,000 So you can do therapy for yourself by counting your blessings and thinking about what's good in your life. 86 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Now another action step involves committing to a physical exercise plan. 87 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Some part of depression is about your body's ability to produce the chemicals that it needs to produce, and when you exercise, your body will do that. 88 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,000 So you'll notice that people who are depressed oftentimes do not have a good exercise plan. 89 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,000 It could be because they have health concerns that are stopping them from doing that or whatever. 90 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:07,000 You'll even find, for example, that there are folks who are struggling with depression who will like, they'll say things like, well I need to lose weight, so they'll eat an atrociously small amount, 91 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,000 like really, really little, trying to lose weight, and they don't lose any weight. 92 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Now they don't increase their exercise plan at the same time, and the best way to do something like that would always be to increase your exercise plan and keep your food consumption at a reasonable level. 93 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,000 So you always want to kind of balance, but have more exercise than food consumption. That's how you lose weight. 94 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:32,000 If this is your food consumption and you drop your exercise down here, you gain weight. 95 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:39,000 If it's right here even, you maintain weight, and if it's barely above, you lose weight, but if it's exercise is way above, you don't lose weight. 96 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Your body goes into starvation mode and you don't lose weight. 97 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:49,000 So the bottom line is, committing to a healthy exercise plan produces the endorphins that are lacking in a depressed person. 98 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:54,000 You can eat chocolate or you can do push-ups. People are like, well I don't do push-ups, right? 99 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:59,000 Or you can just sit in a chair and move your leg up and down. You don't have to get up. You don't need cardio. 100 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Exercise produces endorphins. You do whatever you can do and do a lot of it slow, easy, but continuous exercise, 101 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:12,000 and pretty soon it'll click and your brain will start to produce those endorphins and you'll feel better. 102 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,000 And it's got to be systematic, so it's a plan, and then you choose the plan. 103 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:24,000 It's also important to build a relational life. Get out, meet people, talk, share and develop friendships. 104 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Living alone, and this is not figurative language, living alone is depressing. 105 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:39,000 Science proves it, sociology proves it, psychology proves it. If you isolate from the people who want what's good for you, 106 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,000 or even from your enemies, if you have no friends, you can go like, I want to hang out with my friends. 107 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:48,000 You can't think of anybody you'd hang out from. If you then don't hang out with anybody because you're moving away from certain people 108 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,000 because they're basically enemies or they treat you bad, that's depressing. 109 00:25:52,000 --> 00:26:01,000 You will build depression in yourself, and you'll get clinical depression, and then you'll have to have extra help to try to get out of it. 110 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Finally, a lifestyle of ministry helps in the recovery process. Serve other people at a practical level at least once a week. 111 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:16,000 This doesn't count your kids. If you're a parent, that's a responsibility, that's not ministry. 112 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Ministry is serving somebody that is outside your family or somebody that you wouldn't normally serve or things like that. 113 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,000 You can serve your husband, that's great, you should do that. Serve your wife, that's great, you should do that. 114 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Serve your kids, you should do that, but that doesn't count for this. 115 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:36,000 This is somebody that has a practical need that you can meet that's outside your responsibilities. 116 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:42,000 Science shows weekly you can do it more than once, but if you try to do it five times a week, you might burn out, then you'll stop. 117 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:48,000 If you can make sure that you're doing it at least once a week, that's a key to overcoming depression or rising up out of depression. 118 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Depressed people have a tendency to self-preoccupation. Basically, they find something to keep themselves busy. 119 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:07,000 Play games, watch your phone, watch TV, stream, whatever. They'll find something to keep themselves occupied. 120 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:13,000 What that does is it keeps their mind off the fact that their mind is lacking something. 121 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:20,000 That tendency to self-preoccupation is gradually refocused with the proper input. 122 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:26,000 As you're hanging around the right people, people are talking to you, as you're in church, you're studying, you get the Bible in you, whatever. 123 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:33,000 There's a really cool recent study, if anybody wants to look it up, about what happens if you read your Bible three times a week for, I think it's three weeks. 124 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,000 It's a very short period of time. You just block out time to read your Bible. 125 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,000 By the way, the study was done with reading, not listening. 126 00:27:42,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Joy and perspective returns as depressed individuals receive help in understanding their emotions so they know where they're at and why they're there. 127 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000 Accepting their own worth, they realize they have great value. 128 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Every human being has great value, more than any dollar amount, more than any wealth, more than anything in this lifetime. 129 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,000 A human's worth is way above anything, anything but God. 130 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Then see that God is expressing His love through them as they outreach to others in need. 131 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,000 You're going to remember that when you're doing that service, you're thinking about this is God. 132 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Remember the ordinance of God? If God ordered you to serve people, does anybody think God ordered you to serve people? 133 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:34,000 It's there, right? A new command I give you, love one another, serve. 134 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,000 If God ordered us to serve people, then when we're serving people, we're carrying out His order. 135 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000 That means we are His outreaching to other people. 136 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Now we're going to look at some scripture. If you brought your Bible, here we go. 137 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:53,000 Anybody want to read Psalm 42 verses 3-4? Praise the Lord! 138 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:59,000 Psalm 42, are you going to get there, Tontate? You volunteered. 139 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:06,000 Yes, you did. If somebody else wants to get ready because we're going to read 5 and 6 next. 140 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:11,000 This is participation. 141 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000 42, 3-4. 142 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:20,000 My tears have been blue day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God? 143 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:26,000 These things I remember as I fought with my soul. I used to go with the multitude, leading a procession to the house of God, 144 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:31,000 which shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the best of people. 145 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:39,000 The question is, what is the Psalmist, the person who wrote this Psalm, what is their emotional state? 146 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000 Pretty sad. 147 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 Pretty sad, that's right. 148 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:48,000 That sounds like sad, or you could say depressed. 149 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Not clinically depressed necessarily, but depressed. 150 00:29:52,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Now, you don't have to answer this question a lot if you don't want to, but realistically, have you ever been there? 151 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:07,000 I have. I've been clinically depressed and didn't realize it, and it took a little bit. 152 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,000 In fact, I told my doctor, no, I can't be depressed. That's not possible. 153 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:21,000 So, it does happen. But even depression can happen for an hour, it can happen for six hours, it can happen for a week. 154 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:27,000 The standard is if it lasts for more than a week, you need clinical help of some kind, typically. 155 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,000 I'm going to ask you, have you been depressed for a week? 156 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,000 And then you're in the doctor's care trying to get over it. 157 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,000 So, what were the circumstances when it happened to you? 158 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,000 Think about those circumstances. 159 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,000 Not his circumstances, he was isolated. 160 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:55,000 It says, I used to go, that's what the verse said, I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God. 161 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000 He doesn't do that anymore. So, he isolated himself. 162 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,000 He's withdrawn. He's crying. 163 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000 People are saying to him all day long, where is your God? 164 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:11,000 So, he's challenged in his faith. He wants to believe. 165 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,000 What were your circumstances when you were depressed? 166 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000 I have to share with you, just think about it for a moment. 167 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000 Okay, let's look at 42, five and six. You got that, RJ? 168 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,000 You read five and six? 169 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Yeah. 170 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,000 Alright, go. 171 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,000 Why are you in despair, O my soul friend? Why have you become disturbed within me? 172 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Open, God, for I shall again praise him for the help of his presence. 173 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000 O my God, my soul is in despair within me. 174 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:43,000 Therefore, I remember you from the land of the Jordan and the peeps of the Dex. 175 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000 Hermon. 176 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,000 From Mount Hazar. 177 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Yep. Okay, so now our question is, how is the soul-mist turning his feelings into words? 178 00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:01,000 And there's a clue. He's verbalizing by talking out his feelings to who? 179 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,000 Something you're talking to God. 180 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Is he? 181 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,000 Why are you in despair, O my soul? 182 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,000 He's talking to himself. 183 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:12,000 He's talking to his soul, in this case, right? Talking to his soul. 184 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:17,000 How is the soul-mist turning his feelings into words? He's talking to his soul. 185 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:29,000 And to, and now, six says, O my God, my soul is in despair within me. 186 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:37,000 So now he's talking to God, right? So he starts by talking to his soul in five, and then God in six. 187 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,000 Okay. 188 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:48,000 So because we are reading his words, we can assume he also did what? 189 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:56,000 It's a no-brainer. If we're reading it, he must have, he not only said it, but he also wrote it, right? 190 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,000 If he didn't write it, if he's talking to God in his soul, who else knows what he's saying? 191 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,000 So he probably wrote it down as he was doing it, which is a good thing to do. 192 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000 We talked about that during the anger management training. 193 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:18,000 Okay, now we're going to 1 Peter 1. So go to the right, that's in the back, in the teeny-teeny books. 194 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,000 1 Peter 1. 195 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:28,000 We are doing good. 196 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:33,000 Anybody got it? Josh? 197 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:40,000 Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from their beautiful way of life, 198 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:50,000 inherited from their forepowers, but with precious blood, as of a clam unpunished and spotless, the blood of Christ. 199 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:57,000 Okay, so from these verses, how can you determine your true personal worth to God? 200 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:05,000 That's the question. What do these verses tell us about our worth to God? 201 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:12,000 Jace, what do you think, man? What do those verses say about our worth to God? 202 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Shrug? 203 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:22,000 Well, when God paid for it, he didn't pay like out of anything that fades away, all this other stuff. 204 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:31,000 It's cool, it's part of us, but God paid his precious blood because he wanted it. 205 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:41,000 I would say, I don't want to say he won us, but because he was being obedient to himself, but to that, he paid the price for that. 206 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,000 Good. So he paid the most precious thing of all. 207 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,000 Precious blood is everlasting. 208 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:56,000 Everlasting. Anybody got anything to add? 209 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:01,000 Okay, 1 Kings 19, 4. We got it? Tommy, you got it? 210 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Almost. 211 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:35,000 Okay, so which symptoms of depression can you identify right now, this is Elijah speaking, in his life, what symptoms of depression can you see? 212 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Lack of self-worth. 213 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:46,000 Okay, so lack of self-worth. Yeah, he's literally degrading his value with his words, he's saying he's no good. 214 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,000 Very isolated, he's not going on a way-based journey. 215 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:55,000 Yep, he isolated himself. 216 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:03,000 Anything else? 217 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:14,000 Because we get depression, because he said take my life, it's not really in my course of doing stuff. 218 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:20,000 Yeah, he's actually pretty deep in depression, he's asking to die. 219 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:26,000 And so sometimes when you're pretty depressed, you just want to die. 220 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:35,000 And the truth is most depressed people never commit suicide, it's people who are coming out of depression, they just get just enough strength coming out of depression, and that's when most suicides happen. 221 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:44,000 We're not talking about suicide, but we do need to be aware that too much depression can make you feel like you want to end it. 222 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:50,000 That's a real thing. So if you're dealing with somebody who is depressed, be aware of that. If you are depressed, be aware of that. 223 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,000 That can take you to a place where you just feel like you want life to end. 224 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,000 Okay, so now we're going to just follow his story for a minute. 225 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:10,000 So in verses 5 and 6, we're going to see gradual steps that are provided for him from these verses that follow. 226 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:17,000 So look at 5 and 6 first, anybody got it? We're all probably in 19 right now. 227 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Alright, Tony Tate, go ahead. 228 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:37,000 Okay, so what gradual corrective step was in those two verses? 229 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Okay, so he ate, and by the way, that's a pretty healthy eating. 230 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000 So he ate healthy, right? 231 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,000 Yep, so like self-care, you could probably lump it under self-care, I think. 232 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,000 He also followed it because he didn't have to give up eating. 233 00:37:53,000 --> 00:38:00,000 Right, he committed himself to take that step, right? He was told to take the step to eat, and he did. He got up and ate. 234 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:06,000 So remember how we talked about overcoming depression kind of begins with a first step, a first action that you commit to? 235 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,000 He got up and he ate. That's what Tony Tate's saying there. 236 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:15,000 Okay, go down to 10 to 14. 237 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000 10 to 14. Here, I'll read it. 238 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:41,000 And he said, 239 00:38:41,000 --> 00:39:00,000 And he said, 240 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:16,000 So what step is that? What is he taking right there? 241 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,000 Okay, so it is seeking God. I don't think that's the one they're aiming at, but that's what he's doing, you're right. 242 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:26,000 So it's a spiritual thing. 243 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,000 Okay, he's talking it out. Yeah. 244 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:39,000 So in fact, if you notice, the first part is talking about how he says, and he said, or he thought, basically he's thinking to himself, 245 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,000 I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the son of Israel, forsaken by covenant, and so on. 246 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,000 And then he gets with God, and God says, what's wrong? And he says exactly the same thing. 247 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:54,000 I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the son of Israel, forsaken by covenant, torn down nine altars, and killed the prophets with a sword. 248 00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:13,720 I 249 00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:17,160 to God probably hand in hand are a great way to do it. 250 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,920 You might not be able to tell somebody else, 251 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,840 they might not even be available, they might be dead. 252 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,360 They might be in another state, 253 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:23,600 you might not have their number, 254 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,720 you might not be able to express them how you're feeling. 255 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:28,880 But you can always talk to God or you can write it out, 256 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,920 and he probably did both, 257 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,000 because he's the only one there. 258 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,400 It's just him and God there. 259 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,480 So he probably later wrote out exactly what happened 260 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,280 so that it could be carried forward to present day. 261 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,000 So, okay, 15, 16. 262 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:45,840 Anybody? 263 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:50,680 Okay. 264 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:51,760 And the Lord said to him, 265 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,440 go return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. 266 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:55,480 And when you have arrived, 267 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,440 you shall anoint Heziel king over Aram, 268 00:40:58,440 --> 00:40:59,560 and Jehu the son, 269 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,240 I know, I see why you didn't want to read it now. 270 00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:03,160 And Jehu the son of Nimshi, 271 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,240 you shall anoint king over Israel, 272 00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:08,040 and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abema, 273 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:09,360 Abema, 274 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:10,840 hola, 275 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,600 you shall anoint as prophet in your place. 276 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:14,440 Okay? 277 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,240 So what is this kind of like progressive, 278 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:19,240 constructive step that's happening here? 279 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,520 God's telling him what to do. 280 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,400 Can I put him on a call to action? 281 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:28,240 Yeah. 282 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:29,160 So he's, yep. 283 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,960 So he's ready to exercise a call to action. 284 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:35,680 He's gonna go put a plan in place, right? 285 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,360 And really what he's doing is he's assigning 286 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,360 some faithful men named by God to those roles. 287 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,640 It's gonna take some of the weight off. 288 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,480 But God said, this is what you're gonna do, 289 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:45,320 and he's gonna do it. 290 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:46,520 So it's a call to action. 291 00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:52,880 And it could be, 292 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,520 I mean, you could say building relational life, 293 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:57,800 even if we go back to the original thing, 294 00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,000 because he's gonna know these guys 295 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,840 once he ordains them into place, right? 296 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,720 They're gonna be his friends in ministry or in kingship. 297 00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:07,760 So you could say that too, okay? 298 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:08,800 And then 19. 299 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,320 Go ahead. 300 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,360 Just 19? 301 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:16,280 Yep, just 19. 302 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,560 So he parked in there and found Elijah, 303 00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,760 the son of Shephard, 304 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:26,760 while he was plowing with 20 pairs of ox before him, 305 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,440 and he with the 20, or 12. 306 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:36,440 And Elijah passed over to him and through his mantle on him. 307 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,640 Okay, and so then what is 19, that progressive step? 308 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:47,640 Now he's kind of actually what, carrying out the plan. 309 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,000 He willfully picked up in his plan. 310 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,480 Yep, so he willfully did it. 311 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,400 He did it intentionally. 312 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,800 He would right there as he willfully did it. 313 00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,160 Yep. 314 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,760 So sometimes I think about this. 315 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,160 God wants us to do something. 316 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:04,680 God gives us something to do. 317 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,680 We're like, well, I don't need to do that. 318 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,520 I don't see why that benefits me. 319 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,920 I don't see why that benefits the other person. 320 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,600 But sometimes your call to action from God is just for that, 321 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,000 just so that you can be obedient, 322 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,360 so that you can answer the call to action 323 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:22,440 for no other reason. 324 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,720 Like, okay, it doesn't matter if I take the blue one 325 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:26,120 or the red one, and God says take the blue one. 326 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:26,960 You're like, but it doesn't matter 327 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:27,880 if I take the blue one or the red one. 328 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,840 It's no, why would God even care? 329 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,240 Blue or red, who cares? 330 00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:32,800 God shouldn't care about that. 331 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,320 And then you go, well, fine, I'll take it anyway. 332 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,440 And you take the blue one just because, 333 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:39,960 what difference, doesn't make any difference to you, 334 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,160 whatever, not out of obedience, 335 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,160 not out of faithfulness to God, but just because, right? 336 00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,760 Because you, or you're like, 337 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,360 well, the last thing I saw was blue, 338 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:48,520 so I'm gonna take the blue one, 339 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,440 like some kind of hokey sign or something, right? 340 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:52,840 When God gives us something to do, 341 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,000 sometimes it's specific and he wants you to do it. 342 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,160 And it's part of your mental process, 343 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,560 part of your emotional process, part of your psychology, 344 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,240 part of your spiritual leading, right? 345 00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:04,240 There have been lots of times 346 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:05,800 when God has given me little things to do, 347 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,520 and I'm like, that doesn't, it didn't make any sense. 348 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,680 Like, there's no reason, no reason on earth 349 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,160 that God could want me to do that. 350 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,760 It's not gonna save me from a car accident later today. 351 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,160 It's not gonna make me stronger in any way. 352 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,760 I just cannot fathom any reason why God wants me 353 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,080 to wear a short-sleeve shirt instead of a long-sleeve shirt, 354 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:24,600 or whatever it might be. 355 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,120 And I was picking one particular example there. 356 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:32,120 But when I choose it, now something happens, right? 357 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:34,600 I chose to do what God wanted me to do. 358 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,680 It's an expression of love toward the Lord, if nothing else. 359 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,440 Okay, so Moses, David, and Jonah, 360 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:42,680 yep, we've got four minutes. 361 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,960 Moses, David, and Jonah also sometimes became depressed. 362 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,240 We're gonna look quickly at the following passages. 363 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:52,000 I think Jonah's kind of maybe a little self-explanatory. 364 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,520 Whatever ones of these we don't get through, 365 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,000 you can look at on your own. 366 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,000 But the first one's in Numbers 11, 367 00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,400 and it's verses 10 to 15. 368 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,760 Did anybody jump ahead and look those up already? 369 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:05,000 I did not. 370 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:13,680 Tommy, you got it? 371 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:14,520 Go. 372 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,920 Now Moses prayed to people weeping throughout their family, 373 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,880 each one at the entrance of his tent. 374 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,840 And the anger of the Lord became very hot, 375 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,600 and Moses was asleep. 376 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,080 So Moses said to the Lord, 377 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,240 why have you been so hard on your servant, 378 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:30,920 and why have I not found favor in your sight, 379 00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:35,800 that you have put the burden on all of these people on me? 380 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,840 Was it I who conceived all these people, 381 00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:40,560 or did I give birth to them, 382 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,600 that you should say to me, carry them in your arms 383 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:49,600 as a nursing infant, 384 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:54,600 to the land which you swore to your father? 385 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,720 Where am I to get meat to give all of these people? 386 00:45:57,720 --> 00:45:59,080 For they weep before me, saying, 387 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,520 give us meat so that we may eat. 388 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,960 I am not able to carry all these people by myself, 389 00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,240 because it is too burdening some for me. 390 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:09,720 So if you are going to deal with me this way, 391 00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:11,200 please kill me now. 392 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,080 If I have found favor in your sight, 393 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,080 then do not let me see my... 394 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:18,960 Okay. 395 00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,120 So while he was reading it, 396 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:21,680 I was doing my best to keep up with him 397 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:22,720 and write down the answers, 398 00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:24,120 so we get through a little quicker. 399 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,720 So who's the story about who became depressed? 400 00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:28,040 Moses, right? 401 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,600 And under what circumstances? 402 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:38,840 Yeah, so he felt like too much responsibility. 403 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,920 Too many people coming to him for answers, right? 404 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,640 But be careful, 405 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,680 because if he legitimately had too much responsibility, 406 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:47,960 would he become depressed? 407 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,680 That doesn't cause depression, right? 408 00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,920 So we already talked about how that happens. 409 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:54,520 Why was he depressed? 410 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,440 Frustration brings him anger. 411 00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,200 Frustration brings him anger. 412 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,440 Okay, so if it was frustration and anger, 413 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,200 he's right now expressing his frustration and anger to God, right? 414 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,880 So it's not unexpressed frustration and anger. 415 00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:11,720 When Moses said, he says to God, 416 00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:13,800 why do you put all this responsibility on me? 417 00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,240 What is he saying? 418 00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:18,040 He's saying, right? 419 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:18,880 Say it again. 420 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,200 Yeah, he's saying it's built up to be so much. 421 00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,920 Basically, he has a wrong understanding, 422 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:26,520 wrong anxiety, right? 423 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:30,840 So he's upset that God is asking him to do the job 424 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:32,280 that God is asking him to do, 425 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,240 as if God were wrong and saying, 426 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:37,080 you're giving me too much responsibility. 427 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,560 So his anxiety is, I'm gonna crumble under this. 428 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,000 God will never give you anything 429 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,400 that you're gonna crumble under, right? 430 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,320 He'll give you something, 431 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,720 and then he'll sustain you through that something. 432 00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:48,920 And sometimes it's pretty terrible 433 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:50,120 what Christians have to go through. 434 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:51,800 It is really bad, but the bottom line is, 435 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,480 he has a wrong anxiety. 436 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,480 If you remember back when we talked about 437 00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:00,360 one of the causes of depression is self-worth issues, 438 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:07,160 and where's anxiety on my list here? 439 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:08,000 I lost it. 440 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,400 Exaggerated anxiety. 441 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,800 So he has exaggerated anxiety. 442 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,600 What happens if Moses just doesn't go to work the next day? 443 00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:18,520 Did God's people suddenly become not God's people? 444 00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,280 Do they just all die in the desert, 445 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,120 like God just says, oh, this is about to happen, 446 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:22,960 you're all done? 447 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,360 No, right? 448 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,160 Moses is going to work because it's what God wants him to do, 449 00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:28,440 so he's submitting to God, 450 00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,920 but he gets wrapped up in the anxiety 451 00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,920 of the fact that he thinks he's beyond his capabilities. 452 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,840 He thinks he's beyond his capabilities. 453 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:41,880 Apparently that makes a noise, 454 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,320 even if you turn the volume off. 455 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:49,640 Okay, so it's wrong anxiety or an exaggerated anxiety. 456 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,000 And then how was he depressed? 457 00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:53,880 And I probably phrased that question poorly, 458 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:58,760 but how badly or how, what's an example of his depression? 459 00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:01,000 He was terribly depressed, 460 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,120 and he was asking the God would just kill him, right? 461 00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:04,840 Let's end it. 462 00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:07,560 So we're gonna finish on this one, 463 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,560 and you can do the other two on your own, 464 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,200 which I would strongly encourage you to do, 465 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,560 but let's talk about the significance of this story to us. 466 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,680 Does anybody in here, is there anybody in this room 467 00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,840 that feels like they have some pretty significant 468 00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:24,120 responsibilities in life? 469 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,840 My hand is way up, okay? 470 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:35,640 And if this story tells me if I set a wrong standard 471 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,680 for those responsibilities, or if I get anxious, 472 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,760 like I want the outcome to be what I want it to be so bad, 473 00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:48,920 I'm so wrapped up in it, that my anxiety is out of control, 474 00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:51,240 I'm gonna be depressed. 475 00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:52,440 That's what's gonna happen. 476 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:53,800 I'm gonna wind up in depression. 477 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,320 And so that's the significance of that story. 478 00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,600 Moses, who's, I mean, as a man of God, 479 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:04,200 Moses is a better man than I am, you know? 480 00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,080 But is he really? 481 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,680 Because what did Paul, or what did Jesus say? 482 00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:12,200 He said that John the Baptist was the greatest man 483 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,120 ever born of women, so that means John the Baptist 484 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,080 is better than Moses, right? 485 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,040 And then he said, and greater is the least 486 00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,440 in the kingdom of God than Jesus. 487 00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,640 And greater is the kingdom of God than John the Baptist. 488 00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,720 So actually, that means we're all better than Moses 489 00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:30,280 in some sense, and one thing, one way we can be better 490 00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,920 is we can have our eyes opened and our heart unleashed for God 491 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,320 and realize that if we set wrong standards, 492 00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,120 or if we over-exaggerate our anxiety over something, 493 00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,440 Ariana and I just had this conversation last night 494 00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,200 and I didn't realize the providence of the Lord, 495 00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:45,480 the timing of the Lord or whatever, 496 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,840 but we're talking about how people, I told her, 497 00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,200 she said people get really upset sometimes 498 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:53,560 when they don't get their way, 499 00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,560 and we're talking about how somebody will go like, 500 00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,120 well, teenagers, for example, think, 501 00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,840 well, if my boyfriend breaks up to me, the world's over. 502 00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,000 Everything is over, I should just die, 503 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,280 I can't stand it, I'll never survive, right? 504 00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,880 Or the valedictorian gets a C and is like, 505 00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,080 oh, the world's over, it's all done. 506 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,800 It's all exaggerated anxiety. 507 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,640 I didn't get the birthday present I wanted, 508 00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,240 exaggerated anxiety. 509 00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:20,840 I don't have the money, but it's my birthday 510 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,920 and everybody knows you gotta go out to eat on your birthday, 511 00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,560 but I really shouldn't do that, it's anxiety. 512 00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,040 And it's exaggerate, we're living in a world 513 00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:31,320 of exaggerated anxiety where everybody takes everything 514 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,080 to the umph degree, right? 515 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,800 So people aren't just like for the Democratic party, 516 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,360 they hate Republicans, or for the Republican party, 517 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,040 they hate Democrats, right? 518 00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,760 Because they're exaggerating everything, right? 519 00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,760 You can't just be for one football team, 520 00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,640 you have to hate the rival football team. 521 00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,840 It's exaggerated anxiety, everything is like that. 522 00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:53,240 And so the solution then to depression 523 00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:56,360 that we get out of that text is to go back to God, 524 00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,960 express what you're feeling and let God show you 525 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:01,400 what you're actually supposed to be doing 526 00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,080 and then just do that. 527 00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:06,680 And I would say it this way, just do that until, 528 00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,280 if what you're saying is actually true, 529 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:09,240 you're exaggerating your anxiety, 530 00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:10,680 if it's really all that bad, 531 00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,520 then just do that until it kills you. 532 00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,960 Because then that way, you win, right? 533 00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,920 You serve God until serving God kills you 534 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:20,840 and then you go straight to heaven. 535 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,400 Whereas if you let the exaggerated anxiety 536 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,600 get out of control and stop you from serving God, 537 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:30,040 then maybe you don't go to heaven 538 00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,520 because you say you're a Christian, but are you? 539 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,320 And I'm not saying depression is an anti-Christian thing, 540 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:38,920 or I made that mistake when I was a young Christian 541 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,200 thinking that Christians can't be depressed. 542 00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,280 The reality is we don't have to be depressed 543 00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,280 because the reality is we all have depression 544 00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,760 at one time or another, something goes wrong, 545 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,520 we don't handle our feelings well, whatever, 546 00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,240 and we wind up depressed, right? 547 00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:53,640 This is how you rise out of depression. 548 00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,800 Basically, start with a committed action 549 00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,120 and a good committed action is to revitalize 550 00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,320 one's own spiritual plan, if you will. 551 00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,040 The therapy of thanksgiving is a very good thing. 552 00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:07,560 Another action step involved is committing 553 00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:11,800 to a physical exercise plan, eat right exercise, 554 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,560 and that replaces the endorphins that are lacking 555 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,320 in a depressed person. 556 00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,240 It's also important to build a relational life, 557 00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:21,880 get out, meet people, talk, share, develop friendships, 558 00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,040 and then finally a lifestyle of ministry 559 00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,800 helps in the recovery process. 560 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,280 As you serve other people at a practical level, 561 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:32,440 at least once a week, you'll learn how to 562 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,160 think of your actions as God's actions, 563 00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:36,680 as God's working through you, 564 00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,680 and you'll bounce and you'll come out of it. 565 00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,000 And you'll be less self-preoccupied. 566 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,640 There's a lot of preoccupation we're filling our days 567 00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:45,480 just thinking we're just gonna get by. 568 00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,280 I just can't feel good, so I'm just gonna watch more TV 569 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,040 and not think about it, right? 570 00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,840 Or, and that's how people get into drugs and alcohol 571 00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,480 because it helps numb the pain and all that kind of stuff. 572 00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,080 You don't need to do any of that. 573 00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,840 There is a way, and it's about, it really is about caring 574 00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,040 for other people at the same time 575 00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:03,480 that you're caring for yourself, okay? 576 00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,360 So Jonah, we're not gonna go read it. 577 00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,160 Obviously, Jonah gets very depressed. 578 00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,240 He also is begging God that he should just die 579 00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:14,560 at the very end, and he also has some interesting emotions 580 00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:15,560 that lead into that place, 581 00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,080 so I highly recommend you read that story. 582 00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,440 It's all about a plant and a worm. 583 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,640 It all comes down to a plant and a worm in the end. 584 00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:25,280 And then Psalm 32, if you wanna take a chance to read that, 585 00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,160 there's a very interesting set of circumstances in there. 586 00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,000 So I'm gonna pray for you briefly. 587 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,320 And we do have snack cakes and punch in the cafeteria, 588 00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,560 so we'll have a little time of fellowship hangout. 589 00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:40,560 And, you know, a little chocolate in there, 590 00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,400 so if you need a little endorphins, a little chocolate, 591 00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,120 you can have a little chocolate. 592 00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:49,280 Father in heaven, thank you so much for the simplicity. 593 00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:55,720 So we know sometimes we make following Jesus a grand affair. 594 00:54:56,240 --> 00:54:57,360 It's gotta be about everything. 595 00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,720 It's gotta be about everything I do and every choice I make, 596 00:54:59,720 --> 00:55:02,120 and I wanna be storing up treasure for myself in heaven, 597 00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,520 not on earth, and I wanna give God every penny, 598 00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,200 every dollar, every moment of every day, 599 00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,400 and all that's kinda like grand language. 600 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:13,960 It is the goal. 601 00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:16,200 It's what we should do and it's what we should be, 602 00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,440 and after we die and go to be with you, 603 00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:19,280 it's what it'll be like. 604 00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,200 It's all gonna be between us and you for an eternity, 605 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:23,480 and it's gonna be awesome. 606 00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,880 But we're a work in progress now, 607 00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:30,000 and that means sometimes we get depressed, we struggle. 608 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,800 It's hard not to be sad when somebody dies 609 00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:34,720 or when a relationship falls apart 610 00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:36,760 or when we don't have the things that we think we needed, 611 00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:40,400 and especially when we exaggerate our anxiety 612 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,600 over something like, oh man, if this happens, 613 00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:43,600 this is the end of the world, 614 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,280 but it's not the end of the world. 615 00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:47,640 The end of the world isn't coming 616 00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,000 until the end of the world comes. 617 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,240 And so there are people who have filed bankruptcy five times 618 00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:54,400 and wound up millionaires, 619 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,760 people who closed the doors of their dream business, 620 00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:58,400 they were gonna build every, 621 00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,120 they spent their whole life trying to build something, 622 00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,120 and they built it and then it all fell apart, 623 00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,240 and they had to start over again. 624 00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:06,840 People who came home and their loved one, 625 00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,960 turns out that they were betraying them the whole time, 626 00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:10,440 and they were terribly betrayed, 627 00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,520 and yet then they made it through that, 628 00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:16,720 and they developed good, healthy relationships after that. 629 00:56:16,720 --> 00:56:19,920 And it doesn't matter how bad it gets, 630 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:24,920 it matters that we keep on faithfully searching for you, 631 00:56:26,260 --> 00:56:29,480 serving you, letting you work through us, 632 00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,200 overcoming day after day after day. 633 00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:33,280 And we're still here, 634 00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:34,800 which means you've got an awesome plan 635 00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,920 for every person that's in this room. 636 00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:38,620 Some are young, so they got a lot of time 637 00:56:38,620 --> 00:56:39,780 for the plan to develop. 638 00:56:39,780 --> 00:56:41,560 Some are older, so not so much time 639 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,400 for the plan to develop. 640 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:44,480 Thank you, Lord. 641 00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:47,040 Thank you for desiring the great things 642 00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:48,680 that you can do through us, 643 00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,240 and we commit ourselves to kind of be available, 644 00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:54,080 take the first action steps, and do the right thing, 645 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:55,440 and when we find ourselves depressed, 646 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,360 because we will, when we find ourselves depressed, 647 00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,880 take the right steps with you to get out of it. 648 00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,680 We'll praise you for all that you do, in Jesus' name. 649 00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:04,520 Amen. 650 00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:05,360 Amen. 651 00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:31,360 Thank you very much.