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[857.26 --> 858.16] That became normal.
[858.30 --> 860.46] And you learn to live with fear.
[860.70 --> 861.84] And it shapes you.
[861.84 --> 864.64] And so you say the right thing.
[864.78 --> 867.02] Which means not the thing that was necessarily true.
[867.20 --> 870.66] But the thing that might help control the angry person.
[871.86 --> 875.44] And then you learn to become a people pleaser.
[877.12 --> 877.52] Right?
[877.60 --> 883.36] I've got to say the right thing to keep that person in a good space with me.
[884.32 --> 886.00] Not necessarily the truth.
[886.00 --> 892.88] There was some unhealthy living going on there for me.
[893.04 --> 896.78] And with lots of counseling and the love of an amazing wife and family.
[897.30 --> 901.56] I began to see how I was shaped and misshaped.
[902.98 --> 906.14] And you learn to face the fear.
[906.50 --> 908.82] You learn to face the pain.
[909.28 --> 910.88] And it's an ongoing journey.
[911.02 --> 913.16] You don't arrive completely.
[913.16 --> 917.14] Because pain and fear become a part of you.
[917.36 --> 920.18] They start running your life in unhealthy ways.
[920.62 --> 923.90] And you escape in all kinds of unhealthy ways.
[924.42 --> 926.92] Ways that aren't going to help you in the long run.
[927.92 --> 931.56] And as long as my life was run by fear and anger and pain.
[931.80 --> 935.76] I negated the full potential of God's love in me.
[935.76 --> 939.24] God was flowing.
[939.38 --> 941.02] Love was flowing through me.
[941.14 --> 942.18] But I blocked it.
[942.56 --> 945.70] And it caused harm to my family.
[946.02 --> 946.98] To myself.
[947.18 --> 947.96] And to others.
[948.44 --> 950.34] Because it wasn't opening up to that love.
[953.26 --> 954.28] The way of Jesus.
[954.38 --> 955.14] We sang about it too.
[955.20 --> 958.34] The way of Jesus offers so much more.
[959.24 --> 960.00] So much more.
[960.54 --> 961.82] Scripture says so often.
[961.90 --> 962.30] Do not fear.
[962.30 --> 962.58] In fact.
[963.48 --> 966.48] Some writers say it's the most repeated command in scripture.
[966.74 --> 967.26] Do not fear.
[967.34 --> 967.70] Do not fear.
[967.78 --> 968.12] Do not fear.
[968.22 --> 968.56] Do not fear.
[968.76 --> 970.02] I put two examples down.
[970.58 --> 971.74] John 14.27.
[971.88 --> 972.52] Jesus says.
[973.08 --> 974.98] Peace I leave you.
[975.18 --> 976.38] My peace I give you.
[976.62 --> 978.86] I do not give you as the world gives.
[978.94 --> 979.10] Right?
[979.16 --> 980.44] Where there's that lie going on.
[980.72 --> 982.36] Do not let your hearts be troubled.
[982.78 --> 984.46] Do not be afraid.
[986.08 --> 986.50] Peace.
[986.66 --> 987.10] No fear.
[987.10 --> 987.22] There.
[988.30 --> 989.62] John 16.33.
[990.16 --> 990.70] Jesus says.
[990.82 --> 991.80] I have told you these things.
[991.90 --> 993.28] So that in me you may have peace.
[993.34 --> 993.96] There we are again.
[994.62 --> 996.58] In this world you will have trouble.
[998.56 --> 1002.68] Somehow peace is not the absence of trouble.
[1003.24 --> 1004.58] In this world you will have trouble.
[1004.70 --> 1005.08] But take heart.
[1005.14 --> 1005.96] I have overcome the world.
[1006.24 --> 1008.18] We trust that Jesus has brought victory.
[1009.20 --> 1010.38] Jesus brings us peace.
[1010.42 --> 1012.04] As opposed to all the angst.
[1012.16 --> 1014.04] And all the anxiety that we live in.
[1014.04 --> 1017.88] And the church is supposed to be a community of peace.
[1018.00 --> 1020.64] In a culture of fear and outrage.
[1021.46 --> 1026.88] One writer described this peace as being a non-anxious presence.
[1027.96 --> 1029.12] I like that.
[1030.06 --> 1032.02] A non-anxious presence.
[1034.48 --> 1037.32] Where we're not drawn into all the chaos.
[1037.96 --> 1040.86] We're not pulled into all the unrest around us.
[1040.86 --> 1043.62] Rather we are anchored in the presence of Jesus.
[1044.04 --> 1044.48] How?
[1044.66 --> 1050.46] How do we keep from getting sucked into that black hole of outrage and fear.
[1050.72 --> 1052.28] That is so much around us.
[1052.60 --> 1054.24] What can we do to stop that?
[1054.58 --> 1056.50] And I think there's probably a lot we can do.
[1056.76 --> 1058.80] But I'd like to hold up one practice.
[1058.94 --> 1061.36] And that is the practice of silence.
[1062.84 --> 1065.10] We already said listen more speak less.
[1065.32 --> 1067.18] That's helpful in this journey.
[1067.18 --> 1068.98] But I think it's more than that.
[1069.18 --> 1070.28] And look at Luke 5.
[1070.34 --> 1071.58] And we'll see what Jesus did here.
[1072.68 --> 1073.50] Look at it with me.
[1073.60 --> 1074.82] Luke 5 15 through 16.
[1074.94 --> 1077.44] Yet the news about him spread all the more about Jesus.
[1077.86 --> 1081.06] So crowds came to hear him and be healed of all their sickness.
[1081.54 --> 1082.00] Now I want you.
[1082.16 --> 1082.68] A pastor.
[1082.94 --> 1083.64] As a pastor.
[1083.78 --> 1084.46] I would note.
[1085.44 --> 1088.26] He's having super successful ministry going on right there.
[1089.26 --> 1090.46] Things are going super good.
[1090.54 --> 1091.50] Lots of crowds are coming.