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Ed Young: The First Four Steps to a Winning Walk | Praise

March 18, 2026 | 52:20

Matt and Laurie Crouch host Dr. Ed Young Sr. In this meaningful conversation, Dr. Young shares insight on living legacy, present Kingdom impact, and the projects shaping the future.

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Praise | Ed Young: The First Four Steps to a Winning Walk | Praise | March 18, 2026

Coming up tonight on praise...
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The bottom line is how do you discover god's plan?
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God's will for big decisions, little decisions?
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How do you work that out?
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You start with the word of god.
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You take the bible and see what
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The bible says is god's will, right?
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If you get your bible and open it to the very center and i
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Have it marked, and guess what
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The middle verse of the middle of the bible is?
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What does it say?
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It said, it is better to trust in the lord than to put
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Confidence in man.
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It's better to trust in the
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Lord than to put confidence in princes.
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That's our operative word.
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Trust. trust.
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Follow, follow.
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And guess what?
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When we're led by that spirit, we have these things operating
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In our life, you'll be amazed.
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You'll discover that you know
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I'm right in the middle of
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God's will and plan for my life.
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Tonight, on praise from dallas pastor and former sbc president
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Doctor ed young.
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And now your hosts, matt and laurie crouch.
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Are you kidding me?
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Praise comes to you from dallas, texas.
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We have an audience wave at your family members, your
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Friends, your relatives, your in-laws, your outlaws.
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They're all watching.
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Love that.
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Welcome to dallas, texas.
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Uh, we have a houstoner, doctor ed young.
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I've noticed that when a preacher has his bible, he's
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Got his finger kind of stuck in one part of it that you're
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Kind of ready to go.
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You have something to say.
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You have something to preach.
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You're going to open the word for us today?
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This book.
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Okay, um, you know what?
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Let's make welcome ed young. [applause]
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Bob kinney was one of eight children, eight children, one
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Family, one mother, one dad.
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It's quite a challenge.
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And bob said that when his dad lost his job,
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In just a little while
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His mother got a divorce and
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Left his dad with eight children.
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His dad was going to try to survive.
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He did the best he could with those eight kids.
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And until finally, he had a girlfriend.
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And then he stopped coming home every night.
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And then the dad ended up just bringing groceries for all the
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Kids, and he'd come once a week with groceries.
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They wouldn't see him again.
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And then his father went to bob and all the other kids, the
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Eight siblings that says, i can't do it.
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I can't bring up all of you.
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And i know the older kids, some of you are married, you can
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Handle yourself now, and the younger kids are going to turn
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You over to the state.
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You'll have better family and
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Better offerings than i can give.
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And his dad walked out.
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Bob said he began at that moment to understand
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And to experience what it means
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Not to have a dad.
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Now, all of us know you can see surveys by sociologists,
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By barner or anybody else,
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They'll tell you the really downfall of our country is the
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Absentee dad or the dad who is a passive dad.
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And therefore bob miraculously became a christian, married a
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Terrific gal, had two children, and then during his 40s, he
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Kept going back
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What he missed not having a father.
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So he started writing a little column.
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Interesting, a little column, and he would publish it and his
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Kids would publish it,
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Giving advice,
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Giving clear advice as to what a dad ought to teach the
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Children, particularly their
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Sons and sometimes their daughters.
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And it caught on.
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People started to read it and he would do it graphically.
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And then he started a little
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Column there that got on youtube.
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It got on facebook.
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Dad, how do i blank?
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How do i tie my shoes?
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You know, how do i handle that bully at school?
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And he began to write and put it on video, and it
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Started during covid,
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And he has that aligned right now on youtube and facebook.
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Dad, how do i,
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How do i fix a flat?
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And so we see how important the role of a father is.
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When my oldest son, ed, was about 15 years old, he was
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Dating this girl, and they dated for a while.
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And somehow before he went out this night, we began to talk.
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His mother was there, and he just said-- don't remember
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The exact words--
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He said, dad,
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How do you kiss a girl?
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His mother walked out of the room, as i recall.
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And i went to give the best instruction i could with your
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Hands and your lips.
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And he was--
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If he'd had any notes, he would have written it down,
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I guarantee you that.
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And, um, i did a pretty good job because, uh,
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He married that girl.
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And they've been married for 42 years.
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Four children.
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Seven grandchildren.
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So, ed, i must have done a pretty good job.
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Yeah.
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Dad, how do i?
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You can look it up and see.
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You won't guess how many have subscribed to that.
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Over 5 million people right at
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This time have subscribed to that
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When this dad gives advice in all kind of situation, life.
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You know, i read that story and i said, you know, as we try to
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Find out what god wants to do with your life and my life,
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What god's will is, what his plan is,
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I wish we had a gps system or something we could plug in
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To god, say god,
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You know, i want you to tell me and speak to me, and i want you
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To give me a map
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So all the decisions i make
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That i will know i'm right on target,
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Because all of us who are part of the church, even those
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Who are not, you have sort of an idea that there's a plan
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For your life because when we're very small,
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People say, what are you going to do when you grow up?
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I'm three years old.
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I don't know. but you get all those--
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All of us have been asked that.
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And then there is that plan there that he has,
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And i can tell you something, ladies and gentlemen, my
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Brothers and my sisters, there is more squirrelism in church
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As how you determine god's will than any other
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Single thing i know, right?
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I asked people for years.
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How did you decide that?
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How did you make that?
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Well, then you hear all kind of squirrely theology.
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Illustration of it.
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You take gideon.
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We know there, if you know the bible,
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God gave him a tremendous assignment.
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He said, i'm not worthy of doing it.
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And he put out a fleece to see if that voice was really god.
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Remember? and if it's wet on this side of this fleece, this
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Cloth and dry on the other side,
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God, i know that you want me to do this.
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Well, it was just exactly like that.
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Then he reversed it.
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He said, well, if it's dry on
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The fleece the next day, it's wet.
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And he kept trying to question the clear voice of god.
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Squirrel ism.
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Do we have the idea we can do that?
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I can confess to you, i've done that squirrel ism.
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Yeah. put out a fleece, put out
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A test to see if you should do this.
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That's crazy theology.
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I've even flipped coins.
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Wow. i said, lord, heads, i'll do this.
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Tails, i'll do this.
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You take it--
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I know none of you have ever done that.
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And then there is that magic bible approach, you know.
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You take a bible and you turn in the pages and you say, lord,
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I want you to tell me the answer,
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And maybe you'll come down on that verse.
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I've done that. have you ever done that?
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Squirrel theology.
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I assure you of that.
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And in the process of all this, we do weird things.
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Sometimes we pray and we say,
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Lord, and we want we want some feeling.
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We decide on the basis of our emotions and our feelings.
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And if we're left brained people and we do things
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Logically, we'll even make lists.
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Lord, i'm going to write all this for it.
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I'm going to write all this and whatever it comes out, that's
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What i'm going to do,
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If we are left brainers,
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If we're right brainers, we go on the basis of emotion.
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I want to feel.
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And maybe i'm going to ask whoever walks in that door next
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What i should do, and whatever answers i get, that's god.
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Yeah, all of us have been--
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So the bottom line is, how do you discover god's plan, god's
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Will for big decisions, little decisions?
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How do you work that out?
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Now, if you have ever had an insurance policy, you have
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The idea that god's will is a dangerous thing.
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It says, we'll cover everything
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Except for fire or hurricane or tsunami.
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Uh, you know, that's all under god's will, right?
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So we're we're frightened of that thing.
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No telling what god will do if if we respond
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In this way or that way.
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Squirrel theology, so
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How do you determine, how do we choose with understanding?
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God, give us a gps system.
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I'd love to tune in to you and hear your voice, and then
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Give me a map.
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And i tell you, lord, i'd follow it to the last.
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How does that work?
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A few years back, i walked out in church one sunday morning
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And ready to speak, and i said,
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This morning, during my quiet time,
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God spoke to me audibly with words.
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There was a hush.
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Somebody in the top balcony said, amen.
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There's a few hallelujahs over here.
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The choir gave a quiet applause
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Because most of us at different times in our life have said god,
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If you don't speak to me. and there was
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The pastor saying he must be some kind of pious,
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Holy prophet that god spoke to him audibly.
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So i just stood there.
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Then i said, let me tell you what happened.
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I took the bible and read a scripture out loud.
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Yeah.
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So you're looking for god's will.
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Where would you start?
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Well, if this--
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No, no, no, no. we've had enough of that squirrely stuff.
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We've all walked down those trails. i certainly have.
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You start with the word of god.
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You take the bible and see what
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The bible says is god's will, right?
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That's inerrant.
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It's where you start.
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And let's just see what god says.
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First of all, he says, it's god's will that you be saved,
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Salvaged, restored, born again, have a new life.
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That's god's will.
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It says it throughout the bible.
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We can take ephesians there.
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The second chapter, it talks about here's the old person.
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Here's the-- it's god's will.
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We start right there that we be saved, salvaged, born again.
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First thing.
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Second thing is god's will that we be spirit filled.
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If you read the letters of paul
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Has written to us and to the church,
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I want to show you how to understand them.
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The first part of all of his
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Letters, except maybe one, is theology.
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Well, that's a-- no.
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It's what you believe,
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And then paul applies it.
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You believe this?
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He says, therefore you live like this.
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That outlines his letters with one exception.
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And so we start there with the bible.
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We say we're to be saved.
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That's god's will, and we're to be spirit filled.
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Go to ephesians five.
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And there you have the translation of it.
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First part of ephesians, theology.
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This is what you believe.
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This is how you live.
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The second part is application.
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This is what you do in light of what you believe.
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Not going too fast for anybody, am i?
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You got it?
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And then the transitional verse there, he says, be not drunk
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With wine, but be filled with the holy spirit.
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And the problem is we leak, right?
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I don't know when i have gone to bed and at night and not got
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Up in the morning,
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In my early prayer i say, lord, fill me with your spirit, which
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Hopefully will make us something like jesus.
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So it is god's will we be saved.
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It's god will we be spirit filled.
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And it's god's will
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In another area that we have.
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We are to be submissive.
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Be filled with the spirit.
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What's the sign of being filled with the spirit? speaking.
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Speak to one another.
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By the way, you see some people coming
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You don't want to speak to, other people coming,
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You run anyway,
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You run to speak to them.
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Speaking. singing.
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Musician right here.
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Speaking. singing.
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And then finally, you ought to submit one to another.
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You got any problems in this life?
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Surrender. submit it to god.
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That's the first step you take.
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It's god's will
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We be saved.
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God's will, be spirit-filled.
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God's will, be submitted.
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God's will, that we be servants.
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God's will is that we--
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Somebody said, you know, i,
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I serve the lord.
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Sometimes we're just instruments.
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God uses us. then he puts us down.
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He's used anybody, everybody, all kinds of people in history,
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Biblical history, real history.
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And then sometimes there's that bond servant. we have committed,
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So we are to be serving.
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You see, you're trying to discover god's will before we
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Get out in the squirrel ism realm of the outer space to
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Understand what he wants us to do in big and little.
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Let's start what the bible says.
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Saved. oh, spirit filled.
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Submissive. serving.
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And we know in the church that is growing up in the lord.
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That is the process of sanctification.
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Now, with this operating in your life and in my life,
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Here's a choice.
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Here's a decision.
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What do we need after that?
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What is the operative word?
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Well, i think we can look right here and see how we can be.
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It's interesting. in the center of god's will,
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If you get your bible and open it to the very center, and i
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Have it marked, you'll find the center of this bible of god's
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Word is psalm 118.
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You go to psalm 118.
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You turn to the next psalm to your left.
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It's the shortest psalm in the bible.
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You turn to your right, it's psalm 119.
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It's the longest psalm in the bible.
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But in the middle, you have
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The middle of the bible.
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You take this book right here, the bible, and go to the
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Middle, and you turn left.
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You go all the way back to genesis.
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You turn right, you go all the way to revelation, but in the
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Perfect middle, this is psalm 118.
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And guess what
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The middle verse of the middle of the bible is?
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What does it say?
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It said, it is better to trust in the lord than to
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Put confidence in man.
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It's better to trust in the
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Lord than to put confidence in princes.
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That's our operative word. trust.
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This is god's will.
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Check them off.
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Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
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Now how do we activate that
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Will? we trust. our family verse,
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Trust the lord with all your heart.
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Lean not to your own understanding.
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In all your ways acknowledge him.
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What happens?
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He will direct your path.
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That's right.
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So you don't have to stay out there
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And, i wonder, i think, i hope, maybe--
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Now, to be sure,
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And matt and i talked to this before before coming out here,
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Sometimes we make a decision.
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With these operative factors and we discover our
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Discernment was wrong.
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So we missed the best choice.
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But then we have the circumstantial will of god
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That we missed it.
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Then you have the ultimate will of god.
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So don't think we're bulletproof here
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And you bat a thousand every time in discernment, but you
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Have the foundation.
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Bang, bang, bang, bang.
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What the bible says is the will of god.
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Then you have that operative word,
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We trust. we believe.
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We follow that spirit that now is in you and in me, because we
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Have received jesus christ.
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See how it gets us out of all the
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Maybe, perhaps, i hope realm? and we begin to understand,
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And we put our trust
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In him who will guide us.
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2001, world tower, new york trade tower,
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78th floor.
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A man by the name of michael went to his desk.
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8:45 in the morning.
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9-11, you know. under the desk was his little dog, rosie, that
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Was there already on her bed.
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And then there was a loud whoom
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From some of the upper storeys in that world trade building.
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Whoom.
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Nobody knew what it was.
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And then almost immediately, the building began to tilt 20%
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On one side almost immediately.
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Nobody understood it.
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Debris, noise, shouts.
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You could hear it all the way through the building.
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A man named frank walked in and said, look, the building's
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On fire upstairs.
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We don't know what's going to happen.
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And some woman over there in the office where michael was,
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She said, we're all going to die.
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And so michael said, no.
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He said, we'll get out of here.
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It's those who go with me
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Because i'm going to follow rosie.
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You see, michael was born blind, and he had that guard dog with
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Him, and he just got ahold of rosie, and rosie got up and
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Started to move, and michael turned around and said,
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Come on, trust rosie.
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She'll get us out.
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Follow rosie.
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And they started down.
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They went out to the hall and 3000 degree heat came down from
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The blazing fires above.
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And rosie immediately went to the stairs.
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Michael was holding on and people were following.
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They were thinking, here we are
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In a crisis of life.
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We're following a blind man with a dog.
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But michael kept saying, trust rosie,
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She'll get us out.
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And they went down the stairs.
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About ten minutes,
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Then all the lights in the building went out.
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Nothing surprised michael.
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He'd never seen light in his whole life.
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Rosie never broke stride.
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By now, a small group, 10 to 12 were following.
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Others were coming out and they were following.
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Rosie, and rosie led him down 1423
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Steps to the bottom.
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And when they got down there, the policeman said, oh, stay
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Under the building here.
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You go out there, look at all the debris and the smoke and
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All the racket. look at the clatter.
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But rosie never broke stride.
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And michael just held on to rosie, and that little group
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Followed rosie. they went outside.
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Another policeman said, get out of here.
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This other tower is on fire.
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It's going to fall.
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Rosie never turned away, never broke stride, never got
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Excited, just kept leading.
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And now he had a little entourage
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Is following him. a little group.
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And rosie went out about, i don't know, a hundred yards or
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So, and there was a hole and rosie went down to the hole and
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Everybody followed her.
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Michael. michael right there.
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Michael saying, come on, rosie. trust rosie.
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Went down that hole and it was into the subway.
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It was down where the trains were running. in a little bit
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The air was smooth and clear and they followed rosie all the
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Way to the end.
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And that day rosie saved 31 lives.
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Trust.
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Follow.
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And guess what?
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When we're led by that spirit, we have these things operating
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In our life.
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You'll be amazed.
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You'll discover that you know
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I'm right in the middle of
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God's will and plan for my life.
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Heavenly father, forgive me and all of us when we've engaged
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In squirrely theology.
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Teach us to understand what your book says
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And check it off the list.
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Saved. check, lord.
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Check, lord.
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Spirit-filled, check, lord.
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Submissive. check, lord.
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Serving. check lord.
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And in that process of maturing and growing up, we understand
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And hear that still small voice, lord, that you speak
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Clearly to us as we put our
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Trust in your spirit in this leadership.
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Thank you for giving a clear word to your children.
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In jesus' name, amen.
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This message, the thing that kind of hit me, and again, you
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Referenced that we've been chatting off camera a little
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Bit and you've got-- you get into a situation, you know,
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You're a preacher and you told
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A real couple of real good stories.
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Let me tell you just a quick story. about the 1980s,
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My dad got a phone call, mid 1980s, from his fcc attorney.
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And that attorney told my dad what he perceived as probably,
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In a business setting,
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Probably the worst news he had ever heard.
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And there was a policy that allowed for the cable systems
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To drop the local tv channels.
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My dad perceived that as this moment that the devil really
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Won one, you know?
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I mean, when tbn started 53 years ago, there wasn't any
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Cable systems.
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You weren't ordering cable, you know.
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Or the perfect signal.
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You remember the day when we all had a tv and you had the
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Little rabbit ears on the back of it?
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You'd twist them around to try to get the best signal.
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And somewhere along the late 70s and early 80s now, people
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Started trenching into the ground and delivering you.
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And for x dollars a month you
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Could get all of the local channels.
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Well, they had cables and we had tv signals.
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So we all worked together as one big happy family.
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Somewhere along the 80s, cable systems stopped wanting to have
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To carry all the tv channels.
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They just wanted to carry the ones with the hit shows
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Or this or that.
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And there was a real why in the in the road there.
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And sure enough, my dad received a call and
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Hit his knees after that, started yelling at the devil
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And all of that.
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And we went through a really
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What would have been-- you know, and maybe some of you that have
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Viewed tbn for years now or decades now might have sensed,
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You know, in the mid 80s through about the mid 90s, that
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That was a, a really gut punch to my dad.
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Now, with the help of the tbn partners and we soldiered on.
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By the end of, you know that roughly ten year period.
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Tbn had accumulated 40, 45 something in that range, tv
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Stations, and we kept at it.
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My dad kept a stiff upper lip, as they say, and kept on going.
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But there was this underlying terrible feeling that we owned
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A tv station.
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But if you had cable, and during that period of time, the
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National statistics were that about half of the homes in a
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Big metroplex like dallas, texas, half of the people would
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Have gotten their television by cable and half through the air,
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As we say, free tv through the air.
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And so my dad always talked
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About having half of a tv channel.
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I don't really have a whole tv channel.
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I have half of a tv channel.
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And it just bugged him.
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And those that were in the seats of power and cable were
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His target number one.
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And he was like david, praying that god would swallow his
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Enemies and just upset about all that stuff.
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And along came another administration that looked at
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That maybe inequity situation,
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And started to change the policy some.
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A little glimmer of hope.
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So there was a ten-year period
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Where my dad lived with a gut punch.
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Really just a difficult,
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Have i missed it?
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Should i have just gone with cable?
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Should i--
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Why are we having to run all these big tv stations?
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And why didn't we just go with cable?
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They seem to be winning, you know.
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You know,
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My dad just thought we're losing by owning these tv
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Channels, and they're winning by being cable.
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It's really a, a tough situation.
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Um,it was a, it was a daily thing with my dad.
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He kept going.
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Yeah. look, you just.
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You just keep going.
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You know, he started thinking, well, maybe we can get some
00:28:58.927 --> 00:29:01.696
Low-power tv stations.
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Look, it was just a it was just a tough situation.
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But one day got another phone call.
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That policy had changed, and a new administration had come in
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:15.877
To the presidency.
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They looked at that and all of a sudden he got a phone call
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With that whole thing reversed again, and that whole thing
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Just completely changed.
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And the fcc, the federal communications commission,
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Made the announcement,
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All cable systems must carry all of the local channels.
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Well, that day, tbn's signal was added to tens of millions
00:29:37.632 --> 00:29:41.636
Of homes overnight.
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Okay.
00:29:43.872 --> 00:29:45.807
Great story.
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If that's all i told you, that's pretty good.
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But it's a little deeper than that.
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And i think some of this trust thing
00:29:53.481 --> 00:29:57.252
Made me think of this story, um, to tell it in this kind of
00:29:57.252 --> 00:30:01.923
Longer format here.
00:30:01.923 --> 00:30:04.626
There's another whole thing to look at. when you get to look in
00:30:04.626 --> 00:30:08.997
The rear view mirror
00:30:08.997 --> 00:30:10.632
At some of the choices and some of the life's ups and downs, as
00:30:10.632 --> 00:30:15.737
We might say, you can,
00:30:15.737 --> 00:30:18.206
You can armchair general.
00:30:18.206 --> 00:30:19.741
You can look in the rear view mirror.
00:30:19.741 --> 00:30:21.209
You get the, you know, the
00:30:21.209 --> 00:30:22.844
Hindsight is 20/20, right?
00:30:22.844 --> 00:30:25.546
And so we get to look back at a
00:30:25.546 --> 00:30:28.483
Situation where my dad would have,
00:30:28.483 --> 00:30:32.553
You know, for ten years, if you'd have said, what's the
00:30:32.553 --> 00:30:36.324
Worst day in business for you?
00:30:36.324 --> 00:30:37.959
Well, it was the day that colby may called me and told me that
00:30:37.959 --> 00:30:42.030
Cable systems have dropped.
00:30:42.030 --> 00:30:44.032
All the local channels or whatever ones they wanted to.
00:30:44.032 --> 00:30:47.468
And the christian channel was obviously one of the ones
00:30:47.468 --> 00:30:49.804
That they dropped.
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They didn't want the christian channel. they wanted more movie
00:30:51.105 --> 00:30:53.241
Channels so that the people on cable would buy and subscribe
00:30:53.241 --> 00:30:57.612
And that kind of thing. and so we get
00:30:57.612 --> 00:31:02.083
To the end of this line and we get to look back at it,
00:31:02.083 --> 00:31:06.454
And i get to redefine that entire ten-year period.
00:31:06.454 --> 00:31:10.291
I get to completely relook at it as something that this is a,
00:31:10.291 --> 00:31:14.662
This is an amazing thing
00:31:14.662 --> 00:31:17.498
When all of a sudden all the cable systems had to carry all
00:31:17.498 --> 00:31:21.669
The local channels, guess what?
00:31:21.669 --> 00:31:24.138
They became more valuable.
00:31:24.138 --> 00:31:26.474
And there was, you know, at the time fox wanted to get into
00:31:26.474 --> 00:31:32.580
Carrying the nfl and they started buying
00:31:32.580 --> 00:31:36.217
Tv stations and they started doing that.
00:31:36.217 --> 00:31:38.786
There was a guy named bud paxson who started pax net. you
00:31:38.786 --> 00:31:41.689
Remember, touched by an angel reruns and all that. uh, doctor
00:31:41.689 --> 00:31:45.526
Quinn, medicine woman, and all those shows that were kind of
00:31:45.526 --> 00:31:48.029
Big back in the day.
00:31:48.029 --> 00:31:49.397
They they started buying tv stations
00:31:49.397 --> 00:31:53.234
And bud paxson built a network roughly the size of tbn, but it
00:31:53.234 --> 00:31:58.940
Cost him $2.8 billion to do it
00:31:58.940 --> 00:32:02.810
In the time we were buying them, it cost tbn and the
00:32:02.810 --> 00:32:05.713
Partners about 200 million.
00:32:05.713 --> 00:32:08.549
So we had this $0.10 on a dollar, eight year period that
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We were buying.
00:32:14.389 --> 00:32:16.557
And here's kind of a life lesson when we're going through
00:32:16.557 --> 00:32:20.194
Something tough.
00:32:20.194 --> 00:32:21.529
I wonder what if,
00:32:21.529 --> 00:32:23.398
What if my dad,
00:32:23.398 --> 00:32:26.000
Instead of just soldiering on with a stiff upper lip,
00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:30.905
What if he could have heard?
00:32:30.905 --> 00:32:33.307
Maybe if he'd have stopped yelling at the devil and cable
00:32:33.307 --> 00:32:36.044
Operators for a while,
00:32:36.044 --> 00:32:37.745
What if he could have heard, paul,
00:32:37.745 --> 00:32:41.215
This is a short period of time.
00:32:41.215 --> 00:32:44.685
Trust. because guess what?
00:32:44.685 --> 00:32:47.688
If he would have known this, tv stations, paul, are $0.10
00:32:47.688 --> 00:32:50.758
On a dollar right now?
00:32:50.758 --> 00:32:52.527
Why don't you go buy them all? see?
00:32:52.527 --> 00:32:56.164
And we-- those are the things he thought about later.
00:32:56.164 --> 00:32:58.399
He said, i should have bought them all.
00:32:58.399 --> 00:33:00.435
Should have bought them all.
00:33:00.435 --> 00:33:01.636
During that time, the worst time of it all,
00:33:01.636 --> 00:33:04.705
You know, that he--
00:33:04.705 --> 00:33:05.740
That his peace was taken.
00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:07.909
He was sick to his stomach about it, you know.
00:33:07.909 --> 00:33:10.678
And he could have walked in peace during that time,
00:33:10.678 --> 00:33:13.548
Trusting god that this was the greatest season of his life,
00:33:13.548 --> 00:33:17.718
You know, and, and bought them all at that time.
00:33:17.718 --> 00:33:20.721
So that's a good story.
00:33:20.721 --> 00:33:23.191
It's a great story.
00:33:23.191 --> 00:33:24.292
You know, i mean, there's a lesson to be learned
00:33:24.292 --> 00:33:26.294
If we look 20/20 hindsight.
00:33:26.294 --> 00:33:28.029
What if we would have done more?
00:33:28.029 --> 00:33:30.631
What if we would have--
00:33:30.631 --> 00:33:31.732
What if we would have had that trust mentality?
00:33:31.732 --> 00:33:34.936
What if he would have done that?
00:33:34.936 --> 00:33:36.938
But that's a, that's a, that's, you know, that's a good story.
00:33:36.938 --> 00:33:40.675
It all had a good outcome.
00:33:40.675 --> 00:33:41.976
And we get a, a 20/20 hindsight view at it that challenges us.
00:33:41.976 --> 00:33:46.080
What if the worst day in business you're ever facing,
00:33:46.080 --> 00:33:49.283
What if it's actually your greatest opportunity?
00:33:49.283 --> 00:33:53.488
God's will, we miss it.
00:33:53.488 --> 00:33:55.590
We messed up.
00:33:55.590 --> 00:33:57.058
And in those circumstances, god picks it up and his ultimate
00:33:57.058 --> 00:34:01.362
Will to be done.
00:34:01.362 --> 00:34:02.396
It's better than we ever dreamed of in the first.
00:34:02.396 --> 00:34:04.265
Exactly. well, if that's all that had happened, maybe that
00:34:04.265 --> 00:34:08.703
Would be, you know, uh, maybe that'd be a good story.
00:34:08.703 --> 00:34:12.373
But the story continues.
00:34:12.373 --> 00:34:15.276
And along came, you know, when you get up into the, uh, the
00:34:15.276 --> 00:34:20.181
Modern times now we're 2026 and beyond here, but recently
00:34:20.181 --> 00:34:25.987
There was a decision made by some engineer in the federal
00:34:25.987 --> 00:34:30.091
Communications commission that the newest thing that we hear a
00:34:30.091 --> 00:34:33.828
Lot about called 5g on our phone,
00:34:33.828 --> 00:34:37.532
Which is supposed to be faster and this and that and a better
00:34:37.532 --> 00:34:40.134
Technology and all that,
00:34:40.134 --> 00:34:42.203
The engineer that was figuring all that stuff out for the
00:34:42.203 --> 00:34:45.773
Us government decided that the frequency that 5g would work
00:34:45.773 --> 00:34:51.412
Best in is around the 650mhz kind of thing.
00:34:51.412 --> 00:34:55.416
Well, funny, that's where the uhf tv stations used to be.
00:34:55.416 --> 00:35:01.222
So there was my dad buying the tv stations that that the only
00:35:01.222 --> 00:35:05.526
Ones he could afford.
00:35:05.526 --> 00:35:06.794
Right? the cheap little uhf tv stations.
00:35:06.794 --> 00:35:09.997
And then we get 30 years later and someone decides that the
00:35:09.997 --> 00:35:14.602
Technology, the latest technology needs to go there.
00:35:14.602 --> 00:35:18.439
And when they made that decision, tbn owned more 650mhz
00:35:18.439 --> 00:35:23.110
Bandwidth than anybody in the united states of america.
00:35:23.110 --> 00:35:26.280
So the partners of tbn are responsible for one of the
00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:29.750
Greatest gains in wealth that you could imagine in
00:35:29.750 --> 00:35:35.189
Inside of this technology sector that we're in.
00:35:35.189 --> 00:35:38.025
So here we sit today.
00:35:38.025 --> 00:35:40.628
And if you look back now 30 years,
00:35:40.628 --> 00:35:46.400
Here's my point in this whole long story,
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:51.138
It was a pretty good story that was solved. you know, at 8 or 10
00:35:51.138 --> 00:35:55.209
Years later, it got solved.
00:35:55.209 --> 00:35:56.777
Then we then we saw that we could have looked back and we
00:35:56.777 --> 00:35:59.313
Could have had a better piece.
00:35:59.313 --> 00:36:01.849
We could have been more aggressive.
00:36:01.849 --> 00:36:02.950
We could have done it.
00:36:02.950 --> 00:36:04.252
Then you get to look back and, and those things that we were
00:36:04.252 --> 00:36:07.788
Buying that we thought were
00:36:07.788 --> 00:36:10.157
Non-valuable have become very valuable.
00:36:10.157 --> 00:36:14.462
It would have been like back in, you know, the day buying
00:36:14.462 --> 00:36:17.765
Nevada and then california breaking off and floating out
00:36:17.765 --> 00:36:20.334
Into the pacific ocean.
00:36:20.334 --> 00:36:21.869
Now you own a bunch of beachfront property and, and,
00:36:21.869 --> 00:36:26.073
And that's literally what happened.
00:36:26.073 --> 00:36:28.909
So the legacy of what we have been doing
00:36:28.909 --> 00:36:34.282
Had such an unbelievable outcome.
00:36:34.282 --> 00:36:38.185
My dad passed away before he knew the ramifications of those
00:36:38.185 --> 00:36:45.126
Decisions he was making sick to his stomach.
00:36:45.126 --> 00:36:49.397
My dad could have lived eight years of his life waking up
00:36:49.397 --> 00:36:54.035
Saying, this is the greatest day of my life.
00:36:54.035 --> 00:36:56.937
This is the greatest opportunity of my life.
00:36:56.937 --> 00:36:59.640
This terrible situation that i'm yelling at the devil about--
00:36:59.640 --> 00:37:04.779
Because here's what our generation gets to look back on,
00:37:04.779 --> 00:37:08.349
That one little piece of story and we get to say, romans 8:28
00:37:08.349 --> 00:37:13.087
Is either real or it's not.
00:37:13.087 --> 00:37:15.156
God's either going to take a situation that my dad would
00:37:15.156 --> 00:37:18.025
Have declared many, many, many years in a row
00:37:18.025 --> 00:37:23.164
That was the worst day in business in my life was
00:37:23.164 --> 00:37:25.900
Actually his greatest opportunity.
00:37:25.900 --> 00:37:28.069
How many times are you going through a tough situation and
00:37:28.069 --> 00:37:33.374
Not doing what you just preached about?
00:37:33.374 --> 00:37:36.043
Trusting. can we trust the really ugly decision, the
00:37:36.043 --> 00:37:43.117
Really ugly situation that we find that god's going to
00:37:43.117 --> 00:37:47.455
Take all that mess and somehow figure out?
00:37:47.455 --> 00:37:51.459
And i was sitting with a, i
00:37:51.459 --> 00:37:54.562
Like sitting with baptist preachers.
00:37:54.562 --> 00:37:56.130
And, uh, i was sitting with, with one of your colleagues,
00:37:56.130 --> 00:37:59.734
Uh, charles stanley before he passed away and his, what was
00:37:59.734 --> 00:38:04.638
He, he, he probably embroidered it on his t shirts and stuff,
00:38:04.638 --> 00:38:08.142
But, but just trust god, leave all the consequences to him.
00:38:08.142 --> 00:38:13.514
Obey god.
00:38:13.514 --> 00:38:14.482
Obey god, trust god, obey god, and leave
00:38:14.482 --> 00:38:16.717
All the consequences to him.
00:38:16.717 --> 00:38:18.853
And how many times do we not do that good that you're
00:38:18.853 --> 00:38:23.057
Challenging us today to do?
00:38:23.057 --> 00:38:27.461
Returns aren't all in.
00:38:27.461 --> 00:38:29.630
Yeah, there you go.
00:38:29.630 --> 00:38:30.765
And i, i mentioned our, our family verse,
00:38:30.765 --> 00:38:33.534
Trust the lord with all your heart.
00:38:33.534 --> 00:38:35.002
Yeah. lean out of your own understanding.
00:38:35.002 --> 00:38:37.905
All your ways acknowledge him,
00:38:37.905 --> 00:38:40.441
You'll be in god's will.
00:38:40.441 --> 00:38:41.542
He'll direct your path.
00:38:41.542 --> 00:38:42.476
Yeah. and i thought about joseph here.
00:38:42.476 --> 00:38:45.079
My goodness, what joe went through.
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:47.815
The devil meant for evil.
00:38:47.815 --> 00:38:49.650
God meant it for good.
00:38:49.650 --> 00:38:50.551
He's preparing him and preparing tbn
00:38:50.551 --> 00:38:53.020
Now for such a time as this.
00:38:53.020 --> 00:38:55.623
Well, you know, what i love about it is, is that these
00:38:55.623 --> 00:38:58.426
Seasons of our life where we think is the darkest time and
00:38:58.426 --> 00:39:02.029
You know, where is god, you know, where is god at?
00:39:02.029 --> 00:39:04.965
If we're trusting and we're obeying and we're walking
00:39:04.965 --> 00:39:08.202
Knowing that god is faithful to his word, we're thinking
00:39:08.202 --> 00:39:12.840
Generationally, right?
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:14.842
And so the decisions that you made to keep going in all the,
00:39:14.842 --> 00:39:19.580
In all the bad times and the steps that you took affect him,
00:39:19.580 --> 00:39:24.351
Ed junior, and then they affect-- grandson.
00:39:24.351 --> 00:39:27.254
These beautiful children over here that they have.
00:39:27.254 --> 00:39:31.425
And then it's such a generational blessing that
00:39:31.425 --> 00:39:33.861
God has for us. and it's--
00:39:33.861 --> 00:39:36.864
So we can't think short term.
00:39:36.864 --> 00:39:39.500
We have to think long term.
00:39:39.500 --> 00:39:40.534
God will finish what he starts. amen.
00:39:40.534 --> 00:39:43.070
He is faithful to finish what he has started inside of us.
00:39:43.070 --> 00:39:46.907
And so as we obey god and we trust him through these
00:39:46.907 --> 00:39:50.544
Horrible situations, the worst days of our life, and we trust,
00:39:50.544 --> 00:39:55.749
That just spills over and they walk by faith.
00:39:55.749 --> 00:40:00.754
And you can never fail.
00:40:00.754 --> 00:40:02.756
You always win when you walk by faith.
00:40:02.756 --> 00:40:06.360
Your family wins when you walk by faith.
00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:09.363
Your grandchildren win when you walk by faith.
00:40:09.363 --> 00:40:12.266
I don't care if you think it looks like it's failed.
00:40:12.266 --> 00:40:15.202
It hasn't failed.
00:40:15.202 --> 00:40:16.904
God will take whatever that is and make it turn out in a way
00:40:16.904 --> 00:40:22.009
That you never dreamed.
00:40:22.009 --> 00:40:23.143
Could have never imagined.
00:40:23.143 --> 00:40:24.445
You never imagined that. you never could have prayed
00:40:24.445 --> 00:40:27.314
That big for it, right,
00:40:27.314 --> 00:40:29.116
The blessing of god on your life.
00:40:29.116 --> 00:40:31.151
And i love that you've done that.
00:40:31.151 --> 00:40:33.220
Your children and your grandchildren have reaped,
00:40:33.220 --> 00:40:35.689
Reaped from that.
00:40:35.689 --> 00:40:37.157
And that's what the winning walk is.
00:40:37.157 --> 00:40:39.226
It's the walk of faith, right?
00:40:39.226 --> 00:40:42.029
It's daily walking with faith in god and trust in god.
00:40:42.029 --> 00:40:46.967
And i love you for being such a great example to us.
00:40:46.967 --> 00:40:50.304
Well, i wish that were all true.
00:40:50.304 --> 00:40:52.439
It's true.
00:40:52.439 --> 00:40:53.974
We've got the evidence right here.
00:40:53.974 --> 00:40:56.710
Yeah. you know, you know what's, you know, what's
00:40:56.710 --> 00:40:58.612
Really, uh, fun for me right now?
00:40:58.612 --> 00:41:01.649
You know what?
00:41:01.649 --> 00:41:02.750
I'm going to really enjoy this for a second here.
00:41:02.750 --> 00:41:05.886
You know, i see editor young senior on television.
00:41:05.886 --> 00:41:10.391
I see editor young jr on television.
00:41:10.391 --> 00:41:12.192
And every once in a while, i'll see ed young jr drive a ferrari
00:41:12.192 --> 00:41:16.397
Out on a stage or something.
00:41:16.397 --> 00:41:18.065
You know, he'll get in a-- he'll get in a little thing and be
00:41:18.065 --> 00:41:21.502
Kind of doing a kind of a kiddy ride around and he'll,
00:41:21.502 --> 00:41:25.539
You know. dang.
00:41:25.539 --> 00:41:26.941
He took his shirt off and preached one time.
00:41:26.941 --> 00:41:29.143
Everybody remembers that, for goodness sakes.
00:41:29.143 --> 00:41:31.312
Okay. yeah.
00:41:31.312 --> 00:41:32.580
And, uh, but you know what's really fun today in this studio
00:41:32.580 --> 00:41:36.216
Is you had to be the illustrated sermon today.
00:41:36.216 --> 00:41:38.919
This whole pile of young sitting on the front row here,
00:41:38.919 --> 00:41:42.756
So what you do to everybody else on sunday--
00:41:42.756 --> 00:41:45.492
There you go.
00:41:45.492 --> 00:41:46.060
It came back.
00:41:46.060 --> 00:41:47.294
So you are the illustrated sermon, but in a, in a good way.
00:41:47.294 --> 00:41:51.799
Um, wrap this up for us.
00:41:51.799 --> 00:41:54.335
Kind of put a, a little bit of a bow tie. take your, your
00:41:54.335 --> 00:41:58.439
Message, kind of summarize it for somebody that might have
00:41:58.439 --> 00:42:01.508
Just tuned, tuned in and, and kind of put a little bow tie on
00:42:01.508 --> 00:42:06.647
This and then pray for us and pray for our audience.
00:42:06.647 --> 00:42:09.016
When we're talking family here,
00:42:09.016 --> 00:42:11.185
I was thinking about what happened to israel.
00:42:11.185 --> 00:42:15.556
They were god's chosen people.
00:42:15.556 --> 00:42:18.292
Uh, he spoke through moses.
00:42:18.292 --> 00:42:21.462
You had the prophets.
00:42:21.462 --> 00:42:23.263
And then back in those primitive days, they put down a
00:42:23.263 --> 00:42:26.033
Lot of rules and regulations as to how you should live.
00:42:26.033 --> 00:42:29.703
And you read the early part of the bible,
00:42:29.703 --> 00:42:32.439
Man, do this. don't do this.
00:42:32.439 --> 00:42:34.408
All of that.
00:42:34.408 --> 00:42:35.643
But the basic thing, what happened to israel can happen
00:42:35.643 --> 00:42:39.046
To any family, can happen to any organization.
00:42:39.046 --> 00:42:43.117
You have, first of all, cain killed abel.
00:42:43.117 --> 00:42:47.488
God gave birth to adam and eve of seth.
00:42:47.488 --> 00:42:51.225
Seth was to be the god-fearing lineage.
00:42:51.225 --> 00:42:56.497
Cain was the non god-fearing lineage.
00:42:56.497 --> 00:43:00.501
What happened to israel through all those generations?
00:43:00.501 --> 00:43:05.439
Exile, judgment.
00:43:05.439 --> 00:43:08.509
Fall. repentance, restoration.
00:43:08.509 --> 00:43:11.278
Finally, you come to the end of judges.
00:43:11.278 --> 00:43:13.981
There arose a whole generation that did not know the lord.
00:43:13.981 --> 00:43:18.819
Wow. what happened?
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The sons and daughters of seth married the sons
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And daughters of cain.
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Therefore marriage is--
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So you take the divorce in america? that's what it is.
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Yeah. well, you know, i talked to so many through the years
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And they'll say-- she'll say, well, he's a christian, he's
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Episcopalian, and he's been confirmed the catholic church
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Or baptized back there.
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No, no, no, no.
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That is so important today in
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The body of christ, in our marriage.
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Yeah. and that's what's happening to america, by and
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Large. in all the area of the disruption of the home, with
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The father not being there, an absentee father.
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The sons and daughters of seth, tragically, were not obedient
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To marry other sons and daughters of seth, but married
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The sons and daughters of cain.
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That's something, ladies and gentlemen, we have to be very,
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Very strict about and, and encourage and set that up in
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Our churches and our relationship.
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Isn't that true? yes.
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All of us have divorce in our family.
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What happened?
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The sons and daughters of seth married the sons and daughters
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Of cain, so that's just a word of warning.
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But in the process of all this, romans 8:23,
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Somehow god redeems and calls back those families.
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And i think we're beginning to see that today,
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I believe that in america and in the world, like i've never
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Seen it in my lifetime. that is that worldwide revival.
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Yeah. let's pray together.
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Father, thank you so much
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For the vision of matt and laurie as they have picked up
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The mantle that has been handed to them by your grace.
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Thank you for their genuine humility and on their vision
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To see the world
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And to jump in the middle of every place, every dark place
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In this world and lift up jesus christ.
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Thank you for the joy and the challenge and the privilege
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You've given this network, this organization of churches and
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Entities that touch all the world for jesus christ.
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Lord, may we be a part,
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Whatever role we have, of bringing revival and salvation,
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Not just to america, but to all the world.
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Thank you, father,
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We see revival everywhere in the world, in africa, central
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America, south america, in china--
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Thank lord. more than we see in america.
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And lord, we just pray that your fire will burn bright.
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And there'll be a fresh new beginning
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Till jesus comes.
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And his name we thank you.
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Thank you, lord. amen.
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Amen. i can't, uh, [applause]
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I can't finish this, uh, little segment together until i kind
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Of tell you what i've been thinking.
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And as laurie and i were sitting here and, ed, you got up and
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Preached and shared the word and and did what you did.
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It's almost like i had this mega deja vu thing because
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I'm remembering now
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The times when i would have been in the back in the
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Control room directing,
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So i would have been a camera guy somewhere back in the back.
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And paul and jan would have been sitting here, and you
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Would have been preaching with paul and jan at some event.
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And, and i remember while you were where you were preaching,
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I was seeing you from behind.
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It was almost like the camera view that i would have,
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You know, kind of been seeing.
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And, and i was having this generational kind of moment
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That this isn't a joke.
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This is, this is what god wants us to think about.
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He wants us to pass things to our children and our children's
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Children and our, you know, great grandkids and the
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Whole the whole thing.
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He wants us to think generationally because my dad
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Was the chairman of trinity broadcasting for 40 years and
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Four months till he passed away.
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I was the second chairman of trinity broadcasting, and he
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Never thought he was going to pass anything.
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We all thought in those days, for god's sakes, we thought the
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Lord was coming back.
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And, you know, we just, we just
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We had kind of short time mentality.
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And a lot of that is kind of being rethought in our, uh,
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Kind of, of time.
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And i was sitting there looking at the back of you preach there
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And, and thinking, i remember you being in miami and you were
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The guest speaker and paul and jan would have had a, a crowd
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Out here and we would, we'd have been doing--
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And, and it's, it's like all of a sudden i thought, we're doing
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The same thing that they did all those years ago.
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We're doing the exact same thing
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Less one final little moment.
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You can't have a baptist preacher in a studio and not
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Give an altar call so that somebody can accept jesus
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As their personal savior.
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Would you close out this segment by just looking into your
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Camera and inviting those to,
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To, to start their winning walk journey?
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Yeah.
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What a joy it is to introduce people to christ.
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That's what we all need to do.
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And some of us have the
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Privilege of doing it as a calling.
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But all of us are called to show everybody how to have a
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Winning walk with jesus christ. wherever you are,
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If god is convicting you of
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Sin-- he does that, his holy spirit,
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And you confess that sin to him,
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Lord, this, this, this,
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And then you turn away from all known garbage in your life,
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All of it,
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And you ask him, lord jesus christ, come into my life.
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Make me a brand new person.
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And he comes in, and anybody, anywhere, anytime will become
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A brand new person.
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And the interesting thing, all of us have garbage in our life.
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And i say this very reverently,
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Jesus on the cross
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Is a garbage collector.
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He took all of our garbage and all of yours,
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And he paid the price that we deserve to pay for our sin so
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That we can live the life that he certainly deserved and does
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Live, born again, new creation in christ.
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So if you need to do that today and god is convicting you of
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Sin, and you confess what it is, you say, lord, i want to
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Turn away from that,
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Will you pray this prayer with me?
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It's not my prayer.
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I've prayed a long time ago, but if you'll pray this prayer
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With me, i can tell you something.
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You'll begin a new life and a new direction and have a
00:50:18.939 --> 00:50:22.509
Freedom and joy that's in this world
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But out of this world. as the holy spirit leads,
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Would you pray this prayer?
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Dear father, thank you for your patience with all of us.
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And lord, sometimes we condemn those who make all of these
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Wrong decisions.
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But lord, we want you to know
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That we confess today we're all wounded
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And we all need to go to you, the great physician, and have a
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New life and the healing inside and out take place
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Right now, father.
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As the lord leads, pray this prayer.
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I confess my garbage before you, dear lord.
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That's right. tell him about it.
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I turn away from all that garbage right now.
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Tell him about it.
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And right now, by faith, i invite jesus christ not only to
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Come into my life and to save me, but, lord, i want him to
00:51:18.899 --> 00:51:23.303
Run my life as the commander in chief of the lord of my life
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Forever and forever.
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If you prayed that prayer, confession, repentance,
00:51:28.575 --> 00:51:33.313
Reception of jesus as saving lord, i can tell you something.
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You are brand new,
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And you may live on this earth for a while, but you already
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Are dressed up for heaven.
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Lord, we thank you for that.
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And for those who prayed that prayer,
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What a joyful moment as all of heaven celebrates
00:51:50.230 --> 00:51:53.967
As we celebrate here.
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In jesus' name, amen. amen.
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Now it's complete. [applause]
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♪♪
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Ed Young: The First Four Steps to a Winning Walk | Praise

March 18, 2026 | 52:20

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