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North Point Community Church

Challenge Accepted, Part 3: Depending // Joel Thomas

North Point Community Church

North Point Community Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our trials, temptations, and tension shape us—and they have a way of revealing who or what we’re truly depending on.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A few weeks ago, we kicked off a series talking about the challenges and trials that we all face in life that are inevitable.

0:06.9

In fact, it's something that Jesus promised us we would face.

0:10.2

And I have received so much overwhelming response to this series, questions and stories, and some of them heartbreaking, some of them really encouraging, some great material. In fact,

0:21.7

we probably will revisit this. So many of you have sent me books you've read and podcasts and,

0:26.7

I mean, more than ever before, but there's this one clip I received from somebody, and it was

0:31.6

a gentleman who was sharing wisdom from his grandma, which wisdom from grandma is always something

0:37.4

you should pay attention to, but this guy was talking about how his grandma, which wisdom from grandma is always something you should pay attention to.

0:38.6

But this guy was talking about how his grandma really made life simple for him.

0:44.3

And basically his grandma, and some of you may have seen this, I know it's circulated around the internet.

0:49.1

His grandma basically said, hey, there's only two things you've got to worry about in life.

0:53.2

The only two things you've got to worry about in life are whether you're healthy or whether

0:57.1

you're sick.

0:59.0

And if you're healthy, you've got nothing to worry about.

1:02.6

But if you're sick, you've got two things to worry about.

1:07.2

Whether you're going to get better or whether you're going to get worse.

1:11.5

If you're going to get better, you ain't got nothing to worry about.

1:15.8

If you're going to get worse, you've got two things to worry about.

1:20.4

Whether you're going to live or whether you're going to die.

1:23.6

If you're going to live, you ain't got nothing to worry about.

1:27.9

If you're going to die, you got two things to worry about.

1:32.3

Whether you're going to go to heaven or whether you're going to go to hell.

1:36.4

If you're going to go to heaven,

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