What Do You Want Most? | New Testament | 1 Peter 5

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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What is your life pointed toward? How do you react when temptation comes? Will you do whatever it takes to gain popularity and wealth? In today's episode, Jensen shares the importance of having your life centered on Jesus and nothing else. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in one year. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 1 Peter 5

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Jensen Holt McNair.
0:16.1	Those that have known me for long enough will know that I have a deep love for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
0:21.8	I have shed many, many tears over it and I am only
0:25.6	slightly ashamed that that is in fact very true. But hopefully some of you have
0:31.4	also seen these movies.
0:33.2	Because in the films, one of the main characters,
0:36.3	Captain Jack Sparrow, has a compass.
0:39.3	And this compass doesn't point north,
0:41.7	making it seemingly useless.
0:44.6	Except that this compass is a special compass.
0:48.6	Instead of pointing north, it points to the thing
0:51.4	the person holding it once most in life.
0:55.0	So, if you know what you want, then this compass will be incredibly helpful to you,
1:00.0	leading you to where you want to go.
1:02.0	It sounds like a great tool to have. But as Jack finds out in the series,
1:08.0	when you waver in what your deepest desires are, when you aren't sure what you want the most, the compass becomes unhelpful
1:16.0	and disorienting. And like Jack, I think that if we aren't careful, we could easily find ourselves operating off of a faulty compass,
1:25.6	surging through life with no real direction.
1:29.6	It seems to me that the author of First Peter also knew this.
1:33.3	And in his final words of the book,
1:34.8	he includes a paragraph that serves as both a warning
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