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What Cork he meant when he said I was going to pursue the thought process is this.

When I was finished thinking through what I said this morning I thought well now if

it takes and God does what I'm praying namely that you would find the ability through

gutsy guilt to overcome the obstacle of guilt and regret and remorse and unworthiness. If you could

overcome that by the gospel you're going to hit a lot of other obstacles in your

pursuit of obedience.

And one of them is fear and so I want to talk about risk that's what

was in the the folder and mainly it's a very simple point I'll try to make it mainly from the Bible

that God wants you to take risks with your lives.

And I hope that you will be emboldened to do that by what I say.

In my experience now after 32 years in the Ministry of the Word is that

very little happens of any significance in an individual life or a church or a family or an organization.

Very little happens that does not involve taking risks.

And so I want things to happen in your life. I want you to be able to accomplish things that you never dreamed for the cause of Christ and I promise you you don't have to be a big great person in order for

God to use you to do extraordinary things for him, but you do need to take risks.

So that's what we're going to talk about. So let's start by defining

risk. Risk is an action that exposes you to the possibility of injury or loss.

Risk is an action that exposes you to the possibility, might be small, might be big, of injury or loss. And the loss could be money, could be face, you lose face, could be your life, could lose your life.

There's a whole array of risks from the little teeny ones where you're just going to get some egg on your face to the big one where you could be killed.

And you have to take those to the big one where you could be killed.

And you have to take those kinds of risks in order to,

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