Hey guys, I want to talk to you today about the futility of trying to serve Jesus in the flesh.

Sometimes we're ready to fight for Jesus. We're ready to stand for Jesus boldly. But sometimes

that's just really a measure of our pride. Sometimes the most difficult thing is not to respond. Sometimes the most poignant strength in our

life is to let God do the thing that he's doing, even though it might make us look bad in the

moment. We'll talk a little bit more about that on today's episode. Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelie.

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episode. Hey, friends. Welcome back to yet another episode of Everyday Truth as we continue our

study in the book of Matthew specifically in chapter 26 and even more specifically in the Garden of Gassimony, Jesus has prayed that great

prayer, actually three different episodes of prayer where he has just submitted himself to the

Father. And Father, not my will, but your will. It's a place of great victory for the Lord, but it's also a place of

great defeat for those disciples that should have watched and prayed. They should have been

vigilant. They should have recognized their weakness. And one of the reasons we don't pray,

and one of the reasons we're not vigilant is because we don't

recognize our weakness. We think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think. We don't need to pray.

We don't need the power of God. We don't need wisdom. And therefore, we don't pray. And I say that tongue

in cheek, of course, but think about what Peter had already protested. Hey, it'll

never happen to me. It'll never happen to me. The disciples said, it'll never happen to us.

We'll never do that. So when we disagree with the Lord, when we think of ourselves more highly

than we ought to think, when we put our confidence in our own flesh, then we are doomed to fail. And that's exactly what happened

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