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We live in a world that's full of discouragement.

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We live in a world that's full of depression.

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I googled some basic things:

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"Depression is one of the greatest problems

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and killers of our time.

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Depressive disorders affect approximately

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19 million American adults.

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Depression will be the second largest killer

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after heart disease by 2020.

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"Studies show that depression is a contributory

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factor even to coronary disease, which is the first.

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Studies have shown that these are the people

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who tend to be most depressed:"

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Listen to this.

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Who are the people who are most depressed?

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"Persons 45 to 64, women, blacks, Hispanics,

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non-Hispanics..." It's like, isn't that everybody?

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"Persons with less than a high school education,

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those previously married,

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individuals unable to work or unemployed.

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Persons without health insurance coverage.

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Suicide is the second leading cause of death

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in college students."

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It's like if you don't have an education, you're susceptible.

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If you do have one, you are.

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"44% of American college students reported

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feeling symptoms of depression.

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Preschoolers are the fastest growing market

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for antidepressants.

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The rate of increase of depression among children

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is an astounding 23% per year."

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Why? Brethren, why all the depression?

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Why all the discouragement in this world?

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Why?

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What's going on?

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Why no hope?

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Well, of course they have no hope!

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Listen, just live your life in sin

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with a conscience that's defiled,

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and Scripture says eternity written on your heart.

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You know what?

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Romans 1 assumes every man, woman, and child

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has an idea about the existance of God.

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We know God exists.

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We know we're living in sin.

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Our conscience is defiled.

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Eternity is written on our heart.

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We've got some idea that death is foreboding.

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What does the world say?

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Come drink our kind of beer and get happy.

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Of course college students are depressed!

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You know why? Nobody's giving any sound answers!

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I can remember one time, I think one of you showed it to me,

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I saw a YouTube video.

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Some guy dying...

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And some woman, some kind of psychologist

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was in there, and she's trying to make him feel good.

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And he just bursts out and told her to shut up.

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And he said, "Look, I'm dying. I've lived a wicked life,

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I'm full of sin.

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All this stuff you have to say doesn't help."

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That's why there's so much depression

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in this world.

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Because people are dealing with the real problems

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and they're not given real answers.

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There's no hope in this world,

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because that's exactly what Scripture says.

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When you're separated from Christ,

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you're alienated from the commonwealth of Israel,

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you're strangers to the covenant of promise,

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which is the promise made to Abraham,

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you're strangers to it,

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well, you have no hope!

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You're without God in the world!

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Of course, you're hopeless!

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Do you think money helps soothe the conscience?

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Do you think beer helps? For a little bit maybe,

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but then you wake up.

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None of it helps.

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It just leaves us more empty,

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more despairing, more troubled.

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Then you've got all these college students out there.

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We can't even hardly get on the college students.

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They don't want us to go in there with the truth.

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We've got the message to set them free.

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We've got the message to give them hope.

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But they don't even want that kind of message there.

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You come carrying a Bible, they get

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all freaked out on the college campuses today.

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We can't hardly stay on one college campus in this city.

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Of course, 44% of them feel like they're depressed,

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and a lot of them want to commit suicide.

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There's no answers.

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Brethren, we've got the answer here.

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Here's where the hope is.

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Here's where the strong encouragement is.

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There is a God who will save to the uttermost

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all those that come to Him through Jesus Christ,

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and find an anchor for their soul there.

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He deals with it.

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The answers for every problem mankind has

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is answered in this Book.

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Every one of them.

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There are solid answers.

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There are good answers.