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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - More Than Conquerors | April 27, 2026
- Ladies and gentlemen, we have
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- To realize that the body of christ needs
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- To be a place where we take those who are hit and run
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- Over by life or by sin, and we welcome them.
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- We do not condemn them. we love them.
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- We may not condone
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- What they have done, but this needs a place for healing.
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- That is the body of christ.
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- Life moves and seasons.
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- Their mountaintop moments of joy.
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- And their valleys.
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- Where faith is tested.
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- But just as winter gives way to spring,
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- No season lasts forever.
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- The bible tells us there is a time
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- For every purpose under heaven.
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- So whatever season you're walking through right now,
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- Trust this god is in the middle of it.
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- God is present in it, and he is shaping
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- You and me in this season and will carry us beyond it.
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- Thank you for joining
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- Me today on the winning walk.
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- How do you get to know god?
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- If i would tell you
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- I have a personal relationship with jesus christ.
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- Would that be maybe.
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- I hope so.
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- Emotional experience, a desire.
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- Or when you and i say that it's christians, it means to have
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- A personal relationship with jesus christ.
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- How do we know this truth?
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- How do we know it's real?
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- How do we know it's valid?
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- How do we know it's forever?
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- We've been studying romans chapter
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- Number eight for 12 weeks.
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- Most biblical theologians and scholars who love
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- The word of god would tell you that in all probability,
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- It is the greatest chapter
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- In all the bible.
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- It's the goat, the greatest of all time.
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- Therefore, we've gone through it
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- Word by word, phrase by phrase for these 12 weeks.
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- And now we come to the end of that study.
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- And it's been
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- My prayer, and i hope the prayers of many,
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- That as we have walked through that word,
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- It has caught fire in your life and in my life.
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- And therefore now we have built in us
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- A reservoir of truth
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- That will take us all the way through life
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- So we can know, as paul has taught us,
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- That you and i are in the family of god
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- No matter what, no matter how
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- We know that we know
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- That we are in god's family.
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- We are his children.
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- Romans chapter seven paul
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- Ends up in a bad place.
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- He says, i feel like my body is dead.
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- I'm lifeless. i have no purpose.
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- I i'm bored, i'm cold.
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- And he said, the reason is that i've got things upside down.
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- My priorities are wrong.
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- That's the end of romans seven.
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- But then paul says,
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- Who in the world will deliver
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- Me from this depression, from this emptiness,
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- From this despair, from this frustration?
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- And he just almost shouts out in the scripture.
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- Thanks be to god through jesus christ, my lord.
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- And then he writes
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- Romans chapter eight
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- And he says, there is no condemnation,
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- No judgment for those who are in christ.
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- And as you read the epistles of paul,
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- That's the theme of every one of them
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- A man, a woman, a teenager, a boy or a girl in christ,
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- In christ, in christ.
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- And he talks about what it means to be in christ.
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- And in this romans chapter eight,
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- It is the message of the bible
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- That tells us that we are secure.
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- We are safe throughout eternity
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- In our relationship with god.
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- It is a-okay all the way
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- Through life and all the way through eternity.
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- To do this, he mentions the holy spirit
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- 17 times.
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- And he explains rather clearly that when you and i enter
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- That relationship with christ, the trinity is involved.
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- God the father, god the son, god the holy spirit,
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- God the father is
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- God without skin.
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- God the son is god with skin.
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- God the holy spirit is
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- God inside of skin.
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- Therefore, when we are convicted
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- Of sin, repent of sin, receive jesus christ.
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- It is the holy spirit in us that is christ in us.
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- So it's a clear
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- Teaching of the work of the holy spirit.
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- The third person of the trinity is just all the way
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- Through this eight chapter.
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- Lenny comes to
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- That climactic moment that we dealt with recently,
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- And that is romans chapter eight, verse number 14.
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- By the way, i hope you have your bibles with you.
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- Then bring them.
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- There's one in the pew disguised as a hymnal.
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- Get that out.
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- Turn to the book of romans,
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- Men, your wives will help you find it.
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- And go there to the eighth chapter
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- And you'll see a pivotal verse.
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- Paul has already said, when you're in christ,
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- You have a mindset not on flesh,
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- But a mindset on the spirit, and it changes everything.
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- Then to that 14th verse, he said, those
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- Who are led by the holy spirit, by the spirit of god
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- Or children of god,
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- That is the line in the sand that is the watershed.
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- If you're on this side, you're led by the spirit.
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- If you're on the other side, you're not led by the spirit.
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- And that is the standard, the criteria as to
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- Whether or not we have that relationship with christ.
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- Then he goes on
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- And elaborates what we have as christians.
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- And i love that 2620 seventh verse.
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- It says, when we don't know how to pray,
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- Do you like that sometime i don't
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- Know exactly how to pray and what to say and what to do.
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- And i it says that the holy spirit comes.
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- Remember that long old greek word soon anti lombardo tie.
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- It means the holy spirit comes over where you are
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- And comes over
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- Where i am, and takes hold of you and takes hold of me.
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- And when we pray that we don't know exactly
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- How to pray, the holy spirit
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- Takes that prayer, interprets it, and it goes to jesus,
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- Who's at the right hand of god making intercession for us.
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- And he interprets our mumbling kind of prayer
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- To our heavenly father and remember
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- A basic principle there the holy spirit.
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- When we pray through jesus christ,
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- The holy spirit,
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- Praise the prayer for you and for me.
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- If we knew what
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- God knows, see, that's his will.
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- If we knew that what god knows, we would know how to pray.
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- Verse 26, verse 27.
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- Then that great 28th verse,
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- We just sat down on it for a long time.
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- We know that all things work
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- Together for good to those who love the lord,
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- And those who are the called according to his purpose.
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- And that comforts up no end, doesn't it?
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- Whatever's going on, good, bad, ugly, indifferent.
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- We know that somehow god and his divine economy
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- To the holy spirit is working everything out
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- For our good as far as god sees our good.
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- And god knows your good and my good more
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- More than we know it. right?
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- We got that.
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- And we're seeking for his purpose,
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- For his unique will, for your life and for my life.
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- God wants to get a message
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- Through everybody here, every single one of us.
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- And the message he would get through
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- Your life is different
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- From the message in my life or anybody else's life.
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- And if he does not get that message through your life,
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- There will be a hole in creation.
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- All things work together for good
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- To those who love the lord and those who are the called.
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- We answered his call to his purpose
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- And then we move on
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- To the 31st verse
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- Of romans eight.
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- Now, it's very interesting to me
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- That romans eight, verse one,
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- All the way through verse 30,
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- The holy spirit is mentioned all the time.
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- Holy spirit, holy spirit to work, the function,
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- The priority, the leadership, the blessings.
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- But you come to verse 31 all the way
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- Through the end of the chapter,
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- Verse 39, the holy spirit is not even mentioned one time.
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- Isn't that something?
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- Holy spirit, holy spirit, holy spirit?
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- And then you come to the climactic in verse
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- 31 to 39, holy spirit not even mentions what's going on.
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- All the other verses paul is
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- Teaching us and telling us what we have
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- When we receive christ and the holy spirit
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- Is operating in our life, then he tells us the results,
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- How that is working out in your life and my life
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- And what we have,
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- Because we have christ
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- And the holy spirit is operating in life.
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- He tells us what that means, and we dealt with that.
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- And he has that little verse there which he says,
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- What can i say to all these things?
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- Verse 31, we know when, in light of all that
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- He has taught us, he paul said, what can i say?
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- And he has that powerful verse
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- That every wise person here
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- Will claim and sit down on
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- For the rest of your life.
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- Since god is for us.
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- Is that terrific?
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- We're on god's team.
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- We're in god's family.
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- God is for everybody here.
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- I don't know anything, anybody, any being
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- That i'd rather have on my team,
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- Or i'd rather be on his team than almighty god.
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- Right.
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- God is for us.
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- And then that question
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- And the choir has answered it
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- Requires answer.
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- If they have forgotten, i doubt they have.
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- Nobody.
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- Then he asks,
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- Says god is for us.
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- Who can be against us?
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- And that's absolutely true.
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this
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- Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- 15 minutes.
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- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- Your life.
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- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Priorities change.
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- Hearts begin to change.
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- Take that first step today.
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- Right now.
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- And paul says, nobody can charge us.
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- Jesus got that covered.
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- Nobody can condemn us.
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- He took our condemnation money.
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- That's the cross.
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- And therefore, if god is for us, who can be against us?
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- And then he goes on
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- And he talks about separation,
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- And then he says, what can separate us
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- From the love of christ?
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- And then i let the balcony answer that.
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- And the answer is
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- Nothing.
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- They remembered
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- Who could separate the love of christ?
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- What can separate us?
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- Nothing
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- Good,
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- Isn't it good?
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- We have the choir
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- And the balcony preaching to all of us today.
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- And then paul mentioned some separators.
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- What are some things that separate you?
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- Separate me from him, separate us?
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- Look at romans.
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- If you would open your bibles.
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- I've given you an overview
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- Of where we've been and where we're going.
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- And so let's look at some of these separators.
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- Now there's a list there who will separate us.
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- The love of christ.
- 00:15:26.637 --> 00:15:27.805
- And he names all these things tribulation.
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- We talked about that.
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- That's pressure distress.
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- That's when we're in a narrow place.
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- Persecution.
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- It cost us some this time for christ.
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- Famine may not just be hunger, but if we're missing
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- Something in life, naked is we're totally exposed.
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- And peril and sword would be perhaps the judicial system
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- Speaking out against as a sword of of justice.
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- So all of these things are separators, right?
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- By separating mean what does christ really love me, man?
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- Look, look, you know i'm under peril.
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- I'm persecuted, does cry.
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- So these are things that tend to separate us. but
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- Another thing that all this
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- Incorporates is when you and
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- I fumble and fail
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- And strike out,
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- Make an error, mess up.
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- And we have the idea that man,
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- I'm separate, i christ just can't love me.
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- I'm put to one side i,
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- I'm put on probation i, i'm thrown out,
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- I've been disenfranchized
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- I'm embarrassed.
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- Isn't it interesting?
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- The church,
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- The church,
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- We and the church are to be
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- In the business of healing,
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- Bring about reconciliation,
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- Which is out to those who are broken.
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- Or is a church primarily
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- A place for saints?
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- That's the new testament word for christians
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- To sort of huddle up together.
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- And we're clean and we smell good, and we like
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- The music, the fellowship, the good feelings.
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- And i just feel better.
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- When i went to church today, you know, like, is that who
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- We are or are we a hospital?
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- For the least,
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- The last, the lost, those who are broken,
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- Those who are disturbed, those who are in big trouble.
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- You know, we come to church to serve
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- And we come to church to be served.
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- But is the church the place
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- Where we can really go
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- When our life is bottomed out?
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- This week
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- I asked different people
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- If you were called and hit and run over
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- By a very shameful sin
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- That people knew about.
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- Would you go to the church in the morning on sunday?
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- These are christian people.
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- Every one of them said, oh no, i won't go to church, man.
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- If everybody knew and i did some despicable, heinous thing.
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- But he said i wouldn't go to church.
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- I'd be ashamed to go to church.
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- But the same
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- Person, they go to pool and people understand that.
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- Wouldn't they go to a bar?
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- Yeah, it'd be people that understand.
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- Go to some who are living under a bridge.
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- Yeah, yeah, they do understand.
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- Somebody's been hit and run
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- Over by a shameful sin or addiction or a problem.
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- They understand that.
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- But to go to church
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- For all those beautiful people are
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- Clean, well dressed.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, we have to
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- Realize that the body of christ needs to be a place
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- Where we take those who are hit and run over
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- By life or by sin, and we welcome them.
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- We do not condemn them. we love them.
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- We may not condone
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- What they have done, but this needs a place for healing.
- 00:19:30.381 --> 00:19:34.118
- That is the body of christ.
- 00:19:34.118 --> 00:19:40.658
- But sometimes we get broken.
- 00:19:41.259 --> 00:19:44.395
- We get run over by sin.
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- Hit and run.
- 00:19:46.330 --> 00:19:48.499
- The church is the last place we need to go.
- 00:19:48.499 --> 00:19:52.103
- If that happened to you and me, i hope we'd say,
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- Take me to the church, please.
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- Came to the church, please.
- 00:20:00.411 --> 00:20:03.147
- There folks up there who will love me
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- And accept me and pray for me and put their arms
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- Around me no matter what.
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- Take me to the church.
- 00:20:10.788 --> 00:20:12.657
- In the early church,
- 00:20:12.657 --> 00:20:15.993
- They looked at those christians and they said one thing
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- Look how they love one another.
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- That's what we are to become.
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- And don't let we're up and out.
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- Empty down and out.
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- Empty up and out, sick, confused, down and out sick.
- 00:20:32.977 --> 00:20:37.114
- And it doesn't make any difference to god.
- 00:20:37.114 --> 00:20:39.150
- In christ.
- 00:20:39.150 --> 00:20:40.251
- The church is to be the place where there is healing
- 00:20:40.251 --> 00:20:43.354
- And there is love.
- 00:20:43.354 --> 00:20:44.488
- There's anointing, and there's new life in jesus christ.
- 00:20:44.488 --> 00:20:50.795
- What can separate us?
- 00:20:51.295 --> 00:20:54.298
- The love of christ.
- 00:20:54.298 --> 00:20:57.168
- And then paul takes it another night.
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- Now he moves
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- In the supernatural area of this business of separation.
- 00:21:02.606 --> 00:21:05.609
- Look at it in your bibles,
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- Just as is written, for your sake
- 00:21:07.878 --> 00:21:10.514
- We are being put to death all day long.
- 00:21:10.514 --> 00:21:13.250
- We're considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- 00:21:13.250 --> 00:21:18.489
- Sounds right.
- 00:21:18.856 --> 00:21:19.657
- Does it go through some of this?
- 00:21:19.657 --> 00:21:22.226
- We're being slaughtered like sheep.
- 00:21:22.226 --> 00:21:25.096
- You know about sheep.
- 00:21:25.596 --> 00:21:27.631
- You ever seen a group of trained sheep? no.
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- What's a sheep, blake? no.
- 00:21:31.902 --> 00:21:34.672
- What's his sheep?
- 00:21:34.672 --> 00:21:35.539
- Run up there and run right back. no.
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- Sheep are generally dirty,
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- Smelly, helpless,
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- Dumb animals.
- 00:21:45.983 --> 00:21:48.853
- Check me out on it.
- 00:21:48.853 --> 00:21:51.789
- The bible says, guess what?
- 00:21:51.789 --> 00:21:56.193
- We're like sheep
- 00:21:56.594 --> 00:21:59.830
- And said it's like we're being given
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- To be slaughtered day after day because we step
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- Out of the line.
- 00:22:05.536 --> 00:22:06.470
- We get hit and run over by so many things.
- 00:22:06.470 --> 00:22:10.574
- But then paul says, because we're in christ,
- 00:22:10.574 --> 00:22:14.545
- He said, we are more than conquerors.
- 00:22:14.545 --> 00:22:19.216
- I am convinced, he said, we're more than conquerors
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- Through him who loved us.
- 00:22:23.654 --> 00:22:27.291
- Big isn't it?
- 00:22:27.658 --> 00:22:29.393
- And then he goes on and lists other things that separated.
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- Remember,
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- We're talking about being separated
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- For love of god, love of christ,
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- Need of this other thing.
- 00:22:35.866 --> 00:22:36.867
- And he moves in the supernatural here.
- 00:22:36.867 --> 00:22:38.502
- He gave us out for god. did anything else?
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- This list of seven.
- 00:22:40.137 --> 00:22:41.472
- He now gives us a list of ten.
- 00:22:41.472 --> 00:22:44.208
- He said.
- 00:22:44.475 --> 00:22:45.075
- I'm convinced by the way
- 00:22:45.075 --> 00:22:46.177
- He said, we are more than conqueror.
- 00:22:46.177 --> 00:22:48.145
- Then he gives his own personal testimony.
- 00:22:48.145 --> 00:22:49.980
- He changed his tense.
- 00:22:49.980 --> 00:22:51.048
- He said, verse 38, for i am convinced that neither
- 00:22:51.048 --> 00:22:54.552
- Death, nor life, nor angels, nor
- 00:22:54.552 --> 00:22:56.353
- Principalities, or things present,
- 00:22:56.353 --> 00:22:58.088
- Nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth,
- 00:22:58.088 --> 00:23:01.091
- Nor any other created thing, we'll be able to separate us
- 00:23:01.091 --> 00:23:04.061
- From the love of god which is in christ jesus man.
- 00:23:04.061 --> 00:23:07.998
- That's ten things that separate us, and it's
- 00:23:07.998 --> 00:23:10.968
- Almost in the supernatural area
- 00:23:10.968 --> 00:23:14.538
- The principalities, the powers, the demonic element.
- 00:23:14.538 --> 00:23:17.508
- Let me tell you something.
- 00:23:17.508 --> 00:23:18.509
- You talk about insidious of the devil.
- 00:23:18.509 --> 00:23:23.247
- By the way, the word
- 00:23:23.714 --> 00:23:26.450
- Diabolus is a word for the devil.
- 00:23:26.450 --> 00:23:28.319
- It means the separator.
- 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.554
- The devil is that which separates us.
- 00:23:30.554 --> 00:23:32.990
- He's a separator. and here we see
- 00:23:32.990 --> 00:23:35.459
- These supernatural things that are separate.
- 00:23:35.459 --> 00:23:37.394
- And the first on the list,
- 00:23:37.394 --> 00:23:38.529
- I'll just touch you on them is death, data.
- 00:23:38.529 --> 00:23:43.267
- Death.
- 00:23:43.467 --> 00:23:44.835
- You say death is a great separator, isn't it?
- 00:23:44.835 --> 00:23:47.238
- We kept believing on this earth. we're dead.
- 00:23:47.238 --> 00:23:49.373
- We're buried. we're separated. everybody. everything.
- 00:23:49.373 --> 00:23:52.009
- Is it the ultimate separator?
- 00:23:52.009 --> 00:23:53.711
- We think paul says not so.
- 00:23:53.711 --> 00:23:56.347
- If you're in christ jesus.
- 00:23:56.347 --> 00:23:58.582
- Death is not the separated.
- 00:23:58.582 --> 00:24:00.384
- Death is the ultimate unite.
- 00:24:00.384 --> 00:24:01.852
- Her death is not a separator.
- 00:24:01.852 --> 00:24:04.955
- It's united because we'll be all united in him, cried
- 00:24:04.955 --> 00:24:07.992
- Heaven forever and forever.
- 00:24:07.992 --> 00:24:09.260
- And this little three scored ten or whatever we live.
- 00:24:09.260 --> 00:24:11.829
- Eight a is not anything compared to eternity.
- 00:24:11.829 --> 00:24:15.132
- So death is not a separator.
- 00:24:15.132 --> 00:24:16.834
- It's uniter.
- 00:24:16.834 --> 00:24:17.668
- Because we're in christ.
- 00:24:17.668 --> 00:24:20.137
- Life can't separate us.
- 00:24:20.137 --> 00:24:21.572
- He lists all these things that separate us.
- 00:24:21.572 --> 00:24:25.276
- And the bottom line is,
- 00:24:25.276 --> 00:24:28.212
- Because we're in god's
- 00:24:28.212 --> 00:24:30.614
- Family, that god is for us.
- 00:24:30.614 --> 00:24:35.319
- Who can be against us?
- 00:24:35.786 --> 00:24:39.056
- What can separate us?
- 00:24:39.557 --> 00:24:42.092
- And all these separators,
- 00:24:42.092 --> 00:24:44.061
- All these bodies that would separate us.
- 00:24:44.061 --> 00:24:46.797
- They are nonfunctional
- 00:24:46.797 --> 00:24:48.832
- Because we are in christ jesus our lord.
- 00:24:48.832 --> 00:24:54.271
- This is what paul is telling us in this fabulous
- 00:24:54.271 --> 00:24:58.142
- Eighth chapter.
- 00:24:58.142 --> 00:24:59.977
- Fabulous eight chapter.
- 00:24:59.977 --> 00:25:04.281
- No separation
- 00:25:04.648 --> 00:25:07.017
- From the love of christ.
- 00:25:07.017 --> 00:25:10.154
- Everybody wants a happy home.
- 00:25:10.788 --> 00:25:13.791
- But let's be honest.
- 00:25:13.791 --> 00:25:15.292
- A happy home doesn't just happen.
- 00:25:15.292 --> 00:25:18.195
- It's built.
- 00:25:18.195 --> 00:25:19.463
- It's shaped.
- 00:25:19.463 --> 00:25:20.898
- Day by day by day.
- 00:25:20.898 --> 00:25:23.033
- That's why i want to encourage you to read
- 00:25:23.033 --> 00:25:25.603
- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
- 00:25:25.603 --> 00:25:28.839
- This 90 day devotional is from
- 00:25:28.839 --> 00:25:31.342
- Decades of real life pastoring,
- 00:25:31.342 --> 00:25:34.612
- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
- 00:25:34.612 --> 00:25:37.715
- In the page of this book each day
- 00:25:38.449 --> 00:25:40.217
- You will find a simple rhythm
- 00:25:40.217 --> 00:25:43.187
- As of scripture,
- 00:25:43.187 --> 00:25:45.022
- Practical, down to earth navigation,
- 00:25:45.022 --> 00:25:47.958
- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
- 00:25:47.958 --> 00:25:52.463
- We're not talking about something complicated here.
- 00:25:52.463 --> 00:25:55.099
- We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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- 15 minutes.
- 00:25:58.102 --> 00:25:59.803
- Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
- 00:25:59.803 --> 00:26:02.506
- Your home on what matters the most in christ
- 00:26:02.506 --> 00:26:06.910
- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
- 00:26:06.910 --> 00:26:10.180
- Your life.
- 00:26:10.481 --> 00:26:11.615
- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
- 00:26:11.615 --> 00:26:14.585
- Everything else changes.
- 00:26:14.585 --> 00:26:17.588
- Conversations change.
- 00:26:18.088 --> 00:26:19.957
- Priorities change.
- 00:26:19.957 --> 00:26:21.592
- Hearts begin to change.
- 00:26:21.592 --> 00:26:23.427
- Take that first step today.
- 00:26:23.427 --> 00:26:25.696
- Call the number or visit the website below
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- And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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- And begin your 90 day journey right now.
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- As we close
- 00:26:43.647 --> 00:26:44.548
- Today, let me encourage you.
- 00:26:44.548 --> 00:26:47.351
- Stay in god's word in the bible.
- 00:26:47.351 --> 00:26:50.220
- It's not a simply a book.
- 00:26:50.220 --> 00:26:52.322
- And we read.
- 00:26:52.322 --> 00:26:53.924
- It is truth that reads us.
- 00:26:53.924 --> 00:26:56.927
- It guides us when we're uncertain.
- 00:26:56.927 --> 00:26:58.829
- Strengthens us when we're weak and steadies us
- 00:26:58.829 --> 00:27:02.299
- When life feels unsteady.
- 00:27:02.299 --> 00:27:05.402
- Let his promises shape your perspective.
- 00:27:06.236 --> 00:27:08.972
- Faith grows when it's nourished.
- 00:27:08.972 --> 00:27:11.909
- Till next time.
- 00:27:11.909 --> 00:27:13.343
- Let's continue on the winning walk with jesus christ.
- 00:27:13.343 --> 00:27:16.814
- And he'll take us in this life and in the next life.
- 00:27:16.814 --> 00:27:20.117
- All the way to victory.
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