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Course Corrections For Life
Part 3
Pastor Mike Hendon
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• In life one of the first things we learn is
NAVIGATION.
• Webster defines this as the method of
determining position, course, and distance
traveled.
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• The point is you spend a great deal of your lifenavigating—like a ship – through variousexperiences, obstacles, and courses to get to a
certain destination.• So those three words are very important to
you in the journey:
•
POSITION• COURSE
• DISTANCE TRAVELLED
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• Relative to those three words are three keyquestions:
• 1. Where are you?
• 2. How did you get here?
• 3. Where do you go from here?
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• We asked the question last week “How did I
get here?” Abraham Lincoln said, “If we could
first know where we were and whither we
were tending, we could better judge what to
do and how to do it”
• Are you ignoring the obvious? Titanic mistake!
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• Shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912, four days into the
ship's maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours
and forty-eight minutes later, early on 15 April 1912. Prior to the
disaster the captain had received no less than 6 warnings to
change course because of numerous icebergs spotted in thewater, all of which the captain ignored. The sinking resulted in
the deaths of 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board, making it one
of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. The
high casualty rate was due in part to the fact that, although
complying with the regulations of the time, the ship did not
carry enough lifeboats for everyone aboard. The ship had a total
lifeboat capacity of 1,178 people, although her maximum
capacity was 3,547. A disproportionate number of men died due
to the women-and-children-first protocol that was followed.
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• What are the warning signs of impending
trouble?
• Look at Elijah.
– Withdrawn
– Isolation/seclusion
– Feelings of inferiority
– Negative thinking
– Preoccupation with self
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• What was the root of all this trouble? And
where do we go from here?
• It’s all about relationships at the end of the
day God
• Self Others
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• Elijah’s major problem? ANGER -- simple
unresolved, buried anger!
• Anger is an emotion, in and of itself it is not
bad. But when left unresolved becomes the
hidden guest at every turn, and is like a buried
mine waiting to be stepped on and set off.
• Anger is a secondary emotion and not a
primary feeling
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• Anger arises out of FEAR, FRUSTRATION, or
HURT or some combination of these 3
• i.e. Elijah
• We use ANGER to cope with fear…this
fear/anger mechanism works like this:
•
In a marriage here is an example from ahusband and a wife as follows:
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• The husband’s version:
• “Every time I come home, Mary is waiting for
me with a chip on her shoulder. I hate to go
home. As I drive home, I get more and more
tense. When I get home and see her waiting
for me with her hands on her hips, it just
makes me mad, and I tie into her before shecan get the jump on me….”
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• The wife’s version:
• “Joe is always mad at me over something…He
always comes home in a bad temper. I really
have to stand up to him to defend myself…”
• Smoldering anger fueled by fear—of the other
person’s anger
• Anger should not be welcomed as a heart
guest or allowed to stay on
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•Ep.4:25What this adds up to, then, is this: no morelies, no more pretense. Tell your neighbor thetruth. In Christ's body we're all connected to each
other, after all. When you lie to others, you endup lying to yourself.
•26-27Go ahead and be angry. You do well to beangry—but don't use your anger as fuel for
revenge. And don't stay angry. Don't go to bedangry. Don't give the Devil that kind of foothold inyour life.